Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Mark Hyland, VP of Sales and Marketing, QuickPlay Media (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: You took the path that you were going to sell infrastructure to pay TV people to move their video to be available on mobile devices? Mark Hyland: Yes, and that we would do it from the cloud. SM: This is a good point to do an ecosystem check. The “TV everywhere” value proposition

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Mark Hyland, VP of Sales and Marketing, QuickPlay Media (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Where did you go first when you were trying to penetrate the market? Mark Hyland: It was the carriers first. That was partly because of the DNA of our CEO. He had worked in the carrier space, in the billing space. He had this idea that the wireless carriers would need with help

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Hello, Narrative: How America Builds and Tears

It isn’t the downfall we crave – it’s the Grand Story. We are a culture of Fabulists and Fictionalists and Dreamers and Absolutists. Our mediasphere behaves accordingly

Web 3.0 & Online Sports (Part 4)

Web 3.0 formula discussion Context Most of the sports sites that I went through have very good contextual nuances. These sites have something for every sports fan. I liked the way sites like NBA.com, MLB.com and NFL.com have covered the respective sports. If you love Basketball and want to check out on some stat or

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