On Digital Media is a podcast about the technology, creation, distribution, consumption and monetization of digital media and its effects on traditional media and marketing. If it’s part of the digital media ecosystem (and sometimes, even if it’s not), you’ll likely hear about it here.
Your hosts are John Federico and Chia-Lin Simmons, two marketing geeks with a technological bent and passion for digital media.
You can contact us by sending email to comments@odmcast.com or by calling our comment line at 775-860-2263 and leaving a message. You can also reach us via Gizmo Project using username: ondigitalmedia
In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy), Steve Hatch (twitter: @shatch), Chia-Lin Simmons (twitter: @zeropts) and Ken Gellman (twitter: @kengellman) discuss:
The First Android Phone: “The T-Mobile G1 with Google”
Amazon’s music offering for the G1: Six Million DRM-Free Tracks
Memory card music is back for another round. Will it fail again?
Roku opens it’s Netflix player to developers. [...]
In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy) and Steve Hatch (twitter: @shatch) and Chia-Lin Simmons (twitter: @zeropts) discuss:
Google Chrome, Android and the coming Browser Wars
Amazon’s streaming service, Hulu and American’s online video habits (including their love of DVR’s)
Metallica’s new album, MySpace Music
Can Steve Jobs save the iPod? Does it really need saving?
Our music is Democracy [...]
In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy) and Steve Hatch (twitter: @shatch) and Chia-Lin Simmons (twitter: @zeropts) welcome Kris Smith (twitter: @croncast) to ODM.
John has joined BlogTalkRadio as Vice President of Marketing
Events: John attended the New Media Expo in Las Vegas where he met Paolo Tosolini of Microsoft.
Paolo is responsible for the Podcasting Kit for [...]
Our first LIVE episode on BlogTalkRadio!
Joining John, Ken, Steve and Chia-Lin is John Havens, VP of Business Development for BlogTalkRadio.
Our music is Democracy from Alexander Blu.
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In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy), Steve Hatch (twitter: @shatch) and Ken Gellman (twitter: @kengellman) discuss:
John and Ken will be attending the NY Tech Meetup on July 1st at IAC in NYC
Ken will be attending Podcamp Boston 3
Matchmine is powering blog recommendations for blogged.com
BlogTalkRadio has closed a $4.6 million dollar round of financing from [...]
In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy) and Steve Hatch (twitter: @shatch) welcome Chia-Lin Simmons (twitter: @zeropts) back to ODM.
Welcome Alexandra Claire Becker!
Events: John’s going to the NY Tech Meetup on July 1st
Google and Yahoo enter into a search advertising agreement
Executive Exodus at Yahoo: Qi Lu, EVP engineering for Search and Advertising Technology Group; Vish [...]
In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy) and Ken Gellman (twitter: @kengellman) and Steve Hatch (twitter: @shatch) are joined by special guest Craig Calder (twitter: @ccalder). Craig gives us the lowdown on his new job as Chief Marketing Officer (PDF) of Real Time Content. Events: John is planning to attend the Conversational Marketing Summit [...]
In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy) and Ken Gellman (twitter: @kengellman) are joined by Chia-Lin Simmons via Skype to discuss: John and Ken attended Jeff Pulver’s Social Media Breakfast Ken attended the Web 2.0 Meetup in NYC John is planning to attend the Conversational Marketing Summit in NYC on June 9th and 10th [...]
In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy) and Steve Hatch (twitter: @shatch) are joined by Chia-Lin Simmons via Skype to discuss:
Events: John is planning to attend The Conversational Marketing Summit in NYC on June 9th and 10th Microsoft still intent on acquiring Yahoo. Yadda, yadda, yadda. Yahoo earnings grow 9%; Microsoft earnings down. Maybe [...]
In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy) and Ken Gellman (twitter: @gellmanken) are joined by Steve Hatch (twitter: @shatch) to discuss: Events: Podcamp NYC is on April 25th and 26th at Brooklyn Polytechnic University. As a result of Daddy Duty, John can’t attend this year. Ken will be in Baltimore with his in-laws for [...]
In this episode, John Federico (twitter: @gadgetboy), Chia-Lin Simmons (twitter: @zeropts) and Ken Gellman (twitter: @kengellman) are joined by Eric Rochow (GardenFork.tv, Real World Green and The Greenhouse) (twitter: @ericgardenfork) to discuss:
Eric’s recently signed co-production, marketing and distribution deal with For Your Imagination. Congratulations to both Eric and FYI. Events: John and Eric attended [...]
In this episode, John Federico, Ken Gellman and Steve Hatch review:
Gigs: Ken started a new gig as the Director of Sales for MatchMine. Congrats, Ken. Events: Ken attended SXSW; Steve, Ken and John attended the Business of APIs Conference; John will be attending Jeff Pulver’s Social Media Breakfast The deal closed: Audible is now [...]
In this episode John Federico, Chia-Lin Simmons, and Steve Hatch discuss:
Events: Chia-Lin will be speaking at the Spring VON expo in San Jose; John will be attending Jeff Pulver’s Social Media Breakfast in NY on March 26th. Listener email AOL’s acquisition of Bebo Yahoo’s possible use of Open Social Google’s Acquisition of Doubleclick is [...]
In this episode John Federico tries to wrangle Chia-Lin Simmons, Steve Hatch, Ken Gellman into discussing:
Events: Chia-Lin will be speaking at the Spring Von Conference in San Jose in March; Steve will likely attend the Web 2.0 Conference in April Jobs: Jake Shapiro of PRX is looking for Social Media Co-Curators for the BallotVox [...]
In this episode John Federico, Chia-Lin Simmons and Steve Hatch disect:
The latest on the Microsoft-Yahoo acquisition attempt. It’s gettin’ ugly… Yahoo sheds hundreds of people in an attempt to right itself. There are plenty of companies in the Valley looking for talented folks who are ready to scoop them up. Shockingly, our friend Susan [...]
In this episode John Federico, Steve Hatch and Ken Gellman discuss:
Amazon buys Audible for $300 million
Amazon not only gets publisher relationships, but also Audible’s proprietary DRM - that plays on the iPod - and a relationship with iTunes for audiobook content. This will be interesting watch.
Steve’s very excited about being a part of the Amazon [...]
In this episode John Federico, Steve Hatch and Ken Gellman discuss:
Events: Steve may be attending the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco in April while John is planning to attend Web 2.0 NY on January 31st to see our friend Craig Calder of Yovia speak on the topic of monetizing social media and word [...]
In this first episode of 2008, John Federico, Chia-Lin Simmons and Steve Hatch discuss:
John attended Jeff Pulver’s Social Media Breakfast in New York last week, with Real-Time Social Tagging. Interesting…
Chia-Lin is planning to attend the Girl Geeks Dinner in San Francisco Mountain View on January 31st and possibly Lunch 2.0
CES was all about the [...]
In this episode John Federico, Chia-Lin Simmons, Ken Gellman and Steve Hatch discuss the top stories of 2007 and make (gasp!) predictions for digital media in 2008.
The first BIG THEME for 2007 was Openness. (Is that even a word? It is now…)
We think the iPhone - the phone with the closed operating system - [...]
In this episode John Federico, Ken Gellman, Steve Hatch and special guest Adam Broitman of Morpheus Media discuss:
Adam recently attended the 2007 iMedia Agency Summit where he spoke on the topic of “MythBusters” along with Garrick Schmitt of Avenue A / Razorfish and Mark Silva of Real Branding.
Like most interactive advertising conferences these days, many [...]
In this episode John Federico, Ken Gellman and Steve Hatch discuss:
Shout out to loyal ODM listener Adam Broitman for being so patient with our technical difficulties
Christmas came early for John, who just received his Kindle. We debate it’s merits and foibles in a classic ODM-style smack down. Bottom line: John likes it. (NOTE: John eluded [...]
In this episode John Federico, Steve Hatch and Ken Gellman chat about:
Ken, looking very Canadian…and he finally has a Facebook profile! *gasp*
John is planning to attend Convergence 2007: The future of Advertising, Communications and Media on December 3rd in NYC.
Papa John’s Pizza now accepts orders via SMS! John rejoices! Ken thinks we should create the [...]
In this episode John Federico, Chia-Lin Simmons and Steve Hatch chat about:
Steve has upgraded his blog from Moveable Type to Wordpress. (Finally).
Chia-Lin successfully moderated her first panel discusion at Digital Hollywood, Steve attended the SOA conference and John had the opportunity to speak on New Measurement for New Media at Podcamp Boston. Thanks to Mssrs. [...]
In this episode John Federico, Chia-Lin Simmons, Steve Hatch and Ken Gellman chat about:
John (and maybe Ken) will be at Podcamp Boston. John plans to geek out about podcast measurement. Come hang with us…
Chia-Lin will be moderating a panel at Digital Hollywood in L.A.
John will be at the Forrester Consumer Forum, October 11-12. The event [...]