Just in time for the New Year, Bill's got a cautionary tale from the old. Read More...
View articleBill revisits the rich media world over the last year and reminisces. What's interesting is the stability of the rich media industry. Most traditional...
View articleWho says you need fancy office space to produce great rich media technology? If the web had gone the way it was supposed to go, we'd be looking at con...
View articleMarketing counts -- bigtime. And you can see it in the success stories of those companies that do it right and notice its absence in those that don't....
View articleYou ever see "The Natural"? After some tough times, the good guy comes through with a homerun that knocks out the stadium lights. Such is the tale of ...
View articleBill gives a rundown of three new rich media technologies from this year's New York @d:tech: EyeWonder, TrafficMac, and CyberExtruder. Read More...
View articlePublisher acceptance is the biggest hurdle facing rich media today. But some companies are trying to make things work for those wanting to use rich me...
View articleThe use of client-side software, or the "MetaNet," represents a fundamental shift from publisher-centric relationship models toward user-centric ones....
View articleAt least four vendors at Internet World displayed various forms of 3D technology. Bill describes the new angle to 3D technology from Cryonetworks, Act...
View articleThose of us evangelizing rich media since the days when the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) didn't even acknowledge its existence are now in a posit...
View articleBill once again dons his Nostradamus hat to finish up his rich media predictions for 2001. Needless to say, he's bullish on broadband, hot on cable mo...
View articleBill is less a futurist than a right-around-the-corner-ist, but he decided to test his predictive mettle and take a look into the rich media future. S...
View articleAudiobase hopes to solve the problem of conversion on e-commerce sites by telling consumers what to do when they're confused. Research says 39 percent...
View articleCommenting on last week's article about Onflow, an intrepid reader bemoaned: "Not another proprietary plug-in! What we need are standards like SVG, no...
View articleLet's wax nostalgic for a moment. Ever heard of Xaos Tools? It created some of the most innovative high-end graphics tools back in the early '90s. The...
View articleBill has quit his day job and would like to honor this change in his life by dedicating this week's column to the history of the term "rich media" and...
View articleBill really hasn't left his computer since he installed his cable modem connection a couple of weeks ago. Why bother? He gets National Public Radio th...
View articleThe Rich Media Advertising Forum in San Francisco covered the advantages of rich media, as well as a few obstacles like site acceptance, media buyers'...
View articleBill had his own personal, rich media epiphany this week. For the first time, he was able to walk into his local Wiz at the local strip mall and purch...
View articleBill questioned if rich media was still alive last week, but what was he thinking? It's amazing how many people are suddenly stepping into this space,...
View articleRich Media is undergoing a bit of transmogrification. People are backing away from the term. Newer players have latched on to it. New technologies pic...
View articleThe use of 3D on the web remains compelling, but there have always been a number of issues holding back widespread adoption. Like lack of a widely dis...
View articleThe computer graphics industry's annual Siggraph convention is the leading showcase of the year's best computer animation (particularly 3D animation)....
View articleThis week in San Francisco, the Rich Media SIG starts a series of seminars on developing advertising and marketing campaigns for wireless devices. Rep...
View articleRich Media Canada was launched in Toronto with a crowd of about 350 people in attendance. Bill gives us a report on the progress of rich media in Cana...
View articleBill sees a general industry trend that moves away from a publisher-centric mode of interaction (the old broadcast model) to a more diverse, person-ce...
View articleRemember Evel Knievel and his famous leap across Snake River Canyon? Well, a lot of rich media companies have been floating in rarified air lately, ai...
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