After their meeting this afternoon, the Take-Two shareholders who were threatening to oust CEO Paul Eibeler did just that and they’ve appointed a new Chief Executive. According to Reuters, Strauss Zelnick, former chief executive of BMG, has taken the spot as the chairman of… Read More »
Archive for March 2007
Now that the government’s plans for the digital TV transition are finally in place, it’s time for the second wave — the panic! — to begin. Since the cutover date (Feb. 17,2009) is just under two years away, it makes sense that now is the perfect… Read More »
While we’re guessing that it might get pulled down rather quickly, we can’t help but pass along pointers to a well-crafted mashup that gives you most of the meaty parts of the Sopranos storyline in a bit more than 7 minutes. A great catch-up for… Read More »
As web workers, most of us are steeped in Web 2.0 throughout our working day (never mind that we can’t agree on what “Web 2.0″ means). Many of us have embraced online applications from Google, Yahoo, and elsewhere to do the bulk of our work,… Read More »
Why am I writing about online video when I could be creating yet another Chinese P2P-powered on demand video site and raking in venture capital? First Xunlei, then UUSee and now the unfortunately named PPStream have all closed funding rounds in the… Read More »
I never gave in to the Sony PlayStation Portable urge, but I know James did, and I suspect many of you did too. The PSP continues to become much more… Read More »
Tony Dunaif, VP of content partnerships at Brightcove, has no opinion, really, about Blip.tv. If you don’t believe me, just ask Tony, who told the audience at the New York video 2.0 meetup last night “I have no opinion, really, about Blip.tv.” To which the audience… Read More »
Belkin has a new product coming soon. It is an iPod dock that fits in a standard grommet hole in your desk. The device has a stero-out jack and of course, you can charge your iPod with it. Seems like a pretty smart idea… Read More »
Michael Eisner’s Prom Queen has a new home: MySpace. The site will have a twelve-hour exclusive on each episode of the show, which should be a shot in the arm for MySpace Video. Traffic to the popular social network’s video section has been meandering in… Read More »
Peer-to-Peer file exchange is nothing new. Enthusiasts have been getting their media (and getting sued over getting their media) via P2P services for years. What’s a more recent trend, and one that keeps the lawyers away, is P2P-like services that are personal and direct. Instead of… Read More »
Jon Westfall from Pocket PC Thoughts got tired of looking for his USB cables and decided to script a process that syncs files between… Read More »
Good news out of Cupertino today: you can now purchase a full album from the iTunes Music Store and receive a credit of $.99 for every single track you already bought on that album. Per the press release: "a user who’s already purchased three… Read More »
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