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Archive for the ‘Spectrum’ Category
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
 Today, Safran Digital went public with the details of our partnership with Xbox. In particular, we’ve announced the directors for our slate of original web video pilots, which launch this fall to coincide with Xbox’s user-interface redesign.
The directors involved include James Wan (Saw, Death Sentence), David Slade (30 Days of Night, Hard Candy), James Gunn (Slither), Lucky McKee (May), Andrew Douglas (The Amityville Horror) and Marcus Nispel (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th).
I’m extremely proud of the filmmakers and their camps, the deal we’ve put together and what I believe it represents for the future of digital content economics. (more…)
Tags: andrew douglas, brian graden, david slade, horror, humanzee, Jake Zim, james gunn, james wan, lucky mckee, meat dog, mike bayman, Peter Safran, riday the 13th, saw, scott nocas, south park, texas chainsaw massacre, the hollywood reporter, woof
Posted in Advertising, Analytics, Business, Gift Culture, Interesting, Legislation, Marketing, News, Regulation, Reputation, Rights, Spectrum, Technology | 5 Comments »
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
 Tonight I’m going to hear Chris Anderson, Editor in Chief of Wired Magazine, speak about his upcoming book, “Free.” In a previous post I presented my position on the culture of free, the gift economy and how I think it’s driving the quality of content and applications towards amateur hour. It will be interesting to hear Chris address web economics and I hope to engage him in a discussion about what this means for the future of web-based entertainment content.
I’m specifically interested in Google and how they’ve enabled the culture of free online. From my perspective, Google is bad for business. Let me qualify that, bad for business-as-usual (added). By offering everything you need on the web for free, Google has effectively put web-based business opportunities on life support. (more…)
Tags: Analytics, chris anderson, culture of free, facebook, free, gift economy, gmail, google, hotmail, mark cuban, titanic, urchin, wired
Posted in Business, Gift Culture, Regulation, Spectrum | 6 Comments »
Friday, April 4th, 2008
Consider this classic riddle from The Hobbit:
This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.
Despite what your inner Gollum is telling you, the answer to this riddle isn’t time. It’s digital innovation.
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Tags: gollum, lee gomes, lord of the rings, sascha meinrath, Spectrum, white-space, wsj
Posted in Business, Spectrum | 1 Comment »
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Today, Safran Digital went public with the details of our partnership with Xbox. In particular, we’ve announced the directors for our slate of original web video pilots, which launch this fall to coincide with Xbox’s user-interface redesign.
