Richard Ting is SVP, Executive Creative Director of R/GA’s award-winning Mobile and Social Platforms Group.
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Google TV about to slug it out with Apple TV for control of your living room. More app development oppty for everyone.
Your smartphone has apps. Now your TV does too. Here's a sneak preview of the apps that will be available on Google TV this fall.
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Sony demo'd 360º Autostereoscopic display at Siggraph 2010. Like 3D but without the need for glasses.
The display allows you to view full colour volumetric objects from all angles, as if objects really exist. The display uses special LED light forces and can show 360 unique images to all directions in 1º separations. And no special 3D glasses are required to see the image.
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Great Kevin Slavin interview talking about Starling. Is this the future of social TV?
Social TV will be a big topic this year, as more and more people get iPads and other devices that afford sitting on the couch and talking about and during your favorite TV shows. Here Kevin Slavin, president of Starling, talks about how they are enabling social TV.Learn more about Starling here.
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More Social TV coming. Xfinity remote powered by Comcast.
The Xfinity Remote prototype was featured by Comcast CEO Brian Roberts at the recent Cable Show 2010. You can read more about it on the Comcast blog.
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Relying on relationships to rebuild TV audiences.
Social TV made the MIT Technology Review Top Ten list for most important emerging technologies. Viewership for live broadcasts have declined for the last few years except for big ticket events like the Winter Olympics and the Grammys which have grown in viewership. Some cite that the rebound is due largely in part to changing consumer behaviors where users will often use their mobile devices and laptops to text, tweet, facebook and chat about what they are watching on TV. MIT's Marie-Jose Montpetit has been researching this topic for several years now and she believes that the combination of TV watching and social networks will boost TV ratings and make the passive TV watching experience more enjoyable.
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New Boxee MLB.TV app arrives in time for the first pitch.
Today marks the beginning of Major League Baseball's 141st season and to kick it off, the awesome folks at Boxee have given their MLB.TV app a makeover. As their blog states, "We traded avant-garde stylings for a traditional baseball scoreboard look that makes it easy to see how your favorite teams are doing". Also, a nice addition to the experience is the ability to stream the audio of blacked-out games. In order to get started, you'll need to download the early release version of Boxee and you'll also need to sign up for MLB.TV or MLB.TV Premium. Congrats to Avner, Idan, and crew. Let's go Yanks.
Read more about it on the Boxee blog.
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Future of TV: Microsoft's Ballmer Sees Content Everywhere
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer delivered a keynote speech on Wednesday evening at CES in Las Vegas which laid out a short-term vision of the future of TV, obviously with Microsoft software at its center. Read the full article on Ad Age.
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Frog Design's tvChatter iPhone App
I'm a big fan of Frog Design's recently launched iPhone App called tvChatter which makes watching television social. Most consumers are already tweeting/facebooking/chatting on their laptops while watching television, so Frog did a logical thing by continuing to enable that behavior, but they made it dead simple to continue doing this. This nicely designed and compact app simplifies and categorizes real-time twitter commentary in an iPhone App based off of the social program guide. Check out the demo of tvChatter that I scraped from YouTube. The demo walks you through the basic features and special options for the app. Users can watch their favorite shows on their TVs or PCs while tvChatter presents real time Twitter-fueled commentary about the program. Users that have a Twitter account can post their own comments, reply to others or filter their followers for a more intimate conversation. Bravo Frog. Simple concept, well executed, and super useful.
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