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Viacom, 'Decimated By Piracy,' But Its CEO Got The Biggest Raise Of Any Exec... Posted about 21 hours ago by joelpomales to joelpomales's posterous Viacom, 'Decimated By Piracy,' But Its CEO Got The Biggest Raise Of Any Exec Anywhere
via Techdirt by Mike Masnick on 11/7/11
We keep hearing about how "piracy" and the internet are somehow "destroying" the old legacy content players, but the evidence for that seems lacking.... especially in Hollywood. We already saw how Warner Bros. was cheering on its record-setting quarter, while complaining about how it just can't compete with piracy. And now we've got reader Don, passing along the news that Viacom chief Philippe P. Dauman topped the charts for the exec with the biggest pay raise in 2010 . His total pay was $84.5 million last year -- a 148.6% raise on his previous year's take home. Yes, that's a $50 million raise. Admittedly, much of that comes from stock options, but still. Not bad for a company being "decimated" by kids in their basements on the internet, huh? Maybe Viacom was just so sure that it was going to win its $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube that it decided to pre-reward Dauman.
Permalink | Comments | Email This Story Google+ Launches Pages, Opens Floodgates For Brands (And Everything Else) Posted about 20 hours ago by joelpomales to joelpomales's posterous Google+ Launches Pages, Opens Floodgates For Brands (And Everything Else)
via TechCrunch by Jason Kincaid on 11/7/11
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Google+ is taking another major step needed to become a full-fledged Facebook rival: it's launching Google+ Pages, which allow brands, products, companies, businesses, places, groups, and everyone else to establish a presence on the service. The product is a lot like Facebook Pages, but there's one major difference: Google is baking some elements of Google+ pages deep into its bread-and-butter search product.
It's been a rocky road getting here. As you may recall, when Google+ first launched, Google asked brands and publishers not to create pages for their own sites, promising that there would be an official solution coming shortly. Not everyone heeded Google's request (and, in hindsight, TechCrunch shouldn't have either), but rather than apply its own rules, Google started making exceptions. A lot of people got upset, a new TechCrunch employee was spawned (and unceremoniously banned), and Google SVP Vic Gundotra later went on to say that the ordeal "was probably a mistake ".
Anyway. Now Google+ Pages are officially launching, and it's good news all around.
I haven't gotten to use the new Pages feature yet, but Bradley Horowitz, VP of Product and one of heads of the Google+ project, walked me through a set of slides outlining how they're created, and how users will engage with them.
The first thing Horowitz did was to rattle off some stats: the site launched a little over 100 days ago, now has 40 million users and 3.4 billion photos uploaded, and has launched over one hundred new features. Not a bad start.
If you've established a personal Google+ profile before, then the features afforded through a Page will be familiar. You can place people into Circles, which lets you share content with specific sets of users. You can launch video hangouts, which lets you have face-to-face conversations with your followers. And the Pages work through the site's mobile app.
But Google has made some key tweaks. The first is that a Page cannot add someone to a circle until that user has already added the page to one of their circles. In other words, a Page can't start sending you messages until you've elected to add them to one of your circles. Another key change: the content on a page defaults to public (as opposed to 'My Circles' for personal profiles) and Pages can't share with extended circles.
And then there's the feature that leads to my biggest gripe: Pages have both a +1 button and an 'Add to Circles' button. The latter is what lets the page send you updates. And the +1 button? It does essentially nothing, at least as far as users are concerned.
Yes, your +1 recommendation might show up in a friend's search query at some point, but this not exactly a strong incentive. So what's the point? Horowitz acknowledges that the +1 button is still a bit opaque at this point, but says "we're not done with the full realization with what happens" when users click on it, and that we can expect some big things coming soon. I still think it's going to confuse the heck out of users, though.
And, finally, there's the integration with search, which was foreshadowed several weeks ago.
For many years, Google Search allowed users to create advanced queries using the '+' operator, which allows you to find results that include an exact term. Then, much to the chagrin to many advanced users, Google announced that it was depricating the feature.
Today, we find out why: when a user goes to Google and types in '+TechCrunch', they're asked if they'd like to add TechCrunch to one of their Google+ circles. If they say yes, then this behavior becomes automatic: I could type in +Harry Potter + Android and immediately start following the Pages for both of those pages, assuming they existed. Google is describing this feature as Direct Connect to the brands it's working with.
Of course, this behavior isn't exactly natural. But Horowitz points out that brands could start advertising it - it's not hard to imagine a trailed with +MovieTitle on it. Huawei butters up Microsoft to avoid Android patent war Posted about 1 hour ago by joelpomales to joelpomales's posterous Huawei butters up Microsoft to avoid Android patent war
via The Register on 11/8/11 Shock new approach for UK mobe launch Chinese infrastructure giant Huawei is bucking the trend by talking to Microsoft about patent licensing before launching potentially infringing Android devices..
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From: Subscriptions from Posterous Spaces
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 13:51:41 To:
Subject: Your Daily Posterous Spaces Update
Your Daily Posterous Spaces Update November 8th, 2011
Viacom, 'Decimated By Piracy,' But Its CEO Got The Biggest Raise Of Any Exec... Posted about 21 hours ago by joelpomales to joelpomales's posterous Viacom, 'Decimated By Piracy,' But Its CEO Got The Biggest Raise Of Any Exec Anywhere
via Techdirt by Mike Masnick on 11/7/11
We keep hearing about how "piracy" and the internet are somehow "destroying" the old legacy content players, but the evidence for that seems lacking.... especially in Hollywood. We already saw how Warner Bros. was cheering on its record-setting quarter, while complaining about how it just can't compete with piracy. And now we've got reader Don, passing along the news that Viacom chief Philippe P. Dauman topped the charts for the exec with the biggest pay raise in 2010 . His total pay was $84.5 million last year -- a 148.6% raise on his previous year's take home. Yes, that's a $50 million raise. Admittedly, much of that comes from stock options, but still. Not bad for a company being "decimated" by kids in their basements on the internet, huh? Maybe Viacom was just so sure that it was going to win its $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube that it decided to pre-reward Dauman.
Permalink | Comments | Email This Story Google+ Launches Pages, Opens Floodgates For Brands (And Everything Else) Posted about 20 hours ago by joelpomales to joelpomales's posterous Google+ Launches Pages, Opens Floodgates For Brands (And Everything Else)
via TechCrunch by Jason Kincaid on 11/7/11
Presentation2-2
Google+ is taking another major step needed to become a full-fledged Facebook rival: it's launching Google+ Pages, which allow brands, products, companies, businesses, places, groups, and everyone else to establish a presence on the service. The product is a lot like Facebook Pages, but there's one major difference: Google is baking some elements of Google+ pages deep into its bread-and-butter search product.
It's been a rocky road getting here. As you may recall, when Google+ first launched, Google asked brands and publishers not to create pages for their own sites, promising that there would be an official solution coming shortly. Not everyone heeded Google's request (and, in hindsight, TechCrunch shouldn't have either), but rather than apply its own rules, Google started making exceptions. A lot of people got upset, a new TechCrunch employee was spawned (and unceremoniously banned), and Google SVP Vic Gundotra later went on to say that the ordeal "was probably a mistake ".
Anyway. Now Google+ Pages are officially launching, and it's good news all around.
I haven't gotten to use the new Pages feature yet, but Bradley Horowitz, VP of Product and one of heads of the Google+ project, walked me through a set of slides outlining how they're created, and how users will engage with them.
The first thing Horowitz did was to rattle off some stats: the site launched a little over 100 days ago, now has 40 million users and 3.4 billion photos uploaded, and has launched over one hundred new features. Not a bad start.
If you've established a personal Google+ profile before, then the features afforded through a Page will be familiar. You can place people into Circles, which lets you share content with specific sets of users. You can launch video hangouts, which lets you have face-to-face conversations with your followers. And the Pages work through the site's mobile app.
But Google has made some key tweaks. The first is that a Page cannot add someone to a circle until that user has already added the page to one of their circles. In other words, a Page can't start sending you messages until you've elected to add them to one of your circles. Another key change: the content on a page defaults to public (as opposed to 'My Circles' for personal profiles) and Pages can't share with extended circles.
And then there's the feature that leads to my biggest gripe: Pages have both a +1 button and an 'Add to Circles' button. The latter is what lets the page send you updates. And the +1 button? It does essentially nothing, at least as far as users are concerned.
Yes, your +1 recommendation might show up in a friend's search query at some point, but this not exactly a strong incentive. So what's the point? Horowitz acknowledges that the +1 button is still a bit opaque at this point, but says "we're not done with the full realization with what happens" when users click on it, and that we can expect some big things coming soon. I still think it's going to confuse the heck out of users, though.
And, finally, there's the integration with search, which was foreshadowed several weeks ago.
For many years, Google Search allowed users to create advanced queries using the '+' operator, which allows you to find results that include an exact term. Then, much to the chagrin to many advanced users, Google announced that it was depricating the feature.
Today, we find out why: when a user goes to Google and types in '+TechCrunch', they're asked if they'd like to add TechCrunch to one of their Google+ circles. If they say yes, then this behavior becomes automatic: I could type in +Harry Potter + Android and immediately start following the Pages for both of those pages, assuming they existed. Google is describing this feature as Direct Connect to the brands it's working with.
Of course, this behavior isn't exactly natural. But Horowitz points out that brands could start advertising it - it's not hard to imagine a trailed with +MovieTitle on it. Huawei butters up Microsoft to avoid Android patent war Posted about 1 hour ago by joelpomales to joelpomales's posterous Huawei butters up Microsoft to avoid Android patent war
via The Register on 11/8/11 Shock new approach for UK mobe launch Chinese infrastructure giant Huawei is bucking the trend by talking to Microsoft about patent licensing before launching potentially infringing Android devices..
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