Posts Tagged ‘ Clay Shirky ’

Figuring Out How To Make Money From YouTube Is Google’s Top Priority

Apr 30th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Citizen Media, General, Internet TV, Making Money with Podcasts, Streaming Video, Video

CNBC has published a great interview by Maria Bartiromo with Google CEO Dr. Eric Schmidt. In the interview, Schmidt says that figuring out how to make money off YouTube has become the company’s top priority:
Bartiromo: Let me ask you about YouTube and MySpace. YouTube has these phenomenal growth rates. What do you think is behind [...]



Clay Shirky On Why User-Generated Media Is Better Than Gilligan’s Island

Apr 28th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: General

Author Clay Shirky gave a speech at the Web 2.0 conference, April 23, 2008, that touched on his idea of the social surplus - the vast quantity of people’s time that is being freed up to do user-generated media, Wikipedia and other useful things as they move their attention from television to the Internet
Along the [...]