Streaming Video Strategies

About the Author

Carolyn Handler Miller is one of the pioneering writers in the field of emergent media, first entering the field in the early 1990s. Since then, she has contributed to more than fifty interactive titles as a writer and content designer—a new profession she calls “digital storytelling.” Her projects as a digital storyteller include video games, projects for the internet, intelligent toy systems, transmedia entertainment, and immersive experiences. Among her better-known video game titles for children is the hit series “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?”

In addition, she was the writer of the interactive version of Toy Story for Pixar and Disney, which was one of the most successful children’s titles ever released. On the other extreme, she served as story consultant to Dark Sector (Digital Extremes), a gritty and bloody third-person action/shooter/horror game about a warrior with a weaponized arm, made for PlayStation 3, Xbox 30, and Nintendo DS.

Frank Kane worked for nine years at Amazon and IMDb as a senior engineer and senior manager, developing and managing the technology that automatically delivers product and movie recommendations to hundreds of millions of customers, as well as the technology behind Amazon’s home page. Frank holds 17 issued patents in the fields of distributed computing, data mining, and machine learning. In 2012, Frank left to start his own company, Sundog Software LLC, which focuses on virtual reality environment technology, and to ...