Posts Tagged ‘ scarcity ’

Social Media Entertainment, Cool or Too Hot to Handle?

Sep 2nd, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Alternate Reality, Cross Media, LAMP, Last Post, On-demand, Participatory Media, Social Media, TV, viral

Hats off to the producers, Ellenor and Marcus, of this social, cross-media show. Scorched - Australia’s first ‘what-if’ disaster telemovie with a few enhancements. Did they get their fingers burnt, is it really over and was it a little too scarey?

As I have mentioned before in various articles sized posts on this blog and my [...]

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Professional Music Creation becomes Social

Jul 16th, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Last Post, Media Personalizing, Music Indie, Production, Social Media

I think it is fantastic when creative people, who have been traditionally forced by scarcity of distribution and BIG media stranglehold on markets to play by others rules, start to forge their own future regardless of corporations. Known as the Queen of the Indies in the UK (thanks Paul Bennun for that label) Imogen Heap [...]

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Watch YouTube, Google Video and iTunes on your TV

Aug 26th, 2006 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Devices, Distribution, Media Personalizing, On-demand, Portals, Social Software, TV, Web 2.0

Now I generally dont blog about devices because as we know ‘it’ is about experience design, stories, easy to use tools and elegant product design - and no, I am not on commission but this product for me is media distribution come full circle. I have personally been through the cycle of

Web TV (the boxes [...]

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TiVo embrace vlogs

Dec 11th, 2005 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Creativity, Distribution, Media Personalizing, On-demand, Personalization, Production, Revolution, Social Software, TV, Transformation

I often refer in my presentations to Akimbo back in May starting to deliver vlogs (videoblogs) via its IPTV service in the US. It is pretty revolutionary that alongside and at the same level on the EPG as CNN, The History Channel, BBC , Cartoon Network and Turner Movies we get personalized stories from individuals. [...]

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David and Googliath

Nov 7th, 2005 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Advertising, Distribution, Divergence, Innovation, Media Personalizing, Portals, Revolution, Search, Transformation

Who would have thought a web site that started as searches for text strings could start to worry the biggest corporations on the planet? Well the New York times today in the article “Just Googling It Is Striking Fear Into Companies” points out that as more and more people are becoming active searchers (and in [...]

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