Archive for May, 2007

Key to a Successful Web Video Show: How Wallstrip Made it to CBS?

Being a regular reader of Fred Wilson’s blog I have many times found really valuable information on Musings of a VC in NYC. This time his post was about the simplified success story of how Wall Strip got purchased by CBS - including an open sourced recipe of making video shows that really rock.
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From the bookshelf: Chaim Potok The Chosen

Yesterday I went to the bookshop to have a coffee, learn some Spanish and German, and to have a look at what books I would like to read (but will have little time to actually go through them). Instead, I picked up Potok’s The Chosen and stayed in the shop glued to the armchair for […]

Google Universal Search starts on 16 May: videos, blogs, news, images integrated

On May 18, Barry Schwartz on Search Engine Land wrote about how Google video results suddenly appeared on The search results pages of Google (via Philipp Lenssen’s Blogoscoped). Well, from the historical date of May 16, 2007, it’s not just videos from now on, but basically news, blogposts, images (we have already seen several images […]

Vintage online marketing video 1994: first internet marketing conference with OHP

This video film is an example for the long tail use of historical videos reappearing ready for recycling (for fun, for illustration, for ever, what). It is claimed to have been shot at “the first conference ever held that focused exclusively on the commercial potential of the web,” organized by Ken McCarthy and held in […]