Video Content Libraries: What are They Worth?

It’s probably safe to assume a hundred years from now that economics will make a 6-minute video of Allen Collins playing Freebird live more valuable than the Wizard of Oz [...]

New York Tech Meetup – September 8, 2010

The NY Tech Meetup has become the venue for presenting new start up ideas in NYC. Here is a distillation of a my learning moments at last nights event (September 8, 2010).

Apture – Simple elegant always wins

Apture may be the next generation of search. It allows webpage visitors to search on terms in the text [...]

NY Tech Meetup Review – Aug 3, 2010

The NY Tech Meetup has become the venue for presenting new start up ideas in NYC. Here is a distillation of a few learning moments at last nights event (August 3, 2010).

Market Publique: Long Tail Application’s Win

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Market Publique is  an excellent example of a “long tail” strategy, coupled with a passionate entrepreneur.  It’s a winner.  It [...]

Apple vs. The World

Apple vs. The World

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Chrome OS not just Hype

All flavors of PC OS are a slighty different twist on the same bad idea of perpetual license one-size-fits-all computing with this crazy notion of one giant hairball universal configuration of every possible services available at all time [...]

The LongTail and Web Video Monetization

Today, we are somewhere between the head and the emergence of the first parts of the tail, however with the decline in TV advertising revenue and the fierce demand for video viewing … a long tail will emerge. [...]

What's the Big Idea?

It’s possible for everything to be buttoned up and look like you can’t fail — strong intellectual property, great ideas marketing ideas and an amazing team — and the idea is truly “too big to NOT fail.” But if it’s really a good long range vision, then there’s probably a way to engage the ideal corporate buyer to assure you hit your exit. [...]

Next Generation Web Video

The next generational advancement in web-video has to be the “remote control” or the way users interact with the video distribution to pick videos or sequences of videos. Logically this mean it has to be an advancement of a search and categorization – an area locked up by Google, the owner of YouTube. [...]

Web-TV Convergence, What is it?

Network TV is losing its hold on “video entertainment.” A radical market shift on TV means that there is an opportunity for the web to offer a different, hopefully superior product, for video entertainment. [...]