Daily Marauder

ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA

Showtime launched a cleanly designed new sign-up microsite featuring interactive elements, clips and full episode samplings of original shows. The site also integrates with Showtime’s new pages on Facebook, YouTube and Flickr to give passerby’s an idea the fun they are missing. (Cynopsis 1/8)

In more connected living room news, Samsung announced it is working on a new web-based content service scheduled for release this spring powered by a new “Widget Engine” created by Yahoo. The widgets will allow users to keep up with their accounts on Flickr, Yahoo News or Yahoo Finance as well as view content from YouTube, eBay, Showtime Networks and others. (Cynopsis 1/8)

Yahoo‘s widget engine will also power a new service called NetCast Entertainment Access on connected LG HDTVs. LG has also signed content deals with Netflix and YouTube. (Cynopsis 1/8)

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