Excellent post from Om Malik about how the seeming must-succeed online video content play ended up where it is today (i.e. not a great place). On Om’s list of what went wrong:
Too Big, Too Fast: Joost hired too many people, too quickly. It never behaved like a startup but instead always felt like a grown-up […]
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This was the view from my bedroom on Friday evening (click thumbnail for larger versions):
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On one of the unintended consequences of the UK’s shambolic state school system:
The handicapping of the intellectual capacity of the country has definitely given the children of the privileged, who were able to buy a better education, great advantages.
-Guido Fawkes
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Tonight I had two parties to attend on Qik’s behalf, each thrown by one of our fantastic partners. At each party, I met great people and was able to chill out a bit. Work can be work, but it’s often a lot of fun, too.
First up was the Nokia N97 launch party at the legendary […]
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This was a spur of the moment video, but I think it gets the message across. Thanks to the legendary Documentally for ambushing me last week in NYC! He’s the best.
Jackie Danicki of Qik.com at the #140Conf from Documentally on Vimeo.
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We hadn’t planned to announce this just yet, but one of our testers got overly excited and leaked the news, which quickly spread on Twitter. So we got the app onto the Android Marketplace ASAP. It’s an early version but so far we’ve had great reviews from our users. Greg Kumparak from TechCrunch/MobileCrunch/CrunchGear has more.
It’s […]
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Yep, Qik now integrates with the world’s number one online video platform. It is, to say the least, hugely exciting to bring mobile video to such a prominent, popular, and all-around kick-ass video service.
On a personal note, it’s a geeky thrill to be working with a company founded by Jeremy Allaire. He’s one of […]
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Day one, I met my best friend’s baby girl for the first time (after first being all tearful through my airport reunion with her mommy and daddy, because I’m cold as ice):
Day two, friends from Cincinnati came to visit (but not for long enough!), I got to spend a whole 20 minutes with my little […]
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Surreal weekend so far, full of people I haven’t seen in 10+ years, former teachers, and some of my favorite people in the world. Not to mention Reggie the rooster.
Yep, I’m back in southern Ohio for a few days. (And southern Ohio is back in my accent, according to some.) So far, so…different from […]
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The world needs more people like this:
When I finally got to the front, the woman taking tickets tells me I now owe two dollars. I frantically search my bag and luckily, luckily, find the cash.
“It’s kind of nuts up there on the second floor,” I say to her.
“Yeah, that’s what the lady in front of […]
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I have so many blog posts I want to write, but not enough time to write them. Life is beautifully hectic, and that is far from a complaint. I find myself in the most interesting places.
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I cringe whenever some entrepreneur tells me they’re only talking about their business to VCs who sign NDAs. Paul Jozefak tells it like it is on why that just doesn’t fly (and, I’d add, marks the entrepreneur as an obvious amateur).
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In general, I’m not a fan of the Daily Show, but this on-site report from the New York Times is the talk of the media sphere in NYC and must be seen to be believed. What the hell were they thinking?
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
End Times
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes
Political […]
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That’s NBC’s Ann Curry and me at day one of #140conf. I’ll have a lot to say about her and what she said on her panel in a separate post.
But first: I felt panic as soon as I got to the venue, sat down, and started skimming my Twitter feed. There were so many […]
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