Microsoft will unveil a coffee-table-shaped “surface computer” on Wednesday in a major step towards co-founder Bill Gates’s view of a future where the mouse and keyboard are replaced by more natural interaction using voice, pen and touch.
A Surface computer is able to recognize physical objects from a paintbrush to a cell phone and allows hands-on, [...]
Entries from May 2007
May 31, 2007
Microsoft Launches ‘Surface’
May 31, 2007
Bud.tv Goes Flat
It launched at the Super Bowl and was heralded by some as the future of advertising in the digital era. But Bud.tv, just five months after the fanfare, has fallen flat. Last week, Anheuser-Busch executives said they would overhaul the project. The story of Bud.tv, a $30 million branded entertainment channel that A-B had hoped [...]
May 31, 2007
Travel Channel to Focus on User-Gen Plays
Now that Cox Communications’ acquisition of the Travel Channel has been finalized, the niche network has begun gathering its hiking gear and poring over topographical maps, plotting an excursion that will lead it and its new owner beyond the well-trodden confines of the linear TV space. On May 14, Discovery Communications ceded control over Travel [...]
May 31, 2007
Word of the Week – Blog
A blog (short for web log) is a website where entries are written in chronological order and displayed in reverse chronological order. Blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject such as food, politics, or local news; some function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other [...]
May 31, 2007
Travel Trends – Digital Life, More Wikis, Yapta
A Digital Life: According to Netpop I Play, a new report from Media-Screen, broadband users spend an hour and 40 minutes (48% of their spare time) online in a typical weekday, and more than half of that is spent accessing activities related to entertainment and communication.http://www.centerformediaresearch.com/
Food & Wine Wiki: Food & Wine magazine has teamed [...]
May 31, 2007
Marchex, Fox Develop Spanish Sites
Search and media company Marchex, Inc. and News Corp.’s Fox Latin American Channels have entered into a partnership to jointly develop and program Spanish-language Web sites. Through the partnership, Fox will provide localized content and community features to the Marchex-owned Web sites including: videos, forums, blogs, personal home pages, and photo albums. The sites [...]
May 31, 2007
Park It: Disney Travel Channel Launches
In an effort to perk up two business categories–travel and theme parks–Walt Disney is launching a video-on-demand channel, Disney Travel. Two cable systems will be part of the initial launch, Cablevision Systems and Time Warner Cable, which will reach more than 9 million viewers. The channel will include reality, special-event content and concerts, all focusing [...]
May 31, 2007
Google to Add ‘Universal Search Results’
Google is undertaking the most radical change to its search results ever, introducing a “Universal Search” system that will blend listings from its news, video, images, local and book search engines among those it gathers from crawling web pages. >>Full Story
Thoughts// In the most basic terms, this announcement from Google means that now when you [...]
May 31, 2007
TripAdvisor Acquires Four Travel Media Businesses, Strengthening User-Generated Content Lead in Travel
TripAdvisor, LLC, the world’s largest travel community and an operating company of Expedia, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXPE – News), today announced it has acquired four travel media businesses, adding five travel community web domains and growing its audience to more than 24 million monthly visitors, according to comScore Media Metrix. >>Full Story
Thoughts// While the release [...]
