By Mark Levy CEO of MaxxoMedia
Facebook, the fastest growing online social network, is basically messaging and static pages. You get to look at friend’s page and use some utilities for sharing photos, videos, links and news feeds. One company thinks people are already tiring of seeing what their friends have done … after the fact. So they are developing ways for people to interact online in real time and do things together from any website. This is the vision of ROCKETON, a new “virtual world, social network, real-time gaming and applications platform.”
Founded by Interactive TV pioneers Steve Hoffman and Naomi Kabuko, ROCKETON aims to create the next wave in online interaction and gaming. The service, which opens in public beta in late April, will give you an avatar that represents who you are and allow you to connect with other ROCKETON members wherever they are to interact, chat, trade virtual objects and play games in real time.
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced today a plan to help fight crime by equipping 911 call centers throughout New York City to receive digital images and video from cell phones and computers. Apparently the city is basing the decision on the popularity of text and photo messaging and Internet services like Google and YouTube. Law enforcement and emergency management experts praised the plan.
“Anything you can do to advance the information flow is good,” said Jerome M. Hauer, director of emergency management under Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and now an antiterrorism consultant in Washington. “Imagine someone caught in a hostage situation transmitting pictures or video,” he added. “It’s just an incredible amount of information that can be gathered from fairly simple technology.”
Posted by Mark Levy | Posted in User Generated Content, Web | Posted on 04-01-2007
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Much like the predictions that Reality TV would put hollywood out of work a few years back, the media makes it appear that UGC is poised to take over the old media world. That’s not going to happen but it will end up as a staple of media programming both online and off.
By Kate Holton REUTERS
LONDON, Jan 3 (Reuters) – Traditional media companies are ideally placed to benefit from the explosion of user-generated content and should see it as an opportunity and not a threat even though the potential revenue is limited, a report says.
Howard Davies, a director of media strategy at Deloitte, said print and TV had been wise to stand back and see how the practice developed.
