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February 2008 - Posts
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04:04 PM Monday, February 25, 2008
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It was a surprise to me—but apparently, the podcast audience in the US is not only rising, its’ exploding… A recent study by eMarketer shows that it was 18.5 million in 2007 and projects that it will rise to 65 million in 2012! Aiming to surf that Read More...
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01:18 PM Thursday, February 21, 2008
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I first blogged about Jacked last year http://microsoftstartupzone.com/blogs/anne-marie_roussel/archive/2007/06/07/ool-cool-video-startup-jacked.aspx . The company was in beta — It was testing its concept of “second-screen” viewing with some sports TV Read More...
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01:02 PM Tuesday, February 19, 2008
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Since I blogged about Emotiv Systems last week, the company’s unique “brain-reading” headset – which enables gamers to control actions in games (like lifting and rotating objects, moving avatars left/right/forward/back etc) through the power of their Read More...
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11:07 AM Monday, February 18, 2008
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I first blogged about Veveo last Summer, because I found the company’s technology to search video content from “input-constrained” devices (ie, devices with small keyboards such as cell phones, MP3s etc) very cool. Their interface enables consumers to Read More...
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11:04 AM Monday, February 18, 2008
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The Xbox Live service, available to Xbox console users, will offer free HD access to sessions at the Game Developers Conference – being held in San Francisco from February 18 to 22. Gamers can access the video content - which will include keynotes coverage, Read More...
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12:04 PM Sunday, February 17, 2008
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It’s still in private beta, but my colleague Beti Cung and I have seen demos of Viewdle’s impressive facial-recognition-based video search technology. It’s a full search engine on all video feeds that use face recognition/speech2text/OCR in the ability Read More...
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11:56 AM Saturday, February 16, 2008
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ON Networks (ON) is a Web-based video producer and aggregator, specializing in short form content (less than 7mn) displayed in HD. While there are many other short form content aggregators on the market, ON is the only one so far that provides HD quality. Read More...
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11:07 AM Friday, February 15, 2008
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IZ3D, a manufacturer of stereo 3-D LCD screens for gaming applications, has an interesting international background: founded by Russian game developers, it was funded as a 50/50 joint venture between one of the largest Taiwanese LCD screen manufacturer Read More...
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12:20 PM Thursday, February 14, 2008
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Emotiv Systems, which has been in stealth mode since it was founded in 2003, will publicly unveil its “brain-reading” headset at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco next week. I first blogged about Emotiv , which is part of part of Microsoft's Read More...
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02:07 PM Wednesday, February 13, 2008
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We’ve seen much activity in the world of video entertainment in the past few months—yet, consumers are still not getting what they want. They want to see their favorite show or movie or play their video games or listen to their music—wherever Read More...
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11:24 AM Wednesday, February 13, 2008
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Broadband video ad network YuMe, which is part of Microsoft's Startup Accelerator Program , has been collecting money and awards lately. When I last blogged about them, Read More... ,they had just won “Best of Show” award at a Silicon Valley startup conference Read More...
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