Former Blockbuster Online Founder Joins Inflatable Madness

David Perkovich used to be the Blockbuster’s Vice President of Online Subscription Services, but earlier this week he joined inflatablemadness.com as their CTO. Inflatable Madness is a media distributor that operates as one of the top power sellers on eBay and he will be helping to manage their proprietary software that allows them to monitor [...]

Snowflakes In San Francisco

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Robot Tells Reporter That Humans Taste Like Soylent Green

Thanks to TiVo I’ve seen every single Twilight Zone episode and one of my favorites is the ubber creepy episode To Serve Man. The episode features an alien race that promises to give away technology if humans will come visit them on their home planet. At the end of the episode we learn that To [...]

From Zero – Download In Less Then 6 Seconds

The super sexy Tesla Roadster may be able to go from 0 – 60 in less then 4 seconds, but it doesn’t do you any good if you have to sit in traffic. This is the same problem that the movie industry has had with movie downloads. The idea of having content on demand is [...]

Hollywood Courts Congress With Fuzzy Math

Hollywood is out with a new study estimating the cost that piracy has to the US economy. Not surprisingly, they are using the result to try and convince Congress to put more stringent copy protections into place. In the study, they estimate that piracy costs the economy $20 billion a year in lost revenue and [...]

Partner or Compete? How TV Monopolies Benefit From Competition In The DVR Industry

TiVo may be the brand name in the DVR space, but it’s no secret that they’ve faced a lot of competition from cable and satellite providers. Despite all of the doom and gloom that we’ve heard though, over the past few years, instead of fighting the cable and satellite operators head on, we’ve instead seen [...]

Sonific Offers 40,000 Tracks To Web 2.0

Over the last several years there have been a lot of companies that simply don’t understand the marketing opportunties that exist in a web 2.0 culture. Whether it was NBC not grasping the promotional value of having their Lazy Sunday clips on YouTube or EMI’s attempts to get the Grey Album mashup by DJ Danger [...]

Is DVD Burning Hollywood’s Next Box Office Flop?

There has been a lot of noise about movie downloading this year, but one of the consistent criticisms about these services has been the inability to burn a download to DVD. This has been important for the video download companies because they haven’t been able to figure out a solution to the ten foot problem [...]

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Motorola Joins Kiosk Revolution

Redbox uses kiosks for DVDs, Apple uses them for iPods, & Coinstar uses them to help us turn change into cold hard cash, but the latest entrant into the kiosk space is Motorola who hopes that the vending machine will turn out to be a hit for people who want to buy a cell phone [...]