The pivot Netflix has undertaken has been wrought with shortcomings and misteps, none of which are necessarily the pivot itself. The most aggregious is it’s failure to effectively communicate to it’s customers. Apple Outsider outlines just how easy that could’ve been to correct.
That’s why today we’re announcing significant changes to our company. First, we are renaming the DVD by mail business to Netflix Classic. This is the same DVD rental service you’re used to, but it’s more than just a name: Netflix Classic is a new company, operating independently as a subsidiary of Netflix.
Moving forward, Netflix as a company will be dedicated to streaming media. This is a realization of our original vision, and of the company’s name: watching movies over the Internet. The Netflix.com website and mobile apps will exclusively service our streaming library. DVD members will manage their queues at classic.netflix.com.
If you subscribe to both services, you’ll see two charges on your credit card instead of one, but you’ll pay the same total amount per month you do now. This, along with our recent pricing changes, is just a necessary outcome from creating two separate companies. DVD members will of course still receive the same red Netflix envelope that has been familiar to them all these years.
They’ve outdone themselves again. Taiwanese news animation house, Next Media Animation, put together a superb one-minute summary of the new Facebook movie.
Time magazine’s 2010 list of the 100 most influential people is an absolute joke. Lady Gaga? Anyone who’s qualifications include “diva” are automatically disqualified. Sandra Bullock? Snooki? Are these really the “women” we want to put on a pedestal for our youth to emulate? And so it doesn’t look like I’m just tearing down women on the list, you can’t be serious about Neil Patrick Harris? And Dan Coudreaut, really? The head chef of McDonald’s? You can’t be serious.
Since Time’s list is obviously a joke (I can’t really blame them since you need to sell copies by any means necessary in today’s print publishing world) I feel it would be a disservice to America and the world if a real list wasn’t put out. So below, compiled by me and me alone, is the real 2010 list of the 100 most influential people. They’re in no particular order, but are organized by category. Read the rest of this entry »
