Entries Tagged as 'Interactive TV'

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

FaceSpooks - Your the star, be IN the movie

A hat tip to Dan Taylor over at BBC for pointing out this lovely little viral that allows you the passive, sit-on-the-couch-and-munch-crisps viewer (well fiddle with laptop) to be the star of Spooks. FaceSpook is a personalized video tool where your face is mapped onto a character in an action scene - and all via [...]

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

MEFCON 2008 - What a stupid question to ask?

Courtesy of Michael Ball:
“Is there a market for feature-length films on the mobile phone?” I asked Tomas Gewecke, new President of Digital Distribution for Warner Bros., at the US Mobile Entertainment Forum Conference MEFCON last week.
You’d think, by the audience reaction, that I just confessed to running over his dog.
Warner cut a deal recently with [...]

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Finally, TV gets more social

New technologies focusing on the convergence of TV and community continue to turn watching TV into a social activity. The connected TV experience is aimed at providing remote users with a joint viewing experience - chat, vote, comment, or just watch your favorite shows with other fans or distant friends.
The idea of transforming an experience [...]

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Social Network meets Cable TV

Plaxo Pulse is an interesting social networking service which, unlike Facebook, allows you to separate your personal and business contacts. It also has a sophisticated address and calendar function which are linked to all those highly addictive sharing and communications tools. News this week is that Plaxo has partnered with cable TV company Comcast to [...]