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On Digital Media, Episode #69: Google Trends, Microsoft Spends

In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy), Steve Hatch (twitter: @shatch) and Ken Gellman (twitter: @kengellman) discuss:

• John and Ken will be attending the NY Tech Meetup on July 1st at IAC in NYC


• Ken will be attending Podcamp Boston 3


• Matchmine is powering blog recommendations for blogged.com


• BlogTalkRadio has closed a $4.6 million dollar round of financing from The Kraft Group - the same folks that have invested in Matchmine (small world…). Congratulations to ODM alum and BlogTalkRadio VP of Business Development, John Havens; VP of Product Development, Kris Smith and; Alan Levy, BlogTalkRadio CEO.


• Microsoft acquires semantic search company Powerset for $100+ million
  The Google-Yahoo deal comes under scrutiny for potential anti-trust issues


• Google (finally) finds its new CFO - Patrick Pichette from BellCanada


• Google introduced two new planning products: Google Trends for Web Sites and Google Ad Planner. We discuss the fundamental shift occurring in advertising and media.


• YouTube is capturing nearly 80% of the online video viewing market


• Ustream will introduce overlay ads into live video streams. We talk a bit about lifecasting, live video and of course, Chris Pirillo. Will overlay advertising on video work, live or on-demand?


• Amazon eBook sales could reach $2.5 billion by 2012 according to Pacific Crest analyst Steve Weinstein. Ken estimates that figure would comprise about 15% of the U.S. book market.

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30.Jun.08 Episodes Read more Comments (0)

On Digital Media, Episode #68: New Arrival

In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy) and Steve Hatch (twitter: @shatch) welcome Chia-Lin Simmons (twitter: @zeropts) back to ODM.

• Welcome Alexandra Claire Becker!


• Events: John’s going to the NY Tech Meetup on July 1st


• Google and Yahoo enter into a search advertising agreement


• Executive Exodus at Yahoo: Qi Lu, EVP engineering for Search and Advertising Technology Group; Vish Makhijani, SVP and General Manager of Search and; Brad Garlinghouse, VP of Communications & Communities are all leaving the Big Y.


• flickr founders Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfiled have resigned.


• Jeremy Zawodny is leaving to go to Craig’s List while Joshua Schacter, founder of del.icio.us, has also decided to leave.


• Yahoo announced a deal to sell display ads….on Walmart.com(?) Chia-Lin thinks it’s the digital equivalent of shelving fees.


• According to the data, YouTube is still kicking Hulu’s ass, regardless of what Mark Cuban thinks. Regardless, we want to know how Youtube and Hulu are going to monetize their respective businesses. Would Hulu consider a paid subscription model?


• YouTube is going to start allowing long-form content (videos above 30 minutes). Scoble thinks they want to insert advertising in the longer stuff. We agree.


• Gary Vaynerchuk’s Wine Library TV moves over to Revision3.


• Verizon will be pushing its FiOS service to 50 mbps downstream, 20 mbps upstream. For $139.95 a month!


• Gene Simmons (yes, that Gene Simmons) thinks that Radiohead, the internets, p2p - and the FANS - are killing the recording industry.


• EMI is not only suing MP3Tunes.com, but its founder, Michael Robertson, personally.


• Microsoft has decided to support MSN Music customers (and the related DRM) until - at least - the end of 2011. They’ll revisit their decision at that time.


• Audible files will soon play on the Zune.

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On Digital Media, Episode #67: Old-Media Advertising Complex

In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy) and Ken Gellman (twitter: @kengellman) and Steve Hatch (twitter: @shatch) are joined by special guest Craig Calder (twitter: @ccalder).

• Craig gives us the lowdown on his new job as Chief Marketing Officer (PDF) of Real Time Content.
• Events: John is planning to attend the Conversational Marketing Summit in NYC on June 9th and 10th. Ken is planning to attend the Advertising 2.0 Conference on June 3rd and 4th. Craig will be at the Cannes Festival delivering a workshop on adaptive media.
• John’s Netflix Roku box still hasn’t arrived…and neither has Chia-Lin’s latest “project”. By the time show is released, she should be a mom! Pictures to follow.
• Is Yahoo done? Finished? Cooked? Finis? Where’s the growth opportunity?
• Yahoo = Interruption. Google = Permission.
• How long will the “old fashioned media buy” (and buyer) be the status quo?
• Regardless of currently available data, there’s anecdotal evidence that Q2 interactive advertising will prove to be soft.
• FaceBook will release their API as Open Source Software. John thinks that Open Social should adopt the FaceBook API as the standard and discard the Open Social API.
• AOL has joined the Open Social Coalition
• John’s Netflix Roku box has shipped. We’ll discuss it next week.
• Amazon Unbox will shortly release its streaming video service. Steve has been testing it.


• Gary Vaynerchuk (twitter: @garyvee) is everywhere and a model of what new media producers and content owners can do with flexible licensing and distribution terms
• Jaman and Real Time Content are working together to produce a FaceBook application

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On Digital Media, Episode #66: Save twitter!

In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy) and Ken Gellman (twitter: @kengellman) are joined by Chia-Lin Simmons via Skype to discuss:

• John and Ken attended Jeff Pulver’s Social Media Breakfast
• Ken attended the Web 2.0 Meetup in NYC
• John is planning to attend the Conversational Marketing Summit in NYC on June 9th and 10th
• Roku and Netflix release a set-top box that supports the Netflix video-on-demand service. (John is awaiting its arrival to Federico HQ.) The service provides access to 10,000 of Netflix’s 100,000 title library, providing Netflix subscribers maintain an $18.99/month service level. Ken and Chia-Lin think that John will be disappointed by the selection. Ryan Block gives it a relatively positive review.
• Ken wants to see simultaneous release of films in the theater, on cable, on-demand and DVD. John tells him to keep dreaming…
• Online TV advertising is no longer an afterthought in the TV Upfront
• CBS buys CNET for $1.8 billion
• Ars Technica was bought by Conde Nast for $25 million and will be merged with the Wired properties.
• Microsoft will provide rebates to consumers who find and purchase products using MSN Search
• Twitter receives a $15 million investment round. We all wonder what the business model might be, but it’s undeniable that there’s passion for the service. John calls it the “back channel of the internet” while Ken likens it to the web 2.0 version of “the crawl” on television.

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31.May.08 Episodes Read more Comments (0)

On Digital Media, Episode #65: Discontinuities

In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy) and Steve Hatch (twitter: @shatch) are joined by Chia-Lin Simmons via Skype to discuss:

• Events: John is planning to attend The Conversational Marketing Summit in NYC on June 9th and 10th
• Microsoft still intent on acquiring Yahoo. Yadda, yadda, yadda.
• Yahoo earnings grow 9%; Microsoft earnings down. Maybe they should focus, eh?
• Apple earnings up. Mac sales up 40% and the iPhone is still selling strong.
• AT&T seeems waaaay behind in its rollout of its 3G wireless network. Could that be why Apple waited to release a 3G iPhone? Verizon’s rollout of EV-DO is so much more compelling. We discuss Apple’s release of a CDMA iPhone at some point in the future. Japan? U.S. grey market?
• DOH! Microsoft discontinues DRM support for music purchased from MSN Music. Microsoft should read Seth Godin’s “Small is the New Big.”
• The Death Knell sounds for the MSN Spot Watch
• Sony buys GraceNote for $260 million. The company plans to integrate the service with its own products and services.
• Podcast audience up 87% among rock radio listeners (?)
• Podshow is now Mevio. Next story…
• eBay to sell Skype - to Google? A Skype client for Android?

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On Digital Media, Episode #64: Where does the box go?

In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy) and Ken Gellman (twitter: @gellmanken) are joined by Steve Hatch (twitter: @shatch) to discuss:

• Events: Podcamp NYC is on April 25th and 26th at Brooklyn Polytechnic University. As a result of Daddy Duty, John can’t attend this year. Ken will be in Baltimore with his in-laws for Greek Easter and Steve is just a dork. Ken is attending the San Fran Music Tech Summit on the 8th, 9th and 10th. Steve will probably attend Web 2.0 in San Francisco on April 22 - 25. John is planning to attend the Conversational Marketing Summit on June 9th and 10th in NYC. (Congratulations to John Battelle & Co. on the close of their recent round of venture financing.)
• The Podcast Audience grew 40% in one year according to a study by Arbitron-Edison Media.
• New York passes “The Amazon Tax” which mandates that all ecommerce providers must collect New York State sales tax for items being shipped to the state - a hefty 8.25%. California however, has rejected a similar tax.
• John is searching for treatment for a new maladay called “Twitter Fatigue.” We talk about twitter, twitter tools (FriendFeed, SocialThing, AlertThingy), the types of twitter spam, etc.
• By the way: how is twitter going to make money? Why is it that twitterific can insert advertising into your twitter stream and generate revenue from it but twitter can’t - or just doesn’t? Steve points out that Pownce inserts advertising.
• Ken was introduced to twitter by the CEO of MatchMine, Mike Troiano (twitter: @miketrap)
• If you have a jailbroken iPhone, check out twinkle - a native twitter client that inserts your location into your twitter posts using the iPhone’s location services.
• The Quest for Yahoo continues, this time with new crusaders: AOL, Google, and now a combined Microsoft-News Corp bid. We remain confused.
• AOL’s Platform A is the top advertising network by reach.
• Blockbuster to buy Circuit City. Like most people, we wonder WTF they’re thinking. Oh yeah, and they’re going to offer set top box for streaming video. Again: WTF?

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On Digital Media, Episode #63: We Told You So

In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy), Chia-Lin Simmons (twitter: @zeropts) and Ken Gellman (twitter: @kengellman) are joined by Eric Rochow (GardenFork.tv, Real World Green and The Greenhouse) (twitter: @ericgardenfork) to discuss:

• Eric’s recently signed co-production, marketing and distribution deal with For Your Imagination. Congratulations to both Eric and FYI.
• Events: John and Eric attended Jeff Pulver’s Social Media Breakfast in NYC at the Reuters building; Chia-Lin spoke at the Spring VON show in San Jose; John and Eric will be attending Podcamp NYC on April 25th and 26th at Brooklyn Polytechnic University.
• Chia-Lin’s having a baby! A girl, due mid-May. Congratulations to her and her husband, Chris.
• Apple has surpassed Wal-Mart as the number one music retailer in the United States with over 50 million customers and 4 billion songs sold. On their heels are new services from MySpace and LimeWire, adding to the services from Amazon, eMusic, SpiralFrog and others.
• Google’s Chief Information Officer has left to head EMI Digital. Chia-Lin predicts he’ll be gone in 18 months. Ouch.
Elvis Costello’s new album entitled Momofuku, will be sold as a vinyl record and as digital downloads - but not on compact discs.
• Online and Mobile ad spending reached $29 Billion in 2007. Given the ubiquity of mobile phone penetration and the rising popularity of smartphones, does it matter if those numbers are bundled?
• Eric talks about the nascent sponsorship program for his IPTV shows
• Microsoft may develop a version of Office for the iPhone

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On Digital Media, Episode #62: Mobile 2.0 Smackdown: iPhone vs. Android

In this episode, John Federico, Ken Gellman and Steve Hatch review:

• Gigs: Ken started a new gig as the Director of Sales for MatchMine. Congrats, Ken.
• Events: Ken attended SXSW; Steve, Ken and John attended the Business of APIs Conference; John will be attending Jeff Pulver’s Social Media Breakfast
• The deal closed: Audible is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon. Congrats to all.
• Steve Jobs says, “No Flash for the iPhone.” Adobe would develop it, if they could, but claims they need lower level hooks into the OS and help from Apple to do it. Perhaps as part of Apple’s ActiveSync License they’ll allow Microsoft’s Silverlight instead? Hmmm.
• Is the iPhone Apple’s proverbial Trojan Horse for getting into Enterprises?
• Google reports that it’s seeing growth in mobile internet usage on several platforms - most notably the iPhone. When Android handsets are released, what kind of usage will they see then?
• Rich Miner, a Google exec, says that Android will outsell the iPhone.
• Rumors have Apple starting a music subscription service - one that may be subsidized (READ: Free) for iPod and iPhone owners. The CEO of eMusic calls it a “classic anti-trust” case of “tying.”

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On Digital Media, Episode #61: Hey, Hulu! Nice VOD.

In this episode John Federico, Chia-Lin Simmons, and Steve Hatch discuss:

• Events: Chia-Lin will be speaking at the Spring VON expo in San Jose; John will be attending Jeff Pulver’s Social Media Breakfast in NY on March 26th.
• Listener email
• AOL’s acquisition of Bebo
• Yahoo’s possible use of Open Social
• Google’s Acquisition of Doubleclick is complete. Integration - and layoffs - begin.
• Michael Eisner says there’s no money in internet video. Yet.
• Hulu launches. Steve and Chia-Lin like it and prefer it over the Joost experience. Is Hulu a competitor to traditional broadcast? Cable VOD? DVD? All of the above?
• TiVo will enable playback of video from YouTube in an upcoming software release
• No Blu-Ray for Xbox 360?
• DirecTV is going to start delivering on-demand video with the help of local storage on the set-top box
• Blockbuster announced increased earnings and an improved outlook for the year
• Apple and KPCB launch the iFund - a $100MM investment fund for iPhone application developers. Chia-Lin’s not impressed.

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On Digital Media, Episode #60: Yes, Steve. Blu-Ray is dead.

In this episode John Federico tries to wrangle Chia-Lin Simmons, Steve Hatch, Ken Gellman into discussing:

• Events: Chia-Lin will be speaking at the Spring Von Conference in San Jose in March; Steve will likely attend the Web 2.0 Conference in April
• Jobs: Jake Shapiro of PRX is looking for Social Media Co-Curators for the BallotVox coverage of Campaign ‘08.
• iTunes is now the second biggest U.S. retailer of music, second only to Wal-Mart.
• Random House will start selling their audiobooks without DRM in mp3 format. What does this mean for Audible and its acquisition by Amazon.com?
• Apple COO Tim Cook has stated that the iPhone isn’t necessarily tied to the current “single carrier” model, as it has been. Steve wonders is Apple will release and unlocked phone of any sort - including CDMA. He also wonders if this statement is a result of Google’s strategy for Android.
• Apple is planning to announce the availability of its SDK and corporate support for Microsoft Exchange groupware systems. Sign me up! (Well, after they add 3G support, too…)
• Google is rumored to be exploring a purchase of 20% of Yahoo stock in order to put a halt to the acquisition attempt by Microsoft.
• John Battelle says that everyone is in the media business. We delve into the nuances of Battelle’s assertion, the separation of media and commerce and the concepts of engagement and attention.
• People spend nearly half of their media time online according to a research report by IDC, but only about 10% of media dollars ($21 billion in 2007, according to the IAB) actually flow in that direction.
• Steve asks, “When will we merge the measurement of online and TV?” John answers, “Never.” Of course there are attempts by companies like Nielsen to get a better view on holistic media consumption of panels of people.
• Steve asks, “Will broadcast media become the modern day version of AM radio, taking a back seat to IP-based media distribution?” Yes. Of course.
• We push Steve on his downloadable video vs. Blu-Ray prediction. He maintains that the tipping point toward downloadable video will begin in 2 years time.
• Steve launches into a diatribe on the future of media distribution. John parries by informing the crew that NetFlix - a company that distributes round discs that contain digital media - has raised its outlook for the coming year.

Our music is Democracy from Alexander Blu.

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