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Netgear NeoTV 550 Unboxing

Today I received the new Netgear NeoTV which launched recently.  This is the latest in Netgear's living room strategy of products to allow users to view their picture and video, stored on any PC on the network, through their TV, and also listen to music fro any PC through their A/V receiver.  This box holds a lot of potential from

Moovida Free Media Player

Moovida launched a very cool media player at CES 2011, it essentially is a very intuitive menu interface that can work on your Mac or PC it catalogs the content you already have on your computer and allows you to find that content quickly. Designed for folks that have big libraries of content. These Sponsors made CES 2011 coverage possible

Special Edition Blog World 2010 Presentation!

I have decided to post the presentation I made at Blogworld to my entire audience. I hope you find it educational and gives you some back ground on why I am so excited about the over the top TV space.

The Long Tail

In the world of blogging, podcasting and social networking, much has been said about the so-called “long tail.” The concept of the “long tail” revolves around the idea that available content living on the Internet gets a lot of extra audience over a long period of time, as opposed to traditional print and broadcast content which has a much more

The Changing Face of News and Journalism

Andrew Marr, formerly the BBC's Political Editor, has written a series of articles on the changing face of news and journalism in an era of technological change. In the first, End of the News Romantics, he comments how he always thought he'd be a true newspaper and newscast kind of guy but in fact he's embracing the new technology of

PRS Publishes Paper on Filesharing

The Performing Rights Society (PRS), the approximate equivalent of the US's RIAA, recently published a paper outlining a proposed approach to the compensation of rights holders based on the level of unlicensed material passing through an ISP.  The paper, snappily titled Moving Digital Britain Forward Without Leaving Creative Britain Behind, was written by Will Page, Chief Economist, PRS for Music

What Should We Expect from Rdio?

Obviously the name is a play on "radio", but, they say they pronounce it "ar-dee-oh".  What I am talking about is the new service Rdio, which is in private beta right now. My attempts to get into the beta program, so far, have failed, but I will tell you what I have been able to learn from "other sources". First,