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ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA
Fox is offering up the pilot episode of the new drama K-Ville for free across 200 popular entertainment portals including AOL.com, Yahoo! and TVGuide.com, as well as the Fox.com Fox on Demand website. The police drama, scheduled to premiere September 17 at 9 pm ET, stars Anthony Anderson and Cole Hauser as two cops trying to restore order in Katrina-torn New Orleans. The first 17 minutes of the cliffhanger Prison Break will also be made available. (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3ic5e5748d210215482b483b4ee5298e7c 8/24)
Full pilot available through the link above. K-Ville trailer below. Looks interesting and more importantly, highlighting a situation in New Orleans that is slowly being forgotten by the US public.
(Below) GREAT idea. Let me repeat, GREAT IDEA.
New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority and New Jersey Transit are working with Google to provide online maps, schedules and trip planners. The transit guide would boost Google’s revenue from selling advertising to restaurants, hotels and other local businesses. (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aslR2A2kKcuY 8/24)
(Below) Couldn’t agree more. It’s not simply the fact that YouTube will be heavily ad-supported. We’re not talking pre-roll here folks. We’re talking about ads laid over top of the videos that you’re trying to watch. Color me annoyed.
On the YouTube blog users mostly trashed the idea of having to watch ads with their favorite programs, confirming worries that the longer online content is made available without ads, the harder it would be to get viewers to adapt to them.
Universal Music, which started experimenting with posting its music videos on YouTube a year ago, says it now has the most viewed video channel on the video-sharing site, with 158 million views. Universal has overtaken CBS and NBC with its 4,000 videos on YouTube. (http://blogs.reuters.com/2007/08/23/universal-music-tops-youtube-chart/ 8/23)
ABC News Digital increased its unique user base by 19% year-on-year to 9.9 million in July, according to Nielsen/NetRatings. Users posted more than 64,000 comments on ABCNews.com, spurred by discussions on hot topics such as the al Qaeda cell found in the U.S. and the FBI report claiming Iraqis were being smuggled across the Rio Grande.
CartoonNetwork.com says it reached an all-time high in terms of average time spent on the site per user. Nielsen/NetRatings’s July numbers reported CartoonNetwork.com users spent an average of 77 minutes per visit, placing it 26th among all U.S. domains in time spent. More than 170 casual games available for free on the site have improved stickiness, according to the network.
Tween digital doll site Stardoll announced a partnership with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen and their kateandashley brand. Stardoll users can dress up their doll avatars in their original designs, interact directly with the designers and participate in a virtual fashion contest judged personally by Mary-Kate and Ashley.
Online video distribution platform Dovetail.tv launched a Facebook application allowing independent producers and distributors to embed, browse, search, rate and review Dovetail films directly from the Facebook site. The films play in the Flash format on a Mac and PC-compatible peer-to-peer client on the user’s desktop. The Dovetail widget also supports HD-quality streams.
Video navigation site WeShow rolled out a widget of its own designed to help users play and manage videos without opening a web browser. WeShow is also launching widgets designed to play videos on popular social networking sites including MySpace, Facebook, Hi5 and Ning. The widget can be configured to visually match the look and feel of the user’s page
Social network profiles are starting to have an effect on how people will vote in the upcoming elections, according to a new poll from Global Market Insite. About 17% of those surveyed said they had checked out a candidate’s profile on MySpace, Facebook or other sites, with 53% claiming they are more likely to vote for that candidate after seeing the profile. Interestingly, 62% of the candidate profile visitors were over 30 years old.
Time Warner Cable and Cisco Systems have joined forces on a new Web site that touts the benefits of the Scientific Atlanta high-definition DVRs that the cable company leases. The site, www.twcinhd.com, is called HD Clear & Simple, and it gives consumers step-by-step advice on which HDTV would be best for them. (Multichannel News 8/23)
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