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Whoa, Whoa, It’s Magic to Me
The line between thoughts and reality becomes quite blurry with the passage of time. I can recall the moment some six years ago, late at night, while working on the Viodi View in a hotel lobby, when I heard an old song and thought how useful it would be to have the meta-data associated with…
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An Interactive Look Behind the Curtain at the Media and Innovations Summit
Walking the walk is what OpenTV did earlier this week by implementing their interactive television technology to enhance the Media Innovations Summit at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles. Their approach allowed the audience to vote and state opinions using smart phones, text messages, tablets or lap-tops. It was an honor for Viodi…
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An Alternative Way to Pilot
Television networks spend $500 Million to a $1 Billion per year on pilot episodes. The rise of User Generated Content sites, such as Grouper, represent a new, lower cost way for TV networks to bubble up talent and ideas. Festivals and contests are another way for networks to find content. We met up with AJ…
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Perspectives on Advertising with Tim Hanlon
ViodiTV Sponsorship Opportunities – Click Here "It’s not about television anymore. It’s about video across multiple touchpoints," so says Tim Hanlon, Executive Vice President of Duneo Ventures in this interview at CableNEXT. He discusses how quickly online video is doing the things that cable VOD has promised for years. He and his group bring an…
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The Internet Video Proving Ground
ViodiTV Sponsorship Opportunities – Click Here Ian Blaine, CEO of thePlatform, discusses how Internet Video can be used as a proving ground for television applications. He points out the importance of applications in creating a sticky service.
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Correll's Interactive Perspective
ViodiTV Sponsorship Opportunities – Click Here Industry consultant and former Sun Microsystems executive, Bill Correll, provides an overview of the panels he moderated at the CableNEXT conference. Additionally, he provides some interesting perspectives on the state of interactive television and advertising.