Archive for the ‘Link Economy’ Category

The end of the affair

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006City investors are becoming increasingly concerned that it is proving difficult for ITV to find a high-calibre chief executive due to the extent of the difficulties facing Britain's biggest commercial broadcaster.The problems were illustrated by ITV's own house broker ...

Everything is miscellaneous

Sunday, October 8th, 2006Jon Medved, a co-founder of Israel Seed Venture Capital, a leading IP investment firm in Israel saysChannel surfing is primitive and stupid. IPTV will be search driven, And you won't have to be a slave to the 15 video ...

Media Old World – Media New World

Thursday, September 7th, 2006Lets have some stats on the Media company share prices since January 2006GCap: -30.0% Trinity: Mirror -20.0% Emap: -16.7% Johnston Press: -12.6% ITV: -7.0%The migration of paid for ads and classifieds to the digital domain is well under way, it ...

Contextual content redefines the advertising industry

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006Google and ebay from alliance to tailor ads to every customerWas the headline in the Guardian today.Don't tell me broadcasting is not in trouble! Its business model - defunct and obsoleteAnd I wonder if YouTube will not one-day ...

socialistic anarchists – new business models and the death of traditional advertising

Thursday, June 29th, 2006Media owners must find ways to attract and retain talent and create stand-alone digital divisions in order to compete in the era of internet blogs, open access and online communities, Sir Martin Sorrell, the chief executive of WPP, has ...

The young disengage with politics

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006A study co-produced by the study co-produced by the Hansard Society on e-democracy and OfCom investigates why young people are not engaging with the political processHowever it is important to be realistic about the obstacles facing young ...

Mysteries of large distributed systems

Thursday, June 15th, 2006One of the great mysteries of large distributed systems - from communities and organisations to brains and ecosystems - is how globally coherent activity can emerge in the absence of centralised authority or controlThis is the ...

Digital salvation

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006One tribute that seemed more significant than most as the baton passed last week and the retiring CEO of the Guardian Media Group, owner of The Observer and much else, hailed his newly designated successor. 'This is a first ...

Stumbling upon Lily@myspace.com

Friday, May 26th, 2006I came across this article in last weeks Observer Music monthly magazine. Pictures of Lily A story of the power of networks, the internet and a new socio-economic model hard at workMiranada Sawyer writes,Last month I used my ...

Movie Producers invest in Social Networking Site

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006Movie moguls Bob and Harvey Weinstein's Weinstein Co. said it had taken an undisclosed stake in social-networking website ASmallWorld.The founders of Miramax Film Corp. led a group of investors including Bob Pittman, former chief operating officer of AOL Time ...

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