Netflix Goes For Fountain Of Youth With Full-Season CW Deal
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) has locked in a full slate of teen angst from now through the 2014-15 season. The four-year pact covers full past seaso… Read more »
Foursquare Hopes Radar Notification Service Is More Than Just A Blip
Foursquare probably can’t grow forever on the backs of those who like sharing their location with their friends, and Apple’s new iOS 5 has g… Read more »
Zynga Aims For ‘Hypergrowth’ As IPO Nears
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Pushing regulatory rules has become de rigeur when American internet firms prepare to go public. The infamous Playboy interview with Larry P… Read more »
LocalResponse Raises $5 Million For ‘Check-In’ Ads
LocalResponse, the “check-in” ad network formerly known as Buzzd, has raised $5 million to build up its sales team as it tries to attract ag… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-12-11
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» RIM’s Service Outage Enters Day Three And Company Admits It’s In The Dark (paidContent)
» How Gizmodo escaped indic… Read more »
Zynga Hopes ‘Project Z’ Can Be Its Facebook-Free Second Act
Zynga wants to be seeing as a gaming destination in its own right, but it’s not quite ready to explain how it intends to achieve independenc… Read more »
Gannett Shuttering MomsLikeMe Network, Deleting Everything
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Gannett’s MomsLikeMe hyperlocal parenting network will cease operating on Friday and its 100-plus town-specific sites will go dark and the c… Read more »
Ceglia Lawyers Ask For Mercy In Facebook Case
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Not long ago, Paul Ceglia was grabbing attention with a tale about a contract he said he had signed with Mark Zuckerberg that entitled him t… Read more »
Facebook Updates Mobile Plan In Big Way With iPad App, HTML5 Features
Facebook’s mobile strategy, which seemed dormant just a month ago, is finally rounding into place with the release of two new developments:… Read more »
Two New Experiments In Book Publishing For Teens
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New initiatives from Open Road Integrated Media and Wattpad hope to draw teen readers in with webisodes, music videos, “triggered events” an… Read more »
TV Veteran Dawn Ostroff To Run Condé Nast’s New Entertainment Venture
Condé Nast is get into producing TV, film and digital programing with the introduction of a new entertainment division and has brought in T… Read more »
That Was Qwik: Netflix Dumps Qwikster, Won’t Split DVD-Streaming Accounts
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It took Coca-Cola 77 days of New Coke to bring back Coke Classic. It took *Netflix* co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings less than three weeks t… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-10-11
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» Hulu Sale Is Debated (WSJ)
» The Show Must Go On: What To Expect At CTIA Enterprise Next Week (paidContent)
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HuffPo Partners With Le Monde, LNEI On French Edition
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The Huffington Post is planning a French edition — Le Huffington Post — with two established partners who will share equity: The Le Monde… Read more »
Morley On Media: Where Are The Voices To Transcend Techno-Jolity?
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Two decades after the internet began allowing people to publish to the masses and connect with each other, second-generation pundits have se… Read more »
So Where Is Facebook’s Timeline?
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Lawyers for Facebook and the digital scrapbook site Timelines.com were supposed to meet in court this week to discuss their trademark tangle… Read more »
Re-Examining Digital’s ‘Saint’ McLuhan In His Centenary Year
The pop media philosopher who coined “the global village” and “the media is the message” is often credited with having foreseen or advocated… Read more »
Why Social Media Customer Service Is A Failure
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Certainly not a statement you would expect to hear from the person formerly known as @ComcastCares, but I think it is an important perspecti… Read more »
YouTube Politics: Useful Voter Resource Or Campaign Video Dumping Ground?
YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) is launching a new politics site today that it hopes will offer a “holistic” view of the candidates on the campaign tri… Read more »
BBC Cuts: Digital To Get £40 Million Annual ‘Innovation Fund’
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Today’s big round of cuts announced by the BBC — it will lose some 2,000 jobs, order relocations for others, and make big changes to the pr… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-06-11
» Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Co-Founder And Chairman Steve Jobs Has Died (paidContent)
» Three Years Later, Microsoft (NSDQ:… Read more »
Video: Steve Jobs At Stanford: ‘Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.’
On June 12, 2005, college dropout Steve Jobs gave the commencement address at Stanford. It was a year after he was diagnosed with pancreatic… Read more »
Mediabrands Acquires Social Marketer Spring Creek
Interpublic Group’s media agency and digital hub Mediabrands has acquired social marketing agency Spring Creek Group. The deal, terms of whi… Read more »
The Court Decision On Streaming Shakespeare At UCLA — What It Really Means
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UCLA just won a court case over DVD streaming of Shakespeare plays, but the decision is actually a bigger victory for another school — the… Read more »
New Service Gives Even The Most Basic Mobile Users Access To Facebook
Facebook’s annual conference, F8, was pretty thin on mobile news, but a news item today demonstrates how it’s not far out of Facebook’s site… Read more »
Industry Moves: Bravo Digital; Bookish; CCC; FRWD
– Bravo Digital Media Suejin Yang has been named VP of Bravo Digital Media. She’ll manage strategic development, content, operations and ne… Read more »
Federated Media Buys Blog Search Tool Lijit Networks
About five months after raising a $10 million fifth round, blog search tools provider Lijit Networks has been sold to blog network Federated… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-04-11
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» Price-Fixing Case Against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), Major Book Publishers Mushrooms (paidContent)
» Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT… Read more »
Updated: Yahoo Teams – Yet Again – With ABC News On Original Video Series
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Updated: As generalist news sites face a tougher time crafting a distinct identity, and content sharing partnerships tend to be lopsided in… Read more »
Judge Refuses To Halt Facebook’s Timeline; Spills New Details
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A federal judge refused late on Friday to grant a temporary restraining order to Timelines.com, a Chicago company that says Facebook’s timel… Read more »
Facebook-Spotify Love-In Over-Estimated Users’ Social Lives
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Inside Spotify, staff say their big U.S. delay left them “constipated”. Now that its American passage has been unblocked, Spotify is free to… Read more »
Five Stages Of Grief: A Cautionary But Hopeful Tale For Online Communities
The emerging local news ecosystem looks as chaotic as ever. But a few patterns are emerging in the way online community news startups develo… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-30-11
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» Facebook Pushes Back Against ‘Super-Cookie’ Charges (paidContent)
» Is Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Really Shaking In Its Sho… Read more »
Intel Looks For Revenue From Location Services, Buys Telmap
Intel (NSDQ: INTC) has made no secret of its interest to be a more central player in the mobile space and now it’s showing us the money, too… Read more »
paidContent Advertising Video: Everson: No Facebook Mobile Ads For Now
Facebook has had a lot of scrutiny over how it uses information about you to market to you — something that has only been heightened the in… Read more »
Sun Online Relaunch Due Soon, MySun Closing
The Sun is understood to be ready to relaunch its Sun Online website in the next few days.
It is closing its five-year-old reader community… Read more »
Halo Networks Gets £1.6 Million First Round To Offload Mobile Data To WiFi
The high cost of mobile data — not just for consumers but for mobile operators facing huge traffic on their networks with the rise of smart… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-29-11
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» The Key To The Kindle Fire: It’s Not Taking On Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Directly (paidContent)
» Murdoch’s ‘Daily’ Has 12… Read more »
Nokia To Chop 1,300 People From Its Navteq Mapping/Commerce Division
No one ever said turnarounds were easy, and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) — currently the world’s largest handset maker — is one big ship. Today the c… Read more »
For Brand Advertising, Data Still Trumps Creative
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The latest figures for online ad spending looked pretty good for the first half of the year, but as the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s rep… Read more »
