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May 02, 2005

Are Mobisodes as Good as IT Gets?

Editor's Note: The following is from Brenda Trainor, President and Founder of Frontier Trail, Inc.

Today, during a presentation made by Lucy Hood, senior vice president of content and marketing for NewsCorp, I learned that the current best selling mobisode in the USA is Paris and Nicole trying to change diapers at a day care center.

Gawd – is this how we have come to define the social benefit of mobile technologies?

Clearly not in this example – at least not obviously.  But from a social behavior and technology application, today I actually enjoyed seeing Paris and Nicole (very atypical for me) in a cool use of a cell phone.  A Mobisode (that means “mobile episode” and the term is trademarked, just so you know) sends a short video clip, for a charge, to your mobile phone.  It is clever, one-to-one marketing that has the added advantage of generating revenue for the provider.

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Six MP3 Files from Mobile Media now available

The following six audio files from Mobile Media are now available:

Mobile and Media: The Fox Perspective
Lucy Hood, SVP of Content and Marketing, News Corp. | Download MP3 (39:34, 57 MB)

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May 01, 2005

Media Center Tour: Integrated Media Systems Center at USC

Attendees of The Media Center's Mobile Media event took a tour of the Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) at the University of Southern California. There they saw and participated in demonstrations that included 3D face modeling and recognition, 3D Haptics simulations, automatic portrait rendering and a biology video-game.

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Immersing the masses in media

Chris Kyriakakis, deputy director of the Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) and the founder and director of the Immersive Audio Laboratory. talks about how the Internet will shift from simple browsing to a more realistic experience and how improved immersive technologies can enhance journalists' abilities to deliver a scene to their audience.

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April 29, 2005

Video: Brian Hecht, Lucy Hood and Mitch Ratcliffe

The first three installments of Media Center video from our Mobile Media event are live (as are the corresponding MP3 files):

Lucy Hood, SVP of content and marketing for News Corp., on Fox's "mobisodes"

Brian Hecht, CEO of Kikucall, on taking first steps with text messaging

Mitch Ratcliffe, co-founder of Persuadio, on producing video for the Web and for mobile devices