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What’s New in Mobile Marketing – 04/07/10

• Clicker Helps You Find iPad-Friendly Videos
• Data: Just 1-In-4 See iPad As Video Device
• New HP Slate Demo Shows Off Camera and More [VIDEO]
• comScore: Android Market Share Continues To Gain On The iPhone
• Editorial: iPad App Prices Are Out Of Control And Will Kill Us All
• The (R)evolution of Mobile
• Appcelerator Simplifies iPad App Development
• iPad – Works For Content Consumption, Not Content Creation
• iPad Peek: See How Your Website Looks on the iPad
• iPad Falls Short On Cloud Integration
• The App Store Now Has Over 3,000 iPad Apps, Only 20 Percent Are Free
• Ubisoft Produces Wild AR Spin-Off of Splinter Cell Game
• Lack Of Flash On The iPad Is Not Due To Any “Shortcomings” With Flash, Blame Apple
• Adobe Not Giving Up On iPhones, Tablets (video)
• Adult Entertainment Companies Outsmart Apple With iPad Optimized Websites
• Scotty P’s Hamburgers Drives Increased Revenue With Mobile Coupons
• IHOP sees 10 percent mobile coupon redemption rate
• Broadcast Journalists Turn To Bambuser’s Live-Streaming Mobile Video Apps
• Justin.tv for iPhone Racks Up 355,000 Downloads in First Week
• How are Mobile Phones Changing Social Media?
• Live Streaming Video Apps Have Big Potential
• Seeking Jumbotron Fame? CrowdCameo Lets You Upload Mobile Photos To The Big Board
• Encoding.com Aims to Optimize Streaming Video for iPad
• 90 Percent Of Adults Use At Least One Mobile Device: Study
• iSnapMe Front Camera for iPhone Needs Mobile Chatroulette Now
• Augmented Reality And Mobile Means There’s No Such Thing As “Normal” Barcodes Any More
• Meet Tagwhat, Another Augmented Reality Network For iPhone And Android Users
• eBay Expects To Sell $1.5 Billion Worth Of Goods Through Mobile Devices In 2010

What’s New in Interactive Video – 04/06/10

• First Android TV Beta-Testing, Available in September
• Paltalk Moves Video Chat Inside the Browser
• TV Works on the Web, but TV Advertising Won’t
• Online Video Viewers: the Young, the Hip and the Well Off
• Hulu: Don’t Worry About Us, We’re Doing Just Fine, Thanks
• Many Content Owners Can’t Afford To Make Their Videos Available For iPad
• The Future of TV?: The Story Behind Crackle’s “The Bannen Way”
• Interactive “Glee” Trailer Lets You Fan the Cast on Facebook [VIDEO]
• 5 Secrets of YouTube’s Success
• Take An Interactive Virtual Tour Of The Sistine Chapel
• Ustream to Bring Live Video to iPad
• Dr. Pepper Offers Bouncing Cheerleader Boobs on Chatroulette
• 3D Dance Off
• YouTube Redesign Focuses on Search and Conversation
• Chatroulette Faces A Stiff Challenge In Becoming A Legit Business
• Most Boring YouTube Videos Ever: Amazon Wants to Show You Your Package as It’s Packed
• TweetDeck Selects TwitVid for Video Tweeting
• What Makes Videos Go Viral – And Should Marketers Even Care?
• Mobile Apps May Be Reaching A Saturation Point, SMS Still Reigns Supreme
• Scion Targets Younger Buyers With “Project Runway for Cars” Web Series
• What SpeedDate Learned From Chatroulette
• “The Sims” Creator Developing TV Show with User-Generated Episodes

Sistine Chapel Interactive Panorama – Simply Amazing!

This interactive panorama of The Sistine Chapel is both a visual and technical marvel.  You could literally spend hours on this site checking out all the details.  It would have been nice though to get additional information when clicking on certain areas.  Choir music gives it that extra oomph to almost trick you into thinking you’re actually there.   Check it out for yourself and let me know what you think in the comments!

What’s New in Interactive Video – 03/30/10

• Chatroulette Quadruples To 4 Million Visitors In February
• Netflix On The Wii: The First Reviews Are In
• Marketers Merge Online Video, TV Ad Strategies
• Is Hollywood Overestimating the Appeal of 3-D?
• YouTube Steps Up Facebook Integration, Shows Shared Videos
• Hulu Versus TV Everywhere: What Happens After The Comcast-NBC Merger Is Complete?
• Why Chatroulette Is More Than Just Penises
• YouTube’s Blair Fowler Pwns The Internet
• Getting Smart With Video Distribution Part II: Intelligent Channel Enablement
• 5 Ways Non-Profits Can Increase Engagement With YouTube
• More Google TV Details Emerge
• Bitbop Hands-On: Is This The Hulu Of Mobile?
• What Social Needs Does Chatroulette Fill?
• Coming Soon: Live-streamed Car Accidents
• YouTube EDU Finishes Its Freshman Year With 300 University Partners In Tow
• Real-Time Mobile Social Network & SMS Response Can Make Or Break TV Show Ratings
• Web-TV Convergence Is Already Here, Just Not The Way We Expected
• Earth Hour: Lights Off YouTube Viral
• Web Video Audience OK With More Ads, Report
• Will Augmented Reality Be The Bridge To Web 3.0?
• Optimising Your YouTube Channel for SEO
• Nyoombl Uses The TV For Video Conferencing
• Can Augmented Reality Be A Commercial Success For E-commerce?

What’s New in Interactive Video – 03/23/10

• Men Lead TV-Web Multitasking
• Panasonic Is Winning The First Round Of The 3DTV Wars
• YouTube Axes Its RealTime Toolbar Experiment
• Thousands Watch as Molly the Owl’s Babies Hatch on Ustream [VIDEO]
• MyChanceRomance Marries Chatroulette and Online Dating
• The Problem With Hulu, the iPad and Cheap TV
• Kylo Blocked By Hulu Already
• Meet YouTube’s 224 Million Girl
• DEMO: GlideTV launches What’s On Channel For Web Videos On TV
• Online TV-Watching Becomes Interactive Experience
• It’s Time to Get Video on Wikipedia
• NBP: FCC Proposes “Video.Gov” Public Archive
• Live Streaming Sites Beat YouTube in Video Hours Uploaded
• RandomDorm: Chatroulette for the College Set
• GM’s Awesome Augmented Reality Windshield [VIDEO]
• Why So Few TV Ads Are Viral Hits
• How SXSW Bands are Using Online Music Videos
• Studios and Cable Unite in Support of Video on Demand
• YouTube Launches Partner Program for Musicians
• Indie Band Holy F**k Debuts New Album on ChatRoulette, of All Places
• Study: Engagement Key for Rich Media Video Ads
• Inside a Virtual Reality Hamster Ball [VIDEO]
• Project Natal: The … Arcade Game?
• BBC iPlayer About to Go Social
• YouTube Users Upload 24 Hours of Video Every Minute

Chatroulette Improv Wars

The last few weeks have seen an explosion of viral videos that center on Chatroulette ‘improv’.  The interactive video conferencing format of Chatroulette makes this a perfect breeding ground for up and coming bands and musicians to get their 15 minutes of fame.   For instance, rock band I AM UN CHIEN recently performed a live music video on Chatroulette.

But I think we’re just beginning to see the start of the ‘improv wars’ on Chatroulette with the first battle between Alex Roda (the original improv) and Merton (the piano improv).  Alex Roda was first to hit the scene with his improv vocal video which to date has approx. 135K views.  Following that was Merton’s piano improv video which has exploded onto the scene with over 3.3 million views on YouTube in less than 10 days.  Alex Roda then released his second improv vocal video ‘live’.  Naturally, viewers have taken sides in the comments which has further fueled the fire.

Personally I think both videos are great and show the power of real-time interactive video conferencing which is in it’s infancy. Marketers are still trying to figure out how to best use (i.e. exploit)  Chatroulette for marketing purposes (The French Connection promotion aside) but my guess is one brand is going to latch onto one improv artist sooner rather than later to tap into non-stop Chatroulette buzz. I’ve embedded both original videos below and you can judge for yourself which chatroulette improv performer you like better..

ALEX RODA (Auto-tune Vocal Improv)

MERTON (Piano Improv – updated version; original pulled due to TOS from YouTube)

UPDATE: BEN FOLDS (Tribute to Merton). This just happened last night at a Ben Folds Five concert in Charlotte where Ben Folds did his best Merton impression for the concertgoers while live on Chatroulette.  Amusing given that people seem to think that Merton/Ben Folds are the same person…

What’s New in Interactive Video – St. Patty’s Day Edition

• PlayStation Move: What We Hate, What We Love
• Internet Browsing and TV Watching: A Match Made in Distraction Heaven
• Facebook + Chatroulette = Faceroulette!
• Time To Get On The (Video) Apps Bandwagon
• YouTube Opens Up Banner Ad Overlays to Everyone
• Chatroulette Is 89 Percent Male, 47 Percent American, And 13 Percent Perverts (And guess who the perverts are…The Brits!)
• Crackle Sees Video Streams Rise
• The Masters Will Be Shown in 3-D, on TV and Online
• Crimsonfox: Augmented Reality-Powered Scavenger Hunt In Tokyo (video)
• The Reality of A YouTube Front Page Feature
• Justin.TV Turns To Law Professor Eric Goldman As It Battles Live Video Piracy
• 3D Gaming Goes From The PC To The TV
• Chinese Manufacturer Sticks IP Webcam On Robot Vacuum (remote controlled cleaning from the office? all over it…)
• 4 Fun and Crazy Chatroulette Videos (and can’t forget the now viral Chatroulette Improve Piano Player)
• Hot Wheels Custom Motors Cup Challenge (Innovative use of Annotated Video on YouTube…)
• YouTube Guide: Best YouTube Tips, Hacks & Resources
• Chatroulette Founder Working to Preserve User Privacy

Facebook + Chatroulette = Faceroulette

It was bound to happen sooner or later.  Someone took Facebook Connect functionality and mashed it together with Chatroulette’s video conferencing interface.  So now you have Faceroulette! The only problem? Nobody seems to be using it quite yet.  It remains to be seen if the whole appeal of Chatroulette is in the anonymous nature of the service or if services like Faceroulette, Redditroulette, Tinychat and others can gain traction in the marketplace with detailed and niche user options.  Could Facebook will be rolling out a similar feature to Faceroulette sometime in the immediate future?

What’s New in Mobile Marketing – 3/10/10

• Comcast’s iPhone App Adds Remote DVR Scheduling
• Air Video, the Best iPhone Video Streamer $3 Can Buy
• GDC 10: FreeAppADay.com Propels FingerZilla from Unknown to App Store Number One in 24 Hours
• Titanium 1.0 Launches: Build Native Apps for Desktop, Mobile & iPad
• Three Lessons From The Chipotle iPhone App
• The iPad Poses a Threat to Kindle’s Market Share [STATS]
• Foursquare and SPIN Magazine Turn SXSW Into Musical Scavenger Hunt
• 99 Apps Launches $99 iPhone App for Restauranteurs
• TwitCasting Lets You Stream Live Video And Tweet Simultaneously From Your iPhone
• Facebook’s iPhone Usage Jumps 20 Percent In Under A Week
• ARWire – Your AR News on the Move
• Macy’s, Domino’s, Unilever’s Dove Case Studies at Mobile Marketing Day
• Global Smartphone App Download Market Could Reach $15 Billion By 2013: Report
• What the iPad’s Lack of Flash Means To Marketers
• Google Gesture Search Is Great — If You Can Get It
• Twitter Sees 347% Growth in Mobile Browser Access
• Gartner: Touchscreen Mobile Device Sales will Grow 97% in 2010
• Mobile Augmented Reality Poised for Rapid Growth
• Hustler on the iPhone (How to get around iTunes approval process? Why just mobile optimize your site…)
• Indie Coder Proves Android Apps Can Make Money, Too
• Mobile Boarding Passes Take Off With 1200% Usage Increase In 2009
• Skype App Hits Ovi Store, And Potentially 200 Million Nokia Handsets Next
• The Importance of Touch on the Mobile Web
• Best Buy Names Top Six Trends in Mobile Marketing, Commerce
• Books Now Outnumber Games on the iPhone
• Y Combinator To Startups: “We think the iPad is meant to be a Windows killer”
• An iPhone app To Bypass Front Desks And Open Room Locks
• 26% of Americans Get News Via Their Mobiles
• Android and RIM Eat Into Apple’s Share Of Mobile Web
• Dropcam Gets an iPhone App
• An App for That, Too: How Mobile Is Changing Shopping
• How To Create an iPhone or Droid App For Your Business (good overview of the DIY apps out there)
• I Don’t Like The iPad Because…
• When It Comes To iPhone Games, What Sells Is Action, Adventure, and Arcade

What’s New in Interactive Video – 3/9/10

• Oscars Online: Twitter Traffic, Livestreaming Help Power Hollywood’s Big Night
• Online Video’s Rapid Growth Hits a Speed Bump [STATS]
• Two Interesting Viewpoints On Chatroulette Founder’s Upcoming Decision – Russian Investment or American Investment?
• Advertising Finally Comes to Chatroulette
• Q&A: OK Go’s Lead Singer Tells Us Secrets of the Band’s Geeky Videos – You can’t make ‘viral’ videos, but these guys come as close as it gets to tapping into content that will become viral…
• Video Chat Is Where It’s at — but How Do Brands Fit in?
• Two Reasons to Love and Two Reasons to Hate The Office Webisodes
• Citi: YouTube to Top $1B in Revenues in 2011
• How Apple Plans to Make You Watch Ads With Cheap TV Shows
• Well That Didn’t Take Long – Band’s Live Performance On Chatroulette
• A New Meme is Brewing: YouTube Caption Fail
• Last Call: Interactive Cinema Experience
• GestureTek To Let You Interact With Images Projected From Your Phone
• March Madness on Demand: What the Online Olympics Should Have Been
• Livestream Goes Mainstream With AP Deal To Stream Video From The Oscars Red Carpet
• YouTube Rolls Out Auto-Captioning for All Videos
• Chatroulette Clones: A New Market for Random Connections
• Bank Run: Interactive Movie + iPhone App – Would be interesting to see how many people bought the $2 iphone app to continue the story…
• Is TV Everywhere the Solution to the Set-top Box War?
• Livestream Calls Out Ustream and Justin.tv for Profiting Off of Piracy
• Hulu, Colbert, And The Recentralization Of Video On The Web
• Vimeo Adds Video Analytics Suite
• Netpulse Adds On-Demand Videos to Your Workout
• Apple’s Trying To Store Your Video in the Cloud
• FCUK + Chatroulette = PR Stunt
• Videos Make The Web More Persuasive
• VUDU Rolls In Facebook and Twitter Integration
• Sports Illustrated Adds Online Video, Including Anchored Newscasts
• 3D TV forecast: Sales will rise tenfold in next five years
• Movieclips Goes Global, Opens Up API
• 4.35 Million Watch Chile Earthquake and Hawaii Tsunami Video Streams
• YouTube 101: Educational Series for New Users Launches
• Samsung Adds Skype Video Conferencing to LED TVs
• Go For A Virtual Run In Yosemite, Hear Your Own Footsteps
• Showtime Sports Interactive debuts EBIF tags on HDTV
• 25% of All TVs Sold in January Are Connected to the Internet