Archive for March, 2009
March is not over by a long shot. As many are just now starting to enjoy MIPTV and CTIA (with daily blogging/video from Al Gore, Billy Crystal, EQAL, Endemol, ZillionTV, and everyone in between) and others are getting ready for the upfronts and NAB, below is the month in review for events that just passed.
Engage Expo 3/10-11
http://www.engageexpo.com/presentations/
IPTV [...]
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Tags: Atari, Ballmer, Beet.TV, Benchmark Capital, Dauman, Demand Media, Demand Studios, Digital Hollywood, Digital Media Wire, FORA.tv, LA Games Conference, MIPTV, Mitch Lasky, Nolan Bushnell, OnLive, Steve Perlman, SXSW, Web 2.0 Expo, ZillionTV, Zucker
Future of TV West
Yesterday, the weather was balmy and Grauman’s had blocked off Hollywood Boulevard in prep for the premiere of “The Cross.” The scene was so L.A. Across the street, TV 2.0 execs started to arrive at the Hollywood Roosevelt to strategize the course for the future of the medium.
Ned Sherman, Digital Media Wire’s publisher, [...]
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Tags: Fox, IPTV, Kevin Reilly, Sezmi, ZillionTV
Late Night with Leo Laporte
It’s late and I’m clearing my desk trying to get out of town listening to Leo Laporte’s iTunes podcast. Halfway through, the conversation starts to drift off from a sleepy chatter on Windows 7 and the new Melinda Gates spoof on Funny or Die to an all out manic rambling about SXSW. Leo Laporte is not [...]
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Tags: Foursquare, Funny or Die, Leo Laporte, Melinda Gates, SXSW, Twit, Twitter Visualizer, Windows 7
SXSW audio just in from Scott Kirsner of Variety:
Building Your Audience Online: www.scottkirsner.com/SXSWaud-panel.mp3
Film Financing, Creative Commons Plus Licensing..: www.scottkirsner.com/SXSWbreakfast.mp3
Scott’s new book, Fans, Friends & Followers: Building an Audience & Creative Career in the Digital Age available soon with interviews with Mike Chapman of Homestar Runner, etc. His books always chock full of actionable info, you’ll find [...]
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Tags: Brett Gaylor, Chris Anderson, FREE, Guy Kawasaki, Homestar Runner, RiP: A Remix Manifesto, Scott Kirsner
iPhone 3.0 Video Recording
Apple’s software upgrade for the iPhone this summer fixes many pet peeves: cut and paste, MMS, voice memo easy sync, even MMO gaming, and video recording, right. This summer Android and Palm Pre and even Windows Mobile will also have tantalizing temptations. Watch it here: events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/0903lajkszg/event/index.html.
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Tags: Android, Apple, iPhone 3.0, MMO, MMS, Palm Pre, Qik, Windows Mobile
WGGA Game Demo Has Arrived
The long-awaited playable game demo for Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures is finally here with huge presale incentives of free Strong Bad and Sam & Max games plus 25% off the $34.95 subscription to five episodes. Full game download available 3/24 . Check out their trailer at www.telltalegames.com/videos/wallaceandgromitpreview and watch for special guest tweeting at twitter.com/telltalegames. Gromit can’t talk but he can type.
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Tags: Homestar Runner, Sam & Max, Strong Bad, Twitter, Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures
SXSW, GDC, MIPTV and more
SXSW Film & Interactive kickoffs today, then on the 18th absolutely everyone else descends on Austin as the party spins into high gear to launch the careers of the next big thing in music. Just as SXSW ends on the 22nd, the Burbank Film Festival opens featuring Best Animation winner from the Honolulu Film Festival, Disney [...]
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Tags: Adult Swim, Animation Army, Burbank Film Festival, Cannes, Carl H Greenblatt, Digital Media Wire, EQAL, Funny or Die, Future of Television West, Game Developers Conference, GDC, Honolulu Film Festival, Hope Springs Eternal, MIPTV, Netflix, Ron Noble, ScreenBurn, SXSW, Titmouse Animation Studios, Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures, YouTube, ZillionTV
My iPhone has become my best friend. I lost 7lbs last month with the Lose It app, made friends on Scramble, and enjoy singalongs with the I Heart Radio app. Along with its cool slot machine feature, shake for a station, I Heart Radio now sports an awesome lyrics tab. The nuTsie Top 100s [...]
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Tags: Cooliris, film, fitness, Hulu, I Heart Radio, iPhone apps, joost, Lose It, lyrics, Nike, nuTsie, pedometer, TV.com, WikiTap, YouTube
