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08/05/09
Good morning, it’s Wednesday, August 5, 2009, and this is your first early morning digital briefing.
It’s never been more nice to have friends in high places. North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has issued a “special pardon” to jailed Current TV reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee after protracted negotiations that culminated in a visit by former president Bill Clinton, 24 hours before their release. The Ling and Lee families issued a joint statement on their website thanking President Obama, Secretary Clinton and the U.S. State Dept. for their efforts. Laura and Euna were on assignment along the Chinese border investigating the plight of North Korean refugees and human trafficking victims when they were picked up by North Korean military agents nearly 5 months ago. The two were convicted of trespassing in a closed trial last month and sentenced to 12 years of hard labor.
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on Sept. 11, 2001 … For Your Emmy® Consideration: Outstanding Nonfiction Special
102 MINUTES THAT CHANGED AMERICA From the first plane that hit the World Trade Center to the collapse of the second tower,
this special weaves together footage and sound taken by over 100 eyewitnesses, presented with no narration and no commercial interruption. Preserved for this generation, and for the future.
The iTunes store launched for the first time in Mexico featuring a comprehensive selection of Mexican and international music from all the major labels and hundreds of independents. Most songs are priced at 12 pesos and most albums run 120 pesos. Apple’s App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch is also accessible south of the border.
Msnbc.com‘s The Elkhart Project won the National Press Club‘s Joan M. Friedenberg Online Journalism Award for its multimedia presentation of how an Indiana community is pulling together to weather the economic crisis. Msnbc.com and NBC News will feature special coverage of President Obama’s visit to Elkhart today.
Univision.com has set a premier date of next Wednesday, Aug. 12 for its ambitious webnovella “Vidas Cruzadas” (Crossed Lives) featuring the on screen reunion of Latino stars Kate del Castillo as Mariana and Guy Ecker as Daniel. The 15-episode show, which will air in 5 min. segments premiering every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, is a joint venture between Univision Interactive Media, Endemol USA and Amistad Productions.
TVLandPrime.com has launched a microsite for its newest original series How’d You Get So Rich, premiering tonight at 10 pm ET/PT. It features bloopers, out-takes, a photo gallery and behind-the-scenes footage of host Joan Rivers taking a peek at how the other half lives.
Oxygen.com came up with a new makeover tool and a companion web series for is new show “Addicted to Beauty,” which premiered last night. Powered by ModiFace, the tool allows users to upload photos of themselves and see what they would look like if they spring for a variety of plastic surgery procedures including rhinoplasty, lip enhancement, a brow lift, smile enhancement. (Cross promotional idea: we’d like to see Joan Rivers try the tool.)
Google announced that it has quadrupled the number of newspaper articles it has archived in its News Archive Search section, a handy tool that pulls up articles from papers around the world it has digitized going as far back as 1753. New archived publications include the Halifax Gazette, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the Village Voice. Google sells contextual AdSense ads against searched article content.
People CD, creators of the Zac web browser for Autistic Children, has launched a new web browser targeted the tween demographic. Its colorful interface, built for multiple platforms including PCs, netbooks, tablet PCs, touchscreen PCs and the Wii remote, steers kids toward appropriate content and filters sites for violence, racism, pornography and chat, automatically blocking the offensive stuff.
The sultry Marina Orlova, the Russian native Philologist and creator of the long-running web show Hot for Words, has signed on to become the latest Go Daddy Girl. Harper Collins is publishing a book of the YouTube star’s etymological explorations later this month.
IBizRadio is a new personalized internet radio station targeting business and technology users. Search its directory of news and how-to podcasts by topic or theme; the interface allows you to access individual titles by category, pull up usage stats and easily add it your RSS feed.
Much of the digital media industry remains divided over the use of traditional TV spots on digital platforms. That debate is about to further heat up. A new digital ad platform from ShortTail Media, run by former CNN executive David Payne, launches a 4-week beta trial this week that will make it even easier to repurpose 30-second spots. The Digital 30 interface launches video commercials over search result pages in a 16×9 video player, before taking the user to the premium content site. The platform also includes a wealth of social media integrations. Adobe Creative Suite, R2C Group and Special Ops Media are the first beta clients for campaigns that will run across Weather.com, Entertainment Weekly’s EW.com, Reuters.com, and the Wall Street Journal Digital Network during the next four weeks.
Seattle-based online data exchange BlueKai has launched the BlueKai Certification Program enabling agencies and marketers to define a standard in-market audience profile using BlueKai data, while reaching audiences using their media partners. Participants can share the data plan with selected ad networks, portals or publishers, who will then submit one proposal that incorporates both data and media costs. The program also provides a “seal of quality” measure to assure marketers that their online campaigns are powered by the data they’ve defined.
One True Media’ SpotMixer video creation and distribution service completed a major update baking in a number of do-it-yourself video advertising solutions. New features include integration with video ad network SpotXchange and an campaign management component enabling businesses to target customers by location, gender, income level and age.
Microsoft’s new Bing search engine increased its market share by another 1% point in July according to StatCounter. Bing generated 9.41% of the nation’s searches last month – up from 8.23% in June.
Lifetime Television, The Weinstein Company, L’Oreal Paris and Garnier have entered into an exclusive, multi-platform promotional arrangement in support of season 6 of Project Runway. Digital components include extensive online and viral content and the custom micro-sites The L’Oreal Paris Makeup Room and The Garnier Hair Studio (housed within the Project Runway and Models of the Runway sites on myLifetime.com.)
Tivo is more than just a pretty interface and overbuilder RCN has just completed an integration agreement with the company to offer its branded DVR services and more across its footprint of homes. Expected to launch in early 2010, RCN customers who subscribe to the Tivo service will be able access RCN’s full VOD library as well as broadband shows and other digital content distributed thorough the Tivo platform, including Amazon’s Video On Demand titles, Photobucket, and RealNetwork’s Rhapsody music service. RCN also reported an increase in total revenue for Q2 to $192 million, up from $184 million during Q2 of ’08.
Now the Pentagon is ordering a review of the use of social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook citing security concerns, reports Reuters.
A federal judge has ruled that most of the new restrictions on lawyer advertising adopted by the Louisiana Supreme Court constitute as unconstitutional restrictions on freedom of speech. Certain other components of the new Louisiana lawyer advertising regulations were upheld, including restrictions on ads that promise results, portray a judge or jury or contain a celebrity endorsement.
Digital music distributor The Orchard announced it is launching a new platform using an open API to provide clients access to third party business solutions from a marketplace within The Orchard’s proprietary Workstation client. At launch, the applications will include various forms of sales and analytic tools, marketing vehicles, email and mobile services, widget creation, iPhone App creation, and data tracking services. The Orchard says several marketing, sales and analytics application providers have already joined the platform including ArtistData, Band Metrics, TheBizmo, BMAT, FanBridge, Mediaguide, Mobile Roadie, New Reach Technologies, Peekok, Topspin, Trendrr, and uPlaya.
The European Commission released a digital competitiveness report yesterday claiming it has regained its lead over the U.S. in broadband connectivity. The report found that 56% of Europeans now regularly use the internet – 80% of them via a high-speed connection, up dramatically from 2004 when only one third of users did so. About 23% of European homes and businesses have fixed-line broadband access, compared to 20% for the U.S. However the report warns that Europe is at risk of losing its edge as it lags behind Japan and South Korea in super high speed fiber-to-the-home connections and the U.S. in web interactivity and social networking. The Commission is about to launch a public online consultation on nine key areas concerning Europe’s future ICT and media policies.
The new $1 PhoneFace speed dial app for the iPhone from Electric Pocket integrates with Twitter to retrieve profile photos of your friends. The idea is to keep your address book fresh, as many folks change their profile photos with new avatars weekly. When you want to call, text, or email someone in your circle, flick through your catalog of profile pics instead of just their saved photos.
Amazon launched a version of its free mobile shopping app for the Android mobile OS that allows users to snap a photo of what they want to buy or scan a barcode of the item to look for product matches on the Amazon site. The app is also available for the iPhone and BlackBerry.
Babelgum hired Mania TV’s former VP of Programming and Development Amber J. Lawson as Publisher of its Comedy Channel. Amber is a comedy and new media veteran who was the founding President of InterNetworkStudios.com.
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Outstanding Cinematography for a Nonfiction Program
Expedition Africa: Stanley & Livingstone Equipped with just a compass and basic maps, four modern day explorers attempt to retrace one of the toughest expeditions of all time: Henry Morton Stanley’s search across the wilds of Tanzania to find Dr. Livingstone.
Chris Anderson’s BookTour.com underwent a homepage makeover featuring a cleaner look and a more visual layout. BookTour is a free online directory spotlighting readings and other literary happenings of your favorite authors. It tracks events by author and geographical area and updates members with weekly email blasts of who’s reading in your local area. The site also syndicates its data to third party sites and blogs for free such as Amazon’s individual author pages. (Here’s the one for the prolific Neil Gaiman.) Relying on the real world experience of founders Chris Anderson, Editor of Wired and author of The Long Tail and Free; Kevin Smokler, Editor of Bookmark Now; and Adam Goldstein, computer whiz and author of several of the Missing Manual books, BookTour has built some useful tools for authors and publicists. TourBuilder generates suggested tour itineraries based on past successes. EventMinion digests indie author’s tour data and adds it to the BookTour database for the fee of $1/event. In the “Long Tail” world of niche audiences and readers, authors will be responsible for generating their own followings and BookTour offers some intelligent solutions.
Correction: Watercooler did not launch a social add on for CBSSports.com’s Fantasy Football offering. Rather, Watercooler launched its own Fantasy Football offering, and CBSSports.com provides a draft kit and breaking news for the app. We apologize for the confusion.
Later — Wayne
Wayne Karrfalt for Cynopsis: Digital
08.05.09
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Bollywood Hero
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