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In the Wings
Meeting of old and new and new and newer
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Deliver content and commerce
through a channel, preferrably one you control,
to customers. What's new about this?
Just the plumbing.
AOL started the ball rolling by merging with Time Warner, and
the moguls are coming.
Kodak, that old economy has-been,
was the first to wrestle equal representation from Windows XP for its digital camera software.
Old dogs, old friends, old tricks.
At the other end of the spectrum,
will power-to-the-people overcome our couch potato tendencies? Is the evisceration of Napster by the old guard the beginning or the end?
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Me and Ted Against the World: The Unauthorized Story of the Founding of CNN
by Reese Schonfeld
Cliff Street Books, 02/2001
ISBN: 0060197463
Marriage with Time-Warner gave AOL CNN, the Turner movie libraries,
and the rest of the network that Ted built.
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Ted Turner: It Ain't As Easy at Is Looks: A Biography
by Porter Bibb
Johnson Books, 09/1997
ISBN: 155566203X
Ted, still vice chairman at AOL-Time Warner, also partners with Bill
in philanthropic endeavours. A truce in the name of charity.
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The Barry Diller Story: The Life and Times of America's Greatest Entertainment Mogul
by George Mair
John Wiley & Sons, 05/1998
ISBN: 0471299480
Microsoft sold 70% of its Expedia online travel service to Diller's
USA Networks at 20% below market. How do you spell more customers?
Home Shopping Network. Ticketmaster. USA Network.
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Murdoch: The Making of a Media Empire
by William Shawcross
Touchstone Books, 07/1997
ISBN: 0684830159
The true media mogul controls cable and satellite
channels and content through the News
Corporation and the Fox Entertainment Network.
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The Keys to the Kingdom: How Michael Eisner Lost His Grip
by Kim Masters
Harperbusiness, 08/2000
ISBN: 0066621097
Back in the bubble days
Disney dabbled with the go.com portal and other digital initiatives
while wags suggested an acquisition by Yahoo.
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Megamedia Shakeout: The Inside Story of the Leaders and the Losers in the Exploding Communications Industry
by Kevin Maney
John Wiley & Sons, 04/1995
ISBN: 0471107190
Interesting oldie about Telco and Cable leaders when "convergence" and
200 channels of TV on demand were hot. Many are still around and
still interesting for controlling the
last mile access to, you guessed it, customers.
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Peer-to-Peer: Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies
by Andy Oram (Editor)
O'Reilly & Associates, 03/2001
ISBN: 059600110X
Thinking about shifting from client-server to peer-to-peer is more
than technology and location of computational horsepower. But is
P2P just the survivalist ethos in the coming computer utility grid?
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