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Zynga $5 Billion Valuation: BUY - Early Leader in Social Gaming is Printing Money - Sec... - 0 views

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zynga socialgaming playfish

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  • Social gaming applications currently have over one billion “monthly active users
  • Social gaming is rapidly taking share from other online gaming segments a
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Why Playfish Sold Itself to EA - Digits - WSJ - 0 views

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playfish socialgaming EA

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  • $300 million acquisition
  • apid maturing over the next 12 to 24 months
  • 15-20X EBIT multiple that EA
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    $300 million acquisition
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Microsoft expands Zune's footprint - 0 views

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spotify subscribers

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  • Spotify has so far converted less than 5 per cent of its userbase to paying subscribers, while France's Deezer has a meagre 0.3 per cent conversion rate,
  • Deezer and Spotify are accessible on iOS and Android devices)
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    Spotify has so far converted less than 5 per cent of its userbase to paying subscriber
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Lovefilm International | Case Studies 2009 | Winners | Deloitte LLP - 0 views

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lovefilm subscribers

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  • ith now 2,500 titles,
  • four per cent market penetration in the UK s
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FT.com / Media - Digital film is the future, the issue is timing - 0 views

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lovefilm usagedata subscribers

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  • Lovefilm, which claims to handle half of the UK’s DVD rentals, is hedging its bets on the digital future.
  • Lovefilm can afford to be agnostic about online and offline customers because both pay a regular subscription,
  • All those top-tier new release movie rights are universally held by Sk
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PlayStation provides LoveFilm with further route to TV | News | New Media Age - 0 views

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lovefilm usagedata playstation3 subscribers

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  • current 1.4m in the UK.
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    subscribers from the current 1.4m in the UK
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LoveFilm looks for console deals to build distribution | News | New Media Age - 0 views

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lovefilm usagedata blinkbox

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  • 1.2m unique users by the end
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    Blinkbox, which launched on the PS3 last month
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Some iPlayer performance tips | Dan Sumption's Life Less Literary - 0 views

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iplayer davidastle bandwidth benchmark

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  • e two actually use different video files (encoded at 1500kbps and 800kbps)
  • iPlayer requires lot of decoding power,
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    The two actually use different video files (encoded at 1500kbps and 800kbps)
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BBC - BBC Internet Blog: Introducing the all new BBC iPlayer (This time it's personal) - 0 views

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iplayer bbc iplayer3.0 web-TV webimmersion usage usagedata anthonyrose

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  • simpler to use, personalised and social.
  • iPlayer V2,
  • main problems we had to solve were largely technical things like:
  • ...64 more annotations...
  • Twitterverse is becoming the tastemaker.
  • available i
  • ideo quality
  • reliability of video delivery
  • dealing with massive peak loads
  • iPlayer V2 hosting platform was also designed to scale across multiple platforms
  • Actual Availability,
  • scaling to 1.5 million users,
  • 15 million page views delivering over 1.1 billion(!) minutes of video each month
  • Two years ago when we launched iPlayer our goals and challenges were largely technical - scalability, reliability, video encoding
  • next set of challenges was not so much technical as social
  • "As people begin moving from television to the web, what happens to the role of the linear TV scheduler as the tastemaker
  • platform capable
  • the scheduler is the leading tastemaker.
  • iPlayer does a fine job of satisfying the time-shifted desires
  • BBC schedulers create the desire to watch a programme; iPlayer lets you see it at a time that's convenient to you
  • what if you no longer watched linear TV? Who becomes the tastemaker then?
  • largely theoretical problem
  • iPlayer home page that feels almost more like an application than a traditional web site
  • in the world of YouTube where there is no master scheduler who can shape demand.
  • clear evidence that linear TV created the demand while iPlayer satisfied it.
  • wanted it to become a driver of demand, s
  • The question then is, in a world which cannot be driven by schedulers
  • if schedulers are going to be augmented by your friends as drivers of consumption in the future, the challenge for the team was to integrate friends and social into the iPlayer
  • delights both early adopters and the mainstream audience.
  • folded your personal experience into the fabric of the main site
  • o integrate with Facebook and other social networks
  • make the recommendations and social graph visible within iPlayer,
  • addition of course to any external activity.
  • solution we came up with was to create a BBC login - known as BBC iD
  • can then connect with Facebook, Twitter
  • expandable Favourites zone
  • designed Favourites to be like your mail Inbox, showing the total number of items, how many are newly arrived,
  • rely on Favourites to give me a constant stream of things to watch
  • ll your favourites and other settings can roam across all the devices on which you use iPlayer.
  • So now if I'm bored sitting in a train on the way home, I can look for new programmes to watch, add them to my Favourites,
  • Personalised iPlayer home page
  • default view that everyone sees to something that's, well, just for you.
  • iPlayer traffic is doubling each year, it still only accounts for 2-3% of linear TV viewing.
  • Featured and Most Popular
  • For You and Friends:
  • iPlayer homepage into the tastemaker of your choice
  • connect iPlayer to your Facebook and/or Twitter social graph
  • Player home page to meet the needs of a mainstream audience looking for editorialised
  • My Categories
  • he iPlayer server will keep a lookout for any new content in your selected categories
  • big increase in live TV viewing in iPlayer - and with the upcoming World Cup being a huge driver of live online viewing
  • new Live Viewing page
  • fuel for the Friends drawer on the iPlayer home page
  • something that for some will be the killer feature of the new site
  • sync your iPlayer with theirs
  • Shout button - a
  • shouts only go to your Messenger friends who are in iPlayer right now
  • Watch with Friends is being added to the site in the next few weeks - stay tuned!
  • adaptive bitrate system
  • ch automatically adjusts
  • Adobe's upcoming Flash 10.1 release with H.264 hardware acceleratio
  • New iPlayer Desktop
  • Series Downloads and live radio & TV.
  • favourite programmes already downloaded to your computer ready to view when you're offline
  • Player Desktop will now automatically download every future episode for you
  • new feature in iPlayer Desktop for live TV
  • BBC's 17 network and national radio stations..
  • I am moving on to become CTO of Project Canvas, and this is the last major piece of work
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Hacking NetFlix - 0 views

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netflix

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