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...
Tech Crunch’s Erick Schonfeld is commenting on Daniel Lyons’ Newsweek piece, which laments the state of Silicon Valley: continue reading...
Pretty amazing to see Michael Arrington evolve over the years. This past week he penned a post that basically took down a few questionable people and practices. Today we see this gem of a video:
Crazy to see what VCs back. No comment. continue reading...
Since being pushed out of MySpace, Chris DeWolfe has tried to raise money to roll-up social games and compete against Zynga:
DeWolfe is likely looking at very small gaming companies run by a handful of stellar developers but that lack the legal, business development, and dealmaking resources to make any kind of a dent in the current social-gaming market. continue reading...
