Category: Entertainment
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More possibilities with extended-time live video from Google+
Wow – now you can do a Google Hangout On Air (a live video broadcast) for up to 8 hours! That’s a huge amount of additional time from the previous 1-hour-maximum you had. And remember: up to 8 hours means…
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Exuberance, imagination and style on display at #somecomms Awards
If I’d been a keen fan of Arsenal football club, I’d have been in seventh heaven last Thursday evening. I was at the Emirates stadium – Arsenal’s home in north London – for the huge shindig that was the UK…
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How ‘social TV’ enables immersive involvement in live events
Audience participation with live TV events via social channels like Twitter is becoming increasingly common and a big part of audience expectations. I’m thinking of campaign-type events, not spontaneous or serendipitous actions by individual tweeters, Facebookers or Google+ers with their…
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Disney brings the second-screen experience to the movies
The advent of mobile devices – especially tablets – has changed people’s behaviours in how we access, consume and share information across multiple devices, and where we do it, as surveys constantly show us. One place you don’t see that…
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The standout experiences of LeWeb London 2013
The second LeWeb London conference took place earlier this month when 1,200 or so people gathered in London – joined by thousands more via the net – to hear other people talk about the sharing economy. That dry description belies…