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Similar to Digg in design, HubPages allows anyone to start their own site, and then the most popular content they publish (based on an algorithm that extends beyond basic traffic) is aggregated and ranked on the HubPages home page. Content publishers split the ad revenue down the middle with HubPages. The company was founded by three Microsofties, and they just landed $2 million in funding from Hummer Winblad.
6 comments August 5th, 2006
If I extrapolate my own experiences, video on demand is still an experimental medium. For the last two weekends here in Seattle — where Comcast rules and Microsoft powers the user interface — my VOD has crapped out numerous times in the middle of a movie/show. Then I have to exit out, replay it and fast-forward (with just one SLOOOOOOOW speed), until I pick up where I left off. Tonight it’s happened four times. Last weekend it was a half-dozen. The best analogy is the old days of streaming video when everything buffered to the point of absolute frustration. But, hey, streaming video has come of age, and so will VOD. Someday.
12 comments August 5th, 2006
I had a fascinating dream last night about a next-generation conference dedicated to changing media. There were two videos they played to the energized crowd. The first was on brand strategy in the future. The audience cheered as logos appeared on the big screen: local TV brands sans numbers (what are “channels,” anyway?); the CBS and NBC logos combined into a single brand; and other national media brands that were morphed into major products, like Pepsi. The second video showed an old man sitting on a park bench. He’s thanking a 10-year-old girl, who has a small laptop on her lap, for teaching him how to write for the first time in his life. His former occupation? A TV news producer. The crowd erupts in laughter. I write this not only because I thought the “videos” were worth sharing, but because the conference attendees were truly excited about the changes facing the media industry. Unfortunately, that’s not the case in today’s real-life TV conferences where fear clashes with resistance to change. Maybe one of these days, we’ll throw a Lost Remote conference that will be different.
4 comments August 5th, 2006
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