Category Archives: Profession
Targeted Broadband and Digital TV News
This is a reminder for many of you, and that is that this blog maintains an aggregate news feed of hand picked content that is pertinent to the Broadband and Digital TV industries, paying quite a bit of attention towards consumer devices such as STBs and other video/information devices. You can access this information off [...]
IBC2009 Informal Social Meetup
Are you in Amsterdam for IBC2009? at a loose end after all the vendor or customer meetings and want a relaxing drink in convivial surroundings? A number of Amsterdam bound and Amsterdam housed Digital TV professionals are going to be meeting up for an informal drink inside/outside (Weather dependent) of Hoopmans (http://www.hoopman.nl/hoopman.htm ) in Leidseplein, [...]
IBC 2009 Approaching…
The blog has been a little quiet, but this has been down to some pretty intense project work for a major vendor. However IBC is quickly approaching and thoughts are now turning to what is coming and what I shall be looking at for my annual time there (although a little curtailed compared to normal [...]
Press Clippings and Reputation Management
There you are, working away, and how do you keep up with the breaking news in your industry specialism? You are out there on the Internet, your company and you and you want to know everything anyone says about you? Ensure that you are represented soundly and in the right competitive arena. How do you [...]
Digital TV and Social Networking: Friendfeed Room
The blog world is buzzing with all sorts of new applications being used by the tech world, however the DTV industry seems to be slightly holding back apart from the purchase of Plaxo by Comcast earlier this year. Not being one to hold back, I have been delving into this world for some time however, [...]
Blogging CEOs in DTV
In the world of PR, Social Networking and Silicon Valley it is not uncommon for the senior management of a company to blog including its CEO. In the DTV world (although I have not done a full survey) I have not really noticed anyone blogging, particularly outside the Firewall to the outside world. Today I [...]
Good and Bad ways of using Linkedin
The use of groups on Linkedin has grown apace over the last month or so. They are really being used now for some great discussions and networking, however I have also seen some of the worst examples of discussions and network ever. Here are some… 1. Someone asks a question about a specific use of [...]
The SCTE Autumn Lecture and AGM
On Tuesday 7th October, I went up to the IET at Savoy Place in London for the regular Autumn Lecture and AGM for the SCTE. This was my first time even though I have worked in and around the Cable industry for some time. The main event were the lectures by a variety of industry [...]