a multi-tasked stream of consciousness or perhaps just emails to myself
Gizmodo has an excellent piece covering the challenges of cord cutting for mainstream consumers based on a research project conducted by Hill Holiday over the holidays.
The biggest takeaway for me is just how much we techies take for granted about how TV works. Sure there’s a bunch of crap on most of the time, but the relative mindless companionship TV offers offsets this quite nicely. I don’t mean that in a negative way either. People are accustomed to tuning in to tune out.
This happened some time ago and seems to show itself in landscape mode. Its impossible to see what’s behind the large art and those are tiled throughout my collection.
I’ve had this post from Fred Wilson bookmarked since this morning and I’m finally getting back around to formalizing a few thoughts. First the notion of content shifting is something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. As someone who works on multiple devices (sometimes concurrently) keeping things (and myself actually) in sync is not so simple. Beyond just the basics, the actual content consuption bits from my digital adventures are really the parts I’m interested in connecting as I move between locations and contexts.
While I don’t have everything sorted just yet, one thing I’ve been really keen on lately is Pinboard. I discovered Pinboard during the del.icio.us is closing chaos and am really pleased I did because it is an incredibly powerful, yet also very simple tool. It’s not perfect in replacing delicious sharing for me, but it’s making up for things with some new features considerably. The best thing Pinboard does is capture all my shared links from Twitter, Google Reader, and Instapaper in addition to backing up my delicious bookmarks and of course saving any new ones. This auto-collection process makes it dead simple for me to manage my reading and really has been awesome for making sure I know where all my links have gone. I can call stuff up or save more from within Chrome via extension, on iPhone with Delibar or bookmarklet and on Android with PinDroid. This is far more around my collection rather than consumption of content, though one additional feature Pindroid and instapaper manage is what’s been read vs unread. I can’t say I use that much as I’m just happy to have a simple point of capture, but it’s worth noting …
On the media consumption side of things, Netflix is really the only service I’ve seen that enables stopping and resuming between devices on your account and this has been great for my family and our small army of iDevices.
I’ve yet to find a good music solution for resume … Rdio comes close with the browser player, but as best as I can tell, you can’t pick an album or playlist up where you left it. Pandora definitely doesn’t work that way at all …
Kindle is pretty bulletproof for books and something I love, but there’s still a lot of room to improve across other content types.
it is going to take (more than) a few years to replace existing TV’s but as we eventually purchase connected sets, this could be quite a big deal. Way to think big, Netflix! This could make earning default status quite a bit more challenging for anyone else …
Netflix just announced partnerships with most of the major TV makers to add a Netflix button to TV remote controls.
Now instead of messing around with a tv, hitting “input” and trying to find Netflix, you can just hit the Netflix button and it will pop up for select internet connected televisions.
We don’t know how many TV’s will be getting this, but it’s pretty huge for Netflix. Every time someone uses the remote for their new TV they’ll see a little advertisement for Netflix.Business Insiders.
