The difference: VC funds in Europe had little time to throw good money after bad at fashionable internet themes and little understanding of why these themes were so hot in the U.S. The upshot, says Hauser: "European VCs are not sitting on as much negative equity as Silicon Valley funds are".
I foresee it becoming much bigger in the future because the Internet is starting to reference itself (trend in screen shots, memes, Internet themed videos, etc) and people like that.
Although the winners of the two Internet-theme prizes will not be announced until 5 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time today, the six finalists from which they have been drawn are already known, and the choices favor the commercial over the cultural.
It looks like "@midnight," the late-night Internet-themed quiz show, has scored major points with Comedy Central, getting renewed for a second season that will air in 2015.
The argument would be that these groups, whose tentacles reach from satellite broadcasting and the Internet to theme parks and shops, have many more ways of pumping out music to record buyers and turning bands into brands, with dolls, games and the like.Would going it alone be such a bad thing for EMI?
ABC and ESPN today offered a vision of the 2010 and 2012 Olympics that, if chosen as the winning bid by the International Olympic Committee, would expand coverage from their traditional prime-time and cable networks to the Internet, Disney theme parks and the ABC Family channel.
Check the Internet for theme ideas.
Search the internet for theme ideas.
But what may turn out to be the company's calling card, a series with an Internet-friendly theme and comedy lover's dream cast, is still in the pipeline: "Burning Love," a reality satire in which women compete for the affections of a firefighter, will bow in the spring and star Ken Marino ("Party Down," "Children's Hospital"), who created the series with Erica Oyama, his wife.
While the conversation may have been somewhat skewed by differing quality of and access to computers and the internet, the themes that emerged from analysis of the varied points of view of the members was noted.
