Google TV and Logitech Revue - Here's What the Interface Looks Like...and Some of What's in it for Us

This morning Google TV and communicating what the interface looks like...and what's in it for us... is on my mind.  The interface made by Logitech is called The Logitech Revue, and with it you can watch what you want wherever it comes from - from the web or from TV... on your HDTV. It consists of a black box interface with its own microprocessor in it running Android and the Chrome web browser and a wireless full QWERTY keyboard with built-in touchpad that allows you to do all kinds of cool things, accessing the web...and accessing television on the web... as well as television ..on an HDTV. DishNetwork is the first on the block with it, selling for as low as $179 when purchased with their satellite service. Suggested retail price is $299.

The black box hooks up between a digital television box and an HDTV using HDMI cables and you plug your Internet cable right into it. The net effect is that this device seamlessly merges television data programming with web information. For more info see "What is Google TV?" on my New World Television Channel page. Also see my NWC Overview 2010 while you are at it to see how the new web television and be used in conjunction with web conferencing to develop business in quality assurable "steps". 

So what does all this MEAN economically... and culturally..for the small business entrepreneur, for the community television group, or for community-based educators, for advocates of social change and for our world? Though Google TV and this device just came out a few weeks, already the economic, cultural, and educational implications are far-reaching. Here is just a few of them for you to think about:

• Your own channel.. or series of channels can now show up on HDTV in living rooms, in board rooms, in classrooms and in training rooms and in retail locations....without having to access or pay for time on a cable channel..... and even after public access cable television facilities with older, more expensive and less capable technology with less business reach get shut down. 
• Your own content promoting your business, your program, or your product service can show up... without paying a dime for cable advertising air time, and cost of spot ads can be less. 
• You can author your own experiences on television, framing the world.. in your own best interest ...rather than having your experiences authored by someone else framing the world not in you own best interest....this is a BIGGIE for democracy.
• Entire communities can produce their own educational programming that can make a phenomenal difference in multiple peoples' lives, locally, regionally, nationally and even internationally.

The other great news, is that new technology is easier to use... and radically lower in cost... making the producing television possible for any person or group willing to step up to plate to do the new television... and to learn how to do it ...and mastering it well.  This is a whole new world communications landscape that is opening up before our very eyes... it's a whole new frontier... and the earliest birds... who catch the most worms...will win. Call me today and let's talk about moving forward to seize this new opportunity. 425-780-6872.

Ustream Producer Virtual Television Studio - Now that the Tools are Are Here... Where is the Consciousness?

What's on my mind this morning are all of the marvelous things that community-based stakeholders can do... leveraging the power of the new television.... developing sustainable business in a 21st century world...once they stop moaning about "older-think"  public access cable TV facility budgets being cut...and once they get hip to new more powerful ways to do live and recorded studio-type television... virtually... and at far lower cost... and with  lower carbon footprint than the old way. 

Ustream Producer Pro, for instance is a downloadable virtual multi-cam studio desktop application that allows multiple content originators to do high-quality television on the web for a one time cost of only $199. See background info about them on WikiPedia. See their info page and their presentation.  Individual web television content orginators can even webcast from the Ustream.tv site for free. Here is some of  what Ustream Producer Pro can do...at least technology-wise:

• Supports an unlimited number of cameras... Wow!... Think of putting together a ''grassroots" CNN
• Allows importing movies and audio ... another awesome capability. 
• Enables unlimited transitions
• Provides screen capture feature
• Allows you to use overlays, layers, and add titles ... like the broadcasters do.
• Support for HDV source
• SD/HD bitrate support
• Includes 7 encoding presets, including HD
• Ability to save to server in same bitstream
• Support customizable picture-in-picture

What can be done with this technology direction..people-wise... and program series-wise is another whole story...with chapters still to be written.... positively I hope... once other friends, colleagues, prospective clients... business advertisers and angel investors... understand the phenomenal opportunity of leveraging the power of the new television... to change the world...in a positive way...and within our lifetimes...with some really powerful and innovative... prime-time grassroots television...that the entire world is going to write home about.

Call me and let's connect about moving forward with this stuff... that is ...if you are not already "brain-dead" by watching too much of the wrong kind of television...stuff that enslaves by its numbing effects rather than a new world television that empowers and inspires..."refreshing everything"...which is what I'm about...and it doesn't necessarily have to do with endorsing Pepsi...though that also could be a possibility.  425-780-6872.

Web Television and Social Media - Great Tools for Inspiring Achievement in Math & Science...Across the World

This morning I was sitting here in front my laptop... flowing my feelings and my energy about using the power of the new web television and new social media to make life better and wondering how to communicate that... when BINGO! after checking my e-mail from CurrentTV, I discovered youth video testimonials from the Connect-A-MillionMinds Project. Nice how the Universe responds...just by manifesting what I care about. The goal of the project is to use technology - web television and social media to connect up youth in top math & science performing countries with kids in other countries whose national math & science performance does not rank as high. 

This youths talk about their experiences within their culture and within the educational systems and they communicate a wealth of information and passion about what they are excited about.   Here are just a few "snippets" of various students comments from all over the world that Inspire the Next-Generation of Problem-Solvers on Current.tv. Evidently there also was a recent global online TownHall Meeting on the ConnectAMillionMinds.com site with videos to follow. 

For me personally, both the CONTENT and the DELIVERY of this model project are most "instructive" for me and for other learning and ommunity-based economic development stakeholders I am in the process of reaching. and empowering. Now that the technology as well as innovative applications for it are here, what's next to do ... is for all of us to step up to plate to fund and do important projects like this ...ourselves.  See the content and then let's connect about this. 425-780-6872.

Moving Forward with A More Powerful Web Presence, Web Television and Web Conferencing Can Be Like Getting Gifts From Heaven

What's in my mind this morning.... is how so many challenges ...  in so many areas can now be addressed in key areas of the marketplace - 1) reforming K-12 education, 2) small business development, 3) economic development, 4) sustainable business development ....supported by the innovative application of the following technologies...in a new world communications "landscape" :

• Newer web architectures...as part of well designed marketing communications ... learning...and community mobilization campaigns - There are now newer approaches that can deliver way  more value and cost way less than developing websites the old way. An innovative social media strategy...and a well-done, affordable campaign strategy can be way less expensive...and effective than paying for special Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) consultants.
  
  
• The New Web Television - Never before in world history is it possible to change the world by leveraging the power of the new web television today... to communicate.. to train.. and to transform entire systems...revitalizing.. entire communities.  It is now even possible to develop and program your own television "channel"... even multiple ones. The new web television can even be "rolled" into to next-generation virtual meetings, training sessions, and full-blow multi-day virtual conferences and virtual trade shows... It can also go to mobile devices and HDTV screens.
  
  
• Next-generation web conferencing...and virtual events - When combined with innovative application of newer web architectures and the New Web Television... as part of a "green" communications and learning platform ...and approach it is now possible to develop and deliver big-reach, learning-rich communications to local, regional, and national stakeholders... capable of transforming the world.

Moving forward with a more powerful presence, web television and web conferencing... all intelligently applied to develop people and organizations and ... to change the world... can be like receiving gifts from heaven. Here's an excellent question to think about...and to address: 

Why remain "stuck" and frustrated in an older-think, non-productive "carbon-intensive" economy...going nowhere... and no longer able to sustain itself ...when there are now "net-new" ways to move business forward...in a new world 21st century communications landscape... that is potentially way more productive.. way more sustainable...and way more fun...even joyous.. once you experience how much better things can be?

 For more details let's connect and talk about moving ahead. 425-780-6872.