As WatchMojo celebrated its 6-year anniversary on Monday January 23, on Show 25 of HipMojo, Rebecca asks me about some of the highlights of WatchMojo’s first 6 years. Enjoy: continue reading...
I’ve now moderated two panels at Streaming Media, once last summer at SM East and once this past fall at SM West. Noteworthy on the LA panel was Marc Suster’s assertion that Google had spent closer to $250 million - and not the $100 million the media was reporting - on YouTube’s content initiative. I touched on that in my TechCrunch article “Can Content Producers Be Disruptors Or Is Content Only Meant To Be Disrupted?“ Anyway, in LA, after my I conducted an interview where we touched on many themes. One of the topics was the fact that WatchMojo had not raised any VC and we had bootstrapped. continue reading...
With CT running from the Feds again busy and unable to join us, Rebecca steps in for show #24. We talk about: continue reading...
In show 23 of HipMojo, WatchMojo producer and host Rebecca Brayton steps in for CT and chats with me about continue reading...
Clear sign that CT and I might want to compare notes on what we plan on wearing the day of the show… anyway, last week my article on Web rewards greed and bad behavior struck a nerve with the TechCrunch community, so on this week’s show CT and I spent segment 1 talking about it, enjoy: continue reading...
The world wide web prospered and is what it is today because its inventor Tim Berners-Lee didn’t give into temptation and greed and chose not to patent his invention. But 20 years later, it’s evident that the only thing that most online leaders lead in is plain bad behavior and greed. continue reading...
Can content owners be disruptive? Or is content only intended to be disrupted by technology? I know disruption and disruptive are buzz words we can do without, but you get the idea: is content doomed or does it have a future? I sometimes joke that I wish the Ash of 2011 could go back in time and sit down the Ash of 2006 and tell him: “sure, content is king, but no one wants to pay for it and fewer even will want to fund it”. That being said, I don’t think that you can paint everyone in the content business with the same brush. CT and I chat about this in segment 1, which is based on an article I wrote for TechCrunch last week. continue reading...
A few years ago, we published a list of companies who ruled the Internet each year, from 1994-2007. Then, we forgot to update it for 2008-2010. On this week’s HipMojo show, we run down the list and picked a company for 2008, 2009, and 2010… and then open it up for you to suggest companies for 2011. Vote for the company of the Year below in the Comments, feel free to vote for the company you work for, but explain WHY, what was the one thing or many things that made the company stand out from the noise? continue reading...
Reading Sarah Lacy’s piece, she talks about “douchebag founders” who are “happy to abandon his company if something shinier comes along.” That is definitely not a real entrepreneur. Jason Nazar writes more on the theme. continue reading...
WatchMojo turned 5 last month. Check out the press release with the usual amount of “propaganda” touting the latest progress: 225,000,000 all time click-to-play views and a helluva strong Q4. Pretty nice way to finish the year, and a great way to set up 2011, the year where online video is definitely going to become huge. continue reading...
