Content Is King (1996)

Post by Guvante » Tue, Jul 21, 2015, 12:50 AM UTC

oautholaf wrote: post #4

Which was more prescient, this or "Content is Not King"? http://firstmonday.org/article/view/833/742 In many ways, it seems like Microsoft's late-90's obsession with content didn't really pan out. Sure, MSNBC is still around but sidewalk.com long since evaporated. It doesn't seem like MSFT really became a profitable media company. But look at how many multi-billion dollar "unicorns" are messaging companies.

Post by forgetsusername » Tue, Jul 21, 2015, 1:52 AM UTC

wslh wrote: post #18

colinbartlett wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I soaked that book up as a 15 year old when it was released. I remember proudly writing a report on it. In retrospect, The Road Ahead probably had a more profound effect on me than I realized at the time. There's a great quote from the book which sums up why I took hold to computers and software more than many of the other creative and engineering related endeavors I had at the time: "Computers are great because when…

> "Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things." No, you get that feedback from playing music and singing.

Post by Immortalin » Tue, Jul 21, 2015, 3:26 AM UTC

colinbartlett wrote: post #14

smacktoward wrote: post #11

Anyone who finds this interesting should track down a copy of The Road Ahead ( http://www.amazon.com/Road-Ahead-Bill-Gates/dp/9573231670/ ), the book Gates published at around the same time as this appeared. It's an interesting look at his thinking just when he was beginning to realize (very nearly too late!) that the Internet was going to be a Very Big Deal.

I soaked that book up as a 15 year old when it was released. I remember proudly writing a report on it. In retrospect, The Road Ahead probably had a more profound effect on me than I realized at the time. There's a great quote from the book which sums up why I took hold to computers and software more than many of the other creative and engineering related endeavors I had at the time: "Computers are great because when…

Post by e12e » Tue, Jul 21, 2015, 5:44 AM UTC

davemel37 wrote: post #15

edw519 wrote: post #13

As connections to the Internet get faster, the annoyance of waiting for an advertisement to load will diminish and then disappear. But that's a few years off. Still is. And will always be. The annoyance of ads will always expand to fill any improvements in throughput achieved by technology.

If only someone invented a way to block ads from loading :) Seriously though, why did it take so long for adblocker to be invented?

Post by jonnathanson » Tue, Jul 21, 2015, 1:51 PM UTC

voidfiles wrote: post #10

We spend far more time consuming content generated by our friends and family then we do consuming content created by media companies. I don't think he could conceive that a company like Facebook could control the means of distribution by providing something that people want more the professional media.