David Card
David Card
David Edward Cardis a Canadian labour economist and Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley...
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The Journal is spreading rumors that Microsoft's music subscription service -- itself a rumor -- is on hold due to heavy royalty demands from labels.
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Sports content is a very successful part of the Web, ... and ESPN is right up there.
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Microsoft is looking to put more eyeballs in front of its search engine.
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It's kind of subtle, because they're making money off of advertising that they show both to subscribers and non-subscribers. They're trying to apply a lot of different tactics to this overall strategy of migrating the business from primarily fee-based to primarily advertising-based.
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They've proven that they're very good at holding on to an audience, even though they outsource content creation,
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They've just come out of nowhere, and they're huge. They've done a number of things that were really smart. One was blogging. People have been doing personal home pages for as long as the Internet's been around, but they were one of the first social networks to jump on that. They've also jumped on music, and there's a lot of traffic surrounding that.
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It's not about competition yet, it's about growing the market.
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I'm excited about the potential of the technology, but right now video is pretty brutal.
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It's not a proven business model yet. There will be some advertisers who won't mind sponsoring lots of crappy content cause they want to get in front the kids who go to these sites. But there are lots of advertisers who don't want anything do with it...One thing I can guarantee you is there's not enough advertising dollars to go around.
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The issue for an Internet-only company to service their audience and their marketing partners is better if they have traditional media offerings, too. I'm a believer in multimedia media companies.
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The consumer Internet is what's driving a lot of critical technologies right now.
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The Office Live initiative is intriguing in that it provides services for smaller businesses that are paid for by advertising rather than software sales.
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It's challenging teaching that audience to use those kinds of tools. It may not be a natural thing, but it could work if they do a good job data mining and finding people with like passions.
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At some point, you want to prevent the other technology from being adopted.