On Digital Media, Episode #66: Save twitter!
In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy) and Ken Gellman (twitter: @kengellman) are joined by Chia-Lin Simmons via Skype to discuss:
- John and Ken attended Jeff Pulver’s Social Media Breakfast
- Ken attended the Web 2.0 Meetup in NYC
- John is planning to attend the Conversational Marketing Summit in NYC on June 9th and 10th
- Roku and Netflix release a set-top box that supports the Netflix video-on-demand service. (John is awaiting its arrival to Federico HQ.) The service provides access to 10,000 of Netflix’s 100,000 title library, providing Netflix subscribers maintain an $18.99/month service level. Ken and Chia-Lin think that John will be disappointed by the selection. Ryan Block gives it a relatively positive review.
- Ken wants to see simultaneous release of films in the theater, on cable, on-demand and DVD. John tells him to keep dreaming…
- Online TV advertising is no longer an afterthought in the TV Upfront
- CBS buys CNET for $1.8 billion
- Ars Technica was bought by Conde Nast for $25 million and will be merged with the Wired properties.
- Microsoft will provide rebates to consumers who find and purchase products using MSN Search
- Twitter receives a $15 million investment round. We all wonder what the business model might be, but it’s undeniable that there’s passion for the service. John calls it the “back channel of the internet” while Ken likens it to the web 2.0 version of “the crawl” on television.
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