by Joyce Schwarz, bestselling author and media futurist at hollywood2020.net What I like best about the potential of Google TV (at least according to what has been announced in the Wall Street Journal today)see WSJ here is NBC's CNBC Real-time that allows Google TV users to track stocks and access news alongside the CNBC live broadcasts which appears to be the same or similar to the Google Android app for CNBC.
INTERACTIVE TV -- As a member of the ITV Alliance for years -- it's thrilling to see these interactive TV apps evolve for the masses rather than just in trials.
(Blogger note from the time I started this post (took two phone calls, processed a registration for an upcoming class and ushered out the cleaning crew for my condo this article went up on the net) Talk about prescient!
Google TV: The Future of Interactive Television? ABC News - Neal Karlinsky, Christine Brouwer - 1 hour ago Inside a top-secret lab in Silicon Valley, programmers are putting the finishing touches on a new product called Google TV. The company says this new device ...
TEASER PAGE UP NOW:
Want to peek at Google TV -- here's the teaser page:googleteaser where you can start to play around a bit with some of the apps etc.
ADVERTISING?? Now the challebenge is distributiion, advertising and the business model for Google TV -- where is that bleeding need? And Logitech's new box -- which is fascinating only because after taking numerous meetings with Logitech in the past (myself and with clients like Primesense.com) -- they didn't seem interested in diversifying beyond accessories? So now they are beginning to wake up to the new flowering multiplatform world.
WILL ANYONE HAVE A TV per se? I still wonder if the word TV isn't an anachronism -- will the new screenagers children even use that word? Sounds like icebox to me or 8 Track or Hi-Fi -- another era.
GOOGLE TV = B2B ???
Personally I like GOOGLE TV as a public space app -- bars, clubs, campuses, airports etc. B2B, airlines & more -- seems perfect for that. Teleconferencing next-gen? The deal with Twitter looks good. Three years ago at Digital Hollywood I said -- give me my Twitter.tv NOW! Duh??
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