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As promised, Fox’s owned-and-operated station sites are beginning to stream entire episodes of Prison Break and Bones for free. It’s part of the relaunch of the O&O sites under the MyFox brand. I attempted to watch Prison Break on MyFoxNY — sponsored by Toyota — but I was blocked because “the viewing is limited to specific geographic locations based on participating stations.” Interesting. (Thanks, Rocker!)
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News.com has assembled a great slide show of manipulated media photographs over the years. As technology improves, I imagine such trickery will only intensify.
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One year after it’s debut, Al Gore’s Current is making a “small” profit. Next month, the cable network will announce plans for an online expansion. And the co-creator of The Daily Show, Madeleine Smithberg, is planning on creating a show (or pod, if you will) for Current next fall. Current was one of the first evangelists of user-created video content — users are even creating half of Current’s Toyota and Sony commercials — but Broadcasting & Cable’s John Higgins raises an interesting point. “[They] caught the trend early, but it is kind of surfing by them,” he said. “These guys had all the right ideas and all the same machinery in place that YouTube did, but they didn’t quite do it. Lighting struck 10 feet to the left of them.” Ouch. I wouldn’t say they’ve missed the boat just yet, and I think it’s a little unfair to not draw a distinction between moderated citizen journalism (Current) and unmoderated user created video (YouTube). But stay tuned.
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With the launch of the new Lost Remote, I’ve streamlined the jobs page and made it easier for companies to submit job openings. So if you have an opening for a web, wireless or hybrid position, tap into the most qualified candidates by posting a job on Lost Remote for free.
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Wow, look at these Comscore stats for July alone: MySpace Video doubled, Yahoo Video jumped 28 percent and YouTube rose 20 percent. That’s over a single month. Plus, YouTube is now ranked in Comscore’s top 50 list. “The trends we’re witnessing indicate that online video is emerging from its infancy and entering the mainstream,” said Jack Flanagan, EVP of Comscore Media Metrix. Yes, but traditional media-produced video is not growing nearly as fast as user created video. The implication is clear if it wasn’t obvious before: media organizations must 1) pursue user created video as quickly as possible and 2) instill YouTube-like functionality in traditional video presentations.
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Following in ABC’s footsteps, CBS plans to stream Survivor, Jericho, Numb3rs and all three CSI series on its broadband player, Innertube, with limited commercial interruption. The shows will be available online the morning after they air on CBS. “It further helps us extend the reach of the CBS brand, provides a new avenue for advertisers to engage with our programming, which in turn creates a new source of revenue for our company,” said Larry Kramer, president of CBS Digital Media. Back in June, CBS firmed up a deal with its affiliates that involves sharing revenue generated from new digital offerings. This is the latest in a series of tectonic shifts that, frankly, would have been ridiculed by the networks 18 months ago. How times have changed. The shows will debut on CBS.com next month.
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You can’t keep good geeks down. Chris Pirillo and Leo Laporte are hoping to launch a site that would capitalize on their TechTV fame. The two were hosts on the niche cable channel that launched as ZDTV in 1998 before getting the zap in 2004. Pirillo, one of the channel’s more memorable presenters, has registered UndoTV.com with the intent of having a user-contributed-content community.
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Update: YouTube crashed this morning and stayed offline for most of the day, but now it’s back. The message on the home page read, “OK. We admit it. We’re fixing stuff, but we’ll be up soon.” (For hours, the message explained that YouTube was “putting out some new features, sweeping out the cobwebs and zapping a few gremlins.” Yeah, right.) Like MySpace a few months ago, YouTube’s growing pains are starting to result in some serious downtime. And what’s worse is the fact the embedded players left big gaping holes in blogs everywhere, including right here on Lost Remote. (Thanks Hal and Chris!)
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A study by ForeSee Results ranked news sites like CNN.com, MSNBC.com, ABCNews.com and NYTimes.com in the 72-74 percent range for customer satisfaction. “These mediocre customer satisfaction scores prove that none of these online media outlets had been able to replicate the success of its TV or newspaper counterpart,” reads the report, pointing to a “lack of personality” as a culprit. While Foresee didn’t include TV or newspaper satisfaction numbers for reference, the report listed Google at the top of information sites with 80 percent. The report goes on to recommend that news sites beef up their personalities and “choose features that work.” Hmmm, really, features that work? I’m going to go out on a limb here and say this study is questionable at best. Actually, it’s lame. If online news has such “mediocre” satisfaction, then why are more and more people depending on it to the expense of TV and newspapers? And the last thing TV websites need these days is a dose of TV-like personality.
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Comcast is looking to beef up its online video offerings and plans to ramp up its online sales staff with the goal of becoming an entertainment video destination. “For us to be successful online, you have to believe that people will still want to come to a single source for much of their online video entertainment,” said Warren Schlichting, VP-new business strategies at Comcast. “That’s the basic underlying philosophy. We think there’s a role for somebody to work with many content providers.” And Comcast plans to open its Comcast.net portal to all of its customers, not just the 10 million high-speed subscribers. Comcast.net’s “The Fan” draw 60 million video views a month. (Via PaidContent)
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Google quietly ditched the link to Froogle on its home page and replaced it with a link to Google Video. Just how big is it to be on the minimalist home page of the search giant? Google Video snagged twice its usual share of clicks on Google properties the day of the switch. Before the switch, about half of Google Video’s traffic came from the Google home page; the day of the switch, that amount jumped to 70 percent. The move speaks volumes about the stock Google is placing on online video advertising instead of chasing the comparison shopping dragon with lackluster results. Froogle has been lagging behind Shopzilla and Yahoo’s shopping product.
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In a sit-down with reporters, Katie Couric answered a few questions about the revamped and “less formulaic” CBS Evening News, which debuts with her at the helm on September 5th. “I hope quality will beget quantity,” she said, pointing out that they may displace some news of the day with more in-depth reports. In her six-city “listening tour” this summer, Couric said viewers told her over and over again that the newscast should be an hour long — a very unlikely scenario. Asked what her signature sign-out would be, Couric said she’s still thinking about it. “I contemplated ‘peace out, homies,’” Couric said. “That just didn’t feel completely right.” Rehearsals on the new CBS News set begin on August 18th.
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By diversifying its newspaper company with cable TV, the E. W. Scripps Company has been able to weather the media stock downturn better than most. Now the challenge is to continue extending online with high-value video content and shopping functionality.
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I trotted up the street to sit in on some of Adaptive Path’s UX Week confab here in Washington D.C. The focus of the program is considering the user in design and development of online products. Some lostremoters may recall a previous thread where we asked you what you considered the best designed broadcast Web site. The user experience gurus at Adaptive Path (remember, these are the folks who thought of AJAX) put a lot of stock into using business logic in searching for the value proposition when approaching design and interaction. What may be good for e-commerce and b2b may be good to consider when thinking about maximizing broadcast online design. The bottom line: Good design is money in the bank, not a cost center. Where do you get the most buck for your clicks, and where do you want your users to go? When you walk into the next management meeting where every department wants a piece of the homepage, the tone of the conversation may change when you start talking about the user experience in terms of Net Present Value and the opportunity cost of overloading. The big message is: if you can’t measure it, it’s not worth doing.
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