Comments on: a billion infomercials

By: Yme Bosma

Yme Bosma — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 01:38:23 +0000

I understand what Seth is saying, but I guess BitTorrent will not be the enabler of this future since it only works very well when downloading files that many want at the same time. Right? This won’t be the case with a Volvo commercial or a video tutorial. So we need another instrument to facilitatie the long tail of video content…

By: nomadic_audio

nomadic_audio — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:02:06 +0000

hugh pointing to seth

Link: gapingvoid: a billion infomercials. saw this brilliant post (yesterday — needed to snowboard today) from hugh linking to seth regarding the paradigm shift technologies like bt will bring — especially how information is produced, distributed and c…

By: MU - ridicule is nothing to be scared of

MU - ridicule is nothing to be scared of — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 05:43:07 +0000

parole sante

(disegno di hugh macleod @ gapingvoid.com)

By: PSFK

PSFK — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 03:11:11 +0000

Web : Future TV

In 2002 I set up a company called Set Loose Movies to take advantage of the, apparent, demand for viral marketing in Europe. Established mainly to deliver emailable mpeg videos (viral ads) we soon realised that there should be a great opportunity to us…

By: th0m

th0m — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:26:59 +0000

but the power of this is in the hands of all! commercialization could be limited to a neighboor girlscout cookie sale… or just better communications between you and your soccer team. in hdtv.

By: Frank Ruscica

Frank Ruscica — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 10:25:44 +0000

Enter Land of OpportuniTV, a startup comedy about making America the Silicon Valley of customized lifelong learning and career services, the global market that Peter Drucker says will be the biggest over the next 30 years. Details coming online at http://www.opportuniTV.com

By: David Burn

David Burn — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 03:24:24 +0000

History repeats itself. Bozell + Jacobs created Mutual of Omaha’s “Wild Kingdom” to sell insurance. Just as many other advertisers at the time formed daytime dramas to sell soap.

By: 2xL

2xL — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 02:07:32 +0000

Here is a bit of the future, more or less related to advertising and self publication.... http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/

By: kadavy

kadavy — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 01:56:47 +0000

Seinfeld, boring? That may have been worth cutting out.
We still need a way to give semantic value to all of that information within these video clips, that is as of yet, inaccessible. Typing transcripts for all these videos is going to be too much work. A voice-recognition parser, maybe? That still wouldn’t take care of all of the on-screen information. Maybe in conjunction with OCR.