Social media strategies & trends
At the Intel Developer Forum Wednesday I was pulled aside and invited to interview Eric B. Kim, an Intel senior vice president and general manager of its Digital Home Group. Earlier in the day I heard Kim give a keynote talk with Patrick Barry, vice presdent of TV for Yahoo!
Kim talks about this significant new development in the 11-minute interview (above).
Happy to Earth Day! I remember taking part in the first Earth Day in the ’70s in New Jersey by helping set up a recycling program when I was just a pup. To mark the day, tonight I watched Planet Earth on the Discovery Channel and Nature on PBS. Tonight’s Nature focused was titled Dogs […]
At Friday’s Getting Ready for Prime Time: Online Video and the Future of Television conference in Berkeley, I grabbed Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle for this 7-minute video about the obstacles and opportunities in archiving our television heritage. Brewster’s great to listen to, as always. (Saw him Friday in Berkeley, Saturday at the Ourmedia gathering, […]
A few takeaways from today’s Getting Ready for Prime Time: Online Video and the Future of Television conference in Berkeley, CA: Interesting tidbit: Someone pointed out that the Minnow — the name of the boat in “Gilligan’s Island” — was a tongue-in-cheek reference to Newton Minnow, the FCC commissioner who in 1961 described television as […]
We at Ourmedia are big supporters of the efforts by Participatoryculture.org to create a free, open-source platform for Internet television. They’ve come a big step closer to that vision this week with the release of DTV: Internet TV on Your Mac. As the site says: DTV is a new, free and open-source platform for internet […]
