COLLABORATIVE CREATIVITY

In my previous post, I shared the first half of the transcript for my opening keynote speech about the future of television at the PrimeTime conference in Ottawa in March. Below you will find the text for the second half of the complete transcript for my speech. This section focuses on Facebook’s impact on social [...]

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On Thursday, March 1, 2012, I gave the opening keynote speech at the CMPA’s PrimeTime conference in Ottawa. My topic was the future of the television.  This talk examines the disruption of the old television industry and the rapid emergence of an entirely new ecosystem for digital video. This clip includes the full video of [...]

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MIPTV is the biggest international TV market in the world. Twice each year, the buyers and sellers of TV shows converge in Cannes for a frenzied week of dealmaking. The folks at Reed-Midem who run MIPTV invited me to help produce and present a new mini-conference called MIP Cube. This two-day event offered an immersion [...]

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At the recent MIPTV market in Cannes, I interviewed Philip DeBevoise, the co-founder of the super-hot online video startup Machinima. This Los Angeles-based company has experienced some incredible results in the past year. They reach a global audience of 166 million viewers and they serve more than 1.4 billion video views each month. That’s way [...]

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I get a great deal of satisfaction from helping my portfolio of startup ventures make progress.    During the past six months, I’ve had the pleasure of collaborating with longtime friend Brian Bowman, who just launched social dating site TheComplete.me with a big round of funding from Intel Capital, PlentyofFish and the CrunchFund as well [...]

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It’s official.  Only 8% of US households watch TV by tuning into free over-the-air broadcasts.   The vast majority of American homes get their TV signal via cable, satellite or telco fibre.  Gary Shapiro, the President and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, says “It’s time we accept this shift away from over-the-air TV as [...]

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Yesterday, Jason McCabe Calacanis invited me to respond to his post “Has Google Been Naughty?  Yes.  Should the Government Get Involved?  No”.   You can read responses from Vivek Wadhwa and  Robert Scoble along with mine in a handy digest on the Launch blog.   The following post is the full text of my response [...]

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Bitcoin is a controversial project to establish a new kind of anonymous digital cash that exists beyond the control of any central bank.   It’s an unambiguous challenge to centralized control of the financial system, and it’s probably illegal (or soon to be).  But the principles behind Bitcoin are consistent with the broader Internet trend [...]

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Off with their heads.   Now is the season of investor discontent.   Dissent is brewing among angry shareholders, disappointed with lackluster performance at tech giants Microsoft, Cisco, Nokia and RIM. MICROLIMP Steve Ballmer’s days at the helm of Microsoft are clearly numbered.  His desperate bid to make the company relevant by buying Skype for a [...]

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