A recent article was about open mobile device platforms such as Android, but you see similar trends in the fixed world: eHomeUpgrade has a nice series of reports on Online Home Video Delivery that includes Apple, Microsoft, Sony, and Netflix.
Social networking and media consolidates niches, forms new brands; long tail concept as we knew it dies and becomes a specialized thick tail.
Android will also pull video onto mobile platforms such as the iPhone SDK or Google’s Android, but first successful commercialization of services will more likely come from hardware vendors than from current Web2.0 applications.
The end of the “Silicon” in Silicon Valley has been obvious for a long time, even if the timing has not. Given housing costs, salaries, regulation, water and energy issues, manufacturing in the Bay Area has been heading for the exit for more than a decade.
TiVo announces YouTube videos on TiVo box, including YouTube’s long awaited API and YouTube Everywhere. In an earlier Whitepaper from October 2007, The Evolution of Digital Entertainment, I pointed to the new ways TiVo needs to align technology, markets,and demographics in order to capitalize on content. It looks like they moved quicker than I thought.
Office2.0 applications become so ubiquitous, that I already use the term “standalone” for SaaS applications that run in a browser from a server, without any additional mashup or as a plugin within other applications…
This is part of a five part series: 1/The Rise Of The Digital Entertainment Market 2/After The Bubble: A Market Shift 3/The Digital Entertainment Evolution 4/Winners And Losers 5/Why Does The Digital Entertainment Evolution Matter? Digital Entertainment is creating a significant disruption within the industry. Although society’s demand for entertainment and leisure services will continue [...]
This is part of a five part series: 1/The Rise Of The Digital Entertainment Market 2/After The Bubble: A Market Shift 3/The Digital Entertainment Evolution 4/Winners And Losers 5/Why Does The Digital Entertainment Evolution Matter? The Digital Entertainment evolution is still in its infancy. The next 10 years will continue to see rapid changes and [...]
This is part of a five part series: 1/The Rise Of The Digital Entertainment Market 2/After The Bubble: A Market Shift 3/The Digital Entertainment Evolution 4/Winners And Losers 5/Why Does The Digital Entertainment Evolution Matter? The new scenarios that emerged immediately “After the Bubble”, although more successful in alignment of technology, content and markets, were [...]
Craigslist destroyed $50 – $60 mil p.a. in newspaper classified advertising in the San Francisco Bay Area alone; Nielsen SoundScan reports a 20% fall in CD sales in the last 5 years; Netflix is long-tail
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