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 [...]

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. [...]

Video Suggestion Engines

The web is all about choice and knowing how to navigate. It’s too easy to make the wrong choice – with TV it’s just too simple to hit the channel button. The suggestion engine feature must be evolved is to help TV survive as well as create web-video mass adoption – converge or diverge doesn’t matter both media; need it. [...]

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. [...]