On Digital Media

On Digital Media 103: Exchange Rate In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy) and Craig Calder (twitter: @ccalder) discuss: Visit MagicalTablet.com for news and views on the iPad and tablet computing Zinio is giving away a Kodak Playsport ZX3 Waterproof HD Camera. Learn how to win. AT&T Kills Unlimited Data Plans. Dead. Done. Gone. And takes Drive Time streaming radio with it. The opportunity for the independent Howard Stern morning show is no more. 98% Percent of iPhone Customers use less than 200 MB of data - it's the remaining 2% that ruin it for everyone! ;) Internet Week New York starts next week (#IWNY) Yahoo, and #IWNY sponsor, has built a free iPhone app for the event Invite Media has been acquired by Google for ~$70 million. Craig schools us on ad exchanges, DSP's, SSP's and the other P's in the ad exchange ecosystem. Hearst acquires iCrossing Amazon Kindle will be sold at Target. Same price point. Borders takes the low-cost lead with the Aluratek Libre eReader

On Digital Media 102: Disruption In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy), Craig Calder (twitter:@ccalder) and Chia-Lin Simmons (twitter: @zeropts) discuss: The TechCrunch Disrupt Conference in New York City Carol Bartz to Mike Arrington: "F-off" uJam Betterment Plantly Audioo Fred Wilson changes his mind about the iPad NBC Universal and Time Warner won't retool their sites to support HTML5 - and the iPad Wired Magazine App sells 24,000 units in 24 Hours! Apple Surpasses Microsoft as Most Valuable Tech Company Google Poaches Palm's Head of User Experience Our music is Democracy from Alexander Blu. Send us email to comments AT odmcast DOT com or call our comment line and leave a message: 775-860-2263. Be sure to stop by http://www.odmcast.com to leave a comment and subscribe. For partner or sponsor information, contact jaf AT newrules DOT com.

In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy), Chia-Lin Simmons (twitter: @zeropts), Ken Gellman (twitter: @kengellman) and Steve Hatch (twitter: @shatch) are joined by special guests Kip Voytek, SVP, IconNicholson (twitter: @kipbot) and James Andrews, VP and Director of Interactive, Ketchum (twitter: @keyinfluencer). In this episode: James just returned from Sao Paolo John will be attending BlogWell in San Jose on October 28th Plastic Logic’s new e-reader vs. the Amazon Kindle. Is there a market for both? Kip just bought the new LG/Netflix Box, primarily for the Blu-Ray player The SlingBox HD is out! James owns one. Steve is arguing his perspective on discs vs. downloads Apple has 200 million television episodes on the iTunes store along with new HD programming from large broadcasters. MySpace officially unveils MyAds, their answer to the FaceBook advertising program Are all these ad programs creating silos that will make it more difficult to aggregate and measure this media? Internet Ad

In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy), Chia-Lin Simmons (twitter: @zeropts), Ken Gellman (twitter: @kengellman) and Steve Hatch (twitter: @shatch) discuss. Our next LIVE episode happens on November 21st! Amazon/Audible is hiring developers. Go here to learn more. Ken Gellman is unexpectedly available. He’d make a great addition to your team. Snatch him up while you can! John is interviewing Deb Schultz on November 18th at 1 PM EST for On Digital Media LIVE on BlogTalkRadio Facebook membership surges to 120 million users iPhone 2.2 Screenshots Show Full Podcast Interface, OTA podcast downloads AT&T Acquires Wi-Fi Operator Wayport For $275 Million; Opportunity To Offload More Traffic Steve thinks you should check out the AT&T Family Tree AT&T-Approved iPhone-to-Laptop Tethering Coming Soon Lower-Income Mobile Users Look to iPhone for Internet, Entertainment Hello? Steve? It’s Jerry…Jerry Yang. Sure, I Can Hold Until You Stop Laughing… Ballmer Is Wro

In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy), interviews Deborah Schultz (twitter: @debs) about her recent projects with Procter & Gamble, her keynote at Web 2.0 Expo NY entitle “Death of the Grand Gesture” and her thoughts on new and social media today. Our music is Democracy from Alexander Blu. Send us email to comments AT odmcast DOT com or call our comment line and leave a message: 775-860-2263. You can also find us on FaceBook - visit us and “become a fan.” Be sure to stop by http://www.odmcast.com to complete our listener survey - we’d really appreciate it. For partner or sponsor information, contact jaf AT newrules DOT com.

In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy), Chia-Lin Simmons (twitter: @zeropts), Ken Gellman (twitter: @kengellman) and Steve Hatch (twitter: @shatch) discuss. Internet Advertising Revenues in Q3 ‘08 at Nearly $5.9 Billion Wizzard Media Continues Impressive Growth Revision3 Reports Tripled Earnings for 2008 YouTube’s New Business Model: Selling Search Terms Facebook Rolls Out Verified App Program, Plus One Hell Of A Revenue Model For Themselves Hulu To Be Bigger Than YouTube Next Year? Google’s Lively Dies “Jerry Couldn’t Make Decision To Save Life” — Yahoos Dead Kennedys for Rock Band Amazon Debuts CloudFront Content Delivery Network Service Amazon Kindle Wins Popular Science’s “Best of What’s New” for 2008 in the Gadget Category Mobile Ad Firm Says iPhone Now Top Mobile Handset Worldwide Print in Crisis: NYTimes Offers Web Advertisers Free Paper Our music is Democracy from Alexander Blu. Send us email to comments AT odmcast DOT com or call our

In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy) interviews Sam Lessin and Mike Singleton about updates to the drop.io service, usability, privacy, file sharing and their growing enterprise business. Our music is Democracy from Alexander Blu. Send us email to comments AT odmcast DOT com or call our comment line and leave a message: 775-860-2263. You can also find us on FaceBook - visit us and “become a fan.” Be sure to stop by http://www.odmcast.com to complete our listener survey - we’d really appreciate it. For partner or sponsor information, contact jaf AT newrules DOT com.

In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy), KenGellman (twitter: @kengellman), Steve Hatch (twitter:@shatch) and Matt Snodgrass (twitter: @mattsnod) discuss. Obama Was Right; New Media Now The MostTrusted Source For News Matt tells us about the work he did last year with Pepsiand the deaf community, including the Super Bowl Commercial Opening Its Home Page, NYT Goes ForAggregation; WSJ Now Offering Ad Space On Front Page Cox Enterprises Merging Newspapers, TV, Radio Into Cox Media Group; 100-Plus Digital Services Sony, Kindle E-Reader Sales Grow BeforeChristmas; But Still No ‘iPod Moment’ Random House To Double Size Of Its DigitalBook Catalog boxee hearts Netflix Smartphone numbers are in: iPhone sales exceed Windows Mobile sales for first time Apple, Walmart to do $99 4GB iPhone? Our music is Democracyfrom Alexander Blu. Send us email to comments AT odmcast DOT comor call our comment line and leave a message: 775-860-2263. You can also find us on FaceBook - visitus and “become a fan.

In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy), Chia-Lin Simmons (twitter: @zeropts), Ken Gellman (twitter: @kengellman) and Steve Hatch (twitter:@shatch) discuss their predictions for 2009. Topics include: Boxee acquired by…? Google LinkedIn acquired by….? Twitter The Digital Living Room Online Advertising and the continuing slow death of newspapers Microsoft Yahoo The New York Times Online Video Municipal WiFi Podcasting iPhone Apple Windows Mobile Android Smartphones Our music is Democracy from Alexander Blu. Send us email to comments AT odmcast DOT comor call our comment line and leave a message: 775-860-2263. You can also find us on FaceBook - visit us and “become a fan.” Be sure to stop by http://www.odmcast.com to complete our listener survey - we’d really appreciate it. For partner or sponsor information, contact jaf AT newrules DOT com.

In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy), Chia-Lin Simmons (twitter: @zeropts) and Steve Hatch (twitter:@shatch) discuss: U.S. Airways Crash Twitter The Palm Pre Steve Jobs Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz Our music is Democracy from Alexander Blu. Send us email to comments AT odmcast DOT comor call our comment line and leave a message: 775-860-2263. You can also find us on FaceBook - visit us and “become a fan.” Be sure to stop by http://www.odmcast.com to complete our listener survey - we’d really appreciate it. For partner or sponsor information, contact jaf AT newrules DOT com.

In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy), Chia-Lin Simmons (twitter: @zeropts), Steve Hatch (twitter:@shatch), Ken Gellman (twitter: @kengellman) and special guest, Evan Brown (twitter: @internetcases)discuss: The Facebook TOS fiasco Kindle Text-to-Speech kerfuffle Our music is Democracy from Alexander Blu. Send us email to comments AT odmcast DOT comor call our comment line and leave a message: 775-860-2263. You can also find us on FaceBook - visit us and “become a fan.” Be sure to stop by http://www.odmcast.com to complete our listener survey - we’d really appreciate it. For partner or sponsor information, contact jaf AT newrules DOT com.

In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy), Chia-Lin Simmons (twitter: @zeropts) and Ken Gellman (twitter: @kengellman)discuss: Tim Armstrong joins AOL as CEO. Talk of “TimBama” around the office. Google replaces him with Dennis Woodside. Zucker: Online video revenues not yet replacing lost broadcast revenues Sony eBook Store Adds 500,000 Free Titles From Google Portable, digital journalism iPhone OS 3.0 “Millions” to cut cell phone spending(?) Prince Launches Online Subscription Service Our music is Democracy from Alexander Blu. Send us email to comments AT odmcast DOT com or call our comment line and leave a message: 775-860-2263. You can also find us on FaceBook - visit us and “become a fan.” Be sure to stop by http://www.odmcast.com to complete our listener survey - we’d really appreciate it. For partner or sponsor information, contact jaf AT newrules DOT com.

In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy), speaks with Gabe Zichermann (twitter: @gzicherm), CEO of RmbrMe, creators of the popular BeamMe mobile social networking application. Our music is Democracy from Alexander Blu. Send us email to comments AT odmcast DOT comor call our comment line and leave a message: 775-860-2263. You can also find us on FaceBook - visit us and “become a fan.” Be sure to stop by http://www.odmcast.com to complete our listener survey - we’d really appreciate it. For partner or sponsor information, contact jaf AT newrules DOT com.

Our music is Democracy from Alexander Blu. Send us email to comments AT odmcast DOT comor call our comment line and leave a message: 775-860-2263. You can also find us on FaceBook - visit us and “become a fan.” Be sure to stop by http://www.odmcast.com to complete our listener survey - we’d really appreciate it. For partner or sponsor information, contact jaf AT newrules DOT com.

In this impromptu episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy) and Ken Gellman (twitter: @kengellman)discuss the the Q1 2009 online advertising results from the IAB. Our music is Democracy from Alexander Blu. Send us email to comments AT odmcast DOT com or call our comment line and leave a message: 775-860-2263. You can also find us on FaceBook - visit us and “become a fan.” Be sure to stop by http://www.odmcast.com to complete our listener survey - we’d really appreciate it. For partner or sponsor information, contact jaf AT newrules DOT com.

In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy), Ken Gellman (twitter: @kengellman) and Kris Smith (twitter: @croncast discuss: iPhone 3GS “Video Revolution” “Every third tweet is from someone green” Could the events in Iran be contributing to the growth in YouTube’s mobile video uploads and not just the iPhone 3GS? Bozeman, Montana asks job applicants for their social networking profiles, passwords, then rethinks practice. If you’re an employee of the The Associate Press, you’ve been promoted to Editor - of what your friends post to your social networking profiles, that is. Are Upload Speeds the new Broadband Selling Point? Kris thinks that Cloud Computing is driving some of the need for faster upload speeds. The iPhone 3GS has the ability to capture 720p HD video, but it doesn’t. Why not? Amazon puts a cap on how often certain Kindle books can be downloaded. Maybe that will be circumvented by some creative hackers as Amazon just released the source code for each of the Kindle devices. Analys

In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy), Chia-Lin Simmons (twitter: @zeropts), Craig Calder (twitter: @ccalder) and Steve Hatch (twitter:@shatch) discuss chat about current news and events: Craig is at TravelZoo and headed to the FocusRight conference in December John will attend the September meeting of the New York Social Media Club Opinion: The New York Times will print only on Sundays, be digital all other days - for a fee Let’s make an eReader. All the cool kids are doing it. THE mass market eReader needs to be $99 or less We belabor the issue of the iPhone battery life. Again. Craig just finished listening to The Accidental Billionares, the book about Facebook - “Highly Entertaining.” Apple announced new products: iTunes 9, iPhone OS 3.1, a revised iPod nano with video capture, a revised iPod Touch and…the iLiver! Outlook for Mac is coming John thinks all iPod hardware needs wifi. It would be a boon for media sharing worldwide. iTunes 9 brings the social! Facebook and Twitter i

In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy), Chia-Lin Simmons (twitter: @zeropts), Ken Gellman (twitter: @kengellman) and Craig Calder (twitter:@ccalder) discuss their predictions for 2009. Topics include: Craig is going to the PhocusWright Conference November 17th through the 19th Ken is now living in the Boston area and looking for a new gig WSJ is going to start charging for mobile access to subscription content. There will be discounts for current subscribers. Do the math: based on current pricing, the WSJ iPhone app is just as valuable as the print subscription. Is this the beginning of the age of a Platform-agnostic news organization “The newspaper industry has been in decline for 50 years. They just didn’t know it.” 24% of newspapers are ignoring the digital channel for distributing content Business Week had 93 suitors at one point - only half are still interested in purchasing the publication. “The brand means nothing if the business is dying.” The Kindle version of Dan Brown’s new

In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy), Craig Calder (twitter: @ccalder), Ken Gellman (twitter: @kengellman) and Steve Hatch (twitter:@shatch) opine about: Craig was featured in articles on Forbes.com and AdAge.com representing TravelZoo Craig’s team at TravelZoo won the SAMMY Award (MediaPost’s Social Media Award) for The Top Branded Twitter Campaign beating out MadMen and M&M Mars. Congratulations to Craign and the TravelZoo team! Audible.com is still hiring developers. You get to work with Steve Hatch! (Trust me, that’s a good thing. – jf.) Breaking News! Twitter has new avatars! Twitter will add geo-location as a built-in feature. Don’t worry, it will be opt-in. John is using a combination of BrightKite, FourSquare and GoWalla for location-based status updates. Twitter doesn’t want to have to deal with subpeonas - after 14 days, the location metadata associated with your tweets is expunged. “Project Retweet” is an effort to redesign the user experience of retweets - this time,

In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy), Craig Calder (twitter: @ccalder) and Steve Hatch (twitter:@shatch) opine about: John will attend the ICSC Summit on October 20th John will be leading a talk at Web2Open during Web 2.0 Expo NYC November 16-19 Craig will attend the PhocusWright Conference Craig will be featured in an article on DMNews TravelZoo/Fly.com is hiring! Amazon/Audible is hiring! Conan O’Brien and Newark Mayor Cory Booker are having a fun little sparring match. Conan is using the airwaves while Cory is using YouTube. Comcast is in talks to by NBC Universal in whole or in part. Thank goodness for CMRR (Committed Monthly Recurring Revenue)! Harper Collins is holding back the digital release of the upcoming book by Sarah Palin in order to drive hardcover sales. The ebook won’t be released until after Christmas. Do people buy Kindle devices because the books are less expensive, knowing that they’ll earn their investment back over time? We’d like some data on that… John boug