Multi-Touch Computer Screens
A few days ago, I blogged about Microsoft Surface tabletop computing. I just found a great demo of multi-touch computer screens from Popular Mechanics.
Microsoft Surface: Tabletop Computing
Remember in Steven Spielberg’s movie Minority Report, when Tom Cruise uses his hands to manipulate data on a giant computer screen? It’s here. Today at the D: All Things Digital conference near San Diego, Microsoft unveiled Microsoft Surface, a tabletop...Facebook: World’s Largest Social Network?
Paul Allen has just predicted that Facebook will become the largest social network in the world. It has just launched a new business model that encourages people to develop and distribute applications on its platform. Great entreprenurial opportunites. Now, how can...Google Universal Search Includes More than Web Pages
Google’s May 16th press release explains that their new Universal Search will begin providing a “more integrated and comprehensive way to search for and view information online,” because the Google results will now include online news, books, video, maps, and...
US Broadband Users Spend 1 Hr/Day Online in Entertainment & Communication
The average broadband user in the USA spends 1 hour and 40 minutes a day online. Over half of that time online is devoted to entertainment and communication. The chart below shows the media-related activities of US broadband users, both online and offline. See the...Media is Changing: User Involvement and Quality are Critical
On Monday, media titan Rupert Murdoch wrote a letter published at Forbes.com to explain how media is evolving. He’s the majority shareholder and chief executive of News Corporation, that owns 20th Century Fox, HarperCollins, Fox Broadcasting, dozens of...More Women Than Men Online in the USA
According to several sources, women outnumber men online in the USA. eMarketer claims 51.7% are female, Arbitron and Edison Media Research say 53% of users aged 12+ are female, and comScore Media Metrix claims that 50.6% of users aged 2+ are female. The only major...US Hispanics Online
Hispanic Internet users in the USA consume more media and spend more time with technology than the general US population. 90% have cell phones, compared with 79% for the general US population. 79% have a digital camera, compared with 53% for the general US population....Teens Watching Video Online
Today’s lead article at eMarketer states that 3/4 of US teen Internet users have streamed digital content online, and the trend is growing rapidly. Right now, a lot of that content is in movie previews, news, amateur video, and music videos. I believe if they...BYU TV International
The following news item at newsroom.lds.org should be of interest to international audiences in Spanish and Portuguese: PROVO, Utah 9 March 2007 With more than a third of the world’s Mormons now living in Central and South America and the Caribbean, new...Online Strategies
I just subscribed to the daily newsletter at mequoda.com. It has some good information about online strategies. Today’s post has a good explanation of a strategy for online and print magazines.Utah Sends Message to Washington to Protect Children and Employees Against Pornography
In a previous post, I noted that a subcommittee of the Utah State Legislature unanimously passed a Resolution (H.C.R. 3) Urging Congress to Stop Interent Pornography to Children and Employees. You may be interested to note that this resolution passed the House of...Formats for Audio and Video on Church Web Sites
The following are the standards for all new audio and video we provide on Church sites. (Not all current media files meet these standards, but all new media we create will meet these standards.)Downloadable Audio: MP3 with an ID3 tag version of 2.3 or newer. Talks and...Safer Cyber-Playrooms
Did you catch the USA Today article today about Safer Cyber-Playrooms? Disney and Nickelodeon have created safe social network sites for kids 14 and under. Disney Extreme Digital and Nicktropolis are free, video-rich interactive Web sites with secure, kid-safe chat...Follow on social media