If you, like millions of others, witnessed any of today’s Royal Wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton on the TV, Internet or in person, you will have seen the crowds that assembled down the Mall, around Westminster Cathedral, in front of Buckingham Palace, and in many other places. But…

Simon Waldman is Group Product Director of LOVEFiLM, and author of “Creative Disruption: What you need to do to shake up your business in a digital world” [FT Prentice Hall]. He blogs here, and tweets as @waldo. Imagine a business in trouble. A lot of trouble. It is being disrupted…

Ben Elowitz (@elowitz) is co-founder and CEO of Wetpaint, a platform for social web sites, and author of the Digital Quarters blog. Prior to Wetpaint, Elowitz co-founded Blue Nile, the online retailer of luxury goods. He is also an angel investor in various media and e-commerce companies. Last week, I…

Ben Elowitz (@elowitz) is co-founder and CEO of Wetpaint, a platform for social web sites, and author of the Digital Quarters blog. Prior to Wetpaint, Elowitz co-founded Blue Nile, the online retailer of luxury goods. He is also an angel investor in various media and e-commerce companies. If old-media traditionalists…

Arnon Mishkin is a consultant focused on media and internet companies. The easiest way to clear a room of internet-savvy media executives is to suggest that maybe they should close their sites to crawling and prevent Google (NSDQ: GOOG) from carrying excerpts of their content. “Look, our ability to sell…

Matt Silk is the SVP of Waterfall Mobile, a San Francisco-based digital-messaging company. Location-based services are getting an enormous amount of attention lately, with the launch of Google’s Near Me Now for mobile and other high-profile announcements. As a mobile executive, I am thrilled that this idea – once literally…

John Yemma is Editor of The Christian Science Monitor. Let’s agree that Rupert Murdoch is right: Content is king. You’ll get nothing but applause from a journalist of four decades like me. Saying it and believing it, however, doesn’t solve the problem of content racing to zero value on the…

Paul Reddick is the CEO of Handmark, which publishes software and games for handheld devices. If you believe what you hear, it’s going to be either free or paid across the media world–just like it’s got to be either the Yankees or the Red Sox, Batman or the Joker, Tom…

By Jane Martinson: Elisabeth Murdoch sits down, eyes the voice recorder, and says “I have to be careful”. The head of Shine, the UK’s largest independent producer, and scion of Rupert, then proceeds to talk openly about her company, ambitions, politics and much else besides. It is a performance that…

Khris Loux is the founder and CEO of Echo, a commenting platform. He tweets at @Khrisloux. With leadership from its founders and a significant infusion of cash from investors, Twitter has created an innovative no-charge service for users and industry-standard APIs for developers. But more recently, access to its data…

For nearly 40 minutes, top executives from The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) took questions from interviewer Staci D. Kramer, co-editor and EVP of ContentNext Media, and participants in paidContent 2010. Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., chairman and publisher; Janet Robinson, president and CEO; and Martin Nisenholtz, SVP-digital operations, knew the…

Geoff Cook is the CEO of myYearbook, a social network built around meeting new people. He also founded EssayEdge and ResumeEdge and sold them to The Thomson Corporation. You can’t go an entire day without encountering Facebook and Twitter – even if you don’t have an account. Whether you ride…

Alok Kejriwal is a digital entrepreneur based in Mumbai. He is the CEO and co-founder of games2win.com. Whenever I see the success of Vodafone’s Zoozoos being celebrated or the iconic advertising that almost created brands from scratch (like Onida), I am bewildered about the context of the celebration. It’s almost…

Alok Kejriwal is a digital entrepreneur based in Mumbai. He is the CEO and co-founder of games2win.com. Every time I listen to my iPod, I remember Napster. The record industry treated Napster like the Taliban of Piracy—they sued, fought and closed it down. But wasnn’t Napster actually ‘iTunes’ way before…

Turner Broadcasting, a unit of Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), is close to acquiring a “very high level of holding” in general entertainment channel NDTV Imagine, according to a person familiar with the development, who asked not to be named. Turner could buy an 80-90% stake in the GEC, the person…

Indian broadcaster NDTV is in talks with two overseas companies—Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) and Malaysia’s Astro—to come in as an investor in its lifestyle business, according to a person familiar with the development. Today morning, NDTV said it will buy back a 26% stake in its non-news subsidiary NDTV Networks…

In this week’s guest blog at ContentSutra, Kaustuv Ghosh talks about a very pertinent issue in VAS marketing - How to understand the end consumer of mobile value added services? He cites a need for metrics beyond that provided by billing…“Where we often fail is in the prediction of who…