I'm sure you have run into this issue within the last week. You want to tweet an article or post it to Facebook and are given the "opportunity" to sign in using Twitter or Facebook. Then you are confronted with a request, in this case I chose Twitter, to turn over access to the following information on Twitter so the "application" will be able to:
1. Read Tweets from my timeline
2. See who I follow, and follow new people
3. Update my profile
4. Post Tweets for me
5. Access my direct messages until June 30th, 2011
It was number 4 that resulted in me being asked to share this with an application run by paper.Li.
Who is paper.Li? Why do they think by extending me the courtesy of helping me tweet an article they have access to my twitter account, but, they make this clear, THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SEE MY TWITTER PASSWORD just everything else.
When information requests are this onerous professional folks will not use the service. Nor should they. Also, at the bottom of the screen there is the note, concerning Twitters Terms of Service which adds, "In particular, some usage information will be shared back with Twitter." It's a treasure trove for data mining, but by whom and for what purposes?
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
How fast is TV content migrating to the Web?
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan (MediaPosts' Online Video Insider of June 13, 2011) reports from the Elevate Video Advertising Summit on one panel presentation that left the audience, in Ashkan's words, in cardia arrest:
"...Comcast Interactive Media's Matt Strauss, Turner Broadcasting's Jeremy Legg and Disney/ESPN's David Preschlack were more specific than that: 75% of TV content will be on platforms other than TV within two years. Indeed, TV "everywhere" was imminent and sure to make distribution agnostic."
I'm not sure what agnosticism and distribution of TV content have in common, I've never found religion an appropriate metaphor for the TV industry, but what it means to me is that in terms of digital video content there is a substantial amount of content that can be viewed on a wide variety of peripherals be it a TV, laptop, pad, phone, desktop, or in a movie theater. Actually, many of the entertainment-news shows on TV are nothing more than talking heads which heard on a radio or as a podcast, work fine for me.
I call this category of content, peripheral neutral. How much of TV content can be viewed satisfactorily on something other than a TV is a percentage I would tag at over 75% based on the vacuous content I see dominating TV, but the reason for the cardiac arrest is the rate of change that is likely to occur in the next few years and, never forget this, the loss of control.
I call this the Age of Arresting Clump of Curves and what I've found helfpul is a sense of humor, yoga, meditation, and an optimistic view of life to counter cardiac arrest and anxiety attacks.
"...Comcast Interactive Media's Matt Strauss, Turner Broadcasting's Jeremy Legg and Disney/ESPN's David Preschlack were more specific than that: 75% of TV content will be on platforms other than TV within two years. Indeed, TV "everywhere" was imminent and sure to make distribution agnostic."
I'm not sure what agnosticism and distribution of TV content have in common, I've never found religion an appropriate metaphor for the TV industry, but what it means to me is that in terms of digital video content there is a substantial amount of content that can be viewed on a wide variety of peripherals be it a TV, laptop, pad, phone, desktop, or in a movie theater. Actually, many of the entertainment-news shows on TV are nothing more than talking heads which heard on a radio or as a podcast, work fine for me.
I call this category of content, peripheral neutral. How much of TV content can be viewed satisfactorily on something other than a TV is a percentage I would tag at over 75% based on the vacuous content I see dominating TV, but the reason for the cardiac arrest is the rate of change that is likely to occur in the next few years and, never forget this, the loss of control.
I call this the Age of Arresting Clump of Curves and what I've found helfpul is a sense of humor, yoga, meditation, and an optimistic view of life to counter cardiac arrest and anxiety attacks.
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