Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft (The big three) are relatively open in recent posts about the fact that behavioural targeting & personalization is now high on their agenda and part of an on-going strategy. Microsoft’s press announcement yesterday was picked up in MediaPost, amongst many others, their plans to follow up on Bill Gates’s CES [...]

Popularity: 3% [?]

All this in the last week only - my head hurts trying to track it all! In case you haven’t noticed TV and video being made easily available for commercial download over the internet is continuing unabated. Since its early beginnings in the last quarter of last year things are really starting to accelerate, on [...]

Popularity: 6% [?]

One of my resolutions this year is to blog more about actual personalized services rather than looking too much at the easy target of emerging trends, mostly dominated by US companies launching obvious services based on new technology enablers. I have posted before about personalizing the experience at service (read: interactive package) level and the [...]

Popularity: 3% [?]

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!
So I made it through the end of year celebs, family and big ‘life’ changes that inevitably seem to happen to me around this time – and here I heads down and almost back into the blogosphere. What to start the year with? Well I missed the end of year upsum (due [...]

Popularity: 3% [?]

A report for the UK government I co-wrote with Scott Gronmark and Jonathan Marshall on metadata provision for the UK to enable national video-on-demand and time shift using TV-Anytime has finally been published on the Department of Trade and Industry site. You can download the 1.25MB PDF here. The paper is 73 pages long and [...]

Popularity: 2% [?]

Popularity: 2% [?]

Once IPTV type networks are truly enabled it becomes possible to produce services that many of us have been advocating and wishing for, for many years. A service that provides each individual viewer looking at the same content with a different experience is now reaching out to larger and larger audiences. ITVT reported on Minerva’s [...]

Popularity: 2% [?]

A short post but primarily to keep this blog inside it’s personalization remit (not that there is a remit, just…well…). If you have read any of my previous posts specifically in the ‘personalization’ or ‘media personalizing’ categories you would have realised that as we move from straight search to this area we can expect big [...]

Popularity: 2% [?]

Searching for anything over broadband web and advanced TV systems is going to have to evolve. We are still in the dark ages when it comes to getting relevant content, being forced to type in ‘keywords’ seems to me at least, such a crude, clunky way to get to stuff. I sit at computer and [...]

Popularity: 2% [?]

Having just co-written a DTI paper about the future for time shifted TV and VOD in the UK and done several posts on the subject about tools to personalize video content it was a great treat to find two projects that have reached alpha at least falling squarely in the personalize media zone. The first [...]

Popularity: 2% [?]

Apologise to my many tens of readers for being a little lapse in posting over the last weeks, a few diversions that have put me in a big picture, future mode, hence this post. Bear with me on this one - most of my small posts on big picture ramble a little. I was drawn [...]

Popularity: 3% [?]

Popularity: 2% [?]

Researchers also see the potential for offering individual, custom television shows on particular channels that are made up from clips that the service assembles for the viewer. One such show might be a compendium of morning news, for example, tailored to your commute, or a sports show that gathers clips of your favorite teams from all over.

Popularity: 2% [?]