by CT Moore on December 10, 2011
In this final segment of episode 18, we enter the lighting round and then turn to the email of the week. During the lightning round, we discuss: Paid Distribution Why Will Ferrell is doing ads for Old Milwaukee How Facebook Memology is a PR response to Google Zeitgeist and Gowalla selling out to Facebook Then [...]
by CT Moore on December 10, 2011
In the second instalment of episode 18, we turn to newspapers and how they’re still trying to charge for content. Specifically, we address how Sun Media is rolling out a metered pay plan. Personally, I think that you need to offer something really unique/special to charge for it, and Ash chimes in to point out [...]
by CT Moore on December 10, 2011
In the first segment of episode 18, Ash and I discuss whether “greed is good.” Specifically, we’re talking about how the web seems to reward bad behaviour. After all, just look at how the 4 big web IPOs of the year: LinkedIn IPOd at $84/share and dropped to $74/share Demand Media IPOd at $22/share and [...]
by CT Moore on December 6, 2011
In the final instalment of show 17 of HipMojo, we enter the lightning round and cover: The resiliency of sports programming Facebook’s Buffy phone NBC’s apology to Michelle Bachmann Blackberry’s fall from grace And finally, we turn to the question of the week, where we examine how digital ad and growth rates differ so much [...]
by CT Moore on December 6, 2011
In segment 2 of episode 17, we debate on who would be harder to replace, Google’s Sergey Brin and Larry Page or Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. Granted, Google is at a more advanced and mature stage of its history, while Facebook remains fairly young. And while Page and Brin recruited Eric Schmidt to run the company [...]