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As The World Turns 16 Aug 2013 | 10:04 pm
Add today to the list of days where it feels like the TV industry is in a totally different place than it was when you went to sleep last night. Two big developments. Roku has surpassed Apple TV in ...
From MacWorld: Why The Chromecast’s Future Could Be Brighter Than The Apple TV’s 13 Aug 2013 | 09:30 pm
Quoted extensively in this article by Marco Tabini MacWorld that does a great job of explaining the pros and cons on the new Google Chromecast The launch of the Chromecast marks Google’s latest attem...
There's Always A Second Screen 5 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Piggybacking off the last post about watching on the best screen available: there's a corollary to that: unless it's a show you are absolutely engrossed with, there's always a second screen. Or, to be...
The Prophesy of the Wounded Wildebeest And Other Tales of Summer 25 Jul 2013 | 05:26 am
Because it’s summer and because it’s fun to speculate (and because last week saw both an Apple TV and Google TV story, both based on unnamed sources and secret meetings) let’s take a look at what the ...
The Best Available Screen 23 Jul 2013 | 03:25 am
It seems like just about every conference I go to features someone putting out the “teens prefer to watch TV on their iPads” myth and I just wanted to set the record straight. Teens (like adults) pre...
The 4S's of Second Screen 9 Jul 2013 | 01:49 am
While much of the talk around second screen focuses on the content that users will create, that’s just the tip of the iceberg: most users don’t want to create content of any sort and are more than hap...
The Door To The Second Screen May Be Through The First 25 Jun 2013 | 04:32 am
Despite the fervent wishes of just about everyone in the second screen industry, consumers have been slow to adopt any of the tablet and smartphone-based companion apps created for TV. It doesn’t seem...
Cablevision, New Jersey Transit and the Rise of TV Everywhere 14 Jun 2013 | 05:29 am
There's news today that Cablevision and New Jersey Transit have just signed a deal for Cablevision to introduce WiFi service onto all NJT trains. (By 2016, but hey, you can't have everything.) Now as...
The Not So Secret Life of the American Teenager 8 Jun 2013 | 06:40 pm
There’s been so much written lately about teenagers in the age of social media, so much of it patently ridiculous (e.g. I talked to my sister and her friends and thus extrapolated what all teenagers w...
The Perils Of DIY Development 5 Jun 2013 | 07:30 pm
“We’re just going to build it ourselves.” There are few words more disheartening to a tech company than a potential client who decides to build something on their own. It’s easy to understand why: t...
