There is a wonderful article in New York Times this week, In India, The Golden Age of Television is Now. “Indian films, especially the flashy musicals and dramas of Bollywood, have grabbed plenty of attention in the West. But the country’s lesser-known television business is more than twice as big, with an estimated $3.4 billion
Actually, Washington Post just did. Jeff Burkett writes: washingtonpost.com BlogRoll Program Launched. Jeff’s instincts are right. There are bloggers with high quality content who would be willing to share ad revenues with the Post in exchange for serious traffic. Steve Rubel applauds the effort, and offers some suggestions on how to go beyond a wimpy
TechCrunch reports on some cool services : BlogTalkRadio, TalkShoe, RadioHandi, Waxii. The idea is to turn successful Bloggers into Radio hosts. Sounds very cool, and if I can figure out some time management algorithm, I would love to try this. However, the market size seems miniscule to me.
Journalists have found a wealth creation vehicle. More should follow. A new Media Empire made of Micro Media is viable with a roll-up strategy.
Yahoo starts adding original content: Analysis.
The online world has changed in the last ten years from a basic user experience to a vastly more involved and integrated user experience. And yet, the online shopping experience is still fairly basic, elementary, and non-experiential. Beyond the basics, however, today’s experiential shopping opportunity online has become many times richer and more attractive. Broadband has become ubiquitous. Publishing tools are orders of magnitude more sophisticated, easy, and accessible, and visual merchandising needs to correspondingly evolve to the next level.