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MeeVee set to launch Web 2.0 features
by Victor Agreda, Jr. Apr 3rd 2006 at 1:45PM
You can sit at home and surf TV channels, but that's so
20th century. Sitting on your computer looking up TV channels? You might as well be using a Navigator 4.7, because the
new hotness is Web 2.0 everything. In fact, MeeVee has caught the bug,
and according to BetaNews, will be rolling
out some very web-friendly new services today. What kind of services? The money quote from MeeVee's pres is this:
"[The site] literally takes consumers by the hand and introduces them to all the new content that exists on the
Internet beyond the traditional content they currently know." Really? All the new content? How is this possible?
For one thing, MeeVee has developed some of their own search tools which might allow you to look for scenes with
specific actors. For another, they will be rolling out forums, where users can comment on content. As a final
Tivo-esque trick, MeeVee will ultimately make suggestions on content from traditional and net sources for your viewing
pleasure.MeeVee has already landed several million in VC money. And they didn't do that by being another TVGuide or TitanTV clone. In fact, MeeVee began life in 2000 as MyDTV. Since then, they've been toiling on search capabilities, sharing tools, and all those nifty things that make web 2.0 our beloved Web 2.0. Or whatever. Look, they have some search patents, experience in TV listings, and iPod/iTunes integration (you can supposedly push content to the device). Since this is a free service, what's to lose? Whenever they launch these cool new toys, I'll test them out against what I normally use (TitanTV, because I use it with my EyeTV) and see how they compare.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Steven said 5:12PM on 4-03-2006
It is LITERALLY going to take me by the hand?
Sorry, that pisses me off, not clicking.
Yes, I'm a vocabulary nazi.
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Punchy said 10:16PM on 4-03-2006
Freakin' hilarious, I can't enter a Canadian postal code to use the service, but their advertiser's, like Classmates, know's I'm with a Canandian ISP and appropriately hits me up with some banner ads targeted to Canadians.
Whiff,
Punchy
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