David Card
David Card
David Edward Cardis a Canadian labour economist and Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley...
consumer critical driving internet
The consumer Internet is what's driving a lot of critical technologies right now.
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For the Internet to be a true mass medium, it will have to achieve higher penetration among all consumer segments.
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AOL isn't letting anybody into their network, if they don't have to. There's no incentive for AOL to cooperate with anyone.
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The thing you can do online that you can't do in the physical world is interactivity and two-way conversation.
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It's an intriguing vision, but a lot depends on Microsoft's execution and ability to draw market share from some strong competitors.
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On one hand they're suspicious of them because of how big their market share is and the fact that they have that uniform pricing. On the other hand, they legitimized the digital music business.
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The future of media is that audiences -- and advertisers -- want their content services from the same brand across multiple platforms.
home jump networks number pages people personal social traffic
They've just come out of nowhere, and they're huge. They've done a number of things that were really smart. One was blogging. People have been doing personal home pages for as long as the Internet's been around, but they were one of the first social networks to jump on that. They've also jumped on music, and there's a lot of traffic surrounding that.
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If they put it on the front page with a link and a picture, people will get what is going on. They will just be surprised that Amazon is doing it.
apple changed product rapidly strategy
Apple changed its product strategy more rapidly than we thought it would.
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It's not a proven business model yet. There will be some advertisers who won't mind sponsoring lots of crappy content cause they want to get in front the kids who go to these sites. But there are lots of advertisers who don't want anything do with it...One thing I can guarantee you is there's not enough advertising dollars to go around.
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They've proven that they're very good at holding on to an audience, even though they outsource content creation,
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There's a definite perception that people would be unwilling to invest or are nervous about that. Although, frankly, if people invest in tobacco companies, then I don't know. Not my place to be a moral judge.
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When VCR's reached about 15 percent penetration in the United States, that's when Blockbuster was created. You had this whole new business explode.