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CALL FOR CES TV WIDGET DEMOS!

All,

The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, January 7-10th, is a great opportunity to gain exposure for your TV Widget in front of consumers, press and analysts.
CES is the largest consumer electronics show in the U.S. and usually attracts over 140,000 participants. For complete details about CES go to http://www.cesweb.org/aboutces.asp.

Please email tvwidgets@yahoo-inc.com with any questions about how to take advantage of the CES opportunity

At CES 2009, Yahoo! Connected TV Widgets generated over 1200 news stories and was selected "Best of CES" in it's category by Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat and Ubergizmo. Yahoo! Connected TV recently won Popular Science's "Best of What's New". Samsung recently won Wired Magazine's TV of the Year for the Samsung 7000 which includes Yahoo! Connected TV Widgets.

All of our OEM partners including Samsung, LG, Sony, VIZIO will be at CES demonstrating TV Widgets.

Yahoo! will have meeting space at CES in the North Hall. We will be showing 3rd party TV Widgets on OEM TVs to press, analysts and consumers.

Now is the time to express your interest in participating. Get your TV Widget demos submitted to Yahoo! by December 11th to be included.

CES DEADLINES

DEMO SUBMISSION, FRIDAY DECEMBER 11th
- all documentation and code should be submitted so Yahoo! can test on OEM TVs.

DEMO SUBMISSIONS SHOULD INCLUDE:

* TV Widget code uploaded to the Widget Gallery using the Yahoo! Widget Upload Tool

* Widget Upload Tool: http://gallery.tv.widgets.yahoo.com/publisher/

* Description of your TV Widget

* Demo Use cases for trade show use,
* Yahoo and OEMs could demo your TV Widget to the press and consumers on your behalf.

* Technical Contact for pre-event testing and event support

PRESS RELEASE DEADLINE: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18th;
- Press release templates with Yahoo pre-approved language will be provided so you can do your own press release.
- Please submit your version promoting your TV Widget to Yahoo PR for approval.

Please email tvwidgets@yahoo-inc.com with any questions about how to take advantage of the CES opportunity

Regards,

Russ Schafer
Senior Director, Product Marketing
Yahoo! Connected TV Team

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  • Should we focus on 540 or 1080 development? Or are both necessary?
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  • QUOTE (kpmartinatdci @ Nov 23 2009, 12:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Should we focus on 540 or 1080 development? Or are both necessary?


    540.

    -Jeremy
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  • FOR CES DEMO Apps ...

    - Does all acceptance criteria need to be met for the purposes of demo?
    o Do we need to send a 540 and 1080 version of the app? If only one, which one is preferred?
    o Do we need an About page for the Widget?
    o On the About page, do we need customer care contact info? If so, will a "www.website.com/feedback" URL work?
    o For the gallery description of the Widget -- need more guidance about length and tone of description. Can you provide an example?

    - Should we assume the demo should start with the presenter finding our Demo App in the Gallery and adding to the dock – or should the widget be on the dock?
    - Should we plan to build in a default location – Las Vegas, NV?
    - Should we plan to build in four favorite cities – or allow the presenter to set those up?
    - If during your QA process you discover issues, will we have an opportunity to resolve before CES (what is the timeframe)? – or will the app simply not be accepted for CES?
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  • QUOTE (john h @ Dec 8 2009, 08:51 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    o Do we need to send a 540 and 1080 version of the app? If only one, which one is preferred?
    o Do we need an About page for the Widget?
    o On the About page, do we need customer care contact info? If so, will a "www.website.com/feedback" URL work?
    o For the gallery description of the Widget -- need more guidance about length and tone of description. Can you provide an example?


    I'll answer the ones I can:

    1) All TVs are 540 at this time, so 540 is the most important.
    2) Yes, it's required for all widgets just to start up. That said, for demo purposes using a line like this should be satisfactory:

    CODE
    KONtx.application.init({
    	views: [
    		{ id: 'view-Main', viewClass: MainView },
    		{ id: 'view-Settings', viewClass: KONtx.views.AboutBox },
    		{ id: 'snippet-main', viewClass: SnippetView },
    	],
    	defaultViewId: 'view-Main',
    	settingsViewId: 'view-Settings',
    });


    That will provide a generic settings page without any buttons in it.

    3) Yes, for demo purposes that would be fine.

    4) 1-2 sentences should be fine. Check the existing widgets in the Gallery for examples of tone.
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