Cynopsis: DIGITAL

 

02/01/10

Good morning, it’s Monday, February 1, 2010, and this is your first early morning digital briefing.

In a bid to compete with Facebook, Google announced it is transporting its Google Social Search project to its main search engine, allowing users to see content from their friend’s feed amidst other search results. Beginning this week, anyone logged into their Google account will find friends’ pictures that have been published to Yahoo’s Flickr or Google’s own Picasa Web Albums pop up. A part of the “My social content” feature, web content written or published by contacts relevant to the search query will also appear, include anything from bar reviews on Yelp to rants posted on Twitter.
 

 
Football fans will have plenty of content to turn to on NFL.com this week leading up to the big game, including live online streaming of the carefully orchestrated Super Bowl Media Day. The interface allows you to choose between a dozen different feeds following featured members of the Saints and Colts. The site won’t feature video coverage of the actual game on Sunday, but you will be able to choose from 10 international radio broadcasts in their native languages including Spanish, Italian, Russian and Japanese.
 
For those of you who still find the network trapped behind a sports tier, Hulu has added a new channel from the NFL Network featuring 8 original shows including America’s Game, Hard Knocks, Live Wire, Team Highlights and Superbowl Highlights. If you’re someone who watches the Superbowl for the commercials check out Hulu AdZone, featuring a compendium of Super Bowl ads from last year. Spots from this year’s game will be added from next week.
 
The newly redesigned CNN announced it posted a banner year in 2009, leading news and information sites in a variety of categories including Time Spent Watching Video (averaging 304.5 million minutes/month); Total Usage Minutes (1.3 billion total usage minutes/month); and Overall market share (9% average monthly,) citing Nielsen Online. Other highlights included:

• Serving 1.3 million concurrent video streams during President Obama’s inauguration
• Averaged 11.8 million unique visitors per month on CNN Mobile
• Receiving more than 203,000 iReport submissions, up 21% from 2008

 

 
Live online video platform Ustream launched a $199 prosumer version of its desktop video production software enabling producers to manage multiple video and audio sources, import movies and audio and add additional bells and whistles to their streams including overlays, titles, and picture-in-picture video.
 
Pee Wee Herman of all people seems to have gotten his hands on an iPad. Check out this funny/informative video on Funny or Die.
 
Online gaming network WoW Radio relaunches today as the OMFG network (Original Media for Gamers.) In addition to podcasts, the site is planning to feature web cartoons, blogs, comics, and live video game commentaries.
 

 
Manhattan-based creative shop Maude NY has come up with an innovative way to promote MTV‘s new 8-episode series The Buried Life, which premiered Monday, Jan. 18. As part of a storefront takeover on 43rd and Fifth Ave., a touch screen had been set up allowing passers by to select one of three videos. Each poses the main question from the series – “what do you want to do before you die?,” asking users to input their answers, which are then cross-posted via Facebook Connect as well as to theburiedlife.com.
 
Univision has partnered with The Clorox Co. to co-develop original content within an interactive platform through which Latinas can discuss topics relevant to their lives. Compartiendo Entre Amigas (Sharing Among Friends) will encourage women to share constructive stories. The multiplatform deal was negotiated by OMD, along with their agency partners OMD Latino and Alma DDB.
 

 
Gay dating site ManCrunch.com was planning to have a big coming out by running its first commercial during the Super Bowl. That is until CBS‘ Standards and Practices division rejected the creative. The decision has sparked a sizeable controversy, especially after CBS had come out earlier in the week saying that it would accept advocacy ads that were “responsibly produced.” (CBS made the statement after it approved an ad from Christian group Focus on the Family, believed to present an anti-abortion message featuring Florida QB Tim Tebow.)
 
Likely encouraged by Apple’s decision to allow publishers to charge more than $10 for best sellers, Amazon.com has removed all e-book titles published by Macmillan off Amazon and its Kindle e-reader site in a pricing dispute, according to a statement issued by the publisher on Saturday.
 
Public opinion research firm Zogby International announced it will receive a substantial investment from Brazilian opinion research group, IBOPE (the Brazilian Institute of Public Opinion and Statistics). Zogby’s headquarters and call center will remain in Utica, NY and the company will maintain its offices in Washington, DC and Miami, FL.
 

 
The worldwide mobile phone market grew 11.3% in Q4 of 2009 after 5 consecutive quarters of decline, according to IDC‘s Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker report. Vendors shipped 325.3 million units during the quarter compared to 292.4 million units during Q4 of 2008. Manufacturers shipped a total of 1.13 billion units on a cumulative worldwide basis in 2009, down 5.2% from the 1.19 billion units shipped in 2008. The North American market finished 2009 relatively strong, posting the second-highest regional growth after the Asia/Pacific region (excluding Japan.)
 
Top Five Mobile Phone Vendors, Shipments, and Market Share, Q4 2009
 (Units in Millions)
Vendor 4Q09 Volumes 4Q09 Mkt.Share 4Q08Volumes 4Q08Mkt. Share 4Q09/4Q08 Growth
Nokia          126.9               39.0%           113.1               38.7%           12.2%
Samsung       68.8               21.1%             52.8               18.1%           30.3%
LG                 33.9               10.4%             25.7                8.8%           31.9%
Sony Ericsson 14.6                 4.5%             24.2               8.3%          -39.7%
5. Motorola     12.0                3.7%              19.2               6.6%          -37.5%
Others            69.1               21.2%             57.4             19.6%           20.4%
Total            325.3              100.0%           292.4            100.0%          11.3%
Source: IDC
 

 
Mozilla finally debuted a version of the Firefox web browser for mobile devices, beginning with a version for Nokia’s Maemo platform available on the Nokia N900 handset. Features include an “awesome bar,” (favorites), tab, bookmark and history synching with the desktop version and location-aware browsing.
 

 
Don’t look now but Cynopsis has launched a new website that aggregates blurbs of the leading stories from all 4 of our daily newsletters, Cynopsis, Cynopsis: Digital, Cynopsis: Kids! and our weekly, Classified Advantage. Click on a log line to be taken to the full edition or click on the video player to view today’s podcast. Manage your subscriptions by clicking on the “subscribe” tab up top or look below the video player to sign up, share the edition with a friend, subscribe to an RSS feeds or to go to our Facebook, Twitter or Linkedin pages. Search functionality on each edition page has also been improved allowing you to specify approximate dates; classified searches can be targeted by category or region including “And other places you’ll never go.” (Or perhaps it should read, “other places you never thought you’d go!”) Portland, OR-based Concrete5, creators of a free open source CMS and online marketplace for designers, collaborated with Cynthia on the new design and built the site. Send us a note if you have any questions or suggestions – the site is about 90% complete according to Cynthia, so bear with us if you come across a bug.

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 Wayne Karrfalt for Cynopsis: Digital
02.01.10

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