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10/19/07

Good Morning, it’s Friday, October 19, 2007 and this is your first early morning digital briefing. 

Google‘s profit soared 46% during the third quarter on revenues of $4.23 billion with Google-owned sites (not including AdSense partners) accounting for 65% of total revenue. The company hired 2,130 employees during the quarter to keep up with demand for its services, bringing its total workforce to 15,916. Meanwhile YouTube launched a Chinese language site localized for Taiwan as reports circulate that the U.S. site has been blocked in mainland China with hundreds of users reporting connection errors. No official reason why, but the 17th National Congress is currently underway in Beijing and the government has blocked sites like Wikipedia for months. An unreceptive Chinese government remains a concern for Google, given the importance of the territory for future growth.
 

 
TBS is featuring a series of exclusive mobisodes of Tyler Perry’s House of Payne for its Very Funny Channel available on Verizon’s V Cast service. They feature short, self-contained vignettes of family life among the Paynes. The channel also includes clips from TBS’s syndicated comedy line up as well as sneak peaks of upcoming original series.
 
Sen. Barack Obama is the next candidate to be features on MySpace and MTV‘s presidential dialogue series on Monday, Oct. 29 to be held at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The interactive dialogue, powered by Flektor, will be streamed live on MySpace, MTV’s ChooseOrLose.com and MTV Mobile and premiere on MTV at 7 pm ET/PT that evening.
 
American Public Media unveiled an extensive catalog of archived radio shows on the free educational-themed iTunes U section of the iTunes store including Marketplace, American RadioWorks and The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor.
 
A&E Network announced a special Criss Angel Mindfreak eBay charity auction to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation beginning on Sunday, October 21st at 3PM ET. Fans can log onto A&E’s eBay store to bid on an autographed Mitsubishi Outlander, bundled with a flight and stay for two at the Luxor in Vegas and an appearance on an episode of the fourth season of the show on A&E.
 
Vivendi Games’ Sierra Online set release dates for its Battlestar Galactica space combat game, on sale for PC’s Oct. 23 and via Xbox Live Arcade on Oct. 24. Scifi.com is building anticipation for season 4 with “flashback” clips of the two-hour Razor episode premiering Nov. 24 on Sci Fi Channel.
 
Multiplatform kids service Kabillion launched a new Halloween-themed avatar program allowing kids to create scary digital masks of themselves. Kabillion is also featuring holiday themed programming, wallpapers and IM icons.
 

Video sharing site Dailymotion launched a new digital fingerprinting system powered by Ina, which maintains one of the world’s largest digitized image banks. Ina’s Signature technology, which searches uploaded content for copyrighted material, will be localized on Dailymotion’s sites in all 14 languages currently available.
 
Next New Networks acquired I Got a Crush on Obama creator BarelyPolitical.com for an undisclosed amount. The online studio will serve up regular political comedy sketches and reports from correspondents and videobloggers.
 
Music Video 2.0 and The Source Magazine launched a contest for unsigned bands encouraging artists to upload their videos for a chance to record a demo in NYC.
 

 
A group of major media and technology companies have banded together to issue guidelines for following today’s copyright laws including Disney, CBS, NBCU, Veoh and Microsoft. The UGC Principles call for users to “Encourage creativity and respect intellectual property.” Curiously Google and YouTube are missing from the list of participants.
 
News is out about project “white phone,” a Skype-branded cell phone allowing users to make calls without being in front of a computer. The eBay subsidiary has deals in place to launch the service with wireless carrier 3 Mobile in Europe, Asia and Australia, reports Business Week.
 
After cutting prices in Japan and Europe, Sony announced it will also cut the entry level price for the PlayStation 3 console in the U.S., offering a 40-gig hard drive model for $399. Like the cheaper Japanese model it will not play PS2 games.
 

DoubleClick signed a deal with video-targeting technology provider Visible World to power Dynamic Video ads. The rich media ads combine interactive design, ad serving and reporting capabilities with the power of dynamically generated, flexible, customized video messages.
 
BBC Worldwide announced that it will introduce advertising on bbc.com for users from outside the United Kingdom in order to significantly develop the portal. Advertising revenues will be reinvested online in BBC News, functionality and international-facing content with current editorial unaffected. BBC also announced it will cut its work force by a net 1,800 and require remaining broadcast journalists to create content for multiple platforms.
 

 
Comedy Central re-upped its contract with Jon Stewart, keeping him hosting The Daily Show and serving as Executive Producer and Writer behind Busboy Productions through 2010.
 
Comcast Interactive Media named Scott Bailey as SVP & GM of Comcast.net, the MSO’s web portal for its 12.4 million high-speed internet subscribers. Scott joins CIM from Turner Sports Interactive where he served as VP and GM of a portfolio of sites including NASCAR.com, PGATour.com and PGA.com.
 
Christy Tanner has been named Editor-In-Chief of TV Guide Online.  She will retain her position as VP/Marketing to continue to enhance cross-platform editorial effectively on the web to drive more users, readers and viewers to TV Guide properties.
 
Movie P2P download device maker Vudu named former Fox executive Mark Jung as CEO. Mark co founded IGN Entertainment, acquired by Fox Interactive Media in October 2005 and later became CEO of FIM.
 
As part of a partnership between Dan Patrick, The Content Factor and SI, Dan has joined Sports Illustrated as Senior Writer for Sports Illustrated and SI.com beginning in January 2008. The three entities will host and produce DanPatrick.com
 
The Week magazine announced its NYC-based online staff for TheWeekDaily.com. Harold Maass has been named Editor, with key hires; Ken Switzer, Associate Editor; Peter Weber, Contributing Editor; Obele Brown-West, Online Marketing Manager; and Kate Goebel, Online Account Manager.
 

Seeing how Daily Show clips were one of the early drivers of traffic to YouTube, Viacom figured why not use the show to power a web portal of its own. DailyShow.com archives more than 16,000 video clips spanning back to 1999 when Jon Stewart started hosting the show. Offering extensive tagging, themed playlists, specialized search tools and video-sharing capabilities, the site includes the kind of web 2.0 features users have become accustomed to. It also makes it simple to revisit popular past segments such as “This Week in God,” “Even Stephen,” or every Beth Littleford and Steve Carell piece. Now the question becomes how much impact will such direct portals have on content aggregation sites, which continue to multiply on the web.
 
Later — Wayne
Wayne Karrfalt for Cynopsis: Digital
10.19.07

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