Intruders.tv interviews Avner Ronen of Boxee at the Media Futures Conference.
In this interview, Avner discusses the future of TV, the importance of interface design to building a successful product and why Sacha Baron Cohen might be a likely candidate to transform the media’s approach to online.
Since I haven’t made bloggy in a while, I thought I’d drop a bunch of videos I’ve been collecting the last couple weeks. All speculating+ideating on the The Future of Media. A whole lot of good stuff to digest, though I’m sure some of it is familar territory.
From Media Futurist Gerd Leonhard—
The Wall Street Journal calls Gerd one of the leading Media Futurists in the World. He is the Co-Author of the influential book ‘The Future of Music’ (2005, Berklee Press), as well as the Author of ‘Music2.0’ (January 2008 www.music20thebook.com), and ‘The End of Control’ (see the preview chapters at www.endofcontrol.com, print publication in 2009).
Imagine a world where unfiltered and limitless access to content is bundled directly into your access to the networks. A world where ‘your cloud’ holds all kinds of content, your social network connections, your community, and your context (i.e. meta-content), your meta-data and your interaction-trails, and where access to all of this is feels-like-free, legal, always-on and fully mobile, on any and all platforms.
Distribution is no longer a business for media companies. Why Open Licensing is so important. The move from selling copies to selling access – how will that be monetized? How will content be curated, recommended and then… monetized by the Creators?
Make sure to check out his whole Blip channel.
Next is Kevin Slavin at the 5D Conference. Kevin is the founder of trans/cross-media development studio Area/Code. Here he talks about the interactive, immersive future of TV.
Ten minute interview with author and media scholar Henry Jenkins.
Notes on Jason Calacanis’ The Case Against Apple–in Five Parts:
1. Destroying MP3 player innovation through anti-competitive practices
2. Monopolistic practices in telecommunications
3. Draconian App Store policies that are, frankly, insulting
4. Being a horrible hypocrite by banning other browsers on the iPhone
5. Blocking the Google Voice Application on the iPhone
1. (Apple) Hardware sales drive iTunes use, not the other way around.
2. Apple is playing the game as laid out by the Government and ATT.
3. Yes, the App Store dev ecosystem is fucked up and unsustainable in it’s current configuration.
4. This is trivial and nobody cares.
5. It will eventually come to light that this was forced by ATT, see #2.
Om Malik doesn’t think ATT is behind the Google Voice fiasco.
UPDATE: Apple admits they did it.
More media business model thinking:
Downloads and documentation at the Adobe site. From Flashcomguru:
This framework is a solid foundation for any sort of media player that you may want to build, and since it does not tie you to a specific UI (quite different to what the FLVPlayback component provided) it gives you great flexibility for your own players. A set of APIs and plugin hooks allow you to also build your own extensions for the framework while maintaining compatibility with the underlying code base.
Admittedly the learning curve will be a bit steep for some but I have no doubt that we will soon see a few more packaged and easy to digest players pop up which can be used ‘off the shelf’. I also expect all the major CDNs to release plugins for OSMF or document ways to interface with their backends – as we know, almost every major CDN currently has its own quirky way of connecting and playing a Flash stream.
Elad Elrom has a great “Getting Started” tutorial.
Noise Fest was an art and music event at White Columns NYC June 16-24 1981. All material was recorded live at White Columns’. This includes John Rehnberger, Off Beach, Ut, Lee Renaldo, Mofungo, Khmer Rouge, The Problem, Smoking Section, Sonic Youth, Jeff Lohn, Ima, Jules Baptiste Red Decade, EQ’D, Avant Squares, Don King, Primivites, Ad Hoc Rock, Y Pants, Barbotemagus (as it is spelled on the cover), Economical Animal, Chinese Puzzle, Glorious Strangers, Built On Guilt, Fakir, Lampshades.
Power to the Pixel has posted a great bunch of videos from a series of presentations it put together at the Edinburgh Film Festival. Lots of great ideas on metadata, exhibition, new media business models, distribution and funding that apply not only to film and video but music and publishing as well.
In Developing New Business Models For The Digital Era, Peter Buckingham of the UK Film Council gets into metadata, search and discovery—
Peter will discuss findings from the UK Film Council’s audience development project Find Any Film that demonstrate how we need to make significant changes in the way the industry thinks about its content distribution and relationship with its audience.
Short from the Director of District 9:
Great series of videos from The Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon’s Art and Code Conference.
Ben Fry and Casey Reas talk Processing:
Sebastian Oschatz discusses vvvv:
Sebastian Oschatz is one of the founders of the Frankfurt-based media company MESO Digital Interiors, established in 1997 to work with experimental media interfaces and interactive installations. MESO creates computational and interactive exhibition designs for clients like Mercedes Benz, BMW, Nikon and Sony Ericsson, among others.
Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie probably has the best summary at his blog. Official Microsoft release/talking points. Interview with Ben Waggoner, MS Silverlight/video dude. James Clarke breaks down MS Expression, Microsoft’s Silverlight authoring tool.
Related: RIA technology stats at RIAStats.
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Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder
Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices
About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Modern Library Series)
Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction
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