Author: Jack Lail

  • Disintermediation in the 500 channel world

    Noticed an item about BrightCove on John Battelle’s blog. TV over the Internet? Jeremy Allaire (who brought us Cold Fusion) thinks so and he’s got $5.5 million in VC money to burn. Allaire envisions a future where: “a creative spark, a camera and a computer were are all it takes to put television programming before…

  • Yahoo turns 10!

    Yahoo is a decade old tomorrow, March 2. Hard to believe, revenues of $3.57 billion, net income of $834 million, a market cap of $44.41 billion. … Hey, maybe there is real money in this Internet thing. In the early years, it was the site with the funny name where you found stuff. It survived…

  • Will Sudduth (2/27/1925-2/23/2005)

    I went to my Uncle Will’s funeral Saturday in Hickory, N.C.(William Sudduth, 2/25/1995 – 2/23/2005, a native of Coila, Miss., who lived nearly all his adult life on Snow Creek Road in Hickory in a house I spent many hours in as a child.) The service included his sons, and grandsons and a couple nephews…