Why Does The Industry Standard Think Podcasting is Failing? (38)
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The short answer is that they want it to fail. There seems to be an underpinning of glee to get to deadpool it, and no one has told them it’s no longer trendy to call podcasting a failure anymore. The long answer has to do with a lot of factors. The subject is brought to my attention by Ian Lamont, who’s written another weekend article that takes a hit out on podcasting as an industry ...
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Haltse said:
Podcasting requires special skills cited as a reason for failure? Pah all media production requires skill the question should be how much skill does the listener need? Any way the original article from The Standard confuses issues by suggesting that success = podtech's business model with no counterbalance. http://www.podcastingnews.com/2008/07/19/the-industry-standard-on-why-podcasting-is-failing has a balanced look at this.
The Industry Standard On Why Podcasting Is Failing (2)
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Ian Lamont, at The Industry Standard, has published his take on “why podcasting is failing” reacting to the news that much-hyped podcasting startup PodTech was getting bought by ViewPartner: “Podcasting is failing as a business platform, and has failed to make a mainstream impact. The news that PodTech only managed to limp into an acquisition therefore came as no surprise. Former PodTech star Robert Scoble admits on Friendfeed that there were plenty of management and ...
PodTech sells for $500,000, which will hopefully cover its debts [Acquisitions] (1)
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PodTech, the online video startup left to reliving better days when charming shill Robert Scoble was a frontman for the company, has found a buyer, ViewPartner, and for the paltry sum of $500,000. Hopefully the company's creditors will be getting more than a few pennies back on their dollars — the company has been at the mercy of their bankers, and one commenter says that they were racking up tabs with vendors. VCs like US ...
Reports Of PodTech’s Demise Are Not Entirely Bull####! (1)
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Last fall, Podtech’s then VP Robert Scoble said “Reports of PodTech’s demise are bull####!” Now, VentureBeat reports that podcasting startup PodTech has been purchased by ViewPartner, a communications technology company. PodTech sold for under half a million dollars, a fraction of the $7.5 million invested in the company. PodTech struggled from the beginning to find a direction, and failed despite: multiple rounds of generous funding; unrelenting growth of interest in podcasts; A-list talent from the ...
A less than 500k exit for PodTech (1)
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Video blogging outfit PodTech has been acquired by LA based ViewPartner for “less than half a million dollars” according to Eric Eldon over at VentureBeat. PodTech has been struggling for some time, lurching from a tech video blog network when it launched (competing head on with Podshow and others) into some sort of business video production company. I first started hearing of problems with PodTech last year, and finally reported on them when Fake Steve ...
PodTech Sells Out; Why is Everyone So Glum? (3)
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PodTech, one of the earliest companies to form around the concept of podcasting, has finally seen an exit following what can best be described as an extremely tumultuous history. As someone who’s followed the saga of PodTech from the very beginning, the image to the public as well as what’s been going on behind the scenes has been at best, confusing. Today, Eric Eldon over at VentureBeat is reporting that PodTech has been sold for ...
Podtech failure: Scoble’s lessons (4)
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Not long ago, Podtech was a video company with a bright future — or at least so it appeared. Run by John Furrier, with some high-profile social media types like Jeremiah Owyang and Robert Scoble on board, the company had high hopes of being a new video-content provider. And then the train left the track at some point, and now the company’s assets (whatever’s left) have been sold for just $500,000. Owyang left to join ...
PodTech Acquired by ViewPartner (3)
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Eric "Scoop" Eldon is reporting that corporate podcasting service PodTech has been acquired by ViewPartner for less than one million dollars. Eldon notes, "The investors, from my understanding, were looking to make PodTech more of a blog network, and didn’t see eye to eye with the company’s early employees on what, exactly, the company intended to be." PodTech raised $7.5 million in venture capital. PodTech has seen it's share of drama in the past. Last ...
PodTech Sells For Less Than $500k (16)
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VentureBeat is reporting that technology media startup PodTech has been sold to ViewPartner, a “communications technology company” , for less than half a million dollars. PodTech is perhaps best known for the long tech videos produced by blogger Robert Scoble, who left the company last December to work for Fast Company. He was originally snagged from Microsoft, where he made his name. The paltry sale price is not much better than a landing in the ...
Classic Scoble : Pandora bringing Internet Radio to Cell Phones (1)
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What was Scoble up to one year ago today? Check out today’s video for a trip down memory lane. And for more context, check out his blog, from one year ago today! Pandora is one of my favorite Internet services. It lets you build a customized radio station by starting with the names of your favorite bands and songs. It then brings you more music that’s similar to that. Here Pandora’s CTO, Tom Conrad, talks ...
Audio: How Nike’s Jordan team leans on Social Media (2)
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Jennifer Jones, who hosts one of the top ongoing social media marketing podcasts, interviews Emmanuel Brown of Nike Jordan. I saw Emmanuel at the last Marketing Forum in L.A. he told us that employees are encouraged to work out a couple of hours every day. Actually, it’s more than encouraged, it’s mandatory. He discusses their Breakfast Club interactive program, which helps customers track and improve their daily sports routine, and recently won a Groundswell award ...
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Nice explanation of how companies are using social media for expanding their brands.
Podcasts Taking Off (Again): eMarketer (1)
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Some interesting new figures have been released by eMarketer today that shows that podcasts are taking off in both traffic and revenue, and the outlook is even better again. The general view on podcasting is that it had been passed by as video became the hot vertical, particularly as earlier iPod’s gave way to new players that supported video as well as audio. These figures would suggest that there’s a lot of growth still to ...
The Rise of the Millennials (1)
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Many are considering the "Millennials" as being the next big market for communications services. In this podcast, Jay Peterson, VP of Global Market Development for user-centric services for Alcatel-Lucent, talks about who the Millennials are, why they should matter to service providers and how Alcatel-Lucent can help service providers address this particular market segment. Tags: Millennials, communications services, Jay Peterson, Global Market Development, user-centric services, Alcatel-Lucent, service providers
New PR Trend: Anti-Gaming TechMeme? (1)
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I’ve noticed that PR types are getting very astute with dealing with bloggers lately and getting their wares discussed on TechMeme. First they’ll call Mike Arrington of TechCrunch. Make sure he’s briefed first (Mike doesn’t like to talk about news that someone else broke first, so they’ll make sure he is always in the first group to get to share something with you all). Then they’ll brief “second-tier” bloggers like me, Om, Dan Farber, Read/Write ...
"The Next Big Thing" part 2 (1)
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In part two of the Dreamforce07 keynote, Robert Thurman and George Lucas open their conversation up to personal insights and philosophies around education, survival and knowledge. As part of an ecosystem, what roles will innovation and technology take on? As populations grow and diversity increases globally, will the momentum be matched in education? Is there profitability in compassion and altruism?Tags: Dreamforce07, Robert Thurman, George Lucas
IT@Intel: Return on Security Investment (1)
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Matt Rosenquist, Information Security Strategist at Intel, says that measuring success in the security industry is difficult, since there isn't a perfect tool for measuring what doesn't happen. In this podcas talks about how he approaches a nascent practice like security. Rosenquist blogs about security for IT@Intel, where in a recent post he posited some reasons why virtualization remains a open -- and important -- question for security professionals. In his post, Rosenquist argues that, ...
The Rise of the Designer/Developer Mashup Developer (1)
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While at SAP TechEd '07 Community Day, James Governor talks with Dan McWeeney about the new type of designer/developer role and methodology Dan has seen emerge recently. Rather than build on an open source or closed source only stack, Dan says, these developers pull in whatever code, projects, tools, and data they need to make a sort of development tool-chain mashup. Many of these coders, Dan notes, aren't traditional types of developers and are, instead, ...
Rio, in your face, about gaming (1)
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New video gaming show with Rio Pesino. Al Alcorn, co-founder of Atari, is on here. Damn, is this PodTech? Shhhhh, don’t tell anyone. We’re supposed to be lying over and dying. Or so I read on the Internet. First shoot in our nice new studio, too. It’s not quite finished, when it is, we’ll give you a tour and have you over for lunch, or something like that.
