Dijit Media, a San Francisco-based start-up that has developed a universal remote control/programming discovery/social TV solution called the Dijit Personal Media Assistant (note: the company's Web site describes the solution as follows: "With Dijit, your phone is a universal remote control supporting over 200,000 devices, has content listings for every cable and satellite provider in the US and Canada, gives you search across content from both cable/satellite providers and new streaming content providers like Netflix, and has integrated and simple sharing through Facebook and Twitter"), recently announced that it had hired Jeremy Toeman as chief product officer and Adam Burg as VP of business development.
Toeman and Burg join the company from Stage Two, a strategic product consultancy and marketing firm that they co-founded back in 2006, and that specializes in user experience (UX), product-development and marketing services (clients include Boxee, Vudu, DivX, Clicker, Netgear, Best Buy and Electronic Arts). Prior to Stage Two, Toeman was VP of product management at Sling Media, the TV place-shifting company subsequently acquired by EchoStar; Burg, meanwhile, worked at Rovi, where he was responsible for digital media software licensing in North America, with a focus on the digital TV market.
Toeman (who moderated the session, "Envisioning Cable's Converged Future," at The TV of Tomorrow Show last month), RECENTLY SPOKE to [itvt]'s Tracy Swedlow about his background, about Dijit's Personal Media Assistant, and about the company's plans for the product going forward.
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