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 [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘MEFCON 2008’
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
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 [...]
May 27, 2008
MEFCON 2008
The Mobile Entertainment Forum will be holding its North American event on Wed./Thurs, May 28 and 29. I will be there blogging live both days.
Highlights will be an interview with filmmaker/journalist L.M. Kit Carson who just completed a mobile video documentary “Africa Diary.” And I’ll also be moderating a conversation with Oscar-nominated writer/producer Terry Rossio, [...]
