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WatchMojo NewsletterIn business, you have to understand a simple rule of management: the more stars you have around you, the better. I worked with a guy who talked a big game about teamplay but the second someone shone brighter than he did (not exactly a tough thing to do, mind you), he cried and whined about it.
Under his watch, every single talented and creative person headed for the exit sign. The lesson is simple: it’s great to be brash and a go-getter as a boss, but you need to understand that you will have to surround yourself with people who aspire to see their stars shine as bright if not brighter than yours. It’s healthy competition, it’s cooperation, and if you cannot handle that reality, you should not be in business, let alone manage a team.
Today Donald Trump fired Caroline Kepcher because, basically, she began to get endorsement deals and give $25,000 lectures.
If this affected her job performance - and it very well might have - then sure, can her. But if it did not, embrace it. Who kows, maybe Trump’s ego is as fragile as his hairline. It doesn’t help that the Lord of Nepotism, who got his start thanks to his father’s work, replaced Caroline with Ivanka, but who can blame him…
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Interesting question from Tacoda’s Dave Morgan.
Indeed, Google positions itself as a technology company in order “to pacify media companies that they want to partner with, or avoid copyright infringement lawsuits from those same companies.”
But it does so because technically, it does not own any of the content it distributes, nor does it own the rights to most of it, frankly.
Indeed, it generates 99% of its revenue alongside that content, but with all due respect, it is false to assume that “because Google generates 99% of its revenue from advertising, then it must be a media company.”
After all, if tomorrow MSFT decided to give away all of its software for free and generate revenue from advertising, would it suddenly become a media company? Probably not.
I could be wrong, but print, like TV, radio etc. is a media… so the reason why newspapers are media is that they own - or own rights to - the content they produce/publish.
Yahoo! might not publish much proprietary content, but it owns right to it… Google on the other hand, does not own the content it distributes, it owns the technology that enables the flow of traffic to the content, that makes it a technology company in the sense that Yahoo! is more discerning about where its traffic should go.
Either way, I certainly agree that “creating world-changing technology is hard. Running a great global media company is much harder.”
Dislosure: Our company, http://www.WatchMojo.com works with both Yahoo! and Google and I am a shareholder of Yahoo!
Two of the most popular brands in the world, known for their sheer ingenuity and impressive innovation track record are getting increasingly close. Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, has decided to join Apple’s board.
How much is an alliance between Apple and Google a threat to Microsoft?
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NEW YORK, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ — On August 31st, 2006 J/Arista Records will launch “Clip of the Week” on their website www.jrecords.com. Modeled after popular video sites such as YouTube and MySpace, “Clip of the Week” will stream exclusive never before seen artist footage directly from their homepage.
For the first time ever visitors to the website will be able to see behind the scenes action, interviews, live concert footage, music video outtakes, bloopers and archival footage from today’s hottest artists.
“Clip of the Week” launches with an exclusive interview with Luther Vandross’ mother, Mary Ida and a rarely seen interview with Luther himself. Also included is a montage of superstar artists such as Jamie Foxx, Ruben Studdard, Monica and Beyonce speaking out about music legend Luther Vandross; along with rare in-studio footage of Celine Dion and Mary J. Blige recording tracks from “Dance With My Father.” The launch of “Clip of the Week” coincides with the recent release of The Ultimate Luther Vandross, a collection of Luther’s greatest hits and 2 unheard original recordings.
New exclusive video footage of J/Arista’s incredible superstar artists such as Barry Manilow, Rod Stewart, Fantasia, Ruben Studdard, Monica, Taylor Hicks, Mario Vazquez, Paula DeAnda, and more will be added to the “Clip of the Week” portion of the website on a weekly basis.
The formal channels having failed him, a 41 year-old former Lockheed Martin engineer took his concerns about the security systems of a certain model of Coast Guard boat to the net by posting a 10 minute video on YouTube. A tragic indication of political apathy, at the time that the original story ran, the video had only received about 8,000 views. That number as since grown to 47,000, a notable increase since the story first ran in the mainstream press, but still relatively meager compared to the over 900,000 views that a cat wheel video.
This, of course, comes as little surprise considering that the keywords Lockheed, Lockheed Martin, and even the name of the whistle blower Michael De Kort all fail to produce the video. Now, any video uploaded to the site is assigned keywords by the poster, but even though De Kort used the keywords Homeland Security, and Coast Guard, the latter fails to produce the video altogether, where the former still only sees it relatively on the list–compared to a video with Weed as one of its keywords which is at the top of the list.
Given the number of repeat postings of a “German Coast Guard” video that arise when searching the term Coast Guard, moreover–arguably, the most readily accessible term that comes to mind to search upon hearing of the story–it would be curious to know whether elements within Lockheed or the government have culture jammed the site to make the video more difficult to locate. Whatever the case may be, the video can be viewed either here.
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The only place you can find more celebbrity impersonators than MySpace is Las Vegas at Halloween. Anyone who’s a serious fan of anyone knows how hard it is sometimes to find an authentic somebody on the social networking site, and with layouts, friends, and how many of them that they have as the only gage of whether or not they’re the real McCoy, there’s still never any way to be sure.
But for those even more lonely and pathetic than a blogger, living vicariously through someone else’s legacy–dead or alive–doesn’t seem so surreal in this world run by Hollywood and reality television. Whether you’re parodying or envying them, a game of cyber-dress-up seems to be the only one that doesn’t grow lame day in, day out.
Being the entrepresneur of self-love that he is, it’s little surprise that Dov Charney might indulge in the biggest narcissistic exercisetrend of our age. After all, he’s always been a bit of a media darling, and being a fashion powerhouse, image would be high on his list of priorities.
Despite that his MySpace profile features a photo that was obviously taken in intimate proximity of him, and is void of slanderous or offensive material–unless, of course, suggestive advertising bothers you–it’s doubtful that it’s his own. CEOs of companies worth hundres of millions of dollars just have better things to do with their time.
Of course, one of the shills that rush to his side with a hipster defense everytime he gets some bad press could very well be responsible, but then they’d scarcely build a roster of friends that includes Mao Zedong, Kim Jung-Il, and Adolf Hitler–especially when their Guru is Jew-ru.
Then again, stranger things have been known to happen, and Charney’s been spotted in all sorts of wierd situations, especially by professional e-stalkers. All in all, what young-dumb-and-full-of-cum-twenty-something-hipsters wouldn’t want to be Dov Charney? After all, the New York Times only bothers to report on your lechery if you have some serious money, cash, and hoes.
With no where left to turn an employee of Lockheed Martin decided to blow the whistle on his company by posting a video describing unethical practices that he discovered. He claims he discovered ”startling security flaws” and then when no one took him seriously he decided to look to the power of YouTube. He shot a video of himself outlining the problems and then posted it to see if it would find an audience. It has since been picked up by a lot of press, much more so than if he would have attempted normal avenues to get his story out there. I wonder if this will entice more whistleblowers to share their stories…
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Some analysts see pay-per-call as an untapped and potentially lucrative market for Web companies. The concept got a high-profile endorsement Monday when Google (GOOG) and eBay (YHOO) said they would begin testing call services next year as part of their much-discussed advertising alliance.
There seems to be little doubt that Google and eBay want to deploy the feature, in which consumers make Internet phone calls through icons they see on advertisements. The companies said they would use both Google Talk and eBay’s Skype in offering “another innovative way to connect with customers,” Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said Monday.
But Yahoo!, which is already under pressure on Wall Street to keep pace with Google’s ever-lengthening stride, wasn’t ready Tuesday to commit.
“As part of this ongoing testing, we are currently evaluating the advertising opportunity that pay-per-call presents,” Dina Freeman, a Yahoo! spokeswoman, wrote Tuesday in an email. “Once our tests are complete, we will use the data to determine whether it makes sense to offer a pay-per-call service to our advertisers.”
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Apparently, Webshots will soon include video. Read more. I’m not particularly sure it makes sense for CNET to push consumer generated video, but then again, it will make the site stickier.
What I love is that it’s one more destination on the Web where people can consumer video, as producer of the www.Watchmojo.com site, that can only be a good thind.
