Is PSP the next tipping point?

WELCOME TO VIDEOPOLIS!

Who else didn't realize that Sony's Playstation Portable PSP could usher in the "Tipping Point" or breakthrough for the next generation of media?

Do you agree that PSPcasting may be making a powerful impact of this new technology on the rise of "user-generated" media? Just doing the research was fascinating.

*Why does Gizmondo say they have a way for you to come as close as you can to your user without getting slapped in the face?

*Is Japan's Coke PSP another step beyond product placement to 'product production'?  Doe the use of Coca Cola bottles instead of golfclubs 'jump the shark' in terms of being OVER THE TOP????? Wanted gamers opinions.

Excerpted from imediaconnection.com April 11, 2005

Joyce Schwarz writes about the brave new world of media ushered in with the PSP.

Welcome to Videopolis -- a world created by a personal and professional pastiche of digital images, mobile pix, video clips logs, blogs, vblogs (video blogs) and vortals (video-enabled portals); fast-forwarding us into an always-on, demand-driven broadband; creating an IPTV Vscape (videoscape) 24 nerve-jangling, mind-soothing, cell-shocking interactive hours of the day and night; a vista that spans far beyond, below, above and surrounding traditional electronic broadcasting of radio and television. Behold an infinite menu of media -- metatagged, linked, catalogued, indexed, searchable and most importantly ready2go, store, forward and of course share.

Rise of next-gen media

Enter the next-era of communication, where your role as a marketer is to ensure pro-sumers (consumers who not only consume media but also produce it) can localize, personalize and customize multiple info-streams dynamically. And by the way, wouldn’t it would be great if your brand could, would and should underwrite, sponsor, defray cost or offer it all for free?   (continued on imediaconnection.com