AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

Apropos of the last post of the year on this blog (I’ll return Jan 3), here are some more items about the year in tech and what to look for in 2008:
— Steve Rubel blogs about three big 07 trends on his site MicroPersuasion, analyzing a lot of info gleaned from Google Trends… here.
—Online Media: [...]

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Another year-end roundup, this time from a blogger on Fast Company….here

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PBS Idealab blog
MTV, as part of its Emmy-winning “Choose or Lose” campaign (www.ChooseorLose.com), today unveiled “Street Team ‘08″: a specially recruited group of 51 citizen journalists - one from every state and Washington, D.C. - who will cover the 2008 elections from a youth perspective and tailor their reports for mobile devices. The members will [...]

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This time, from the Economist… Three fearless predictions

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AD AGE
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — It has been called a competitor to Wikipedia, Jason Calacanis’ Mahalo, Seth Godin’s Squidoo and Yahoo Answers: Knol is Google’s foray into knowledge aggregation.
Knol lets users produce web pages devoted to various subject matter. Udi Manber, VP-engineering, explained on the Google blog: “There are millions of people who possess [...]

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I grew up with the belief firmly implanted in my head that video games were a bad influence that would distract me from more constructive pursuits, namely, reading. If the Internet had been as engrossing as it is now among kids, then that probably would have made the list, too. But technology isn’t an absolute [...]

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Magnify.net Releases Video Blogging Platform, Seesmic Competitor? - Tech Crunch
Magnify.net, hitherto a platform intended primarily for collecting and sharing videos found around the web, is broadening its focus with the release of a service that lets you record video clips directly into the browser using a webcam.
While such functionality is nothing groundbreaking, Magnify.net is apparently [...]

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Google Poaching Beacon Partners For “Universal Activity Stream” - Tech Crunch
Can Google succeed where Facebook fell flat on its face? It’s been chasing Facebook with OpenSocial, its own platform for social networking applications (which still has a long way to go). But now, we’ve learned, it might be trying to incorporate parts of Facebook’s controversial [...]

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MixerCast: A Multimedia Player With A Revenue Model - Tech Crunch
We’ve seen a lot of action around personal media players recently, driven by people’s desire to share their content with friends and family. Slide recently announced they’re creating over 200,000 slide shows/day, and newcomer Flektor is getting snatched up by MySpace.
MixerCast is a similar embeddable [...]

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Kara Swisher’s Boomtown blog carries her post reacting to the LA Times story about the marriage of striking writers and venture capital. She is, to say the least, skeptical….starting out by saying:
Why does the idea of a marriage between Hollywood writers and VCs make me slightly queasy?
…read on…

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