Have you ever wondered how video content created exclusively for the web stacks up against broadcast TV content online? In an interview with Beet.TV, Stokes Young, Executive Producer of MSNBC.com, provides some interesting insight.
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Social media curation and publishing platform Storify is now delivering breaking news from Breaking News.
Pulse, an app that delivers news content to mobile phones and tablets including Android devices, the iPhone, and the iPad, will add fare from msnbc.com under terms of an agreement between the two parties, announced Wednesday.
BermanBraun and msnbc.com added an extension to their Wonderwall interactive, photo-driven celebrity destination in the form of Powerwall, which substitutes CEOs, politicians, and royals for celebrities.
Beet.TV founder and executive producer Andy Plesser caught up with MSNBC Digital Network president Charles Tillinghast at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where Tillinghast touted HTML5 video as the most widely utilized platform.
In tandem with the holiday-themed “Making a Difference” segments airing this week on NBC Nightly News, the newscast’s digital team launched a companion Web site on msnbc.com to help spread good news.
The site offers an archive of Making a Difference segments, extended interviews, other video elements, blogs, and information on how users can help profiled organizations and nominate organizations and individuals.
NBC Nightly News senior producer Sam Singal, who oversees the Making a Difference site, said, “The intention is to create a national community of viewers for a conversation about these stories.”
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Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick, who spent 21 months in prison following his 2007 conviction for his role in a dog-fighting ring, wants another dog. That revelation — about as likely as Bernie Madoff launching an investment firm — came in a conversation Vick had with NBC News’ Mara Schiavocampo for TheGrio.com, msnbc.com‘s recently launched African American-targeted Web site. Vick told Schiavocampo:
I would love to get another dog in the future. I think it would be a big step for me in the rehabilitation process. I think just to have a pet in my household and to show people that I genuinely care, and my love and my passion for animals; I think it would be outstanding. If I ever have the opportunity again, I will never take it for granted. I miss having a dog right now. I wish I could. My daughters miss having one, and that’s the hardest thing; telling them that we can’t have one because of my actions.
Celebrity photo agency Mavrix Photo filed a lawsuit against MSNBC Friday, alleging that copyrighted photographs of actress Penelope Cruz on the beach while pregnant were published without authorization, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The link referenced in the lawsuit is to an item titled Rep Confirms Penelope Cruz Is Pregnant, according to THR, but the only photo included with the item is from the set of upcoming feature film Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, which Cruz will appear in. The photo is credited to Mavrix Photo.
msnbc.com plans to embed itself into social-media users’ tracking of Tuesday’s midterm election results, announcing that its live stream of NBC News’ coverage from 9 p.m.-3 a.m. (ET) can be embedded and shared on both Facebook and Twitter, the latter marking the first time live election coverage will ever be embedded on the microblogging service.
The embedded video player can be viewed and shared with friends and followers. A Decision 2010 widget is also available, and the cable network said Twitter users can follow @NBCNews and the hashtag #Decision2010.
And viewers can join the election conversation, share pictures and video, monitor candidates’ Tweets, live chat, and be included in hashtag art via the Decision 2010 Web page or Facebook.
EveryBlock, the msnbc.com-owned hyperlocal news aggregator, is opening up its firehose, releasing an application-programming interface to its partners that will give them access to all EveryBlock feeds, calling it a heavyweight alternative to the customizable widget it launched in August.
Daniel X. O’Neil, co-founder and people person at EveryBlock, wrote on the EveryBlock Blog:
Today we’re announcing the EveryBlock partner API, a new way for our content partners to deliver neighborhood news at the level of neighborhood or city block.
This API is designed to provide you with raw access to the latest neighborhood news on EveryBlock, across all of the cities we serve. Read our documentation for more information.
This is a “firehose” API that delivers up to 24 hours of news items across our 16 cities. Since we deal with a diversity of news that varies in kind and format from city to city, this API is intended to serve partners with heavy-duty needs and who can devote a goodly amount of development time to work with the data.
