Out of Joost
Joost, the online video-sharing service founded by Skype founders Nik Zennstrom and Janus Friis, pulled the plug on its original business model. The company, according to The Wall Street Journal, said it would reinvent itself as a whitebox technology provider for companies wanting to publish Internet video under their own brands (Hmm…. no first-mover advantage [...]
The Bloom is off the Twitter Rose…Finally
You’re probably familiar with those great time-to-market-saturation charts that pop up in PowerPoint presentations every so often. It took, for example, a number of decades for the telephone to penetrate the majority of homes; fewer decades for the radio, fewer still for TVs, VCRs, and cell phones. The same might be applied to social media [...]
Analog Devices Gets More Digital
Summary: Analog Devices today unveiled a new social-media community for its customers, Engineer Zone, designed to drive conversation about digital signal processor (DSP) technologies and products. Analog Devices is an old-line semiconductor company that’s starting to get more serious about new media. Today the company unveiled a new social media community built on the Jive [...]
Streaming Consciousness
Summary: Hardware and software technology has matured sufficiently to bring streaming live video to the desktop. Platforms are emerging that people and companies need to examine if they’re interested in exploring the modern world of broadcasting and its implications for communications. I haven’t made a batch of beer in a few months and I’m getting [...]
Call for papers: ARM TechCon3
I’m really honored to have been picked as this year’s technical chair for ARM’s TechCon3, to be held Oct. 21-23 in Santa Clara. John Reardon, CEO and founder of RTC Group, which manages the event, asked me if I’d be interested. And why not? It’s always been a great program. I’m taking over for Markus [...]
Don Imus and the devolution of media
Back in the saddle after one of our busier weeks of the year, covering and participating in Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley. Highlights included cool tear-downs of big cars, Al Gore keynoting and the third annual EE Times ACE Awards, where I get to hand out awards to cool people like Lee Felsenstein (right). Web [...]
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