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Get ready for a world where everything is on demand and à la carte. Traditional broadcasting is going to change whether it wants to or not. Marketing will be forced to change in profound ways. As a result, content-making will also go through a major metamorphosis. Marketing and traditional broadcasting have long had an interesting relationship that has had a
So now that I’ve cut the cord with Dish Network, I’ve started digging deeper into the instant streaming material available on Netflix. It seems that most of the programs I would have watched on Discovery, TLC or History – the three channels I watched 99% of the time -- are available as season DVD sets streaming via Netflix. There are
The once-king of movie rentals is now losing on market share big. Their online rental system is non-existent, thanks to a patent battle win by Netflix in 2006. So how can Blockbuster cure part of their problems? Maybe sell to Google? Back in 1985, David Cook put together the first Blockbuster store in Dallas, Texas. Scott Beck, John Melk and
Some house cleaning and organizing tonight. I lay out some new initiatives that will make it easier to find information about the show. Plus we are announcing the opening of our Cafe Press store thanks to GNC Ohana Sam Garcia. You will find some new links in the show notes tonight to check out as well. Consider becoming a GNC
Hopefully by the time you read this the Blubrry channel will be turned on in the Roku, but for those of you using Boxee make sure you try the TechPodcast App. They are all our first generation apps and we have a lot more planned through the coming year. We also have a big Giveaway with a company called RingCentral.
Inspiration comes from strange places folks. Announcing some updates to the salary replacement plan, which in part will be pretty exciting if I can get my accountant and lawyer to sign off on. Additionally I am introducing the Geek News Central Insider to all contributors of the show, more on that in the show. Plus some promotional plans to help
Probably advisable not to be in the Ustream chat with a pizza handle, I will ban you. He folks hopefully this show encoded ok the last one had some issues. I replaced it but not before about 25,000 of you had downloaded it. Lots of tech tonight and some stimulating questions for you to respond to. Support by these fine