With Google TV, Google’s main interest is to capture the time, people spend in their living room, not just on PC and laptops. The more people buy Google TV, the more likely they will use Google search, view web videos(Youtube) and other integrated services that Google provides. Just like mobile landscape, Google charges nothing for licensing Google TV software to hardware manufacturers, so its a win-win situation for hardware vendors as well as Google.

But this whole concept of ‘Web meets TV’ is bugging TV network broadcasters, who are already facing a decline in advertising revenues as more brands are shifting their large chunk of spending on Internet rather than television. The general notion among TV network broadcasters is that Google singlehandedly controls the Internet and the advertising revenues goes straight into Google’s pocket. If, by any chance, Google takes over the TV viewers courtesy Google TV, just like it took over the Internet viewers, then TV Network broadcasters will be doomed, with zero hopes of fat money that they currently flows into their bank accounts.

On the other side, HBO and MTV Networks have collaborated with Google in making their site experience, specifically customized for Google TV. So overall, the opinion is not unanimous among all the network broadcasters but one thing is pretty clear. Network broadcasters don’t want to get screwed up by Google.

With this move by NBC, ABC and CBS, their ultimate aim is not to have a permanent block but make Google agree to broadcaster’s several demands. This move appears to be strategic enough, to be able to arm-twist Google and make it agree to what broadcasters really want.

Google is already in talks with all the three notorious broadcasters over the block and may probably reach some consensus with them over the lifting of the block.

Stay tuned for more on this…

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For all those site owners, bloggers and webmasters, who keep themselves engaged in Social Media and Social Bookmarking services, to get their voice heard loud enough and to bring more audiences to their respective websites, its better to keep yourself prepared for the rare ‘Best moments’ of your website.

By ‘Best moment‘, we assume a situation when one of your posts gets unexpectedly picked up by the crowd so well that you find your website on Digg’s homepage or homepage of any other popular social bookmarking site. You can also take into account ‘Mass Retweets‘ by potential twittering folks as possibly the ‘Best moment’ of your site

But, your website’s ‘Best moments’ might not arrive too often. Such moments will rather be rare and unexpected, unless you’re already a well known and highly influential brand/identity on web. And in most cases, the ‘Best moment’ might just become your ‘Worst moment’.

By ‘Worst moment’, we assume a scenario when your website crashes under sudden spike in traffic , due to unexpected and sudden traffic burden, which your shared server isn’t prepared to handle, wherever your website is hosted.

By the time, your website/blog gets back into action,you realise that the ‘peak traffic’ has already passed away. Your website will certainly get restored after a while but reputation and heavy traffic monetization opportunity is already gone.

If you really care about your website’s reputation and don’t want to skip any chance of monetizing your website, you better prepare yourself for the Best moments of your site and for doing that, it is wise to choose the most suitable web hosting service for your website first, matching your needs and able to handle unexpected traffic load.

If your website has already achieved a state of consistent traffic with occasional peak moments, its better to go for a dedicated server. See all the hosting options, go through web hosting reviews available on the web and choose the best one for your site, which doesn’t put too much pressure on your wallet as well.

But that’s probably one of the major reasons why majority of smartphone buyers end up paying thousands of dollars more than what they should have actually paid to their service providers over a span of one or two years. Customers also neglect the significance of comparing plenty of available cell phone plans from various Mobile carriers namely Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, etc. before making their final decision, such as entering into 1 or 2 year contract with a particular mobile carrier or buying a new smartphone.

To avoid getting trapped into an undesirable or costly cell phone plan for next two years, it is better to look out and shortlist the best cell phone plans available in the market before making a phone purchase. Next, you need to stack up your smartphone preferences and decide if you should go for an Contract-free smartphone and choose a separate voice and data plan afterwards or simply go for a subsidized contract-bound smartphone.

With a little more efforts in seeking the best voice and data plans available, you will certainly save yourself a lot of money in the long run.

• All of them are successful, just booming at the moment
• They are among the hottest companies in the eyes of third party developer community

From freelancing coders to web development companies, the latest formula for squeezing out revenues by utilizing their existing programming skills is to build a platform centric/web application using the API of the platform provider and making it a hot seller among the millions of users on that platform.

Take the case of App Store for millions of iPhone users, Android Market for millions of Android phone users, Facebook apps for Facebook users or Twitter apps for twitter users, the app developer community has literally propelled these platforms and opened up plenty of revenue streams for the platform owners as well.

And developers are building Out-of-the-box applications on various platforms. It is often surprising yet interesting to explore amazing applications on various platforms. For instance, you can catch hold of some utility android apps here and Twitter apps here.

Many developers are innovative enough as they carve out sensible business avenues out of these social platforms. Take the case of Twitter app called TweetyJobs. The application has been developed by San Francisco Web Design Company, Freshout which has created a system for employers and job seekers to mine into Twitter data stream in an easy way and get the most relevant people existent on Twitter for the required job. Although Freshout, just like other development firms, does offer plenty of other custom web development services, Twitter or any other platform’s apps are no prerogative of web development companies only. Many freelancers have been able to single-handedly develop and made a gold-rush out of Twitter apps or Android apps in no time. And freelancers smartly pick tips and development ideas from resources like Web design tips , makeuseof.com amongst other available resources.

Epitomizing the overall assertion, it has now become an utmost priority for any platform owner in the business of Technology to successfully attract developer community and make it work hard for them. The one who fails to attract those Independent geeky birds would surely find it tough to sail through the troughs of business cycle.