Allen Weiner Quotes (27 Quotes)

Whether they like it or not, they are a media company. What they provide is very valuable aspects of media, all wrapped up in search. But they're missing the internal talent and internal capability to think like a media company. Everything is from a technology perspective, and that is a real shortcoming.

Given their overall strategy in the Web portal business, (AOL) wants fewer, if any, dial-up customers. I think it is part of a strategy to basically shake out of its base the people who are likely high-speed subscribers.

If you can get advertisers who spend money on TV to shift dollars to the Web...we're talking about a serious 50 billion to 60 billion market.

Yahoo has done a spectacularly good job of buying these small companies and letting them retain the entrepreneurial drive that got them where they are, while also taking the intellectual property developed and using effectively across Yahoo properties.

This is less about who they can go after legally and more about how they can turn their business in a new direction and make themselves attractive to all of these media companies.

They will need to upgrade the search capabilities to be more personal, targeted and better. An area of technology they should work on is context of search. So if you type in the world 'Polish' and you're looking for Polish ancestry, you won't get results for car polish.

The cautionary tale is that this is probably the start of some huge traffic spikes, and I hope that companies have their act together infrastructure-wise to meet this.

The timing is pretty interesting. Streaming has always been important in the media world. However, with the creation of a significant number of services, streaming is the hottest thing around.

the first monster event on the Web.

You can debate what you should call it, but in the coming world, it's going to be a user-controlled environment. I watch what I want, when I want.

They were sober, they had decent meals. A lot of guys, their health improved dramatically.

Microsoft and Yahoo say they are doing this to give consumers what they want, but I think if you ask consumers they would say they want interoperability all the way across the two services.

What they've done for consumer-generated video is really quite good.

A lot of people are very inexperienced and really have no idea about how to set prices.

But it takes an extremely visionary CIO to be doing that today. Security can be another paramount issue for the CIO who plans to write a diary of an implementation.

At first blush it seems kind of strange, but if you look closely there's a lot of logic there.

I think a lot of what is important about it is not necessarily what we're seeing today but what's most likely to come.

It's a race for supremacy. The whole thing between these companies is a media death match.

I don't know what kind of market there is for live TV on cell phones.

I think it was huge. Toys had a huge couple of days (as did) software, categories we thought would be strong.

Traditional search engines are good at searching what's on the Web.

A lot of this will encourage Time Warner to open up even more of its content.

Combined they could be extraordinary, but that doesn't automatically move them to the upper echelon. It puts them in the right path but not by default.

Fast, efficient and reliable digital content distribution will provide a big competitive advantage for media organizations that have time-sensitive data transport requirements. As more rich media content becomes available in a wide range of digital formats, superior distribution and management capabilities will become a key business requirement.

Portability is vital. And properly implemented DRM is an awesome tool. These companies need to realize that passing content to another person is a way consumers create their own viral marketing network.

This year is very do-or-die. Two years ago, people blamed technology last year they blamed customer service. We're running out of excuses.

People are going to want to be tuned into games, want to be communicating with other people, and are going to be out of their minds.