A few days after posting “Wii optimized web sites“, I’ve been contacted to sketch out a proof of concept to port a very popular service to the Nintendo Wii.
I have some experience in TV interfaces, here are my basic recomandations to build a nice user experience on TV:

The idea: to reverse engeneer Twitter — a port of the SMS culture into the social websphere — to operate web services via SMS.
People, and particularly teenagers, have developed a peculiar way to chit-chat via SMS due to the inherent constraints of poorly usable keypads and the necessity to write concisely. This SMS lingo uses [...]

… and how he can help to get more satisfaction from cable TV.
Oddly enough, one of the biggest challenge I face when meeting prospects is to explain concisely what I really do. Depending on their background, they see an interface specialist either as a graphic artist, or a programming guy. Actually I work closely with [...]

Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, co-inventors of Kazaa and Skype, are launching a new service called Joost that takes benefit of P2P technology to bring TV to the masses through the web.
It’s about time. Now YouTube has set new standards for video access on the web, many people are working on new paradigms to blow [...]