The adoption of Kubernetes-enabled infrastructures and applications has revealed the challenge involved in enabling persistent, reliable data storage in an ephemeral compute…
Read MoreBack in April in a piece titled “SocialNets & the Power of the URL”, I wrote: … Like every media revolution in…
Read MoreEver since YouTube’s CEO Chad Hurley participated in Herb Allen’s annual Sun Valley media mogulfest, there has been much speculation about who…
Read MoreA few days ago, billionaire Mark Cuban (who owns various entertainment assets, including a film production studio, theatre chain, etc.) posed an…
Read MoreA few months ago, a dinner companion informed me that Google was in Hollywood trying to secure exclusive distribution rights to films…
Read MoreRupert Murdoch built his media empire, News Corp, the old-fashioned way… by vertically and horizontally integrating deep and wide into the layers…
Read MoreBy Robert Young In the latest (July) issue of Wired magazine, Rupert Murdoch claims that Google… “…could have bought MySpace three months…
Read MoreBy Robert Young Last week at a conference in New York City, the head of Fox Interactive Media, Ross Levinsohn, told the…
Read MoreBy Robert Young Let me expand the title… as Hollywood is increasingly forced to adopt the Internet as a distribution channel, should…
Read MoreBy Robert Young No one can argue that MySpace has been the “it girl” for the past year. And the fact that…
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