• Finance For Media Professionals Video Course

    Module One of Finance for Media Professionals, which focuses on understanding the Balance Sheet, Income Statement and Statement of Cash Flows, is now available to purchase.

  • Codes and Tubes

    I’ll be teaching at Columbia this fall and am considering what the Web site will be for the course. Drupal, Elgg, BuddyPress, Pligg? They’re all good. Not quite sure what I’ll choose but here are some of the ideas we’ll be talking about.

  • Playing with Toys – Issuu

    Reviewing the PDF reader Issuu and seeing what it can do.

  • boxee and YuMe @ Streaming Media East

    Dorian interviewed Avner Ronen, CEO, boxee, and Bob Bahramipour, VP Business Development, YuMe, at the Streaming Media East conference in NYC.

  • How Old Media Is Embracing Online Video and New Media

    How are converging media technologies redefining traditional distribution methods? How are interactive and on-demand services changing the way entertainment and news video is being consumed?

  • Branded Media Marketing Across Platforms

    With the attention of the consumer being assaulted by a host of great technologies – from games and broadband to PVRs – devices as well as content programming, the task of the client, the agency and content provider raising their message above the clutter is daunting.

  • Hollywood 2.0 – Content & Commerce

    New Rules for the Film, TV, Broadband & Mobile Video Industry – Deals, Advertising and Commerce

  • Facial Profiling at Your Local Gas Station

    The next time you fill up at the gas station on $3 per gallon gas and watch a video advertisement at the pump, the ad you see may be based on your face. Black? White? Old? Young? Male? Female? Fat? Skinny? Tall? Short? Ugly? Pretty?? Stressed? Relaxed?

  • Joe Ambeault – Verizon

    Joe Ambeault – Verizon

    Verizon is not commonly associated with terms like innovation, beta releases and rapid, iterative development cycles. How does a nimble start-up, mandated with developing products and services that are key to Verizon’s long term survival, survive and thrive within a large corporate dinosaur?

  • Nextwave Advertising

    Back in the early days of online video advertising, say 2007, when short form video ruled supreme as the only accepted form of online video, I often found myself waiting through a 30 second ad to watch what eventually turned out to be a minute long video.