Facebook IPO defies Cringely (would you like that in BOLD?)

Proving once again that I am an idiot, Facebook went public this morning with neither a whimper nor a bang. Back in January I predicted that Facebook godhead Mark Zuckerberg would implode during the company road show and the social media giant would back into becoming public simply by buying another company that’s already traded. From recent stories it looks like Zuckerberg did implode (blowing-off investors, hiding in the bathroom, etc.) but it didn’t matter: the deal was sealed long before any of that happened.

What’s next for Facebook of course, is fulfilling its promise as a public company. I still don’t think the company will ever […]

By |May 18th, 2012|2012, Breaking News, Business, Companies, Predictions, Technology|59 Comments
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What’s a Movie Cloud? That’s up to you

The Internet industry has spent almost 20 years now beating the crap out of disintermediation, which as we all know is the elimination of middle men from commerce, bringing producers and consumers in direct contact. As the market has grown and widened and tools have improved and got cheaper the nature of disintermediation has changed, too, to the point that today it is almost what we claimed it was back in 1995. To prove that I give you this video from Movie Cloud, which went up today on Indiegogo.

Movie Cloud is supposed to be the disintermediation of movies, bringing all factions together so that 50,000 feature films per year may bloom… maybe.

Whether Movie Cloud succeeds or fails I think it shows us […]

By |May 9th, 2012|2012, Breaking News, Internet, Media|46 Comments
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Beginning of the end for bufferbloat

As the go-to source for all news relating to bufferbloat, I’m glad to announce that the first of several possible solutions to the problem will shortly be available, just in time to save the Internet from self-destruction.

What, you didn’t know the Internet was self-destructing? Well it is.

Bufferbloat, my #1 prediction from 2011, is an artifact of cheap memory and bad planning in the Internet Age. In order to keep our porn streaming without interruption we add large memory buffers in applications, network cards or chipsets, routers, more routers, and even more routers until the basic flow control techniques of the TCP protocol are completely overwhelmed. Data glugs through the system like a gas can with […]

By |May 8th, 2012|2012, Breaking News, Business, Internet, Technology|41 Comments
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Thanks for your support of Steve Jobs — The Lost Interview

More theaters are being added every day but the fact of Hollywood life is that this film is viewed in the market as having already come and gone in 2011. You and I may feel differently, so please share that view with your local theater.

The larger commercial opportunity, I’m told, is Video-on-Demand, which comes in July, with DVD shortly after, then eventual appearance on all the Internet streaming movie sites. That’s for the USA, though much the same is happening right now in about 20 foreign markets.

 

By |May 3rd, 2012|2012, Breaking News|63 Comments
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Steve Jobs — The Lost Interview returning to theaters

As promised, Steve Jobs — The Lost Interview is returning to theaters from Magnolia Pictures with a new print restored literally with rocket science courtesy of MotionDSP. The first U.S. and Canadian play dates are below. If people go to the film there will be more theaters added. Video on demand and a DVD will be next, followed eventually by general online distribution.

International distribution is coming, too.  The film is screening this week in Cannes with theaters and play dates to be named shortly.

Sorry this took so long to arrange.

 

Opening

5/4/2012
Montreal, QC: Cinema Du Parc

5/11/2012
Little Rock, AR: Market Street Cinema
Cupertino, CA: Bluelight Cinemas
Sacramento, CA: Crest Theatre
Asbury Park, NJ: The ShowRoom
Corvallis, OR: Darkside […]

By |April 30th, 2012|2012, Breaking News|53 Comments
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