Australia - Digital Media - Video Comms, P2P, Instant messaging, Blogging, Social Networks

Synopsis

The key application of digital media will be communication – as in other developments, such as mobile messaging and email. But digital media will include an additional important element, video-based communication, and this will completely transform telecoms, media and IT. Linked to cheap broadband and interactivity, this will also result in over 75% of all new media being generated by the users themselves. And so companies involved in digital media will have to drastically change their business models to allow for user participation and user-generated services and applications. The report covers a range of comms related applications.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
• 2. Video communications
  • 2.1 The power of video
  • 2.2 Personal video
  • 2.3 Universities turn to video conferencing
  • 2.4 The future of VoIP lies in videoconferencing
• 3. Social networking
  • 3.1 Overview
  • 3.2 Social networking sites
    • 3.2.1 MySpace – Australia
    • 3.2.2 Loop Mobile (Moko)
    • 3.2.3 Bebo
  • 3.3 Market surveys
    • 3.3.1 Social networking isn’t diminishing TV viewing patterns
    • 3.3.2 Survey on mobile social networking usage
  • 3.4 Market statistics
  • 3.5 Market developments
    • 3.5.1 Launch of online social media and marketing company
  • 3.6 Analysis
    • 3.6.1 The end of blogs and social networking sites? – September 2007
    • 3.6.2 Advertising is king on social network sites
• 4. Synthetic environments – second life
  • 4.1 New developments
  • 4.2 Paul Budde’s Second Life
  • 4.3 Second life statistics
  • 4.4 Telstra BigPond
• 5. Instant Messaging (IM) services
  • 5.1 Thanks to video facing a revival
  • 5.2 Interoperability between applications
  • 5.3 Additional functionality
  • 5.4 Messenger services on mobile phones
• 6. Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks
  • 6.1 File sharing networks
  • 6.2 Influence on Internet resources
  • 6.3 Commercialisation of P2P services
• 7. Blogging
  • 7.1 Creating havoc in news media
  • 7.2 Mediacracy
  • 7.3 Affecting traditional news media
  • 7.4 Other blog terms
• 8. Related reports

• Exhibit 1 – Second Life Financials – 2007 - 2008
• Exhibit 2 – Second Life user statistics – 2008

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