Monthly Archives: May 2007

User interface and content discovery in video sharing applications

By Kfir Pravda | Published: May 28, 2007
I’ve came across TVTonic after watching an interview with their president on The ScobleShow (great show by the way, add it to your favorite RSS reader). TV-Tonic has a media center approach to user interface, as you can see in the screenshot below: As such, the interface itself is clean and aimed at remote control usage. It [...]
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To Blog or not To Blog

By Kfir Pravda | Published: May 23, 2007
In the last week or so I didn’t blog, due to illness and some urgent business issues. There are several blogging “rules”, two of them are contridicting -one says that you should publish a post every day. The other says not to write crap. It is a kind of an Asimovian conflict of laws . Not everyday [...]
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Meta Aggregators – a new segment in the online video market

By Kfir Pravda | Published: May 23, 2007
My friend Chris wrote an insightful article in killerapp about the role of meta-aggregator in the online video market. The story is simple – there is a major problem today for both content creators and viewers – find something good to see. There are a lot of shows, and it is hard to find the [...]
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Economics of New Media Market – Link-O-Rama

By Kfir Pravda | Published: May 17, 2007
NewTeeVee ยป Video Funding Keeps on Coming - post about financial rounds in the online video industry paidContent.org: The Economics of Content – @ Streaming Media: Video Blogs Try To Hold On To New Media Values As Old Media Pays Attention – forwarded by a friend, this excellent post provides additional figures (wallstrip chapter costs [...]
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The Secrets of a Good Fiction Web Show (I) – The Plot

By Kfir Pravda | Published: May 16, 2007
Producing a web show is a complex task. Usually we work without budget, and on top of our day job. The market is in its infancy, so it’s still a challenge to attract viewers. Many aspects of the format are not clear, such as interactivity, format, and length (a key point raised by Justin). My approach [...]
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