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Digital Hollywod Content Summit

by Thomas Rigler, April 16, 2009 | Comments

Tim Kring keynotes the inaugural Digital Hollywood Content Summit May 5 in Santa Monica

Our Gerber Rigler Executive Consulting brainchild has hatched in collaboration with Digital Hollywood and is ready to fly: The inaugural Digital Hollywood Content Summit takes place on Tuesday, May 5 at the Loews Hotel in Santa Monica during the Spring '09 conference of Digital Hollywood.Click HERE for full agenda.Tim Kring, creator of NBC's hit series "Heroes" will participate in a ...

The Royal Nonesuch

by Thomas Rigler, September 8, 2008 | Comments

A contender for Chris Anderson's The Long Tail?

General consensus in our industry is that the most influential book published on convergent business models was last year's The Long Tail by Chris Anderson. A loyal fan and long tail evangelist myself, I recently re-evaluated my position and am hereby nominating a new contender for that precious title. The Royal Nonesuch, written by Glasgow Phillips, is the memoir of ...

Aaron Sorkin Facebook movie

by Thomas Rigler, September 1, 2008 | Comments

The West Wing creator starts Facebook group in preparation of Sony movie on social networking site

The Onion recently announced a new passion project by my most favorite screenwriter since Paddy Chayefsky: West Wing, Studio 60 and Sports Night creator Aaron Sorkin was to enter production for a return of the 'The West Wing - The Santos Administration' as an animated series, finally without any of the restrictions he had to endure on Network television. "The ...

Pitchfork.tv

by Thomas Rigler, August 31, 2008 | Comments

Indie music site launches broadband channel

Pitchfork, indie music site extraordinaire, shows how it's really done when it comes to music and broadband video: Its recently launched in-your-face indie channel Pitchfork.tv wraps the user in a very clever interface that floats the electrifying lineup past the player window on parallel layers. Buzzing with the necessary raw energy, the channel programs music coverage of all sorts that's ...

Helio goes Virgin Mobile

by Thomas Rigler, August 29, 2008 | Comments

Virgin Mobile completes the acquisition of Helio

Remember the Helio spots from two summers ago: Don't call it a phone?Apparently owners Earthlink and SK Telecom don't want to call it a business model either. DigitalMediaWire somberly reports'Virgin Mobile completes the acquisition of Helio for $38 Million.' Yahoo!Finance adds the fine details: 'In connection with the acquisition, Helio shareholders SK Telecom and EarthLink and have received limited partnership ...

iWidgets

by Thomas Rigler, August 29, 2008 | Comments

Socialize your Brand

Ever wondered what would happen if Facebook applications weren't so damn expensive and so hard to produce?What if any advertiser, media company or even the tiniest non-profit had access to a widget-building service to get their message out?And not only on Facebook and MySpace but onto every social networking platform, blog, video community, dashboard or website destination? Too good to ...

Thomas Rigler
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Gerber Rigler Executive Consulting; Broadband Jungle Blog (Owner)

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