by Allen Weiner | January 20, 2009 | 2 Comments
Online coverage of President Barack Obama’s inauguration brought new clarity to the media opportunity for social networks, proving the inherent value of varying social graphs and demonstrating what it takes to ignite powerful, meaningful conversations at a huge scale. With a dizzying array of online coverage, ranging from Hulu’s feed of Fox News to Livestation’s [...]
Category: broadcasting citizen media social media Television Tags: Barack Obama, CNN, Facebook, Obama, social media
by Allen Weiner | January 20, 2009 | 1 Comment
As someone who vividly recalls the day JFK was sworn in, I am trying to draw parallels between 1961 and 2009 (aside from the fact that JFK’s historic day was shown only on three TV networks). I am hoping the massive online and broadcast coverage helps provide me insight. I will be deploying multiple PCs [...]
Category: broadcasting citizen media Television Web 2.0 Tags: BET, Facebook, Livestation, Obama, online coverage, TV coverage, Twitter
by Allen Weiner | January 10, 2009 | 2 Comments
I am a sucker for cool video gadgets and I found ViewVu tucked away in an out of the way section of the auxiliary CES exhibition floor at the Sands Convention Center. This PVR-Pro camera is a wearable camera that allows you to clip the camera onto your shirt or jacket and shoot video while [...]
Category: blogging broadcasting citizen media Television Uncategorized Video Tags: camcorders, CES, Jumpcut, Video, VieVu, wearable camera, Yahoo
by Allen Weiner | January 9, 2009 | 1 Comment
I won’t go into too much detail here, but my colleagues Andrew Frank and Mike McGuire and I saw a demo of Yahoo!’s new Connected TV widget-based service, and it was impressive. We will provide more insights in subsequent company research reports, but needless to say, Yahoo! has the first mover advantage when it comes [...]
Category: broadcasting Television Tags: CES, Connected TV, TV, Yahoo
by Allen Weiner | December 8, 2008 | Comments Off
Much as airlines such as United and Delta sought the cover of Chapter 11 bankruptcy to reorganize and attempt to meet the demands of changing market dynamics, the venerable Tribune Company publisher of eight large daily metro newspapers, is teetering on the edge of Chapter 11 as it faces billions of dollars in debts it [...]
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Category: advertising broadcasting Newspapers Publishing social media Television Uncategorized Web 2.0 Tags: Chapter 11, Chicago Cubs, Chicago Tribune, Tribune Company
by Allen Weiner | December 4, 2008 | 1 Comment
Faster than you can say, I am part of the Mapple Universe (thanks Lisa Simpson), a number of video services including Joost, mDialog and YouTube have brought rich on-demand versions of their web offers to the iPhone. Powered by innovative transcoder Ripcode, who has cracked the code in transcoding while a download is in progress, [...]
Category: blogging broadcasting Mobile Newspapers Publishing social media Television Video Tags: Apple, Google, iPhone, Joost, Livestation, mDialog, MySpace, Ripcode, Video, YouTube
by Allen Weiner | November 24, 2008 | 1 Comment
As I walked through the Austin Farmers Market on November 22, a local organization was handing out flyers telling locals about the February 17, 2009 deadline for the analog to digital transition, the point at which time local broadcasters would cease analog transmissions. In short, death to rabbit ears. Now, here’s the irony: Nov. 22 [...]
Category: blogging broadcasting citizen media social media Television Video videocameras Web 2.0 Tags: Akamai, Google, YouTube
by Allen Weiner | November 17, 2008 | Comments Off
As previously stated, I am a video guy. Back in the day, I was an A/V nerd and even worked after school to repair broken educational films by resplicing them when they cracked as they were wont to do. So, when the online consumer video craze began to surface about five years ago, I became [...]
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Category: advertising blogging broadcasting citizen media Newspapers Publishing social media Television Uncategorized Video videocameras Web 2.0 Tags: Kodak, mino, protail video, Pure Digital, samsung, videocameras, YouTube
by Allen Weiner | November 14, 2008 | Comments Off
Here’s some food for thought: as NBC and Fox plan to share resources, would it make sense for News Corp to spin off Fox Broadcasting and for GE to spin off NBCU and create a new combined network? Imagine the efficiencies. Heck, I’d call the new network Hulu (the name of their online joint venture) [...]
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Category: advertising blogging broadcasting Television Video Web 2.0 Tags: Fox Broadcasting, GE, Hulu, NBC, News Corp, Obama
by Allen Weiner | November 12, 2008 | 2 Comments
Gartner issued a press release on a report I authored on protail video, a concept the Media IAS team began writing about a year ago. The concept–video that lives between professional network content and general UGC–has evolved a great deal since my first report and will undoubtedly have subsegments of its own, especially as new [...]
Category: advertising blogging broadcasting citizen media Newspapers Publishing Television Uncategorized Video Web 2.0 Tags: Boinx, Gartner, Liz Gannes, New TeeVee, On Networks, protail video
