The FT reports that social media sites with video, like YouTube and MySpace, will not earn as much in advertising as professional video sites. According to Screen Digest, the media analysis company, ad revenues on UGC sites will grow from $200m last year to $875m by 2010. But this will account for just 15 per cent of the total online video advertising budget. Arash Amel, Screen Digest’s senior analyst, says
After reading a great deal about the iPhone in the last couple of days, I’d say among the best analysis has to be from Michael Mace. His analysis shows that Apple could face death outside of the US. Ironic when Europe and Asia are the real mobile markets they should have aimed at, not the ‘less dropped calls than other networks’ market of the US: This design may not go
Amid all the hoopla about the Apple iPhone there are few things that occur to me: – How will women with long fingernails – or anyone for that matter – deal with the touchscreen-only interface? – I think it’s ability to carry third party widgets puts the whole widget space into a new light. Nokia has been developing it’s own “Widsets”, but Apple now has the opportunity to mainstream widgets.
And the official version: Screen size 3.5 inches Screen resolution 320 by 480 at 160 ppi Input method Multi-touch Operating system OS X Storage 4GB or 8GB GSM Quad-band (MHz: 850, 900, 1800, 1900) Wireless data Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) + EDGE + Bluetooth 2.0 Camera 2.0 megapixels Battery * Up to 5 hours Talk / Video / Browsing * Up to 16 hours Audio playback Dimensions 4.5 x 2.4 x 0.46
The long-rumoured Apple iPhone launches with Cingular in the US available February. Here are the features in no particular order: (Gleaned from live blogs by TUAW, Paidcontent, Crunchgear, Engadget) The good: Where do I start? It’s an amazing device. The bad: Only one: Not 3G yet. See some pix! – Actually called iPhone afterall! – Touch screen, 2 megapixel camera, will sync with iTunes – It swaps between normal and
I have written about the media business in the past – and still do, though usually about how the media is getting trashed by the tech business – but the below YouTube video pretty much sums up how some – admittedly not all – media agencies conduct themselves.
You know what? It’s time to declare peace in the ongoing TechCrunch UK / TechCrunch US / Le Web 3 debacle. I will be making no further comment on this blog, or anyone else’s blog, about the matter. We’ve all, including me, said enough. It’s time to disarm and go home, wherever home is. Suffice it to say that I think in a parallel universe things might have happened differently.
I forgot to mention. I got onto BBC World’s “Click” show this week, in an interview about Second Life. The video is here. (Although the brand name they put against my name is now incorrect).
Today we launch Vecosys, a new blog to track UK, Irish and, moving outwards, European web 2.0 and mobile 2.0 startups. Today also happens to be my birthday. (We still need to do some more design on it, but it’s getting there)
Le Web 3 reaction Originally uploaded by Tom Morris. This says it all really.