One of the things that strikes me as odd (from a trying to please users perspective, not so much from a technology or business perspective) is Apple CEO’s Steve Jobs’ reluctance to enable flash on the iPhone.
Naturally, with flash being ubiquitous in online video, and the iPhone become a increasingly important piece of the wireless entertainment landscape, it was a matter of time before someone looked at converting flash for the iPhone. continue reading...
I’ve been meaning to write about this for a few weeks now, but as a content provider I figured I should shut my trap.
Anyway, Adobe just launched a new video player: “Underneath the hood, Adobe MP is a video RSS aggregator tuned for Flash media”. The navigation reminds me a bit of Joost’s (that’s a good thing), but the integration and ingestion was pretty impressive… continue reading...
I’m no developer, but from vantage point, Microsoft scores one today against Apple for embracing Adobe’s flash. In fact, if the game was football, this would be a touchdown. How so?
1- As Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt is lobbying that a Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo! would break the Web, Microsoft shows that it can embrace another standard on mobile that competes with one of its own. continue reading...
Since 1994, we have seen many companies come out of nowhere, off the radar, only to grow into positions of leadership and dominate their sphere. Some go on and galvanize that leadership positions, others falter and let someone else pass by.The following is HipMojo.com’s list of Internet Company of the Year, based on growth, market leadership, traction, strength of management, prospects and overall accomplishments.
All right, time for the envelopes, and the winners are: continue reading...
Some time ago I wrote a post explaining why I sold Adobe. The company is great and I love their acquisition of Macromedia and all, but I just saw piracy and mainly free services as a major threat to their business.
Today their CEO Bruce Chizen came out and said that the company will launch a free, ad-supported Photoshop. This is wise and dangerous: it’s wise because the company realizes that nowadays no one is on a computer but not connected, and once you are connected, everything is a click away, including pirated versions or free versions of a company’s software. And since people nowadays spend 25% of their time online but marketers still only spend 10% of their ad budgets online, there is a large opportunity right there. But, for a company that is worth $20B to come out and offer free services for a one-time core, money-making application, it sends a message that it sees a major loss of pricing power and needs to react. continue reading...
When we launched WatchMojo.com, we decided to go with Adobe’s Macromedia’s Flash Video. Doing so meant more work, but sometimes you go with your gut.
This was January 2006, YouTube was about 7 months old, there was, in other words, no guarantee or real reason to think at the time that flash would prevail. All to say, over time flash video became the closest thing to a market standard online. continue reading...
