It is evident that many new consumer devices will allow playback of video content and much of that content could be the same entertainment broadcast media is delivering to our televisions. Apple’s new video iPods can be used for viewing popular television series such as Desperate Housewives and Lost. The episodes become available without a [...]

David Weinberger wrote…
I had a jetlag dream that seemed so important and was so vivid that I couldn’t go back to sleep until I wrote down the key points. In it, I was mistakenly admitted to a group meeting with an unnamed Supreme Court justice. When called upon, I explained that there are three key [...]

I have spent several days working with a broadcast media who are interested in deploying social media to engage viewers and readers online. While it does make a lot of sense for broadcast media to enable their audience to participate with their brand in creative fashion there is much more in play here. If you [...]

Red Tail Media is proud to announce cooperation with Tekes, National Technology Agency of Finland, to produce consumer technology aimed to make sharing and using Social Media more accessible and suitable for commercial concepts. The project titled ‘Green Tail’ focuses on research and initial development of technical enablers that bring added value to our existing [...]

In Helsinki area Nokia is piloting new CoolZone technology and let people listen to Robbie Williams in selected Helsinki area cafes for no charge. My first impressions with this is that this has been done before and second was just to be amazed why such proximity bluetooth services demonstration is so meaningless to general public. [...]

Sony has decided to put software on their audio CDs that secretly installs spying tools on the customer’s PCs in order to protect their rights. One has to wonder what they were thinking when they considered the benefits of this move since the privacy laws and computer hacking is so clearly seen as illegal activity. [...]

I noticed the other day that Nokia is cranking out new models in the N-series and they also have an internet surfing tablet out. The gadgets are really nice and I want them but it reminded me to write about why I think so many of the ‘wireless internet’ ideas have had so much trouble [...]

I’ve come across a few misconceptions people about social media. From the finnish media perspective the ‘Markkinointi & Mainonta‘ magazine writes an editorial claiming blogs dead and how people would return to read professional editorials. This claim is largely based on personal experiences of not finding interesting content in the blogs. Where it gets entertaining [...]

There has been a lot of claims made how blogs and grassroots journalism is taking the business out of the traditional media. This idea is founded on perception that blogs are performing the function that media has: providing news and editorial content to the people and do it much earlier than the mainstream media who [...]

I’d like to welcome everyone to Red Tail Media site. Our company is on a mission to rethink how the recent years of private publishing and the increased availability of personal digital media tools has changed the way brands and media are experienced by the general public. Until just recently commercial image companies have was [...]