Filed under: ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA | Tags: Apple, Google, Google Chrome, Midnight Meat Train, Searching, TechCrunch, Virgin America, Wi-Fi
ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA
After previously only having an option to rent HD movies, back in March, Apple added the option to be able to buy HD as well. The problem? A complete and utter lack of options. Even now, some 8 months later, there were only a few dozen HD movies you could buy, and the majority were movies like The Midnight Meat Train— movies you probably had no desire to buy, let alone for the amped-up $19.99 HD price. Yesterday, that changed. (Techcrunch11/10)
While PCs have been able to use Google’s Chrome browser for some time now, the rest of us Macs have been waiting patiently for a proper, non-developer build that we too can use. That day may be coming very soon. (Mashable 11/11)
Well, the spirit of giving arrived a little early this year! For my birthday last month, Google announced it was partnering to offer free Wi-Fi on all Virgin America flights until January 15th. Great, thanks Google, now I have to check the feeds even while flying at 500MPH. But I guess that just wasn’t enough kindness to satisfy the Goog. They’ve just announced that they’re going to be extending the free Wi-Fi to 47 entire airports. (Crunchgear11/10)
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Filed under: WIRELESS | Tags: Arts, Blackberry, iPhone, Karaoke, Lady Gaga, Music, TechCrunch, Urbanspoon
In major metropolitan areas, the BlackBerry at lunchtime is a force to be reckoned with. And now it can be a device to help those urbanities actually find a place to eat with the launch of Urbanspoon for BlackBerry. (Techcrunch11/10)
Karaoke fans will soon get the chance to turn their iPhones into full-fledged karaoke machines, thanks to an upcoming new application called iOKi. This is no wannabe karaoke app either — music sensation Lady Gaga has partnered with iOKi to launch her own fully Gaga-ized version of the app featuring some of her most popular songs, which will make its debut alongside the upcoming release of her new album on November 23. (Techcrunch 11/10)
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Filed under: GAMING | Tags: Facebook, Facebook Connect, Last.fm, Massively multiplayer online game, Ohai, Social network service, Twitter, World of Warcraft
Earlier Techcrunch broke the news on the upcoming launch of City Of Eternals, the first Flash MMOG from Ohai.I have the rough footage below of in game play, and will add a proper screencast shortly. This is a World of Warcraft style MMOG that’s free to play and Flash based. It’s also integrated with Facebook Connect to allow easy signup and, more importantly, you can play with your friends and see the real identity of other players. (Techcrunch11/10)
Although it’s not yet live to everyone, a new Xbox LIVE Dashboard Update that adds social networking integrations with Facebook, Twitter and last.fm is currently in preview mode to beta testers and will go live to the public in short order. (Mashable 11/11)
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Filed under: TECHNOLOGY
Amazon is offering the Kindle for PC application in an attempt to attract and retain customers as pressure from other e-readers builds. The software allows consumers to purchase and read e-books on their PCs, Apple iPhones or iPods as well as the various versions of Kindle. Amazon soon will roll out a version for Macs. InformationWeek(11/10)
Filed under: Feature | Tags: CBS, Comedy, DavidKohan, Justin Halpern, MaxMutchnick, San Diego, Shit My Dad Says, Television, Twitter, Will Grace
SH-T MY DAD SAYS: COMING TO A TV NEAR YOU
Several months ago, Justin Halpern (29) had done what many of us consider to be the worst case scenario and moved back in with his parents in San Diego, CA. On August 3rdof this year, he launched a twitter feed to document the all out HYSTERICAL monologues his 73-year old dad embarcks on. Gems like:
“Son, no one gives a sh-t about all the things your cell phone does. You didn’t invent it, you just bought it. Anybody can do that.”
As you can see, the Twitter feed quickly amassed over 700K followers in only a few months. Hence, CBS came to develop the concept into a family comedy. “Will & Grace” creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick will executive produce and supervise the writing from Halpern to be joined by Patrick Schumacker.
Yes, so what I’m saying here is, Justin went from moving back in with his parents to potentially picking up a TV deal.
I heart the internet.
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Filed under: BROADCAST/CABLE | Tags: AMC, American Broadcasting Company, CBS, Drama, Jay Leno Show, MadMen, NBC, Television program
The Season 3 finale of AMC‘s “Mad Men” attracted 2.3 million viewers, according to preliminary Nielsen data, the show’s second-highest viewership mark of the season. The drama about the advertising business in the 1960s averaged 1.8 million viewers per episode during its third season, a 20% improvement over last season. Variety (11/9
NBC’s exit from scripted series to air “The Jay Leno Show” weeknights at 10 p.m. has left 1.82 million young viewers up for grabs, and CBS and ABC have let most of them slip away six weeks into the television season. (Bloomberg11/9)
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Filed under: ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA | Tags: Advertising, Google, LinkedIn, News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch, Twitter, Wall Street Journal, Web search engine
ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA
Google users may not turn up any News Corp. articles in their searches after the company launches its paid content strategy, according to comments made by Rupert Murdoch in a Sky News interview. Murdoch complained that search engine readers hold little value for print sites’ advertisers and again held up his Wall St. Journal site as an example of what the model would look like. (Only the first paragraph of news stories would come up in search engines.) “There’s not enough advertising in the world to make all the websites profitable. We’d rather have fewer people coming to our websites but paying,” said Mr. Murdoch.
Techcrunch reported that 25% of WSJ.com’s traffic comes from Google. That’s, in essence, what we’re talking about here: 25%. It’s a bit like Kraft taking all of it’s products off of supermarket shelves. And considering that WSJ has a deal with Google to allow users to read full article content when they search through the engine, it seems a bit like an about-face no?
In a continued housecleaning at Walt Disney Co., studio distribution veteran Mark Zoradi is leaving after 29 years. The departure of Zoradi, president of Disney’s motion pictures group, follows the ousting of his former boss, Disney Studios Chairman Dick Cook, in September and Miramax Films President Daniel Battsek late last month. (LA Times 11/10)
LinkedIn and Twitter have linked up. Starting immediately, users of LinkedIn and Twitter can cross-file to each other’s services, by checking a box on either Twitter or LinkedIn. (Reuters11/10)
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