studying the media ecosystem
Cheers to Yahoo for creating a special search utility to find content published under the flexible licenses of the Creative Commons. I hope this is a precursor to subsequent initiatives to marry this find-engine to a market that can for return payments to creators who seek recompense. A little background. Led by [...]
I’d rather be lucky than smart, or so the saying goes. Luckily I got up to speed on tags and folksonomies just in time to notice that del.icio.us has received an undisclosed sum of venture capital to grow its shared bookmarking service from a hobby into a business.
Thanks to Rafat Ali for pointing to the [...]
What’s in a name, Juliet once exclaimed from her balcony. In the evolving mediascape, that which we call a rose has become a tag — a naming convention that makes content more accessible while simultaneously building online communities. These tags are a form of metadata — capsule descriptions of larger data sets. Increasingly [...]
A Center for Media Research briefing says Gawker Media ranks10th in advertising impressions for the current events and world news segment, with 2.1% of all impressions in the category. The Center cited a February survey from Nielsen/NetRatings as its source. In light of my recent rant about Web domination by incumbent media, I felt obliged [...]
We hear more and more about Web business ecosystems, the latest example being Paid Content, which pinged off a bit from ZDNet’s Dan Farber. “Business and technology ecosystems, like their biological counterparts, can be fragile,” Dan wrote. And as I observed earlier this week, even groovy Web ecoystems can be as lopsided as the relationship [...]
One quarter of U.S. households now have web access through mobile phones, creating a large new potential market for downloadable content. That’s my reading of a statistic buried in a Media Post article that excerpted bits from some research done by the Kelsey Group and ConStat.
The article said: “Nearly eight out of 10 households–79 percent–have [...]
Ecosystem is a term often used to describe Internet business models. Given all the Web sites being acquired recently — including About.com, Bloglines, AskJeeves and Flickr — I wonder if we’re developing an Internet ecosystem populated by whales and krill.
The recent deals all seem poised to harvest advertising visits through [...]
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