You Can't Just Broadcast!

Linked In rather than delivering to buildings

Step aside web 2.0...

Anthony Rose (iPlayer chief and rockstar lookalike) gives us his thought about forthcoming developments in the rapidly changing world of VOD or Broadcast 2.0 as someone has imaginatively coined it.

He hints at a couple of interesting areas of development, one is the inevitable fusion between VOD and social networking, enabling users to treat their friends and other users as editors of choice (as is already prevalent on sites such as last.fm).

Another interesting area is that of having a single cross-platform viewing profile, enabling users to manage their viewing history and behaviour from wherever they happen to be. Something that users will expect more as they become familiar with the concept of the cloud (utilising applications like spotify)

As the iPlayer seems to be the current UK industry standard in terms of VOD, we'll look forward to see which basket it puts its eggs in next.