July 2011
8 posts
My lonely job title and the history of the...
Over at MTV Networks, one of my responsibilities is managing our relationship with a company called Mass Relevance, creators of a tool called Tweet River. They are finally getting the press they deserve as a wonderful tool that we rely on for many things. The cool part is that I was also quoted in a recent article on them.
If you read the beginning of the article you’ll see that the author...
Redefining Anonymity
Anonymity and the Internet used to go hand-in-hand. People were excited about being able to pretend to be anyone they wanted. That sentiment dominated a lot of the early use of the Internet. Then, with the ongoing evolution of social media and other trends, we started being ourselves more and more and sharing more and more.
Today we put our full resumes online, conduct social networking using...
What's the experience?
This article in Mashable today reminded me of what I wrote about yesterday regarding unique user experiences. The article talks about the battle between “TV everywhere” apps and streaming services. For example, would you rather watch HBO in the HBO iPad app or Hulu, Netflix, iTunes, etc.?
TV companies face a difficult landscape these days but it is only getting more and more complex....
Actually a good idea
A major issue that I deal with every day is separating what’s possible from what’s worthwhile. I think that’s a key premise underlying a lot of our work these days in digital fields.
We can technically do a lot. Its no longer rocket science to build a website. You can get something online pretty much for free, pimp it out, market it and find some developer friends to help you...
Introducing... PodBookz!
Today is a very exciting day in my life. Today is the day PodBookz is released. A little less than 2 years after creating TweetBookz, which allows any Twitter user to order high quality books of their own tweets, we have partnered to give birth to PodBookz, which allows podcasters to get high quality books of their own podcasts.
What’s even more exciting is that our partner in PodBookz is none...
A Blog Post - An Obituary
From 2002 until late 2007 I was an active blogger. It started as a place for random thoughts, movie reviews and an attempt to present myself professionaly. Over the years it became a palce for drunken rants about life, truth, love, time, Israel and more. I revelled in revealing my most inner thoughts, challenges the boundaries of private, personal and professional lives. Every now and then I’d get...
pontaray asked: Great site Jacob - so I will ask away - we have a digital watermark solution for the second screen experience, can we talk/demo?
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Robert
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Robert
Social TV
I just read yet another blog post about yet another app that is trying to redefine how people consume and interact with TV content. There is nothing wrong with BeeTV and its actually a pretty nice product. My pet peeve is that the CEO is quoted as saying, “BeeTV is different from other social TV apps because we take the experience beyond the check-in.” That is not what makes them...
