A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM electricArtists

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Cynopsis: DIGITAL

05/12/08

Good morning, it’s Monday, May 12, 2008, and this is your first early morning digital briefing.
 
The big social networking players have turned their attention toward a long-standing problem on the net usually referred to as data portability. MySpace was the first to announce a new set of tools that store all the usual profile info sites ask for then automatically transfer it to new sites you sign up for. A central, updateable interface will automatically share public profile data with Yahoo, eBay, Photobucket and Twitter. Not to be outdone, Facebook announced Facebook Connect, enabling third party sites like Digg to connect to user profiles, friends, photos, events etc. Participating web sites will also be able to allow users to log in and create accounts using their Facebook names and passwords.

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Dish Network moves to reduce its deficit in HD offerings today by adding 22 additional national HD channels including ABC Family HD, Bravo HD, Cartoon Network HD, Sci Fi HD, USA HD, CNBC HD, CNN HD and Disney HD. Regional Comcast Sports Nets from the Bay Area and New England will also be added on Wednesday. The additions bring DISH’s total HD lineup to over 95 channels. 
 
Journalist/political activist Laura Flanders launches a new multiplatform show sponsored by Free Speech TV called Grit TV today online via firedoglake.com and on TV from 8 pm ET on Dish Network channel 9415. The show employs interactive calls to action to entice audiences to join with her in getting involved. Longtime daytime host Phil Donahue is schedule to appear in the first episode.
 

 
Learning from MySpace’s trials and tribulations with online predators, Facebook reached an agreement with 49 state attorneys general to implement new rules and practices to protect young users. Among the new tools is a report abuse icon first adopted by the New Jersey Attorney General for myYearbook users.
 
Joost continues to add shows from the vaults of producer Aaron Spelling to its P2P platform including Beverly Hills 90210, Starsky and Hutch and the latest addition – The Love Boat.
 

 
Remember when Steve Jobs used the excuse that the Apple iPhone is tied to AT&T’s slow EDGE network because 3G web surfing was too power hungry? (The cynics among us figured it was so he could sell another iPhone to all the early adopters within a year.) Well Steve still seems to be concerned about this as the soon-to-be-released 3G iPhone will ship with the ability to toggle back forth between the EDGE and 3G network. (The Chronic Dev blog has a screenshot of the interface.)  
 
Vidnik is a nifty new idiot proof Mac application that allows you to record video from the built in iSight camera now standard on Mac laptops and Imacs then upload it to YouTube with a single click.
 

The E.W. Scripps’ board approved the plan to separate Scripps into two public companies, effective July 1. One will focus on interactive services and the other on local media business including the company’s TV stations and newspapers.
 
Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO) Virgin Mobile USA and Helio are in talks to merge, according to a story first reported in mocoNews.net. Virgin and Helio, both of which resell services leased from Sprint Nextel, are two of the last surviving MVNO.  Among those who have failed to make a go of it include Disney Mobile, Amp’d and ESPN Mobile.
 
Carl Ichan stepped forward offering to buy the Circuit City chain if Blockbuster Video is unable to come up with the necessary financing or shareholder approval to acquire the ailing retailer. Mr. Icahn is Blockbuster’s largest shareholder.
 

 
The first annual Joan Ganz Cooney Center Symposium unveiled a series of new reports studying how digital media is shaping children’s learning. One authored by gaming expert James Paul Gee urges adult mentoring to help narrow the digital learning gap. Gee’s report finds that:

• Digital media has the potential to increase vocabulary and the concepts attached to such words, for children whose families are unable to do so
• Digital media naturally elicits problem-solving behaviors and attitudes in students
• Digital media can also be used to track and individualize how people learn

His recommendations include funding digital research and development to invest in what works; establishing a digital teacher corps for the nation’s lowest performing schools; and modernizing public broadcasting investments in digital platforms for the next generation.

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A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM www.IFC.COM – Official Website of the Independent Film Channel

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The folks at Hulu are getting better at creating timely editorial features to keep users coming back for more. (Having all the content in the world will only get your so far – packaging it in new and exciting ways is necessary to keep things fresh for the user.) For example, check this collection out of dedicated to dear old Mom, accompanied by one-click embed links to MySpace, Facebook, Reddit, Furl, StumbleUpon and del.icio.us. Click through the featured items on the home page to find season one of the original anime version of Speed Racer late last week. Now Hulu needs to bake in some interactive editorial features to really bring the catalog to life.

Later — Wayne
Wayne Karrfalt for Cynopsis: Digital
05.12.08

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