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Imagine what the United States would be like if just a handful of companies owned the major broadcast TV stations and the major Cable companies and the Internet pipes that bring content to consumers: When the same company owns the content and the pipes that deliver that content, consumers lose. Comcast has already tried to [...]
SYSK is Motivated to Speak with Tony Robbins
by Charles W. Bryant | July 27, 2010
From time to time during the course of our jobs we get hooked up with some kind of noteworthy person that we have a chance to speak to. Sometimes it’s research, sometimes it’s because the job can facilitate it and we find it interesting, and sometimes it’s pure folly on our part. I’ll admit that interviewing Ian Spector, inventor of the Chuck Norris Internet meme, was all about the fact that we could get that guy on the horn.
This week we were met with a chance to speak with motivational speaker, author and sometimes movie and TV actor Tony Robbins.
Yesterday Al Franken gave a speech on net neutrality that shows just how close we are coming to losing net neutrality and destroying America’s first amendment right to freedom of speech. We will lose this freedom to a handful of corporations that want to destroy the free flow of information in the United States…
As Jonathan and I discussed in TechStuff Live Tuesday, Comcast has officially purchased a controlling interest in NBC Universal from General Electric. There are many things people have discussed as potential problems, and I’m sure they’ll come up during the FCC’s review of the deal. Comcast will have to reassure everyone that the company won’t promote NBC Universal networks at the expense of other channels.
Some days it seems like the real purpose of the Internet is to provide a platform for power struggles between massive companies. Last year the big story was Google and Microsoft playing tug-of-war with Yahoo. This morning, the story is about The Walt Disney Company announcing that it will start providing short form videos to YouTube.
According to AP News, Disney has agreed to provide content to YouTube under an ad-revenue sharing agreement. Currently the company allows full episodes of its shows to broadcast on ABC.com, Fancast and AOL. But this agreement with YouTube only covers shorter videos and excerpts, not full episodes.
Earlier in the week, there were rumors floating around that Disney was in talks with Hulu, a popular video site. Hulu currently serves video content from providers like NBC Universal and Fox. Had the Walt Disney Company elected to move videos to Hulu, it would have created a more robust service.
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