Posts Tagged ‘ Showtime ’

Brand and Media Survival Guide to Virtual Worlds - talk transcript

May 6th, 2007 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Alternate Reality, Brands, Distribution, Games, Media Personalizing, Mixed Reality, On-demand, Profiling, Revolution, Second Life, Social Software, Targeting, Transformation, Virtual Reality, Web 2.0, Web 3.0

NOTE: Based on my sticky post ‘The Brand Owners Guide to Joining the Metaverse“.
As promised a rough transcript of my keynote talk to CeBit last week based on my experience of actually building some Second Life sims, talking to those who use them and creating branded environments that have more usage than any others inworld, [...]

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My Virtual World Brand Talks and Comparative Data

Apr 27th, 2007 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Brands, Cross Media, Events, Games, Innovation, Media Personalizing, Mixed Reality, Portals, Production, Revolution, Second Life, Social Software, Story Telling, Transformation, Virtual Worlds, Web 2.0, Web 3.0

The Second Life builds I did for Telstra BigPond and ABC TV (interview with me at SLOZ and also here at CeBit about this) have been very successful (via The Project Factory) and I have been ’sucked’ into doing several keynote, panels and seminars about this exciting development. The growing maturity (2nd generation) of brands, [...]

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About Gary

Apr 27th, 2007 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Media Personalizing

Garys Full Wikipedia Profile Link.
After joining the BBC in London as an editor Gary quickly moved on to lead the BBC’s development of the internet, interactive TV and emerging platforms from 95-04 as Senior Producer and Development Manager. He devised & produced many of the BBC’s ‘firsts’ - Digital Text, the first broadcast interactive TV [...]

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Metaverse Brands

Feb 4th, 2007 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Media Personalizing

or thirteen non-exhaustive tips for organisations considering becoming stars in the new web 3.0 revolution…
I have mentioned before that I am currently working on a couple of major and one or two minor media companies first forays into the metaverse, or its most accessible incarnation Second Life. I can’t talk about them directly of course [...]

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The Brand Owners Guide to Joining the Metaverse

Feb 4th, 2007 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Advertising, Brands, Featured Articles, Games, Innovation, Media Personalizing, Personalization, Portals, Revolution, Second Life, Social Software, TV, Transformation, Virtual Worlds, Web 2.0, Web 3.0

or thirteen non-exhaustive tips for organisations considering becoming stars in the new web 3.0 revolution…
I have mentioned before that I am currently working on a couple of major and one or two minor media companies first forays into the metaverse, or its most accessible incarnation Second Life. I can’t talk about them directly of course [...]

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TV property branded Virtual Worlds - the beginning

Sep 26th, 2006 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Advertising, Brands, Cross Media, Distribution, Divergence, Events, Games, Media Personalizing, Personalization, Portals, Revolution, Social Software, TV, Transformation, Virtual Reality, Virtual Worlds, Web 3.0

I was on a Portable Content Symposium panel last night “Content with your content? How the convergence of media is changing everything we know”. A fellow panelist Ean Thorley (Exec prod at MTV Australia) briefly referred to a new MTV virtual space Laguna Beach - when we started talking about the impact web 3.0 on [...]

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Long time coming Apple?

Sep 15th, 2006 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Devices, Distribution, Events, Innovation, Mobile, Mobile TV, On-demand, Revolution, TV

One of those told you so moments and great to think one is ahead of the curve. Back in December 05 I blogged in a post entitled “Apple iHomeMediaCenter” about a few chats I had with Apple folk at the launch of the mac mini in San Fran in Jan 2005 and previously at 2002 [...]

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“Fanisodes” People Powered Entertainment

Apr 29th, 2006 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Advertising, Creativity, Distribution, Innovation, Media Personalizing, Personalization, Revolution, Social Software, TV, Transformation

Ever since I line produced the ‘personalized’ interactive pilot of the L Word with the AFI and Showtime I have been keeping an eye on initiatives that Showtime have been trying out - many via the web given iTV, 3G and IPTV are still just coming out of the woods in US. It was fabulous [...]

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Yahoo! The Program Maker

Jan 2nd, 2006 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Advertising, Cross Media, Distribution, Interactive TV, Interactivity, Media Personalizing, On-demand, Portals, Production, Revolution, TV, Transformation

Within hours of a prediction in the last post that one of the online giants would start to deliver TV-like shows over the internet I find a report “…Reality series pilot to be broadcast on the internet” in the San Francisco chronicle. The article points out that Yahoo! is starting to dip its toes into [...]

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It’s not about them, it’s about me!

Oct 6th, 2005 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Creativity, Cross Media, Divergence, Innovation, Interactive TV, Interactivity, Media Personalizing, On-demand, Personalization, Production, Profiling, Story Telling, TV

�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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