What is it with UGC-TV? You mention one company, and suddenly a whole load come along!
Ammeon is announcing what is apparently the “birth of a unique new communication medium”, called Social Mobile Broadcasting. Ammeon’s Commune platform basically combines interactive mobile TV with communities and social networking, to delivering an e2e solution designed to complement unicast, broadcast and multicast mobile technologies.
Commune delivers TV content organized in themed communities. While subscribers watch scheduled content, they can chat with other community members and interact with competitions and polls. Subscribers can “virally” invite their friends to join the community and can even upload their own video contributions direct from their phone!
Ammeon believe that creating digital multimedia content on the handset is now simple, and should be complemented by a system to allow them to both distribute that content via their own “TV stations”, which have a community of users attached to them. Ammeon believes that “… This represents a true convergence of broadcast and mobile, not just at a technology level, but at a social level”
Comment: It’s certainly going to be interesting, as more and more of these platforms are deployed, to watch the landgrab that is occurring. No doubt social networks are going to be one of the next big things in Mobile (maybe on just hype alone), the only question that remains is how big…?