You can read my quote in TechNewsWorld here.
Andreas Scherer on Business and Science
You can read my quote in TechNewsWorld here.
On Monday, GoPro announced an integration with Twitter’s Periscope app that allows live streaming from a GoPro Hero4 camera. Periscope users can switch between broadcasting from their iPhone’s camera to their GoPro directly from the phone screen with the touch of a button, GoPro said. The feature allows GoPro shooters to use the Periscope interface like a production switchboard. They can toggle between their iPhone and GoPro cameras on the fly, adding variety to video of a live event.
Here is what I told TechNewsWorld, “There are monetization options available, but only if this app really takes off. For example, celebrity athletes who are into action sports — such as snowboarders, extreme alpine skiers, X Games players — could potentially create huge numbers of followers. That crazy ride down the mountain, the double back flip — all these experiences can be shared in real time. The audience for those video streams are a great platform for targeted ads. It’s easy to imagine a shared revenue model between Twitter, the brand and the athlete. Similar business models work today on YouTube. It takes millions of followers per athlete to really make sense, though.”
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Last week, Yahoo announced that it had integrated Gmail with the online version of Yahoo Mail, just two months after integrating Outlook.com, Hotmail and AOL Mail in a major redesign. Here is what I said in an interview with TechNewsWorld about this, “It pays off for Yahoo to remain competitive in this market segment. More email users … [will] lead to a growing user base, which Yahoo can monetize by maximizing ad revenue and by launching new premium services.”
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This week Twitter began indexing every public tweet posted since it began operating in 2006. “Our long-standing goal has been to let people search through every tweet ever published,” said Yi Zhuang, who led the team working on the project. Here is what I told Tech News World about the situation, “Twitter’s rollout is an enormous achievement in computer science. Making hundreds of billions of tweets searchable with a latency of under 100 ms is like combining the capacity of CNN providing the latest news with the thoroughness and completeness of the Library of Congress in real-time.”
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