Two interesting “media delivery” related developments this week coming out of the sleepy little town of Palo Alto: During their latest earnings report, Netflix (NFLX) announced they now serve most of their content via streaming, vs. DVD mailers. More and more people are adopting the …
Category: Technology
Web 2.0 is dead(?!) Yawn.
Excellent post on TechCrunch today about the (alleged) end of the Web 2.0 era, and what the next phase of technological innovation might bring us. I’m hopeful that the industry has had its fill of “fun but silly” entertainment products (I’m throwing Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, …
RIP Blockbuster. We’ll bury you next to Tower Records.
Death of a media biz icon, as reported in today’s New York Times: Blockbuster Files for Bankruptcy – NYTimes.com Nobody should be surprised by this one. Today, Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy protection. They’ll remain in operation, but they plan to close most of their stores. …
brianlockhart.com – new look
Finally decided to clean this place up; I haven’t changed the structure of my website since about 1996, back when I mostly just used it as a place to host my resume. Web standards have advanced somewhat since then, time to try out the newer …