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Viacom piles on Google TV with MTV content ban

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Viacom piles on Google TV with MTV content ban
Michelle Clancy ©RapidTVNews | 23-11-2010

http://www.rapidtvnews.com/index.php/201011238970/viacom-piles-on-google-tv-with-mtv-content-ban.html

Google TV can now count Comedy Central, MTV and Nickelodeon among its blocked channels, thanks to Viacom becoming the latest media giant to take a stand against the platform.

 

A cryptic "Sorry, this content is unavailable for your device," message is all that a user will encounter when trying to dial up streaming Website content from those networks' online libraries.

 

ABC, NBC, FOX and Viacom parent CBS are all blocking their online content from Google TV, meaning that the broadcast pool is dwindling for Mountain View. The networks are looking for carriage fees in return for allowing Google TV to access their online programming. The irony of course is that users from virtually any other online browser can access the same content for free via a PC or Mac.

 

At issue is the fact that Google TV uses the Android OS to embed a Web media player within a Sony television set. Google envisioned the play as an ideal melding on broadcast and Web content; the Google TV browser simply returns all manner of results for program searches, making it easier for the viewer to watch what they want, when they want it. Google TV also wraps in well-worn integrations with Netflix and Amazon.com, among others, and is in discussions with Hulu.com Plus, a premium service from FOX and NBC.

 

Broadcasters, far from seeing a viable business model for themselves, see Google TV as a convenient way to allow viewers to defect to the Web—thereby cutting out the advertising revenue from traditional broadcast, not to mention the lucrative fees studios receive from traditional pay-TV partners.

 

Piracy is another, not-small, concern.

 

 

 

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HTML5 page turner

Google just made a cool interactive book using HTML5 ... It could be cool -- a transmedia AFFS-esque experience, but with books -- to make an interactive book, but each page or so has a mini-game. This could be great content for the art section, or for m.sesamestreet.org!

http://mashable.com/2010/11/18/google-20-things-i-learned/

Needed: Apps for Google TV

via Technology Review
http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/26701/?p1=A2&a=f

"The first few products featuring Google's TV software have received lukewarm reviews, and the first downloadable apps for the platform are months away. So Google is trying to persuade Web developers to create the first wave of interactive content for the platform by making web pages and in-browser "web apps" to ignite enthusiasm for the "TV meets Web" project."

Singing Fingers iPad app

Such lovely, simple, and playful interaction design from MIT Media Lab’s Lifelong Kindergarten. Scales well to users of all ages and works a nice example of an activity that is fun for solo or collaborative play/ performance:

http://singingfingers.com/

'Just like record players and tape recorders were simple and powerful new ways to work with sounds, Singing Fingers simply gives you a blank page. To manipulate sounds you only need your fingers to smear them onto the page and to play them back. No complex buttons, menus, or rules. In fact, to record, play back, and remix sounds there are zero buttons or menus (the buttons are only for file manipulation: saving, loading, and getting a new one). One simple medium, one simple touch of the finger, millions of possibilities.'

Google Street View shows what the world really looks like

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/11/09/google-street-view-s.html

 

"MapCrunch is addictive. Select the countries you'd like to include, then click go. You'll see Google Street View photos that are nothing like the photos in tourist brochures"