Archive for the ‘YouTube’ Category
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
The recent WSJ article on Google's difficulties monetizing YouTube has caught a lot of attention with the stat that Google can only sell ads around 4% of the videos on the site (due to copyright concerns). With roughly a billion videos viewed a day that leaves a lot of unmonetized ...
Posted in YouTube, advertising, google, online video | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Funniest video ever (at least to startup tech geeks).
Here Comes Another Bubble
Set to the tune of Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "here comes another bubble", url: "http://www.sawickipedia.com/blog/2007/12/04/here-comes-another-bubble/" });
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Monday, September 3rd, 2007
There has been a lot of news of folks claiming to have come up with the idea of Facebook before the Facebook folks did. And all I could think of was Jon Lovitz's Pathological Liar character from SNL. First there was the lawsuit from the ConnectU guys, ...
Posted in Fon, YouTube, facebook, simplytv, startups | 2 Comments »
Monday, March 26th, 2007
Mark Cuban's question in a post below asks us to imagine if my old company - encoding.com aka Loudeye (which encoded lots of a-list music and video) decided to throw all the content it had online. That would have been one hell of a site from a user's perspective - movies, ...
Posted in YouTube, copyright, eMusic, encoding.com, google, kazaa, loudeye, mark cuban, mp3.com, napster, startups, video | No Comments »
