Chris Anderson

Web Video Distributor Magnify.net Raises $500,000

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 5, 2009 - 6:55am.

New York - Magnify.net, a provider of Web video distribution services, has raised $500,000 in new funding, from previous investors including Next Stage Capital, New York Angels, Rose Tech Ventures, Active Angel Investors and Chris Anderson, PaidContent reported.

Chris Anderson's BookTour Venture Gets $350,000

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 13, 2009 - 8:22am.

San Francisco - BookTour, an online community that lets authors publicize speaking events, has raised $350,000 in its first round of funding, from backers including Amazon.com (NASD: AMZN), PEHub.com reported, citing a regulatory filing.

Video Aggregation Service Magnify.net Gets $1 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 28, 2008 - 8:13am.

New York - Magnify.net, a community video platform where users can create embeddable video channels populated with clips from across the Web, has raised a $1 million first round of financing, TechCrunch reports.

Guy Kawasaki: Chris Anderson Discussing His Next Book - Must-Watch Video

Authored by Guy Kawasaki on December 17, 2007 - 10:07am.

Here’s the next trend to study: Free. This is a video of Chris Anderson discussing his next book. Chris is the editor of Wired and author of The Long Tail. Kudos to whoever at Nokia decided to put this keynote online for the rest of us. And kudos to Core77 for finding it via Nova.

Analysis: Are PR Professionals Essentially Spammers?

Authored by Rohit Bhargava on November 5, 2007 - 10:57am.

There has been a firestorm of discussion lately after Chris Anderson, editor of Wired Magazine and author of the long tail recently "outed" all the PR professionals that had been contacting him with anonymous spam style "Dear Editor" communications. On a day where he had more than 300 of these, he finally decided he had enough and fired off a post banning those PR folks from contacting him and adding him to his blocked sender list.

New Content or Repurposed Content? My Two Cents on The Long Tail Controversy

Authored by Jay Baage on February 1, 2007 - 12:56pm.

Two weeks ago I wrote an opinion piece arguing that “It’s Time for Les Moonves to Cut Off CBS' Long Tail”. Basically, my point was that the big television companies need to focus on creating original content for new media platforms, not just programming these new channels with whatever is left on the cutting-room floor. A few days after, Shelly Palmer, chairman of the national Advanced Media Technology Emmy Awards Committee, followed up with a detailed post on his blog that Chris Anderson’s Long Tail presentation at NATPE illustrated “a profound lack of understanding about television production, distribution and the advertising and subscription revenue that drive the business.” Chris Anderson then responded with a post on his blog and questioned how Palmer is defining “television” and other things. Anderson got backup from Cory Bergman at the interesting TV blog “Lost Remote” and Terry Heaton, Senior Vice President, Media 2.0, who both cried out: “Ground control to Shelly: Please return to planet Earth.”

Flight 82 to Midem: What a Long Strange Trip It's Been

Authored by Ned Sherman on January 19, 2007 - 1:19pm.

For the last four years, I have been among the 200 or so who take Delta's overnight Thursday flight (Flight 82) from JFK to Nice, often referred to as the "Midem Shuttle", to join the thousands of industry leaders from around the world at the Midem Music Conference & Market in Cannes. The passenger list for this 7 hour flight reads like a who's who list of music industry movers and shakers - top label execs mingling with artists, talent managers, the digirati and members of the press. The scene is almost surreal and time goes by like a college road trip with a constant flow of networking, drinking and bantering that you would expect at a Grammy's after party.

Video Parody of the Long Tail

Authored by Jay Baage on July 30, 2006 - 10:30am.

Check out this funny video just made available on YouTube by Peter Hirshberg of Technorati and Michel Markman, based on Chris Anderson's much discussed new book "The Long Tail". Anderson usually shows it at the end of his speeches and says on his blog that: “some of the lines, such as ‘There are a lot more of them than there are of us’… are now permanently lodged in my brain”.