Paying for news
Where are the Assoicated Press or New York Times development tools? Where are the API’s that developers could use to better aggregate AP content? Read More …
Category: Media Wonk
Music labels finally getting a clue
Interesting piece by Brad Stone in this morning’s NYTimes on the music labels’ shift away from imposing punitive terms on digital music start-ups in favor of terms that might let them stay alive long enough to actually create some business for the record companies. Stone uses as his hook the recent experience of Imeem, which Read More …
Is Apple about to steal a march on mobile video competitors?
Apple may be close to doing for portable video just what it did for digital music: Providing an elegant, simple-to-use (and proprietary) hardware/software/human interface that makes Apple the default option forportable video consumers and program suppliers. Read More …
What media companies could learn from OpenTable.com
UPDATE: OpenTable successfully sold 3 million shares in its initial offering Thursday at $20 a share–well above its target range of $16 – $18. The shares closed up nearly 60% in their first day of trading, to $31.89. We’re a long way from the heady days of a decade ago when justaboutanything.com could go public Read More …
French three-strikes: More "European-style socialism"?
In short, the French law essentially offers content owners a trade: steps to reduce illegal P2P file-trading in exchange for fairly intrusive business regulation. How well they’ll actually like that bargain in the long run remains to be seen. Read More …