RE: UKNM: AOL did well - what value internet stock?

[Rod Begbie]

Time Warner/Turner already use their content in a much better fashion than

almost any of the other BigOldEvilMediaEmpires.  (the only other one I

admire is the BBC for their News site)


Entertaindom.com (launched a couple of months ago) features a mix of:


* New features unique to Entertaindom (eg. The God And Devil Show)

* Links to existing web content (the Atomfilms stuff)

* Content from Time Warner's print publications (Entertainment Weekly news)

* Media from the Time Warner archive (old Looney Tunes cartoons.  Hurrah!)


The risk from the AOL part of the deal is that lots of this new content is

suddenly going to evaporate into the proprietory AOL interface.  "See a

preview of the content on the web, but AOL KEYWORD: LOONEYTUNES to see the

full version".  Bob Cringely covered this in a recent Pulpit when discussing

the AOL pop-ups on Netscape.com.  Netscape is now little more than a

homepage on a million browsers which advertises AOL's proprietory system.


Expect by the end of the year to see people paying 99 cents to download

tracks from the Warner Records section of AOL, over their Road Runner

broadband cable connection, which they will play in their free copy of

WinAmp, which has a Wile E Coyote skin.


Perhaps.


rOD.


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 > Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 2:31 PM

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 > Subject: Re: UKNM: AOL did well - what value internet stock?

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 > Well I for one am pleased at the increased recognition of

 > 'content' and the

 > implicit recognition that audio, video, multimedia will be

 > important to the

 > net.

 >

 > Michael Trott

 >

 > www.speechradio.com - audio content suppliers to the Internet



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