Saying It Makes It True
Was just reading this Portfolio story on Internet television, which profiles the startups helping old media get on “the bandwidth bandwagon” (cute phrase).
There’s a Joost timeline in there which is over-the-top dramatic (“June 2007: Volpi, who was on Skype’s board, is hired as C.E.O. At tech-industry cocktail parties, people debate whether he’s the next Eric Schmidt.”). But this line, set up to be the dramatic climax, made me smile: “January 2008: Influential tech website NewTeeVee posts a blog entry titled ‘Five Ways to Save Joost.’”
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[...] RUMOR: Shake Up At Joost, Marketing Team Trimmed Joost is having a bit of a mixed day: On one hand, they seem have hired Jason Gaedtke, previously chief scientist at CableLabs, as their chief architect, and on the other hand they have cut job in their London office. We are told that three people have been let go from the marketing team. The company is trying to streamline its operations, as indicated in the Portfolio magazine profile on Joost. [...]
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