Paul Allen – Keynote Speaker, Tech Visionary, Soar.com & Ancestry Founder
Justin Bergener (a Junto Benjamin winner and former student of mine) has launched VIPbloggers.com and is already selling promotional spots. This site could become a very popular blogging directory, so that $10 for six months would be a great deal. Hey, it\’s worth it just to see your own picture popup as your scroll over the pixels. Plus, Justin is a really nice guy.
Please sign up and help him out.
Content Spending Reaches $2B, Q4 a Record $534MM
Downloadable music and video purchases helped propel U.S. consumer spending on content to $2 billion in 2005, a 15 percent increase from 2004, writes MediaPost, citing new research by the Online Publishers Association. In 4Q05, spending reached $534 million – a record, and 13 percent more than the $472 million in 3Q04.
So yesterday Verisign bought Kontiki, a managed peer-to-peer broadband video streaming company for $62 million. I believe it offers similar value (low cost video streaming) to MoveMedia (which is not based on peer-to-peer), a company founded by Drew Major of Novell fame. Kontiki was launched a few years ago by some Silicon Valley veterans. I think its location was probably key to this acquisition.
Score: Silicon Valley 1, Utah 0
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Amazon Launches Storage Service for Developers
So how are you planning to use this massive, low-cost storage service from Amazon?