Serendipity 2009

Serendipity 2009

• Are CBS, NBC, ABC and FOX must have’s ?? November 2, 2009
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• this looks very cool…. June 27, 2009
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• Michael Jackson is a test. He is only a test of the emergency broadcast system June 26, 2009
  Guest post – Dean Takahashi – 6/25/09 The Internet was built to withstand nuclear attack. That was why it was built in the ’60s in the first place, as a communications system with redundancy built in so that the military could communicate even if one of the nodes went down. We saw some of that happen today, [...]
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• Will TV last as it is today in its present form? June 16, 2009
  What’s going to happen when we can watch anything on-line we see on TV today or in the theaters instantly on-line (and that image is delivered to your living room or any TV) ? What happens to the ‘per subscriber’ guarantees that programmers pay cable ops to carry their satellite feed? And when I [...]
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• What is ‘Real-Time’ search? And why should I care? May 27, 2009
  So you’ve heard of real-time search yet? If you haven’t, you will in the next 30-60 days. Its the newest iteration of search and its actually quite different in that you can compare and contrast the 2  ’search’ methods like a river and an ocean. RTS (real-time search) is like a blast of information that [...]
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• Interesting bitsandbytes – celebrity data, new search engines, Disney’s views on content May 18, 2009
  Interesting bitsandbytes: Celebrity Data: *Ken Sonenclar, managing director of DeSilva+Phillips, opened the media investment bank’s Future of Celebrity Media conference, by pointing out that entertainment mags are down 18 percent, not as bad as magazines in general. And as more bloggers create their one celeb-focused sites and media stars like Ashton K […]
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• TV is coming to the iPhone and it’s free and it will ‘rock’ rumor has it. May 16, 2009
  Word on the street is Hulu will be putting out a free iPhone app very soon that streams full length TV shows using 3G and WiFi. And any hopes of AT&T charging for TV flew out the window.  Guess Apple will be sucking wind about charging all of us now through iTunes to watch [...]
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• Passed links vs. search..which gets more traffic? The answer might surprise you! April 29, 2009
  Fred Wilson had an interesting post this week about traffic, social nets and Google. The basic question was this: Has the time come where suggesting a link to your friends in a social network or a blog (Facebook, MySpace, Linked in, etc) actually registers more traffic to that particular page rather than a google search [...]
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• Can you put yourself in a video game? You sure can right now! (see video below) April 26, 2009
  (Disclaimer: I am currently doing some work for BigStage Entertainment) There is some very cool technology here today and hopefully soon will be available to the masses to play with. Big Stage Entertainment, located in Los Angeles owns the tech and software and has been striking deals with some very large and well known entertainment [...]
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• Cable operators are OUT of room…no kidding! April 19, 2009
  Holy cow Batman!! We ran out of room? So what’s a programming service to do when they don’t have channel space to put even their own cable offering on the air? Punt! How do you do that? Well, there’s a little under-the-radar company in San Jose that provides ‘web-infused’ TV. They produce a magic box and [...]
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