Assorted Links and Thoughts on Second Screen
Most think of a second screen experience as one narrowly defined around viewing and engaging with content related to what is happening on a different (first) screen at the same time. Just see the first paragraph of the Wikipedia page for "second screen:" Second screen, sometimes also referred to as "companion device" (or "companion apps" when referring to software applications), is a term that refers to an additional electronic device (e.g.tablet, smartphone) that allows a content consumer to interact with the content they are consuming, such as TV shows, movies, music, or video games....
Read MoreContextualization through Adaptive Curation
I wrote early about the direction of curation and wanted to expand on this topic. Last week I heard Cory Haik, executive producer for digital news at the Washington Post speak the NVTC's Destination Innovation event at which I was a judge. She spoke about and also recently wrote regarding what she refers to as "adaptive journalism." She described a recent experiment the Washington Post undertook wherein they leveraged geofencing (who doesn't love that term! - talk about the blending of the physical and the digital). In the experiment, The Post provided live game updates at a recent...
Read MoreAssorted Links
IHS IMS Research predicts Google Glass will sell 50K units in 2012, 124K in 2013, 434,000 in 2014, 2.17 million in 2015, and 6.6 million in 2016. Forecast seems low in the near-term years and high for the further out years in my opinion. The Ten Commandments of sales from Dan Cole AT&T recently launched their home connectivity/automation/security system (read more here and here). A natural evolution of service providers to focus on in-home connectivity. I expect this service area to be a strongly contested market in the coming years. Consumers want it, but don't necessarily...
Read MoreThis Week in Sensors
and a few articles I've missed over the last few weeks: Robots with odor sensors alert you to bad breath not exactly sensor related, but an increasing number of airlines are looking at charging passengers by weight. Samoa Air is already charging by weight. With the broad digitization of everything, one could imagine that in the future it could be relatively easy to charge by any number of sensor-derived metrics. electromagnetic interference can turn LCD screens into touch screens advertising in the future will rely on where you are looking a work-around when GPS is unavailable a...
Read MoreThe Future of the Newspaper and the Modern Colonial Tavern
There has been much written about how digital is broadly changing news dissemination, but beyond simple replacement of the paper alternative and an acceleration of "news" to satisfy an always-on consumer, I think there is a deeper change afoot. Yes, "traditional news" is undergoing significant change through the direct and indirect influences of digitization - something that has largely been well covered. But an always-on digital consumer is also driving other changes outside the newsroom. For example, immediately following the Boston bombings, the Boston Globe set-up a spreadsheet (ok...
Read MoreThe Direction of Curation
Several changes are underfoot which could be shifting the direction of curation. Over the last 24 months major content distribution platforms have been steadily moving towards becoming more curation focused. Curation feels like the natural evolution of content. As companies try to move up the value chain they become more focused on curation. As they seek greater margin - they focus more heavily on becoming a curated platform. Still today there is talk of traditional (linear and paid) TV being killed by disruptive technologies like Internet TV. But this believe seems rather shortsighted...
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