The Long Tail
Chris Anderson from Wired talked passionately at Supernova about how the Internet makes it possible to exploit the "niche" portion of the demand for products, services, and content. His theory is that there is more total demand — revenue — from a large number of little known products that there is from a small number […]
What’s In The News
How often have we heard or said "what’s in the news?". We all might answer the question differently depending on what our particular source of news is. Some us depend on the radio (AM, FM, or XM), some on TV, and others on the Internet. Whatever our source of news might be, I think the […]
TiVo On A Roll
TiVo is on a roll with results for its latest quarter showing revenue of $28.5 million. The number of subscribers continued to soar with the total now over 700,000. That was a growth of 79,000 in the quarter. The numbers are still small but as more and more people get TiVo and tell their friends […]
Web Video
Reflection – written April 22 , 2000 The world is becoming a world of packets. Email, web pages, phone conversations, radio and TV, and video conferencing. Video will soon be thought of as just another data type. We now take good quality graphics and colors on web pages for granted. Soon we will take high […]
Is our media wearing out?
Reflection – written October 23 , 1998 Ever think about media wearing out? I was cleaning out the basement the other day and I came across a box of 5.25″ diskettes. Lots of them. They date back to 1979 when I had a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model III. The diskettes stored 80,000 bytes! Seemed like […]
