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Twitter, Media and the Osama bin Laden Story
Last night re-confirmed that Twitter is the medium of choice for breaking stories. As a media channel, Twitter scooped literally everyone….again. The story of the killing of Osama bin Laden drove massive amounts of sustained traffic, sentiment and insights throughout the night and into Monday. Measured in Tweets-Per-Second, the bin Laden story generated the highest…
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AirBnb: Design As Competitive Advantage
There’s a great blog post by Chris Dixon that got my head spinning in this direction. Chris’ post is not directly about design; it’s more about the TV industry and Apple but he brought up a good point that I think bears repeating. When Apple was launching the iPhone, a lot of smart people thought that…
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AT&T and T-Mobile Will Slow Innovation
Om Malik wrote a good piece on this merger; it’s fairly old news at this point. I’m pretty sure I dislike this deal and I think it’s going to inhibit American entrepreneurs from accelerating innovation in mobile. Strategically, the proposed $39 Billion cash and stock deal that’s been put up by AT&T to acquire T-mobile…
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Creating Value: Products Vs. Platforms
There’s been a lot of conversation about platforms recently, especially with the recent changes to the Twitter TOS. Chris Dixon wrote some great thoughts about the rules of platform ownership and makes a great case for maintaining transparency and clear expectations with developers. I’ve been thinking more about the value chain, and what the best decision…
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Companion Apps
If you work in broadcast television, you primarily make your money from advertising. While cable operators might be a sizable part of your revenue mix, you are largely concerned with great content that will attract loyal audiences that you can sell high-value, targeted advertising against. Nothing new there. However, DVRs, Hulu, Netflix and even P2P…
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7 Differences Between Mobile and Online Media
As phones become smart phones, and smart phones become tablets, it’s getting harder to identify the differences beween what constitutes “mobile” and what defines “online”. After all, we can do almost everything on a phone today that we can on desktop. But there are differences when you scratch a bit below the surface, especially when…
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Melting Ice Cubes: New vs. Old Media
I try to get involved in lots of conversations about the future of the media industry. Having worked initially in the music industry (content creation) and later in the emerging media business (content strategy), I spend a lot of time thinking about were people spend their time accessing information and consuming content, and I’m lucky…
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Like, a Billion Dollars: Groupon Is Discounts, Not So Social?
I want to say that upfront that this blog post is in no way a knock on Groupon, or even a questioning of the firm’s valuation. I think Groupon is a genius execution. At some point, someone was going to try to roll up local discount networks and, from this insightful post from Greylock partners…
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Five Predictions for 2011
I started to write a retrospective on 2010, but decided that we all lived through the year and there are some great photo essays that are much more interesting than my thoughts. Instead, I’m going to make five predictions on tech, social and digital media trends in 2011. 1. Exponential growth in the U.S. smartphone…
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Hi, my name is Christian. 