August 2009
9 posts
A Timeframe for TV's Future?
Printed today in The Guardian: “The TV industry has as little as two years to create viable digital businesses or face a version of the “iTunes moment” that saw the music business cede the online future to Apple, according to Ashley Highfield.”
With regards to the various threat levels to traditional media, the TV and Film businesses are converging and it’s much more...
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BuildIntel: Just wanted to let everyone know that I love #Magma. Check it - http://mag.ma/ about 3 hours ago from TweetDeck · Reply · View Tweet
nickdemartino: RT @jonarcher: Impressed by new video aggregator Magma http://mag.ma/ about 6 hours ago from TweetDeck · Reply · View Tweet
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Know Your Meme Makes TIME Top 50
rocketboom:jamiew: “Know Your Meme was selected as one of TIME Magazine’s 50 Best Websites of 2009! 50/50 :) We wrote our first scientismic episodes in Dec 2007 and launched the ‘Meme Database’ website in Dec 2008. It’s seen amazing growth — we’re now at more than 500 meme entries, 10k images, and will serve over 4.5 million pageviews this month!”
Building Big Dreams With Just a Little
As we gear up for the public launch of Magma, I’m starting to feel as if we are heading out into the unknown. I’m worried and excited for the same reasons: We are going at it with no investment, no PR company, no advertising or sponsorship deals in place, no anything really, just a website and a few computers.
From my experience with Rocketboom, I know this is not going to be easy....
Where is Molly?
People have been asking about Molly. Molly is in the UK and we are waiting to be sure that our governments approve Molly’s work visa before we are finally allowed to work together. We are hoping it will happen this upcoming week in which case Molly will be begin hosting Rocketboom daily asap, thanks for keeping a look out! In the meantime, the rest of the Rocketboom crew is rocking it out...
Know Your Meme on the Up & Up
While programming Magma, and keeping up with the Rocketboom back-end, our three person dev team, Jamie, Greg & Todd whipped up the Know Your Meme websIte from scratch. When I say whipped up from scratch, I mean to say we are not using a pre-existing CMS, we built our own to suit the project. Philosophically, it was hard to determine how to strike a balance between allowing anyone and...
Know Your Meme Featured in Time
Your Guide to the Weird, Wild Web - TIME
Friendfeed: Yesterday & Today
Originally Posted May 24th, 2008 and reposted here today. This is the “good side” of the internet. But as Dave Winer points out today, there is also a bad side.
The first time I heard about friendfeed was in mid 2007 but I just passed it over and didn’t think much about it. In the fall of 2007, Jason Shellen stopped by my office in NYC and was talking about it. That day I had...
Short URLs for a Short-Lived World
Short URL services have more negatives than they do positives, but the positives are not unique.
The primary argument in favor of short URLs is the business of statistics. But why do we need short URLs to get statistics? I get much more comprehensive stats from my Apache logs and you dont need to be a programming wiz to set up a deep stats system. It’s nice and easy that Short URL services...