Richard Titus is the CEO of Associated
Northcliffe Digital (AND), a subsidiary of Daily Mail and
General Trust. Richard was also previously a future Media Controller at
the BBC responsible for the
award winning BBC homepage,
Richard Titus will be speaking at
the Media 2010 Commercial Media Summit in Sydney on February 19.
www.media2010.com.au
What was your first memory of the web?
I've been using the Internet since I was very young, (sub
10 years old) since my father, a defense contractor, had an Arapanet
connection in our home. However, I was late to the World Wide Web, and
saw it in a backroom of a party in the Hollywood Hills in the 90's. I
spent the entire night till dawn clicking the mosaic browser links from
page to page. At 1st I thought it was HyperCard!
What is
your favourite website that not enough people know about? www.alltop.com; close second,
www.netvibes.com
Current
mobile handset? I have a Blackberry, Google Nexus, and an iPhone 3Gsm; but I live in the future.
Mac or PC? Mac,
because its aesthetically pleasurable and never acquires viruses.
What
social media platforms do you use and how? I work on
Linkedin and live on Facebook. Twitter is like the telephone network,
its important but I don't think about it very often.
Google
or Bing? I'm agnostic, but if my Korean were better I'd
use Naver.
Paywalls for news - gifted or misguided?
I think that content can be monetized either directly or indirectly,
recurring or singularly. Any other belief is extremist and misguided.
Markets are ruled by scarcity, fashion and the absence of friction.
What do you think is the next big thing in 2010? I
think that the apple iPad is the beginning of the end of the traditional
6lb laptop. I think that immediacy and targeting are the most important
trends.
What, if anything, is holding IPTV back? Simple,
cohesive open standards and decent API's. Oh yes, and the fact that
most people’s Internet connections are in the study, and their TV is in
the living room.
