Oh BTW, We're on IPad....

Techie Intern brought in his IPad this morning and we played around with it....

Kindle for IPad works great (Downloaded BROTHER BLOOD which is now #1 on the listing!) as does your typical web browser...

Pulp 2.0 - serving all your pulp media guilty pleasures. 

The Future Has Numbers Attached or How Netflix is Kicking Ass

From our friends at NewTeeVee who site WSJ sources:

Netflix continues to see its subscriber numbers and earnings increase due to strong interest and customer adoption of its Watch Instantly streaming service. With more than 60 percent of users logging in to stream videos, Netflix blew away Wall Street earnings estimates and looks to continue its strong growth throughout the rest of the year.

Nearly 2/3rds of Netflix subscribers stream video... 

Soon, movies will be D2Netflix  and D2iPad. 

The numbers don't lie. 

What is the IPad Exactly?

Here's the best explanation I've heard recently, culled from  THE BEAT:

So, I agree with a comic book industry executive who, during our discussion of the business over drinks recently said, “The iPad is the new newsstand.” In its day, the newsstand serviced millions and millions of readers. It fueled the fire of reading. Adding another avenue that will get books into the hands of people and turning them into readers.

 And as I recall, there were a lot of pulp magazines sold at the local newsstand....hmmmmm.

From The Mouths of Babes...

The Pulp Update

So apparently there's this new-fangled gadget out there that allows you to read pulp through ITunes.  If things remain true to plan, you should be able to read this on it.   Wow - pulp at the fingertips of 600-700,000 people.

I like it.

Pirates are coming to Pulp 2.0... but not just any pirates.

Western heroes as well...but not just any western heroes.

Saw DOCTOR WHO on Saturday. For those of you waiting for the BBCA broadcast - let me tell you that it's worth it.  Karen Gillan is pitch perfect and the camera loves her.  Matt Smith is genuinely energetic, eclectic and spot on.  Moffat is on the top of his game.

More pictures from the other day.

IPad and Filmmaking

For those of you doubting the positive implications of the new Apple IPad (Yeah I'm looking at you, "Anti-Bill Cunningham") then I would ask that you take a moment to read Matthew Jepsen's article on how he sees the way IPad will affect filmmakers and other creatives such as:

2. It’s a book, it’s a movie, it’s… an app
Anthony Zuiker (CSI) released a “digi-novel” last year, wherein a printed book contained a URL every 20 pages; readers could enter the URL into a browser and watch a related online video. In a lot of ways transmedia storytelling to date has been mostly about promotion (The Dark Knight, for example, used an Alternate Reality Game to promote its theatrical release), but the iPad offers a different set of possibilities: instead of these experiences existing as separate, promotional entrypoints, they can all be brought together on one platform. This is not to say that a project can’t have a live component that exists separately, but the iPad will play a pivotal role in bringing together different forms of storytelling: words, still images, moving images, audio, and interactive experiences can all live together on one handheld, connected device. The iPad will profoundly blur the line between book, movie, and game, and it will do so by offering these new-media experiences for sale through iTunes as… an application. When you’re developing a cross-platform story, what happens if you can’t define your project along clear lines? Should I say it? “There’s an app for that.”

And to add my own two coppers to it - we get a work surface that's also the final display. That is, you can draw your image, manipulate it, and upload it to the store with a device the size of a netbook (and half the weight). 

This is only the beginning...