On Digital Media 94: Media Mogul Jumps the Shark
In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy), Craig Calder (twitter: @ccalder), Chia-Lin Simmons (twitter: @zeropts), Steve Hatch (twitter:@shatch) and our guest, Rob Goldman, (twitter: @robjective) CEO of threadsy discuss:
- Rob will be attending the CrunchUp event next week in the valley
- Craig will attend the Glasshouse event in NYC on Monday, 11/16
- John and Craig will attend Web 2.0 Expo NY
- Google Wave vs. Threadsy
- Mozilla releases plans, screenshots for its Raindrop universal inbox. Chia-Lin thinks it may have the potential of being vaporware.
- We’re waiting for mobile clients (especially on the iPhone) to support Twitter Lists. Threadsy is working on Twitter Lists support.
- Parse.ly is in private beta. Read Write Web calls it “The Pro Bloggers Feed Reader.” Lazyweb is a similar client. It’s going to be a tough job for some of these services to get people to switch from Google Reader.
- Chia-Lin is holding back on her Droid purchase. It’s only a CMDA phone that she can’t use internationally plus, she thinks that Verizon may get the iPhone. Will Verizon get the iPhone any time soon? We hash it out.
- John has started reading Kindle books on his iPhone…even after questioning why anyone would do that. Doh!
- The ODM crew wants to know if John has purchased any more Vooks. Yes, he decided to give Vooks another chance and bought Gary Vaynerchuk’s “Crush It” in Vook format.
- Amazon has just released Kindle software for Windows that’s decidedly for the netbook crowd.
- The class action lawsuits against the social gaming companies have arrived. Are Facebook and Myspace liable for the actions of these networks? We doubt it.
- A boxee box is coming! We want.
- Rob built his own MythTV box!
- Netflix may support the MPAA 30-day window on new releases! We’re not happy.
- Why not release James Cameron’s upcoming film “Avatar” across all platforms at once, just to see how the revenue streams unfold?
- Rupert Murdoch said that he’s going to block Google and remove all content from his properties from the search engine. Hah!
- “This is the media mogul equivalent of Jumping the Shark.”
- An interesting coup for Microsoft should Murdoch cut a deal with Bing to allow them to index his content. Hmmmm…
Our music is Democracy from Alexander Blu.
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