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InterviewsWes Anderson Interviews Owen Wilson for MySpace SeriesAuthored by Scott Goldberg on October 25, 2007 - 7:06pm.
 In his first interview since an attempted suicide, Owen Wilson sat down with friend, writer, and director Wes Anderson, with whom he has worked many times. The interview is part of MySpace’s Artist on Artist series, and will air tomorrow night at midnight. Among their projects are The Darjeeling Limited, the most recent film, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Royal Tenenbaums, which they co-wrote, and Bottle Rocket.
Guy Kawasaki: Ten Questions with PostSecret's Frank WarrenAuthored by Guy Kawasaki on October 9, 2007 - 5:45am.
The DMW Interview with Filmmaker Robert GreenwaldAuthored by Ned Sherman on June 19, 2007 - 4:36pm.
 On June 13, 2007, I met with award-winning filmmaker, director and producer, Robert Greenwald, at his Los Angeles office and home to Greenwald's new media company, Brave New Films. Here is the transcript from the interview:
Five Questions with David Gosen, CEO, I-playAuthored by Scott Goldberg on June 18, 2007 - 9:38am.
 Significant attention came to the mobile games space on May 31st when it was reported that Oberon Media, a massive online games company, acquired mobile game developer and publisher I-play for $110 million (though neither company has officially confirmed that amount). David Gosen, CEO of I-play and now the head of Oberon’s worldwide mobile games business, is a keynote speaker at the upcoming Mobile Games Insider event in Santa Monica, CA on July 10. For more information, please visit www.mobilegamesinsider.com. To set the stage, DMW sat down with Mr Gosen to discuss the current state of the business.
The DMW Interview with Broadcaster.com: We Are Not Just Another Video Site!Authored by Jay Baage on April 5, 2007 - 1:33pm.
 Broadcaster is a new entertainment community that is not willing to take just any content from anyone. The concept is two-fold: Filter out all the crap that is on YouTube as well as help talented creators to find a loyal audience."We only want the best of the best, only a thousand or so contributors", says Martin R. Wade III, President and Chief Executive Officer of Broadcaster, Inc. tags: Internet | Video | Social Networking | YouTube | Interviews | Broadcaster | UGC | Martin Wade | Nolan Quan |
Five Questions With Cameron Janes, Director, Walmart.com Digital MediaAuthored by Jay Baage on February 7, 2007 - 2:16pm.
 DMW talked to Cameron Janes, Director of Walmart.com Digital Media, about what the company will do differently this time and how it plans to grow from an 80 to an 800 pound gorilla in digital distribution.
The DMW Interview with Ted Sarandos, Netflix Chief Content OfficerAuthored by Scott Goldberg on February 1, 2007 - 2:10pm.
 Netflix has always defied its critics, and every year more skeptics surface with a new reason why the company lies on the brink of extinction. But over the past four years the company has been engaged in a strategy to take it well into the next cycle of the film viewing experience. It has embraced the advantages of the internet, and even prepared itself for the death of its bread-and-butter, the DVD. I sat down with Ted Sarandos, Chief Content Officer, to discuss the future of the industry, and the space his company will find itself as it moves ahead. He will also be delivering a keynote address discussing many of the following topics at the Future of Film Conference in March.
tags: Movies | Commerce | DVD | Netflix | Rentals | Interviews | Blockbuster | Sundance | Ted Sarandos |
Ten Questions With Donald TrumpAuthored by Guy Kawasaki on January 25, 2007 - 7:24am.
 Donald J. Trump is a graduate of the Wharton School of Finance and started his business career in an office he shared with his father. In August of 2006, Mr. Trump was voted by BusinessWeek magazine as “the world’s most competitive businessperson.” In New York City, the Trump signature is synonymous with the most prestigious of addresses, among them the world-renowned Fifth Avenue skyscraper, Trump Tower, the Trump International Hotel & Tower, voted the best U.S. Hotel by Conde Nast Traveler, Trump World Tower at the United Nations Plaza, 40 Wall Street, and Trump Park Avenue.
Microsoft's Plans for Winning Over Apple iPod Music Lovers with ZuneAuthored by Jay Baage on January 8, 2007 - 4:36am.
 An exclusive interview with Richard Winn, Manager of Artist Development, Microsoft Zune. Microsoft is no doubt faced with challenges in making its Zune music player a success. One essential requirement is to achieve credibility with music lovers. Richard Winn, Manager of Artist Development for Zune, shares with Digital Media Wire a look into how indie music and close relationships with upcoming artists is key to Zune’s on-going content strategy.
The Future of Social Networking According to Second Life and Habbo HotelAuthored by Jay Baage on December 21, 2006 - 11:36am.
  Social networking has been one of the hottest areas of interest since Web 2.0 took off as a concept and media buzzword. In one of the most high profile media deals of 2005, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation bought MySpace for $580 million, a staggering amount at the time. This year, viral video has become the latest hot category with the defining Internet deal of 2006 being the sale of YouTube to Google for $1.76 billion, when the startup was less than 2-years old. So what is ahead in social networking in 2007? One of the hottest areas will most certainly be Virtual Worlds and Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs or MMOs).
tags: Social Networking | Linden Lab | Interviews | Second Life | Sulake | Habbo Hotel | Virtual Communities |
Five Questions with Teemu Huuhtanen, President, North America, Sulake, Creator of Habbo HotelAuthored by Jay Baage on December 21, 2006 - 11:17am.
 As the newly appointed President, North America for Sulake Corporation, Teemu Huuhtanen will be instrumental in leading the continued growth of one of world’s most popular online social networking and gaming communities for teens, Habbo.com, Sulake’s top property. Since its launch in 2000, Habbo has grown to over 7 million users worldwide, and has been launched in 29 countries on five continents. Its highly-trafficked North American sites, headed by Huuhtanen, receive over 2 million unique active users per month.
tags: Internet | Advertising | Social Networking | Interviews | Sulake | Habbo Hotel | Virtual Communities |
Five Questions with Philip Rosedale, Founder and CEO of Linden Lab, Creator of Second LifeAuthored by Jay Baage on December 21, 2006 - 11:03am.
 Philip Rosedale has an extensive background in the development and pioneering of streaming technology, having built his first computer in 4th grade, and started his first software company while still in high school. In 1995 he developed FreeVue, a low bitrate video conferencing system for Internet-connected PC's, resulting in the acquisition of his company in early 1996 by RealNetworks. For three and a half years, Rosedale served at RealNetworks as Vice President and CTO, where he was responsible for the development and launch of RealVideo, RealSystem 5.0, and RealSystem G2. In 1999 Rosedale returned to San Francisco, joined Accel Partners as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence, and began the basic research that would become the technology behind Linden Lab. Rosedale holds a BS degree in Physics from the University of California at San Diego.
tags: Internet | Advertising | Social Networking | Linden Lab | Interviews | Second Life | Virtual Communities |
Q&A: Mickey Charles, President & CEO, The Sports NetworkAuthored by rachael_church on December 13, 2006 - 11:58am.
 This month Sport & Technology talked to Mickey Charles, President and CEO of real-time sports wire service The Sports Network (TSN), based in Philadelphia. Charles is an attorney by training, has previously owned an advertising agency and was responsible for introducing a sports premium rate phone service to the US. Charles has also been a syndicated columnist, radio talk show host for CBS (sports), TV host for sports talk show for ESPN (hosted by Caesars Palace in Las Vegas) and was the founder of Computer Information Network, Inc.Note: This interview originally appeared in Rachael's monthly newsletter Sport and Technology. tags: Sports | Internet | Online Publishing | Gambling | News | Interviews | Publishing | TSN | Mickey Charles |
Wired News: Interview with BitTorrent Creator Bram CohenAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on December 4, 2006 - 3:33pm.
San Francisco - Wired News on Monday featured an interview with Bram Cohen, developer of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file-sharing application. Contrary to reports last week that Cohen is leaving the company -- which accompanied news that BitTorrent had raised $20 million in new financing and signed new deals with networks and studios -- Cohen told Wired News he's staying at BitTorrent. He also confirmed that content from studios and networks distributed on BitTorrent will be protected by Windows DRM. "We're going to see everything continue to become more web-based, and the special status of high-quality video files and other large files as somehow different will go away. The current limitations on distributing them will cease to exist," Cohen told Wired News.
tags: Video | Tech | P2P | TV | Movies | BitTorrent | File-Sharing | Content Delivery | Interviews | Bram Cohen |
Five Questions With BitTorrent President and COO Ashwin NavinAuthored by Jay Baage on October 31, 2006 - 7:54am.
 With over 70 million users worldwide, BitTorrent has become a controversial leader in peer-to-peer digital distribution of content, a lot of which clearly is pirated. Based in San Francisco, CA, the five year old company is currently on a mission to help content owners to remove copyright infringing content from its search results. What is more, BitTorrent has started to work with studios to provide a secure, legal venue for consumers. With integrated monetization for paid and ad-supported content, a forthcoming legal BitTorrent video service supported by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is an interesting platform for the online distribution of popular video content.
tags: Internet | Video | Law | P2P | Warner Bros. | Copyright | BitTorrent | Interviews | Jay | Ashwin Navin |
Steve Jobs Disses Microsoft’s ZuneAuthored by Jay Baage on October 16, 2006 - 7:36am.
San Francisco, CA - Apple Computer does not fear competition from Microsoft's new Zune music player, Chief Executive Steve Jobs said in an interview in this week’s edition of Newsweek. He refers to demonstrations that he has seen of Zune’s interface which he viewed as complicated and not user friendly enough. Jobs especially thinks this when it comes to sharing music wirelessly between Zune users, a feature that has been mentioned as one of Zune’s main competitive advantages over the current generation of iPod’s.
An Interview with Burnlounge Co-Founder Stephen MurrayAuthored by Scott Goldberg on October 13, 2006 - 7:54am.
 DMW recently spoke with Stephen Murray, Co-Founder, President of Entertainment & Chief Creative Officer of Burnlounge, a New York-based community-powered digital download music service, to discuss their service and business model. Here are key excerpts from the exchange.tags: Downloads | Music | Artists | Commerce | Interviews | BurnLounge | Scott Goldberg | Stephen Murray |
An Interview with NPR Digital's GM Maria ThomasAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on October 6, 2006 - 8:26am.
 NPR Digital GM Reins in Expectations on Forthcoming Music Service "It won't be a digital download store" From Digital Music Forum West 2006: That's not entirely true. NPR's new digital music service, announced on Aug. 31 and slated for launch in the first half of next year, will likely point users to digital retailers where they can buy song downloads and a portion of proceeds will go to NPR — a presently offered on NPR.org. 5 Questions with Mozes CEO Dorrian PorterAuthored by Jay Baage on October 5, 2006 - 12:54pm.
From Digital Music Forum West 2006. Mozes is an innovative company that focuses on marketing using text messages so that independent musicians and up-and-coming bands can communicate with their fans about new releases, upcoming concerts and general information about what they are up to - without having to spend a lot of money on marketing. 5 Questions with Steve Skrzyniarz, Co-Founder and CEO of SoundflavorAuthored by Jay Baage on October 5, 2006 - 4:26am.
 From Digital Music Forum West 2006: Soundflavor, a developer of digital music search and recommendation technologies, introduced on Wednesday a free companion application for Apple's iTunes that makes recommendations from a user's own music library - and from outside music stores - when they play a song or playlist. DMW sat down with Steve Skrzyniarz, Co-Founder and CEO of Soundflavor, and asked him five quick questions.
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