Mighty oaks from tiny acorns grow…
Here’s the first video that was uploaded to YouTube. This is one of the company’s three founders Jawed Karim, currently a grad student at Stanford.
Yes, this is how a $1.65 billion company got …
Author Archive | Ken McCarthy
If you can’t beat them, buy them
Does it make sense for Google to spend $1.65 billion to buy YouTube?
Sure it does – as long as they’ve figured out how to solve THE PROBLEM…
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Numbers, numbers and more numbers
Tracking the Internet video world – which practically no one was tracking just a year ago – has become a full time business for some.
Here are some of the more interesting numbers people have dug up recently…
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Give it away smart – Advice for film makers
I have a lot of friends who are filmmakers. I even worked briefly in that industry myself. Who knows, I might even get back into it.
I wrote this piece specifically for a magazine for documentary filmmakers, but I think …
This Bud’s for you
I can tell you from first hand experience that NO ONE in the spring of 1994 had any idea how to use the web to advertise.
I know that because at the time I was in regular communication with the …
Hollywood in Arkansas
I love the contrast between the media created fantasy of business and the cold, hard reality of what’s actually going on…
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