More often then not, companies like talking with bloggers because we give free publicity, but if you give enough interviews, then sooner or later you’re bound to step on a land mine. After having spent a great deal of time researching Vois, I had a lot of questions with no answers, so I reached out [...]
Posted on July 9th, 2009 by Davis
Filed under: Spam, Technology, VOD, Web 2.0 | Comments Off
Over the years, we’ve seen stock promoters use spam and junk faxes as a way to hype their securities and while these methods are still in use today, they lack a certain amount of credibility that most investors are looking for. With the masses growing increasingly numb to these tactics, the wolves of Wall St. [...]
Posted on July 9th, 2009 by Davis
Filed under: SA, Spam, Technology, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment »
I love Netflix, but more than once their data policies have forced me to reconsider whether or not I should have a membership with them. You see, I believe that when you rate a movie, the data should belong to you. After all, you were the one that spent the time to input the rating [...]
Posted on June 29th, 2009 by Davis
Filed under: DRM, Netflix, VOD, Web 2.0 | 4 Comments »
Over the last few years, Redbox has been able to build an impressive DVD rental network by being innovative and flexible while their competitors were still laughing at the concept of kiosk rentals. Over time they’ve added features to the Redbox website that allow customers to browse and reserve titles online. They’ve linked their kiosks [...]
Posted on March 25th, 2009 by Davis
Filed under: DVDs, Kiosks, SA, Technology, VOD, Web 2.0 | Comments Off
If you ask the big content owners, they’ll argue that the only content on YouTube has either been stolen from them or is some kind of a lame cat video uploaded by your crazy neighbor. Unfortunately, in my seemingly endless quest to collect and document the best cat videos on YouTube, I keep getting distracted [...]
Posted on March 25th, 2009 by Davis
Filed under: Media, TV, VOD, Web 2.0 | 3 Comments »
For those of you who are still not satisfied with the current crop of movie recommendation services, you’ll soon have a new choice available to you. Last week, I signed up for the private beta of Jinni and have been pretty impressed so far. Jinni is a new interactive movie rating website that is trying [...]
Posted on January 26th, 2009 by Davis
Filed under: Disclosure - I own stock in co. mentioned, Media, Netflix, Search, TV, VOD, Web 2.0 | 7 Comments »
Recently, I suffered a computer meltdown and the good news is that I still have my data, but the bad news is that it’s cheaper to replace the PC, then it is to fix it. Since I was already in the market for a laptop, I decided to purchase one, while I took the time [...]
Posted on October 9th, 2007 by Davis
Filed under: Disclosure - I own stock in co. mentioned, DivX, Media, Microsoft, Netflix, Slingbox, TV, Technology, TiVo, VOD, Video Games, Web 2.0 | 5 Comments »
TiVo latest hook up with Pay Per Post is beginning to look less like a relationship and more like a one night stand, after the company responded to criticism of the program, by asking “postees” to pull the TiVo ads off of YouTube. In fairness to TiVo, there is evidence to suggest, that they had [...]
Posted on October 8th, 2007 by Davis
Filed under: Disclosure - I own stock in co. mentioned, Marketing, Spam, Technology, TiVo, Web 2.0 | Comments Off
Over the years, I’ve seen a lot of different TiVo marketing campaigns. Some of them have been great and some of them have been bombs, but TiVo has never been afraid of taking risks, especially when it comes to generating publicity. Whether it was their funeral for the VCR or their ad throwing a TV [...]
Posted on October 3rd, 2007 by Davis
Filed under: Disclosure - I own stock in co. mentioned, Marketing, Spam, TiVo, Web 2.0 | 12 Comments »
Hot Donkey! I logged into my Zooomr account this morning and saw that they’ve released an RSS feed for my zipline. They’ve also paginated zipline for Zooomr pro accounts. This allows me to see more than just the last 20 or so entries from my contacts. If you haven’t tried out zipline yet, you really [...]
Posted on August 24th, 2007 by Davis
Filed under: Photos, Technology, Web 2.0 | Comments Off