The End of the PC-Centric Internet

by Chris Abraham on 29/11/2009 · 0 comments

Image representing Xbox as depicted in CrunchBase
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I watch my Video Podcasts via my Roku or via iTunes and an Apple TV or iPod. I watch YouTube via my T-Mobile Android G1 and you watch it via your iPhone. I know that Dan Krueger watches movies through his Xbox 360 and I know people browse the web via their Nintendo Wii.  No, according to Inside Facebook and Microsoft, people are checking and updating their Facebooks via Xbox Live via their Xbox 360s over their TVs:

Microsoft put out a press release yesterday touting the success of its Xbox Live console gaming network, and the company included some stats about its new integration with Facebook and other web services. In the week since Facebook became available, more than 2 million of Xbox Live’s 20 million “Active Members” have signed on to it.

Don’t tell Dell or Lenovo but Netbooks aren’t the least of their worries — the Internet and all the content therein is taking to the hills — you had better not get so attached to how your Flash site or your web site looks on a monitor over IE6 — this is all going to be consumed either via mobile (tiny screen) or vial consumer electronics (either massive or convenient screen).


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