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Cynopsis: DIGITAL
8/27/07
Good Morning, it’s Monday, August 27, 2007 and this is your first early morning digital briefing.
Online job seeking site Monster.com suffered a security breach potentially exposing the confidential information of 1.5 million users then waited 5 days to report it. Hackers broke into site’s resume library using credentials stolen from Monster clients, according to the company, making away with names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses. (Further investigation found that less than 5,000 users were affected.) Monster is working with FBI and other agencies to identify the culprit and has already sent out emails to affected parties. It first learned about the attack thanks to online security firm Symantec on August 17 but didn’t notify Reuters until August 24.
~ MULTIPLATFORM CONTENT NEWS ~
Fox Interactive Media’s Fuse.TV launched a new music wiki site powered by WetPaint encouraging fans to post comments, photos, videos and personal notes about their favorite artists. The site is organized by band name, with more than 35 profiles offered so far. Fuse will provide exclusive content from its archives including artist interviews and music videos to help attract fans.
My Space’s Project Revolution concert set new live streaming records with more than 1 million users logging on to view parts of the six-hour concert. It was an interactive broadcast of one of the 15-city concerts headlined by Linkin Park, which began on August 14 and is continuing through September 3. Sponsored by NowWhat.com, the event drew more than 180,000 live comments. The MySpace page that hosted it has amassed more 93,000 friends.
The New York Times unveiled a beta version of its My Times service to all users, adding expanded content options and new personalization features. Readers can customize their My Times with widgets including a Times’ journalist recommendation engine, a crossword widget, Flickr photo slideshows, movie showtimes, mortgage rates, weather information and Marketwatch stock quotes.
Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Gifford, the original hosts of Live with Regis and Kelly, are featured in an online host chat to celebrate the show’s 20th season. The 13-minute segment, made up of clips from past episodes, will be available on liveregisandkelly.com throughout the season, along with a flashback trivia game and a Chrysler minivan giveaway.
WCSN began its live and on demand coverage of the IAAF Track & Field World Championships from Osaka, Japan. More than 72 hours of live webcast coverage will be viewable through September 2.
BBC America will debut new episodes of its UK drama Hollyoaks daily via BBCAmerica.com starting with a two-episode launch on September 4. Each new episode will be available online seven days for free. The first 65 episodes of Hollyoaks will also air as repeats on the linear network’s late-night schedule.
~ INNOVATORS & START-UPS ~
Fake celebrity blog site News Groper proved its believability when an MSNBC.com reporter quoted an entry from a satirical Al Sharpton’s blog thinking it was the real thing. The blog entry spouted off about the Michael Vick dogfighting scandal, predicting the police wouldn’t arrest the white Brett Favre if he was caught hosting a dolphin-fighting ring out of his swimming pool. Naturally the fake Al couldn’t resist from commenting on the slip up.
Google’s Blogger platform added a video uploading feature to its post editor allowing users to add videos to their blog entries. Blogger’s technical team also corrected a publishing/hosting glitch last week that affected a number of publishers on the site. Blogger.com and its Blogspot hosting platform were down for over an hour on Wednesday.
Social search platform Searchles.com added several new tools to the Searchles video player to help users keep up with candidates’ positions online. Users can use the software to aggregate their favorite campaign videos from multiple sources. Options include compiling various videos of candidates’ viewpoints on the same issue and a channel that integrates candidates’ speeches with media reports addressing the same topics to show how the issue affects Americans.
~ TECHNOLOGY DEALS, MERGERS AND SKIRMISHES ~
Hearst intends to bid nearly $600 million to buy the remaining stock of Hearst-Argyle Television it doesn’t currently own at the price of $23.50/share, a 15% premium over the current market price. Hearst currently owns approximately 52% of the outstanding Series A Common Stock and 100% of the Series B Common Stock, representing about 73% of both the outstanding equity and general voting power of the TV group.
Major streaming group Digital Media Association and royalty fee collector SoundExchange reached an agreement to cap charges levied against webcasters. It sets a $50,000 ceiling on royalty fees for internet radio stations that offer more than 100 channels and establishes a $500 per-station or per-channel minimum annual fee.
CableLabs announced the approval of a new streaming video protocol that will enable MSOs to offer customers the ability to stream cable TV programming over their home networks. The Digital Transmission Copy Protection (DTCP-IP) DRM system was finally approved by several large studios including Disney, Warner Bros., Sony and Paramount after months of negotiations. Viewers will be able to port standard and high-def content from the set top box to PCs and portable devices connected to the network. The DRM protocol will restrict copying to DVDs or other portable media.
~ DIGITAL ADVERTISING ~
A developer has inadvertently figured out a way to circumnavigate video ads on YouTube, which have been removed on the site for the time being. The TubeStop extension was written by Chris Finke, a software developer for Netscape and other sites, as an Firefox extension to disable the autoplay function and allow users to open multiple videos without having them start all at once. It turns out the plug in also prevents the ads from playing, according to Finke’s blog.
~ WEBSITE OF THE DAY ~
HomegrownSeries.com, Showtime’s minisite for its popular MaryJane-themed TV show Weeds, launched a user submitted video contest to celebrate the premiere of the new season. Users are asked to upload their own video renditions of the show’s theme song Little Boxes, the folk classic written by Malvina Reynolds that parodies suburban life. Prizes include $10,000 in cash and all-expenses paid trip to LA with a stay at the W. Some of the submissions are very creative – the most viewed version so far is a remix of the song from Bulletproof Productions accomplished with two turntables. To kick things off, five of the cast members have also had a crack at the song.
Later — Wayne
Wayne Karrfalt for Cynopsis: Digital
08.27.07
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