Archive for the 'Media' Category

Mozilla’s Millions

Monday, July 10th, 2006

Did you know that Mozilla makes 10 of millions of dollars from that little google search box atop every mozilla browser? In the bay area people keep telling me that Mozilla will make $76MM this year. I believe them, but I can’t find a solid source.

This register article is the closest I could get.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/14/google_mozilla_tax/

Search impressions matter, they are even worth paying for.

Digital Media Jobs Blog

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

Who know that there was a pretty decent blog for job postings in Digital Media? http://www.paidcontent.org/c/jobs/ Is a pretty rich site.

As a manager writing job descriptions can be tough. I want to make my descriptions stand our from the competition, yet its hard to keep up with the new jargon, and the new technology. Now I have a slew of job interview to work off of.

The strangest name for a company was AdHoc Mobile. I have no idea what that means, do you?
AdHoc Mobile

The world changing job on there is the Directory of Electronic Rights for Oxford University Press. Copyright laws have changed so much in the past decade. Making sense of it all and coming up with a money making licensing strategy is a tough job. Good work here would surely be copied by everyone else.
Oxford University Press

Best career move is probably found here. Reports to EVP Nickelodeon and MTVN Kids and Family, has responsibility for P&L as well.
Nick Digital

Apple’s new Manhattan Store

Sunday, May 21st, 2006

I was in Manhattan just off of 5th Avenue on the 23rd floor of a near bye building. Looking down I could see throngs of people in clear plastic raincoats, gather round a camera crew and some lights.

One or two people were in the middle of the obviously orchestrated crowd. The crowd would get signals to yell and scream. Screams would go up, then silence, then more screams, then more silence. I’m sure this all looked good on camera, but from my vantage point, it looked hideously fake.

According to news.com Apple’s 2005 fiscal year revenues from stores was $2.35 billion.

My point isn’t what you think it is. The manufactured image of Apple is probably a necessity and best practice. Now a days even the smallest mom and pop store can take a video camera, shoot some footage, make an ad/event and post it on a web site. Heck you could even do it with your cell phone.