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Creating Value Then Profit
Shane, an attendee from the first Elite Retreat, posted about why it is not best to monetize a blog right out of…
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Movie Downloads To Reach $5.8 Billion
The Internet-delivered movie industry is set to take off. This is welcome news for Hollywood and the Motion Picture Association of America. According to Adams Media Research the Internet movie industry will reach $5.8 billion in revenue by 2011. Video downloads will account for $4.1 billion in the US.
Cisco and Apple Settle Up iPhone Dispute
The legal spat between Apple and Cisco over use of the term "iPhone" was nothing that, speculatively, a big bag o'money couldn't solve. Though the terms of the settlement both companies announced yesterday are confidential, it isn't unreasonable to think that Cisco got some benefit beyond mutual use of the term and an interoperability agreement. The statement reads this way:
Microsoft To Go After YouTube With Revver?
Some people would assert that Google launched an assault on Microsoft earlier today; others would just say that the search engine giant launched a paid version of Google Apps. Either way, Microsoft may have a ready response: reports indicate that the company could take aim at YouTube by acquiring Revver, another video-sharing site.
Dude, Blogging is So Over…
Every now and then some ancient blogger will post a world-weary, “been there, done that” missive about how blogging is tiresome, bordering on useless, and so they are giving it up, etc.
Google? An Office suite? Never.
Ever since Google first launched things like “apps for your domain” and bought Writely, CEO Eric Schmidt and others have been singing the same song: namely, that the Internet behemoth has no intention of putting together a competitor to Microsoft Office. At the Web 2.0 conference, for example, he said “We don’t call it an office suite.
