Davis Freeberg’s Digital Connection

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 [...]

Posted on September 30th, 2006 by Davis
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Snowflakes In San Francisco Hosted on Zooomr

Posted on September 29th, 2006 by Davis
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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 [...]

Posted on September 29th, 2006 by Davis
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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 [...]

Posted on September 29th, 2006 by Davis
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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 [...]

Posted on September 29th, 2006 by Davis
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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 [...]

Posted on September 28th, 2006 by Davis
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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 [...]

Posted on September 27th, 2006 by Davis
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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 [...]

Posted on September 26th, 2006 by Davis
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San Francisco Days Hosted on Zooomr

Posted on September 26th, 2006 by Davis
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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 [...]

Posted on September 25th, 2006 by Davis
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