Part
02h
/ Top Photo Cover: DCIA
Panel: Benjamin Masse, Founder & CEO,
AdSong; Alex Limberis, COO, Syabas
Technology; Steve Lerner, Founder & CEO,
P2P Cleaner; Daniel Leon, SVP, Bus.
Development, DigiMeld; David Klein,
Executive VP, Centris; Rick Buonincontri,
CEO, Solid State Networks; Jimmy Wales,
Founder of Wikipedia; Troy Cory,
ePublisher TVI, Author and
Entertainer; Lucas
Mast, Senior Manager, PR, Yahoo - Click for more
Yahoo Story;
Josie Cory, Publisher/Editor, TVI Magazine;
Missy Rounthwaite, Regional Sales Manager,
West, Wikia; Ron Berry, E-Commerce
Advisor, Isle Of Man; Sari Lafferty,
Business Affairs, Distributed Computing
Industry Association (DCIA).
03h
Thank
You Yahoo for the Interview with Lucas Mast at
Digital
Hollywood. With the economy
collapsing, the ranks of the unemployed
growing, the bailouts, meetings and hearings to
determine the fate of U.S. automakers, GM, Ford and
Chrysler, the last thing we seem to need in America
is bad news about Verizon, AT&T or
Yahoo!.
Right! - says
Lucas in his Yahoo Report and conversation with
TVInews. Even
while the show was going on during my interview,
the
storyline headed back to
Archive
of Lucas Mast's
Posts"Free is Good
Fair" - Earth Day swap meet for employees on the
Yahoo campus - One man's trash Posted April 29th,
2008 by Lucas
Mast. Yahoo
is not the Gatekeeper of
Widgets.
TVI talks with Lucas Mast, of Yahoo.
"TV Widgets" --the
latest melding of television and the Internet. Tell
me about TV Widgets. How do you define a
widget?
"There are two
different widgets," says Lucas Mast. There are
Snippets that are just a splash of content and
there is the widget that takes you into a format of
content. It's the best use of resource to get
content out there. Yahoo's
widgets are actually proprietary mini-apps like
Vista's Sidebar gadgets. "It's an icon and a bit of
software behind the icon to connect to the
Internet, sitting on your TV." "Most widgets will
be free but some providers eventually will charge
for additional services through widgets," continues
Mast.
So far only four
widgets, all Yahoo branded, are available: Yahoo
News, Yahoo Weather, Yahoo Finance and Yahoo
Flickr. Approximately two dozen more widgets will
be available by June and there will be 100 to
choose from by the end of the year. "We have 300
publishers interested in developing TV Widgets from
individuals to large content publishers," Mast
said.
Available soon
will be widgets from Accedo Games, Twitter, Yahoo
Video, eBay, USA Today, Yahoo Sports, Showtime, CBS
Entertainment, the New York Times, and CinemaNow.
Others that have announced plans to develop widgets
include Disney/ABC, MySpace, Viacom/MTV, Netflix,
Amazon, Blockbuster, Associated Press and Joost.
However Mast notes, There is YouTube, CBS, Sports,
you see, "We are not the gatekeepers, we are with
big competitors, we are quite open. Thanks
to the popularity of icon-based interfaces like the
iPhone's, the time is right for widget-based Web
TV. Most people see widgets as a way to enhance
their TV viewing experience, not simply as another
way to access the Internet, he noted. "Nobody wants
just a browser experience. Nobody wants the
Internet just dumped on the TV," he said.
Best Buy stores
began selling the Samsung LED 7100 Series equipped
with Yahoo widgets, which are mini-applications
that connect directly to the Web using and Intel
Media Processo. They're the first products to
spring from the Widget Channel TV application
framework announced last year by Yahoo and
Intel.
According to Yahoo
spokesperson Lucas Mast, The Samsung TVs also come
with a built-in "content library" containing "photo
art gallery, games, workout routines, recipes and
other interesting digital content."
This year, several
other companies, including Sony and Vizio, will
begin selling their own flat-panel HDTVs, set-top
boxes or DVD players based on the Yahoo-Intel
widget platform. CLICK
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MAST
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FOR MORE STORY ABOUT - The All-Wheel Association -
New Leadership and the
10
Golden Rules for Quad/ATV
Drivers
The
DAV (German all-wheel Association) recommends, in
cooperation with the renowned ATV / Quad
manufacturers and dealers following 10 TOP rules.
These were drawn up in a working group,
because it is so far still no uniform regulations
for Germany. Do you trust any dealer who sold you
as an argument for driving a ATV / quad without a
helmet or protective clothing offers. To protect
your own life, they should be wearing helmets and
clothing itself as an indispensable requirement
imposed. Who does not, harms not only himself but
also the image of all other ATV / quad-riders. For
this reason, the German four-wheel Association
published a brochure with the top 10 rules. Authors
Website - English: Information, Kurt
Sigl Authors
Website - German: Information, Kurt
Sigl
04h/The
All-Wheel Association - New
Leadership
At its last general meeting on 09 November 2008, a
new leadership team was elected and Kurt Sigl
appointed to first CEO (erster Vorsitzende) of the
All-Wheel Association. He is also chief off-road
training instructor.
10
Golden Rules for Quad/ATV
Drivers
The
DAV (German all-wheel Association) recommends, in
cooperation with the renowned ATV / Quad
manufacturers and dealers following 10 TOP rules.
These were drawn up in a working group,
because it is so far still no uniform regulations
for Germany. Do you trust any dealer who sold you
as an argument for driving a ATV / quad without a
helmet or protective clothing offers. To protect
your own life, they should be wearing helmets and
clothing itself as an indispensable requirement
imposed. Who does not, harms not only himself but
also the image of all other ATV / quad-riders. For
this reason, the German four-wheel Association
published a brochure with the top 10 rules.
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