Georg Cockburn

“You don’t have to mess with a web page to watch TV anymore.” At least that’s what Boxee TV promises in their short introduction film to Boxee-tv on Vimeo. A few have tried connecting the TV to the several sources on the web  before, see Apple TV or Samsung’s TVs with theirs built-in YouTube-browser.
Boxee manages [...]

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Audi just launched a new version of it’s WebTV: Audi.tv now features much better video quality, social functions and - it was about time - a flash interface. No more problems trying to view Audi.tv on a Mac as it used to be with it’s old WindowsMediaPlayer-Plugin. The content is structured into several channels, one [...]

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Nice article here on Brandchannel.com: Gavin Finn, president and CEO of Kaon Interactive, creators of 3D interactive sales and marketing solutions, has written the article A Dimensional View of Experiential Marketing in which he describes the importance of interactivity:

So just what is interactivity? Interactivity is a bi-directional process involving the actions of one participant, and the [...]

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Thinkbox, the television marketing body for the main UK commercial broadcasters, published this study about the synergy created by using TV and Online together. Using extensive data, it gives good insight how the advantages of both media can be utilized together, creating an even stronger impact on the user.
Evaluating some cross media campaigns form brands [...]

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Audi Germany just launched it’s new national website today. Offering a clean layout, an L-Navigation, which now many premium car manufacturers use and big media-screens, this appears to be the first national adoption of Audi’s new international on-line appearance. And there will probably be more to come - as it’s international site audi.com and audi.tv [...]

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Here’s a new player in online TV! Sling Beta was just released. Offering a Flash interface this site of the company behind the slingbox, a living room gadget capable of streaming live TV from your home to any computer in the world.
Now the company takes it one step further and allows you to use those [...]

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Finally we got there: Mercedes-Benz.tv 2.0 is online. It’s been a lot of work the last few months and we relaunched the website yesterday. Thanks to a great team of art directors, developers, project managers, information archtitects and tv production companies this is an advanced site in terms of user experience. Different channels ranging from [...]

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Scholz & Volkmer developed an  interactive installation for the ‘Atlantis Nature Film Festival’ in Wiesbaden, Germany. Located in a store front in the city the viewer can get a glimpse of the films which he can view during the festival. Another great example of gestural interaction: this demo on YouTube shows how the viewers can [...]

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This makes you want more: Mozilla Lab’s Aurora is a study for the future of web usage with a strong focus on collaboration and interaction with other users. In this series of videos from Adaptive Path’s Lead Designer Jesse James Garrett you get a glimps of what intuitive browsing could be like in the future. [...]

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For a long time we had to handle interfaces that didn’t seem to be made for humans. Keyboards and other awkward input devices aren’t made for spontaneously interaction. Seemingly engineers had forgotten that we are, after all, living beings who want to touch and move things in a natural way.
Now slowly companies [...]

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