Posted in Media Delivery, Random Thoughts, Social Networking on Jul 30th, 2007
I was lucky enough to score two ticket to The Police Reunion Tour at Fenway Park last night. It was one of those typical sticky summer nights here in Boston where the air doesn’t seem to move and a killer storm is imminent. Well, the breeze kicked in after the first set and the rain […]
Posted in Content Discovery, Media Delivery on Jun 26th, 2007
We’ve reached a significant milestone today with the introduction of MyMovieMatch. It’s still in “beta” mode which means we’re not, yet, flipping a switch to “fully operational”. Rather, we’re opening the doors and asking you to come in and let us know what you think. We’ve still got a lot of knobs […]
Posted in Business Strategy, Content Discovery, Media Delivery on Jun 7th, 2007
Exciting times here in the ‘Mine.
We’re about to launch the new version of our website, albeit with a lot of “COMING SOON” sections awaiting the availability of MyMovieMatch 2.0 in just a couple more weeks.
Here’s a sneak peek at the new MyMovieMatch UI:
Schwanky, no?
MMM2.0, as it’s affectionately known inside, will take a few giant steps […]
Posted in Media Delivery on May 10th, 2007
The widget space may be getting crowded (see Michael Arrington’s post on “The Attack of the Advertising Widgets“), but when a series of widgets come out that are actually useful, we get to see just how “cool” widgets can be.
TechCrunch reports that mpire has just launched over 75 widgets that are pointed at ebay and […]
Posted in Human Factors, Media Delivery on May 4th, 2007
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to attend the RIA Summit hosted by our friends at Adobe and Effective UI. I wasn’t sure what to expect, as developer I am not. But as an avid follower of the musings of Ryan Stewart and the app-wonders of Alan Lewis, I felt I had to check-it out.
The main […]
Posted in Content Discovery, Media Delivery, Social Networking on Apr 11th, 2007
I have been registered user of Amazon.com for many years now. I still remember when Amazon started to recommend books to me upon log-in. I wasn’t very impressed with the recommendations made by Amazon’s initial implementation of the recommendation system. But that was my first experience with the on-line recommendation systems, which have become very […]
Posted in Media Delivery on Mar 27th, 2007
In the late 90’s, an explosion of new print, cable and online media channels created a relative scarcity of quality content to fill those channels. Pundits coined the term “Content is King,” which has since become conventional wisdom.
The rise of consumer generated media didn’t seem to change much, in large part because Star Wars […]
Posted in Human Factors, Media Delivery, Social Networking on Mar 16th, 2007
OK, I admit I don’t generally watch video programming in a totally passive way. For example, when watching a movie I find it hard to fully immerse myself into the narrative if there are (to me) glaring inconsistencies in the universe of discourse (eg. the film’s authors set the rules of their fictional stage, […]
