| Chris Brogan Explains the Future of Internet TV: He's It | | Posted Sunday, January 21, 2007 1:03:28 PM by Blog57 Team | | FBLA picked on Chris Brogan at Life Hack, impling he was just another blogigolo. Turns out he's an internet-TV mogul in the making, at Network2.tv. He's part of the team that's putting on Video On the Net conference, up in San Jose in March. Andrew Baron from Rocketboom and ABC's Bernard Gershon, and Jeff Jarvis are among the speakers. FBLA asked Brogan to explain himself: FBLA: So what makes you such an authority on blogging? I've been blogging in one form or another since around 1998 or 1999, got into podcasting in the spring of 2006, and then went into video fairly quickly thereafter. I've been involved in various aspects of new media, and so it's been a natural fit to my personal ecosystem to work on Network2, Video On the Net, and also PodCamp.... | |
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| | | CBS to air Internet messages | | Posted Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:03:05 PM by Blog57 Team | | In a collaboration between traditional and emerging media, CBS Interactive will give Internet users a chance to have their messages to the world seen by TV viewers. CBS has launched the publicity campaign "15 Seconds," in which viewers post 15-second inspirational messages on YouTube. CBS will choose the best to be broadcast. Selected videos will be seen on CBS at announced intervals. The first video will be broadcast Feb. 4 before Super Bowl XLI. .... | |
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| | | Wi-Fi TV(TM) Aims at YouTube and MySpace Audience | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 11:02:59 PM by Blog57 Team | | Wi-Fi TV Inc. (PINKSHEETS: WTVI) will present a webcast today at www.Wi-FiTV.com at 1 PM Pacific and 4 PM Eastern to unveil its new corporate business plan to bring Social Internet TV(TM) to a large global audience. The program will be the first of several webcasts which address all aspects of Wi-Fi TV's new business, technology, content, marketing, sales and revenue models. The Wi-Fi TV campaign is aimed directly at the same demographic audience that has made YouTube and MySpace household name companies. The Company's new ticker symbol effective today is WTVI. About Wi-Fi TV Inc. Wi-Fi TV Inc. provides a new generation TV delivery platform that has a geographic sphere out-distancing any traditional cable or over-the-air TV broadcaster. Ownership of Wi-Fi TV Channels are for sale at $25,000 (full details are on the web site www.Wi-FiTV.com).... | |
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| | | Korean internet TV battle turns ugly | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 11:19:41 PM by Blog57 Team | | Upstart Korean internet TV provider Hanaro Telecom has reported a quarterly loss after rival ISPs blocked their own customers from watching its popular HanaTV service. Hanaro suffered a net loss of $18.9m in the third quarter of the year, citing higher marketing costs for the new online TV business among its outgoings. Revenues climbed slightly compared to the previous quarter and were up 19.1 per cent year-on-year to $441m. The fixed-line ISP's attempt to revitalise its finances by breaking into the TV business has earned the wrath of traditional cable TV companies and its rivals in the broadband business. Competitors have claimed that, as a telecoms firm, Hanaro is acting illegally in offering 'TV broadcasting'. Hanaro has countered this with the argument that on-demand programming is not the same as broadcasting.... | |
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| | | YouTube garners big bucks, but other ventures have broader aims for TV on the Internet | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 11:00:50 PM by Blog57 Team | | CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Eyebrows went up when Google Inc. recently agreed to spend $1.65 billion for YouTube, the most popular Web site for free video clips. But that figure could be blown away one day if some emerging companies achieve their much broader visions for the future of online TV. These companies are building flexible online networks that can host content, serve up ads and dish out interactive features. While "viral" video-sharing sites like YouTube focus on individual clips -- many pirated -- these new Internet TV platforms are designed to host full-fledged channels that content creators can control. One of the best positioned is Brightcove Inc., which today is taking the wraps off an Internet video network that handles virtually everything for content creators.... | |
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| | | TV industry slow to react to internet | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 3:23:00 AM by Blog57 Team | | Google will make more advertising revenue in the United Kingdom this year than Channel 4, the publicly-owned broadcaster's chief executive said on Wednesday, as he warned the TV industry had underestimated the threat of the internet.In an interview with Reuters, Andy Duncan said some traditional broadcasters had been slow to recognise the challenge posed by the internet and multichannel TV, which cut into the audience and ad revenues of terrestrial broadcasters."[This] reinforces that significant structural change has been going on and will continue to go on," Duncan said in reference to the UK advertising market."Some broadcasters have been very slow to realise this. The industry as a whole is frankly rather backward looking and is perhaps underestimating the scale of change that is going on and the pace of change."Duncan said Channel 4, which is publicly owned but funded by advertising, had had an "incredibly good year," increasing its audience share by 10% and boosting its share of the ad market.This made the comparison to the search engine all the more striking, he said.According to Google's 2005 annual report, the UK accounted for $1,68-billion or 14% of the search engine's consolidated revenues.A spokesperson for Channel 4 said annual ad revenues for the group including its digital channels were estimated at around £800-million.ITV, the country's biggest commercial broadcaster, had an annual advertising revenue for 2005 of around £1,7-billion, a spokesperson said.Duncan, who has previously said he expects the TV advertising market to fall by 6% to 7% for 2007, said broadcasters needed to put an emphasis on quality programming to prevent viewers from drifting to other forms of media.... | |
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| | | Brightcove opens commercial internet TV to video owners | | Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 11:12:36 AM by Blog57 Team | | Internet TV service Brightcove has launched the Brightcove Network, which lets lets content owners of all sizes launch their own commercial internet video channels at no cost and generate revenue through advertising and video download sales. Coinciding with the launch of the Brightcove Network, the company has announced the availability of several new services designed to generate revenue and increase distribution for internet TV channels. .... | |
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| | | Leading a PC-to-TV revolution | | Posted Monday, October 30, 2006 7:11:44 AM by Blog57 Team | | The problem with YouTube, Major League Baseball's MLB.TV or any other Internet video is that you end up trapped in front of your computer screen instead of your usual television-watching haven. Safi U. Qureshey wants to fix that. Qureshey, who may forever be known as the "S" in the 1980s Irvine, Calif., computer company AST Research, has spent the past three years developing a chip that will let any image or video that can be seen on a computer also be watched on a nearby TV. It works wirelessly. In any video format available. "We've solved the problem of taking video to TV," Qureshey said. Quartics Inc., which officially launched this month, developed the agnostic video chip to watch PC videos on a TV. Qureshey financed the first two years and attracted funding from two venture capital firms last year.... | |
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| | | Wi-Fi TV(TM) Plan to Bring Social Internet TV(TM) to One Million ... | | Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 2:27:40 PM by Blog57 Team | | ORANGE COUNTY, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- October 27, 2006 -- The huge monetary value of the acquisitions of MySpace and YouTube has inspired Wi-Fi TV Inc. (PINKSHEETS: WTVN) to create a bold new Social Internet TV™ business model and member features that will be unveiled in a live webcast on Tuesday, November 7. In his first Company webcast in nearly six months, Wi-Fi TV Inc. Chairman and Founder Alex Kanakaris will lay out a ten point plan for the marketing, technical and sales aspects of the next generation of www.Wi-FiTV.com. "Social Internet TV™, a Wi-Fi TV exclusive, is set to do battle with conventional Snail TV in every corner of the globe, and we're going to put the strategy on the table in our webcast," said Mr. Kanakaris. "Wi-Fi TV was the first company with online movie delivery in December 1995, the first company with many technical aspects of eBooks, and has been the pioneer of interactive Internet TV.... | |
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| | | Wi-Fi TV Is Hot Property As Real Estate Brokers Buy Internet TV Channels | | Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 10:59:46 PM by Blog57 Team | | "I am excited to be a part of the merger between real estate and cyberspace, to be part of the best of both worlds thanks to Wi-Fi TV Inc. (PINKSHEETS: WTVN) and their revolutionary global Internet TV web site www.Wi-FiTV.com," said Heidi Golff, a licensed realtor in Ventura County, California. "For buyers, I have sold 10 homes, some sight-unseen, to people I never met in person, over the Internet. We were able to build a level of trust on-line; so much so that some people saw their new homes after escrow closed!" said Golff. "For sellers, our Wi-Fi TV Channel provides a competitive advantage that sets us apart from every other broker in this space. It provides a virtual army of support to the sales effort," she concluded. Wi-Fi TV announced today that it has secured the URL www.Wi-FiRealty.com and is immediately expanding its sales effort to make Wi-Fi TV Channels available for $25,000 (with a $5,000 annual renewal fee) to licensed brokers.... | |
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