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Friday, May 04, 2007
Everywhere you look today in mainstream media and on many blogs, the hottest business topic of the day seems to be the possibility of a Microsoft and Yahoo merger. A lot of experts have already weighed in on this today, but I think one of the more insightful looks at the situation comes from Charlene Li on the Forrester blog. Merger prognosis: doubtful.
The annual TED (Technology Entertainment Design) Conference in Monterey, California is one of those seminal events I’ve wanted to attend ever since I heard about it. Unfortunately, it is $6000, by invitation only, and they restrict participants to 1000 people from around the world. Currently, the participant list appears filled until 2009. It features a distinguished list of attendees and speakers who exchange ideas on science, culture, business, entertainment, art and much more.
Before this year, it was difficult for non-attendees to get information on the topics discussed, but this year TED has made a number of the talks available on their website (see link above). As you might imagine there are some interesting and provocative discussions that may be of interest to many of you. They even have their own YouTube channel.
Thursday, May 03, 2007
Many marketing people have been under the assumption that once someone subscribes to digital, satellite radio (XM or Sirius), their listening time with traditional terrestrial radio will diminish. Not so according to a study by Arbitron and Edison Media Research. It showed digital radio subscribers actually listen to traditional radio more than the non-subscribers. In fact, the results demonstrate the average satellite radio subscriber still finds time to listen to almost three hours of terrestrial radio per day.
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
According to a new Accenture survey, the media and entertainment industries see consumer generated content (CGC) as the main threat to their business models. Accenture surveyed 110 top executives in film, publishing, television, radio, music, advertising and the Internet. The results show 57 percent of these executives think the rapid growth of CGC is one of the top challenges their industry will face in the years ahead. Consumer generated content includes amateur videos, photography, blogs, podcasts and social networks that are now easily enabled and disseminated via the Web.
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
The bad news for Google is it’s sometimes difficult to keep millionaires motivated to stay. Story here. Even if, according to the article, Google is experiencing a brain drain of sorts, someone in Google’s HR department must still be doing a Herculean job: they’ve gone from 6,790 employees a year ago to over 12,000 employees today.