"My fight is not with the iPad, but with the old-school media publishers."

"All the pressures the Internet put on newspapers – crushing the business model, unlimited competition, no need for tree massacres – are just amplified by the iPad. Now would be the time to embrace the Internet. But the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and other are running in the opposite direction with apps that have no hyperlinks and/or require a fee to get access. All those people sitting on trains with their iPads are going to do the same thing that all those people sitting in their offices on their laptops did – get their news from free sources that hyperlink to other free sources."

"...the real reason media companies love the iPad is the same reason I don't: It's an old school, locked in distribution channel that doesn't want to play by the new rules of search+social. Sure, you can watch a movie on it. Sure, you can read a book on it. And sure, you can read a publication on it. But if you want to use the web natively, with all the promise that the web brings to media? Not so much."

"Das iPhone hat sie, Amazons Kindle bekommt sie jetzt, bald laufen sie wohl auf jeder Spielkonsole: Der App-Wahn ist eine paradoxe, schädliche Entwicklung. Er würgt Innovationen ab - und verschafft den Konzernen noch mehr Macht."

"When copies are super abundant, they become worthless. When copies are super abundant, stuff which can't be copied becomes scarce and valuable. When copies are free, you need to sell things which can not be copied."

"Overall, Fast Flip just seems like a disappointing product. The cooperation with content producers is interesting, though we wonder if a single AdSense unit on the site will really make newspapers any money. Google Reader or personalized applications like my6sense on the iPhone or feedly on the desktop just seem far more interesting and usable than browsing through a series of screenshots."

"A long time ago I discovered this fundamental rule of the net -- People come back to places that send them away. Places like Google, Yahoo, Craigslist, Youtube, even Twitter. These are the mainstays. You go there to get somewhere else. Sites that try to suck you in and hold you there, no matter how cleverly, go away. While it may seem like a good approach at first, long-term it's a losing strategy."

"Google Web Elements allow you to easily add your favorite Google products onto your own website."

"So go ahead, charge for your news content. Your newspaper will be out of business that much faster and you’ll have more time to refine your golf swing."

..should you consider to publish your blog via amazon's kindle - here's the online form you will need (and probably haven't found on amazon.com)..

"By default all videos on YouTube and embedded on other sites load at normal quality, but there's a way to set your default viewing quality to high, link to high quality video, embed HQ video, and even save HQ videos for later viewing."

"The real problem with RSS (...) is that traditional media companies and advertisers are the most ignorant of the whole lot. Moreover, there’s no incentive for them to become educated, because they cannot see how to make money by using a consumer pull technology like RSS."

"....every feed across the site includes the full content for each article. We've also embedded related links pointing people to more information on the web site. This way people can get the guardian.co.uk experience in whatever context is most useful to them."

...10 percent of user uploaded videos are HD already...

"Sprout is the quick and easy way for anyone to build, publish, and manage widgets, mini-sites, mashups, banners and more. Any size, any number of pages. Include video, audio, images and newsfeeds and choose from dozens of pre-built components and web services."

"You can add captions to one of your videos by uploading a closed caption file using the "Captions and Subtitles" menu on the editing page. To add several captions to a video, simply upload multiple files. If you want to include foreign subtitles in multiple languages, upload a separate file for each language. There are over 120 languages to choose from and you can add any title you want for each caption."

"Follow" is clear language that we expect to go over well. It aims at the long held goal of getting people to use RSS without asking them to embrace the acronym."

"Mehr Kanäle, weniger Zuschauer: Das einstige Leitmedium verliert den Konkurrenzkampf mit dem Internet."

"Get a story on CNN.com and see your traffic explode. The mega-news site is now linking to stories done by affiliates of its CNN Newsource service."

"All content must be transparent: open on the web with permanent links so it can receive links. It’s not content until it’s linked. "

"One of the reasons Hulu caught on so quickly was the ability for users to embed full-length TV episodes on their personal pages. Hulu says that its content has been distributed on 27,000 sites and over 500,000 individual embed players."

"Für die meisten TV-Sender ist der Ausflug ins Internet ein Kulturschock. Man sieht's. Können oder wollen die das nicht besser? Eine Tour d’Horizon durch das Netz der Möglichkeiten. "

“People come back to places that send them away.” That makes no sense whatsoever to traditional media people, but it is, in fact, what “works” on the Web. Google practices it every day, and so do Yahoo and other forms of quality aggregators."

"There is a closed caption functionality. CNET is committed to transcribing all its video (...) Presumably all the metadata will maximize search."

"...a couple days ago, Hulu said its video players have been embedded 105,000 times on 12,000 sites - and it’s only been launched for a month."