New Media

Wonderfactory Demo For Sports Illustrated Shows The Tablet Future Of Magazines

The Wonderfactory teamed up with Time, Inc. to produce the following example of how tablets will push the boundaries of the new media experience for publishers and advertisers.  This is clearly along the lines of what Apple has in mind for the iTablet, but it's also a pretty convincing version of what the future of rich content browsing will look like for everyone. (And yes, it's just a demo, so those perfectly manicured disembodied hands in the demo aren't real.  Are kind of creepy.  Aren't ...
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Financial Blog ‘Seeking Alpha’ Raises Additional $7 Million

Financial blog Seeking Alpha announced that it has recently closed a Series B round of $7 million, led by Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital and DAG Ventures. Seeking Alpha has over 4 million unique visitors per month, based on its own Google Analytics stats. In May 2009, Seeking Alpha launched Instablogs, a blog platform for members to create their own finance related blogs, which are accessible through the Seeking Alpha site.  There are now over 2,000 of these publications. Simulta...
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Q3 Internet Advertising Revenues Released

Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP announced Internet Advertising Revenues for the third quarter yesterday. Q3 Internet advertising revenues were approximately $5.5 billion, 5.5% less than the same period last year but 1.7% more than Q2 2009. In the context of reduced overall ad spending, this means that digital media is capturing a larger piece of marketers’ total advertising spend.
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NYTimes.com Offers Digital Subscribers Overpriced “Discount”

In an effort to increase online revenues,  The New York Times is offering a offering a digital version of the newspaper formatted to look like the print version for an annual subscription price of $179.40 To sweeten this already questionable deal, (identical content is available on the site for free) the paper is offering digital subscribers a $100 discount on a Samsung Go netbook at J&R.  The price of the netbook after the discount is $279.99 (about what similarly powered netbooks co...
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Bizmore To Launch 25 New Business Blogs By End Of The Year

Business Q&A forum Bizmore, backed by Michael Milken and executive coaching firm Vistage International, has expanded its brand into the blogging/online-magazine space with the launch of eight new blogs focused on entrepreneurship, personal finance and small business management. In further evidence of the vastly different trajectories of old media and new media, Editor in Chief Jeffrey Davis said "I'll have 25 blogs before the end of the year." Bizmore's concept is to have content o...
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Sony Online Content Service To Launch Early 2010

Sony is planning on launching its "Sony Online Service", as a proprietary network for sales and distribution of movies, music, TV in both rental download and streaming formats. This will be for all of Sony's internet-enabled TV's, such as the Bravia, Vaio computers, Sony Ericsson cel phones, etc. Think:  Playstation Network for all of Sony's non-Playstation Internet connected gadgets. The service will use the same infrastructure as the Playstation Network, which already distributes ...
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Facebook Now Number Three Video Site

Facebook is now the number 3 video site on the web, according to Nielsen Research [via NewTeevee.com]. This is an incredible gain, as the social networking site was number 10 on the list just last month. As of now, Facebook is just behind YouTube and Hulu in number of videos watched. Top 10 Online Web Brands Ranked by Total Streams Video Brand Total Streams (000) Unique Viewers (000) YouTube 6,632,964 105,923 Hulu 632,662 13,472 Facebook 217,765 31,594 ...
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BBC Adds iPlayer Channel To Nintendo Wii

BBC's homegrown iPlayer video player has been available on the Wii through its browser for quite a while (and is available on the PS3) is now going to be re-released as a stand-alone App, which will be a free download from the Wii online store. The channel will be available starting November 18 to any Wii in the UK with a broadband connection. According to research company Chart Track GfK there are almost six million Wii consoles in British homes.
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TVGuide.com Launches Online DVR Service

TVGuide.com is rolling out a new "DVR feature" where it will embed TV video content from various sources on the Internet, allow users to watch episodes of TV shows online and provide a Hulu-style 'queue' feature for subscribing to and watching shows in the future. Similar to the recently launched Clicker.com, the site does not host any content, but provides access through partners - including Hulu.  For TV shows that aren't available for free, TVGuide.com links to Amazon.com's download-to-own...
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Better Than Hulu? Clicker.com Launches Comprehensive Web TV and Movie Aggregator Service

Clicker.com officially launched its Web video programming guide today after a two month testing period.  The site provides a single location for listings of all free and legally available TV episodes available for viewing on the web, as well as lists for-pay streaming movies available from Netflix and Amazon's video on demand.   The company has compiled over 400,000 TV episodes from over 1,200 sources and is currently listing 30,000 movies from Netflix and Amazon's catalogs. The site also...
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Netflix Willing To Accept 30-Day Delay On Rentals In Exchange For Hefty Discounts From Studios

Netflix is clearly negotiating up a storm out in Hollywood. Warner Home Video, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and "possibly others" are attempting to instate a 30-day embargo after new DVDs go on sale before Netflix would be allowed to start renting these films to its subscribers. Yes, we know.  The implications are staggering... and a similar delay was recently imposed on rental kiosk operator Redbox. Studios are clearly seeking to push lo...
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Rupert Murdoch Would Like To Abolish “Fair Use”, Remove All News Corp. Content From Search

News Corp founder and CEO Rupert Murdoch announced via his Sky News Network that he believes that the doctrine of Fair Use could be challenged in court and “barred altogether”, and that he is open in the future to removing News Corp content from Google in a bid to start charging directly for content on the Internet. Asked why News Corp. hasn’t already  made its sites invisible to Google and other search engines (easily done, through robots.txt), Murdoch replied: “I think we will….but that...
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The Twitter Times: What We Thought Twitter Was Going To Be Before We Joined

Had The Twitter Times been around for the past few years, I would have been far more sympathetic to the Twitter phenomenon.  Regardles, it's an idea whose time has certainly come.  The Twitter Times provides a newspaper-style way of displaying news content contained in links tweeted by people you are following on Twitter, as well as selected items from those they follow as well. The Twitter Times - Video Tour from Maxim Grinev on Vimeo. Items are sorted based on how often a particular ...
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Google CEO Discusses Future of Online News

[picture via guardian.co.uk Technology Blog] Presentation, Consumption and Organization of information is constantly on Google's mind, as was made clear by an enlightening Q & A session with Google CEO Eric Schmidt. The most illuminating excerpt was in response to a question by by Harvard's Zachary Seward on what the primary news reader will look like in 5 or 10 years: Well, that person will be probably on a tablet or a mobile phone, probably the majority of the reading will presumabl...
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New Amazon Associate Program: Share on Twitter

Amazon just added  a "Share on Twitter" button, specially for Amazon Associates.   By clicking on this button, visible when you are logged into Amazon with an Associate account, the site will automatically generate a tweet containing a pre-shortened link to that page.  This link is personalized to your account - and any purchase resulting from it will credit you with a commission on that sale. the Amazon Associates ribbon For Twitter users with large followings, this has the potential to be a re...
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Digg Launches New Voting Feature: Digg Trends

Digg anounced a new feature today, which it hopes will increase the relevance of its front page by putting highly active current stories in front of their users for immediate voting. The feature is called Digg Trends. From the Digg Blog: How does it work? Digg Trends identifies and highlights upcoming stories that have a high volume of activity (think Diggs, comments, favorites, shares, etc.). When we detect a new trending story, it will appear on the homepage for ten minutes. Based on the Di...
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