Why Dating Sites Are Broken
I met my current boyfriend four years ago in the elevator of our Georgetown dorm. Our friendship slowly grew until we went on our first dat…
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How To Use Facebook’s Open Graph To Build Your Business
Last year, it became clear that Facebook is well on its way to becoming a social operating system underlying our digital lives. And the enh…
How The Magazine Industry Can Save Itself (Hint: Not iPad Apps)
The top priority for most magazine executives today seems to be building iPad apps. Yet the user experience of a print magazine is unmatchab…
Will There Ever Be A Universal, MP3-Like Standard For E-Books?
Digital music is now mainstream, thanks in part to the MP3. Will the e-book market be next to produce a one-size-fits-all format-a format th…
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How The Social Web Has Rewired The Digital World From The Ground Up
In the wake of Facebook’s F8 mega-event, with its parade of product, feature and platform announcements, I’m struck by the recent major infl…
Dazed and Confused? Welcome to the Club
In the past two weeks…
Facebook has revamped its layout and then announced a “timeline” where your living history will be displayed.…
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Why We Sold myYearbook
Geoff Cook is the CEO of the social network myYearbook. He also founded EssayEdge and ResumeEdge, both of which he sold to The Thomson Corp.…
NoTW Lesson: The Coverup Is Usually More Damaging Than The Original Crime
Larry Kramer, the author of “C-Scape: Conquer the Forces Changing Business Today”, was founder and former CEO of CBS (NYSE: CBS) Marketwatch…
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How A ‘Business Class’ And ‘Economy Class’ For News Sites Would Look
Victor Wong is CEO of PaperG, an ad-tech company that provides online advertising platforms for local/hyperlocal publishers.
Oliver Reiche…
The Harsh Reality About User-Gen Content: There Isn’t Enough To Go Around
Kevin Smokler is the co-founder/CEO of BookTour.com, an Amazon-funded startup which offers affordable software tools for authors. He is base…
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NYTimes.com Pay Scheme Has A Great Big Hole
Bill Grueskin is following The New York Times digital pay plans as the former managing editor of the subscription-based Wall Street Journal…
Whoever Builds A Good Tool To Help Us Find New Books To Read Will Get Rich
Kevin Smokler is the co-founder/CEO of BookTour.com, an Amazon-funded startup which offers affordable software tools for authors. He is base…
Why Video Is So Hard To Monetize
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is CEO of WatchMojo, a video content producer. He tweets at @ashkan.
As my company, WatchMojo, celebrates its fifth…
The ‘Subscription Economy’ Is Growing, And It’s Bigger Than Just Media
Tien Tzuo is CEO of Zuora, a subscription-billing company based in Silicon Valley. Previously, he was the chief strategy officer and chief m…
What’s The Commercial Frequency For Online Radio?
As we enter 2011, more audio-consumption is to digital platforms than ever before – not just radio listening via platforms such as DAB, but…
A News Corp. Digital History Lesson For The Daily
Evan Rudowski is co-founder of SubHub, a paid content platform. He was previously an online manager at Newsday and business development dire…
The Real Privacy Threat Is From Offline (Not Online) Marketers
Andrew Pancer is COO of the social ad-targeting company Media6Degrees. Prior to that, he was Vice President of Digital Development for the N…
@Themediaisdying: The Brutal Truth From Two Years In The Twitterverse
The facts for the publishing industry are clear – the vast majority of media outlets are declining in one or more ways.
Two years ago, I…
Why Online Retailers Will Squeeze Out Publishers In The Book Business
Matt Shatz is currently Head of Strategic Content Relations for Nokia (NYSE: NOK). Previously, he was Vice President of Digital for Random H…
U.S. Mobile Video Momentum Amounts To More Than Just Price
Chris Hoerenz is chief marketing officer for the Fox Mobile Group, which was recently acquired by Jesta Group. FMG launched its on-demand mo…
How News Corp.’s Daily Can Succeed Without Paper
Nic Newman’s Tigerspike, a digital design agency, has developed seven iPad apps for News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS), including The Times’ Eureka and…
SEO Is Dead, And The New King Is ‘SMO’
Ben Elowitz (@elowitz) is co-founder and CEO of Wetpaint, a web publisher, and author of the Digital Quarters blog. Prior to Wetpaint, Elowi…
Why Content And Commerce Is A Marriage Made In Heaven
Frédéric Court is a partner at Advent Venture Partners, an investor in Dailymotion, Qype and others.
The internet has disrupted both the…
The Likely Winners And Losers In The Over-The-Top TV Market
Jim Louderback is the CEO of Revision3. Prior to that, he served as SVP & chief content officer for Ziff Davis Media
What Media Companies Can Learn From IBM’s Turnaround
Simon Waldman is Group Product Director of LOVEFiLM, and author of “Creative Disruption: What you need to do to shake up your business in a…
Mag Publishers Have A Short Window Before Indies Crash The iPad
Ashley Norris is CEO of branded content advisory Sutro Digital and director of Anorak Publishing and is currently planning an iPad annual ve…
YouView Will Mean Cheaper VOD And More, Not Less, VC Money
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The Case For Carol Bartz
Mark May is a managing director and senior internet and digital-media research analyst at Needham & Company, LLC, a full-service growth-comp…
After iPhone, Carriers Must Tool Up For The Capacity Crunch
Mark Giles is an analyst at consulting and research firm Ovum, covering telco service provider strategies and markets.
With an explosion in…
How Paypal Can Help Save Media–And Itself
Ben Elowitz (@elowitz) is co-founder and CEO of Wetpaint, a platform for social web sites, and author of the Digital Quarters blog. Prior to…
A Guide To The Cultural Battle That Is Reshaping The Media Business
Ben Huh is the CEO of the Cheezburger Network, the company behind the blogs that include I Can Has Cheezburger?, FAIL Blog, and There, I Fix…
What Yahoo Needs To Do With Associated Content
Matt Heist is CEO of High Gear Media, a vertical publishing company that focuses on automotive content from professional writers and enthusi…
Steve Jobs To Ad Industry: Leave The Premium Inventory To Us
Simeon Simeonov is co-founder and CTO of Better Advertising, a provider of online advertising compliance and assurance solutions. Sim is als…
The New Rules For Judging ‘Quality’ In Published Content
Ben Elowitz (@elowitz) is co-founder and CEO of Wetpaint, a platform for social web sites, and author of the Digital Quarters blog. Prior to…
Traditional Ways Of Judging ‘Quality’ In Published Content Are Now Useless
Ben Elowitz (@elowitz) is co-founder and CEO of Wetpaint, a platform for social web sites, and author of the Digital Quarters blog. Prior to…
Why Google’s Open Handset Alliance Has Been A Disappointment
Leslie Grandy is a consultant who blogs at The Consumer Matters. Previously, she was an executive at T-Mobile, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and RealNe…
The Downsides Of Adopting Facebook Connect
Ty Ahmad-Taylor is the founder and CEO of FanFeedr, a real-time personalized sports feed. Previously, he was SVP of Strategy and Product Dev…
Reality Check: For Many Publishers, Google Is Much Less Important Than You Think
Arnon Mishkin is a consultant focused on media and internet companies.
The easiest way to clear a room of internet-savvy media executives i…
Why iPad Won’t Silence The Newspaper Presses
The iPad is a beautiful device that offers new ways to consume and interact with content.
Newspapers are piling in with paid services that…
Some Privacy Ground Rules For Location-Based Marketing: Why ‘Geofencing’ Goes Too Far
Matt Silk is the SVP of Waterfall Mobile, a San Francisco-based digital-messaging company.
Location-based services are getting an enormous…
Memo To News Sites: There Is No Future In ‘Digital Razzle Dazzle’
John Yemma is Editor of The Christian Science Monitor.
Let’s agree that Rupert Murdoch is right: Content is king. You’ll get nothing but ap…
Six Lessons We’ve Learned About Mobile Apps (Free And Paid)
Paul Reddick is the CEO of Handmark, which publishes software and games for handheld devices.
If you believe what you hear, it
How Twitter Can Become A New Breed Of Technology Company
Khris Loux is the founder and CEO of Echo, a commenting platform. He tweets at @Khrisloux.
With leadership from its founders and a signific…
Think Technology Trumps Content? Well, You’re Wrong
Jim Spanfeller is the former president and CEO of Forbes.com. He is also treasurer of the Online Publishers Association and chairman emeritu…
Paywall Sceptics Are Wrong: Salvation Lays In Experimentation
Evan Rudowski is CEO of subscription-content platform SubHub, a former European MD for Excite@Home and once managed online at Newsday, the N…
The Popular New Monetization Model That Requires No Funding Or Advertising
Ty Ahmad-Taylor is the founder and CEO of FanFeedr, a real-time personalized sports feed. Previously, he was SVP of Strategy and Product Dev…
Some New Ways To Make Money On Local
Victor Wong is CEO of PaperG, an ad-tech company that provides online advertising platforms for local/hyperlocal publishers. He blogs at I a…
The NYT’s Metering Plan Doesn’t Go Far Enough–Here’s The Rest Of The Solution
Ben Elowitz is co-founder and CEO of Wetpaint, a platform for building out web sites, and author of the Digital Quarters blog. Prior to Wetp…
Building A Social Network In A Facebook And Twitter World
Geoff Cook is the CEO of myYearbook, a social network built around meeting new people. He also founded EssayEdge and ResumeEdge and sold the…
Why Publishers Should Treat iPad With Optimism – And Caution
Adrian Drury is a principal analyst at consulting and research firm Ovum, covering media, broadcast and telecom…
Media need a miracle in…
Building A Social Network In A Facebook And Twitter World
Geoff Cook is the CEO of myYearbook, a social network built around meeting new people. He also founded EssayEdge and ResumeEdge and sold the…
L.A. Story: A Battle Between Old And New Media With A Surprise Ending
Ken Sonenclar is a Managing Director at DeSilva + Phillips, LLC, a New York investment bank specializing in media.
After decades with less…
How Content Companies Should Deal With Apple In An iSlate World
Arnon Mishkin is a partner with Mitchell Madison Group, where he consults for media companies on improving legacy businesses as well as maki…
How To Turn Journalists Into Profit Centers
Charles Pelton, a former journalist, served as General Manager of Conferences and Events at The Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) last spring. He…
What Many Media Companies Don’t Get About Building An Audience
Ty Ahmad-Taylor is the founder and CEO of FanFeedr, a real-time personalized sports feed. Previously, he was SVP of Strategy and Product Dev…
Will E-Readers Help Spread Knowledge, Or Wall It Off? Here’s A Scorecard That We Can Use
Upendra Shardanand is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Daylife, which helps publishers add content and inventory without additiona…
What Vevo Gets Right–And What It Gets Wrong
Ty Ahmad-Taylor is the founder and CEO of FanFeedr, a real-time personalized sports feed. Previously he was SVP of Strategy and Product Deve…
A Critique Of ‘Hulu For Magazines’
Gary Hoenig is vice president and general manager of ESPN (NYSE: DIS) Publishing, which includes ESPN The Magazine and ESPN Insider.
We li…
What To Look For In Mobile In 2010
Jake Seid is a managing director at Lightspeed Venture Partners where he specializes in the mobile, Internet, systems, software and componen…
Rethinking The Ad Agency Model: Partners In Business, Rather Than Service Providers
Alok Kejriwal is a digital entrepreneur based in Mumbai. He is the CEO and co-founder of games2win.com.
Whenever I see the success of Vodaf…
A Business Model For TV Everywhere
Adam Cahan is the CEO of Auditude, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based technology company that provides an ad platform for video management and moneti…
In The New Content Economy, Consumers Want Access Not Ownership
Fred Davis is a senior partner at the entertainment law firm Davis Shapiro Lewit and Hayes
Throughout this country, throughout the world, i…
Five Media Deals I
Mark May is a principal and senior internet and digital media research analyst at Needham & Company, LLC, a full-service growth-company inve…
Why Mobile Marketers Shouldn’t Bet The Farm On The iPhone
Eric Harber is the president and COO at HipCricket, a mobile-marketing company that, among other things, creates coupons for phones.
The Do’s And Don’ts Of Creating Original Video
James A. Pitaro is the vice president of media at Yahoo! (NSDQ: YHOO) He has worked at the company since 2001.
Just a few years ago, web vi…
How Content Creators Can Benefit From Piracy
Alok Kejriwal is a digital entrepreneur based in Mumbai. He is the CEO and co-founder of games2win.com.
I run a casual games company that p…
How Content Creators Can Benefit From Piracy
Alok Kejriwal is a digital entrepreneur based in Mumbai. He is the CEO and co-founder of games2win.com.
Every time I listen to my iPod, I r…
Why PE Firms Are So Downbeat, And What It Means For The Media Sector
Ken Sonenclar is a managing director at DeSilva + Phillips LLC, a New York investment bank specializing in media.
Every day brings an earn…
A New Financial Model For News, Straight From The Cable Industry
Amos Gelb is an associate professor at George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs. Previously, he was a television prod…
Why Steve Jobs Could Be A Savior For Media Companies
Arnon Mishkin is a partner with Mitchell Madison Group, where he consults for media companies on improving legacy businesses as well as maki…
Click Fix: How Digital Advertising Can Get Its Game Back
Jim Spanfeller is the outgoing president and CEO of Forbes.com. He is also treasurer of the Online Publishers Association and chairman emeri…
Why E-Reader Adoption Will Be Slower Than People Think
Jack McKeown co-founded and was CEO of Perseus Books Group. He is now director of business development for Verso Digital, a vertical ad netw…
What The Rise Of Demand-Side Ad Networks Means For Publishers
Michael Zimbalist is vice president of research and development operations at The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT). Previously, he was pre…
Will Hyperlocal Ever Scale? One Entrepreneur’s Story
Justin Carder is the VP of business development for Instivate, maker of the Neighborlogs publishing system for local news sites, and is also…
Time To Change The Lens: Media As A Service
Mika Salmi is the former president of Global Digital Media at Viacom/MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA). He has been involved in a number of startups…
Enough Already About Charging For Content: How To Make The Free Model Work
James A. Pitaro is the vice president of media at Yahoo! (NSDQ: YHOO) He has worked at the company since 2001.
With advertising and media l…
A Guide To The Infighting Between Premium Publishers And Ad Networks
Michael Zimbalist is vice president of research and development operations at The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT). Previously, he was pre…
Artists Will Define Mobile Entertainment, Not The Folks In Suits
MocoNews Contributor Jeremy Laws was formerly SVP of Universal Pictures Digital Platforms, where he headed up the film studio’s mobile initi…
The Future Of News Is Scarcity
Nic Brisbourne is a partner at European venture capital firm DFJ Esprit, investing in software and media. He was previously an associate wit…
There's Still Room For Freesheets, Just Not Too Many
The guest contributor is professor of cross-media content in the School of Journalism and Communication at the Hogeschool, Utrecht. Dr Bakke…
Publishers Are Killing Web Advertising's Potential With Misguided Pricing
Jim Spanfeller is the outgoing president and CEO of Forbes.com. He is also treasurer of the Online Publishers Association and chairman emeri…
Canvas Is In Danger Of Looking Like A Monopoly
The guest author is senior analyst, head of broadband, at media analysis firm Screen Digest, and writes here about Project Canvas…
The BB…
The Fallacy Of The Link Economy
Arnon Mishkin is a partner with Mitchell Madison Group, where he consults for media companies on improving legacy businesses as well as maki…
The Next Big Headache For Digital Publishers
Jeffrey MacIntyre is principal of Predicate, a content and editorial strategy consultancy for digital publishers. He is based in New York.…
What The Future Will Look Like For Journalists
Jim Spanfeller is president and CEO of Forbes.com. He is also treasurer of the Online Publishers Association and chairman emeritus of the In…
Pirate Bay Buyers Will Struggle To Make Legal Profits
Sweden’s Global Gaming Factory wants to buy The Pirate Bay for SEK60 million (£4.7 million) and start building a business model that compen…
The Real Genius Of The Kindle? The Return Of ‘Unitasking’
Thomas E. Weber is the Editor of SmartMoney.com and a veteran business and technology journalist. A former Wall Street Journal senior editor…
Why A New (And Unusual) Pricing Strategy By A Rhode Island Paper Will Fail
Jim Brady was executive editor of washingtonpost.com from 2004 until earlier this year. Prior to that, he served in various executive roles…
How To Save MySpace: The Seven-Step Plan
Jason Nazar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Docstoc.com, the premier online community to find and share professional documents. Before starting…
What’s The Boston Globe Worth? A Buck, More Or Less
Ken Doctor analyzes the news business on his blog Content Bridges and for Outsell, an information-market analytics firm. He worked at Knight…
What The Ideal Newspaper Would Look Like
Richard J. Tofel is the author of
Why Publishers Need To Serve Fewer Ads
Bill Day is the chief executive officer of ScanScout. Prior to joining ScanScout, he was the chief media officer of Marchex and before that…
Canvas Will Explode UK TV, But BBC Must Stand Back
The BBC Trust’s interim verdict on the BBC’s Project Canvas open IPTV proposal is due on Monday. We asked Andrew Burke, who devised and ran…
How Scouting For Pro Baseball Players Is Like Scouting For Top Business Execs
Brian Grey is an executive in residence at Polaris Ventures. Prior to Polaris, he was an SVP/GM of Fox Sports Interactive, which included ov…
Questions I Wish VCs Would Ask Entrepreneurs (Hint: They’re Not About ‘Shareholder Value’)
Upendra Shardanand is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Daylife, which helps publishers add content and inventory without additiona…
How To Get Past The Generational Divide On The Future Of News
Jim Spanfeller is president and CEO of Forbes.com. He is also treasurer of the Online Publishers Association and chairman emeritus of the In…
Memo To Networks Re Hulu: You’re Making A Big Mistake
Kevin Wassong is the president of Minyanville Media Inc., a digital network that creates branded content about the world of finance. Prior t…
The Case For Narrowcasting
Chris Ahearn is president of Media at Thomson Reuters (NSDQ: TRIN). He joined Reuters in 2001 from J.P. Morgan, where he held positions in L…
Storytelling Is Stuck In A Rut–What Publishers Can Do About It
Upendra Shardanand is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Daylife, which helps publishers add content without additional staff or eng…
What Google Can Do To Make The Web Less Of A ‘Cesspool’
Jim Spanfeller is president and CEO of Forbes.com. He is also treasurer of the Online Publishers Association and chairman emeritus of the In…
I Tweet, But I Don’t Know Why
Kevin Wassong is the president of Minyanville Media Inc., a digital network that creates branded content about the world of finance. Prior t…
The Shrinking Daily vs. The Daily Eric (Schmidt)
Ken Doctor analyzes the news business on his blog Content Bridges and for Outsell, an information-market analytics firm. He worked at Knight…
A Solution To The Newspaper Industry’s Battle With Google
Ken Doctor analyzes the news business on his blog Content Bridges and for Outsell, an information-market analytics firm. He worked at Knight…
Guest Contributor: What Platinum Equity Has In Store For The San Diego Union-Tribune
Ken Doctor analyzes the news business on his blog Content Bridges and for Outsell, an information-market analytics firm. He worked at Knigh…
Arash Amel, Senior Analyst, Screen Digest: Kangaroo Was A Waste Of Time And Effort
In a December 2008 report, Arash Amel of the media research firm Screen Digest said Kangaroo’s biggest threat was not the loss of VOD retai…
BBC Video Ruling Won’t Save Local Press, Will Throttle Auntie
The rejection of the BBC’s proposal to add video bulletins to its local sites is another ruling from a regulator all too keen to keep Auntie…
Why Music Can’t ‘Just Be Free’
JupiterResearch VP and research director Mark Mulligan specialises in music for the Forrester-owned agency. In this essay, reproduced from h…
