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mathewingram.com/work - Sep 5, 2008
My friend Om Malik says that he has it on good authority that Joost — the much-hyped P2P online video startup run by the founders of Skype and Kazaa — is planning to kill its desktop client. This news was likely met in …
Also tagged: joost
mathewingram.com/work - Aug 15, 2008
Predictably enough, NBC head honcho Jeff Zucker — the guy who previously ranted about how he’d rather have TV dollars than a few measly “digital pennies” — is crowing about how the massive viewership numbers for the …
Also tagged: television, olympics
mathewingram.com/work - Apr 28, 2008
Clay Shirky, who teaches and speaks about “new media,” has posted the transcript of a speech he gave at the recent Web 2.0 conference, in which he talks about how TV as a whole is effectively a societal response to a …
Also tagged: social networks, wikipedia, web2 0, shirky
mathewingram.com/work - Apr 23, 2008
After more than a year, an independent Web-based movie venture called Filmaka is finally out of “beta.” The project has a couple of high-profile backers: indie film producer Deepak Nayar (responsible for movies such as …
Also tagged: web, media, movies, television, filmaka
mathewingram.com/work - Jan 17, 2008
Are the Digg guys bent on creating a media empire? Perhaps. The mini-Murdochs behind Digg and Revision3 — that is, Kevin Rose and Jay Adelman — have launched a new show called The Digg Reel, featuring the top videos …
Also tagged: media, television, digg, reel
mathewingram.com/work - Dec 13, 2007
(This is a piece I wrote for the Globe that was published Wednesday. I’m posting it here for anyone who might have missed it.) Apple CEO Steve Jobs gave Canadians an early Christmas present on Wednesday: the ability …
Also tagged: apple, television, itunes, web2 0
mathewingram.com/work - Dec 3, 2007
Interesting piece in Ad Age magazine about how Nickelodeon has noticed huge traffic to some of its Nick Jr. shows, including one psychedelic Teletubby-style offering called Yo Gabba Gabba (wonder if The Ramones are …
Also tagged: web, media, television, web2 0, nickelodeon
mathewingram.com/work - Nov 17, 2007
There were rumours even before the U.S. writers strike started that it might lead to one of the networks picking up Quarterlife, the new Web drama about twentysomethings created by Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz, the …
Also tagged: web, media, television, web2 0, quarterlife
mathewingram.com/work - Oct 29, 2007
So Hulu, the joint venture between NBC and News Corp. that some thought would be a YouTube competitor, has sort of launched — or at least it has given some of the chosen few in Silicon Valley a look at the service. As …
Also tagged: media, television, web2 0, nbc, hulu
mathewingram.com/work - Oct 23, 2007
The vision of social media as a vast, harmonious collective that both generates and consumes “user-generated content” is mostly a straw man set up by Web 2.0 critics so they can demolish it (yes, I’m looking at you …
Also tagged: social networks, media, web2 0, user generated, mania