The Business of News and Devices with Rafat Ali

May 2010 Category: Musings

paidContent Founder Rafat Ali discusses potential subscription models for newspaper Web sites, what magazines need to do to leverage iPad and tablet devices, and ponders the original content creator versus aggregator divide.

That’s Gotta Be Some Kind of Record

August 2008 Category: Musings

NewTeeVee runs the numbers and reports that NBC served 75.5 million streams during the Olympics while the BBC had upwards of 200,000 concurrent viewers getting their games on.
Meanwhile, China’s state run CCTV reported to the New York Times that 100 million people accessed video streams on its Web site. Gotta be gold in there [...]