Spotify for TV

A mate recently sent a short message where he suggested we should create Spotify for television shows if it does not exist yet. I kind of agree that something like that would be great. The thing is I’m afraid the big boys already got their act together and have exactly what everyone wants in the works. Meanwhile it makes sense to analyze what are the reasons freemium business model  has been so succesful.

Camera hunting

I have already been on the market for a good solid DSLR for couple of years now. We are in a happy position to have an additional member to the family. Interest to record such life changes gives a good push to re-evaluate camera gear. Right now it is the dark time of the year so low light performance counts, but improved video features are the key selling factor in many new cameras.

Too cool for school

What a wonderful idea. I doubt we will see open camera platforms anytime soon unless the camera wars really start heating up. The thing is that with so much proprietary lens technology around there is still very little reason for the incumbents to open up their platforms for third party apps.

Starting up?

I have been dreaming up different video-related services and tools. I haven’t gotten to building anything, but I thought I would already share these ideas with you.

• TV-guide app for Facebook  (challenge: no event creation API, no “participated” response to events)

• Automated video publishing for Facebook groups (challenge: content?)
• iPhone tap-to-compose camera app  (challenge: no access to Apple’s propriatory real-time image recognition API)

If there was somebody who would be interested working on the above topics it would be interesting to explore possibilities of starting a venture or just building something new for the sake of it.

Intelligent video conferencing

In general to consider any system intelligent there are a few basic preconditions that need to be met. First and most importantly the intelligent entity should be able to adapt to new situations based on a certain predefined criteria. Additionally the system needs to be able to learn new responses and optimize its behaviour over time. To do this the rule base needs to be adapted according to the feedback. It is evident that building  a video conferencing system that could be considered truly intelligent is a daunting task.