Archive for the ‘Television’ Category

The explosion of the networked society

Saturday, March 11th, 2006Digital music downloads triplesDigital music sale revenue tripled in the first half of 2005 compared with 2004, figures have suggestedDigital music sale revenue tripled in the first half of 2005 compared with 2004, figures have suggested. The International Federation ...

Communities Contexulalize Brands

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006This review of our book - (always great that someone is reading us). Meant a great deal to Tomi and I, as its diamond drilling down into our theories was so well done.Rob Kleine at Digito Society says ...

The economics of Group forming Network theory

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006I came across David Reed recently, who has done some very interesting work around networks and their economic value.Here are some highlights from Reeds paper on Reeds Law In networks like the Internet, Group Forming Networks (GFNs) are an ...

Will Mobile TV Be a Turn-On?

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006Or will it be a Red Herring?Dick Emery of UKTV said: Mobile to TV content is like sex in the open air. Sounds like a really good idea but not always practicalTomi is interviewed by Red Herring ...

Transformation and the “Y” of convergence

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006Tomi writes:The advertising giant Ogilvy has made it a tradition to bring their top telecoms clients to an exclusive seminar coinciding with the biggest telecoms event, 3GSM World Congress, that moved from Cannes to Barcelona this year. Alan and I ...

BT, Virgin and Microsoft in TV deal

Monday, February 13th, 2006BT Group and Microsoft are set to team up with Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Mobile to launch what is expected to be Europe's first nationwide digital television broadcast service for mobile phones.Confirmation of the roll-out of the service is ...

Consumer is an industrial-age word

Friday, February 10th, 2006Consumer is an industrial-age word, a broadcast-age word. It implies that we are all tied to our chairs, head back, eating "content" and crapping cash.According to Doc SearlsVia engagementalliance

Not just another column about blogging

Thursday, February 9th, 2006Inflamatory stuff from Jack Schafer in What newspaper history says about newspaper future. I'm not about to predict what the collapsing cost of media creation will ultimately do to the news business, if only because my track record at ...

The economics of unbundled advertising

Thursday, February 9th, 2006Terry Heaton says But now we've entered the world of unbundled media, where people download individual songs instead of buying CDs, watch programs when and where they want (without the commercials), and read news stories or snippets of stories via ...

The end of TV as we know it: A future industry perspective

Thursday, February 9th, 2006I picked this up via Peter Bates mentions a report recently published by IBM The end of TV as we know it: A future industry perspectivePeter says; according to a recent report the broadcasting industry is confronting ...

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