The internet is dead

janeth · #1 (**permalink**) 03-31-2008, 01:13 PM

MySA.com: Business

Dallas Mavericks owner and high-definition television network co-founder Mark Cuban was at his outspoken best Wednesday, telling a gathering of cable operators and programmers that the Internet was dying as an entertainment medium.

I guess they have to say something when your #1 and #2 is gaining on you really fast.

kgun · #2 (**permalink**) 03-31-2008, 03:47 PM

IMO the internet is in it's early childhood and far from mature or aging. Most people on the earth have still not viewed an internet page.

janeth · #3 (**permalink**) 03-31-2008, 03:51 PM

I agree, I think it is just getting started. And I think the social media sites and the next generation is going to be beyond our wildest dreams.

kgun · #4 (**permalink**) 03-31-2008, 04:36 PM

Very many tools like phones (Skype) etc. will be reduced to internet software.

Have you noted Microsoft's latest tool, Windows Live SkyDrive where you can store 5 Gb of files on the internet and have them for yourself, share them with friends and as a last option with the whole world. In my view this is the first step to bring "Windows" to the web.

dvduval · #5 (**permalink**) 03-31-2008, 04:46 PM

Maybe he meant the internet "as we know it" will soon be dead to be replaced by something much greater.

janeth · #6 (**permalink**) 03-31-2008, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by kgun

Very many tools like phones (Skype) etc. will be reduced to internet software.

Have you noted Microsoft's latest tool, Windows Live SkyDrive where you can store 5 Gb of files on the internet and have them for yourself, share them with friends and as a last option with the whole world. In my view this is the first step to bring "Windows" to the web.

It is becoming part of everyday life very fast.

janeth · #7 (**permalink**) 03-31-2008, 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by dvduval

Maybe he meant the internet "as we know it" will soon be dead to be replaced by something much greater.

I don't think so. Maybe he was trying to inspire his troops that all was not lost.

cw1865 · #8 (**permalink**) 03-31-2008, 05:27 PM

Don't get me wrong, Cuban is alright and he had built two successful businesses prior to selling out to Yahoo. At the end of the day he somehow hoodwinked Yahoo into paying billions for broadcast.com. By every definition I consider him a 'multi-millionaire' - the man is no billionaire in my mind.

I am with kgun on this one, the internet is still new and growing. To call the internet dead because they have yet to integrate it fully with your TV is ridiculous.

Peter (IMC) · #9 (**permalink**) 04-02-2008, 06:34 PM

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Originally Posted by kgun

Very many tools like phones (Skype) etc. will be reduced to internet software.

Have you noted Microsoft's latest tool, Windows Live SkyDrive where you can store 5 Gb of files on the internet and have them for yourself, share them with friends and as a last option with the whole world. In my view this is the first step to bring "Windows" to the web.

You mean the first step after Google with their documents and everything.

kgun · #10 (**permalink**) 04-02-2008, 07:48 PM

Don't let me wrong. Of course in alphabetic order FireFox

, Google, Microsoft, Opera

and Yahoo will try to make the first net OS

It may be distributed as:

AlienOS.XML.CPP

file or files.

A Web Document is a node tree, and so is the Internet. Should it be so much more difficult to make a register system on the branches (leafs) of this tree. In the end it is a bitstream

There is not so much functionality yet on a SE's index, even if Google Labs is a good start.

onlinetv · #11 (**permalink**) 04-05-2008, 05:20 AM

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Originally Posted by janeth

MySA.com: Business
Dallas Mavericks owner and high-definition television network co-founder Mark Cuban was at his outspoken best Wednesday, telling a gathering of cable operators and programmers that the Internet was dying as an entertainment medium.

Preface this to say I have known Mark Cuban since the early 90’s and think he is a genius businessman.

I called his sale of audionet/broadcast.com for 4 billion vastly overpriced and got reamed by Jason Calicanis in Wired for that. However as history shows the purchase of a going business went to the void and Cuban walked off with more money than a few computers on a network are worth. Yahoo did nothing with that purchase.

Cuban’s genius and business model for that was not used. Mark had figured there is no money on the net for streams. So he went to all the real world radio and tv broadcasters and worked an amazing deal. He would take their dead air space in exchange for streaming services! Wow, he captures all that online content AND he gets the ability to make money selling real TV and radio ad time! The greatest vision yet. He makes it work but Yahoo blows a wad and well, the model is gone.

I read the article and think Mark, as a CEO has the job to sell his company. The future may well be delivered over cables as it is right now. What devices are used to access and how I think will be diverse but the main reality is the Internet did not kill magazines, newspapers, radio or TV. Even in the brave new world of Cuban HD it would merely be the end device over a network. Every bit of information will originate somewhere, be transmitted, translated and displayed in some format for consumption and interaction somewhere, or many places so the Internet will not be dead. The Internet may be transformed or morphed into newer means of transmission and display but it is already digital TV by design. It’s only drawback now is bandwidth which is a myth as the fiber laid right now could make most dreams reality already