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Converged Media – Interactive Narrative, Video & Images

admin — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:45:20 +0000

The original impetus for creating an interactive narrative engine, was to bring User Interactivity to the story side of internet television.

We’ve expanded upon that original vision — a lot.

With the emergence of mobile Apps and the iPAD, along with our stand-alone interactive narrative work, we’ve started taking the steps to integrate video, imagery and interactive narrative where the personalized “user preferences” are shared between those diverse elements.

While this is in Alpha, without the sharing infrastructure in place — we are able to get a strong sense of the User Experience vis a vis a User’s manual engagement with converged media elements.

We’ve opened up a page, based on our favorite example of “CapnWag,” here:

http://contentAI.com/capnwag

Watch the video, start the interactive narrative, and venture into the imagery. Now, imagine when this seamlessly happens within an App…STAY TUNED…

31 March 2010

Platform Launch – Interactive Story Demo(s) Alive and Kicking

admin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:42:07 +0000

Our bright new shiny story-engine came out of QA polished and ready to go. The new features are remarkable, but, instead of talking about them, it’s best to take it for a spin. We’ll be adding SMS and Twitter integration soon, but, for the short-term we’re using Gtalk and AIM IDs and chat clients; with a roadmap to quickly add WAVE to our network (which will allow the ability to push files within story conversation). Please contact us by email for access to the demo(s).

22 January 2010

New Year – New Interactive Story Platform Release

admin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:49:19 +0000

We had to make some tough decisions in Q4/09 — We saw the continuous need to quickly integrate with 3rd Party partner platforms; as well, we needed a path to incorporate 3rd Party Speech Recognition and text-to-Speech capabilities sooner than later. We needed our platform to anticipate integration, not struggle through adaptation time and again. We needed to provide Clients with the ability to scale instantly.

That meant undertaking a “Page One” rebuild…which meant a lot of transitions…

New team members, new hardware, code, and the Cloud – Coupled with fresh thinking — to do a round-the-clock, over the Holidays, entire rebuild that provides amazing stability and scalability.

Welcome to the New Year. While we had to set aside certain Content development during that time-period, but we’re now in full-swing and will be releasing new Demo content in the coming weeks…and, beginning our integration with Partners for new delivery channels.

Happy New Year to All…

8 January 2010

Conversation is Content

admin — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:43:33 +0000

Conversation is Content.

That has become the “elevator pitch” opener for us. We’re in the “conversational content” business.

We create new ad formats based on conversation. We can provide eLearning tools through conversation. We engage users through conversation and 50% of the “content” is User Generated (otherwise our AI Characters are just talking to themselves; which, actually occurred yesterday during a re-boot, as our Twitter Character thought “she” should respond to the “temporarily unavailable” message on her account — while curious, we cut off her “talking to herself” after a few exchanges).

We’re not the only folks seeing this as an important and emerging space, noting “conversation as content” posts HERE and HERE. The background Big Picture is nicely presented HERE, which presents this as a near epoch making shift in human::machine interaction.

It’s a fascinating area to be constructing and facilitating Content, where value is added to all sides and terrific User Experiences are paramount.

24 July 2009

welcome to contentAI studios

admin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:14:09 +0000

Why “content AI?”

The term “Content” has become synonymous with film, video, audio and written media materials.

We chose the URL and Brand “contentAI studios” to expand the definition of “Content” to include conversation.

Conversation between humans (User Generated Content, “UGC”) and digital characters powered by Artificial Intelligence engines.

Welcome to the intersection of UGC and digital characters.

Where the User becomes part of the story making process.

8 July 2009