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By: Jay Cuthrell

Jay Cuthrell — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:19:58 +0000

It was nice to see the beeTV team at IPTV World in NYC today. I hope they make it to TelcoTV as well.

By: Jay Cuthrell

Jay Cuthrell — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:16:58 +0000

It was to see the beeTV team at IPTV World in NYC today. I hope they make it to TelcoTV as well.

By: Carole

Carole — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:42:37 +0000

Could you please the explain above concept to the current administration and automobile executives?
I would also add to the economics lesson that one cannot spend money they don’t have without consequences, it is only acceptable to use credit for large ticket items only, like homes and cars, that the avervae wage earner could not buy without, you don’t use credit cards for groceries and meals, if you charge, you owe, if you buy a car, you make payments, and if you don’t, it’s not yours and gets “repoed” and you still owe the balance, if you take out a mortgage you are responsible for reading the terms, and if you screw up and expect to be bailed out because of your own ignorance, and greed, you should not be bailed out at other’s expense, or even bailed out at all, but if you are, don’t be surprised if it comes back to bite you. There is no free lunch and as soon as consumers get that, the whole economy will improve. Where in the hell did Americans get this “stong sense of entitlement?” What an insult to out immigrants and others who busted their butts to live and prosper because of their own blood, sweat, tears, or their intellect, and the opportunity we have here??? I see immigrants everyday that understand this.
By the way, I live on $12,000 per year and have a paid for house and car and have never had a penny handed to me in my life. It’s not the best I have ever lived, but it’s not the worst either. At least I don’t have to worry about any one taking my house or car.

Jack Welch for President!

By: stefano

stefano — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:51:48 +0000

Sound surprising no one commented on the fact that the beauty of content is diversification and the fortune of the net is the over abused term of ‘long tail’. If we start to ‘reccomed’ everything we will homologate everything and we will fall back to the 80/20 paradigm that everyone watches the same shows and most of the beauty of the vast offer of the net will be lost. And the majors win.

By: mediafool.net » Blog Archive » Italy-based beeTV Raises $8m for Personal TV Recommendation System

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:27:50 +0000

[...] TechCrunch reported, that Italy-based startup beeTV has secured $8 million from Italian VC firm Innogest. [...]

By: LIVEdigitally » Blog Archive » Five Random Thoughts: Beatles Rock Band, Social Gaming, beeTV, CrunchPad, Palm Pre

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:25:37 +0000

[...] A startup raised another $8 million to provide recommendations for watching TV shows. This is now 10 consecutive years of me watching [...]

By: Daren G.

Daren G. — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:45:58 +0000

I really don’t think you can test or evaluate a personalization system for TV viewing without gaining access to the clickstream data for actual set top boxes with access to live TV and VOD. Without that data, I think these approaches are no different from FFWD or ChoiceStream or Netflix.

So, unfortunately, until an MSO or Telco offering TV puts a personalization/recommendation system in place for live TV — we really just have a lot of noodling and experimentation.

By: beeTV Raises $8 Million For Stunning Personal TV Recommendation System (Robin Wauters/TechCrunch) | Your Complete Store

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:05:09 +0000

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By: June 3, 2009 | next media update

June 3, 2009 | next media update — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:25:17 +0000

[...] beeTV Raises $8 Million For Stunning Personal TV Recommendation System ARS TECHNICA BeeTV, a Milan, Italy-based startup founded in 2006 by an international team of experienced technology and media experts, has just raised $8 million in Series B funding from Italian VC firm Innogest, the largest investment this fund has ever made. BeeTV aims to use the capital to ‘change the way we watch TV’ by pioneering what it calls a Personal Content Channel (PPC), a personal TV suggestion engine that helps you find your way in the ocean of VOD titles and channels out there by surfacing the best choice for you based on your profile and even the mood you’re in. Source> [...]

By: Online video: Over-hyped, over-sold, or just misunderstood? « Insight and Research | In the News

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:50:49 +0000

[...] onwards. Just this week Italian / Israeli start-up Bee TV received a cool $8 million in funding for what TechCrunch described as its ‘stunning’ personal TV recommendation [...]

By: alan p

alan p — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:12:54 +0000

It will be interesting to see if these “in the knitting” approaches beat the “over the top” services one can run from open nets like Twitter for example, where # conversations on shows are already common.

A few thoughts:

http://broadstu...Ex-Machina.html

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Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:38:50 +0000

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By: beeTV Raises $8 Million For Stunning Personal TV Recommendation System | Italyt Today

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:52:23 +0000

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By: Fred Sandford

Fred Sandford — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:46:49 +0000

Why don’t you “project yourself” off the side of a bridge. And take your crap business with you.

By: Will M

Will M — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:10:46 +0000

Cable MSO/ Satellite operator clients are tough. There is typically a long sales cycle when working with them.

Note: My TiVo cable cards work, so at least the STB (set top box) side of equation is opening

By: Juliet

Juliet — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:06:40 +0000

This is an innovative start-up right from the heartland of Europe – Italy

By: Erez Shemesh

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:34:16 +0000

Mark try to search the web using http://qwiji.com/
That will save you time & make you happier

By: Erez Shemesh

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:31:00 +0000

Funny…The CEO and CTO are Israelis

A new israeli start-up in this arena is http://qwiji.com/

A Personal channel for all web content.

By: Bluevoter

Bluevoter — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:03:41 +0000

What’s the difference between this and Fast Forward (http://www.ffwd.com), which has been doing something very similar for about two years. (Other than the $8M…)

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:25:09 +0000

Because you place lower value on the consumption of television content versus, say, herding and milking goats doesn’t mean that investing in technologies that make consuming television easier an “unreal” act. Personally, I don’t like goat meat or milk and have no interest in “participating” in any activity related to goat herding. I do enjoy the convenience of my television to get news and entertainment from around the world. So, why do you care about placing some value statement on the activity that millions of 1st world people enjoy. Please, go invest yourself in helping the 3rd world herd goats. I’m sure they would rather be melting their brains on TVs rather than melting under the heat of the sun in the field with the goats.

By: Personal TV recommendation startup BeeTV raises $8 Million | Startup Meme - Technology Startup and Latest Tech News

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:30:13 +0000

[...] sure what you watch only what you would love by learning users habits of television watching has raised$8 million in its Series B round. The funding was provided by Innogest. This company will be [...]

By: Mark Nassal

Mark Nassal — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:17:56 +0000

Great Idea– the less time have to spend searching for content the better…

By: Marc Ostrick

Marc Ostrick — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:09:14 +0000

I still think recommendations from humans are the way to go. If there was an algorithm that recommended quality content that people wanted to watch, Hollywood wouldn’t be making so many flops.

By: bigfan

bigfan — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:45:04 +0000

As a veteran of the interactive and streaming TV business I agree with the comment that vendors to big operators never win out. These innovators might get strung along until their funding is gone and they can be acquired on the cheap – but finding deployment on the backs of cable and telco is tough unless you have content that powers subscribers or ad splits. Even TiVo couldn’t break into the business as a licensed platform. This is at least the case in the US market, where we still wait for basic enhanced TV on low end STBs.