I spent much of 2007/08 exploring the world of online ad exchanges and data.  If you are a regular follower of this blog, you were with me for much of the journey as I wrote quite a bit about it.  After digging deep in the industry, I wanted to put together a White Paper that outlines where we hav...

It seems as if everywhere you turn these days, there are lawsuits and memes about content ownership and distribution.   There is one landmark trial occuring (Pirate Bay) as we speek and in a non-legal system, Hulu has pulled out of Boxee. This is a very hot topic and wanted to link to a few of the...

I’ve got two questions that I’d like to pose to you and hopefully, there will be a lively discussion in the comments section of the blog. Question 1:    I was talking with one of my best friends and he referenced a recent blog posting by Mark Cuban.  In this posting, Cuban states:  ...

This morning, I discovered Charlene Li’s latest presentation on the future of social networks.  What is in the presentation reiterates my views that the future of the majority of the web needs to be open.  While social networks can be closed (a la a dining club at Yale), the benefit of a soc...

I’ve always talked about creating a vulture fund, but haven’t executed on it for one reason or another. Something that I can execute however is an email list that would update you on interesting companies/technologies/assets for sale that could benefit your digital media organization.  ...

Today is a big day for the country.  Some may say that it’s an even bigger day for the cloud.  As in computing cloud. Lets see if Twitter, CNN, and other major news sources are able to withstand the traffic that they are about to face.  I’m curious to see who can handle it and who can...

I thought I’d write this post to recap the first 72 hours of launching the New Platforms Fund thru Herman blackbook.  Upon waking up this past Friday morning, we received front page coverage on TechCrunch with a less than stellar headline and then became top billing on Mashable.  Upon loggin...

It’s that time of year again.  Approximately 360 days ago, I posted the 2008 prediction list that was picked up all over the web.  We all know that any prediction in itself holds little weight but when you aggregate many predictions together, you can start to see trends and use this for guid...

As I write this, I’m sitting in a Starbucks on 24th and 6th Ave and have been trying to collect my digital media thoughts over the past few weeks.  Apologies up front as they are eclectic. •    Techmeme needs to launch an iPhone app as this would be my news source, displacing NY Times and WS...

Every year and a half or so, I’ve released a new look and feel for this blog.  I’m not a web designer (those were my early days) ]so it’s not like I want to show off some new skills that I have just learned.  I release a new theme purely for inspiration and to keep the blog fresh...