A View on ViewThis blogs examines the world of online video from the hot companies and entrepreneurs to exciting new trends.We're Talking Tech..and Nortel, Yahoo and Holiday Gifts- December 8, 2006 Another week, another Talking Tech podcast. This week, we've actually got a live guest - technology analyst Duncan Stewart, who has been part of Canada's tech landscape for the past decade as a fund manager and equity analyst. In a spirited roundtable discussion (fueled by some Starbucks java), we talked about Nortel's decision to end a 92-year-old auditing relationship with Deloitte Touche; Yahoo's decision to appoint Susan Decker as chief operating officer; the start-up landscape within...http://evans.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/12/8/2559538.html Google Brings New Approach to Radio Advertising- December 8, 2006 It's still early days but I think Google's move into the radio advertising business could revolutionize (or perhaps evolve) the way the industry does business. In a test project, Google is providing 20 AdWords customers with access to more than 730 stations, which run ads in more than 260 U.S. markets. The AdWords system is linked through Google's dMarc, division, which was acquired for as much as $1.13-billion earlier this year (it was Google's biggest deal before YouTube came along)....http://evans.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/12/8/2559108.html Apparently, I'm a Mover and a Shaker- December 8, 2006 According to Pierce Mattie Public Relations, I'm one of the blogosphere's movers and shakers - along with Jessica Coen, Steve Rubel, Corynne Steindler and Robert Scoble, which is awful flattering company. The criteria for making the list was using a blog as platform for landing a job in the blogging industry. Truth be told, I started to blog in early-2004 as an experiment to see what all the fuss was about. From there, it took on a life of its own before b5media emerged on the scene. (Note:...http://evans.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/12/8/2559036.html MetaCafe Snapped Up for $200M- December 7, 2006 According to YNet, Metacafe - one of the more popular video sharing services not called YouTube - has been acquired for $200-million. So who's next Who's going to be left without a seat when the music stops playinghttp://evans.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/12/7/2557318.html Private Radio Thriving Amid Competition- December 7, 2006 The Financial Post's Sean Silcoff has an interesting column looking at how Canada's private radio industry is thriving at a time when other media - newspapers, television, magazines - are struggling with the Internet's growing popularity. Silcoff points out radio listenership has remained steady at 532 million hours over the past six years, while sales have climbed by 5.6% a year over the past decade. Meanwhile, operating margins climbed to 21% - 3.5x the level in 1995. So has commercial...http://evans.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/12/7/2556874.html Google Video vs. YouTube- December 7, 2006 I was watching a YouTube video (another funny take on Weird Al's Canadian Idiot) last night, which made me wonder how andor if Google Video and YouTube are going to co-exist. Let's start with YouTube given it's more popularity (23 million unique visitors a month can't be wrong, right). Obviously, Google is probably going to implement AdSense throughout YouTube as a way to generate revenue. There will also be high-revenue banner ads to capitalize on the traffic. Then what Does Google create a.http://evans.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/12/7/2556462.html Canada's YouTube!- December 7, 2006 South of the border, they get YouTube; up here in the great, white north, we get....blogTV.ca, a video sharing service from Alliance Atlantis that's just for us Canucks. Check out Mathew Ingram's take on YouTube North, which apparently claims it owns all content uploaded to the Web site. Hah! Here's a riddle: why is it that Canada ranks second behind South Korea when it comes to high-speed Internet penetration yet we lag when it comes to e-commerce, social networking, user-generated content,...http://evans.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/12/6/2555000.html Crap, Spam is Back!- December 6, 2006 I thought it was just me receiving hundreds of e-mail messages over the past few weeks featuring the subject line "It's me, xxxx" that featured information about some yet-to-be-discovered stock but it turns out I'm just being caught up in the new spam onslaught hitting inboxes around the world. According to spam-filtering firm Ironport, the amount of spam has doubled over the past year, and it now accounts for more than 90% of e-mail messages. Clearly, something needs to be done because all...http://evans.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/12/6/2553688.html Deck the Halls With Susan Decker- December 6, 2006 In a press release ("Yahoo! Re-Aligns Organization to More Effectively Focus on Key Customer Segments and Capture Future Growth Opportunities") that could become a classic case study for public relations students, Yahoo has cleared the decks for Susan Decker to become its new COO by firing Dan Rosensweig. You figure a media company such as Yahoo would figure out a more elegant way than issuing a 1,500+ word press release. Of course, Decker's ascension to COO has been the word's worst kept...http://evans.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/12/6/2553540.html Yahoo's Stab at Community Journalism- December 6, 2006 Disclaimer: I'm not a big fan of community journalism. Sure, there's an argument to be made about having citizen journalists using their cellphones, Blackberrys, PDAs, etc. to "report" the news as it happens but it's not really news as much as raw material that real news organizations can squeeze some snippets of value from. So far, community journalism has been, at best, disappointing. Dan Gilmour tried to make a go of it with BayoSphere but it fizzled out despite his best efforts. Despite..http://evans.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/12/5/2552780.html |