Hi everyone for another new and interesting week. This time the carnival is again in Israel, where we are currently enjoying our Sukkot holyday. Before I start off with the interesting set of posts on our carnival, I want to invite you on behalf of WIP Jam to their UnPanel event on October 8 at CTIA in San Diego. They’ve got a day chocked full with great speakers – one of them is Lauren Thorpe, Senior Director, Developer Relations, Qualcomm
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | October 5th, 2009 | Filed under Around the net
Welcome all to the Carnival of the Mobilists #158. It’s the second time I am hosting this event and I am happy to do so – especially in a week with so many interesting posts from around the mobile globe. This time, I’ll make a point of adding a few posts that weren’t submitted to the carnival, but made an impression on me – just for the fun of it. So without further ado, here’s the catch for
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | January 26th, 2009 | Filed under Around the net
Two days ago I wrote about the reason why IPTV must be interactive. And it’s simple – people expect it to be interactive. I also pointed the great speech Clay Shirky gave at Web 2.0 Expo. I came across another one – this time on TED Talks, where Peter Hirshberg gives the relationship of the computer and the television. Here’s a short transcript from the beginning of this talk: Peter: Let’s listen what happens when they get to
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | September 24th, 2008 | Filed under IPTV
For awhile, I’ve been pitching that IPTV needs to be as interactive as possible. After hearing Clay Shirky’s speech about cognitive surplus (through Chris Andersons’ The Long Tail blog), it becomes easy to understand why IPTV can only work well by being interactive. Clay makes a point that television was there when, all of a sudden, society had too much free time in hand, due to the move towards a five day work week. And now, that we are
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | September 22nd, 2008 | Filed under IPTV
