The big news of the day is that Adobe is purchasing Macromedia for $3.4B in stock. Fundamentally, this deal makes sense. The core of both of these companies’ products is an offering for the “creative professional” (that’s the Adobe-speak that […]

Last week, I posted my belief that a significant set of New New Media venues are emerging – ads in video games, mobile phones, and DVR/IPTV boxes. Continuing on this theme, I wanted to point out a few interesting pieces […]

Slashdot reports, “Video Distribution Platform Aiming to Kill TV.” The Participatory Culture Foundation (a new funded non-profit organization) is embarking on an open-source project to create a new platform for internet television and video. While this effort may not kill […]

Two weeks ago, I wrote a post, “Social Tagging, What to Think?” Since then I’ve begin to come around to believe its power and potential importance in how information and content will be stored and retrieved on the web in […]

This week, CNET released a set of news articles covering the radical shift that television is undergoing. It covers everything from on-demand programming to custom-made home media networks. It provides a good general overview, although there’s not much depth to […]

Microsoft’s visionary blogger Robert Scoble made waves in the blogophere two months ago by saying, “You should be fired if you do a marketing site without an RSS feed.” He’s absolutely right. I would go one step further and say […]

Are ads in RSS feeds controversial? Hardly. Today Paul Kedrosky calls the notion that wide-spread adoption of ads in RSS feeds won’t happen “silliness.” I completely agree. Dave Morgan, the CEO of Tacoda, wrote a great piece last week, “RSS […]

RSS isn’t just for blogs. In fact, RSS is for so much more than blogs. Really Simple Syndication is a protocol that can and will be used for delivering any type of incremental content. On the consumer end of things, […]

In a great post by Jeff Bussgang, he laments the fact that there are so few VC-backed consumer hits coming out of the Boston area. As a Boston-area VC with a consumer/media background myself, I’ve thought a lot about this […]

“New media” has been around for the past ten years or so, and interactive media ad spending has exploded since its inception. Advertisers have found and are continuing to find this digital medium as an extremely effective way to reach […]