“I say we (Black media companies) focus on controlling 10% of YouTub, Vimeo, etc., traffic globally. Let take over iTunes podcast business. Can we produce the most video centered iPhone apps? Lets also support sites like Dimewars and other Black controlled sites that have the potential to become the next Comcast”
Comcast to have Zero African American Owned Channels? « Black Web 2.0
READ THE ARTICLE. This quote is from the comments of the Black Web 2.0 article on the lawsuit that the National Coalition of African American Owned Media (NCAAOM) is bringing against the Comcast-NBC merger.
Pretty much sums up BlackTree’s vision.
A great synopsis to the economics described in his book, FREE. Great read! When I bought this book I had no idea it would be an economics book. It has sparked a great interest in me for economics and the new economy as brought about by the Internet.
“Not that the physical world will disappear, but the management thereof will become an abstraction - which liquifies it enormously”
Great explanation of the Sixth Paradigm
Chris Anderson’s book FREE has totally turned me on to this new paradigm shift in economics. I am so fascinated by it right now. In this video, Sean Park explains what he calls the 6th Paradigm of economics where the 4th Paradigm was Mass Production, the 5th Paradigm was the Information Age and the 6th Paradigm now being the Digital Revolution (2:50).
The power of the Internet to save the environment. This is a terrific video! It only takes your time so is something bothering you? Get online and do something about it!
“We will have an advertising strategy. You will see that from us in the future. It will be fascinating, non-traditional, and people will love it.”
Dick Costolo, COO of Twitter
RealTime CrunchUp: Conversation With Twitter COO Dick Costolo
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“On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it’s so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.”
“The traditional TV industry—cable companies, networks, and broadcasters—is where the newspaper industry was about five years ago: [in] denial.”
“Create or Die: Content is the new commodity… Whether it is YouTube videos, ebooks, blog posts, tweets or a string of successful startups, your reputation and your worth are judged by what you have created.”
I admit it, I’m a Digital Immigrant. I remember rotary phones, antenna TVs, and VCRs. My kids. Digital Natives. COMPLETELY. I asked them to get me the house phone and they looked at me crazy. “You mean your iPhone?”, they said. HA!
Top 10 Things You Need to Know About Digital Natives | BlawgIT
“If all parties are using Gmail, you can have entire conversations in multiple languages with each participant reading the messages in whatever language is most comfortable for them. It’s not quite the universal translators we’re so fond of from science fiction, but thanks to Google Translate, it’s an exciting step in the right direction.”
Now this is cool! Yet another reason to use Gmail! As if the “unlimited” hard drive space wasn’t enough ;)
Official Gmail Blog | New in Labs: Automatic message translation
“Oldsters tend not to get it. That the key to the lives of youngsters today is ACCESS! They don’t believe in walls, they want to be able to reach out and touch EVERYBODY! If you erect a wall, young people ignore it, or destroy it, just to let you know who is boss. You may think the iPhone is a toy, but it’s a communications device! It allows you to be in touch with the world EVERYWHERE!”
“Web 2.0 is dead, long live Web 3.0 …[even as] the Web 2.0 leaders still haven’t figured out a revenue model…”
This is why I tumble and tweet. You should too.
“Copyright law wasn’t written with today’s content consumption in mind…If you’re a copyright holder and you want to keep up with your pirated content flitting about the web — well, good luck.”
“…online social interactions are key drivers of the massive explosion of data on the Internet… [Now think about and] …understand the computational needs of a web that is driven by real-time social interactions.”
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