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ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA

The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), a massive, extremely popular website detailing all aspects of many movies and television shows, has finally added what the site has curiously been missing all along: video footage of full-length movies and TV shows. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/15/imdb-finally-adds-video-content-ill-give-it-three-stars 9/15)

Current, the edgy news and culture television channel co-founded by Al Gore, is coming up with a new way to broadcast the presidential debates: show Twitter commentary on what people are saying. Current will broadcast “Hack the Debate,” with Twitter updates shown in real time. (Iwantmedia 9/16, http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10041931-36.html 9/15)

Google searches for the terms “SNL Palin,” “Saturday Night Live” and “Tina Fey as Palin” rocketed over the weekend. But the take-down notices from NBC Universal went out just as quickly, notifying Google’s YouTube that clips from “Saturday Night Live” infringe upon copyrights. (Iwantmedia 9/16, http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/09/nbc-universal-z.html 9/15)

Hollywood.com president Kevin Davis, a former Variety exec, plans to relaunch his site later this month as an alternative to “train wreck” celebrity news sources like TMZ and Perez Hilton, with both celebrity and industry news. (Iwantmedia 9/16, http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3630840 9/15)

The EMI Group is said to be close to joining the three other large recording companies in backing the upcoming MySpace Music service. EMI and MySpace reps are “trying to jump some final hurdles.” The Apple iTunes competitor is expected to launch later this week. (Iwantmedia 9/16, http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10042137-93.html 9/15)