…Goes to AOL, for the AOL Food story, and its emerging “life management” effort….and the dutiful, clueless journalists lapped it up…
And hey, this will probably go down as the lamest quote in Jupiter history: lame analyst quote: “Finally! A good idea,” said David Card, a senior analyst with Jupiter Research…
As I said, I am having a nostalgia seizure…Time Warner has tried this “hub-cap” strategy innumerable times before and has come up with nothing…here’s some evidence from “Bamboozled at the Revolution“, by John Motavalli: “The ‘hub’ paradigm was accordingly articulated at the Big Picture gathering, and received wide play in the media, for it seemed to indicate that Time Warner has finally formulated some sort of strategy. The idea was that Time Warner content could be grouped into themes–news, sports, entertainment, and business and finance…For anyone attempting to follow the company’s new-media moves closely over much of the first three quarters of 1999, the only common themes discernible were the by now familiar ones of corporate power play, competing fiefdoms, and thwarted ambitions.”
Update: Susan Mernit thinks it is a good idea, nonetheless…And hey, didn’t know Tina Sharkey was behind this. She is smart. And hey, for those of you who don’t know, also working under Tina now is Deanna Brown, my ex-CEO at Inside.com (though she probably didn’t know I existed, then).
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