App Nation: Web Applications, Mobile Applications, and iTV Applications

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We are an app nation. Apps are on our phones, on the Internet, and on their way Internet Television. Web applications are accessed via a web browser over a network such as the Internet or an intranet and they are software applications coded in browser-supported languages. Mobile applications are developed based on the 6 M's, Movement (location), Moment (time), Me (personalization), Multi-user (community), Money (payments) and Machines (automation). Internet TV applications are developed for set-top boxes, broadband TV's, and remote devices.

The iPhone is what has really made apps a relevant topic amongst the mainstream public and they are in high demand. There are iPhone apps for everything you can imagine. Apple says, "they leverage the groundbreaking technology in iPhone — like the Multi-Touch interface, the accelerometer, GPS, real-time 3D graphics, and 3D positional audio." They also have designed a great App Store where you can choose from thousands of applications ready to download now. If you have an iPhone you are probably already familiar with apps.

Google now has its own mobile app store for the Android platform and their G1 phone. Android is a software platform and operating system for mobile devices, based on the Linux kernel, developed by Google and later the Open Handset Alliance. It allows developers to write managed code in the Java language, controlling the device via Google-developed Java libraries. Here are some pics and information from Google.

A new service called Boxee is helping spur the Internet TV app market with its latest announcement of an app box. Boxee is a social media center. With Boxee you can play videos, music and pictures from your PC or from the Internet. You can also share with your friends what albums you're listening to, what movies and TV shows you're watching, send recommendations and more. The App box makes it much easier for everyone else to release new apps and add more content to Boxee. Blip.tv, a video site dedicated to helping great shows find an audience, has already built a Boxee app to share their shows with 350,000 Boxee users. Boxee has also designed an iPhone app that lets you control your AppleTV and Boxee system with the iPhone or iTouch.

Apps are influencing all aspects of our media lives and they play an integral part in processing information effectively. We will see apps spread to a wider range of devices in our homes over the next few years.

Boxee VS ZillionTV

Boxee is causing a storm in the set top Internet TV market. Boxee is a social media center. With Boxee you can play videos, music and pictures from your PC or from the Internet. You can also share with your friends what albums you're listening to, what movies and TV shows you're watching, send recommendations and more. It is currently used through Xbox360 and AppleTV hacks, but the company has already put out public ''feelers'' as to the receptiveness of developing their own box, and it should be here by summer.

Zilliontv is the latest device promising iTV glory. It is backed by different major studios and launching with lots of press. Here is what they have to say about themselves.

"ZillionTV is harnessing the power of the Internet to transform the television experience. Entertainment lovers can enjoy instant, on-demand access to their favorite programs ranging from new and classic TV shows to movies, sports, music, and more — all subscription-free and delivered directly to their TV sets. ZillionTV also engages TV lovers in an exciting new way by empowering them with the choice to select personal advertising preferences and providing a unique opportunity for innovative commerce directly through the TV in partnership with Visa, a leader in global payment processing."

Don't know what Boxee or Zilliontv are?

Boxee and Zilliontv are part of the new growing family of set top iTV devices. Both boxes stream content to televisions, the difference lies as always in the design interface and the levels of access to media sources. Boxee seems to just get everything right. They ran in semi-stealth mode until recently and they are already approaching 300,000 users. We will have to see how ZillionTV does when it rolls out later in 2009 as it is un-released. Set top Internet TV boxes are going to once again change our viewing experience at home in the very near future, as the Internet and Television comes even closer to becoming one.

Pandora and Radiotime Now on Boxee

Pandora and Radiotime will now be available on Boxee!


According to the Boxee blog..


"You can listen to your quickmix, your favorite stations and create new stations. Music in the living room has never been better.


We love broadcast radio, too. So in this release you will also find RadioTime that lets you listen to over 100,000 radio stations from around the world. Boxee will automatically bring up the local stations from your area, and you can set your own presets on radiotime.com. "

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Boxee VS HDNet: Mark Cuban and Avner Ronen Square Off Online

The debate over Broadcast vs Internet continues on in this fascinating and hilarious blog showdown between Boxee and Mark Cuban


Mark Cuban and Avner Ronen have been debating the future of content consumption and the viability of its future delivery vehicles.


This debate is part of the underlying battle between new forms of content delivery & consumption and traditional evolving forms.

Avner Ronen is CEO of Boxee, a company that is causing a lot of chatter in the new media industry and hacker community as well. Mark Cuban is the successful entrepreneur who has been involved with new media for quite some time.


If you are at all interested in the future of media consumption and the ideas about its direction, you must read this debate.



http://blog.boxee.tv/2009/03/21/a-lively-debate-with-mark-cuban/





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