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“Will Google and Yahoo create more engagement? No. They will create better efficiencies and that’s fine, but I’m not sure efficiency is the root of the issue.” Hmmm.
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“Like Flickr, but without the photos.” Surprisingly entertaining.
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12% of US internet users have now downloaded, up from 7% earlier this year, according to Pew Internet Life. Decent growth but not mainstream.
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Highlights from Pew’s web2.0 report, showing Photobucket, Wikipedia and Myspace growing exponentially as Kodakgallery, Encarta and Geocities stagnate or dwindle.
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“The mainstream media have fallen in love with blogs… does the inherent tension between the blogosphere’s anything-goes ethos and the standards of traditional journalism mean this relationship is doomed?”
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“Newspapers are making progress with the internet, but most are still too timid, defensive or high-minded”
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Mark Cuban: newspapers should become the library for local information by posting every interview online, and should harness RSS icon branding to promote their content.
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Unbundling the news they want from the news they don’t want is what the Web allows readers to do now.
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The business models required customers to pay for detritus to get the good stuff.
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“The fundamental error in most discussions of disaggregation is that they assume that the goal is to provide more value to the end-user. It’s exactly the opposite: the goal is to provide a greater return to the producer.”
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“The result of unbundling, disaggregation, the loss of pipe control (to use Andy Kessler’s construct) — i.e. the inability to force people to consume content they don’t want — is that content businesses don’t scale anymore.”
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Eight predictions for media in 2007
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“because of marginal costs approaching zero, it is increasingly a better business to provide technology to millions, even billions of folks rather than try to protect the control of a pipe to a few”
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