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Cynopsis: DIGITAL
10/22/07
Good Morning, it’s Monday, October 22, 2007 and this is your first early morning digital briefing.
Google’s social networking site Orkut, little known in the U.S., has made a splash in Brazil but is attracting the wrong kind of attention from prosecutors, reports The Wall Street Journal. The head of Orkut’s Brazilian operation is facing criminal contempt charges for refusing to turn over personal records of users accused of using the site for criminal activity. Advertisers, who began using the site on an experimental basis, are running for cover. More than half of the site’s 25 million unique visitors hail from Brazil. And their usage is so heavy, the site ranks in the top 5 global web domains in terms of page views per month, according to comScore Media Metrix.
The official NBC channel has been pulled from YouTube, increasing speculation that NBC and partner NewsCorp. may be ready to launch their Hulu online video joint venture. NBC and YouTube have helped one another considerably during the past two years, points out Valleywag – the network giving the start-up legitimacy before it was acquired by Google and the video site helping boost shows like Saturday Night Live and The Office.
Lifetime Movie Network and partners announced the winners of the inaugural LMN Student Filmmaker Competition. The winning entries, directed by Liliana Greenfield-Sanders of New York City and Jessica Marie Sutherland of Berea, Ohio, were screened at the Hamptons International Film Festival over the weekend and can be seen on lmn.tv.
Facebook is getting ready to make its comprehensive Applications Directory available to users who are not registered or logged in to the site and enable them to be indexed by other search engines such as Google, Yahoo! and Windows Live. One of the newest Facebook apps links to Second Life, allowing users to bring their avatar into their Facebook profile.
Some more tidbits from the Google Earnings Call:
- International revenue grew to just over $2 billion, or 48% of revenue
- The number of available gadgets and the developer ecosystem are growing
- 27 partners are participating in Google Book Search, with over 1 million books scanned
- YouTube videos are being further integrated into other Google pages such as Google News
A series of nationwide tests conducted by the AP confirmed that Comcast continues to deploy “traffic shaping” methods to hinder file sharing among its customers, particularly when one BitTorrent user attempts to share data with another. A controversial practice intended to limit slow-downs for other subscribers, the technique is at the core of the net neutrality debate that continues in Washington. Advocates believe internet service providers should not have the right to discriminate by limiting the bandwidth of certain users. ISPs counter they should have the right to manage their network as they see fit.
Meanwhile Comcast is working on its own version of Time Warner Cable’s “Start Over” service allowing viewers jump back in case they missed the beginning of a show, reports Multichannel News. The service, currently deployed in six Time Warner divisions, is slated to launch next year.
Microsoft started beta testing a consumer-oriented mashup tool that enables video and audio to be dragged and dropped into a file. Popfly is built to integrate with Flickr, MySpace and Facebook and can create widgets that run in Windows Vista or Windows Live environments.
A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM NEW VIDEO SUMMIT
October 29, Boston We’re proud to host our second New Video Summit, which will provide expert insight into
how traditional TV companies are coping with the challenges and the uncharted opportunities made available through IP technology.
Luncheon keynote from Tom Rogers, Tivo CEO. Top speakers from Nielsen Online,
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Mobile multimedia solutions Thin Multimedia, Inc. has partnered with mobile advertising company Amobee Media Systems on a mobile advertising solution to integrate banners and content overlays directly into video. The system enables the video to start immediately, allowing mobile operators to earn revenues as soon as the video begins streaming.
Top 10 Parent Companies Web Sites, Combined Home & Work (U.S.), September 2007
Rank Parent site Unique Audience Time Per Person
1 Google 118,003 1:34:34
2 Microsoft 117,677 2:00:29
3 Yahoo! 109,085 3:08:30
4 Time Warner 102,252 3:50:34
5 News Corp. Online 73,506 1:51:52
6 eBay 65,105 1:56:03
7 InterActiveCorp. 61,108 0:25:05
8 Amazon 49,759 0:25:14
9 Wikimedia Foundation 47,575 0:16:33
10 Apple Computer 44,291 1:00:04
Source: Nielsen/Net Ratings
Melissa Hudson joined A&E Network as Director of Digital Marketing, in support of tune-in and branding efforts for A&E and guiding strategy for A&E Insider, the network’s consumer relationship marketing initiative. She will be based in New York and report to Lori Peterzell, VP/Advertising & Consumer Marketing.
Ned Sands, formally VP/West Coast Sales for MTV’s Nick at Nite/TV Land, was named SVP/Sales for new social networking site pathconnect.com, and will manage all sales efforts for Olympic skier Bode Miller’s skispace.com and actress Jessica Biel’s Make the Difference Network.
NYC TV.com launched Apple Juice with Kela Walker over the weekend, a fun new video blog featuring insider tips on the latest news and events in New York’s entertainment scene. It’s one three vlogs on the site, joining the media-themed 360 Daily Angle with Amy Palmer and indie music-focused The Weekly Noise. It’s nice to see city tax dollars going toward something anyone with an internet connection can enjoy.
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Wayne Karrfalt for Cynopsis: Digital
10.22.07
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