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FierceOnlineVideo: What’s one overlying trend that you can point out in the OVP segment?
David Mendels: A general theme that you can certainly point to is consolidation.
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Brightcove President David Mendels on consolidation, profitability and the future of the OVP segment’s 800-pound gorilla - FierceOnlineVideo
Rafer sez:
Tee up the next wave.
"HTML5 Enhancements
Tap in to new capabilities for your apps and sites webOS 2.0 adds a number of new HTML5 features and enhancements, giving you more tools to work with when building apps and sites for webOS. Highlights include: Enhanced Canvas support, including image data and gradients
Support for Web Storage—both local and session storage
Geolocation support, allowing websites to access location information with the user’s permission
Application Cache, which lets websites cache resources on the device for offline use"
— Intro to webOS 2.0 - Palm Developer Center
"U.S. pay TV subscriptions have declined for the first time in history this quarter, according to new data from SNL Kagan. The business intelligence company reports that cable companies lost 711,000 subscribers, which represents the biggest quarterly loss in cable TV’s history. Six out of eight cable TV operators also reported their worst subscriber losses ever last quarter."
— New Numbers Reveal: Cord Cutting Is Real (via tedr) (via mikehudack)
"We have slow boiled so many web sites that we have turned the web into a mass of branding, redundant navigation and advertising."
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THINK / Musings» Blog Archive » getting to know the iPad
Rafer sez:
#appweb I need a tag to aggregate my thoughts on “App Design will take over the desktop web.”
"To be fair, it’s not necessarily laziness per se. Your average colorist has to grade about two hours of movie, frame by frame sometimes, in the space of a couple of weeks. It doesn’t take that many glances at the deadline bearing down on the calendar before you throw up your hands and say, “Fuck it. Everybody likes teal and orange!"
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5 Annoying Trends That Make Every Movie Look the Same | Cracked.com
"Fourteen percent, or 27 million U.S. online consumers, intend to buy some kind of tablet in the next 12 months, says a Forrester research report (.pdf) published Thursday (chart below). Customers interested in purchasing a tablet aren’t primarily Apple customers, and they’re well aware of the crop of upcoming tablets from competitors such as Google and Hewlett-Packard."
— U.S. Customers Are Tablet-Hungry, and Not Just for the iPad | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
"Video on the web has always been a bit disappointing."
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Mozilla’s Popcorn Project Adds Extra Flavor to Web Video | Webmonkey | Wired.com
Rafer sez:
Love it, so much so that we’re on the same path here at HandrollTV.