On Digital Media

In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy), Craig Calder (twitter: @ccalder), Chia-Lin Simmons (twitter: @zeropts) and Steve Hatch (twitter:@shatch) opine about: Events: Craig and John will be attending Web 2.0 Expo New York, November 16 - 19 An Historic Week: Happy 40th Birthday, Internets! Happy Birthday, Banner Ad! Craig worked on the campaign to create that first banner. Jeff Jarvis talks about Howard Stern 3.0: The Future of Entertainment Sirius XM Year-Over-Year Net Susbcribers haven’t increased in a year AT&T’s Network Problems Could be Self-Induced by Poor Architecture Chia-Lin has groped the Droid and is in love with this new gadget. Google has released Android 2.0 along with Droid, brings free Google Maps turn-by-turn navigation. A game changer, to be sure. Even with an exclusive on the Palm Pre, Sprint still lost subscribers last quarter We love Julius Genachowski, the new head of the FTC. The FTC wants to buy back TV spectrum to make it available for mobile devices. Broa

In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy), Craig Calder (twitter: @ccalder), Chia-Lin Simmons (twitter: @zeropts), Steve Hatch (twitter:@shatch) and our guest, Rob Goldman, (twitter: @robjective) CEO of threadsy discuss: Rob will be attending the CrunchUp event next week in the valley Craig will attend the Glasshouse event in NYC on Monday, 11/16 John and Craig will attend Web 2.0 Expo NY Google Wave vs. Threadsy Mozilla releases plans, screenshots for its Raindrop universal inbox. Chia-Lin thinks it may have the potential of being vaporware. We’re waiting for mobile clients (especially on the iPhone) to support Twitter Lists. Threadsy is working on Twitter Lists support. Parse.ly is in private beta. Read Write Web calls it “The Pro Bloggers Feed Reader.” Lazyweb is a similar client. It’s going to be a tough job for some of these services to get people to switch from Google Reader. Chia-Lin is holding back on her Droid purchase. It’s only a CMDA phone that she can’t use internationally pl

In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy), Craig Calder (twitter: @ccalder), Chia-Lin Simmons (twitter: @zeropts) and Steve Hatch (twitter:@shatch) make their predictions for 2010. John’s Predictions Google will give Apple the most competition of any other company in mobile Apple will begin to take web services seriously, embrace “content in the cloud” Early adopters will burn out on social media eBook readers will become mainstream, $9.99 will remain the standard price point. Big publishers scream in agony. Magazine publishers need it to survive. Facebook’s privacy settings will spur lawsuits Live and real-time will be commonplace among early adopters Steve’s Predictions: SEO is Dead! Long-live real-time search The fax machine will see a resurgence via twitter iPhone and Android adoption will start driving down data plan costs to make mobile data almost free Apple’s Tablet will be a no-show or way too expensive to be relevant Microsoft will finally lose ubiquity with IE due to the

In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy), Craig Calder (twitter: @ccalder) and Steve Hatch (twitter:@shatch) talk about: Netflix available on Wii in a few months Apple’s Tablet is an “IPhone on steroids” eBook Readers everywhere Facebookers back Conan O’brien Craig has issues with Sirius XM Google May Insert Real-Time Ads Onto Billboards in Street View Send Your Facebook Updates to Grandma - as a Printed Newsletter Our music is Democracy from Alexander Blu. Send us email to comments AT odmcast DOT com or call our comment line and leave a message: 775-860-2263. Be sure to stop by http://www.odmcast.com to complete our listener survey - we’d really appreciate it. For partner or sponsor information, contact jaf AT newrules DOT com.

On Digital Media 101: Googlicious In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy) and Craig Calder (twitter: @ccalder) discuss: The Google I/O Conference Google TV Google's Chrome Web Store Google Buzz API The Sports Illustrated HTML5 Magazine Yahoo's Acquisition of Associated Content The Zynga-Facebook Deal The Impending Exodus of AT&T Customers...as soon as Verizon gets the iPhone The New York Times' Ambramson goes on a six-month "Digital Immersion" ThisWeekIn is the new Weblogs, Inc. John wants to host This Week In Gadgets in New York City! Tell @jason! Our music is Democracy from Alexander Blu. Send us email to comments AT odmcast DOT com or call our comment line and leave a message: 775-860-2263. Be sure to stop by http://www.odmcast.com to leave a comment and subscribe. For partner or sponsor information, contact jaf AT newrules DOT com.

In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy), Craig Calder (twitter: @ccalder), Steve Hatch (twitter: @shatch) and Chia-Lin Simmons (twitter:@zeropts) discuss MagicalTablet.com! The Google Buzz Fiasco including its launch, privacy implications and its influence going forward The Apple iPad’s ability to “save” newspapers and magazines iPad vs. Kindle for newspapers and magazines The “new” business models for print media Our music is Democracy from Alexander Blu. Send us email to comments AT odmcast DOT com or call our comment line and leave a message: 775-860-2263. Be sure to stop by http://www.odmcast.com to complete our listener survey - we’d really appreciate it. For partner or sponsor information, contact jaf AT newrules DOT com.

In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy), Craig Calder (twitter: @ccalder) and Ken Gellman (twitter:@kengellman) discuss the Apple iPad and it’s implications for all types of consumers of digital media. Our music is Democracy from Alexander Blu. Send us email to comments AT odmcast DOT com or call our comment line and leave a message: 775-860-2263. Be sure to stop by http://www.odmcast.com to complete our listener survey - we’d really appreciate it. For partner or sponsor information, contact jaf AT newrules DOT com.

In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy), Craig Calder (twitter: @ccalder) and Steve Hatch (twitter:@shatch) discuss: iPad ManiaiAdsNetflix for iPadWSJ iPad Subscription pricingZinioWired Magazine / Flash fiascoTwitter's acquisition of AteBits and Tweetie for iPhone; Twitter's own URL Shortener, Chirp Conference Our music is Democracy from Alexander Blu. Send us email to comments AT odmcast DOT com or call our comment line and leave a message: 775-860-2263. Be sure to stop by http://www.odmcast.com to leave a comment or subscribe. For partner or sponsor information, contact jaf AT newrules DOT com.