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Current TV has tapped famed game designer Will Wright (“The Sims”) to help create a futuristic new TV series scheduled for Q1 2011 that will encourage viewers from around the world to join an online network to aid in the creation and plotting of the show. Tentatively titled Bar Karma, the social network will provide a communication platform developed by Wright that will allow producers to ping the crowd for input regarding the storyline and set designs, offering the ability to vote on prospective storyboards and plot twists. Worldwide Biggies’ Albie Hecht, a former top executive at MTV Networks, will executive produce (excellent Albie!!).
 

Sony has signed a distribution deal with Netflix that adopts a 28-day delay for rental DVDs of major movies after they’re released for sell-though, similar to its arrangement Netflix struck with Warner Bros., Fox and Universal. The deal is also expected to award more streaming rights to the company, according to reports.
 
NCR, a partner with Blockbuster in the movie rental kiosk business, has signed a similar deal with Universal with the same 28-day delay. “Robin Hood” and “Get Him to the Greek” will be the first titles released under the agreement.
 

 
Hockey fans can now check in using foursquare thanks to a new NHL integration, which launched at the opening day festivities in Toronto yesterday. Fans checking into the NHL Face-Off location will receive tips, historical hockey facts, discounts and other rewards and are eligible to receive a Swarm badge upon 50 check-ins, or a SuperSwarm badge after 250 check-ins.
 
Metacafe announced partnerships with several studios including Paramount, Fox, Universal, Electronic Arts, LucusArts and Sega to release exclusive entertainment offerings throughout the month of “Shocktober,” including upcoming movie trailers, game previews and behind-the-scenes interviews.
 
CNBC is peering into “The Facebook Obsession” on Jan. 6 at 9 pm. with a special two-hour documentary.
 

 
Competing demand side online ad firms PubMatic, DataXu, MediaMath and Turn have buried the hatchet to collaborate on a case study to demonstrate the efficacy of real-time bidding. The results, distributed at yesterday’s Ad Revenue 2010 conference, demonstrated revelations including:

• Publishers generated significantly higher revenue from Real Time Bidding campaigns in comparison to Non-RTB campaigns, across all advertising verticals by an average of 64%
• RTB outperformed traditional run-of-network non-RTB media buying methods by an average of 749%
• Audience targeted non-RTB campaigns outperformed run-of-network Non-RTB campaigns by an average of 324%

 
Amazon announced its purchase of European fashion retail site BuyVIP.com, which offers limited-time promotions to buy top fashion and lifestyle goods to a community of some 6 million users. The deal is expected to close by the end of the year.
 

 
Google continued to gain ground in the smartphone market over the past 3 months, rising 6.6 percentage points to capture 19.6% of smartphone subscribers in the U.S., according to Comscore‘s MobiLens service. RIM’s market leading share declined by 4 points to 37.6% while Apple’s share maintained a steady 24.2%. Despite losing share to Google’s Android, however, most smartphone platforms continued to gain subscribers as the smartphone market overall continues to expand. Mobile content usage also continued to rise, with 32.3% of mobile users utilizing downloaded apps and 22.5% accessing social networking sites or blogs.
 
Top Smartphone Platforms – 3 Month Avg. Ending Aug. 2010 vs. 3 Months Prior
Total U.S. Smartphone Subscribers Ages 13+.
                                Share (%) of Smartphone Subscribers
                                  May-10     Aug-10    Point Change
Total Smartphone subs 100.0%    100.0%        N/A
RIM                              41.7%     37.6%       -4.1
Apple                            24.4%     24.2%       -0.2
Google                           13.0%     19.6%        6.6
Microsoft                        13.2%     10.8%       -2.4
Palm                                4.8%      4.6%       -0.2
Source: comScore MobiLens   
 
Mobile Content Usage – 3 Month Avg. Ending Aug. 2010 vs. 3 Months Prior
Total U.S. Mobile Subscribers Ages 13+.
                                                 Share (%) of Mobile Subscribers
                                                      May-10    Aug-10    Point Change
Total Mobile Subscribers                   100.0%    100.0%        N/A
Sent text message to another phone    65.2%     66.6%        1.4
Used browser                                     31.9%     34.5%        2.6
Used downloaded apps                        30.0%     32.3%        2.3
Played games                                      22.5%     23.0%        0.5
Accessed social networking site or blog  20.8%     22.5%        1.7
Listened to music on mobile phone        14.3%     14.7%        0.4
Source: comScore MobiLens                                                 
                      

 
Discovery Education is pulling out all the interactive stops releasing an iPad-optimized version of its education platform, used by teachers in the classroom to enhance learning. The iPad app will provide access to more than 33,000 searchable documentary video assets from Discovery Education Streaming, Science and Health archives, delivered in the HTML 5 format, with additional images, audio clips, PDFs and articles slated to be added over the coming months. Content is presented to encourage students to browse and discover to gain deeper knowledge of subjects, with search results filtered by most popular, recently added or best match.
 
CBS Mobile and games publisher Chillingo released a mobile game for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad based on the brainy TV series Numb3rs, which finished its run last season but is currently in syndication. The 99 cent app features a blend of mathematical puzzles and mini-games with easy, normal and “genius” settings.
 
NBC teamed with developer Daily Interactive to create a free HTML5 – powered video app around NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. The app features daily news segments, blog posts and access to Nightly News posts on Twitter and Facebook.
 

 
David Caplan has been tapped as Managing Editor of Telepictures Productions’ TooFab.com, an offshoot of TMZ.com. The new celebrity-themed site covering fashion, award shows, weddings, babies, etc.
 

A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE

 
As promised, Facebook continues to improve sharing controls. The social network has tackled a huge segmentation problem with an improved release of its Groups feature, which allows you to gather different sets of friends into buckets to make it easier to share news with specific groups of family, friends or colleagues and more importantly, limit access to your posts to the appropriate people. The software allows you to see who’s online at the moment and maintains conversation threads so everyone will be on the same page. The problem here is that, like any other Facebook feature, every user on the platform is thrown into the Groups feature, meaning that anyone can set up a Facebook group and add anyone they want unless they opt out. The potential for spam is staggering. Facebook has also released an “Applications You Use” dashboard that gives you a comprehensive overview of the applications you have authorized and spells our how and when these third parties have last accessed your data. Finally, the far-reaching site has added the ability to download profile information, messages, wall posts or status updates to your desktop for future reference – a simple tool that may turn out to have serious implications in the courtrooms of tomorrow. Facebook shunned the spotlight that peered into the dirty secrets of its founding with the release of the well-realized “The Social Network” last weekend. With these new releases, it still doesn’t appear to be quite ready for its close up as a social networking tool adults with complex private lives can use, but at least it’s heading in the right direction.
 
Later — Wayne
Wayne Karrfalt for Cynopsis: Digital
wayne@cynopsis.com
10.08.10

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