Thoughts on Print ( UPDATED )

So, in an interview with Time Inc. CEO, Ann Moore, about the struggle to grow online revenue, Ann sums up the whole print conundrum:

Here is the strategy. First, build the best of product. Differentiate it. Second, build the big audience and by that I mean you need partnerships with everyone. Then third, worry about monetizing it, but you got to have a big audience to make money on the web because the CPMs are low. I have said this publicly: The magazine models is a beautiful model because you ...

posted: 2007-06-08 08:53:16 111 comments Read More

Up from the depths...

SeaDragon is hot. And before the mac fanboy's get all 'leopard already does that,' watch it to the end and see how they've stiched those images together with photosynth. That's pretty frightening, er, amazing.

posted: 2007-06-07 16:29:36 79 comments Read More

3D Silhouettes

After seeing this, I defnitely have to refine my skills on the lathe. That's too awesome!

posted: 2007-06-04 21:31:06 141 comments Read More

Lectric Lightning

The L.A. Times is increasingly putting some high quality video on its site. In this example, they are looking at a local shop that converts gas powered motorcycles to electric. This R1 is hot! At $15k for the conversion of a $9k bike, it seems pretty steep, but if the major manufacturers adopted this type of tech, it would probably put the whole package under $20k, which is still cheaper than most people drop on their harley, plus it's green. Well, the kawasaki version would be green.

posted: 2007-06-02 09:59:48 19 comments Read More

Google Gears

Google just opened an early release of Gears.
A couple of choice quotes:

The Internet is great, but you can't always be plugged into it.

Now the Web is becoming so good that there is less and less of a reason to build software that just runs on desktop computers.

Don't those sound really wierd? They're very PR'ish. I feel like what they meant to say was:

posted: 2007-05-31 04:38:58 2435 comments Read More

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