Digital Magic is A World Leader In Online Content - What?
Digital Magics is an Italian company that has projects other new media ventures only dream of.
First they have a platform for mixing live TV with user content in real time. In other words what they do is driven by user interest and user contributions and they’ve worked out how best to do it, cheaply, while […]
Video Search Creates Great Content
Mary Hodder has been busy over at dabble and today at Cross Media Week she demoed the site and the content that users are logging and exploring.
Mary’s presentation offered nothing new from the technological perspective for those who’ve followed dabble but seeing it now in action with five thousand users is becoming more of […]
Great Content is not Necessarily Professional Content
Cross Media week touched on this issue in a session led by Gabe McIntrye of xolo.tv. Xolo is suddenly a multifaceted business so cutting to the quality content chase takes a detour.
Gabe makes vlogs for clients. That’s one line of business. See here at vlogbymini.de, a multilingual site all about the mini and mini […]
Games versus Play, Innovation versus Creativity
I just attended an interesting session which focused on play on the web, play as distinct from games.
The presenter was Julian Blocker and his point is there are people out there playing with the line between real life and web life, devising games for example that impose real life limits on a virtual experience.
The effect […]
Dan Gillmor on New Media
Dan Gillmor of the Center for Citizen Media made the point that the business model used by newspapers may implode before we’ve nurtured a replacement. I asked him to expand on that.
His analysis, a bit like I’ve said here a few times, is newspapers began laying off journalists because the papers were not improving profits […]
Quotes from Cross Media Week
Quotes from Cross Media Week.
“I predict that within 18 months there will be a new major brand that has emerged from Second Life and only from Second Life.” Andrew McGregor Text 100 Pr
“YouTube could become the next Napster. Over the next few months it’s all guns blazing.” Marc Canter.
“There are people who don’t believe […]
Craig’s List and The Good Web
Craig Newmark is notoriously self-effacing about the success of Craig’s List and famously uninterested in monetising hus business beyond his needs. On the stage at Crossmedia Week a couple of questions from the audience inferred that Craig’s List could be a more collaborative environment for other companies in the social network’s scene - akin to […]
The Scariest Comment at Crossmedia Week so Far?
Dan Gillmor.
I’m worried that traditional quality (in journalism) will disappear because of the implosion of the business model before we’ve had time to create what will replace it.
IPTV’s Forward March
KPN the Dutch telco have a strong presence at crossmedia week - as you’d expect so I sat down and talked to the head of their consumer content division, Joris Van Heukelom, formerly of MTV.
They’re quite different organisations, telcos and TV companies I put to him. Well telcos have to embrace creativity that’s for sure, […]
Cross Media, Crossed Wires
At the cross media conference in Amsterdam two distinct lines of thinking are obvious among presenters in the early stages.
Presenters Michael Johnson (Pixar) and John Underkoffler (Minority Report adviser) are stressing narrative and winning the devotion of audiences. Gary Carter (freemantle, UK) is emphasising how media organisations are losing power.
I don’t say these are antagonistic […]