Posts tagged Lunch
Nintendo Moves Into The Living Room, Where Apple Will Eat Its Lunch Again
Dec 20th
Nintendo is moving beyond Mario. To better compete with the likes of Microsoft’s XBox and Sony Playstation, the Japanese gaming giant is looking to expand its role in the living room beyond video games. After some delay, it’s launching an integrated entertainment hub this week called TVii, which will bring live TV, Internet-based video and digital video recorder (DVR) functionality to a single interface on the new Wii U console.
Nintendo’s TVii will smartly piggyback on the “second screen” craze by turning the Wii U’s tablet-style controller into a device that lets viewers interact with social media and supplemental content while they’re watching TV.
It’s about time. The original Wii had little more than Netflix and Hulu when it came to video content, even after the XBox had begun firmly implanting itself at the center of people’s living rooms with a variety of entertainment content sources. Meanwhile, Nintendo has seen its profits slip as cheap, ubiquitous mobile gaming eats away at consumers’ desire pay big bucks for dedicated gaming hardware and software.
That revolution in mobile gaming was originally set off by the rise of the iPhone and iOS and accelerated with the launch of the iPad and competing devices from Google, Amazon and Microsoft.
This is a smart and necessary move for Nintendo, but is Apple about to eat its lunch again?
Apple’s HDTV Will Change The – Ahem – Game
Rumors, of course, continue to swirl about an Apple TV. The interface, they say, is the thing that Steve Jobs famously said he had finally “cracked” not long before he passed away. It’s precisely that TV interface problem that Nintendo is attempting to chip away at here. From the looks of the demo videos, its effort is a noble one. But not only is Nintendo playing catch up with Microsoft, it will be right in the crosshairs if the fabled Apple HDTV actually does launch.
It’s been months since I turned on my Wii, a device I used to use almost nightly. Instead, my couch time is spent with an iPad in my lap, which is AirPlaying video apps to my Apple TV (a device I once thought I’d never want or use).
The idea of being able to tune into Amazon Instant Video and live TV from my Wii sounds cool, but if it really wants to compete for my attention, Nintendo needs to offer innovative social video aggregator apps like Frequency, Showyou and Vodio. There’s much more to online video these days than Netflix and Hulu. Apple is already sitting on a robust and extremely popular developer platform, upon which it will presumably build its TV-based operating system. Right out of the gate, the Apple HDTV will likely blow away Nintendo’s content offerings and user interface.
Admittedly, I’m not necessarily Nintendo’s target customer. For one thing, I’m a pretty casual gamer. That’s a big part of my shift away from the Wii – I’m not glued to Super Mario Galaxy 2 the way I used to be, and I don’t rush out to buy all the latest titles. But I do remain loyal to many Nintendo-specific games.
Perhaps if my online TV experience came from the same device as the games, I’d play more. In fact, if Nintendo sold old school Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) games for the iPad I’d be happily playing them on my couch and AirPlaying Mario to my TV all the time. Nintendo refuses to do anything like that. It seems to be hoping that the reverse approach will work: bringing the entertainment console to the gaming platform rather than bringing the games to the mobile entertainment platform.
To nail this, Nintendo has to do a very, very good job on the non-gaming entertainment side. Because it won’t be long before the competition gets intense.
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Meme Monday: Instagram Your Lunch for Me
Oct 22nd
Launched in October 2010 and acquired by Facebook in April 2012, Instagram is a free photo-sharing program and social network that lets users apply digital filters to images and make them look like they were taken in the 1920s. Described the most annoying photo app on both Apple and Android by Buzzfeed.com, Instagram is said [...]
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Singer and Actor Seo In Guk Reveals That His Fans Prepared Lunch For Him! – KpopStarz
Aug 16th
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Singer and Actor Seo In Guk Reveals That His Fans Prepared Lunch For Him!
KpopStarz Seo In Guk on Monday revealed through his me2day, "This is from today. My fans from 'Seo In Guk Gallery' delivered lunch for me on set of 'Respond 1997.' It was really good. The director and staff members all said it was really good. I've gotten more … |
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Boot Camp Digital Hosts Social Media & SEO Lunch and Learn Seminar in Cincinnati – Online PR News (press release)
Aug 7th
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Boot Camp Digital Hosts Social Media & SEO Lunch and Learn Seminar in Cincinnati
Online PR News (press release) Attendees of this session will receive training on “Integrating Social Media Marketing and SEO”, which will give them a detailed explanation of how Social Media and Search Engine Optimization can work together to drive traffic, leads and sales for your … |
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Boot Camp Digital Hosts Social Media & SEO Lunch and Learn Seminar in Cincinnati – Newswire Today (press release)
Aug 4th
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Boot Camp Digital Hosts Social Media & SEO Lunch and Learn Seminar in Cincinnati
Newswire Today (press release) NewswireToday – /newswire/ – Cincinnati, OH, United States, 08/04/2011 – Join Boot Camp Digital on August 18 and learn how to grow your business through integrating Social Media and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – BootCampDigital.com. … THE NEW STARGAZER AT PUMULANI IN MALAWI |
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Wolfram|Alpha & DuckDuckGo Conspire to Eat Google’s Lunch
Apr 18th
This afternoon, Wolphram|Alpha announced that DuckDuckGo is an ‘official partner’ and the latter will be fully integrating their open API announced in January. This will enable DuckDuckGo to provide Wolfram|Alpha’s computational knowledge engine into its offerings, providing users with dynamically computationally relevant facts.
This is a good move for DuckDuckGo whose focus on simplicity, privacy and fervent stance against personalisation has proved popular in certain circles such as Hacker News.
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The Algorithm Ate My Lunch: Responding to Catastrophic Ranking Changes
Jul 28th
One of the most unpleasant situations an in-house SEO can face is a major search engine algorithm change that results in a massive downward shift in rankings. Some webmasters have reported search engine traffic losses of up to 90% as a result of Google’s “Mayday” update, and similar catastrophes have been attached to every algorithm [...]
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Lunch & Learn with Nate Berger
Jan 31st
A Web Producer at Winning Strategies ITS, Nate Berger has over 7 years experience with the design development and optimization of advanced Web site and Web application marketing campaigns. This video, entitled ‘The Power of the Search,’ focused on Search Engine Optimization and Search Marketing.
