Todd Spangler, who writes the Bit Rate blog for Multichannel News, noted recently that Comcast in the fall filed trademark protection for two devices:

AnyReach, a portable TV & radio player, which as a Panasonic produced DVR, will be available in 2009
XtraScreen, “slings” TV content over wireless to computers

Hmmm? Warm and fuzzy, anyone? With more than 20MM households and folks racheted in by the triple play of phone, data, and video, is this a bundled sale opportunity to make the offering more attractive versus IPTV and satellite? Or a way to gain value from the existing sub base? But who in the organization will sell these darned things, since the company isn’t set up for hard-goods product sales? Customer service upselling, anyone?

Past Tidbits and Explorations

Augmenting My Mind

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From Music in LA to Digital and Music in Austin

We've just ended the second cycle of our Future of Music in LA projects at the Center for Music Innovation at UCLA Alpert.  We helped run a half-day symposium with the City of LA Dept. of Cultural Affairs and the UC Digital...

Playing with Facebook Stories Camera Effects

My Facebook friends must be thinking I'm nuts (again).  I've been tinkering with Facebook Stories and its Camera Effects.  In fact, I've been playing so much I'm also looking into the Camera Effects and AR (augmented reality) developer group. First, here's some of the...

Craft, Process, and Thinking of Becoming

Today I'm working on taxes for our two college students' FAFSAs and watching "Abstract: The Art of Design" on Netflix in the background.  Christoph Niemann is both in his story and telling his story about craft and life.  He is a character and an animated...

HUD: Stories on How We Work and Decide

Gigi enjoyed sharing thoughts over YouTube and the US Housing and Urban Development (HUD) OCIO Learning Series.  This session was recorded in January and ran as a webinar on March 17.  You can find it now...