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TED Talks — and Wants you to Talk Back!

Amanda Cosco — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:45:43 +0000

I believe in love at first ~~sight~~ site. That is, if it’s possible to fall in love with a website. The first time I visited the TED website, I was in love with the concept: high-quality infotainment featuring world-class speakers—what more could I ask for from media?

Since then, my love affair with TED has grown. I’ve watched as TED has developed a variety of ambitious side projects, such as TEDx events and even TEd conferences. So you can only imagine how excited I was when I visited the TED site last week and discovered a new addition to the TED family: TED conversations!

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Friday Morning Laughs – First World Problems & A Metal Head Baby

Megan O'Neill — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:34:34 +0000

Happy Friday, folks! It’s the end of the week and the beginning of a new month and we’ve got a great selection of funny videos to put a smile on your face as you head into the weekend, and to the month of July. This week our Friday Morning Laughs includes an awesome video about how to avoid getting hit by a train, a rap about first world problems, female armor, a metal head baby and a funny news blooper. So grab that coffee, take a seat, and get ready to laugh!
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Watch: Socialnomics’ Social Media Revolution Gets Updated For 2011

Megan O'Neill — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:45:19 +0000

Back in the summer of 2009 Erik Qualman, author of Socialnomics, introduced the inaugural version of ‘Social Media Revolution’, an infographic video packed with surprising statistics about social media. Social Media Revolution was a huge hit and was revisited last Spring with new and improved statistics. This month, Qualman released the second update of his now infamous video—Social Media Revolution 3. This time, the evolution of social media is exposed—social media is no longer about technology. It’s about people.
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GoLiveCampus.com Gives Schools Safe Access to YouTube Content

Kenna McHugh — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:08:23 +0000

For parents or teachers, YouTube and other social networking sites can be a double-edged sword. Though they are rich with educational content, they also contain explicit videos, inappropriate comments and ads. But now, there is a way for users to safely access educational content on YouTube and Web 2.0. They can use a filtering program called GoLiveCampus.com by iBoss Web Filters.
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Warner Bros Offers Five Additional Movies on Facebook

Kenna McHugh — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:46:36 +0000

Warner Bros. Digital Distribution announced it will expand its test offering of movies for rental through Warner Bros. Entertainment’s Facebook Movie Pages. Starting today at 10:00 pm Pacific Time and 1:00 am Eastern Time, users will be able to rent five additional titles directly through each film’s official Facebook Page using Facebook Credits. The films include “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,” “Inception,” “Life as We Know It” and “Yogi Bear.”
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PopcornFlix Hopes People Will Watch Free, Ad-Sponsored Movies Online

Kenna McHugh — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:45:56 +0000

Screen Media ventures into streaming movies with Popcornflix.com and has tapped into the streaming movie growth by launching an ad-supported online digital platform for delivery of free movies. The service will feature more than 1,500 titles from The Private Lives of Pippa Lee to Sherrybaby.
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Ever Wanted To Invite Your Online Friends To Watch A YouTube Video Together?

Kenna McHugh — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:00:41 +0000

With SynchTube you can create a video and have members of your group watch the same video at the same time. This is a way cool application because it doesn’t matter the location of each member; they could be located at different locations around the world and view the same video together at the same time.
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Thinkmodo Crushes It: Viral Video for Limitless Nabs 2 Million Views

Kenna McHugh — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:45:30 +0000

Is it possible for a hacker with a tiny electronic device hack into a host of jumbo screens in Times Square and play videos from his iPhone? Not yet. However, if you watched the YouTube video that has been watched by more than 2 million viewers in the last week, you might think so.

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What Do Theatre Owners Think of New Video on Demand Push?

Kenna McHugh — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:00:37 +0000

National Association of Theater Owners (NATO) president John Fithian recently outlined the organization’s views on plans for studios to make films available in homes in a new premium VOD window. According to Hollywood Reporter, he is calling them bad business, but saying he is cautiously optimistic.
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Netflix CEO Understood "mailing people DVDs was a mere way station on the road to streaming video.”

Kenna McHugh — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:40:24 +0000

Chunka Mui, who co-authored “Billion-Dollar” Lessons with Paul B.Carroll, wrote an interesting piece for Forbes.com on the success of Netflix CEO Reed Hastings’ vision to stream movies over the Internet directly into people’s homes.
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Music Lunge is Calling Itself a New Social Networking Contender

Kenna McHugh — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:47:37 +0000

I found an interesting social networking site for music lovers from all angles. It’s called Music Lunge, a social networking site designed to help Indie and Major artists with digital music and music video distribution, ringtone distribution and song mastering.
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WATCH: StumbleUpon CEO Discusses 850 Million Monthly Stumbles and the Future of Social Networks

Neil Vidyarthi — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:42:04 +0000

Garett Camp, the CEO of StumbleUpon recently sat down with us here in New York to discuss the success of his content sharing network and to give us some insight into the future of social networking. Specifically, he feels that social will become ubiquitous, and content will leverage existing social networks like Facebook or StumbleUpon.

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Schwartzy & Pagana — YouTube Hidden Treasures

Amanda Cosco — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:00:36 +0000

If you haven’t already witnessed the hilarious collaborations of Los Angeles-based Schwartzy & Pagana, you’re seriously missing out. Following the likes of John Stewart and Stephen Colbert, Schwartzy & Pagana are a team of Hollywood reporters that satirize the role of the broadcast journalist.

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There's Nothing Hipper Than Anti-Hipster

Richard Howard — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:45:17 +0000

Remember when poking fun at emo kids was not only insanely entertaining, but almost de riguer ? Sadly, the passage of time along with the morphing of the emo kid into the less derogatory (and less amusing) ‘scene kid’ has ensured that a new emo meme will barely get a chortle out of web users or a squeak of protest on a Dashboard Confessional messageboard. So what’s a troll to do? Have no fear: the hipster meme is here!

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Netflix Snags Two-Year Contract with CBS

Kenna McHugh — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:11:00 +0000

CBS Corporation and Netflix announced a two-year, non-exclusive licensing agreement that will allow select TV shows from CBS’s library, including episodes of “Medium” and “Flashpoint” as well as full seasons of classics such as “Frasier,” and “Cheers,” to be streamed instantly from Netflix.
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