Got my Joost beta access today. Has anyone else gotten access and taken it for a spin? And if so...what do you think so far?
I have used it on an intel-mac so far, but will be experimenting on a few different platforms in the coming days.
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Google is about to sign a deal with Dish Network, the nation’s second largest satellite TV company, to deliver ads for Dish’s network.
Given Google’s strategy with targeted advertising, Google will attempt to apply the advertising auction model to indexed data about television shows, user demographics and other important metrics.
Google may be on its way to cracking the huge television market, to deliver a very different kind of ad to peoples’ living rooms. According to the WSJ Saturday, Google has begun a test run serving up TV...
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The online video boom is starting to eat into TV viewing time, an ICM survey of 2,070 people for the BBC suggests.
Some 43% of Britons who watch video from the internet or on a mobile device at least once a week said they watched less normal TV as a result.
And online and mobile viewing is rising - three quarters of users said they now watched more than they did a year ago.
But online video viewers are still in the minority, with just 9% of the population saying they do it regularly.
Another 13% said they watched occasionally,...
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Everyone complains about the monopoly that Microsoft or Apple's iTunes has, but at least you have a choices.
What about the cable? What about the crapy UI?
Eric Olson writes:
Television is definitely heading online. Major League Baseball is already allowing fans subscribe to a service that allows them to watch all the games they want online and PBS allows viewers to view PBS shows right from PBS.org. This is exciting because it means that the technology is out there and it works. Also, all TV channels have web sites already so they are...
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt believes television viewers should not have to stand for tv commercials that are “a waste of your time.”
Schmidt is frustrated that “When you watch the television you see ads that are clearly not targeted for you.”
What does he plan to do about it?
Google is preparing to deliver “targeted measurable television ads” and Schmidt says Google has “a good shot at it.”
“we are in the search business, so we need all of the information. We want to partner with people to get information so our...
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No VotesEmail this | No Comments | 1 ImageDownloads will only be viewable for a 24-hour viewing period and prices will start at 99 cents per episode. The studios have framed the agreements as a step towards further delegitimizing piracy, but the DRM wrapped around the downloads make that debatable. Perhaps most important is the juxtaposition of three major media company names and phrase P2P. That will be great for legitimization of the medium.
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