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Those Who Get It and It Rolls: Ferrari 360 MODENA

Car Status: I Own This Car

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Added by damir on January 31, 2009 at 10:49pm — No Comments

Too big NOT to fail...

Well keeping with the tradition of only writing about the trendiest issues, there's nothing more "trendy" and "hip" than the most recent demise of Wall Street. To that end the NY Times' Big Chart of Failure went live this week (gee whiz, its interactive too). One can't help but scratch their head and wonder... how does this keep happening? Corporations get massive tax breaks from t… Continue

Added by Bryan Copeland on September 18, 2008 at 4:30pm — No Comments

NBC drops The Torch!?!

NBC may very well drop The Torch with this summer's Olympic coverage. That is what several leading analysts and marketers have been warning of, and the warnings are certainly not without merit. Some of the chief concerns are very significant indeed: - China's lack of respect for the copyright (may cheapen NBC's exclusive coverage deal) - Increasing pervasiveness of cheap electronics (think of a nation of several million personal video ca… Continue

Added by Bryan Copeland on August 5, 2008 at 2:00pm — No Comments

NEW FACEBOOK?!? A Twist of Fates

If you were on Facebook at all this past Monday, July 15th... you may have noticed a surprising new interface. As I mentioned on Revyu today, I think the latest updates to Facebook were indeed Microsoft-inspired evil. Alot of application developers will surely leave Facebook now, since their applications have been taken out of the spotlight. On the positive side, that may remove alot of the clutter, as Fa… Continue

Added by Bryan Copeland on July 15, 2008 at 3:00am — No Comments

But which one was HE??? The Master, or The Apprentice?

This week Bill Gates formally retired as CEO of Microsoft. This article by Times online sums it up nicely, plus a video from Gates himself, CNET gives a more complete look. While this could be one of the most monumental turns in the Technology sector since Microsoft first "aggressively" acquired the DOS base for their operating sy… Continue

Added by Bryan Copeland on July 1, 2008 at 7:30pm — No Comments

The Famous Deadly Question....

"How does it make money?" As Joe Marchese reminds us in this week's edition of Online Spin: Investors And Advertisers Playing A Dangerous Game -- Again that's a million dollar question right now. And its also the question on everybody's mind these days, when considering a move from traditional to digital media. It's a simple question, and yet there are many a complex and contrived answer when it gets posed to many of the current leadi… Continue

Added by Bryan Copeland on June 12, 2008 at 12:00am — No Comments

Ballmer on the future and Microsoft

Earlier this month Bill Gates confirmed rumors and news headlines that he would be stepping down from his daily activities at Microsoft and handing over the bulk of the control and responsibility of Microsoft's management to current CEO Steve Ballmer. Since the announcement, and indeed over the course of this transitionary year, Ballmer has already made himself comfortable as he prepares for the position of Mic… Continue

Added by Bryan Copeland on June 6, 2008 at 2:13pm — No Comments

Desperate Google Killer indeed...

In MediaPosts' Daily Examiner today, there was an interesting article titled The Slightly Desperate Google Killer?e-commerce rebates we've been advocating for a while now. Only, the source of the rebates was an extremely unlikely one... Microsoft corporation. This puts the concept of consumer rebates in exchange for participation and loyalty online in the immediate spotlight. How will Google react? Offer financial incentives of their… Continue

Added by Bryan Copeland on May 21, 2008 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Web turned 15 this week...

The web as we know it turned 15 years old today. In those 15 years, the web has blossomed, but as its creator Tim Berners-Lee mentions, it has yet to reach its true coming-of-age. Several other well-respected minds from academia and the corporate world alike were interviewed alongside the pioneer by BBC for their Luminaries look to the future web special. The general consensus seems to be that Academia has built the foundations for… Continue

Added by Bryan Copeland on May 4, 2008 at 10:00am — No Comments

Citizen Journalism from the well-connected Koreans

Citizen Journalism is not only emerging, but is becoming a dominant form of news media the world over. In South Korea, which currently enjoys one of the most connected and high use mobile data service networks, the model is tried and tested through citizen journalism and online publisher OhMyNews. Being constantly in the nation with the 4th fastest broadband rates and 2nd most pervasive mobile data networks, means that news can come in at a rate much faster than any newspaper in the world could… Continue

Added by Bryan Copeland on April 20, 2008 at 10:00am — No Comments

Money talks...

Following lawsuits earlier this year from insurance company Geico over the use of its trademark in competitors' ads that rank highly in AdWords next to the search term 'Geico', Google faces more lawsuits at the hands of American Airlines, Rescuecom, and potentially others. MediaPost's Wendy Davis covers the first hearing at the Federal Appeals court in Federal Court Waxes Theoreti… Continue

Added by Bryan Copeland on April 5, 2008 at 9:44pm — No Comments

The end of privacy as we know it...

This week, BBC reported on what could very well spell the end of online privacy, Phorm Global ISP Data Collection software in: Phorm: Your questions answered Companies want to track you. They want to know everything about you so that they can sell you products better. The more effectively they can target you and appeal to you through their advertisements, offers and other promotional efforts, the more revenue they can generate from… Continue

Added by Bryan Copeland on March 22, 2008 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Does Google finally get it!?

In an interview summary entitled: Google could be superseded, says web inventor Jonathan Richards of UK Newspaper The Times Online reports how one of the World Wide Web's most important innovators and proponents, Sir Tim Berners-Lee described Google as a syntactical search powerhouse of the current web that "may eventually be displaced as the pre-eminent brand on the internet by a company tha… Continue

Added by Bryan Copeland on March 15, 2008 at 12:00pm — No Comments

They must think we're stupid?!?

Apple today, announced that they will be teaming up with John Doerr, a wealthy venture capitalist from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, to establish a $100 million USD Venture Capital fund for iPhone entrepreneurs. Wow, hurray... YEAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SNAP-IT TO A SLIM JIM, FOR SHITS SAK E I'm gonna run out and buy an iPhone RIGHT NOW so I can start developing, WOOOOOHOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In an attempt to rema… Continue

Added by Bryan Copeland on March 7, 2008 at 2:00pm — No Comments

They must think we're stupid?!?

Apple today, announced that they will be teaming up with John Doerr, a wealthy venture capitalists from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, to establish a $100 million USD Venture Capital fund for iPhone entrepreneurs. Wow, hurray... YEAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11 SNAP-IT TO A SLIM JIM, FOR SHITS SAK E I'm gonna run out and buy an iPhone RIGHT NOW so I can start developing, WOOOOOHOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now, I hope you kn… Continue

Added by Bryan Copeland on March 7, 2008 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Some people never learn...

In a move that mimics the actions of social networking giant Facebook (withthe opt-out, botched launch of their Beacon advertising program), Google has officially decided to create a new opt-out extension to its popular AdWords Search Engine Marketing program. It seems that this effort too will eventually lead to backlash, as it does not provide a clear value to the advertiser, and tries to instead force them into additional services which are not part of the original service agreement. Tried… Continue

Added by Bryan Copeland on March 6, 2008 at 6:00pm — No Comments

They just don't get it!!!

Hillarious post earlier this week from Marc Andreessen's blog: pmarca... Apparently ABC thinks we're all idiots, as his headline reads. They (the big content production companies and broadcasters) have no idea of the value of viewer's time today... and for reason's beyond our comprehension, instead of finding ways to serve content more conveniently, they are trying to block tools already in u… Continue

Added by Bryan Copeland on February 29, 2008 at 5:30am — No Comments

Media Censorship and the Internet...

Two things that may not necessarily play so well together. It is kind of shocking when you think about what type of content is readily available nowadays to men & women, boys & girls, children of all ages. I've had the good... or... lets just say, fortune, of having grown up and lived out my formative years in the 80s and early 90s. This was a period where for the first time, widespread satellite distribution meant you get basically an entire continent's TV programming (and eventually… Continue

Added by Bryan Copeland on February 21, 2008 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Some big headlines this week...

Well in case you missed it, some big, potentially industry-shaping headlines in the news this week. In the face of a recession investors are making big, often times bold stock moves, and (dare we say) reminiscent of "Web 1.0" Bubble Burst days, Technology stocks are once again at the forefront.

The recession couldn't possibly have worse timing for social networking and the Web 2.0 digital media boon, as pockets tighten and Ad Budgets disappear. Seems like bad news as ComScore an… Continue

Added by Bryan Copeland on February 9, 2008 at 12:40am — No Comments

Re-cap: The Amazon Start-up Challenge (2007)

Old news now, but worth mentioning

Last month, the Amazon Start-up Challenge took place with a great deal of hype and excitement, and some stiff competition. Apart from being the first ever "Web Services-user-voted" contest, it was also the first contest in which the winner would receive as much as $100,000 (half in cash, half in Amazon Web Services account credit).

In the fin… Continue

Added by Bryan Copeland on January 23, 2008 at 2:30pm — No Comments