Sampling the future of gadgetry
CES 2012 has come to end.
The show was all about Televisions, Tablets, Smartphones and Ultrabooks.
The New York Times has done a great job of making a witty but critical summary about the new products presented at the show !
Will Intel acquire Roku ?
According to rumors, Intel may be thinking about acquiring Roku, maker of the popular, low-cost, multimedia streaming device that competes aggressively with the Google TV, and Apple TV, and Boxee Box devices.
12 predictions for Social TV in 2012
Lostremote.com has written a nice piece on the future of Social TV for 2012. See if you agree with their statements or not : Social TV in 2012
Live Blogging from Social TV Summit
TV App Duo Set To Put West Flanders Firmly On The Tech Start Up Map
West Flanders – bit soggy, plenty of WWI battlefields and breweries… it’s certainly not Silicon Valley or any place you’d associate with one of the hottest start ups the Internet TV world has seen to date.
But this tiny area in Western Belgium has given birth to some pretty enterprising characters: politician Herman Van Rompuy, cartographer Mercato and… Audrey Hepburn. But now we’re about to add TV App Store (TAS) founders Vincent Parisis and Serge Billouw to that list.
With the launch of the Netherlands version of the Bold & Beautiful App for their ground breaking ScreenToo package for their patented TAPP platform, in mid September, the rest of Europe and the US are about to hear a lot more about TAS.
Speaking at DRRB
I was invited by Lars to speak at the Videoboost conference of the DRRB in Copenhagen. I had the opportunity the talk about my vision on Social TV and were the missing link is : interactions !
Social TV nowadays is mostly about people talking amongst each other, using tablets, smartphones, laptops, while watching the same programs.
What’s missing in all of this are the interactions (votes, quizzes, polls, …), the feedback towards the broadcaster or production company, …
This is something new in the Social TV space that we should start working on ! Otherwise the social media (Facebook, twitter, …) will dominate this space and TV broadcasters will lose out.
Speaking at MIPCOM
On 4th of October I was a guest speaker at the “DISRUPTIVE MEDIA MEET TODAY’S GAME CHANGERS” session on the MIPCOM fair in Cannes.I presented our tapp solution as the answer the to “second screen”-future that awaits all broadcasters.
Video Interview at IBC 2011
On IBC this year, I met a very nice lady called Angel Gambino. She’s well known in the TV sector as an entrepreneur and investor who has a wide range of experience working with with innovative businesses that are developing and initiating high quality digital entertainment and those that aim to create social good.
She interviewed me concerning our Screen Too-platform. Apparently this was an official IBC interview … so it’s even on there website :-)
Enjoy … (I hope)
Is there more to life than facebook and twitter ?
After being awake for 27 hours … traveling, waiting, time difference … I attended the Social TV Summit in the Bel Air Country Club in LA. Thinking that I would learn something new in how the US tackled Social TV, I was all ears in the morning.
