Re: Social TV?

On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:48:13 +0200, Pablo Cesar <P.S.Cesar@cwi.nl> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Thanks for the answers; I am learning how an IG works little by little...
>
we all are ;)

>  I think that as Giuseppe says, the first action will be to discuss and  
> brainstorm about the topic. Then, to evaluate if there is a need for a  
> task force or if as Marie Jose says concepts of social TV might be used  
> for orienting discussions on existing task forces (I am more in favor of  
> the latter for now)
>

Just one additional note:
if you need to use the wiki [1]
to write down proposals and notes (in order not too lose them),
feel free to use it.

If you have problem getting access to it, let me know and I can help.


[1] http://www.w3.org/2011/webtv/wiki/Main_Page

> I think we should think of social TV much further than Facebook and  
> Twitter. My definition is quite broad, and aligned with Marie Jose's
>
> I just uploaded a draft version of the paper in my webpage, so everyone  
> can take a look (a new more complete version will be coming soon)
>  http://homepages.cwi.nl/~garcia/socialtv/socialtv-draft.pdf
>
> I hope this could be a good starting point for discussion
>
> Best regards
> Pablo
>
>
>
>
> On Jun 13, 2011, at 1:02 PM, Marie-Jose Montpetit wrote:
>
>> Well I guess the discussion will be different depending on what the  
>> definition of Social TV is. If we agree it encompasses the technologies  
>> to enable social viewing of TV content (way beyond Tweeting or posting  
>> on Facebook) there are still some open questions. I think one aspect  
>> that could be looked in and was what I presented in Berlin in the  
>> concept of content protection (not DRM) in a social viewing experience  
>> when you have different content being mingled: the commercial content  
>> and the commentaries/ancillary content produced by the social circle.  
>> Other aspects include synchronization when content is consumed on  
>> different platforms (web and traditional TV is actually a good example)  
>> and across short distances (in the home) or large (across countries) as  
>> well as collaborative filtering (for example using the friends  
>> recommendation to sort through search results to find what is available  
>> to view in your area etc.).
>>
>> Maybe not worth a different TF from web and TV but surely something to  
>> orient recent discussions on platforms, remotes and connectivity like  
>> DLNA or other.
>>
>> /mjm
>> On Jun 13, 2011, at 5:05 AM, Olivier Thereaux wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Pablo, all
>>>
>>> On 10/06/2011 10:51, Pablo Cesar wrote:
>>>> One topic we have been researching from some time (and we are quite  
>>>> interested about) is Social TV.
>>>
>>> The topic is of interest to us as well.
>>>
>>>> Is there any intention to have a task force in this direction (or do  
>>>> you consider it as an issue within the home networking task force)?
>>>
>>> I am (personally) uncertain whether there is room for standards work  
>>> in this area beyond the need for easily addressable (and ideally  
>>> dereferenceable) content, mostly covered already in the  
>>> MediaIdentification use case discussed in the HNTF.
>>>
>>> http://www.w3.org/2011/webtv/wiki/HNTF/Home_Network_TF_Discussions/MediaIdentification
>>>
>>> That said, I'd be more than happy to contribute to the discussion on  
>>> social TV, and see whether we have a broad enough scope to warrant a  
>>> task force. Do we have any existing discussion material beyond the  
>>> NoTube paper submitted back in February?
>>>
>>> http://www.w3.org/2010/11/web-and-tv/papers/webtv2_submission_60.pdf
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> --
>>> Olivier
>>>
>>
>> Marie-José Montpetit, Ph.D.
>> Research Scientist
>> Research Laboratory of Electronics
>> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>> 617-715-4592
>> mariejo@mit.edu
>>
>>
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>


-- 
Giuseppe Pascale
TV & Connected Devices
Opera Software - Sweden

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