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Google vs. News Corp/NBC News: Bottom-Up vs. Top-Down
0 Comments Published March 27th, 2007 in the following Categories:Big Picture || History || Sharing Files, Folders, Printers, etc. || Video
Derrick has a great post about how YouTube Won’t Be Able to Match the Appeal to Advertisers of the News Corp/NBC Video Site.
That said, I wouldn’t count Google out just yet.
Here’s why:
Clearly the NBC/News Corp venture is all about creating another advertising medium not much different than broadcast/cable TV. That is a proven model of […]
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What Happened to the YouTube Empire We Were Promised?
0 Comments Published February 22nd, 2007 in the following Categories:Big Picture || Podcasts || History || Sharing Files, Folders, Printers, etc. || Internet Protocol Television (IPTV)
Lots in the news recently about how rocky is the road travelled by Google in trying to make YouTube an online video money-making powerhouse. The always-excellent Internet Marketing Monitor has catalogued a series of “setbacks” suffered by Google recently:
Viacom Wants Its MTV… Pulled From YouTube
NBC’s Zucker Lashes Out at YouTube
Is Google Killing YouTube With Pre-roll […]
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Computer Networking and “the wisdom of crowds”
0 Comments Published September 15th, 2006 in the following Categories:Big Picture || History
Kevin Maney:
At its most basic level, the wisdom of crowds — let’s call it WOC, so I don’t have to type as much — means that the aggregated thought and knowledge of thousands or millions of people can be smarter than trained individual experts.The WOC has been around forever — it’s what democratic elections try […]