Ok, so maybe Finance mid-terms are not the end of the world, but it sure comes a close second. This is just to say I am studying for mid-terms this week, so you’ll see real light blogging around here.
Since I have only recently started blogging, I’m not so sure how many of you are out there, but consider this an invitation to submit guest blog (on technology and/or communication). It can be a cross post, or re-publication from your own blog, if you keep one.
Wish me luck…I intend to pass this class if its the last thing I do!!
As I mentioned in my blog before, I am spending the weekend at Yum Brands headquarters in Dallas as part of this year’s NSHMBA National Chapter Board Leaders training. I do volunteer work and I am part of the board of the Denver chapter, so I’m here to listen. But, I was also invited to present during a break out session on online marketing.
This is probably not great news for many YouTube users.
There is no YouTube Filter; It’s AudibleMagic
After months of intense and very public debate, closely tied to the Google acquisition, YouTube is reported to have licensed copyright filtering technology from AudibleMagic. The San Jose Mercury News cites two unnamed sources as saying that Google will soon unveil filtering technology for YouTube from the leading third party filtering provider, Audible Magic.
What does this mean? It means that the months of assurances that YouTube had copyright filtering technology in development and about to be implemented were either a ruse to buy time or a failed effort that has collapsed under pressure today.
JetBlue just jumped to the head of the class! How do you make lemonade from lemons? JetBlue is leveraging a bad customer service moment — a real bad one — and using it to leverage a viral campaign to spread the message of their new Customter’s Bill of Right.
They are using YouTube.com to distribute a video directly to consumer, and gaging by the comments, I think its working. I certainly have a very positive impression of them overall, dispite their big fiasko highlighted in the news all last week. I suspect as far as branding, JetBlue just might come out on top on this one. Check out the video.
I’m not a subscriber, and simply don’t find the cost of the equipment PLUS monthly subscription to be worth the content…certainly not for Howard Stern. Considering their high prices, I don’t think merging will benefit the consumer. No competition would mean higher prizes, and probably a reduced concern for quality and the consumer’s interests.
XM and Sirius, the two satellite radio companies that have spent
millions of dollars trying to woo pay-for-service customers, yesterday
announced plans to merge in hopes of stemming losses and offering an
even larger smorgasbord of music, talk and sports.
If approved by
federal regulators, the merger would give all satellite subscribers
access to Sirius’s Howard Stern, pro football games and NASCAR races,
as well as XM’s Oprah Winfrey, Major League Baseball and Bob Dylan.
Either way, I Siriusly…um, seriously doubt the FCC would allow it.
The FCC bars a single company from controlling the satellite radio
market, but FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin recently noted that such rules
can be changed. Martin said yesterday that the hurdle “would be high. .
. . The companies would need to demonstrate that consumers would
clearly be better off with both more choice and affordable prices.”
Mid Terms in Finance — Its the end of the world as I know it!
RSS feeds available for 