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Google TV ousting Comcast? Not quite yet..

Hill Holliday performed an experiment in the Boston area where five random households were given a digital TV device in replacement of their normal cable for one week. They were interviewed before and after the experiment and given a flipcam to record their experience throughout the week. Here’s a video of the experiment:

While none of the households involved would trade in their cable television for a Google TV, Apple TV or the like, I think it’s important to remember that this stage in television is still extremely new. Still in its innovation phase, I don’t even see early adopters catching on until later this year, or even next year at the earliest. With that said, the general public probably won’t pick up on this for at least another year or two. After all, this whole 3D TV fad has to fade away first (and it definitely will…but that’s a whole ‘nother topic).

Ultimately, there simply isn’t the demand for the product nor the programming to satisfy the consumer as of yet. But I think if they looked at a totally different demographic, the results may have been different. I’m talking about young adults, college students; ie. people that can’t afford paying over $100 a month for cable and people that don’t have time to sit down and watch hundreds of channels.

Personally, as a college grad in my mid 20s, I live in an apt with no cable and to be honest, it’s not that bad. Most of the shows I watch are posted online on the networks websites for viewing the next day. After thinking about it, when I did have cable, 90% of what I watched were news and Sportscenter, both of which I can find online.

Foursquare? Try 3400%squares…

I know I haven’t updated in a while but I really wanted to talk about Foursquare real quick. They just realized an infograph depicting their growth in 2010, and it’s pretty phenomenal. They’re boasting a 3400% growth in one year which is insane.

http://www.foursquare.com

This just comes to show that geologging isn’t showing signs of slowing down. With competitors like Facebook Places and SCVNGR also picking up speed, this is definitely a section of social media no one should be over looking.

AT&T Blasts Its Own Network

Just saw this ad for AT&T, where the odd man out gets a memo late because he doesn’t have AT&T. But I noticed the phone he uses (which receives the memo much later than everyone else) at :19 is actually an iPhone 3G with a sticker over the home button. As we all know, iPhones are currently exclusive to AT&T, thus making the message of this ad that those with iPhones will be “left behind”

 

Good job AT&T, this is a fail in so many different ways.

Online Sharing in 2010

I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, but thanks to the holiday season I’ve actually been really busy (with some help from COD: Black Ops and WoW: Cataclysm) but I just wanted to drop by real quick and mention this interesting piece from AddThis that I saw on Mashable today.

 

Interesting enough, Facebook is still growing and in 2010 grew faster than it did in 2009 (I blame it on the older generations that are trying to be cool). But interesting enough Email is still beating out Facebook. Obviously a big factor in Facebook’s attempt at Facebook Messages, which will integrate email, FB Msgs and Texts all into one inbox. Personally I would have thought Twitter would have seen higher growth rates but I guess not. I still have high hopes for higher growth in the future and hope they haven’t topped off yet. I was surprised to see Myspace and Friendster still in consideration. Who knew they still existed.

Anyway, just a quick update as I thought this was really interesting and definitely something businesses should continue to look into. Clearly Facebook isn’t going anywhere and if it does, there’s plenty in the line up to replace it. Social Media should definitely not be taken lightly as we can see it’s growth here.

I should definitely be back on a more regular blogging schedule after the new year, as I have some big changes I want to make and some new ideas I’m going to try out. Stay Tuned.

Twitter’s Advanced Search Function: Simplified

Real quick before bed, Mashable released this great video tutorial just going over Twitter’s Advanced Search function. As an alternative to Google, Twitter’s advanced search allows the user to search for “personality” rather than “popularity”.

Google: 2010.

Google recently released its Zeitgeist report for 2010, which highlights the most popular search queries on Google for this past year. Mashable shares some great insite into what we found most intriging in the world in 2010 and what we looked up on Google throughout the year:

“The search giant analyzed billions of searches performed in 2010 and compared them with searches from 2009 to surface emerging trends. Chatroulette, the iPad and Justin Bieber were the three fastest-rising search terms in 2010; Twitterand Facebook also made the list, at numbers eight and 10, respectively.

Among the items of interest that lost the world’s attention in 2010 were swine flu, Stephanie Meyer’s novel (and the accompanying movie) Twilight: New Moon, Susan Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire, “MySpace layouts” and Michael Jackson.

The iPad was the emergent search winner in the consumer electronics category, followed by the iPhone 4,Nokia 5530, HTC EVO 4G and Nokia N900.

In terms of news searches, Haiti proved the most popular, followed by Turkish sports club Besiktas, Chile, “earthquake,” Lady Gaga and the iPhone 4. The Gulf of Mexico oil spill ranked 10th.”

 

 

Here’s the video that Google released, recapping our favorite search topics for 2010: