dec 15
2011

Your 5 Favorite Things for the Next 5 Minutes

Five things that intrigue me right now:

1) 25 Most Viral People. (On the internet.)

2) VCs Predict What Will Happen In 2012.

3) CNN: A Social Media Addict Tries to Disconnect. Day 1: “I land at Antigua’s airport, where I’m greeted by warm sunshine, a long customs line and a man playing Bob Marley’s ‘Three Little Birds’ on a tin drum. All of these observations are ones I ache to tweet.” Hrrrrm.

4) The Death of Television. From Evan Shapiro of IFC, who is probably the smartest tv exec I’ve ever worked with.

5) SAY Media. For most of 2011, Aol was the most interesting company on the digital media scene — every week was a new product launch, a new purchase, a new scandal, a new reorg. For 2012, SAY Media could take its place. For several years, people in the industry have heard various rumors of a “blog rollup.” It’s never happened because most of the time these companies stall after buying one or two properties. But SAY Media is really giving it a go. Sure, xoJane hasn’t performed that well, and the mishap with Rookie didn’t help, but by most accounts Dogster is doing well, and snagging Frommer with its purchase of Read Write Web is tantalizing. (And the reported $5M price tag indicates they’re being tactical and might not burn out.) Now there’s rumors of an IPO, plus some chatter about a revved up CMS. You never would have guessed that the merger of a blog platform and a video ad network would lead to anything, but prepare to hear endless stories about it in 2012.

5 comments

lol, love you blog btw, right now only one thing intriguing me is the 5 things that intrigue you daily it seems - why 5? why not 6 or 7 or 8, 9, 10 for that matter - well you lucky at least you being intrigued :) happy holidays to you and an awesome new year

posted by mommaroodles at 1:03 PM on December 16, 2011

Hey, where are your lists pages this year? Those are always fun.

posted by Matt at 3:07 PM on December 16, 2011

The lists are over on Pop Loser this year. http://poploser.org/tagged/2011

posted by Rex at 11:10 PM on December 16, 2011

So useful. I think.

posted by Stevens at 10:48 PM on December 17, 2011

Wish I had found this blog before. The advices in this post are very helpful and I surely will read the other posts of this series too. Thank you for posting this.

posted by jessy at 6:17 AM on December 20, 2011




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