Grand Theft Auto IV goes very very old school
It’s Friday, and some Fridays are more Friday than others, you know? In any event, definitely time for some videos. I’ve been talking about Grand Theft Auto IV a lot this week both here and over on Twitter. This video posits what GTA IV would look like on the old NES. I’m a sucker for [...]
Gadgets threaten the Internet's future? Ridiculous
We’re living in an era where scholars – self-appointed and otherwise – are attempting to generate buzz and sell books via bizarre, “controversial,” and flat-out silly ideas about the Internet and technology. The latest example comes in the form of Professor Jonathan Zittrain of Oxford University. Zittrain believes that the “rise of gadgets like the [...]
The online video monetization equation (or, how do you make money on this stuff?)
As online video producers experiment, fumble, and tinker their way toward a model for making money on scripted online video content, an old school premise emerges on the new media scene: product placement. It makes sense. Because online video needs to be able to be seen where there’s audience (see: YouTube), advertising that is already [...]
Using smart content aggregation and smart people networks to beat back the over coverage plague
Scott Karp of Publishing 2.0, one of the crazy-smartest people writing about the interwebs and what-it-all-means today, continues his exploration of the over coverage of breaking news stories with a piece called The Declining Value Of Redundant News Content On The Web. In this case, Karp uses the Microsoft-Yahoo non-merger aftermath as a means to [...]
Creative destruction and the online video gold rush
Mark Cuban wrote a piece last night about “the failings of Internet video and the expectation of free content,” which references a Bernstein Research report called And Now for the News…The Emperor Has No Clothes.” Cuban’s premise is that “the a la carting of video on the net” will force video production budgets to be [...]
What's in a game? (Or, how Grand Theft Auto IV reminded me yet again that everything's changing quick-like)
When it comes to hardcore gaming – online role playing games, World of Warcraft, intense first-person shooters, adventuring off into Nintendo Wii land with magic wands made “real” – I’m what they call a n00b. A newbie. I appreciate all of these activities intellectually, understand that they’re huge huge business nowadays, and love hearing people [...]
Grand Theft Auto IV is stunning
Before this week, if someone had brought up the Grand Theft Auto franchise to me, I would have shrugged my shoulders and perhaps offered a vague recollection that some values groups were in a panic years ago when the San Andreas version came out. That’s all changed now. Grand Theft Auto IV is absolutely stunning, [...]
Facebook comes a knocking at your door
It’s Friday, time for some fun. This video is somewhat derivative of the truly hilarious Internet party, but it’s still pretty good stuff. Imagine if Facebook were real life, and its human agent was a smug British man who randomly shows up at your door. Enjoy… Found via Laughing Squid.
Twitter fever causing server meltdowns
Just as speculation was heating up that Twitter is considering abandoning its Ruby on Rails framework for PHP or Java, it hit another big service downtime snag this afternoon and into this evening. Interestingly and not surprisingly, chatter about Twitter switched over to Friendfeed, which does a lot of business – and quite well at [...]
Good traffic, bad traffic, silly traffic, traffic traffic
Hang out with any website publisher long enough, and the subject will eventually turn to traffic. Numbers. Depending, the terms uniques, page views, impressions, or even hits may be tossed around. All web publishers are interested in the subject, even if some take a pointed disinterest in knowing how many people are visiting their site. [...]
