4 posts and columns on Diddy

Mobile Apps Are Early Moneymakers for Taylor Swift, Linkin Park

in Commerce on December 7, 2010 at 12:40 am PT

It’s not common for consumers to purchase items in a physical retail store with a wave of their mobile phones–yet. But applications are helping to generate significant revenues online. Beverly Hills, Calif.-based Mobile Roadie has developed a platform that makes it easier for brands, musicians or others to build applications for the various mobile platforms, like Apple’s iOS and Android. Many of the applications provide access to news, streaming music, live or recorded videos and photos. They can also offer the ability to purchase music, videos, tickets and merchandise.

Will Wall Street Heart AOL Today (Even if It Partied Hearty at the NYSE Last Night)?

in News on December 10, 2009 at 12:48 am PT

This morning, after AOL execs ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange, the latest chapter for the long-troubled Internet icon begins as it tries to convince Wall Street that this time will be the charm. AOL officially spins off from Time Warner when the markets open for trading on the NYSE, and the company’s execs have promised that things will now change for the better. And while having Diddy at the AOL party last night was pretty cool, investors will soon be the only real judge of that.
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AOL: Puff Daddy Parties and Cockroaches on NPR

in News on December 9, 2009 at 5:11 am PT

BoomTown is winging across the country right now to New York City to attend, among other things, the analog version of the AOL spinoff from Time Warner. There is a party at the New York Stock Exchange with Diddy, the ringing of the bell and BoomTown videos of it all, of course. How investors will like AOL is the billions-of-dollars question. Until then, here is an interview I did with NPR on the whole shebang.
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The Secret of Chad Hurley and Steve Chen’s Famous “Two Kings” Video. Revealed!

in Media on October 9, 2009 at 4:00 am PT

Three years after the Google deal, YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley explains some of the cryptic language in the clip that defined the Web 2.0 era. Also, he’d like you to know his site is generating more than a billion views a day.
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