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39. Interactive ResurgenceJeff MillerTitle: President/CEO, ICTV Age: "45 (or 22 in ActiveVideo years!)” Years in industry: 6 Years left in industry: “Whatever it takes…” Gary Lauder Title: Chairman, ICTV Age: 44 Years in Industry: 16 Years left in Industry: "40 (but the meaning of 'the industry' will change)” Why Them? If Time Warner Cable is the industry’s poster operator for interactive television, then ICTV is its poster vendor. The Los Gatos, CA-based vendor hit the winter CableLabs conference in Colorado Springs this past March to demo its ActiveVideo Mosaic platform. The pitch: that Mosaic can “tile” programming into a six-way split screen experience, allowing operators to display TV and Web content side by side for a customizable, personalized experience by their subscribers (Kewl!) It also supports delivery of Web-style targeted ads that lead directly to transactions to help ops monetize the ITV experience. ICTV now boasts deals with not only Time Warner and Comcast but also Hong Kong’s bleeding-edge PCCW for its ActiveVideo product. - SB Jeff Miller What is your favorite word? Done. What is your least favorite word? No. What turns you on? “My wife’s touch.” What turns you off? “Corporate politics.” What sound do you love? “A Gibson Les Paul played through a Marshall tube amp.” What sound do you hate? “A New York City street from the back of a cab in August in the middle of a traffic jam.” What profession other than yours would like to attempt? Musician. What profession would you not like to participate in? Politics. If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates? “A hundred people have mentioned your name on their way in here. Well done…come on in!” Gary Lauder I knew the cable industry was for me when: “In 1989, I learned what a cellularized cable network could do.” In my free time, I like to: “Teach science in my children’s school.” Three things I would take with me to a deserted island: “All those books I have been meaning to read, a genie in a lamp, does my wife count as a ‘thing?’” Favorite song: “Polka-dot Undies” by Bowser & Blue I wish cable would: “Experiment and innovate more rapidly, and stop trying to design and build their own technology.” The world would be a better place if: “Rationality prevailed over emotions.” Click here to return to the 2006 CFAX 100 List. |
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