Archive for November, 2007
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
By the numbers
Nielsen figures have just been released for television viewing online in the month of October. ABC.com attracted the most unique visitors with 10.6 million, NBC had 8.1 million, CBS falling behind with 6.1 and Fox heading up the rear with 3.4 million visitors. No numbers for hulu.com, the joint venture between News Corp. and NBC/Universal, were [...]
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
Happy Thanksgiving
I’ve been a little infrequent with my posting these days but I have just gone through what I consider to be a pretty amazingly difficult week that explains my lack of ability to post. With it being Thanksgiving I wanted to mention how thankful I am for a few things. I’m thankful that even though [...]
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
Wall Street continues to selloff, but Zune outshines iPods on Amazon
Wall Street continues to get hammered after a downgrade of Citigroup rekindled mortgage concerns. Across the board tech seemed hit pretty hard. However, and I don’t have stats for this, but I’m pretty sure this is a first for the Zune–the 30-gigabyte, $134 Zune digital media player was ranked the No. 1 bestseller in the [...]
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
How very European of you to read comics online.
Europeans are watching videos online 150% more now than a year ago and 169 million in 10 European nations “frequently [go] online.” These are just a few of the results released by the European Interactive Advertising Association who conducted 7,000 random phone interviews this past September. Almost half said they used the internet for social [...]
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
The new Zune’s Microsoft announced last month are set to be released tomorrow. I’m super excited! Good timing as well, given Apple’s stock, along with much of the tech sector, has tanked in the last few days. Good news for MS, and possibly some bright news to uplift the sector.
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Sunday, November 11th, 2007
Holiday Weekend(?)
For most everyone in Hollywood these days the Veteran’s Day holiday means they can take a day off from picketing. The strike is only just starting and it’s picking up steam with every passing day as more and more TV shows and films get shut down. From 24 to Grey’s Anatomy, the biggest shows on [...]
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Sunday, November 4th, 2007
The end of TV as we know it.
Let the speculation begin. The Writers Guild of America is going to strike, and it could be as early as Monday. The current contract expired midnight this past Halloween and unless a new contract can be reached before Monday we could see an immediate impact. This would be the first strike since 1988 when a [...]