Wednesday July 08, 2009
Tweet video on the iPhone 3GS: A company called TweetReel has just debuted an $2.99 application for the new iPhone that makes it easy to Tweet video clips from your phone with a custom message. The clips can also be embedded. It’s all part of an effort to become the “TwitPic of video,” but you can also do the same (minus the message) on YouTube. Just connect your YouTube account to Twitter, and when you upload a clip via your 3GS, it will auto-tweet out a link.
Wednesday July 08, 2009
Msnbc.com sets new video record
Msnbc.com served up nearly 19 million streams of NBC News’ coverage of the Michael Jackson memorial service yesterday, breaking our previous record of the Obama inauguration. CNN.com says it served up 10.5 million live streams served for the day, second to its inauguration record.
Wednesday July 08, 2009
Facebook debuts the 'fan box'
It’s a widget showing your latest status updates, a few of your friends and a one-click option for users to become a fan without leaving the widget. So far, ABCNews.com and Newsweek.com have embedded the widget on their home pages.
Tuesday July 07, 2009
Live video meets Twitter on msnbc.com: We’re aggregating real-time Tweets alongside live coverage of the Michael Jackson memorial on msnbc.com, powered by Tinker. Users are encouraged to “Tweet their thoughts” into the stream, a first for both Twitter and msnbc.com on a large-scale news event. Meanwhile, both CNN and ABCNews are using Facebook.
Monday July 06, 2009
Monday July 06, 2009
1 note“The standard for online innovation right now is ‘launch another blog,’ which no one seems to recognize is about as depressing as launching another newspaper.”
— Rex Sorgatz explaining why he helped launch Mediaite.com, a new site that features a “power grid” algorithm that ranks media personalities in a dozen categories. As of this writing, the site isn’t loading, likely due to all the media types checking their rankings every 30 seconds.
Wednesday July 01, 2009
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YouTube offers publishers links in overlays: If you’re a publisher who buys search ads on YouTube, you qualify to create overlays on your clips (like the one above) that are designed to drive traffic back to your site. “All you have to do is include a short headline, ad text, a destination url, and upload an optional image, and the overlay will appear whenever someone watches your video,” YouTube explains. It’s tearing a page from the Google playbook: provide unique incentives for publishers who buy search ads. Details here.
Wednesday July 01, 2009
1 note“WNBC.com or WNBC4.com is an extension of the television station, it’s not a real scaled game. We don’t want to play just in that game. We want to play in the entire New York or Chicago or Los Angeles or whatever city you want to call it online media space and we can’t do that by just limiting ourselves to the call letters of our traditional analog TV station.”
— NBCU chief Jeff Zucker explaining why NBC stations abandoned call letters in online branding. When WNBC.com relaunched last year, it rebranded to NBCNewYork.com.
Wednesday July 01, 2009
Joost scaling back, to offer white label video service: Joost had high hopes of become the premium video destination on the web, a space that’s now largely occupied by Hulu. So now CEO Mike Volpi is out, massive layoffs are on the way, and the company announced it’s shifting from a consumer focus to offering a white label technology and distribution service.
Tuesday June 30, 2009
Msnbc.com’s iPhone app debuts: We’ve launched apps for Today Show and Rachel Maddow, and now our mobile team has debuted a msnbc.com iPhone app, in collaboration with Zumobi. Beyond the clean interface and Best Buy as a launch sponsor, it’s worth noting that users can share stories via Twitter as well as browse some of msnbc and NBC News’ popular Twitter accounts.
Tuesday June 30, 2009
Fake local TV site promotes get rich scheme
It looks like a local TV site, KLMT News 3, complete with the smiling anchors across the masthead and the weather report down the side. But the “story,” written by a “35-year-old news veteran,” is a glowing report on a scheme to profit from Google. And clicking on any of the navigation items will take you to Google-Money-Master.com.
Update: As you’ve pointed out in comments, there’s also News3News.com.
Monday June 29, 2009
Sites crash, publishers complain on Twitter
Of course, when Twitter crashes, the reverse happens.
Monday June 29, 2009
How not to sound like an idiot on television: Washington Post reporter Chris Cillizza hosts this how-to clip on YouTube’s brand new Reporters Center, which aims to educate citizens on how to produce better journalism. Interesting observation: there are 34 clips providing tips on video newsgathering, but only two of them are from people who work in TV news.
Meanwhile, YouTube wants more news publishers to join as partners.
Sunday June 28, 2009
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Google: We’re not THAT big: As part of a public relations offensive to convince regulators that it’s not a monopoly, Google says its share of online advertising is about 30 percent, which boils down to 2.66% share of total U.S. advertising. Or in other words, 2.3 times larger than the combined online advertising of every newspaper in the country.
Friday June 26, 2009
More one-click mobile publishing to YouTube: Ah look, T-Mobile’s upcoming new Android phone, the MyTouch 3G, will have a video camera with one-touch publishing to YouTube, just like the new iPhone. Hmm, is this becoming a standard feature on new 3G smart phones?
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