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Last week I wrote a short missive about a problem I was having with a very vocal minority of my daily MediaBytes video viewers regarding a pre-roll ad. Apparently, making money with online video is a very hot topic, as evidenced by the several thousand email responses to the article. (You can read last week’s Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. The State Department asked Twitter to delay a “critical network upgrade” scheduled for yesterday in order for civilian reporters in Tehran to use the micro-blog as a means for communication. Meanwhile, thousands of Twitter users have changed their time zone stamp Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Universal Music Group is making its entire catalog available for free with subscription to the new UK Virgin Media website. While the world’s biggest recorded music company has been offering songs for free wrapped with DRM on other services like eMusic, Continue Reading →

As most of you know, I am the host of a daily, two-minute show called, MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer. It is not a television show, although it can be seen on TV. It is not a radio show, although it is broadcast on dozens of news/talk radio stations. It is not a video blog, although Continue Reading →

“When the plane gets to 10,000 ft, the door will open. We want you to hook your thumbs into your harness and get into a catcher’s squat. Put your toes over the edge of the doorway and be ready to jump.” You know, this is not a sentence that I’m used to hearing. But this Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. After six months of medical leave, Steve Jobs is set to return to Apple. While many predicted that the company would be lost without Jobs, its stock is back over $140 again, where it was in late August before the financial Continue Reading →

The Inter-web is in over-tweet! The citizens of Facebookistan are being phished and spammed. 20-somethings are ditching Facebook and creating LinkedIn profiles so they can join the “real world.” And no one ever speaks of MySpace in polite company. Tweet, tweet, tweet or, should I say, yammer, yammer yammer? There are a few thousand companies Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Digital Sky Technologies, a Russian firm, has invested $200 million in Facebook in return for 1.96% of the company. They’ve also agreed to buy about $100 million in common stock from Facebook employees. Some people are saying that this investment values Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. It’s getting tough to be Twitter. They’re short on employees, short on revenue and, some say, short on service. The good news is that both Evan Williams and Biz Stone, Twitter’s co-founders know that they’re in over their head and they Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that he plans to take his case with the Entertainment Software Alliance over the sale of violent video games to minors to the Supreme Court. Governer Schwarzenegger introduced and passed the bill in 2005, which was Continue Reading →