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Monthly Archives: May 2008
Please Don’t Touch My TV
Is TV dying, or is it just a hype?
Last Friday I attended disrupTV, an “un-conference” for media technologies that I helped organizing. The event was organized by Nir Ofir and Rafael Mizrahi, hosted by Yossi Vardi and Jeff Pulver, and was the first “un-conference” on this topic in Israel.
In one of the presentations a question [...]
Media Revolution 101- The Forces Behind The Revolution
Hey, I have a question for you. What are all these discussions about media revolution?
Let’s look on traditional media business models:
Film: production companies raise funds and make movies. They distribute them through distribution companies that has relation with cinema owners across the globe. Marketing companies promote the movies worldwide. Money made from selling tickets goes [...]
Posted in Internet TV, Marketing, Media, Social Media Tagged Facebook, Internet TV, Marketing, online video, Social Media, tv 5 Comments
Important Announcement
Well, if you are reading this blog you know that I am usually writing at least once per week. However, lately I was a bit slow on my posts.
Besides some great announcements coming soon, last week, on Thursday, May 8th, I married my long time girlfriend. As you can Imagine, it took some of my attention to [...]
Posted in Events 3 Comments
iChat, Video Conferencing, and My Living Room
Video conferencing was and still is an enterprise play. As a technology it has many business applications, especially cutting traveling costs.
However something is missing. First of all, setting up a video conference call is still a pain. Both sides need to coordinate IP addresses, and know what type of equipment is being used by the [...]
Why Twitter Shouldn’t Charge Super Users
Robert Scoble asks if Twitter should charge super users, a concept raised by Om Malik. For those of you who aren't using this service - it is a much hyped notification platform that wrote about in the past.