Last summer I wrote a post called “The Wonder Wall” where I mused about the future of pay walls for content sites. Since then The New York Times and other sites have launched pay walls to great fan fare. How are they doing? It’s tough to tell given the scarcity of public numbers on pay [...]
Author Archives: Tony Uphoff
Running Media
This month marks my 10th anniversary as a runner. In March of 2001 while walking around a mall in New York with my family I wandered into a running store. On a whim I bought a pair of running shoes. At the time I played tennis regularly and was reasonably active. I had bad knees [...]
Has Charlie Taken the Sheen Off of Twitter?
Charlie Sheen has become a one man, always on, global media platform. From television to radio to newspapers and magazines to online, Sheen has become a constant presence in the media. Are we watching the mental breakdown of a talented actor before our eyes? Or are we witnessing a clever self promoter set himself up [...]
Rupe Was Robbed. Tales From The Front Lines of the iPad App Economy
If you were launching a daily newspaper today $30m would not be an outrageous sum of money to be spending. What would be outrageous is that you were launching a daily newsPAPER. Spending $30m to create an iPad newspaper application is ludicrous. With substantial fanfare, Rupert Murdoch recently launched The Daily an iPad and tablet [...]
Search to Social to Schmidt to Page
The shift from Eric Schmidt to Larry Page as CEO of Google is more than simply a change of leadership. It represents the broader shift in the center of gravity of the web from search to social. The surprising announcement in the change at the top of Google this week has created all sorts of [...]
Media, Marketing & Technology In 2010
2010 has been an incredible year. It went by in a blink. The year started out with feelings of fear and dread and is ending with feelings of excitement and optimism. 2010 will be remembered as the year the media industry stopped talking about media transformation and started embracing it. As I noted in my [...]
Facebook Versus Google. It’s About Scale
No question that in the search based web world the scale of Google has been breathtaking. One key question to ask though; are we still in a search based world? Feels awfully social to me these days. Facebook’s model is scaling and will continue to for a couple of reasons: Word of mouth. It’s always [...]
Are You Working In An Echo Chamber ?
Seth Godin’s recent post “Everyone and No One” captures the often times confusing reaction to new ideas. Innovation can create an odd polarization. Either Everyone Likes “it” or No One Does . It’s rare that you have a middle ground. Seth’s post made me wonder if this love it or hate it syndrome is most acute in [...]
Google’s Eric Schmidt On Goin Mobile, Apple & Personal Privacy
If traffic is the metric of popularity, then our Web 2.0 Summit interview with Google CEO Eric Schimdt suggests he is still the most popular guy in the Internet economy. Our discussion with Schmidt, led by John Battelle and Tim O’Reilly, received the most traffic during the livecast and continues to be the most viewed [...]
Zuckerberg Grows Up
Mark Zuckerberg is becoming a CEO before our very eyes. Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook has been a participant at our Web 2.0 Summit Conference for the last several years. This year however, in a discussion on stage with John Battelle and Tim O’Reilly, we saw Zuckerberg 2.0. A more mature, confident and articulate leader. Yes [...]
