Digital Strategies for Radio and TV
Posted on May 10, 2008
If you would like to learn what radio & TV stations can do to meet the challenge of the Internet, this interview is for you.
Subject: Our guest today is Robert Macinni who is the Chief Operating Officer for Ando Media. He is a 25 year veteran of the radio and TV business who now works for a company that helps those industries generate revenue for their content off of Internet streams and downloads. Ando also offers an audience measurement service for Internet radio. Read more…
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Future Blogs Compared to Future Forums
Posted on April 30, 2008
If you would like to learn about the differences between blogs and forums in the future, this interview is for you.
Subject: Our guest today is Patrick O’Keefe who is the author of Managing Online Forums which has just been released by the publishing arm of the American Management Association.
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Online Videos: Post Once - Distribute Everywhere
Posted on April 26, 2008
If you would like to learn how to post videos to a single website that will automatically re-post them to the others where you have accounts, this interview is for you.
Subject: Our guest today is Brett Wilson who is a Co-Founder of TubeMogul. Videos posted at TubeMogul are automatically re-posted at (most) all the other video-sharing sites where you have accounts. That includes YouTube, Revver, Veoh, Metacafe, and many more. They also collect episode-specific audience statistics at each website.
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National Hockey League & Online Video
Posted on April 19, 2008
If you would like to learn how the National Hockey League is generating revenue from advertising-supported video online, this interview is for you.
Subject: Our guest today is Larry Gelfand who is Senior Vice President for Media Sales at the National Hockey League. Recently the NHL launched its Internet-based NHL Network Online which provides a number of free video shows that are advertising supported. Initial sponsors include Cisco, Budweiser, and Dodge.
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Protecting Video Streams from Piracy
Posted on April 14, 2008
If you would like to know how to protect video streams from piracy, this interview is for you.
Subject: Our guest today is Barrett Lyon who is a Co-Founder of BitGravity which is a video-centric Content Delivery Network (CDN). His company characterizes itself as a CDN for today’s Internet, as opposed to the older ones designed to deliver the static web pages of an increasingly bygone era.
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Will the iPhone SDK Live Up to Expectations?
Posted on March 30, 2008
Summary: If you are curious to know whether the new Software Developers Kit for the Apple iPhone is a genuinely significant industry development, this interview is for you.
Subject: Our guest today is Steve Lang who operates the MadMaxMedia.com blog. Steve believes that the new SDK is a truly important and will live up to the general media hype. He feels that in the future there will be a multitude of 3rd party applications that will make the iPhone a portable “teleputer” upon which voice conversations shall be merely one of a great many applications. Read more…
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Outsource (Most) Any White Collar Work
Posted on March 27, 2008
If you would like to learn how to hire remote part-time white collar workers and manage them effectively over the Internet, this interview is for you.
Subject: Our guest today is Gary Swart who is the CEO of O-Desk. His company enables buyers to contract with a skilled guild of remote workers, ranging from computer programmers to ghost writers, and manage them over the Internet. The business is much like Rent-a-Coder that we interviewed a couple of months ago, except that O-Desk engagements tend to be longer-term
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How One Podcaster Earned Success
Posted on March 18, 2008
If you are would like to learn about a podcaster whose success with a single show about the TV program “Lost” launched a self-sustaining business, this interview is for you.
Subject: Our guest today is Cliff Ravenscraft who is the founder of BitCastMedia and the Generally Speaking Podcast Network (GSPN.tv). At BitCastMedia, Cliff produces podcasts for others and consults with clients who want to start podcasting. At GSPN.tv, he runs a network of 17 different podcasts. Read more…
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Why Blu-ray Beat HD-DVD
Posted on March 4, 2008
Summary: If you are curious to know why Blu-Ray won the standards battle against HD-DVD for High Definition DVDs, this interview is for you.
Subject: Our guest today is Steve Lang who operates the MadMaxMedia.com blog. Steve believes that the decision by Sony to include a Blu-Ray player in the Play Station 3 gave Blu-Ray the edge. While Microsoft’s X-Box could double as an HD-DVD movie player, the consumer was required to purchase an added external drive.
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Made-For-Web Video Sitcom Get’s Bought By CBS
Posted on February 16, 2008
If you would like to learn about a scripted video sitcom that originated on the Web but has recently been purchased by CBS for a television pilot, this interview is for you.
Our guests today are Angel Acevedo, Steven Tsapelas, and Brian Amyot who are the producers of a made-for-the-Web scripted video sitcom called We Need Girlfriends at weneedgirlfriends.tv. The series achieved such wide popularity on the Net that CBS purchased it as a new pilot.
