Gary 7 Vodcasts: Social TV, Serious Games, Machinima, Social Media & MultiPlatform
Running the Australian Laboratory for Advanced Media production I often have to provide a broad...
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Tag: MP3
The Mixed Reality Perfect Storm
“Mixed Reality is the merging of real world and virtual worlds to produce new environments where physical and digital objects can co-exist and interact in real-time. - Wikipedia “I think we are really...
Read MoreHeritage brands washed away by web 2.0 Tsunami
I was quite shocked when I heard the news that TOTP (Top of the Pops) is to close down after 42 years and some 2100 episodes. Is this the first of many major ‘heritage’ media brands that are just becoming irrelevant...
Read MoreOne small step for convergence
Now don’t worry this blog is not turning into somekind of mobile review site – but I am in a ‘mobile-converged-device’ mode at the moment, combined with ‘media journey’ ontology – a sad...
Read MoreThe story in your hand
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...
Read MoreTail wags the dog…
or mobile media promotes its TV big brother. As iTunes and other mobile media portals take hold it comes as a surprise that the media is surprised about an effect which seems rather obvious – those who watch iPod video TV...
Read MoreSmart Targeting
While browsing some gadget sites the other day with my partner we came across a company called SmartAdds who seem to be inextricably attached to the almost defunct Gizmondo, convergent device. The device is/was interesting in...
Read MoreNew TV Business Models
A great New Year article in B&C, entitled “The New Deal” sets the foundations for the year as TV networks understand the new business models and line up for the broadband TV revolution. Programmers thrive when...
Read MoreApple iHomeMediaCenter?
Not one to subscribe to rumour but this is one I have been keeping an eye on since January last year during the Macworld expo (where I also caught a glimpse of the video iPod!). Thinksecret has caught wind of something that has...
Read MorePortals of Profitable Production
He and other producers are convinced that the low cost of digital production and distribution will allow Internet TV to thrive even with small audiences. “We can get by with 100,000 subscribers,” Mr. Myrick said....
Read MoreBe what I expect you to be
More complex personalized media experiences start to take into account time and place. For example – you prefer certain types of content on the move so all your MP3’s collected by various agents end up automatically on the portable player – again with you opt in and then without your intervention.
Read MoreNever mind the bandwidth feel the content
But like the invention of any technology that allows us to self publish and share – cave walls, paper, books, the telephone, cassette, CD, VHS, DVD the medium is most definitely not the message.
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