Ted Gould

Member since: Jul 30th, 2005

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The Ala Carting of Video on the Net - Will it lead to disaster ? (Blog Maverick)

May 5th 2008 2:56PM One thing that I think is left out in your comparison of 2 minutes vs. 8 minutes of advertising is how much of that is actually watched. Are people really tollerating more than 2 minutes with traditional TV, or are they changing the channel, muting, or flipping through it on their DVR. I think that advertisers would pay 4 times as much if they got 4 times the amount of attention, because that is truly what is of value to them, people's attention to their ads.

Also, I think that advertising today is a real shotgun approach. Yes, there are demographics, but in reality you're paying to send your ad out to an audience where a large percentage of it would never use your products (I'm a guy, I'll never need maxi pads, I promise). If you remove those "false viewers" through targeted ads, I'm not sure that there isn't more money available to pay for fewer more expensive ads that people care about.

I think the real thing here is to look at what advertisers care about. They want people to pay attention to their ads and they want people who would be actually interested in their product to see them. That's not an available option on TV today, and so those false impressions get figured into the price. If one can focus, I think that alone is a huge selling point to advertisers that would justify the additional cost.

I can't believe I'm becoming an Apple Fanboy (Blog Maverick)

Jan 22nd 2008 7:05PM I think the thing to remember is that the iPods aren't the only mobile WiFi platforms. Using them during and after the games is a great idea. But, make sure to support other mobile WiFi platforms like the Nokia N810, they're likely to catch on also. Same as always, increase your available market, stick to open standards.

P2P Part 3 (Blog Maverick)

Nov 23rd 2007 1:36PM Mark,

I think that what you need to realize is that P2P actually helps ISPs. No seriously. If you think about it from an ISP's perspective the cost to them is the connection to the Internet, not between hosts on their network. So let's say that have two users downloading the same bittorrent link for the latest Linux CD. If those two users both download half and then send the other half to each other, the ISP just save money by not downloading two copies of the file.

What ISPs need to do is embrace P2P to the point that they provide seeds for every file imaginable in their data centers. Then set up those so that they'll only talk to their customers. Their customers would percieve the connection to be very fast, but in reality the ISP would save boatloads of money not downloading the same files everytime over the Internet.

Now, you'll have to work out some sort of Common Carrier justification with the lawyers and the seeds, but I'm sure that's possible.

P2P solves the last-mile problems that you've been talking about so many times before.

--Ted

IntraNets vs InterNets (Blog Maverick)

Jul 27th 2007 4:36PM Isn't this saying that CDNs just need to get more local? If I buy bandwidth from Akamai, and they've got a "local" account with my cable provider, that data comes in on my last mile connection. That makes it fast without needing a faster connection to the Internet at large. It means that large sites like Google and Yahoo will be very fast (using CDNs) but my little blog will be slow as hell.

Also, the CDNs need to get smarter. Instead of deploying data they need to be application deployment platforms. If they all ran some sort of application server, and you distributed the actual application across the network, you'd effectively get the same result.

I wouldn't say the Internet is dead, I'd say that the monolithic approach to website development is. Your application needs to be as distributed as your users are.

PS - The bottom of your site has the copyright as 2006. You should probably update that.

Imaging Tip of the Day: Inkscape Open Source SVG editor (Download Squad)

Jul 29th 2005 7:54PM I can't find the link right now, but the start up issue on Mac OS X is based on the installation of X not creating the font cache. You can fix it by running this: sudo fc-cache