The window for submitting speakers proposals for SXSW closed months ago but with the recent announcement of the iPad, conference organizers couldn’t pass up the opportunity to discuss it.
iPad: New Opportunities for Content Creators
With the launch of the iPad, Apple is creating a third category of mobile devices positioned between smartphones and laptop computers. Utilizing the successful iPhone operating system coupled with a tablet form factor, the iPad has the ability to deliver content in a variety of formats – from native apps to web sites to
eBooks and more. Hear from experts in the interactive, book publishing, periodicals, and video gaming industries about the impact of the iPad in regards to content packaging and distribution.
No word yet on time, date or panelists but I’ll be following this for updates.
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Tags: Apple, E-book, iPad, iPad Books, iPad Publishing, iPad Video Content, Mobile device, SXSW, SXSW Interactive, SXSW Panel, SXSW Panel Discussion, Video game
It looks like our hopes of having Hulu on the iPad will be answered, but you’ll probably have to open your wallet (again) in order to get it.
Hulu’s owners – NBC Universal, Fox and ABC – have repeatedly hinted at a premium version of the service and the launch of the iPad may just be the opportunity for them to introduce it. Peter Kafka over at MediaMemo cites “people familiar with the company” and their operations as the source of this tidbit of information.
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The development team at HardCandy dropped by the TUAW booth at MacWorld this year and brought with them the mockup they’ve been using for creating their iPad cases. These folks put in a lot of time and effort to create a replica of an iPad using a variety of inputs “including stats from Apple’s site, information from over 300 pictures of the keynote (in which they compared the iPad’s dimensions to things like a wristwatch band), and even some not-quite-public plans from an unnamed Chinese manufacturer.” Video after the jump. Hit the link for their complete “review”.
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Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch has heard from an “industry insider” that Hulu is not only developing an iPhone app but that it will be ready in time for the launch of the Apple iPad.
For those who know how Hulu works, this is not a huge technical leap, but a smart business decision. Hulu’s video is already encoded in H.264 which plays natively on the iPhone so the company would have to make one decision: load the videos in Safari using a custom HTML5 player or hand them off to the native Quicktime Player for playback.
Running the Hulu business will be a bit trickier.
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