{"id":4579,"date":"2012-06-10T16:45:12","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T21:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4579"},"modified":"2012-06-10T16:45:12","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T21:45:12","slug":"the-future-fruits-of-apple-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4579","title":{"rendered":"The Future Fruits Of Apple + Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>And while Facebook is struggling to make money on small mobile screens, Facebook TV could be a more natural place for display ads. Advertisers have been demanding a bigger, flashier ad formats that Facebook TV could host. We\u2019re so used to watching commercials on TV that a glossy still ad every 10 minutes or 10 photos, or the occasional fifteen-second pre-roll might not seem out of place.<\/p>\n<p>Apple would gain a good<strong> showcase for how existing mobile and web apps could be reformatted for the television<\/strong>. The special Facebook app could also be a selling point for Apple\u2019s new TV hardware. Facebook needs to be on televisions and Apple needs Facebook on its televisions, so this collaboration seems inevitable if not imminent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2012\/06\/10\/apple-facebook\/\">The Future Fruits Of Apple + Facebook | TechCrunch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What goes around comes around.\u00a0 The first computer to use the TV as a monitor was the VIC-20 or Commodore 64.\u00a0 Then there was WebTV.\u00a0 Now Apple wants to pipe Facebook to TV? Not having a TV or a Facebook account I have no basis for an opinion on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And while Facebook is struggling to make money on small mobile screens, Facebook TV could be a more natural place for display ads. Advertisers have been demanding a bigger, flashier ad formats that Facebook TV could host. We\u2019re so used &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4579\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[288,187,234],"class_list":["post-4579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-apple","tag-facebook","tag-media-server"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4580,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579\/revisions\/4580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}