Monthly Archives: August 2008

The future for expensive TV is bright

Clay Shirky gave a fantastic keynote at MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival about how the TV business needs to adapt to the community behaviors happening around their programming online with or without their knowledge and consent. He was very well … Continue reading

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Pivoting on data with Freebase

This screencast from David Huynh describes a data browsing interface he built using Freebase. It’s a fantastic data visualization tool that allows you to pivot and filter results that can then be rendered in lists, on maps or on a … Continue reading

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Using fantasy football to drive network effects

Network effects accelerate when services are accessible wherever the user is engaged. That leap has been made in many different contexts in online media from advertising (AdSense) to participation and personal publishing (Flickr and Twitter). More mainstream publishers got close … Continue reading

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The biggest company you never heard of

IDG was profiled recently in a Guardian article titled “The biggest company you’ve never heard of“. “In 2007 it had revenues of more than £3bn, it publishes more than 300 magazines and 450 websites globally (including Computerworld and InfoWorld), employs … Continue reading

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