media
Trends in mobile TV (my presentation at Rose d’Or in Lucerne)
I did a presentation at Rose d’Or (also know as the Golden Rose) in Lucerne at tuesday. “Trends in mobile TV”, at Grand Casino, Casineum 7. May from 13.00-15.00. The Rose d’Or (or Golden Rose) is a highly prestigious television award, given annually since 1961 at the Festival Rose d’Or in spring each year. Since [...]
NRKbeta is on the air
If you’re Norwegian, head over to NRKbeta to see posts about gadgets and techonolgy. NRKbeta is NRK’s (NRK at Wikipedia) new technology site. Our tagline: “NRKs sandkasse for teknologi, duppeditter, nye medier og alt annet som er viktig i livet.” In English, that would be something like “NRK’s new “sandbox” for all technology, gadgets, new [...]
Make your ads so cool that people would want to see them
“FireTreToEn” is the new ad for Norwegian bank DnB NOR. It’s made like a movie trailer, with lots of action and some of the most popular actors in Norway, Pia Tjelta and Nicolai Cleve Broch. It’s open ended at leaves with some questions. “We don’t know what happens”, “We don’t know if the woman in [...]
Just when you thought HD was the next big thing, then comes 3D HD
3D HD is THE next big thing. And it comes to sports and music first. NBA (the National Basketball Association in USA), plans to shoot some of their games in 3D HD. In a session called “Winning Ways to Wow the Sports Broadcast Viewer” (must be an advertising guy who cme up with that title…), [...]
It’s epidemic – soon your tv will have a zillion channels
52 channels and nothing on? Soon you’ll have millions of channels and the traditional tv-channels will be in BIG trouble. I totally agree with what Eirik writes today: When the internet really starts to shift the flow of money in the media industry we are up for some groundbreaking change… I’m not sure that the [...]
Why is gaming important?
Do you play games on your computer or a game console? Why? And if you do, do you think it’s important that “normal” media – meaning radio, tv, newspapers and magazines – covers gaming? Why? What are your reasons for playing games? And what reasons are there for media to cover caming? Use the comments [...]
BBC gets it
BBC will redesign their site, bbc.co.uk, to focus on three concepts: Share, find and play. The site should be bulit up around usergenerated content like blogs and videos, hoping to become the public service version of MySpace.com. BBC also plan to their entire programme catalogue online. Ashley Highfield, BBC director of new media and technology [...]
Star Wars x 100
When I saw the first Star Wars movie I heard that George Lucas were going to make nine movies. He ended on six, so he is three behind. Now Lucas is catching up, making a 100 episode tv-series! Great There’s nothing about it on Starwars.com yet… Update The TV series spin-off of the Stars Wars [...]
What if every video was tagged?
Basketball blog True Hoop writes about Synergy Sports Technology, a company that will record and tag every miunte of NBA basketball played. The C|Net article they refer to, has an interesting point: In an e-mail interview, Mark Cuban, Dallas Mavericks owner and the co-founder of Broadcast.com, said he has been impressed with Synergy but was [...]
Apple owns your living room
With the access Apple will no doubt get to Disney (Research)’s vast library of movies and TV shows, iTunes is about to get a huge boost toward becoming the front end for our digital TV and movie experience too. “What happens when you can beam shows from your computer or iPod wirelessly to your TV?” [...]
Promax BDA newsletter
Promax is a worldwide organization for people doing promotion and marketing in electronic and broadcast media. BDA is an association of broadcast and multimedia designers. Together, Promax BDA has over 4000 individuals or organizations as members. So I take it as a big honor that the latest newsletter use on of my so-called amazing circles [...]
Battlefield 2 Live
NRK2, one of the channels of Norwegian Broadcasting is airing the Battlefield 2 final tonight. It’s a rerun from the Scandinavian finals aired on NRK’s web-tv earlier this year. Since everybody is coming with their predictions for 2006, here’s mine: Live broadcasts of gaming on national tv will be huge in 2006.. Yes, tv channels [...]
Fake, fake, fake again
I wrote about a Swedish campaign back in March 2005: Excellent campaign from the Swedish government. On Flicka.gov.se you can read about how we are being surrounded by messages. About retouching, video effects, clever advertising slogans. Today it’s on Boingboing. Good thing. This is important. Not because of the Photoshop work done, but because young [...]
Television executives don’t get it
Thomas Hawk thinks greed trumps innovation in the TV industry: This is what is going on with downloadable television at the moment. Although PVR ownership is growing there is still far too much money on the table for television executives to offer us anything compelling. Why innovate when there is still tons of dough to [...]
Dvorak is Tired
He has been boring for 10 years now. And still is. Boring. As big and as important as Microsoft is, the coverage of the company is quite mediocre. This is particularly true in the mainstream press. The reason for this is that today’s newspaper and magazine tech writers know little about computers and are all [...]
