Great to see that creative energy is still being focused on where the audiences are. A typical example of this is Clickwheel who are aggregating audio comic books - and utilising the fact that millions of people are walking around with quality audio and still image players (namely photo capable iPods). They help users create [...]

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Seems there is no stopping the User Generated Content revolution as TV 1.0 becomes TV 2.0 (ala web 1.0 business publishing, web 2.0 self-publishing). TV 2.0 (you heard it here first - well actually not here first Wired Sep 05) is a world of programming created by people for the people, vanity publishing, sharing within [...]

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It has been quite a few days since my last post and was expecting to have a great deal to write about but there seems to be a bit of a lull in some of the end of 2005 developments. The exponential rise in mobile rich media, broadband TV and web 2.0 has stalled slightly. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Realtime (and OnScreen) a journal looking at performance, dance, music, digital and the visual arts have published an interview my cohort from LAMP Peter Giles and I did a few weeks ago. Always interested in which bits Karen Pearlman decided to pull out of the ‘chat’. Anyway you can go to the article here or [...]

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According to a Reuters report Cingular’s COO thinks things are about to get very interesting in the mobile phone video/TV department. Today they unveiled a deal that will make available a range of content from the US’s leading cable content company HBO.
“Now you can turn a boring everyday moment into an opportunity to escape,” [...]

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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 [...]

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Picking up from a thread in my previous post, something that I have been occasionally known to fume about is ‘professional’ attitudes to user generated content. We are moving into a period where there will be more user generated content in the next two years than in all human history and alongside this we have [...]

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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 [...]

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�Interactivity must require viewers to give something of themselves and for the system to resonate with that. If all you put in is a vacuous selection, all you will get out is a vacuous outcome.�

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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.

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Films of games in my mind don’t cut the mustard. So why are they still making them? It comes as no surprise that Halo (a game which was part-epithany for me) is being made into a large scale feature film. Also not surprising that Mr. Lord of the Rings Peter Jackson is going to take [...]

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