Media Room Technology

Online media rooms eliminate friction that can result in lost opportunities for greater visibility. This weblog is about the technology that can be used to create outstanding media room experiences.

Journalists are deadline oriented and tend to do their jobs better when information is available on a moment's notice.

Online media rooms eliminate friction that can result in lost opportunities for greater visibility. This Weblog is about the technology that can be used to create outstanding media room experiences. Many thanks to the folks at DVCO Technology for educating me about the emergence of media rooms.

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May 02, 2005

Disneyland Resort Podcasts

Now that Mickey is podcasting, we gotta ad this to the list of technologies for media rooms.

The "custom" iPodder demonstrates why branded newsreaders and pod/vidcast applications are soon to follow. In this example, there's nothing really customized about it - just an embedded feed. But, it's certainly a technology and conceptual idea that will quickly emerge in Media Rooms.

iPressRoom has taken up the use use of podcasts in their Online Media Center, although it's unclear if their product provides for the development of podcasts as opposed to the management of them.

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May 01, 2005

The Sony Librie

E-Ink and E-Paper will be here before you know it...

The Sony Librie is not perfect, but in emerging (disruptive markets) we all know this is okay.

"Aside from the thinnest touch-screen tablet PC I've ever seen, the thing that blew me away was the Sony Librie, the first commerically available electronic ink e-book reader." -- kottke.org

E-Paper and E-Ink will have a tremendous impact on the PR community.

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April 11, 2005

TVEyes to Debut Podcast Search Engine

Bingo - another technology hurdle out of the way.
I had previously written about the nasty issue of searchability in podcasts. TVEyes will likely have a significant [favorable] impact on adoption in the PR and marketing segments.
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