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Show from Sun Jun 22 09:15:49 CDT 2008
On Digital Media, Episode #68: New ArrivalLast program description:
In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy) and Steve Hatch (twitter: @shatch) welcome Chia-Lin Simmons (twitter: @zeropts) back to ODM.
- Welcome Alexandra Claire Becker!
- Events: John’s going to the NY Tech Meetup on July 1st
- Google and Yahoo enter into a search advertising agreement
- Executive Exodus at Yahoo: Qi Lu, EVP engineering for Search and Advertising Technology Group; Vish Makhijani, SVP and General Manager of Search and; Brad Garlinghouse, VP of Communications & Communities are all leaving the Big Y.
- flickr founders Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfiled have resigned.
- Jeremy Zawodny is leaving to go to Craig’s List while Joshua Schacter, founder of del.icio.us, has also decided to leave.
- Yahoo announced a deal to sell display ads….on Walmart.com(?) Chia-Lin thinks it’s the digital equivalent of shelving fees.
- According to the data, YouTube is still kicking Hulu’s ass, regardless of what Mark Cuban thinks. Regardless, we want to know how Youtube and Hulu are going to monetize their respective businesses. Would Hulu consider a paid subscription model?
- YouTube is going to start allowing long-form content (videos above 30 minutes). Scoble thinks they want to insert advertising in the longer stuff. We agree.
- Gary Vaynerchuk’s Wine Library TV moves over to Revision3.
- Verizon will be pushing its FiOS service to 50 mbps downstream, 20 mbps upstream. For $139.95 a month!
- Gene Simmons (yes, that Gene Simmons) thinks that Radiohead, the internets, p2p - and the FANS - are killing the recording industry.
- EMI is not only suing MP3Tunes.com, but its founder, Michael Robertson, personally.
- Microsoft has decided to support MSN Music customers (and the related DRM) until - at least - the end of 2011. They’ll revisit their decision at that time.
- Audible files will soon play on the Zune.
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