The online ad attack
The Economist 28 April 2005 "This year the combined advertising revenues of Google and Yahoo! will rival the combined prime-time ad revenues of America's three big television networks, ABC, CBS and NBC, predicts Advertising Age.
Adobe, the "Converged Media" software company
Adobe's merger with Macromedia will create a powerful software company focused on converged media - bringing together dominant formats and runtimes, tools and applications for digital media (documents, images, video), and interactive, multimedia applications into a single company.
Google Video, and the Advent of the Google OS
Google's new video upload and search service is a tipping point in the evolution of Internet TV, and more importantly represents increased evidence of a dramatic and radical shift in the role that Google intends to play as a platform for the Internet, and is an inversion of their original value and place on the Internet. As has been discussed el...
The End of the Cable Affiliate
The recent $18 billion purchase of cable operator Adelphia by Comcast and Time-Warner is the symbolic end of the era of the cable affiliate, those companies who painstakingly sought out city specific permits to dig holes, pull wires, and install proprietary hardware into our living rooms. These mergers, commonplace throughout the growth of the c...