Social gaming will become more mainstream, elaborate and cross-platform, attracting new users, including traditional gamers, new platforms and countries.
Mobile Media
22 February 2012
Social games will disrupt the traditional gaming industry, by turning gaming into a service and making it free-to-play, while improving monetization.
Google has added a Google+ share button and notification box that allows you to share your thoughts on the Google+ site directly from any search result.
The new video streaming service, called Streampix, will be available only to subscribers of the giant cable company.
21 February 2012
The user will be able to use their Android Phone as the remote to make inquiries about TV shows. And the TV will list what’s available.
The startup is trying to build the next gen NLP-based interface for discovering information from huge, unstructured data sets.
“Our SP customers asked us to partner with them as they move from traditional STB to IP STB to the cloud, our Videoscape solution”, said CEO John Chambers.
Microsoft could create a delivery service that would supply tunes to the Xbox and an upcoming Windows-based phone, according to reliable sources.
84.4% of the U.S. Internet audience viewed online video in January. The duration of the average online content video was 6.1 minutes.
20 February 2012
It seems that social is not done yet: users are rapidly adopting new interest-based social networks such as Pinterest, Instagram, Thumb and Foodspotting.