As cable companies and satellite service providers duke it out to augment HD programing for your TV, companies like AOL and CBS are backing out of or shying away from delivering HD viewing experiences online.
Such a retreat raises the bigger question: Do audiences even care about HD online? Read the full story over at NewTeeVee.
This week we speak with “big man” Richard Moross, founder and CEO of Moo.com. Learn how moo.com was conceived and get an inside scoop on an untapped industry. Check out customer moo cards via flickr.
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Flickr has long been a darling of photo lovers, primarily for its minimalist (and intuitive) user interface. However, with over a billion photos, Stewart Butterfield, cofounder of the Yahoo-owned photo service, it is becoming hard to find stuff, and it is time for a new user experience revolving around the concept of discovery.
Search, while it works well on Flickr, needs to be replaced by discovery, he said earlier today while showing off the new UI for service — one that marries serendipity with a map-like user interface and lets the eyes discover the “most interesting.” Yahoo (YHOO) is particularly bullish on geotagging, and the new Flickr interface is a good testimonial.
To me it is a very subtle attempt by Flickr to evolve from an enthusiast service to a visually delightful destination. I captured the demo and Stewart’s thoughts on my newly acquired Sanyo Xacti. Pardon the grainy and shaky images.
In Episode 12 of our show, we chat with Google’s (GOOG) VP of Search Products, Marissa Mayer, talk about acquiring tech startups vs. developing tech in house, Google’s APIs and, of course, the GPhone. Okay maybe not the GPhone. As the Vice President, Search Products & User Experience, she runs Google’s search products: web search, images, groups, news, the Google Toolbar, Google Desktop, Google Labs.
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In the latest episode, we chat with Microsoft’s Dan’l Lewin (corporate vice president, strategic and emerging business development) and talks candidly about this role within Microsoft and how his company is looking to work with other Silicon Valley companies. Lewin gives us insight to Microsoft’s future involvement with Facebook and what his role is in cultivating technology from conception to execution.
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In last week’s episode we caught up with The Endgadget Boys, Marc Andreessen co-founder of Ning and David Sacks of Geni at the TechCrunch 40 conference. The interviews are edited and packaged for you as both me and Joyce hit the road to bring some new interesting stuff for the show.
In this episode: Zimbra’s Satish Dharmaraj talks about the $350 million sale to Yahoo. Facebook has $10 million for developers. “Web 2.0 King Maker” Jeff Clavier has a new seed stage fund, SoftTech VC II. [download the show here. Quicktime large format, Quicktime Small Format, Windows Media and Xvid.
In this week’s episode Joyce and I chat with Max Levchin, CEO of Slide about widgets and everything that goes with them. He pulls a Tom Cruise on us - one guesses because of that glass of scotch he knocked back during the interview.
Another week and another episode of The GigaOM Show. This week we discuss the Google Phone with Ryan Block, editor of Engadget. And the Kara “Boomtown” Swisher (of AllThingsD) drops in to talk Facebook, Yahoo and of course Rupert Murdoch. This was a post Labor Day show, so we were all feeling a tad sluggish. I hope you enjoy the show. You can download the show from here (QT-Small) or here (Windows Media.)
We should have bigger player up and running later this month, so you can just stream the how instead of downloading the entire file. You can watch the show in smaller player below the fold. Continue Reading
