The vision here is huge. And I think that like one of the Zoom features we're going to talk about is the thing where you could send music to people. >> This was the age of mix tapes and CD burning and dear friend writing little messages and Sharpie on the little thing.And I I just opened like a CD um >> case from that time period uh not that long ago. And it was like my best friend from high school who's still my best friend today just going like for V. >> Yeah.>> Love A. And I was like >> that's great. Do ...

November 2006, the Zoom launches. One of the main features was that you could send tracks to other Zunes nearby. Uh sort of a like proto airdrop kind of situation.Um but the best part was you could play if I sent you a track fee, you could play it three times over 3 days. >> That was it. >> Stupid.>> And Neil, what was the feature called. >> It was called squirting. You could squirt the tracks to each other there.You that literally in the in the marketing material. on sporting. ...

Why do I keep saying the creator economy is going to implode. Because there's some analysis of of Google's earnings this quarter that suggests YouTube Shorts now makes more money than YouTube proper. That's bad news for the creator economy.Right. The way YouTube Shorts is monetized, vastly different than the way traditional YouTube is monetized. >> Second, YouTube Shorts, just like Tik Tok or Instagram Reels, not built on a follow model.So, to the extent that any creator owned an audience on YouTube by havi ...

Creator Economy Challenges - The creator economy is facing immense pressure, potentially leading to its collapse [1][6] - Platforms may exploit creators, prioritizing their own interests over fair compensation [2] - Creators are increasingly reliant on brand deals to supplement insufficient platform revenue [2] - Authenticity is compromised as creators cater to ad agencies and brands [3] - The rise of AI-generated synthetic creators poses a significant threat to individual creators [4] - AI advertising tools promise infinite creative content and targeted delivery, intensifying competition [4][5] - Creators are forced to optimize content for algorithms, further diminishing authenticity [6] Revenue & Business Model Concerns - Many creators are essentially functioning as ad agencies [3] - Reliance on ad revenue leads to compromises in content creation [3] - The pressure to maintain revenue streams can negatively impact the creator-audience relationship [3]

I brought a Zoom. I brought a very very special Zoom. Uh >> this is a period of weird exclusives across the industry.Somehow the Zoom team decided that what would save the Zoom in 2008 is producing 500 limited edition Joy Division Zoons. >> You know, Joy Division famously the biggest band in the world. >> Everyone has a t-shirt.Very few people have the records. It's like basically how that goes. So they were like, "We're just going to put the unknown pleasure sticker on a Zoom and then people will be confus ...

So, we you and I both brought Zooms today. Mine >> and I just bought >> I bought a brown >> You bought a brown >> iPod on eBay. >> This is your Zoom like your OG Zoom. Or did you bought this one for the show? >> I bought it on eBay for the show. It was $59. >> Wow. >> And I've spent a lot of time trying to decide if I got a good deal or a terrible deal. >> You know, it retained a surprising amount of its value for being a 20 almost 20-year-old device. >> Right. >> Yeah. >> I was going to say retained a surp ...

Did either of you have the first Zoom. >> No, I was too poor. >> Did you want the first Zoom. >> I did want one.Yeah. Yes. Because um so Zoom comes out 2006.I'm a young bushy eyed 18-year-old flying off to Tokyo to do the next seven years in Tokyo. My iPod, the the one with the video was a piece of I had dropped it so much. >> That thing was expensive, too.That's tough. At least you had an iPod. I had like a a creative zen something or other that was like a spinning hard drive inside of a box about, you kno ...

We talked about Samsung fridges getting ads and now we know what they look like. >> I see an ad on the bottom of a slow Tyson screen for water filters. And that is a big ad. That is not a small ad.It's like the bottom. It's not quite a third. It's like the bottom fifth of the screen is ad.>> So they call this a widget and it's actually a rotating thing. And the ad is one of four things in the rotation. So there's one that's news, one that I think is your calendar, one that's the weather, and then one that i ...

My house lit on fire. You can never leave again. >> Yeah, I really uh like I learned about this from a like a blue sky post and then a social video that has been everywhere on my feeds from you being like PSA throw your search protectors away. >> I learned a lot about uh what happens when my face goes viral from that video.Uh so you know sur protectors expire. This is just a thing. All the manufacturers will tell you after three to five years like get rid of them.Some even shorter. If you are the type of pe ...

It's the early 2000s and all you want to do is listen to some music. Best case scenario, you have the money to afford an iPod and the even more money to afford songs at 99 cents a piece. Worst case scenario, you have like a MP3 player with a dying hard drive that you are desperately trying to keep alive.Maybe you're running around with a binder full of CDs like it's the '90s. Well, I have a better answer. It's a new device from Microsoft and it lets you play music, listen to the radio, watch videos, look at ...