Archive for October, 2009
Epix Debuts/Enjoy Now
After hearing about Epix for weeks now from Curt Marvis at Lionsgate at both #DH09 and #DMWC, I was psyched to hear this morning that they were giving away 72 hour passes to the EpixHD site this weekend. Click here to get yours. Great news for those of us who don’t have FiOS and want another [...]
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Tags: Hulu, Fancast, Lionsgate, Paramount, Crackle, MacHEADS, Sling, Cloverfield, Iron Man, Slacker, MGM, Curt Marvis, GI Joe, Spiderwick Chronicles, Love Guru, Madonna, Eat Drink Man Woman, Everybody Wants To Be Italian, Romance & Cigarettes, Dead Again, Crimes & Misdemeanors, Purple Rose of Cairo, Annie Hall, Stepford Wives, Godfather, Box of Moonlight, Epix, Flash Gordon, Chaplin, Google Me, Hair, Meet the Mobsters, RIP Remix Manifesto, Supersize Me, Johnny Mnemonic, People v Larry Flynt, Shampoo, SLC Punk, Wolf, Fiddler On The Roof, Heidi, Thief of Bagdad, Birth of a Nation
Virtual Goods Summit is in full swing with 500+ at the Westin but I am locked down in another universe and just can’t make it over. Luckily, the Twitter stream has been strong. Special thanks to @lcddave, @killcreek, @jnusser, @joecotellese, @melissaliton, @traffichoney and all the other awesome #VDC09 tweeps, here’s a summary of what was said: [...]
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Tags: BOKU, DDO, Gaia, IMVU, Linden Lab, Live Gamer, Mochi Media, Ning, ORCA, PlaySpan, Second Life, Serious Business, Shufflebrain, Social Gold, SpareChange, SuperRewards, TrialPay, Turbine, Virtual Goods Summit, Viximo, Zong
Digital Media Wire was in town today at the swanky Hotel Kabuki delivering its intimate brand of confab, where content and technology is shaken not stirred, and thought leaders hunker down to vision the future of digital media. Del Daix of the Examiner.com and Julie Robin Blaustein of Bub.blicio.us were there blogging as well. Here [...]
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Tags: (Greylock, @kevinrose, @sarahcuda, AddictingGames, Adeo Rossi, Allen Duan, Anthony Soohoo, ATT Digital Media, Bub.blicio.us, CBS Interactive, Chris Petrovic, Cisco Media Solutions Group, Craig Newmark, Craigslist, Curt Marvis, Dailymotion, Del Daix, Digital Media Conference West, Disney.com, Examiner.com, Funny or Die, GameStop Digital Ventures, Havas Digital, Highland Capital, Jason Davis, Jim Louderback, Joy Marcus, Julie Robin Blaustein, Kate Connally, Kevin Yen, Lionsgate, Liz Gannes, Madeline Herdrich, Marc Andreeson, Martin Green, Meebo, Mitch Galbraith, MTV Networks, NewTeeVee, Norwest Venture Partners, Paramount Pictures Digital, Rani Cohen, Reed Hoffman, Revision3, Rob Griffin, Ron Conway, Scott Brown, Stephen Condon, TheFunded.com, Tim Chang, Tom DeLuca, TuneWiki, Warner Home Video, YouTube
Whether you’re North or South this week, there’s lots of fun to be had. In San Francisco, on W 10/28 the Digital Media Conference West is at the Hotel Kabuki (1625 Post) and on Th-F 10/29-30 the Virtual Goods Summit is at the Westin (50 3rd/Market). In LA, on Tu-W 10/27-28 Jeff Pulver’s 140 Characters Conference is [...]
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Tags: 140 Characters Conference, AddictingGames, Andrew Lacy, Anthony Soohoo, Are Traasdahl, ATT, Best Buy Capital, Billboard Film & TV Music Conference, Bryan Perez, CBS Interactive/TV.com, Charles Hudson, Chris Petrovic, Cisco, Craigslist, Dabble, Digg, Digital Media Conference West, Disney.com, DM, DNA Investments, Dominik Rausch, Easy to Assemble, EQAL, Evil Global Corp, FOD, GameStop Digital Ventures, Gannon Hall, Generate, Glee, Havas, Hayden Black, hi5, IKEA, Illeana Douglas, Jeremy Liew, Jim Louderback, Joy Marcus, Kevin Yen, Kuk Yi, Kyte, Lightspeed, Lionsgate, Liz Gannes, Martin Green, Meebo, Mitch Galbraith, MTV, NBA Digital, NewTeeVee, NVP, Paramount, Revision3, Rob Griffin, Serious Business, SK Telecom, Stephen Condon, Tapulous, Ted Cohen, ThumbplayJoe Jasin, Tim Chang, Tom DeLuca, TuneWiki, Twilight, Virtual Goods Summit, Warner Home Video, Yahoo, Yobo, YouTube
Digital Hollywood, the standard by which all digital media conferences are measured, a gathering at the intersection of film tv music gaming social mobile, an intense, exhilarating, deliriously exhausting brain squeeze where the brightest in the business try to piece it together while moving faster than the speed of light. On stage and off were blockbuster [...]
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Tags: ABC, Activision, Anvil!, Arts + Labs, ATAS, Babelgum, Beverly Hills Cops IV, blip.tv, Bollywood Hero, Bravo, Break.com, Brett Ratner, Carson Daly, Cinemanow, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Cocodot, Comedy.com, Covert Affairs, Date My Avatar, David Zucker, Deck the Halls, Demand Media, Dick Clark Productions, Digital Hollywood, Digital Media Wire, Dina Kaplan, DivX, Dominik Rausch, Doug Cheney, Drew Baldwin, Elizabeth Craft, EQAL, Felicia Day, FilmNation, fm78.tv, Food, For Your Imagination, Fox, Fremantle, French Maid TV, Funny or Die, FX, G4, George Ruiz, Gerber Rigler, Glasgow Phillips, GoTV, HBO, Heroes, Hoodlum, HP, Huffington Post, I Wake Up Screening, IAWTV, ICM, IDA, igossip.com, Inc., IndieGoGo, Jason Calacanis, Jim Louderback, John Fasano, Josh Harris, Justine Bateman, LadderUp, LAFF, Lakeshore Entertainment, Landmark Theaters, Lie to Me, Lionsgate, Mad Men, Mahalo.com, Mandalay Entertainment, Marc Graboff, MGM, Michael Oates Palmer, Mike McCurry, Monkey Media, MTV, NBCU, Neil Patrick Harris, Ning, NY Television Festival, Omelet, Paramount Pictures, participant Productions, Peter Guber, Polanski: Wanted and Desired, Prom Queen, Public Enemy, Redbox, Reveille, Richard Rosenblatt, Rovi, SanFranMusicTech, Sarah Fain, Secret Secret Service, Sony, South Park, Streamys, Sundance Institute, The Garden, The Guild, TilzyTV, Tim Street, Transpond, Tubefilter, Twitter, Valentino, Variety, West Wing, Westdoc, Wired City, Woke Up Dead, Worldwide Biggies, Writers boot Camp, Yahoo! Connected TV, YouTube
Not even the threat of a gusting hurricane, 280 flooding or trees flying could keep eager startups from the Sheppard Mullin Venture Capital Outlook this morning as valley rockstars Tim Draper of Draper Fisher & Jurvetson, David Hornik of August Capital, Mitch Lasky of Benchmark Capital, Tim Chang of Norwest Venture Partners, and my client [...]
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Tags: August Capital, Benchmark Capital, CastTV, David Hornik, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Mitch Lasky, MyYearbook, ngmoco, Norwest Venture Partners, Riaz Karamali, Richter & Hampton, Riot Games, ShareThis, Sheppard Mullin, Six Apart, StumbleUpon, Tim Chang, Tim Draper, Vivox, Wowd
Last night to much fanfare, Easy to Assemble Season II had its star-studded premiere at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. There was a red carpet, bright lights, performance by Sweden’s next almost great band Sparhusen, a panel discussion, screening and party. (Click for pics). I was thrilled to be invited to cover the event live [...]
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Tags: Boxee, CBS, Chuck, Commonwealth Club, Craig Bierko, Easy to Assemble, Ed Begley Jr., FORA.tv, IKEA, Illeana Douglas, Jeff Goldblum, Justine Bateman, Keanu Reeves, Kevin Pollak, MyDamnChannel, Ricki Lake, Roku, Sparhusen, Subway, Tim Meadows, TiVo, Tom Arnold, TV.com, Yahoo! Connected TV, YouTube, ZillionTV
There is so much going on, never mind mobile with CTIA, TV with MIPCOM, film with MVFF, and books with LitQuake, music alone dominates SoCal over the next few days with Billboard Mobile Entertainment Live! in San Diego today and Digital Music Forum tomorrow and Thursday in LA. Follow along at #CTIA, #DMF. Here’s the [...]
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Tags: Pandora, AOL, Sony, Getty Images, Nokia, Cisco, Rhapsody, IODA, TopSpin, Rock Band, Lala, Tapulous, Digital Music Forum, Digital Media Wire, CTIA, Ted Cohen, TAG Strategic, GoTV, iLike, Ticketmaster, CEA, NVP, Mozes, Slacker, INgrooves, Billboard, RIM Blackberry Platforms, Logic Wireless, Kevin Arnold, Adam Flick, Robb McDaniels, Ted Mico, Interscope, Syd Schwartz, EMI Music, Bob Abbott, Andrew Fisher, Shazam, Adam Mirabella, Paul Miraldi, Clear Channel, Jim Ryan, Motricity, Neil Smith, Pete Wentz, Fall Out Boy, im O'Brien, Dave Dederer, Melodeo, Ali Partovi, Jon Vlassopulos, Moderati, Jonathan Zweig, EpicTilt, Jared Hoffman, RPS Entertainment, Billy Alvarado, Ashley Jex, Bill Silva Entertainment, Dorrian Porter, Sean Rosenberg, RCA/Jive Label, Nathan Thompson, The Orchard, Hard Rock, Ned Sherman, Russ Crupnick, NPD, Eric Garland, Big Champagne, James Lamberti, Interscope Geffen A&M, John Moakley, Rovi, Tim Quirk, Vince Bannon, Brenda Walker, Rebel Content, John Rubey, AEG Network Live, Mike Cannady, Scratch DJ Academy, Claudia Ceniceros, Jordan Glazier, Eventful, David Leibowitz, Sir Groovy, Melodeo/Presidents of the United States, Scott Geller, Zooz Mobile, Christian Jorg, Island Def Jam Music Group/UMG, Massimiliano Pellegrini, Dada, Dick Wingate, Dave Conway, Little Radio, Johnie Floater, Live365, Kurt Hanson, RAIN/AccuRadio, Jim Rondinelli, David Oxenford, Davis, Wright, Tremaine, Nic Adler, The Roxy Theatre, Tyson Cornell, Book Soup, Nathan Levinson, The Viper Room, Alf LaMont, The Comedy Store, Kyra Reed, MarKyr Media, Mill Valley Film Fest, MIPCOM, LitQuake, Tim Westergren, Jim Griffin, Choruss, WMG, Jonathan Potter, DMA, Michael Petricone, John Rudolph, Bug Music, Sami Valkonen, Lawrence Lenswil, Loeb & Loeb, Courtney Holt, MySpace Music, Celia Hirschman, KCRW, Alexander Ljung, SoundCloud, Rose Slanic, Roadrunner Records, Benjamin Lebrave, Akwaaba Music, Hal Bringman, NVPR, Chad Cooper, OVGuide, Jay Frank, MTV CMT, Mike Spinella, Daniel Tibbets, Daren Tsui, mSpot, Jay Baage, Alex Hackford, JeffMarshall, Jeannie Novak, Indiespace, Mark Shedletsky, Blue Haze, Adam Taylor, APM, Kelli Richards, All Access Group, Anthony Batt, BuzzmEdia, Justin Gage, Aquairum Drnkard, Lina Lecaro, LA Weekly, Francis Ten, West Indian Girl, Larry Weintraub, Fanscape, Heidi Richman, HRMP, Richard Conlon, BMI, Cecily Mak, Maurice Russell, Harry Fox, Erik Steigen, Providian, Les Watkins, Music Reports, Partick Sullivan, RightsFlow
Last week was also a big week for exploring virtual goods and in-game monetization as Engage! Expo (Virtual Goods, Social Media, Digital Law, 3DTLC – 4 conferences in one) landed in Silicon Valley. An event praised by attendees for being a more intimate venue with far greater access and better schwag than most. Speakers included [...]
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Tags: 3DO, Best Buy, BOKU, Digital Chocolate, EA, Facebook, Gaia, InsideSocialGames, Intel, Jambool, Kodak, Linden Lab, MyYearbook, NanoStars, Offerpal, Playdom, PlaySpan, Second Life, SGN, Sulake, Super Rewards, Tim Chang, Trip Hawkins, twofish, Viximo, Walmart, Zong, Zynga
