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  Crowd-powered closed-captioning services

  Alan Sawyer on April 9, 2010 at 04:01 pm

  Much content is inaccessible to the hearing impaired and when closed-captioning does exist, the quality is often poor. That's true of professionally produced content but even more so for the growing... more

  17 comments
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  Creative Commons Licensing For All Publicly-Funded Cultural Content

  Brian Alkerton on April 7, 2010 at 05:42 pm

  Any cultural content created with the assistance of public funding should be licensed in such a way that people who wish to remix, reuse, and build upon it to create new cultural works can do so... more

  16 comments
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  Revisiting Gaming’s Past to Create the Future

  Andrew Light on April 5, 2010 at 05:34 pm

  In the early PC era, many video games were focused on problem solving or strategy skills with an underlying focus on educational skills. In the last few years gaming applications that serve an... more

  12 comments
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  iStockMedia :-) ... leverage the iStockphoto micropayment crowdsourcing system

  Sharon M McIntyre on April 7, 2010 at 12:34 am

  Calgary's iStockphoto (now owned by Getty, but still HQ'd in Calgary) is the world's biggest supplier of crowd-supplied images (royalty-free stock). But (aside from photo sales) their biz model and... more

  6 comments
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  Content in Beta Testing

  Kristian Roberts Nordicity on April 12, 2010 at 03:49 pm

  One of the newest and most successful business models in the digital world is that of the social/online games producer. Gamemakers Zygna and Playfish may continue to war between themselves - but... more

  0 comments
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  Creating a Universal iTunes Store

  Jerry Brown on April 5, 2010 at 05:25 pm

  One of the great things about digital is the ability for companies to get closer to their customers to gain a better understanding of their wants and needs and then develop creative products or... more

  4 comments
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  New Business Models Based on Partnerships

  Russell Fordham on April 6, 2010 at 07:32 am

  The good news for media developers and content produces is that the demand for content is not decreasing, it is in fact increasing. Meeting this demand for content is a challenge for media companies... more

  1 comment
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  It’s An App World

  Michael Evask on April 6, 2010 at 01:51 pm

  Its time for Canada to realize app developers will distribute content from all sectors. Or should I say it is time for all sectors to start thinking as app developers. Apps have the ability to... more

  7 comments
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  Transform the Content Encounter

  Neil McEvoy on April 7, 2010 at 07:14 am

  The TM Forum (tmforum.org) is the global forum for telco, cable and mobile service providers, and the 'Content Encounter' program is their initiative to engineer a cross-platform digital media supply... more

  0 comments
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  One net, one point, one device.

  dsdf on April 6, 2010 at 02:55 pm

  One net. Skynet. No, really - and AI system to ominvioiusly store, serve and protect its content. Affiliatied and with traceable verification that promotes responsible citizenship. Users can... more

  7 comments
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  Industry Standards for Mobile Phones

  Russell Fordham on April 6, 2010 at 07:40 am

  For several years, the expectation has been that mobile will become the new mass media. High penetration of users and deep device integration in people’s lives, the ideas was that it will join... more

  5 comments
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  Brand: Made In Canada

  Strivan on April 11, 2010 at 01:14 pm

  Mission: Show to the World the significance of Canada's role in the Digital Economy
  
  Vision: The Canadian content is the most recognizable content in the world by 2017. You can see... more

  2 comments