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Android to ride in iPhone's wake

by John Shinal, August 18, 2008 | Comments (0)

Google's open-source platform to get in game, but HTC and T-Mobile aren't Dream partners

Years from now, the wireless industry will look back on 2008 as "The Year that Everything Changed."Apple's Apps Store and new iPhone might have been enough to earn this year that moniker.But now comes the news that Google's Android platform is going from being a promise on the horizon to a mobile OS on a real phone.With the software developer ...

YouTube testing mobile video ads

by John Shinal, August 18, 2008 | Comments (0)

Move follows expanded mobile platform, Schmidt's comments that mobile will be huge

Now we know why Google CEO Eric Schmidt couldn't resist telling CNBC's Jim Cramer last week that his company's opportunity from mobile ads will be even bigger than the Web market it's currently addressing. YouTube said on a blog posting today that it's begun testing mobile video ads in the U.S. and Japan.This follows the sites revamped mobile interface earlier ...

Daily usage headed down as Apps Store grows

by John Shinal, August 15, 2008 | Comments (0)

iPhone boredom or expected trend? Less than one in five downloaded apps may be used daily

No doubt people are downloading more apps than ever from the iPhone store.But as the number of downloads soars past 60 million, the percentage of those that are used daily continues to slide.That's according to Greg Yardley, CEO of PinchMedia, a New York startup which provides ad softawe and analytics tools for iPhone developers. Whereas 20% of the Pinch Media-equipped ...

Mr. Jobs, tear down this phone!

by John Shinal, August 14, 2008 | Comments (0)

Mounting evidence of 3G reception problems points to iPhone, not networks

Two people I wouldn't want to be this week: the product engineer at Apple who signed off on the iPhone's 3G chipset and software, and that person's counterpart at chip maker Infineon. Can you imagine the tenor of the call from the mercurial Steve Jobs to the Apple guy?"Yeah, __________, this is Steve Jobs. I'm gonna need you to come ...

Exits mean major holes in Facebook exec team

by John Shinal, August 13, 2008 | Comments (0)

	Zuckerberg will need more engineering help, and fast The departure of Benjamin Ling from Facebook, just as developers are starting to build apps for the social network's revamped platform, is a blow for the company no matter how Facebook tries to spin it. Ling, who came from Google less than a year ago, said he's leaving to pursue a great opportunity. But the fact is he obviously saw ...
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Internet privacy law should be opt in

by John Shinal, August 12, 2008 | Comments (0)

Fight in Congress next year will be key for behavioral targeting

News that a key member of the U.S. Congress intends to introduce legislation designed to rein in behavioral targeting suggests that 2009 will be the year that defines advertising practices on the Web.Comments by Ed Markey that any such legislation should require an opt-in provision means the fight that occurred over Facebook's Beacon program will move to the larger Internet.Markey ...

Here comes the App Store ecosystem

by John Shinal, August 11, 2008 | Comments (0)

Apple's coat tails in mobile software will be worth riding, giving iPhone platform an early boost

Who said Steve Jobs didn't learn a few things from Bill Gates?Gates' company grew after he turned PC makers into his allies by convincing them his software would make their machines more useful and attractive to buyers.Jobs, on the other hand, led Apple into the PC market share basement in the 1980s by insisting on going it alone in both ...

Mobile video business model is "upside down"

by John Shinal, August 8, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Scale Venture Partners' Wienbar recaps Digital Hollywood discussion

If wireless carriers want to make a profit on the expected explosion in mobile video, something will have to change about the economics of how they deliver it.That was the conclusion of a panel of mobile and video content executives at this week's Digital Hollywood event in San Jose. With wireless carriers paying as much as 30 cents per megabyte ...

T-Mobile gets the wake-up call

by John Shinal, August 8, 2008 | Comments (0)

Carrier to follow Apple's lead with Web store for mobile apps

When it comes to making it easy for subscribers to access innovative mobile applications, U.S. wireless carriers have lagged their counterparts in the rest of the world.The arrival of Apple's app store was expected to be a "big wake up call," as JH Kah of Korean carrier ST telecom told an audience at the MobileBeat conference last week.Now, it looks ...

Dispatch from the edge of Web TV

by John Shinal, August 7, 2008 | Comments (0)

Content can still rule if its good; dancing cats, meanwhile, will need super-syndication

After several days of the latest Digital Hollywood event, some thoughts on the value of content. Silicon Valley and Hollywood have staged a running battle for several years now over whether content or distribution business models would create and hold more value in the age of digital content.In simpler terms, the question is whether it's worth more to own Web ...

Current Media rolls out first Web site ads

by John Shinal, August 7, 2008 | Comments (0)

Company aimed at youthful, progressive audience looking to generate more revenue

Current TV began three years ago as a cable network that helped pioneer the use of user-generated video, produced by and for its demographic of 18-to-34-year-olds interested in progressive and youth-oriented subjects.That ethos, inspired in part by co-founder and chairman Al Gore, meant that the network's companion Web site, current.com, eschewed advertising in favor of giving its community of short-segment ...

Google's Adam Sah: relevancy can be beautiful

by John Shinal, August 6, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Gadget ads and DVR data will also push privacy limits; Apple's boost to CNet

If you start to doubt how much passion Google engineers have for their ad products -- or how targeted Web ads can be -- check out this video interview with Adam Sah.Sah, architect for the company's gadget content directory, raised some eyebrows during a panel discussion at a Digital Hollywood event when he said that Google's technology could make serving ...

Glam Media using ad data to drive higher CPMs

by John Shinal, August 6, 2008 | Comments (0)

VP Zamanian says ad buyers like aggregate data; some interested in user content

Glam Media has built one of the largest online ad networks targeted at women, with more than 450 Web sites ranging from its own flagship property, glam.com, to small blogs.All of those sites collect valuable information on their users, and Glam is now using the data to sell targeted brand ads across its network, says Kiumarse Zamanian, vice president of ...

Studios can't compete with economics of WebTV

by John Shinal, August 5, 2008 | Comments (0)

ManiaTV CEO Hoskins on how to make money on every show

ManiaTV CEO Peter Hoskins looks for several things before he will greenlight a show for his Web TV Network.The most important is the story being told."Our sweet spot is good story-telling," Hoskins said at a panel of the Digital Hollywood conference in San Jose this week. The content also needs to be episodic and produced specifically for the Web medium, ...

First big hit will help define Web TV

by John Shinal, August 5, 2008 | Comments (1)

Numedia Studios' CEO Kernan says "we still haven't seen the 'I Love Lucy' of this medium"

At a panel of the Digital Hollywood conference in San Jose this week, there was agreement among upstart Web production companies that the long tail of user-generated content is of no interest to brand advertisers. Michael Kernan, CEO of Numedia Studios says the reason that people only watch two or three minutes of UGC clips is because "they're not very ...

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