the rhino is the ride that is hip these days.
looking for bad words in Sun’s Solaris source code.
pushes it’s shopping cart through the internet and drops websites it’s passes in it
They have the money, and with the flickr purchase (or did I dream that) and wikipedia cooperation (since they can not buy it) have proven good taste.
and even Alan Greenspan is not so cool with that anymore
When I step out of work I look at the parking lot of a well known director. I am not sure how many cars he does have. They change frequently. His poor dogs however still have to drive that souped up Lincoln Navigator. OK, they don’t drive the car, there is a driver for it. But the cars only purpose to haul those dogs around. They certainly don’t fit in any of the Ferrraris. I am sure the dog’s love those shiny Rim that probably cost as much as the entire education of some kid in Africa.
while you are watching commercials for something this is what is going on
Procter & Gamble will reduce their Ad spending by 25% for cable and 5% for terrestial TV.
Ad markets in general are slated to grow.
Procte & Gamble is one of the biggest advertisers in the world.
Below the line this means much less money for TV.
of course all eyes are on google on this one. google is big, video will be big. 1+1 = 2. Easy to see for everybody. Yes? Kind of. The devil is in the detail. I think that google-video will not be that great.
Right now it is content driven. A real long tail market. And people expect content to be free. Google has the bandwidth and the server capacity. But for a publisher they have very very sketchy terms.
They think they don’t need to sort these things out. After all, they are google. Their Midas effect was never as it looked. All the projects that did not work out, simply dissappeared. Google Video might be one of them.
I still remember when you could buy 15 different DVDs.
update:
rewind on the rewind kind of