Broadcast television has the upfronts. Online media outlets and content producers have the onfronts.
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Flex == Gumbo == Flash Builder
Adobe recently announced that Flex will now be known by Flash Builder; my feelings about this are mixed however. There were many times I had to explain the differences between Flex and Flash (and, saying ‘Flash’ in that sentence I mean the capital ‘F’ Flash CS4 authoring vs the little ‘f’ flash which is [...]
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The Battle for Users: Mobile-First Networks Take On the Web Giants
As MySpace and Facebook beef up their mobile efforts, so are other, smaller social net competitors, including those that started out on the mobile phone. How are the mobile-first social networks differentiating themselves in their efforts to grow? What types of users are they attracting?
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Mobile Sense of Discovery
How are mobile social apps and sites impacting the discovery of new talent, content (including music and videos that are either user-generated or professionally produced) and places (such as restaurants and shops)? How can viral marketing efforts reach users via mobile devices? What mobile recommendation sites and apps are out there to increase discovery potential?
Mobile Social Advertising: What Now?
Although mobile advertising isn’t mainstream just yet in the U.S., the market is growing much larger. According to the Kelsey Group, U.S. mobile advertising revenues will grow to $3.1 billion in 2013 from $160 million last year.
Pandora: Striking Gold on the iPhone
Bambi Francisco interviews Joe Kennedy, President and CEO, Pandora. For those who don’t know, Pandora is an iPhone application that essentially acts as a personalized radio station. You tell it what kind of music you like, it plays songs for you, you let it know which songs you like and dislike as they are played, and Pandora learns your tastes so it can deliver music that you like.
Mobile App Stores: The Developers’ Perspectives
Several mobile carriers, device manufacturers and mobile service providers—including Palm, RIM, Nokia, Google, Samsung and Microsoft—recently unveiled an app store or announced plans for one. Hear the developers’ perspectives on this new flood of app stores.
An Angel With the Midas Touch
The ever sexy Bambi Francisco interviews Ron Conway, Angel Investor, Baseline Ventures, at the EconSM conference. Ron answers the question on everyone’s mind, “how will Twitter (a company Ron invested in) make money?”
Next Generation P2P – Music, TV and Film
While the debate over legal issues in music and movie distribution of content continues, the P2P and distributed computing industry is making strides in taking its technologies into the mainstream. Many evolving solutions are on the way from paid-for-pass-along along with various DRM solutions and advertiser based options.
