In the 1950s, television tore a huge chunk out of Hollwood’s hide. Within six years of the introduction of TV to consumers, movie theater attendance was down 50%
Today, theater attendance is only one sixth – yes, 1/6 – of …
Author Archive | Ken McCarthy
Amazon steps up
Google’s got video, Yahoo’s got video, eBay users are starting to use video – and now Amazon is entering the game.
They signed humorist Bill Maher to host a soon-to-be launched Internet TV program called “Amazon Fishbowl.”
The launch date …
The YouTube phenomenon
As I write this, a new company called YouTube is downloading 35 MILLION videos per day.
Sequoia Capital, which just advanced them another $8 million, is calling them “the forefront of a cultural shift in digital media entertainment.”
It all …
Hollywood joins the party
Hollywood fought electronics manufacturers first over the VCR and then over the burnable DVD.
When it comes to the Internet, it looks like they’re finally getting smart…
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Not such a DMB idea
An important acronym that no one is paying attention to (yet):
DMB
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The one I’ve been waiting for
In 1994, when I lived in San Francisco, I published a little eight-page newspaper called the Internet Gazette.
My friend Jim Warren, founder of the Computer Faire, the original consumer PC show, gave me the idea and it worked like …