Santa Monica, CA—Last night I attended an opening event at Digital Hollywood, namely the party celebrating nominees for the upcoming Mobile Excellence Awards. At the Loew’s Hotel on the beach, guests were treated to a spectacular sunset, a view of the neon-lit Ferris Wheel on the Santa Monica pier and, of course, drinks and [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Digital Hollywood’
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 7, 2008
Associated Press’ Mobile News Network
Digital Hollywood, May 6, 2008–At Digital Hollywood, I also met up with Jeff Litvack, director of global product development at Associated Press, which just launched a mobile service through its digital cooperative. I had a chance to ask Jeff about the details of this service which is available .”It’s about creating a single access portal [...]
May 7, 2008
Mobile Revolution or Catch-22?
Digital Hollywood, May 6, 2008–On Day 2 of DH, I attended a panel that looked at movies, TV and video as the entertainment and information that is “jump-starting” the mobile revolution. Moderated by Ralph Simon, chair emeritus & founder of Mobile Entertainment Forum– Americas, panelists included Playboy vp of new media Chris Petrovic; Versaly Entertainment [...]
May 6, 2008
Producing and Monetizing Broadband Content
Digital Hollywood, May 5, 2008–Go shoot me – instead of going to a panel on the hardware and other technology at the base of enabling mobile TV and video, I went to one on producing and monetizing online or broadband content. Why? Broadband content was considered to be a wild and crazy thing not that [...]
May 6, 2008
Apple Love Fest at Digital Hollywood Panel
Monday, May 5, 2008–Today was the first day of Digital Hollywood, appropriately enough in the heart of Hollywood at the new Highland Center complex. For the next couple of days, I plan to post from the conference (or slightly thereafter)
First up, a panel on the Mobile Platform 2.0 – Establishing the Personalized Video.Music and [...]
