Ball State

Mike Bloxham, a familiar figure on the US interactive TV scene, is leaving his post as director of Insight & Research at Ball State University's Center for Media Design, to join what he described in an email to friends and colleagues as "a start-up company focused on research and consulting in integrated marketing, including email, social media, mobile and other emerging media." He will be replaced by associate director and lead researcher, Dr. Michael Holmes, who Bloxham says has already begun assuming many of his day-to-day management duties.

[itvt] would like to alert our readers to two videos that were recently posted to YouTube by Will Kreth, senior director of advanced video strategy at Time Warner Cable and founder of OEDN.net (note: the name is an acronym for "OCAP/EBIF Developer Network), an organization which is attempting to drive application development efforts using the US cable industry's OCAP/tru2way and EBIF middleware standards and whose backers include Time Warner Cable, Cablevision, Charter and Bright House.