Archive for April, 2009
What a day! LAGC on a roll, AO Hollywood a few blocks away, and in SF tonight the SF International Film Festival has Robert Redford onstage to screen Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid. (On Friday, its Francis Ford Coppola). If you’re in SF at 6pm tonight stop by the Castro Theatre for red carpet […]
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Tags: 3Ality, AllThingsD, AlwaysOn Hollywood, Arianna Huffington, Bejeweled, Benchmark Capital, Best Buy Capital, Big Red, Boxee, Digital Hollywood, Disney, EA, Endemol, Facebook, Fandango, Flurry, Fox, Francis Ford Coppola, Geffen, George Lucas, Habbo, IBM Games, IMAX, justin.tv, Kara Swisher, Kyte, LAGC, Lala, LeVar Burton, Microsoft, MobiTV, MTV Addicting Games, MusExpo, MySpace, NBCU, Nolan Bushnell, Norwest, Paramount, Playdom, Playfish, PopCaps, Producers Guild of America, QD3, Qualcomm, Quincy Jones, Recording Academy, Robert Redford, Sanrio, SFIFF, Snoopadelic, Sony Online, Steve Jobs, Telltale Games, The Grammy's, Universal Music Group, USA Networks, Virgin, Warner Borthers, Warner Premiere, William Morris Agency, Woz, Y!, Y! Connected TV, YouTube, ZillionTV
LAGC Twitter Stream
Follow all the fun at the LA Games Conference on Twitter #LAGC. Most controversial quote: ”32% music revenue last year was from video games.” Lots of NE1 know…click here and here for Tommy Tallarico’s response. Here’s the rest: TRENDS Nick Williams presentation at www.gameplaninsights.com/lagc.pdf Most anticipated titles: Halo 3, ModernWarfare 2, Madden 2010 Wii and DS chasing […]
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Tags: BigStage, DS, GameStop, Guitar Hero, NBC, OnLive, Paramount, Rock Band, SMARG, Sony, Ted Cohen, Tommy Tallarico, Wii
LA Games Conference/The Guide
LAGC begins today at 1pm at the Hollywood Roosevelt in Los Angeles. Details are at http://www.lagamesconference.com. We’ll post video once links are available. Here’s the guide: Tu 4/28 1-2, Gaming Trends 2-2:45, Gaming & Music Speakers include: Alex Hackford, Head of A&R, Sony Computer Entertainment, Tommy Tallarico, Video Games Live,Scott Scherer, Hands-On Mobile, Ted Cohen […]
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Tags: Atari & Chuck E Cheese, Bejeweled, Benchmark Capital, Best Buy Capital, Denuo, Digital Media Wire, EA, Facebook, Founder, Glu, Guitar Hero, Habbo, Hands-On Mobile, IBM Games/Interactive Entertainment, Ken Rutkowski, LA Games Conference, Massive Microsoft, Mitch Lasky, MTV Addicting Games, MySpace, NBCU, Nokia, Nolan Bushnell, Offerpal, Paramount, Playstation, PopCap Games, Qualcomm, Raptr, Rock Band, Sanrio Digital, Sony Pictures TV, Ted Cohen, Tommy Tallarico, USA Network, uWink, Video Games Live, Vivox, XBox, Yahoo! Games, Zeebo
NAB Show/Thinking Big
NAB was good to the last drop! Every moment so action packed I wound up tweeting live via my iPhone the entire conference in an attempt to capture it in the moment, the vibe, the scene, the big ideas vetted by industry’s top executives. Of the 83,000 B2B attendees on the Expo floor, only about […]
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Tags: 24, 3D, Accenture, ad:tech, Adobe, Alternate Reality Games, Apple, Atari, Avatar, Babelgum, Beastie Boys, Benchmark Capital, Bill Moyers, Bob Newhart, Boomers, Brad Bird, Cameron, CBS, Chuck, Clint Eastwood, Colbert, Comedy Time, Coraline, D20 Productions, David Rehr, Deadliest Catch, Deloitte, Digital Media Wire, Discovery, Disney, DTV, DV Rebel's Guide, Ecletci Method, Ed Moran, EFF, Facebook, fair use, Fast and the Furious, Flash, Flip, Fox, Fun Little Movies, Girlfriends, Henry Selick, Hero with a Thousand Faces, Heroes, Hoodlum, Institute for the Future, Intel, Jack Klugman, James and the Giant Peach, Jane McGonigal, Jim Beddows, Jim Henson, Joe Flint, John Lasseter, Joseph Campbell, Josh Schwartz, Juvenille Diabetes Association, Kelsey Grammar, LA Games Conference, LA Times, Laika, Lessig, Linden Lab, Lord of the Rings, Lost, Malcolm Gladwell, Mandalay, Mary Tyler Moore, mashup, Mass Animation, Matt Wolf, Matures, MEF, Metranome, Miami Vice, Millenials, Mitch Lasky, NAB, Nightmare Before Xmas, Nolan Bushnell, Norman Lear, OnLive, Outliers, Peter Guber, PGA, Philip Rosedale, Pixar, Planet Hollywood, Power of Myth, Printfection, ProducedBy, remix, Richard Florida, Ring Tales, Rise of the Creative Class, Rob Cohen, Robin Leach, Rodney Charters, Roger Corman, Sal Litvak, Second Life, Shelly Palmer, Showest, SidewalksTV.com, Sony, Sony Bravia, Squarespace, Stu Maschwitz, Subway, Subway Shorts, Sun, The Mummy, The Orphanage, Tim Burton, Titanic, Tracee Ellis Ross, Twitter, Up, VegasPro, WebRides, When Do We Eat, Wondercon, Xers
NAB/The Guide
Here’s a rough guide on what Content NOW is covering at NAB this year. The EXPO floor is open M-W 9-6, Th 9-2 and flooded with additional programming from exhibitors and pavilions. As always, we’ll be live blogging via the WordPress iPhone app and will be tweeting tips and tidbits along the way. M 4/20 […]
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Tags: 24, 3Ality, 48 Hour Film Fest, Accenture, Adobe, Battlestar Galactica, CBS, Chuck, CNET, Demand Studios, Discovery, Disney, ESPN, Gartner, LG, Malcolm Gladwell, Mandalay Entertainment, Mary Tyler Moore, MEF, NAB, Outliers, Richard Florida, Rise of the Creative Class, Robin Leach, Second Life, Starz, Stu Mashuwitz, The Orphanage, Turner, ZillionTV
Lately, I’ve been dreaming up apps like Twyme, intuitive pull down menus that make tweets rhyme…Twing, which adds in tunes to make it sing…Shake-a-Date, upload your photo, profile, time and location of desired date – and shake – in a flash you’re matched and got something going on tonight…Shake-a-Deal, a variation of Shake-a-Date which matches BD execs […]
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Tags: Ashton Kutcher, LeVar Burton, Rent-A-Coder, Twitter, Wordpress
Susan Boyle to Headline NAB!
Just kidding! But wouldn’t be surprised. Edelman has been doing such a great job hyping this year’s NAB show with Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart, Henry Selick and Robin Leach, it’s starting to feel more like NATPE’s content show than the dry engineers Mecca of the past. With over 100,000 expected, Vegas is the place […]
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Tags: Bob Newhart, Britain's Got Talent, Edelman, Henry Selick, Les Miserables, Mary Tyler Moore, NAB, Robin Leach, Simon Cowell, Susan Boyle, YouTube
Mediaweek’s Upfronts conference, where industry analysts, brand marketers and television programmers meet to opine on the $18B upfront marketplace, is in full swing right now at the Time Life Building in NYC today and Ian Baer, President of Big Fuel, the fa shizzle consumer engagement agency, has been guest blogging live. Excerpts below, full transcript at the Content to Commerce blog: […]
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Tags: ABC, AETN, AMC, BET, Big Fuel, Bloomberg, Bravo, Cartoon Network, CBS, Comcast, CW, Discovery, ESPN, Fox, Google, Hallmark, Ian Baer, Jay Leno, Mediaweek, Mindshare, MSN, MSNBC, MTV, National Geographic, NBC, Nickelodeon, Nielsen, Nintendo, Oxygen, Scripps, Telemundo, Turner, Twitter, Upfronts, Wii, Yahoo
Here’s a movie in time for Passover that’ll make you laugh all the way to the seder especially if you downloaded it to your iPhone and then were subject to a four hour weather delay trying to get into NYC. “When Do We Eat?” available on iTunes for the flight ($9.99), Netflix Instant Watch for […]
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Tags: Amazon, Ben Feldman, Hulu, iTunes, Jack Klugman, Keeping Up With The Steins, Lesley Ann Warren, Netflix, New Video, When Do We Eat, YouTube
I’m in NYC to cover some of the excitement with the Upfronts and have been having fun running up and down Fifth Avenue meeting with content licensors, distributors and agencies for my clients. I love my hometown but have mixed feelings about the weather. So we’re all just hunkering down when Scott Kirsner’s Cinematech blog […]
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Tags: iPhone, Kindle, MTV, Pogue, Scott Kirsner, Twitter
