I was siting in a session at IBC 2019 in Amsterdam yesterday. It was dubbed “Hollywood’s vision for the future of production in 2030” and it made me thinking about how much IT systems administration will be required by the content production industry in the coming years. When you are working around the show here,…
Category: IBC
IBC 2019: Broadcasting? Not so much.
The International Broadcasting Convention is currently being held in Amsterdam but the name of the event is increasingly inaccurate. There’s not so much talk about broadcasting anymore. There is lots of talk about content, content production and content monetization. Monetization or should I say, search for money… There’s a whole exhibition hall (Hall 14) dubbed…
Information: You get what you pay for.
According to recent reports, fake news are shared significantly more on Facebook than real news. That peace of information have created wide spread discussion, some even accusing Facebook to have contributed to the election of President Trump in the US by not providing tools to separate reality from false news. Personally, I don`t know about…
Twitter and the myth of the “second screen”
With it’s expected IPO coming this week, Twitter has put back the concept of the “second screen” on everyone’s radar it seem. I have heard more discussion about it in the last couple of weeks than in the past year, I think. Thrust marketers to create buzzword and try to make money out of everything….
WWW: A look back at the Web in relation to TV and Social Media
My first look at the “Web” was in early 1992. At the time, the Internet was just beginning to open-up to non-research organization and we had a modem phone connection to a non-profit ISP. A colleague of mine had found and downloaded a copy of the “WorldWideWeb” software from CERN’s Tim Berners-Lee that was available…
New Mac Pro: The independent professional, not the enterprise
Apple did present a “sneak preview” of their upcoming Mac Pro last week at WWDC in San Francisco. As it is the case for most Apple product it created a lot of reaction. I did wait a bit before commenting to try to put in perspective what is the meaning behind it. On one side,…
IBC: The obligatory connected TV theme
Titled “The Evolution of connected TV platform” this session on the first morning of IBC 2012 is the mandatory session around the connected TV theme. First speaker was TIVO’s CEO Tom Rogers with a dreadful presentation based on the Clint Eastwood interview of a chair presenting how wise it is for cable operator to use…
IBC 2012 conference opens
It’s by a “de rigeur” grey sky that the IBC 2012 conference opens this morning in Amterdam. The keynote session is called “The rise and rise of broadcasting? The Next Chapter…” and I am still unsure what to make of it. Representatives from the BBC, Disney, Discovery and Sky seemed to all try to convinced…
NAB 2012 Sunday: Press events marathon
“Press events” remains a tradition at the annual National Association of Broadcasters convention. It’s not a place where you actually learn a lot. Today with the Internet, it’s easy enough to get all the PR material (press releases, brochures, video) and know all about the announcements. In the past, when communication was harder, it was…
Would you pay $5 to Facebook to use it advertising free?
Like probably so many people around the world I read the Facebook S1 yesterday. If you look at last year gross revenue you can estimate that they get about $4 dollars (a little over $1 net) per user per year. Based on that, I was wondering if people would be willing to pay them $5…