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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 …
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
As CNN Considers Prime-Time Changes, Spitzer's Name Is Mentioned — As CNN scrambles to replace Campbell Brown on its wounded prime-time lineup, the most intriguing name purportedly on the channel's list is that of Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced former governor of New York.
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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 …
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.
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The Ben Franklin Project
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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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Public Parts — That's the title of my next book about the end of privacy and the benefits of publicness. I'm delighted to tell you that I've just agreed to write it for HarperCollins, my publisher for What Would Google Do? , working again with my brilliant editor there, Ben Loehnen.
Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Fox News targets Latinos with new website — (Reuters) - Fox News plans to launch this fall a website aimed at a Latino audience as it seeks to build its coverage and links with one of the fastest-growing U.S. communities. — Fox News, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp …
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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Christian Science Monitor
the nytpicker:
Ignore The Rumblings. He Lied About Serving In Vietnam. The Blumenthal Scoop Stands. The NYT Got This One Right. — We got several emails throughout the day and night yesterday from readers who wanted us to weigh in on the latest developments with the NYT's blockbuster scoop on Connecticut attorney general Richard Blumenthal.
paidContent:UK:
SeeSaw Launches Paid Options, Starting At £0.99 — By Mark Sweney: SeeSaw, the video-on-demand website born from the ashes of the failed Project Kangaroo, has launched a paid-for service with 1,000 hours of programming from 99p per episode up to £17.99 for a series.
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Guardian
Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
How local TV could go the way of newspapers — This is the first of two posts adapted from testimony I am scheduled to present at a Media Ownership Workshop being conducted Friday by the Federal Communications Commission at Stanford University. — The tipping point is not yet at hand …
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Dan Gillmor / Mediactive:
Hacks/Hackers Uniting for iPad Journalism; But What About Apple Control? — I love the Hacks/Hackers Unite idea — getting journalists and programmers and designers together to identify good ideas and hack them together. And I was considering attending this weekend's event in San Francisco until I saw the agenda:
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.
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 …
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 …