Comments on: Sony Hooks Up With Grouper http://gigaom.com/2006/08/23/sony-hooks-up-with-grouper/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:08:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: On A Path To Nowhere: Tech News « http://gigaom.com/2006/08/23/sony-hooks-up-with-grouper/#comment-511759 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 08:44:03 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/23/sony-hooks-up-with-grouper/#comment-511759 [...] If history has taught anything, photo services are great ideas but terrible businesses. Many become popular, but in the end struggle to find a business model. Such fate awaits many of these companies, including Path, which is also bearing the additional weight of history. Back in 2004, Josh Felser started a private media-sharing network, Grouper. He had to pivot from the original before selling the company to Sony. [...]

]]> By: Video: Josh Felser on Angels vs. VCs, Me-Toos & What Startups Need to Know: Tech News « http://gigaom.com/2006/08/23/sony-hooks-up-with-grouper/#comment-301178 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 21:16:08 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/23/sony-hooks-up-with-grouper/#comment-301178 [...] a year ago, Josh Felser, co-founder of the Web 1.0 era music service Spinner.com and more recently, online video service, Grouper, decided to forego being an entrepreneur and instead become an angel investor. He and David Samuel [...]

]]> By: 'Angel of Death' Summoned By Spike TV, DVD To Follow http://gigaom.com/2006/08/23/sony-hooks-up-with-grouper/#comment-122855 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:11:59 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/23/sony-hooks-up-with-grouper/#comment-122855 [...] fruit. Total streams on the site are up 84% in the first quarter. At some point Sony’s $65 Million acquisition of the former P2P sharing site will start paying [...]

]]> By: Crackle Moving To SPE Headquarters | Sony Insider http://gigaom.com/2006/08/23/sony-hooks-up-with-grouper/#comment-122854 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:28:46 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/23/sony-hooks-up-with-grouper/#comment-122854 [...] join its corporate parent, Sony Pictures Entertainment. The move comes more than two years after Sony acquired Crackle, then called Grouper. It is also being accompanied by the departure of most of Crackle’s staff, [...]

]]> By: Crackle Shutting NorCal Office to Move in with Parent Sony « NewTeeVee http://gigaom.com/2006/08/23/sony-hooks-up-with-grouper/#comment-122853 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:00:22 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/23/sony-hooks-up-with-grouper/#comment-122853 [...] to join its corporate parent, Sony Pictures Entertainment. The move comes more than two years after Sony acquired Crackle, then called Grouper. It is also being accompanied by the departure of most of Crackle’s [...]

]]> By: John http://gigaom.com/2006/08/23/sony-hooks-up-with-grouper/#comment-122852 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:28:38 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/23/sony-hooks-up-with-grouper/#comment-122852 For Sony the $65M investment, is not a large one, but one which may enable Sony to create some new and interesting products.

It is no doubt that the music and film industry must renew themselves, if they are going to make headway now and in the future. One of the key elements that Sony will need to focus on, which I am sure Sony is doing, and that is to find a way to make money off their films and music online.

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2006/08/23/sony-hooks-up-with-grouper/#comment-122851 Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:55:25 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/23/sony-hooks-up-with-grouper/#comment-122851 For my money, Metacafe gets gobbled up first – Disney would be a perfect partner for them. Or TW, if they can figure their game out.

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2006/08/23/sony-hooks-up-with-grouper/#comment-122850 Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:54:30 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/23/sony-hooks-up-with-grouper/#comment-122850 Steve, you right. We be bubbling. Anyway I was being greedy and saving rest of the information for another post. You guys want me to post the comparative data etc, in this post or a new one. Your call. Saves time for me.

]]> By: Kareem http://gigaom.com/2006/08/23/sony-hooks-up-with-grouper/#comment-122849 Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:13:10 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/23/sony-hooks-up-with-grouper/#comment-122849 This deal is all about two things IMO:

  1. Sony wants to stay cool and relevant (think eBay-Skype)

  2. The platform. Grouper is a web-p2p hybrid media distribution platform. Sony, if its smart, will leverage it to pioneer a standard in commercial, hi-res video and film distribution. A more likely scenario is that Sony will be Sony, and make it a propriety platform for their content and devices only.

At any rate, the shakeup is upon us. Look for other hip Web 2.0 startups with hybrid web-p2p distribution platforms (MetaCafe, Veoh, Pando) to get gobbled up next.

]]> By: steve http://gigaom.com/2006/08/23/sony-hooks-up-with-grouper/#comment-122848 Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:44:49 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/23/sony-hooks-up-with-grouper/#comment-122848 my gosh, onm, your bubble fever is heating up. congrats and all to the grouper folks, but what the heck does it mean to say “Grouper.com has increased its market share of web visits by 1,678% from January 2006 to July 2006″? That would be true if Grouper had only one “web visit” in Jan 06 and then 17 in July 06, no? (What exactly is a “web visit” anyway? Is it a unique visitor? Or a unique visit? Or none of those?)

Likewise, what in the world does it mean to say “Comparing the week ending August 19, 2006 versus the week ending January 7, 2006 Grouper.com has increased its market share of visits by 1,144%”? Again, have they increased from one “visit” in the first week to 12 in the latter? And does that mean they have a big site user base? Compared to what? And by who? And what is a “visit”?

Hot dang, we be bubblin’!

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2006/08/23/sony-hooks-up-with-grouper/#comment-122847 Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:03:38 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/23/sony-hooks-up-with-grouper/#comment-122847 How many of your neighbors have Bravia? How many in your friends circle. And that is the issue. Even PSP did not pan out for them really!

]]> By: Michael Markman http://gigaom.com/2006/08/23/sony-hooks-up-with-grouper/#comment-122846 Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:10:44 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/23/sony-hooks-up-with-grouper/#comment-122846 no Sony hits? And Bravia is what–chopped liver?

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