Quick someone tell the traditional broadcasters that Tv is dead. IPTV is dead. Long Live Tv. Let me rephrase. Linear programming Tv is dead. On demand Video content is the future.

MediaCorp Singapore Digital Strategy is an interesting one. They are pushing their broadcast content to interactive Tv and digital devices like game consoles, mobile devices and tablets. What they plan to do was to overlay digital/related content right on their streaming broadcast. Somewhat like IPTv with a difference. It's like reading a blog with links to related content.

They also push their content to digital devices. Since MediaCorp's content are free to air I am wondering what content is free and what are the premium content. I am assuming that MediaCorp's own production is free but would the premium content be worth it. How would they sustain keeping the infrastructure. There is also no avoidance in setting up the infrastructure as the future of Tv or Video is the Internet.

The push to digital devices are a great move well. At least for now, they are supporting the 3 main pillars in most businesses today. Internet, Digital Content and Mobile. How content could be repurpose is up to Media Corp to define. This however brings back the whole digital newspaper vs traditional newspaper debate and how it could stay relevant in the Internet age.

Facebook live is yet another interesting move. We all know content moving to video is definitely making it's way and everyone becomes a broadcasting station even from a tiny little room with an internet connection and a camera.

The odds that Facebook will become a broadcasting giant is huge and I would imagine that age of social video might just arrive with a huge bang. YouTube started the revolution of Internet video broadcasting I think Facebook will make it prevalent. I have yet to fully evaluate Facebook live and I might be setting my expectations too high and setting myself to be disappointed about this but at least I foresee some innovative usage.

Facebook have been challenging google at every front and they have been going after YouTube for sometime. This might tip the tables a little with live broadcasting. Also watch out Ustream, Qik and all you live broadcasters out there.

Interesting to see the different approaches taken by traditional broadcasters move to digital content and technology/Internet companies encroaching into the traditional media business. In the end, I think Internet/technology companies which have a shorter ramp up and who understands the whole digital age would be the one to come out on top. Like how newspapers were being slaughtered by digital media, broadcasters will soon find themselves in the same spot this year and the few years to come.

note: I believe there is still a place for linear programming and that would be for timely content (refer to my Content Theory post here - http://mikefoong.com/content-theory-part-1) Traditional Broadcasters need to adapt and change quite quickly to understand the new broadcasting strategies to be in this game. Timeless and archived content needs to be on demand.

In today's age of digital information and information collection dominated by search engines like google and bing and social networks like Twitter and facebook, there isn't really anything we cannot learn. Due to the exponential growth of the Internet and thanks to creative individuals, retrieval of information has boiled down to how well you define search engine terms.

Being a librarian when I was in primary school back when, I have always surrounded myself with books and find the best section of the library to hang out and well let's just say some alone time. But I digress. I always believed that libraries were all about information and all about books. I would probably still have that same impression if Liana (@spoonrabbit) has not convinced me otherwise.

I was actually very impressed by the what Liana does and the department she is in. This is like 'Q's' office in MI5. Highly experimental, sophisticated and cool. Liana spoke about the projects that the library undertakes to further the purpose and cause of the library. Like building a mobile library and experimenting into having library kiosks near MRT stations.

But today they have launched yet another first in the business of libraries. A Facebook app. Enabling the library to make use of social networks to propagate importance of having books and making it easier for it's patrons to borrow, finding and reserving books. With the integration of social networks, they give the users the ability to recommend them to their friends. Not unlike what amazon has done with selling books.

The National Library of Singapore in itself is very advanced and has services that are very relevant to today's digital world. They have ebooks, searchable books index in their databases, video content, archives of newspapers and news surrounding Singapore and these are the only things I know about. Now they are engaging the community through social networks. I see that this is one of the most advanced libraries in the world and it's not surprising that the habit of reading books is still being instilled here in Singapore. Access to these information are readily available.

That's why I think librarians (that includes all those who work in the library) are one of the coolest and most advanced people on earth. Besides they have access to all those information.

Enjoy some of the pictures of the night:

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