The Future of TV is Social and (Nearly) Free
Categories: Technology
While the entire television model is in a state of flux, the user base has become super social in their viewing habits.
Watching TV on TV Is So Vintage
Categories: Technology
Of course you watch television online. But, how do you choose a provider? Do you even care?
Can Social Media Save Live TV?
Categories: Technology
With the Internet so ingrained in daily life, and platforms like Hulu and Netflix offering an abundance of content on-demand, how can network television be sustained?
Google pushes original content on YouTube
Categories: Technology
Maybe it’s reinventing YouTube, maybe it’s about creating “cheap-o” programming, but Google’s planning a major overhaul of the video site.
Jumping on the Stream Train
Categories: Internet Week
More than 200,000 people canceled their satellite or cable subscriptions in the second quarter of 2010. Enter streaming websites.
Your Cable Box is Dead. The Internet Killed It.
Categories: Technology
Newsflash: The Television set has permanently retired today and has forfeited the battle against the Internet.
The Internet Saves Me From Sports – Again
Categories: Sports Week
My roommate and I never agreed on sports – he liked to watch games on TV and yell and I didn’t. Luckily, the Internet saved the day with the amount of (legal and illegal) streams available and my roommate and I can watch our respective TV programming in peace.
Twitter is Boosting the TV Experience
Categories: Technology
Don’t count old fashioned TV out just yet. It may be getting a boost from, of all places, Twitter. Some networks and shows have started make a concerted effort to get Tweeps to engage in dialogue about the show while it’s airing on television.
The ‘Good Enough’ revolution is just a way of life
Categories: Technology
The idea behind the “Good Enough” revolution is that quality simply isn’t the top priority it once was to consumers. However, it may just be that Gen Y is changing their ideas of “benefits” and “value.” Just because we’re focusing more on price and convenience than on features and power doesn’t mean that those new products are inferior.
Content is a right, not a DVD
Categories: Technology
For many consumers, content doesn’t exist as a physical thing anymore. Instead, content is something you buy the rights to own and enjoy. Once I buy a movie, I own a physical copy as well as the right to rip and burn as many copies as I want for myself. But, this leads some to ask, how many times do I have to pay for it?
