Lessons from a Digital Media Pioneer
Posted on January 23, 2010
Phil Leigh
Like the lost adventurer Carnehan from Rudyard Kipling’s The Man Who Would be King, RealNetworks crept back into the news with the recent resignation of its CEO and Founder, Rob Glaser. Also like Carnehan Real hardly resembled the robust $12 billion market value industry leader it was at the turn of the Century having since dropped 95% in stock price. While Carnehan had an amazing story to tell, at least Glaser has an edifying one. Read more…
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It’s the Stoopid Economy
Posted on November 14, 2009
Phil Leigh
During the first three decades of the twentieth century the most promising invention was radio.
Scientists could see a clear evolutionary path for the technology that would revolutionize everyday life. The trip from the dots-and-dashes of Morse code, to audio transmission, and eventually to television, was all a matter of learning how to manipulate the electromagnetic spectrum. Unlike a fanciful speculation like teleportation, such things were undeniably possible within the theory underlying Maxwell’s equations. Read more…
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How to use Google AdWords
Posted on October 31, 2009
If you want to learn how to set-up a Google AdWords account and start placing ads to sell merchandise from your website, this video is for you.
Perhaps the best way to teach others how to use Google AdWords is by concrete example. Thus, today’s video shows how we set-up an AdWords campaign to sell copies of our market research report, Future Developments in Video Advertising. 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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Searching Internet Video for TV Viewing
Posted on December 22, 2008
Suranga Chandratillake
If you would like to learn about a video search engine that “looks” within the content of Internet video files, as opposed to relying upon metadata like conventional search engines, this Interview is for you.
Our guest today is Suranga Chandratillake, who is the CEO of Blinkx.com. Although the company is publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange, it is headquartered in San Francisco. Blinkx operates a search engine dedicated to Internet Video. Unlike conventional search engines that can only “look” at the metadata of such files (e.g. the tags and titles); Blinkx actually inspects the text and phonetics. The company also recently launched a website that functions as an aggregating directory for TV shows that are legitimately available on the Internet, typically for free viewing.
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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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A Second Opinion on the Google Phone
Posted on November 13, 2007
Summary: If you would like to hear a second expert opinion about the implications of the Google Wireless Phone Open Platform, this interview is for you.
Our guest today is Chetan Sharma who is the Founder of Sharma Consulting. His firm specializes in strategy and intellectual property consulting in the wireless industry. Last week we heard from Alan Reiter who is the founder of the Wireless Internet and Mobile Computing consulting firm, and this interview provides a second opinion. Read more…
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The Google Phone
Posted on November 7, 2007
If you would like to hear an expert opinion about the implications of the Google Wireless Phone Open Platform, this interview is for you.
Our guest today is Alan Reiter who is the founder of the Wireless Internet and Mobile Computing consulting firm.
Length: This audio interview is about 20 minutes long.
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