Category: Digital Content

• zeebox – the value is in sharing and discovery

  Like music, TV is another traditional medium that has gone social. Forget about ‘just’ watching a show on TV’ that is only half the fun nowadays. Watching something on telly is one thing, but the conversation around it on  social media such as Twitter and Facebook is pushing the way in which we consume TV…

  marcabraham

  June 6, 2012

  Digital Content, Social Media, Startups

  content, cross-platform, discovery, Rdio, socialmedia, Spotify, startup, TV

• DRM free ebooks!? It is going to happen …

  Last year I wrote about J.K. Rowling, author of the immensely successful “Harry Potter” series, breaking out of the traditional publishing mould by offering Harry Potter ebooks through her own site. Another interesting recent development within the ebook world is digital publishers slowly starting to drop digital rights management (‘DRM’) from their ebooks. The main…

  marcabraham

  May 12, 2012

  Digital Content, Digital Publishing, Digital Strategy, User Experience

  DRM, ebooks, UX

• How smart is Smart TV?

  I have been interested in Smart TV for a while now and I think it is an interesting area to look into. First of all, because it is TV and, despite what some people might think, TV still drives an enormous part of how we consume content. Secondly, the integration between telly and the Internet is likely…

  marcabraham

  April 21, 2012

  Digital Content, Online Trends, Technology

  Smart TV, TV

• Fanhattan: cool name, but how does it work?

  Intrigued by its cool sounding name, I wanted to find out more about Fanhattan. I then came across this demo by one of the founders of the service, which has been going for about a year now. In this demo, Gilles BianRosa (CEO) made it clear that Fanhattan is all about content and not about…

  marcabraham

  February 13, 2012

  Digital Content, Online Trends

  Cloud, Facebook, Netflix, socialmedia, streaming, video

• Learning more about streaming, this time it’s about Netflix (again)

  Over the past few months I’ve been learning more about streaming, trying to understand beter how it works and who operates in this market (think Spotify, Rdio and LoveFilm). A logical next step was trying to get a better grasp on the business side of things; what makes streaming so interesting from a business revenue point…

  marcabraham

  February 6, 2012

  Digital Content, Digital Strategy, Online Trends

  Lovefilm, Netflix, streaming