Sony’s Movie Touch adds interactivity to feature films
Men in Black 3: Movie Touch is the first release with the additional capabilities, courtesy of the free app, and it demonstrates that this is intended to be an enhanced primary screen – not a second screen – experience. It’s similar to a DVD with lots of extras, only with most of the extras are interactive and integrated throughout the movie instead of existing as a separate mini-feature.
See the full story here: http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2012/12/10/sonys-movie-touch-adds-interactivity-to-feature-films
The future of LinkedIn and the economic graph
[Philip Lelyveld comment: This article articulates a very interesting vision of the web's potential for matching supply and demand for current and future educational programs, careers, and job seekers.]
Our ultimate dream is to develop the world's first economic graph. In other words, we want to digitally map the global economy, identifying the connections between people, jobs, skills, companies, and professional knowledge -- and spot in real-time the trends pointing to economic opportunities. It's a big vision, but we believe we're in a unique position to make it happen.
If you want to hurt pirates, target their ad money says rock star
The lead singer of the band Cracker is frustrated with people taking his music without permission. He thinks artists, industry and legitimate sellers should shame big brands into pulling their ads from pirate sites.
But even if Lowery’s plan is not a game changer, it could be a way to win more respect for artists’ rights. Right now, the entertainment industry’s penchant for legal dirty tricks and military-style enforcement is undermining the overall legitimacy of copyright; using a public pressure campaign against advertisers would likely prove more popular. Such a campaign would also remind pirate site users and the tech press, who so often romanticize pirate site owners, that these sites are an illegal business and not a cultural movement.
It’s Best Not To Imagine the Awful Ways This Virtual Water Could Be Used
[Philip Lelyveld comment. So much technology to deliver the illusion that you are getting something!]
See the full article here, but the video has it all: http://gizmodo.com/5966581/its-best-not-to-imagine-the-awful-ways-this-virtual-water-could-be-used
Manufacturing The Future: 10 Trends To Come In 3D Printing
[Philip Lelyveld comment: this is an excellent list of 10 current, not "future," attributes of the emerging 3D printer landscape.]
3D printing becomes industrial strength
3D printing starts saving lives
Customization becomes the norm
Product innovation is faster
New companies develop innovative business models built on 3D printing
3D print shops open at the mall
Heated debates on who owns the rights emerge
New products with magical properties will tantalize us
New machines grace the factory floor
“Look what I made!”
See the full story here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2012/12/07/manufacturing-the-future-10-trends-to-come-in-3d-printing/
Behind the rise of the 3D printing revolution
[Philip Lelyveld comment: this is a good overview article, but it leaves out the publicly traded 3D printer companies.]
It probably won’t come as a surprise to read that the term ’3D printing’ was coined at MIT. In 1995, grad students Tim Anderson and Jim Bredt hacked an inkjet printer to spew a binding solution onto powder to create 3D shapes. After a time, the experiments became a business and Bredt and Anderson founded Z Corporation which was acquired by 3D Systems in January this year.
Net2TV Launches Cloud-Based TV
Smart TV company Net2TV Corporation, headed by industry veterans from MTV/Nickelodeon, Black Arrow, NBC, TiVo and Netflix, has launched its cloud-based services.
The Cleverest Business Model in Online Education
Multiple students translate the same sentence; software compares those results to settle on a final translation. After many sentences are put through this process, they are combined to create a translation of an entire document. The results, says von Ahn, are better than an automated translation but typically just short of professional quality.
There’s a “groundswell” in online education, says Weld. “But a lot of it is prepackaged video clips and other things we tried a long time ago that didn’t go anywhere. We need more power and personalization.” Achieving that solely with software is unlikely, he says, but properly directed crowds could provide the necessary intelligence.
Von Ahn has his own ideas along these lines. For example, he hopes to use the work of students who are learning computer languages online at places like Codecademy (see “Startups Aim to Make Coding Fun”). “You could imagine something with programming, maybe finding bugs in software as part of a course,” he says. “We may try it.”
Read the full story here: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/506656/the-cleverest-business-model-in-online-education/
12 Questions Toward The Future Of FIlm Festivals
[Phil Lelyveld comment: addressing many of the 12 questions could lead to better entertainment and technology events of all types.]
1. What is the full power of community and how do we transform our audiences into sustainable communities? Can we curate communities in a similar way? What if we connected like minded people in a more sustainable way and then allow audience to truly influence what is seen and discovered?
2. How doe we utilize cinema’s power to activate? What is our call to action? What is the call to action to our constituencies? How do we transition them from passive to action?
3. What do our audiences really want Film Festivals to be? What does it mean to be a communal gathering? ...
Aereo CEO: Our cheap TV wouldn’t exist without cloud computing
Aereo, a TV-on-the-go service that relies on small antennas, is getting a lot of legal attention. The bigger story should be how it is using economic breakthroughs in computing to offer a new form of TV.
...This is remarkable but perhaps more remarkable are the plunging data and transcoding costs that meant Aereo could build the site in the first place. Kanojia says the company is buying “tens of petayptes of storage” for as low as $95 a terrabyte, and that the price is dropping all the time. What this means is that when (and if) Aereo clears the legal hurdles, it can scale nearly instantly in cities and towns outside New York.
“The cost structure based on the cloud is a fraction of what it was,” he said, adding that companies like Aereo can plan businesses “on the anticipation of these cost curves being driven down.”
Kanojia credits massive R&D by the giants of the tech industry with not only lowering the costs of cloud computing but also changing consumer expectations about media and TV subscriptions. He says these changes have made it possible to offer $1/day subscriptions where consumers can come and go as they wish.
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