Filed under: Feature, ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA | Tags: Austin, Austin Texas, Bingo, Gambling, Games, iPhone, South by Southwest, SXSW Bingo
SXSW: DAILY MARAUDER GOES TO TWITTER HEAVEN
Tomorrow, I will board a plane for Austin while twittering away the exact details of my flight and looking for other tech nerds like me. I promise to bring you the tweet by tweet via iPhone along the way. In honor of SXSW, I bring you SXSW Bingo. Click the image above for more details on how to play. See you at #sxsw.
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Filed under: Feature | Tags: Arts, Bodyart, Kentucky, New York City, Shopping, Studios, Tattoo, Times Square
BODY BRANDING: TATTOO NATE
Meet Nate. He wants to tattoo your company logo on his body.
Here’s the deal. Nate here is the proud new father of twin babies and decided to come up with a way to make extra money for their future. I can dig.
The dynamics of this project? Not so much.
He wants you to pay him $1 for the chance to have your logo imprinted on his body. He won’t make any decision via raffle UNTIL he has $1 million dollars in hand.
So, let’s discuss the obvious issues with this product. What if he NEVER raises the $1 million? What happens to your $1? No answers on that one.
What’s the size of the finished product? His site says no bigger than 2 inches high by 3 wide. But who decides?
Where does the logo live? It’s up to him. That’s like putting up a billboard with NO idea where in the US it will go. Could be Times Square NYC or could be Trigg County (middle of no where) Kentucky.
When I first started reading about his project, I thought it could be a really amazing art project using the human body as the ultimate canvass to display the art of consumerism. For example, he could have decided to tattoo an entire arm or two with several brands for a price. You may scoff, but you know there’s someone out there with the drive to do it. One tattoo, eh. Not that interesting. MULTIPLE tattoos covering a major portion of some area of the body? Now we’re talkin!
I say all this hoping that tattoonate decides to up the ante a little bit. This project could be MUCH more interesting…
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Filed under: BROADCAST/CABLE | Tags: ChocolateNews, CNN, David Alan Grier, MSNBC, NBC Universal, Television, Time Warner Cable, Tom Brokaw
SCI FI Channel‘s season five debut of Ghost Hunters at 9p explored Betsy Ross’House in Philadelphia, unleashing 1.6 million A18-49 viewers, 1.7 million A25-54 viewers and 2.7 million total viewers as well as a 1.9 HH rating. (Cynopsis 3/13)
All is not sweet for David Alan Grier as his Comedy Central series Chocolate News was not picked up for renewal by the network, reports The New York Times. The show, which ran for ten episodes, was not so much a news parody but more of a sketch comedy series where Grier portrayed fictitious characters to the poet Maya Angelou. Fans of Grier, though, can catch the comedian on this season’s Dancing with the Stars on ABC. (Cynopsis 3/13)
MTV introduces viewers to young, inspiring performers in a new reality musical series Taking The Stage, opening next Thursday at 10p. The series, over ten one-hour episodes, will follow five students who attend the School For Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA) in Cincinnati. (Cynopsis 3/13)
CNN’s Anderson Cooper will file recession-related reports from five U.S. cities in an upcoming special package dubbed “Road to the Rescue: A CNN Survival Guide.” Separately, Tom Brokaw will file similar dispatches for NBC Universal properties USA, MSNBC and NBC. Variety (3/12)
At 8 p.m. Thursday, Time Warner Cable‘s spinoff from Time Warner became official. The transaction, first announced last May, received regulatory approval last month. The cable company’s stock closed 61 cents higher Thursday at $8.33. Multichannel News (3/12)
Despite the ailing economy, cable TV remains a necessity for most people, which, according to Comcast Chief Operating Officer Steve Burke, cannot be said for some of the industry’s rivals. “As the economy has gotten worse and worse, very few people are disconnecting their cable television service,” he said. “Far more people are cutting the cord on their phone service. The telephone companies are losing about 10% of their phone customers every year, and about half of those go to the cable companies … .” TechFlash (3/12)
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Filed under: ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA | Tags: Facebook, Hulu, Mark Zuckerberg, Oprah Winfrey, Skype, Social network, TV.com, Twitter
ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA
CBS Interactive is also testing a 1080p- quality video gallery on the TV.com portal for folks with a fat pipe (3 Mbps or higher) and a fast processor. Currently there are only 4 video clips but they look amazing. Competitor Hulu upgraded its HD gallery last year to stream videos in 720p. (Cynopsis 3/13)
The video stumbled a bit on my end but indeed, AMAZING. Hulu’s strategy on most things is that they won’t deliver a product until they can perfect it. Who knows which strategy will win but this new online video battle between Hulu and tv.com is an interesting one. But to be fair, and keepin’ it real, whose at #2 in the online video ranking wars? It sure isn’t tv.com.
Conde Nast is entering a partnership to distribute video from sites such as Epicurious and Vogue.TV via Hulu, the online video hub. Hulu is selling advertising to accompany the Conde Nast content, while the partners agree to share the ad revenue. (Iwantmedia 3/13, http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=102059 3/13)
Maybe it is all the TV news mentions, but Twitter is seeing the growth in U.S visitors to its site accelerating. In February, 4 million people in the U.S. visited the site, up from 2.6 million the month before, according to the latest data from comScore. That represents a 55 percent month-over-month growth rate, compared to 33 percent growth in each of the two months prior. (ComScore has yet to release February figures for worldwide visitors, but for January that number is 6 million). (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/13/whoa-twitter-mania 3/13)
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will take to Oprah Winfrey‘s couch on Friday. Winfrey is expected to interview Zuckerberg and show a demo of her TV show’s new page on the social network. A “celebrity Facebook addict” might Skype in to talk up the service as well. (Iwantmedia 3/13, http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/03/12/oprah-to-interview-facebook-founder 3/12)
If Oprah is doing it, Facebook has achieved mainstream status officially.
New AOL chief Tim Armstrong: “I am looking forward to taking what I have learned at Google and seeing what I can bring to really help AOL.” He adds: Time Warner wants “the best outcome” for its Internet company. “That could take the form of different paths,” including a spin off. (Iwantmedia 3/13, http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090312/new-aol-chairman-and-ceo-and-about-to-be-ex-googler-tim-armstrong-speaks 3/12)
Twitter is driving much of its traffic to social networking, search, email and entertainment sites, according to an analysis by Hitwise. The data also shows that Twitter has more in common with social networks than search engines. Twitter is “a means of distributing content.” (Iwantmedia 3/13, http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=102076 3/13)
I think the only reason why Twitter isn’t recognized as a search engine for the moment is because their search functionality isn’t prominent enough yet. Furthermore, most folks just haven’t figured out how to use the feature. Once both of these things change, Twitter will become a more functional search engine ESPECIALLY for local news. Hey LA Times, NY Times….integrate Twitter functionality now. The deal will benefit both of you being that Twitter hasn’t figure out how to monetize and all y’all can think about is monetizing. Perfect union.
Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner is developing a television series for rival Viacom’s Nickelodeon cable channel. “Glenn Martin, DDS,” a stop-motion animated series, will debut this summer. The effort will be the first TV series from Eisner’s Tornante company. (Iwantmedia 3/13, http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/content_display/news/cable-tv/e3iffcfe0c0b0255a5a8aecffcc5d1ceea1 3/12)
The WB.com has cast Jessica “LonelyGirl15″ Rose in a new 18-episode web horror series entitled Blood Cell, per THR, about a woman racing against the clock to stop a psycho killer. (Cynopsis 3/13)
Overall online video usage dropped a bit over Feb. according to Nielsen Online as those with jobs went back to work and those without spent more time networking for leads (Cynopsis’ theory). Streams were down by almost 15% during the month (which, to be fair, is a shorter one in terms of total days.) Meanwhile Hulu climbed over Yahoo! to reach the #2 spot in terms of total video streams. (Cynopsis 3/13)
Overall Online Video Usage (U.S.)
Jan-09 Feb-09 Percent Change
Unique Viewers (000) 135,617 127,613 -5.9%
Total Streams (000) 10,457,785 8,897,943 -14.9%
Streams per Viewer 77.1 69.7 -9.6%
Time per Viewer (min) 178.6 169.3 -5.2%
Source: Nielsen Online, VideoCensus, includes progressive downloads and excludes video advertising
Top Online Brands ranked by Video Streams for February 2009 (U.S.)
Video Brand Total Streams (000) Unique Viewers (000)
YouTube 5,158,727 88,136
Hulu 308,806 9,473
Yahoo! 250,425 24,085
Nickelodeon Kids and Family Network 209,465 6,039
Fox Interactive Media 194,255 14,376
ABC.COM 187,128 6,716
MSN/Windows Live 162,900 12,198
Turner Sports and Entertainment Digital Network 125,067 5,961
MTV Networks Music 100,076 4,410
CNN Digital Network 99,846 8,377
Source: Nielsen Online, VideoCensus, includes progressive downloads and excludes video advertising
African Americans are slowly but surely closing the so-called digital divide as internet usage grows among the community, according to an analysis from eMarketer. African American internet usage is expected to increase from 46.4% in 2008 to 56.4% in 2013, thanks in part to swift adoption and lifestyle changes from younger users. (Asian Americans remain the most connected demo, with 70.8% of the population now online, expected to increase to 78.9% in 2013.) (Cynopsis 3/13)
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Filed under: WIRELESS | Tags: CBSSports.com, CNET Networks, iPhone, iPod Touch, iTunes, Linux, MobiTV, Wi-Fi
This year, iPhone and iPod Touch users can watch all 63 games of the NCAA hoops tourney live from their devices via a new app from MobiTV and CBSSports.com. The app costs $4.99 and will include real-time in game box scores and player stats presented as an overlay on top of the video – a very thoughtful feature. The one catch is that the app requires a Wi-Fi connection to stream video, but this makes sense – live video over AT&T’s 3G network is not pretty. Of course the games are also available on CBS’MMOD site as well as for purchase on iTunes for $1.99 a pop the day after they’re played. (Cynopsis 3/13)
Shipments of mobile Internet devices will grow eightfold between 2007 and 2012 to more than 416 million, iSuppli predicted in a new report. “People like MID functionality because it opens up services, applications, business models and cross-industry relationships that were never possible before,” said Senior Analyst Francis Sideco. Home Media Magazine (3/12) , EE Times (3/12)
Developers of Google’s Android software will offer updates to T-Mobile’s G1 handset for the first time since its October launch, adding such features as an on-screen virtual QWERTY keyboard, video recording and playback as well as stereo Bluetooth support, according to reports. The upgrade, dubbed “Cupcake,” is also expected to fix some flaws in the open-source operating system as well as update its underlying Linux kernel. CNET (3/12) , CRN/ChannelWeb (3/12)
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Filed under: GAMING | Tags: Console Platforms, GAME, Lions Gate Entertainment, Lionsgate, New York, Nintendo, Video game, Wii
Nintendo Wii may do more than deliver games in the future, according to Lionsgate President Curt Marvis, who said the Wii offered opportunities to movie studios. For the Japanese market, Nintendo already has a video-on-demand service in development for the Wii. The New York Times/VentureBeat (3/13)
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Filed under: TECHNOLOGY | Tags: Digital audio, Digital video, High-definition video, MPEG-2, Multimedia, Television, Video, ZeeVee
ZeeVee is introducing a $2,500 media streamer that features SPDIF Digital Audio and Analog Audio inputs and HD MPEG2 encoding technology. The ZvPro 250 Media Streamer is designed to enable existing coax wiring to deliver HD video. CEPro.com (3/12)
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