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Salahuddin Choudhary / The Official Google Blog:
Announcing Google TV: TV meets web. Web meets TV. — If there's one entertainment device that people know and love, it's the television. In fact, 4 billion people across the world watch TV and the average American spends five hours per day in front of one*.
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Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Google Unwraps Its Long-Awaited TV Platform; Plans To Ship In Fall — With the introduction of Google TV, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is now the latest company to try to bridge the gap between the web and the TV. The key feature of the long-expected platform, which the company is unveiling right now at Google I/O …
Dan Gillmor / Mediactive:
Microchanneling: One Big Implication of Google TV — As expected, Google TV was announced at this morning's I/O keynote (here's the video site). There's so much to think about in this initiative. One strikes me as especially intriguing: This is a big boost for micro-niche video.
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Guardian Looking For Money In API, New Readers Club — It may be sceptical that readers would pay to read its news site - but Guardian News & Media is today taking the wraps off two alternative new commercial models... Readers Club — We've known for nine months that an equivalent …
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Jemima Kiss / Guardian:
Guardian announces commercial launch of Open Platform — The Guardian today introduced the second phase of its Open Platform initiative, expanding the content-sharing service to commercial partners. — A comprehensive set of developer tools and resources, the commercial launch …
Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter Online:
Ben Franklin Project's ‘Digital First, Print Last’ Approach Produces First Products — In April, Journal Register CEO John Paton presented the newspapers in the company with a challenge: create a Web and print product in 30 days using only free tools, and seek help from the community to do it.
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Freelance Journalism Site True/Slant In M&A Talks — More M&A may be on the way in the freelance content space, although on a much more modest scale than yesterday's Yahoo-Associated Content deal. True/Slant, a freelance news startup that encourages “entrepreneurial journalism,” …
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Jeff Bercovici / DailyFinance:
Will Mort Zuckerman Move the New York Daily News Downtown? — The employees of Conde Nast, the glossy magazine publisher, may not be relishing the prospect of a corporate move to downtown Manhattan, but at least they should have some company down there. Mort Zuckerman, the owner …
Paul Bradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:
Wiki journalism: the experiences of WikiCity Guides — I asked Pat Lazure, co-founder of the wiki journalism project WikiCity Guides, to tell me more about his experiences with the project. This is what he said: — Key Factors Driving Citizen Journalism
Jason Horowitz / Washington Post:
Will Eliot Spitzer land at CNN or host for another news outlet? — Eliot Spitzer likes being on television. — The former New York governor often rises early to banter on MSNBC's “Morning Joe” talk show. On Monday, he taped an interview with Julie Menin, a community board activist for her show …
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Mark Milian / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Web vets bet online video is ready for a TV takeover — Jason Calacanis is a betting man. — The poker enthusiast gambled that blogging would break out when he founded Weblogs Inc. in 2003. He was right on the money and cashed out in a sale to AOL for $25 million.
Simon Dumenco / AdAge:
Greyson Chance, 12-year-old YouTube and Twitter Superstar: How He Really Happened — Dumenco's Trendrr Chart of the Week — First, take a look at the Trendrr chart above. Note that Greyson — Greyson Michael Chance, a 12-year-old Oklahoma boy whose parents blessed him with an awesomely Twitter-ready …
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Jim / Gannett Blog:
Urgent: Gannett is launching new start-up focused on small, midsize firms; Robertson named its chief — Confirming months of speculation, Gannett disclosed this morning that it is establishing a new business unit that will offer marketing advice to small and midsize companies.
Mike Shields / Mediaweek:
MSNBC.com, BermanBraun in Talks for New Political Site — MSNBC.com and BermanBraun are in serious talks about the launch of a new content site—possibly this August—focused on politics that according to sources will borrow heavily from BermanBraun's current project with MSN, the celebrity photo-filled Wonderwall.
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Adrian Cockcroft / Adrian Cockcroft's Blog:
Netflix in the cloud and HTML5 — One of the fun things about working at Netflix is that we are always “leaning forward” and looking for new technologies to leverage. As we roll out our website to run on the Amazon cloud, we are also re-architecting the code base, adding internationalization support …
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Upfronts: CBS Move Takes Warner Brothers By Surprise — The fall CBS schedule, announced Wednesday, took many people by surprise — including Peter Roth, the president of Warner Brothers, which is the second biggest supplier of programs to CBS and other networks.
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Facebook's privacy crisis must thrill Hollywood — Recent changes to Facebook's privacy controls, as well as a litany of new products that share more user and demographic information with third-party partners, are ticking off a lot of users. — Weblogs and Mahalo founder Jason Calacanis …
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Newsonomics of content at the margins — [Each week, our friend Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of the news business for the Lab.] — Yahoo's purchase of Associated Content, for over $100 million, seemed to come out of the blue.
Laura Martinez / Multichannel:
Making Headlines In South Africa — Q&A With Univision President of News Alina Falcón — A television veteran — and 2009 Multichannel News Wonder Woman — Alina Falcon this year was named to the new post of president of news at Univision Communications.
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