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Yahoo to get into the Desktop Search
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"Yahoo hopes to leapfrog Microsoft by releasing a tool that allows users to quickly and easily search for information on their PCs as well as in their personal files stored at Yahoo's online services, a source familiar with the plan says."

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Microsoft/MSN Enter Desktop Search Game

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Ask Jeeves Enters Desktop Search Game

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Ask Jeeves' desktop search lets users search by document type, search just part of their computer and sort the results by a bunch of parameters.

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Social Software for Set-Top boxes...

Social Software for Set-Top boxes... 03/23/2005 07:59 PM

You can download the core part of the material that follows as a PDF presentation entitled Social Software for Set-Top Boxes (4Mb).

A buddy-list for television:
Imagine a buddy-list on your television that you could bring onto your screen with the merest tap of a 'friends' key on your remote control. The buddy list would be the first stage of an interface that would let you add and remove friends, and see what your friends are watching in real-time - whether they be watching live television or something stored on their PVRs. Adding friends would be simple - you could enter letters on screen using your remote, or browse your existing friends' contact lists.

Being able to see what your friends were watching on television would remind you of programmes that you also wanted to see, it would help you spot programmes that your social circle thought were interesting and it could start to give you a shared social context for conversations about the media that you and your friends had both enjoyed.

Obviously there might be some programmes that you might wish to view with a significant other, but wouldn't necessarily want to advertise to the rest of the world that you were watching. For this reason your personalised settings would have to have all kinds of options to help you control how you were being represented to the wider world that were as simple to use and unobtrusive as possible. Primary among the tools at your disposal would be your ability to tell your set-top box not to advertise that you were watching any shows marked as for adults only and to mark certain channels as similarly private. These settings would obviously be on by default.

Presence alerts:
One of the core functions of a socially enabled set-top box would be to create the impression of watching television alongside your peer group and friends - even if you were geographically distant from one another. One key way to do this would be to create a sensation of simultaneity - to remind you that there are other people in your social circle doing things at the same time as you. This would allow you to create a mental impression of what your friends were doing.

Here are two versions of an alert that could fade up gently onto the screen when someone on your buddy list changes channel. These alerts would work in two ways - if the person was changing channel and landed on a station as a programme was just about to begin or within the first three or four minutes of a programme, then the alert would be immediate. This would give you the opportunity to change over to that channel as well without missing too much of the show. If - however - they were changing over to a channel in the middle of a show or they changed the channel again within ten seconds, then the alert would not be sent. They would have to have been watching the new channel for a few minutes before an alert would be sent. There would be nothing more intrusive and irritating than watching someone compulsively flick between channels at a distance (except perhaps being in the room with them as they did so).

The most important part of all these alerts is that they provide you with the option to join the person concerned in whichever programme they happen to now be watching...

Watch with your friends:
Now we have the concept of joining a friend to watch a show, we have to ask what should that experience be like? How should your parallel engagement manifest itself. Traditionally, net-mediated social spaces have tended towards text as a communicative medium. But this would seem like an enormously clumsy way to interact during a television programme.

Television is an audio-visual medium and there's no reason why your engagement with your friends shouldn't also be audio-visual. For this reason a simple high quality webcam above the television would help you see how your friends were responding to what was on screen - it would help you feel an experience of shared engagement without there being a need for overt discussion. By default your conversations with your friends would be muted, and you could - of course - minimise their images if they started to get annoying, but if you wanted to shout and scream alongside your friends, then you'd simply turn the sound back on. This would be the perfect form of engagement around certain sporting events, or for making a well-known television programme or film just the backgrounded context for a shared conversation.

In the mock-up below, you can see the cameras of three of your friends on the right. One person has wandered away from their TV...

Chatting and planning:
If your friends were in the room with you during an ad break, you might chat about the programme you've just been watching or bitch about the adverts in front of you. You might turn the sound down low for a few seconds and talk about something else completely. There are lots of contexts where the programme on television might not be the main focus of activity around the television. These might be times when it's still important to have a sense of what's happening on the screen, but where the social activity has been dragged to the foreground.

Set-top box social software would have to support such engagements. So how about a second view when you're in one of these social situations? From having the programme in the foreground, one simple switch of the button could drag your friends into the limelight. The programme could be fully or partially muted, and your friends automatically unmuted. Then you could chat to each other about the programme you'd just watched, or wait for the adverts to end together. You could even use these opportunities to plan what to watch next. If this was handled in a similar way to group formation and parties in online gaming structures like Halo 2, then perhaps one person could even set up the next programme and stream it to everyone else, or cue forward to show their friends the best part of a particular dance sequence or the key quote from a political interview.

Choosing channels and playing games:
Having this technology in place under your television could create a tremendous platform for all kinds of other applications or games to be layered on top of your television experience. And these could be equally usable with people in the same room as yourself. If you gave everyone a personalised remote control (or installed universal remote control software in something like a mobile phone) then people could propose changing channels but be over-ruled by other people in the room. The wonderful browsing experience of flicking through music video channels could be turned into a game, with each song being rated on the fly by everyone present or telepresent and records kept of channels and songs that people tended to enjoy. The same controls could be hooked up to other forms of interactive television or to net-enabled functionality on the boxes themselves...

Sharing a social library:
And finally, to return to the idea of media discovery and regenerating a social context around television programming, how about if the shows that many of your friends had decided in advance to record were automatically recorded by your device too. How would it be if you never missed the show that everyone was talking about? And if you had - your box could ask its peers for some kind of swarmed download if anyone still had a copy and it could appear in your local library overnight.

All this of course, is just the very beginning of the kinds of things that you could create with a socially-enabled TV set-top box. It's all basically just extensions of stuff that we're already doing in other media. There are still technological barriers of course - bandwidth and synchronisation being core problems. But we're gradually on the way to solving them.

To repeat - If you'd like to download this piece as a simple to read and print PDF presentation then you can do so here: Social Software for Set-Top Boxes (4Mb).

Addendum:
Here are a few related links that people have brought to my attention since posting this stuff up or since I finished work on the presentation and illustrations. I'm a little cross with myself for not posting this stuff up before, but hey...

• A post on Corante on the subject of social television - infuriating how bad my timing has been...
• PARC to make TV watching more social - yet another thing posted within the last twenty-four hours
• Ivrea project on circles of care includes 'TV together' - thanks to Molly for digging this one out
• Tryst - software based on VLC designed to let people watch movies together. I couldn't get this to work very well, so I can't comment on the experience.

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How to Add Fluid Borders to Your Boxes
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Microsoft launches set-top boxes

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New virus hitting in-boxes

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Antivirus firms warn PC users of a new mass-mailing computer virus that has lodged itself into a large number of PCs by masquerading as an e-mail error.

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Humax to Export $2 Mil. Set-Top Boxes to
Russia

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Insurance Cos. Try Out Auto Black Boxes

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Thoughtful pill boxes cut stress

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Samsung supplies set top boxes worth of
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Sex spam clogs summer in-boxes

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Microsoft's newest dialog boxes?

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System Guide: Gaming Boxes

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Mobiles kill off more phone boxes

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- Humax to Export $2 Mil. Set-Top Boxes
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Comcast to roll DVR functionality into
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Nintendo gets back in the game

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Nintendo Develops New Home Game Console
(AP)

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(AP) 06/09/2004 07:15 AM
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Nintendo Develops New Home Game Console

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A couple of updates on the Nintendo DS launch bundle - straight from the horses mouth, too, so you can quote us on this. First of all, the PictoChat software will be built in to the firmware itself; it's not a separate game cartridge. Secondly, there will be a game bundled with the DS, sort of. Called Metroid Prime: Hunters: First Hunt, it will be a demo showing the first level or two of the upcoming DS game Metroid Prime: Hunters (like the Metroid game demo'd at E3, but "better," so they say). So there you have it - the official bundled pack in will have a demo of First Hunt, but not a full-blown game.

And there's no official word on the Voice-Over-IP capabilities of the DS from Nintendo yet, but that doesn't mean something isn't happening behind the scenes.

Nintendo trims Game Boy Advance price

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Nintendo Game Boy Advance SP Price Drop;
Maybe DS, Too

Nintendo Game Boy Advance SP Price Drop;
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GamesIndustry.Biz is reporting that Nintendo will drop the price of their Game Boy Advance SP to $80 in anticipation of the November launch of the upcoming Nintendo DS. (I wonder if that will include the remaining Special NES Edition models. Hrm.) Even more interesting is US retailer chatter that the DS may launch for $150 instead of $175, as Nintendo has previously stated. Unfortunately, while the SP price drop looks fairly certain, the DS drop might just be wishful thinking.

No word on European price cuts yet, but if the US gets a drop you can expect prices to (eventually) follow elsewhere.

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