Mediagazer: Sony's Multi-Platform Content Play Is A Qriocity (Robert Andrews/paidContent:UK)

3:45 AM ET, September 2, 2010

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Avner Ronen / Boxee Blog:

How Boxee Sees the Apple TV — Most of us at Boxee are Apple fanboys. If it is silver and it has the Apple logo on it, we pre-order it. If there's a line around the block, chances are we're in it. And everything stops at Boxee HQ while we unbox the latest gadget to come out of Cupertino.

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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

Apple TV: $99 Device; $4.99 First-Run Movies; 99-Cent TV — And here it is ... the pocket-rocket version of Apple TV with $4.99 first-run movies and $0.99 TV shows. The main content events: as expected, ABC (NYSE: DIS), Fox and Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX). And, as expected, it's a heck of a lot cheaper …

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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline.com:

Apple To Offer ABC & Fox Shows For $.99; Other Networks & Studios Oppose Rental Plan — For the fans of the 99 Cent stores: now they can buy top-shelf ABC and Fox series for that much. Apple announced today that Fox and ABC, ABC Family, Disney Channel series that are owned by the networks …

Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Here's The Difference Between Apple TV And Google TV

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TBD:

Discovery Channel hostage situation: Gunman, believed to be James Jay Lee, shot dead; hostages safe — UPDATE 2:25 All workers in building were evacuated. Many told to go home though they left personal items in the building. — UPDATE 2:21: Police are saying there is at least one hostage.

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Choire / The Awl:
Discovery HQ Being Evacuated: Man Demands “Stop All Shows Glorifying Human Birthing”

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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Twitter breaks story on Discovery Channel gunman

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Dave Levy / State of the Fourth Estate:
Discovery Channel Stand Off: The Day The Old/New Media Line Ceased to Exist

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New York Times:

Tabloid Hack Attack on Royals, and Beyond — IN NOVEMBER 2005, three senior aides to Britain's royal family noticed odd things happening on their mobile phones. Messages they had never listened to were somehow appearing in their mailboxes as if heard and saved.

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Nick Davies / Guardian: Coulson ‘discussed hacking at NoW’

Mike Oreskes / ap.org:

AP announces editorial guidelines for credit and attribution — Associated Press Senior Managing Editor Michael Oreskes has announced a new set of guidelines for credit and attribution to the AP staff. His policy document is below. — Colleagues, — In the age of the Web …

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Apple Debuts Facebook's New Music Service (Which Doesn't Run on Facebook) — My sources in the music industry were correct: Apple has been working on an iTunes update that's all about social, not streaming. — But rather than do the obvious thing-create a system that links …

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Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Apple announces iTunes 10 with Ping social network

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Irina Slutsky / AdAge:

Google Maps Gets an Ad Unit: Your Logo Here — Search Giant Says Algorithm Will Keep Logos From Getting Spammy — NEW YORK (AdAge) — After a six-month tryout in Australia and New Zealand, Google is bringing Sponsored Map Icons to the U.S., allowing companies to pay for their logos to show …

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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

The New MySpace Movies, Presented By... The Facebook Movie — It seems as if the ads for Sony's upcoming movie The Social Network — you know, the Facebook movie — are everywhere on the Internet. They're here on TechCrunch, they're on VentureBeat, they're on Techmeme — they're just about everywhere but Facebook itself.

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Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:

Sony's Multi-Platform Content Play Is A Qriocity — Sony's long-held ambition of providing a content service available to its game console and other devices is finally coming together. — At the IFA show in Berlin on Wednesday, CEO Howard Stringer said the cloud-based Sony Online Services …

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Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:

Paste Magazine Is Dead — We heard earlier today that Paste Magazine was in imminent danger of folding. Looks like it's already happened. More » — 02:50 PM — 211,268 — 461 — By Rosa Golijan … All the Cool New Stuff From Apple Today

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Ken Doctor / Newsonomics:

Out of the Western Sky: It's a Hyperlocal, Worldwide Mormon Vertical! — It's an original recipe. — Start with several cups full of daily newspaper and broadcast types. Take a teaspoon of the Christian Science Monitor. Add in a dash of HuffPo spice. Ladle a tablespoon of Demand Media into the mix.

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David Folkenflik / NPR:

The Saudi Prince, The Mosque And Fox News … The proposed construction of an Islamic center and mosque close to ground zero in New York City has inspired intense scrutiny from news outlets this month — and few have outstripped the Fox News Channel in their interest.

Rebecca Dana / The Daily Beast:

Implosion at CBS News — With a new round of layoffs expected this fall, CBS News is being trimmed to the bone. Rebecca Dana on the dramatic drop in ratings, strange BlackBerry blackouts, and eager suitors for anchor Katie Couric. — On Monday, Katie Couric begins her fifth …

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Online Video News:

A Look Back: Lessons learned from TV Everywhere a year after deployment — For nearly a year now, thePlatform has been supporting some of the largest TV Everywhere initiatives to date. In that time, we've encountered some surprising—as well as anticipated—challenges while helping our customers architect TV Everywhere.

Alan Deutschman / Vanity Fair:

The Vanity Fair 100 — Two years ago, when Facebook recruited its 100-millionth user, a celebratory toga party was thrown by C.E.O. Mark Zuckerberg, a classics buff who is prone to spontaneously reciting Homeric verses from memory. Since then the stunningly successful Web site has quintupled …

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Bruce Golding / New York Post:

Sportswriter sued over failure to deliever Valvano bio — Tweet — The buzzer sounded today for a sportswriter who blew his deadline for a book on the late college basketball coach Jim Valvano. — Penguin Group slapped best-selling author Adrian Wojnarowski with a suit seeking the return …

Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal:

Tribune Talks to Be Guided by Mediator — Tribune Co. said a court-appointed mediator will help negotiate among sparring creditors in the media company's 21-month stint in bankruptcy, a sign of how contentious the process has become. — Tribune also said its board formed a special committee …