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"Billionaire: Podcasters will be forgotten
Mark Cuban, the billionaire founder of Broadcast.com and current owner of the Dallas Mavericks, has a message for Podcasters who have dollar signs in their eyes: Read your history books.
Sure, Podcasting is the faddiest thing since, well, the iPod itself. Everyone and their golden-voiced brother is jumping onto the Net to provide their own audio take on life, the universe, and the latest episode of American Idol.
But we've all seen how this one ends, Cuban says. The above description is precisely what happened in the mid- and late 1990s, when streaming audio technology made everyone a home Webcaster. The radio shows weren't downloadable, but thousands of people became the equivalent of radio and television producers overnight. Lots of money was invested in the space, with little ultimately to show for it.
Granted, Cuban himself made his fortune by selling streaming media infrastructure company Broadcast.com to Yahoo, but the programmers themselves have mostly faded from view.
"Try to find any of the many that created original content for PSEUDO.com, TSN, EYADA.com, Broadcast.com and others that I have long forgotten," Cuban writes, in a warning to starry-eyed Podcasters. "There is a good chance that their history is your future".»"
Mark Cuban, the billionaire founder of Broadcast.com and current owner of the Dallas Mavericks, has a message for Podcasters who have dollar signs in their eyes: Read your history books.
Sure, Podcasting is the faddiest thing since, well, the iPod itself. Everyone and their golden-voiced brother is jumping onto the Net to provide their own audio take on life, the universe, and the latest episode of American Idol.
But we've all seen how this one ends, Cuban says. The above description is precisely what happened in the mid- and late 1990s, when streaming audio technology made everyone a home Webcaster. The radio shows weren't downloadable, but thousands of people became the equivalent of radio and television producers overnight. Lots of money was invested in the space, with little ultimately to show for it.
Granted, Cuban himself made his fortune by selling streaming media infrastructure company Broadcast.com to Yahoo, but the programmers themselves have mostly faded from view.
"Try to find any of the many that created original content for PSEUDO.com, TSN, EYADA.com, Broadcast.com and others that I have long forgotten," Cuban writes, in a warning to starry-eyed Podcasters. "There is a good chance that their history is your future".»"
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