By
John on 18 February 2010
SMS is the most widely used data application – beating email, IM, and social networking sites. More people text than own TV’s, read newspapers or drive cars. No wonder states are scrambling to pass laws against texting while driving - a recent Mobile Messaging Study commissioned by NeverFail found that 76% of respondents text while [...]
By
John on 3 February 2010
Not all Social TV has to take place in the living room. Recently, TV network Bravo teamed up with website Foursquare to get viewers to visit real-world locations related to Bravo TV shows like “The Real Housewives”, “Top Chef” and “Shear Genius”.
Foursquare is a “check-in” website that enables users to broadcast their current location to [...]
By
John on 27 January 2010
In his dissertation, Transforming Audiences – Patterns of Individualization in Television Viewing (PDF), Jakob Bjur of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden studied the way in which TV audiences have changed their viewing practices over time. TV viewing has always been a social activity; however, Bjur has found that it has declined from 45% of [...]
By
John on 18 December 2009
AT&T scored a great coup getting the iPhone exclusivity contract, which GigaOm states will enable them to earn almost $2 billion dollars in monthly data charges over the next two years. Though that sounds impressive, it also comes with a hidden cost – staggering data usage from surfing the real internet, watching videos, and [...]
By
John on 2 December 2009
CED Magazine’s 9th annual Broadband 50 report lists the biggest trends and technologies from the perspective of the cable industry. As the industry evolves rapidly, the list can be quite different from year to year. MediaFriends is referenced in #37 – Tweet on section about social networking:
Social networking is here to stay, whether you’re a [...]
By
John on 23 November 2009
Just like email addresses, mobile phone numbers have become an essential part of a person’s identity. They stay with people over a period of many years, shifting across carriers and phones. As part of their identity, people like to communicate via their mobile phone number on their terms. For email, there are rules and filters [...]
By
John on 9 November 2009
The VisionMobile blog recently brought together 5 mobile industry bloggers to talk about their visions of the mobile experience in a multi-platform world. As consumers are forced to use multiple devices daily to communicate, learn and be entertained, new problems and opportunities are created around how these devices could work together.
Marek Pawlowski, Editorial Director of [...]
By
John on 23 September 2009
Richard Kastelein’s recent article on TeeVee 2.0 describes how more and more people are watching TV and browsing the web simultaneously – 57% according to Neilsen. Kastelein says that users are looking for the internet and TV to merge into TV 2.0. Online entities, such as MySpace, are adding TV viewing to their sites, while [...]