Here’s what we were reading this week…..
ESPN’s World Cup content yields 8 million mobile views (FierceWireless, 14 June)
Interactive TV Trivia Challenge (ITVT, 17 June) Fun trivia questions!
Is TV the Next Domino To Fall? (Connected Planet, 17 June)
TV Widgets to Generate Over $1.7B by 2013 (IPTV News, 17 June)
Top 20 Mobile Phones in the US (WebProNews, [...]
SideReel, a social TV show tracking platform, has reported that their online TV viewing stats are almost directly opposite than the traditional TV viewing stats put out by Nielsen. The conclusion is clear: online viewers prefer vastly different types of shows than their offline counterparts. Much of the analysis focused on the demographics of the viewers, attributing [...]
A little of what we’re absorbing this week….
Google TV is Coming this Fall (Official Google Blog, 2o May) – TV meets Web. Web meets TV. Are you excited yet?
Apple’s iPad is Impressive, But it Still Needs Work (eWeek, 20 May) – I’ve been loving mine, but I guess “Apple’s iPad is a groundbreaking device [...]
Another good batch of news for this week….
2010 Digital Election attracts a new generation of voters (GoMoNews, 5 May 2010): Social participation and the British Elections.
Taking “Unlimited” to the max with the iPad/AT&T torture test (MobileCcrunch, 5 May 2010): How far is AT&T willing to let you go with ‘unlimited’ plans?
Social TV – Time [...]
Some of our reading for the week, brought to you by our MediaFriends team.
Mobile TV is going to happen, because the networks say so – (15 April, GoMo News) Large TV networks have come together to make mobile TV happen.
Medvedev and Obama to shape world policy by text message? – (14 April, Textually) [...]
A few articles we’ve been reading this week, thought we’d share them with everyone:
Microsoft to Unveil New Mobile-Phones Line – (7 April from WSJ) No, that’s not new phone lines on your mobile. That’s an entirely new line of mobile phones, and they’re on social steroids.
Mapping 3G, One Handset at a Time – (5 April [...]
Some mobile and TV news on our desks this week.
YouTube Kills Real-Time Sharing Feature – (23 March 2010, NewTeeVee) A move in the wrong direction?
Google Aims at the TV market – Will they Succeed? Yes, and Here’s Why -(21 March 2010, Agora Media) Thoughts on Google TVs future.
The Phones of CTIA Wireless 2010 – [...]
Getting ready for the first day at SXSW. I’m hoping to get some good updates for over the weekend, but in the meantime, some mobile and Social TV news from the week, for your Friday reading pleasure.
Smartphones are booming, but is there room for all the players? (10 March 2010 from Fierce Wireless) Smartphones are [...]
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Kate on 1 February 2010
We caught a few good posts recently on the Social TV space and thought we’d share them with you.
Social Media Meets Online Television: Social TV Brings Television 2.0 To Your TV Set [Robin Good, 27 January] – The revolution that is Social TV.
Report: Top 10 driving forces of digital marketing in 2010 [netimperative, 1 February] [...]