You are a patient lot! Today is the day our humble pilot makes its way onto StreamingMedia.com – sometime this afternoon it should magically appear! At long last, no banana’s were harmed during the shooting of this pilot. We stand to deliver a quality series if we get enough of a response and SPONSORS – which is the thing, I can’t just produce a show without sponsorship since it costs money, takes time and resources away from other projects… I need a few good sponsors, like SNAPPLE.
I think this short weekly news program should be syndicated by other Tech outlets, like CNET or even G4 Network.
I suppose I will have to start writing some emails to some folks… In the meantime, please check out the little show and let me know what you think.
In this week’s pilot episode I start off speaking to audio only streaming media and online radio and as the video goes live today, we find that MySpace (a.k.a. News Corp) is making a play for iLike while the News Corp owned MySpace looks for a way to get back to their roots and encourage more emerging popular music to grow up on their farm.
The problem is, it is News Corp, the antithesis of pure organic community driven efforts online, and no matter how you package it, MySpace is over exposed and “played out” – they would do better to do a spin off and not claim ownership, using a dressed down platform with a new “organic” DNS that oozes trust and opportunity to hopeful pop stars and garage bands alike.
Maybe they can call it GarageBand.com and… oh, wait… that’s iLike… ok, so maybe they could just make GarageBand.com look a little more inviting – seriously, when you get there it looks like the NetworkSoutions temp or 404 page. There are many ways to monetize streaming media and big X corps are just being lazy, they want instant soup and are too frenetic to map out a winning 5 star plan. We can only wait and see, but online radio is an easy playground to experiment in.
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