BlogTV, a blogvideo streaming service (live & pre-recorded), is the latest social platform rushing over to offer its services mobile. Their new site m.blogtv.com offers live streaming to almost any ‘video’ capable phone with the exclusion of the iPhone.
BlogTV enables the host and viewers to communicate and therefore create a more engaging experience rather then just providing pre-recorded video content. They claim that the entire interaction experience is available on most modern phones.
If you are wanting to find out what currently the best content or conversations are on the web then head over to popurls.com. This is a smart little web aggregates that collects the headlines and latest (popular) material from a host of different news, social, and sharing websites.
It is available directly via your web browser or directly to mobile, iPhone, PSP, PS3, twitter, jaiku and Wii.
Basically popurl is a nice GUI of RSS feeds that you don’t have to set up yourself, anyone who uses RSS will understand the logic behind it buy ultimately use their own setup. If you are wishing to explain how RSS feeds work, this is a great place to take people as an example.l
Do you have Games listed as a legitimate place for your marketing in 2008. Do you know the opportunities that games can provide for you? If not then here a a few quick facts for you. Continue reading
Yahoo shut its premium music download service today, redirecting all traffic to Real Networks’ Rhapsody service. This is in direct relation to Apple‘s dominance of the online music service through the iTunes Music Store. Although this may be fairly short lived if Microsft is successful in its takeover bid of Yahoo who will be seeking to strengthen its music delivery channels for its Zune music player.
It seems that everyone is adding a mobile channel to their platforms. youTube has just launched m.youtube.com which enables users of 3G and WiFi phones to log in and view video content.
To use the mobile channel you need to download a mobile application which is only available for a limited number of late model phones including the iPhone
For more information visit the youtube blog
Livecastr has launched a platform that allow people to broadcast video ‘live’ from their mobile phone. The video can be viewed either from a friends mobile, the Livecastr site or from the Livecastr player which can be embedded into the ‘broadcasters’ personal web page or social network platform.
Livecastr is currently in private beta release which means that they are seeking people to test their platform for them. Look to Livecastr in the future becoming a important media channel for businesses wanting to participate in the newmedia conversation.
Is this technology important? Continue reading
Its a question that we at emersive have been asked a lot recently so I thought I’d start the new year with my prediction for what is going to be big in 2008. I have four, yes four, I could not slim it down to one as I believe all of these advances are as important as each other.
Google has launched new mobile platform called Android which is an open platform for mobile devices. It enables the development of connectivity tools to be developed that links mobile to the internet. Google has also announced a $10million prize pool for develpers who build innovative apps for the platform.
So if you take all the technical mumbo jumbo away what does ‘Android‘ mean to consumers, business and markets. It simply comes down to one simple concept.
The ability to be digitally connected from any location. Continue reading
English band Radiohead challenged the deeply rooted traditions of the music industry last month when they released their latest album online allowing their fans to determine how much they wanted to pay for the album.
More than one third of consumers that have downloaded the album have paid for it, even though they could download it for free.
People offered to bay the averagel price of £3.85 for the allbum. Initial estimates (and these are only estimates as radiohead has not released any official stats) put income in the range of 10 million pounds within the first month.
