RSSMixhttp://www.rssmix.com/This feed was created by mixing existing feeds from various sources.en-gb http://www.livedigitally.com/2010/03/19/thinking-about-googling-my-tv/comment-page-1/#comment-474834Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:42:47 -0400This is a great article.I think there's two big factors right now that make the set-top Box/Connected TV market ripe for change.(1) The amount of online video content coming online is staggering. There's over 24 hours of Youtube video uploaded every minute, as well as hundreds of hours of content streamed from Justin.tv & Ustream. Consumers want to watch this content, but right now it's impossible to watch it on your TV without an internet-enabled TV or set-top box. This goes to your point about transformative playback experiences. There's now a ton of content that you can't watch on your TV unless it's internet-enabled.(2) Just as an app-store on the iPhone led to an explosion of "touch" smart-phone adoption, an app store on an Android TV device will let developers create compelling new experiences for the TV that will further attract consumers to internet-enabled TVs. Two years ago, a fraction of the video content we have online today existed, and Apple's iPhone app store didn't even exist. I think the combination of (1) and (2) will create "notably different content offerings" which will be the catalyst in driving dramatic Connected-TV/set-top box adoption.61638dd0404d971f1ed872e36de93d7c http://www.livedigitally.com/2010/03/19/thinking-about-googling-my-tv/comment-page-1/#comment-474831Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:25:58 -0400Excellent analysis as always, but I would add one thing.The next device has to be a bridge, meaning it has to be just as easy to access new content sources as old. One new FCC initiative that might make this much easier for companies like Boxee is that the FCC doesn't believe that software needs to be CableLabs certified like hardware does. This means that anyone could write support for an existing certified CableCARD tuner and gain access to that world of content without paying $100k for a CableLabs certification. Either way, things are changing, but it is happening so slowly it's hard to tell where we are going.155255cf80a2e753c6e045de629a3e15 http://www.livedigitally.com/2010/03/19/thinking-about-googling-my-tv/Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:27:13 -0400Google, Intel, and Sony have apparently teamed up (and Logitech too) to develop an Android-based platform for interactive television. Let me start my post with some important background points and disclosure:I was a cofounder of Mediabolic, a startup who built a platform for connected devices. While there I designed about a dozen “convergence” products (one [...]5d6e6a7d3ab182299053a412c974454e http://www.livedigitally.com/2010/03/17/11-things-you-should-never-do-online/comment-page-1/#comment-474829Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:03:58 -0400I called in sick today but just had to post and say that no one ever does the things stated in this article. If you take umbrage in this lets meet at place/time of your choosing and work it out. Due to my dominance over the other fools in my business I can normally write my own schedule. I'm free today except for this morning/afternoon where I'll have to go across town and pick up my liquor supply. I know a guy who can cut me a back of the warehouse deal and I'm usually able to get a few cases of Boone's Farm and Jamesons to last me through the weekend. Just don't set anything up for the evening, because that's for me and chat roulette.4a8f5be2bb8c1639dd484e2c6a40f34a http://www.livedigitally.com/2010/03/17/11-things-you-should-never-do-online/comment-page-1/#comment-474817Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:31:13 -0400[...] 11 Things You Should Never Do Online Published: March 17, 2010 Source: LIVEdigitally Did you know you could lose insurance benefits from putting photos online? Or that a Tweet can put you in jail? Or that the FBI might be friending you on Facebook? Or that even brand-new [...]03950cdef23b8a66a726dc7c336bae6e http://www.livedigitally.com/2010/03/17/11-things-you-should-never-do-online/comment-page-1/#comment-474814Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:01:13 -0400Well done. There's no such thing as private social media. FB used to be for personal networking, but now every social media tool has blurred lines. At least Face Book has "send friend a message" so you're entire network doesn't have to see it. Wish more professionals understood the fine line between personal/ business networking on-line. Thanks for your article.7f2bfde7dee8baaed3bffc7f11962199 http://www.livedigitally.com/2010/03/17/11-things-you-should-never-do-online/Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:31:41 -0400Did you know you could lose insurance benefits from putting photos online? Or that a Tweet can put you in jail? Or that the FBI might be friending you on Facebook? Or that even brand-new service Chatroulette isn’t truly anonymous? I’ve blogged recently on my concerns about privacy trends, and it’s quite the hotly debated [...]216460e41fd693a0505549a14f606304 http://www.livedigitally.com/2010/03/12/if-tablets-suck-why-did-i-order-an-ipad/Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:32:16 -0500Last summer I wrote a blog post in which I claimed that tablets, for lack of a better word, suck. Yet I actually woke up early today to confirm that I’d be able to get an iPad the day it came out. I wanted to take a moment to explain why I am actually excited [...]b73d0af18306e274846af16ca411bc40 http://www.livedigitally.com/2010/03/09/does-tivo-make-products-or-patents/Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:08:08 -0500For all intents and purposes, TiVo “invented” the DVR. Actually, they didn’t, but it’s a fair statement that they first successfully commercialized it and brought the concept to the massess. Further, they did it with competition (ReplayTV), which is often the exact thing that stalls new consumer technology adoption. The company’s product was loved by [...]9dd527f088ffb332025572f0665da6a8 http://www.livedigitally.com/2010/02/10/your-privacy-online-the-internets-greatest-bait-and-switch/Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:55:49 -0500There was a time when things like decency, self-respect, and privacy mattered, and that time was not too long ago. I’m not going to spend this post lamenting modern society abandoning the concept of self-respect, poise, decency, and other things which seem practically alien in our show-all, tell-all, midriff-sporting, trampstamp-pride (yeah, I hate the word [...]1266b81cc4bc8e74f846a619fa6878d6 http://www.livedigitally.com/2010/02/01/how-google-can-and-must-fix-the-android-market-experience/Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:11:01 -0500The Android Market (droid’s equivalent to the iPhone App Store) is fundamentally broken. It’s a poor experience from start to finish, and exemplifies the grace with which Apple builds hardware and software products. Unfortunately there’s no easy way to take screenshots directly on the device, so I’ve scraped around the ‘net to find images to [...]05b58f9001f6f7411af4ffdf76317aaa http://www.livedigitally.com/2010/01/27/what-did-jobs-do/Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:06:04 -0500In proper form,I shall now review my own predictions of the iPad from my first two posts on the subject (parts 1 and 2). Let’s start with…What I got wrong:Productivity AppsI said: “Unlike the Microsoft approach to ecosystem where everything other than the Xbox is able to view and edit Excel spreadsheets my [...]b5f09e455f16c3f4ebf505e4a7cdcf15 http://www.livedigitally.com/2010/01/27/twitter-in-action-live-coverage-of-the-apple-event/Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:16:42 -0500Per yesterday’s post on Twitter needing better demos, here’s a very (IMHO) useful way to follow live coverage, from multiple perspectives, using Twitter. I’ve created a “list” of people who are either live at the event, or following it closely. These people are more likely to tweet only about the Apple event during [...]8c5ab4e13deb0791aad10f23c3a348fd