On the heels of Monday’s YouTube fifth birthday announcement of two billion video views a day — (nearly double the three broadcast networks combined in primetime — we have today’s Google I/O conference keynote.
Google I/O (“Innovation in the Open”) is a 2-day web developer-focused conference to discuss web applications using Google and open web technologies. A headline from the keynote, The Web Is Killing Radio, Newspapers, Magazines, And TV:
Today at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco, Google’s Vic Gundotra put up an interesting slide…
From 2004 to 2009, stats from Forrester say that use of the web is up 117% in terms of how people spend their time in a day. That may not be too surprising, but what’s interesting is that all of the other major forms of media consumption are down or flat during the same period. Listening to the radio is down 18%, reading newspapers is down 17%, reading magazines is down 6%, and watching TV has seen 0% growth.
Meanwhile rumors are rampant that Google has a web enabled TV project. (I repeated some here.) Jason Kincaid did made a fairly straightforward url guess and, voilà, he found:
…a nearly identical site that was devoid of content, save for a few key words:
“Insert Android press release / TV press release”.
So there you have it. There will be news around Android and a TV project tomorrow. And take this as a warning, Google — no incredibly obvious URL is safe from my sleuthing.
The rumors say that DirectTV and Google are partnering on programming and Sony and Intel are likely partners in the creation and distribution of an Android-based set-top box. Mashable has a poll up asking, will you pay for it?
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