Internet Radio Device Adding FM (FM Adding Internet Radio?)

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Uh, shouldn't this be the other way around?



This new internet radio adds FM, an Ethernet RJ45, built in Wi-Fi and wpa2 wi-fi sec. protocol.

With radio becoming more and more versatile every day, Tangent has tweaked its popular and critically acclaimed Quattro Internet radio.

To everything there is a season - turn - turn - click.

NBC Olympics 2008...Pivotal Internet Video Points

I was shown a sneak peek of the NBC Olympics 2008 Beijing website set to launch this summer.

I think we'll look back and say this site launch was a pivotal point in time in the history of video on the Internet. (Another one will be the election in November in the US.)

What's in story this summer from NBC?

Hotspots in Video
In Video Navigation
Multiple Live Cameras (as in 4 or 5!) showing on your screen
Picture in Picture - where you can actually see and enjoy the small and large screen
Extensive search database - alerts of breaking news you want in video based on your preferences, and more.

I hope NBC does well with their website. It'll set a benchmark for other media companies, and I hope user generated content producers. To advance video quality and content distribution, let's hope all the bells and whistles on the website are 'best practices" for 2009 budgeting for all the media companies.

AOL and ESPN are doing great in the interactive sports race that includes video and portability on the Internet and beyond. We'll see how they cover the Olympics.

Now - this isn't web 2.0 or web 3.0 or web 4.0. It is just one of the things the net does and always what those of us in media envisioned. What will you call it? Who knows, but I hope you call it "good." Microsoft Silverlight was used to power the video portal multi-browser, multi-use Olympic website.

See you on the Net
Peggy

NBC Amazing.....TransMedia or Integrated Media - Heroes distributes

NBC's Heroes gets around in the integrated marketing playground. In their case, one might call it a galaxy.

Here's where they play:

Video Commentary -web version goes live in 24 hours post show.
Clips - two-minute summaries, walk through, and video dossiers
Behind the Scenes - Mini-Docs
Wiki - Yep there....user generated content
Fan Site...user generated content
Innovative Video Content - Global News mock news reports
Weekly Comics and Interactive Graphic Novel
Mock Websites - links go to story related websites that really don't exist, but appear to do so. (This is a fun idea - primatech paper is an example)
WebCam Use - (Let the folks think they are back stage or snooping)
Mock Characters have pages on the social networking sites

Does this look real:
http://www.activatingevolution.org/

It's not - it's a fake PR site for the book on the show. At least I think it's fake?

You can't escape politics too. A characters has a site to run for congress at votepetrelli.com



Which brings me to the question. I was playing with a Carnegie Mellon interactive artificial intelligence online robot last night. Why not use this technology so the characters come to your crib or dorm room at say Zwicky, or second life, or face book to chat.

Or am I just way behind on this and it's been done?

If so - send me a link, and please connect with me. I want to know where you're surfing and what you're watching?

For a great chart of the interactive components in which I found out some of these features, you'll have to go to page 96 in the My 2008 issues of Fast Company. Sometimes print is easier to read, unless your screen is 19 inches or more.

The writer was David Kushner. I like. However, what really grabbed me was the cool layout of all their interactive elements and how they connected. You could see how print linked to recaps, web extras, video, fan generated content, mobile, online play, comics, even corporate spying!

If Fast Company would have put a link on the page to where it was on the Net, then perhaps Fast Company could say they're into integrated marketing. (Hint!)

See you on the Net

Peg

900 Channels or Video Applications on Facebook

70% of discovery of new videos is done on Facebook Profile pages, according to a Facebook executive I was talking to in London a few weeks ago.

I was snooping around Facebook applications. There were 900 plus links for video related applications. Are search engines ever going to catch up with video search, or do they need to do so?

I can tell you this. I tried to find any of the live NAB webcasts, now on archive on the Net and can't find a thing. Where would you look? We've got a long way to go in the search process.

No one sent me a link, but I am pretty sure it is up on the net. I remember that Mogulus http://www.mogulus.com/ was webcasting something, so I wonder if I can find anything on their website. Then, there's tvworldwide but they're doing only the military operation to help the troops, and I can't find the video anywhere on the NAB website.

There's an NAB 365...which for some reason isn't letting me sign up to get further information from a couple of their vendors.Back to the drawing board.

If I do find NAB session videos - I'll post them to the NAB Blog and also to one of my blogs.

Cheers! See you on the Net