MySpace, FIlm Council and Channel 4
MySpace is generally about music but that doesn’t mean it can’t also be about film - and now it’s owners have a strong UK presence that’s what it’s trying to do.
The upstart social network is in talks with the continuously, perpetually upstart UK TV channel, Channel 4, and together they’re asking the UK film council [...]
The New in Television Services on the Web
There are sites that index TV shows and then there’s Tioti.
“We currently index 1,600+ TV shows - 90,000+ episodes - and we are
matching everything up with content sources like iTunes, AOL and Amazon
Unbox - with more to come.
Our beta feature set allows you to do exactly what it says
on the tin and do [...]
TV, IPTV Roundup
The week was marked by growing interest in how the future of TV will pan out on the web.
There was the realisation by Robert Scoble that vidcasting is less economic than he first thought, covered here, and a rumination by Mark Evans on how the web and TV together engage viewers better.
Mark was also [...]
My Diet Friends
Mydietfriends.com is a site I’ve been working on with my wife Rose. Like many women she’s spent her life worrying about her weight. I don’t think she ever got to the bottom of why but now she has cancer it’s become a more pressing concern for us both.
So we decided to set up mydietfriends. The [...]
Video Podcasting Costs - Some Surprises Here
On the possibility of financially successful podcasting this is from Robert Scoble on his video blogging and the cost of doing video business on the web (and take in this post that extends the argument):
“….the videos I’m putting up are around 200MB a piece. The bandwidth distributors I know are charging $.14 or more PER [...]
The Great Sketch Experiment
Interesting to see Hollywood directors heading for the web and the latest is John Landis, in this report from techcrunch.
In the case of the Great Sketch Experiment, sponsored by Verizon, Landis’ presence is embarassing. Sketch comedy has a noble past and a lousy one. They’re great and they’re awful. Here the sketches are not [...]
Democracy Player Improves
The tech sites have focused today on Democracy Players downloadable IPTV suite. Democracy Player is building up its channel portfolio and offering an open standard solution to IPTV viewing. They currently boast 700 channels.
I wrote about it a month ago and would say pretty much the same again - the emphasis with video has [...]
Second Life Rationality
I get the feeling there’s a Second Life hype going on - and am I naive. Pretty much anything with a logical endpoint can be hyped. I mean blogging’s logical endpoint is it replaces news, Second Life’s logical endpoint is it becomes a substitute reality for all of us. But like Skype’s logical endpoint is [...]
Quality Content : American Urban Network Goes Global
I don’t know if it’s common knowledge or if thre is common consent on this issue: Japan is on the edge of urban culture. Bringing Japanese culture into a global network of urban culture websites and channels and delivering it to web, TV and mobile phones though is another step in providing diverese quality content [...]
Web Spaces: Social Networks or Networked Culture
Mashable covers this today:
“Designed for the “urban youth” demographic, California-based CrackSpace will offer exclusive videos and tracks from artists like Ludacris, T.I., Diddy, Akon, Ghostface, Lloyd Banks, Hi-Tek, Jim Jones and Foxy Brown.”
I have my doubts about the “exclusive” videos. CrackSpace, as Mashable points out joins others like HipHopCrack and Hi5 serving HipHop communities.
These are [...]