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Entries from May 2008
May 30, 2008
Africa Diary: Cell Phone Documentary
At MEFCON 2008, I had the chance to speak to journalist/filmmaker L.M. Kit Carson and producer Cynthia Hargrave. They showed two of three short movies made in Mozambique, shot with the Nokia N93 cell phone and edited with Mac iMovie. I highly encourage MobilizedTV readers to make sure to watch this when it becomes available [...]
May 30, 2008
Talking with Ted Cohen About MEF
Mobilized TV spoke with outgoing MEF Americas Chair Ted Cohen. Here’s what he had to say about the organization: MEF Americas has been around for five years - it has 160 member companies globally - film studios, tv networks, content aggregators, content creators, music labels, carriers, all over the place. The evolution of [...]
May 30, 2008
Mobile Innovation Showcase: How do you vote?
The last event of MEFCON 2008 (before the closing cocktail party that is) was “Mobile at the Apollo,” an event hosted by Ralph Simon, MEF Americas Chairman Emeritus. Six companies presented products for consideration: mSpot’s Make-UR-Tones; Glu’s Get Cookin’ Mobile Game; Streamezzo Service Manager; Pocketlight’s Artamata; Zeemote JS1 Controller; and Conversational Multimedia’s Muse.
Warren Stringer showed [...]
May 29, 2008
Mobile TV: Making It Through to the Next Round
This panel, moderated by The Hollywood Reporter deputy editor Andrew Wallenstein, included Telescope executive chair Jason George; Endemol USA SVP, digital media and branded entertainment Jon Vlassopoulos; GoTV Netowkrs EVP/studio chief Daniel Tibbets; and Veeker co-founder/COO Marcus Yoder.
I confess, I came in late to this session because I just finished a long interview with L.M. [...]
May 29, 2008
Is Ad-supported Mobile Content Viable?
Ah yes, this hot topic. Something can be extrapolated from the fact that, in the MEFCON agenda, at least, four people are listed as supporting the above query, while only two have offered themselves up to argue against ad-suported content.
The “pro” team was led by Ujjal Kohli, ceo of Rhythm NewMedia with Nicholas Covey, director [...]
May 29, 2008
Making Mobile Easy to Use
A fun conference opener, where moderator Dave Ullmer, senior director of entertainment products at Motorola and MEF Americas Vice Chair challenged attendees to do a series of increasingly difficult tasks on their cell phones - and please DO try this at home: call home or office, take a photo, hand the phone to their neighbor [...]
May 28, 2008
Fake Steve Jobs Says to Dying Mainstream Media: Get over it!
Blogger Dan Lyons (aka the Fake Steve Jobs) gave MEFCON 2008’s fake keynote. If you haven’t read his blog, here’s the back story: for about a year, he blogged anonymously as a joke that has says has “almost turned into a living.” He writes a column on tools for Forbes Magazine. His blog is The [...]
May 28, 2008
Mobile games sales chart launched
MEF Americas general manager Karen Allen announced that MEF and NPD Group announced the first sales chart for mobile games, to provide reliable source data for tracking growth and progress in the U.S. Working with MEF, NPD will compile and chart the data, creating sales information to promote and create awareness within the mobile games [...]
