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TED - day one - thoughts -
Three things. 1). Change is good. 2). Change is inevitable. 3). Change is essential.
This is a room full of people who see issues as opportunities. The fact that TED is expanding, that it will now be in Long Beach, Africa, London, and every two years Global (next in asia) is a powerfully good thing. Putting smart people in a room that want to make change is important, maybe even essential.
The balance between science and art is really interesting. Craig Vetner says he's trying to engineer a replacement for fossile fuels. That would be great.
Last night at the party I got a chance to hang out and chat with James Hong (Hot or not) Loic Le Meur (Seesmic) Andrew Anker (Six Apart) and Deanna Brown (Scripps). The mix of technologists, storytellers, and scientists makes for fabulous conversations. More from Day two i a bit....
Blogging TED - Monterey (day 1)
Day 1, (part 1)
The day begins with TED University - which is truly a collaborate community effort. Each year various TEDsters (that's folks who've been to TED a few times or a lot) volunteer to teach these very short informational sessions. They vary - from obscure to trivial to deep. But it's a little like an appetizer before the main meal - they whet your appetite and get you started thinking about the world in new ways.
So, why is Magnify.net represented at TED? The answer is surprisingly simple. Magnify.net is built to power the evolution of TV from push technology owned by a handful of media companies to the fast growing number of niches and micro-niches that currently exist as web sites. Magnify.net is building a web video publishing platform that is ideally suited for TED's idea sharing ecosystem.
So - here we are.
Tons of folks that we like, respect, and follow are here. Hanging out with Scott Heiferman, Caterina Fake, Andrew Blau, David Rose, Seth Godin, and a ton more folks... i'll work on blogging about the TED talks over the next...
Affiliate Summit Day 2
After last night's dinner at Olive's, i've had a ton of thoughts about Affiliate Marketing, the evolution of web economics, and the future of web stars. Thank you Internet Geek Girl for once again throwing a great bash! And of course, thank you Shawn and Missy for being such amazing hosts. So much data in just two days - yikes!
Let's start with the Stars. Gary Vaynerchuk's Wine Library TV.com (http://tv.winelibrary.com) is the guy you want to check out if you want to see what the future of web talent looks like. Gary is a hard core wine nut. He lives, breaths, and loves wine.
But he loves wine not just because of how it tastes, but because of how it has helped him bring together all his skills. Here's the story - Gary is a first generation immigrant. He and his Russian family come to the US, and he is a kid that collects baseball cards and works in his...
Blogging Affiliate Summit - Day 1
It's Day 1 in vegas - at Shawn and Missy's Affiliate Summit Conference. I've attended before, but this time we're both attending, and speaking, and exhibiting. So that means we've got a ton of stuff to transport - set up - and manage - it also means we're right in the middle of the action.
Few things right off the bat. The turn out is HUGE. 3,000 attendees. Wow. The next thing is that there are a ton of Magnify.net customers here - folks who use the platform, or ad networks we work with, or folks that might be new channel builders. If you don't know much about affiliate marketing - it's really an amazing unknown world. It's advertisers, and web sites who work together in more of pay for performance model than conventional advertising.
The new booth elements look great (thanks Paul!) and we've got he entire set up down to an art. To make this show special, Ari has...
Userplane + AOL = Cool!
Our pals at Userplane have a really great collection of cool widgets. We're excited to announce we've lauched Userplane Webchat2 to all of our 31,000 channel publishers. This means that if you've got a Magnify.net channel, now you can add full-featured text/voice/video and multi-user chatting to your channel. This social network feature makes channels more interactive and fun for members. And, working with Userplane, we've added Truveo search to bring AOL video to Magnify.net's Automatic Video Discovery solution. This collection of powerful and engaging user-generated video content ads a slew of new video options to channel creators. Welcome Userplane!
See You at Affiliate Summit?
It's that time AGAIN! We're heading to Shawn and Missy's awesome party in Vegas - Affiliate Summit West.
it's taking place at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino February 24-26, 2008.
Ari and Steve will be in attendance, and we've even gone and sprung for a nifty new booth! Pictures as soon as we have 'em. See us in booth #415 - and we'll have a huge new special offer for conference attendees. Then, Steve will be on panel on Monday talking about video innovation in Affilaite Marketing.
Monday, February 2
Video Innovation in Affiliate Marketing...
[More]New Stats Are Out... and UP!
Magnify.net Older, Bigger
Dan Frommer | February 13, 2008 4:44 PM
In the last month (31 days ending yesterday), the company got 2.3 million uniques and served 13 million pageviews, up from 370,000 uniques and 1.1 million pageviews during the same period last year. The average visitors spends more than 6 minutes n the site, triple the amount they were spending a year ago. (Per Google analytics.)
And in January, when the company launched its new video platform at the DEMO show, visitors created 2,200 new "channels" and submitted 1.1 million new pieces of content. At the end of last month, users had created 30,000 "channels," up from 23 million last December and 14 million last September.</blockquote>
Magnify hits three million visits per month
By Cristina Ledesma · Posted on February 14, 2008
Happy Birthday To Us!
Hey! Happy Birthday To Us!
We're 30,000 Sites Old (big)...
It's almost Valentines day -- time for a little mid-winter love letter to all our channel admins (we do love you you know!). And we've just pased our 1st Birthday. Wow. It seems like just yesturday we were at DEMO in Palm Springs making our debut. Well, here goes year two.
By now you've probably seen the new admin page layout area, and hopefully you've played with the new Design Gallery, which should make updating your pages easier and more fun. Both of these new graphical drag-and-drop tools are...
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Podcast: A Conversation with Magnify’s Steve Rosenbaum
February 7, 2008 — 03:26 PM PST — by Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins
That’s a scenario I am running into more and more often with even the most savvy CEOs and social media businessmen. Steve Rosenbaum sees it too, which is why he founded Magnify.net - a completely user friendly system designed to bring your site up to speed with a video profit center that costs you nothing.
It’s an interesting service, one that as we talked, we found we could easily analogize to the rise of link blogging. With the glut of user generated content on the net (as well as a good deal of professional grade content), the need arises for more program directors and less content producers.
We tackle these topics and many other... [More]
