Archive for October, 2007
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Happy Halloween
Everyone should head on over to www.jibjab.com where you can upload photos and cast your friends and co-workers in a few videos. It’s caused quite the stir around the office as I’ve now made 3 videos and managed to get laughs from half the building.
No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Jason D.
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
Creators
Roman Polanski, Oscar Wilde, The Dixie Chicks, Elia Kazan. A child molester, a homosexual, liberal country singers, and a ‘namer of names’. The controversies that follow these artist and many like them can at times overshadow the great works of art they have created. Do we know more about Polanski’s indiscretion with a 13 year-old [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Content, Music by Jason D.
Friday, October 26th, 2007
Call him Bob.
The Hollywood Reporter has an article about Robert Iger’s view of the future and how technology affects media companies like the Walt Disney Co. The article really only proves why Iger is the best choice to be at the head of Disney. If more industry CEO’s were so optimistic about what technology can do to enhance [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Industry News by Jason D.
Thursday, October 25th, 2007
iMovies
The straight-to-dvd market better watch out, Edward Burns is coming for you. Burns’s new film ‘Purple Violets’ is having no luck finding a distributor so the independent film is going straight to iTunes. The movie will be available in November and will join other films from Disney, MGM, Lionsgate and Paramount. Only Disney currently releases [...]
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
Microsoft Takes $240M Equity Stake in Facebook
Microsoft and Facebook today announced that MS will be taking a $240M equity stake in Facebook.
The deal solidifies Microsoft’s position as the exclusive advertiser on Facebook, and also puts an estimated value on Facebook of $15B, helping to set the stage for an IPO. Microsoft beat out Google in the competition for the first equity [...]
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
Nielsen Strikes Deal with Google
Nielsen, a leading TV and online market analysis company today announced a multi-year partnership with Google to provide greater demographic data to the Google TV Ads ad platform.
This will improve Google’s offering in the TV space by allowing them to provide more targeted and relevant ads, and help them to gain prominence outside of [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Advertising, Google, Industry News, Microsoft by Jason T.
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
YouTube Channel
NBC has never really known what to do with their content on YouTube. They went from outraged that SNL clips were getting more views than the actual show to cooperative when they created an NBC channel to highlight clips of their programming to indifferent. They’ve closed their channel on YouTube in favor of the yet [...]
No Comments » - Posted in TV on Web by Jason D.
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
What you bought last week.
This Tuesday I don’t have much as far as suggestions of what to buy, but it seems everyone went out and bought Transformers last week. Sales totaled 8.3 million copies, 4.5 in the first day alone. The title also raked in 190,000 HD DVD copies bringing it to #1 in sales in that Hi-Def format. [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Movies by Jason D.
Monday, October 22nd, 2007
iLike
The Seattle based online music service announced that they would be partnering up with Facebook and Billboard. The goal is to create another chart for Billboard that will display the top 25 songs that facebook users (with the iLike application) have added to their profile pages. They will also be setting up charts to show [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Music by Jason D.
Friday, October 19th, 2007
Cheap(er)
Video game console sales soared to 188% for the month of September. This was in large part due to the increase in Xbox 360 consoles now that Halo 3 has been released. Feeling the heat Sony announced that they will be offering a $400 PS3 that is Blu-ray equipped and has a 40GB hard drive. But thats [...]