Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Trend: tablet OS wars
Comment: who’d a thunk it.. its not just content, its ad sales too.
Title: Kindle Fire On Track For Hundreds Of Millions Of Monthly Ad Impressions; Growing Faster Than The iPad In Early 2010
http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/20/kindle-fire-on-track-for-hundreds-of-millions-of-monthly-ad-impressions-growing-faster-than-the-ipad-in-early-2010/

Trend: changing media content distribution models
Comment: now if only we could get it here with a canadian IP address.. sigh.
Title: Finally! HBO Go will be available pretty much everywhere
http://gigaom.com/video/hbo-go-time-warner-cable-cablevision/

Trend: html5 as the next emerging standard
Comment: apparently there was also a codec war going on. :) For those of you following this for a while.. the fact that flash to h.264 conversion utility hit sourceforge should be enough for you.
Title: 4 out of 5 videos are encoded in H.264
http://gigaom.com/video/h264-80-percent-of-videos/

Trend: Tablet wars
Comment: its fascinating that its not just about content, its about ad sales.
Title: Kindle Fire On Track For Hundreds Of Millions Of Monthly Ad Impressions; Growing Faster Than The iPad In Early 2010
http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/20/kindle-fire-on-track-for-hundreds-of-millions-of-monthly-ad-impressions-growing-faster-than-the-ipad-in-early-2010/

Trend: mobile OS wars
Comment: money money money money, money
Title: Distimo’s Year-End Report Shows Why Developers Love iOS: iPhone 4x Android Revenue, iPad 2x
http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/20/distimos-year-end-report-shows-why-developers-love-ios-iphone-4x-android-revenue-ipad-2x/