YouTube Stretches its Lead
Posted on October 10, 2009
If you want to learn one way that YouTube is extending its competitive lead, even against rivals like Hulu, this video is for you.
If you watched last week’s video podcast as a stream from our website, you may have noticed that we switched to the YouTube player from our previous Flash player. The change reflects the fact that iPhones and iPods will not display native Flash streams. However, given YouTube’s popularity, Apple developed a special application enabling the units to display YouTube Flash videos. Since Apple has sold about 40 – 50 million of the devices, we want to make it as easy as possible for users to watch Inside Digital Media on their iPhones and iPod Touches. Read more…
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iPhone and Adobe Go to The Mattresses
Posted on September 14, 2009
Adrian Ludwig of Adobe Flash Marketing
If you would like to learn how Adobe plans to extend Flash Video’s market leadership on computers onto other Internet-connected devices such as mobile phones and consumer electronics appliances, this interview is for you.
About 80% of today’s Internet Video is streamed in Adobe’s Flash format. That’s because nearly all computer users installed a Flash player. Consumers also like that Flash provides an “instant-on” playback experience, thereby avoiding the wait for a download.
However, Apple’s iPhone does not support Flash. Even at YouTube, where Flash dominates, iPhone subscribers must use a special prepackaged application to watch the videos. When iPhone subscribers visit other websites streaming Flash, they simply cannot see the videos. As a concrete example, iPhone subscribers can watch Inside Digital Media video streams at our YouTube channel, but to get them directly from our website they must either subscribe to the podcast or click on the “download to iPod and iPhone” link.
Obviously, Adobe is worried about the iPhone’s avoidance of Flash. The situation creates a conflict that is, as Don Corleone might put it, forcing the two sides to “go to the mattresses”. Our guest today is Adrian Ludwig who is the Group Manager for marketing Flash. His objective is to get Flash as widely deployed on mobile phones and consumer electronics appliances as it is on computers. Read more…
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Tom Perkins, Co-Founder, Kleiner - Perkins
Posted on December 4, 2007
If you would like to hear a Co-Founder of Kleiner - Perkins discuss his new autobiography Valley Boy, this interview is for you.
Our guest today is Tom Perkins who is a Co-Founder of Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers. KPCB is perhaps the best known venture capital investor having backed such companies as Amazon.com, AOL (Time-Warner), Compaq (now owned by H-P) Electronic Arts, Flextronics, Genentech, Google, Intuit, LSI Logic, Macromedia (now owned by Adobe), Sun Microsystems, and Tandem (now owned by H-P). As a leading pioneer, the firm may have been the major influence in shaping the Venture Capital industry during the past 35 years.
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