Amsterdam Pit Stop

ETC @ MIT: Jeff Bezos On Clouds, Web Services, Anything But Unbox - 0 Comments
Posted By Jimmy Guterman - Wed 27 Sep 2006 05:12 AM PST

On the day that his company is releasing a patch to its Unbox movie-download service, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is in Cambridge talking not about his company’s ambitious…

Streaming Video Strategies for Broadcasters - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 19 May 2003 06:05 AM PST

Moere coverage out of the TV Meets the Web Conference, held last week in Amsterdam...I missed this session ‘cause I got up late! Good one: “[Ciaran Quinn, Senior Vice President…

Disney to Launch an Umbrella Subscription Service for Broadband - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 16 May 2003 05:05 AM PST

The Walt Disney Internet Group is going to launch an umbrella subscription brand for its Disney-branded services, tentatively called “Disney Connection”. The umbrella subscription service will combines games, cartoon shorts,…

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You Say SMS, I Say MMS - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 15 May 2003 09:05 AM PST

More coverage by Europemedia from the TV Meets the Web conference, which I am also covering, focusing on SMS uses for TV broadcasters. “Mike Short, VP of Technology for O2…

On demand and Subscription Content: Some Basics - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 15 May 2003 05:06 AM PST

Some common sense points from Judi Gill, Global Product Manager, ADC, UK, speaking at the TV Meets the Web 2003 conference in Amsterdam earlier today. Subscription: used to charge for…

From the Edges: Kevin Werbach - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 15 May 2003 04:05 AM PST

If somebody opens up a keynote with: “This is a country who defeated Iraq in three weeks, but still can’t figure out SMS,” you know where this is going. North…

The New New Etherware - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 15 May 2003 01:06 AM PST

The IFRA’s Online Trend Day, held yesterday in Amsterdam, was a misnomer, at least this year. Except for the first hour of the conference, rest of it focused on wireless…

The “Where It’s At” Concept - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 15 May 2003 01:06 AM PST

This is perhaps the most exciting piece of revelation that came out of the IFRA conference. Sydsvenska Dagbladet, the fourth largest newspaper in Sweden (and the dominant newspaper in southern…

Le Monde’s Fallacy of the Free - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 15 May 2003 01:06 AM PST

: Don’t get fooled by Bruno Patino’s boyish charms and French manners. Behind it he hides one of the sharpest brains in online media. As the managing director of Le…

The Bulls and Bears of Mobile Content - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 15 May 2003 01:06 AM PST

Maybe we should, maybe we shouldn’t. Get into mobile content, that is. The pros and cons of it were given at the IFRA conference by Constantine Kamaras, VP of IAB…

Is Ending it Somewhere the New Beginning? - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 15 May 2003 01:06 AM PST

Stay with me on this thread, as I try to explain a subtle point: do you remember that American ad in which this podgy guy finished surfing the Internet? Maybe…

Amsterdam: Damn, Its Beautiful Out Here - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 14 May 2003 05:05 AM PST

And I am not a celebrity, so please don’t get me out of here...The IFRA Online Trends Conference is a brilliant one...perhaps the smartest set of speakers I have seen…

Next Pit Stop: Amsterdam - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 12 May 2003 03:05 PM PST

I am in Amsterdam for the rest of this week, covering two major European events: -- IFRA Online Trend Day on May 14th, with speakers such as Bruno Patino, Managing…