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Bridging TV and Broadband

Broadband penetration has surpassed 50% of US homes, technology has improved the product, and demand for online video advertising now outstrips supply. What’s happening in 2009, and what are the implications for 2010 and beyond? Traditional media is definitely responding to the challenge of broadband, but success is elusive and the future is never without danger.

Ghosts of the Internet: Past, Present and Future

Recently recognized as one of the ‘Creativity 50’ and dubbed the ‘Steve Jobs of Microsoft’ by Fast Company, Gary Flake, Microsoft Technical Fellow and director of Microsoft Live Labs, addresses the market research industry for the first time.

Jeff Zucker NBC Universal Fireside Chat

Jeff Zucker, President and Chief Executive, NBC Universal sits down with Ellen Pollock, Executive Editor, BusinessWeek, for a one-on-one conversation at the Digital Hollywood Media Summit

The Changing Face of Media and News

Nevertheless, with the growing power of broadband, mobile, IPTV, social networks, blogs and other non-traditional news sourcing, the role, the path of the future and the general understanding of how to structure a national news gathering and distribution organization is the ongoing question for our industry. The power and voice of news continues, but the role of our great institutions is in flux.

Polyester Dreams

For years I had written screenplays and teleplays that were never made or sold, and had written comic books and graphic novels with no willing artists to draw them. All around me I was seeing random people producing episodic video content, so I uttered the most dangerous phrase on the internet: “Jesus, I could do THAT.”

London Olympics 2012: Digital Media Opportunities

The Olympics visit London in 2012. Executives from the Olympic organizing committee, NBC, Think London and a variety of traditional and new media properties came together to discuss the digital opportunities surrounding the Olympics.

Going After Google’s Achilles Heel

Many publishers have tried to address this problem by going head to head with Google’s indexing and retrieval services, attempting to improve performance using decades of work in semantics and ontological research. Of course, this track is aimed at going against Google’s greatest strength. Publishers can provide value at exactly the point at which Google is weakest; integrating with task, context and work flow.

An Open Letter to the Obama Health Team

It seems likely that the Obama administration and Congress will spend a significant amount on health IT by attaching it as a first-order priority to the fiscal stimulus package … The easy solution would be to spend most of the health IT funds on EHRs. The EHR industry has made it easy by establishing a mechanism to “certify” EHR products if they incorporate certain features and functions. But the easy solution would not be the right one. EHRs still are notoriously expensive. Often, practicing physicians do not consider many of the features and functions to be useful or important.

FAA Live Broadcast of a Town Hall Meeting

Much to our glee, when we hooked everything up, it all came on the way it should. After a read through of the instruction manual I figured out the subtle nuances of the SE-800. Then we unhooked the cameras, moved to the main Headquarters Auditorium, set it up and tested all the signals running into and out of the switcher to make sure everything worked.

ESOMAR Content Library Launched

ESOMAR conducts its first ever North American Congress to explore how research pioneers new business and societal paradigms. Keynotes and interviews from the event are now online here.