Comments for Gareth Klose

Comment on Pessimistic about TV Apps by gareth

gareth — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:38:28 +0000

Brendan,

Entirely agree with you, and my language is too specific. People like sports clubs and arts organisations will also have access to large amounts of video content.

The only problem for a viewer will be knowing which app the content is in, and so hopefully more platforms will have unified search like Microsoft are on the Xbox Dashboard, so people don’t need to understand where the rights reside at a given time.

Comment on Pessimistic about TV Apps by Brendan

Brendan — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:14:32 +0000

Fundamentally I agree that people aren’t going to use twitter apps on their TV etc, but I think you underestimate the number of providers who have (or *could* have) interesting video that they could turn into a connected TV app.

Just think of every sports franchise (I could easily imagine a Man City youview app where I could see every goal ever scored, plus loads of stats and analysis, for a reasonable fee, plus F1, PGA Golf, etc etc). Then you have most arts providers (I heard the Royal Opera House are very interested in doing their own apps, plus the Met Opera etc), many bands, orchestras, comedians, etc etc.

I think it could lead to a huge increase in the amount of video being created and distributed, letting people own their own video content the same way people write blogs, make podcasts etc now.

Sure it raises the barrier to entry a bit and favours people who actually have interesting content, but that’s not such a bad thing.

Plus there will be the inevitable new batch of apps that use the new medium in ways that we haven’t even thought of yet… that’s when it will start to get really exciting.

Comment on Anatomy of Ticketing ‘Fail’ by Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 09:36:53 +0000

All very good points, I had a very frustrating experience with the same site yesterday…what I really don’t understand in this instance, is with such a small number of tickets available, they didn’t just do a physical box office sale, which at least would have rewarded the most determined rather than being based on put luck depending on your internet connection and ability to get round the confusion of when and where to find the tickets

Comment on a new adage for social by Matt Millar

Matt Millar — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:08:51 +0000

That’s OK – you can just get the X Factor app on your iPhone, connect with Facebook, and be creeped out that whenever you clap or boo it’s shared with your friends.

There is a real challenge here in balancing the simplicity of frictionless sharing, and the delight of discovering your friends doing the same thing, with the user surprise platforms discovering things about you.

(disclosure, we built the platform behind the X Factor stuff – we think a lot about this)

Comment on a new adage for social by gareth

gareth — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:48:47 +0000

Perhaps, but when I was watching XFactor last night I didn’t think of loading the app (even though I have a supported TV and the channel-control is nice), I just went straight to twitter. It’s a lovely app written by a friend of yours, but I do still have to make the modal change to choose to use it.

Comment on a new adage for social by Jack Wallington

Jack Wallington — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:44:24 +0000

Re: button on the remote. I suppose that’s what Zeebox is though, on Connected TVs it is the remote, and you effectively do check in. Personally I don’t see this as a problem for Zeebox.

Comment on Siri and Boris Bikes by gareth

gareth — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:19:01 +0000

Aye, feels very much a version 2.0 thing to do when they can do it right. I think you’d maybe want to do it as a back-end integration that their servers speak to your servers, and then maybe shell out to apps later – rather than trying to do anything on the phone itself.

Comment on Siri and Boris Bikes by Chris Jackson

Chris Jackson — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:12:05 +0000

They should offer a Siri API into apps. Tricky to select the right app, but would be rather powerful.

Comment on The Problem Flickr Never Solved by Tom

Tom — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:50:36 +0000

I’ve come to the conclusion, having played with this problem for a bit, that flickr are almost _opposed_ to giving you a contacts’ photo stream. You can’t get it in the web interface, or the mobile app, or even through the API. ( there’s an API call that _almost_ does the right thing, but it’s limited to 5 photos per contact. )

I suspect this is because a photostream that included everything would be swamped when I upload 300 photos of my recent holiday, but a photostream that doesn’t include everything isn’t really what you want. I think the twin purposes of “photo archive and even documentation” and “stream of interesting things” are at odds here.

Comment on On email etiquette by gorgeoux

gorgeoux — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:58:06 +0000

It could be just me, but something brief and to the point gives me the impression it’s important and actionable. Something that also expects me to exchange pleasantries can be postponed indefinitely, as my time doesn’t allow for chit chat. Not over email, anyway…