AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

Wall Street Journal - Portals Column by Lee Gomes
Had PowerPoint been around 150 years ago, Thoreau might have warned us to beware not only of enterprises that require new clothes, but also of those that require new paradigms.
A book from 2006, “The Long Tail,” was one of those that appear periodically and demand that we [...]

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Red Herring
Facebook on Monday announced a new friend: Marc Andreessen, who has joined the company’s board.
“Marc is an industry leader, and we’re fortunate to have him join our board,” Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement.
The Ning chairman and co-founder was added to tap his experience with social sites and in growing [...]

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Best overview of Google’s strategy in the mobile space that I’ve read:
From WIRED
“Is this interesting to Google?” That’s what Andy Rubin was asking Larry Page. It was a spring day in 2005, and the two were in a conference room just off the main lobby at Google’s headquarters. A simple yes and Rubin would have [...]

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Business Pundit
There’s no easier way to amp up your business acumen than by learning from other people’s experiences. If those people happen to be movie characters, and learning means putting your feet up with some popcorn and a cold one, all the better.
Give yourself a break from the summer swelter by absorbing a business lesson [...]

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Seeking Alpha
Another quarter and another hope that Adobe’s Flash will someday make an appearance on Apple’s iPhone.
On Adobe’s second quarter conference call, CEO Shantanu Narayen was asked about the 3G iPhone and whether Flash will be on the device. Here’s what Narayen had to say following Adobe’s earnings report:
With respect to the iPhone, we are [...]

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Seeking Alpha
If NBCU gets Weather.com, it propels itself into a Top 10 media property… From Alley Insider:
Google (GOOG) / 128 million unique visitors
Microsoft (MSFT) / 123 million
Yahoo (YHOO) / 116 million
Time Warner (TWX) / 108 million
News Corp. (NWS) / 79 million
eBay (EBAY) / 66 million
InterActiveCorp. (IACI) / 65 million
Wikimedia Foundation / 57 million
Amazon (AMZN) / [...]

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TechCrunch
People-powered search engine Mahalo will soon have some competition from a stealth startup called YouBundle. If you go to YouBundle’s site now, there is nothing other than a landing page. But we got our hands on a couple screen shots from the private beta (click above for a larger image and see topic page below) [...]

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NY Times - John Markoff
At the outset of his presentation at the opening session of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Steve Jobs showed a slide of a stool with three legs to describe the company’s businesses: Macintosh, music and the iPhone.
The company is making another bet on parallelism, and the implications may be more [...]

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LA Times
Michael Arrington landed interviews with most of the major contenders for the White House to weigh in for his ‘tech president’ primary. read more

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Silicon Alley Insider
A funny but uncomfortable exchange today between Michael Eisner and Veoh founder Dmitry Shapiro. Shapiro was supposed to be interviewing Eisner at Digitas’ “Newfront,” a showcase of Web video for potential advertisers held in New York.
But since Eisner is an investor in Veoh, and well, because he’s Michael Eisner, he felt he had [...]

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