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Yahoo - Comcast = The Deal of the Year

from Jeremy Zawodny's linkblog
Yahoo - Comcast = The Deal of the Year: "The competitive landscape for video advertising just changed, and no one even noticed."

Woo. Who gives a shit? When Turner is signing deals with Joost the obvious lesson here is this: the middleman is dying. Cox (who signs my check FYI) own content. Discovery, Science, Military, etc. Comcast is a middleman. They have no value add to offer. Yahoo here is irrelevant in the long term.

I respect Cuban, but he is flat acting a fool here. This isn't "Yahoo Universal" or "Yahoo WB" this is "Yahoo I-will-be-fucking-unimportant-in-4-years". Moreover, shit like

In short, Yahoo and Comcast can start working together to develop video content and ad platforms that Google can't touch. Any video that is streamed from Comcast.net can be streamed at bit rates that match the user's throughput, including commercials. If Comcast can deliver on demand video at full DVD quality to PCs, it can deliver commercials at that quality. All without ever touching the Internet.

Means the dead-and-buried idea of Net Neutrality. Comcast is, frankly, a sebaceous cyst on the ass end of the media world, and should be eliminated from the whole equation.