The internet has been all aflutter since first Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and then Jim Griffin of Warner Music discussed the idea of an internet tax.
According to CNet:
“The proposal outlined in the interview Griffin gave Portfolio.com suggested that ISP fees could create a $20 billion pool that would go to artists and copyright [...]
CEO Gregg Spiridellis and his brother Evan brought JibJab to internet fame during the last presidential campaign season with a flash-animated music video set to the tune of This Land Is Our Land.
Since then they’ve explored a number of ways to capitalize on the site’s popularity as a supplier of funny animation. More importantly, they [...]
CNet has coverage of the SXSWi’s “Internet Fame” panel:
“Pretty much any group, or any community, no matter how big or small, has a kind of hierarchy,” Marwick explained. It’s not evil, she said. “That’s just a normal way that people organize themselves.” The Web is no exception. “
The notion of “internet fame” is definitely a [...]
CNet has coverage of the SXSWi panel on professional gaming. Perhaps not surprisingly, the panelists (a mix of pro-gamers, developers and investors) were pretty bullish on the potential of the sport”
“…all seemed to agree that professional video gaming could be a lucrative vocation for almost anyone willing to put in the time and energy to [...]
Newsweek finally got a little attention from the bloggers out there by publishing an article with a link-bait ready title “Is User Generated Content Out?”
Turns out most of the article is more about the sort of “wisdom of crowds” approach of Wikipedia or YouTube versus the curated approach of newer sites like Knol and BigThink.
“In [...]
Jane McGonigal has been involved in just about all of the major net-based ARGs of the past few years, including I Love Bees, Last Call Poker and Cruel 2 B Kind. She also turns out to be one of the main forces behind the latest ARG, The Lost Ring.
This is a little bit dated but [...]
I’m hard-pressed to imagine the circumstances under which the (over)hyped video player Joost could become successful but, according to CNet, the backers are CBS are confident:
“Speaking to a small gathering of tech and media reporters at CBS’ New York headquarters Thursday, (CBS Interactive president Quincy) Smith gave a firm “no” when asked if Joost–which requires [...]
ARG’s, or Alternate Reality Games, have been hovering just below the mainstream for a while now but it looks like that’s beginning to change as content creators and brand marketers and seeing big opportunities.
CNet’s Daniel Terdiman recently received the first pieces to a new, Olympic-themed [...]
In the wake of the breakdown of what has been the traditional model of record-making for the past 50-or-so years, there are a whole lot of new methods being tested. One such method is Crowdfunding
CNet has a review of a number of the sites exploring this model and a link to a very cool post [...]
Great review over on NewTeeVee of CNET’s latest video offering, Loaded. Sounds like they’ve made a classic mistake by trying to serve too many audiences they have missed them all.
“I can’t figure out who exactly the show is targeted at. Is it for the noob or the tech-savvy? Loaded is basically just someone reading the [...]
