Larry KramerFor the first time, over the holidays, Netflix will pay more to stream its movies over the internet than to send discs through the mail. Once again, a company has survived and perhaps even prospered by being able to quickly change its business model. It has adapted to changing consumer habits. Its’ old competitor, Blockbuster, [...]
Archive for November, 2010
My panelmate at the Miami Book Fair over the weekend was David Kirkpatrick, the author of The Facebook Effect and a long time follower of Facebook and Digital Media from his former perch at Fortune Magazine, where he rose to Senior Editor. He opened his remarks with the rather startling nugget that Facebook now accounted [...]
Content is King: Amazon Is The Latest Distributor To Move Into Content Creation
Posted: November 18, 2010 in Content, Digital Media, InnovationOne of the cornerstone themes of change that I outline in “C-Scape” is the growing need for every business to produce quality content, whether it’s information, entertainment, something tangible, or even any kind of “experience” . The point is, with the methods of distribution collapsing the only way you can insure a place in the [...]
The Maturing of Digital Media: Gawker, Newser, Talking Points Memo move on from Blogging
Posted: November 16, 2010 in Content, Convergence, Curation, Digital Media, InnovationLike all youngster, Digital Media startups have begun to grow up and mature. While they may be losing some of their youthful charm, they have begun to look more and more like some of the main stream media they are replacing, but in a good way. Gawker, Newser and Talking Points Memo have all begun [...]
James Murdoch: Newspapers on IPads are causing people to switch from Print!
Posted: November 12, 2010 in Convergence, Digital Media, NewspapersMONACO- James Murdoch believes in the digital platform, but in his keynote speech to the Monaco Media Forum today he expressed serious concern that “The problem with apps (even apps the public pays for) is that they are much more directly cannibalistic of the print products than the website. People interact with it much more [...]
Minyanville Founder and CEO Todd Harrison interviews the founder and former CEO of MarketWatch, Inc., Larry Kramer, about his new book, C-Scape (which can be found on Amazon here). The discussion touches on the changing landscape of business media, and how content and curation will play a major role in new media.
AOL and Yahoo: It Could Work, But It’s A Long Shot
Posted: November 10, 2010 in Content, ConvergenceThe rumors around AOL’s interest in merging with Yahoo make this as good a time as any to remind everyone just how badly most mergers go. AOL has already participated in one of the storied merger disasters of all time, and Yahoo has had some historic failures itself, with one of the side effects the [...]
Larry Kramer appeared on Bloomberg TV to talk first about the return of Conan O’Brian to the Late Night battles, and how he will stack up against Stewart and Colbert. Then he discusses the bright future of advertising on TV.
My 5 Favorite IPad Apps
Posted: November 4, 2010 in Consumer Power, Content, Convergence, Digital Media, Innovation, NewspapersI do love my IPad. After a few months of use, I thought I’d pass along an update on the top five IPad apps that get the most use on my IPad. Remember to factor in seasonality. 1) I got a tremendous amount of use of Major League Baseballs App, because I am a subscriber [...]
From American Journalism Review: An Excerpt from C-Scape
Posted: November 2, 2010 in Consumer Power, Content, Convergence, CurationFrom AJR, September 2010 Navigating the Future Winter 2010 Preview A newspaper guy turned successful new-media entrepreneur says it’s unlikely that one overarching new business model will emerge for journalism in the digital age. Instead, look for a collection of improvised arrangements based on the lucky alignment of buyers’ and sellers’ needs. And that’s not [...]
