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When people asked me why I wanted a closed-loop system like Apple TV (it only works with iTunes downloads), I responded that there will be plenty of hacks soon enough. But I didn’t think it would be this soon. AppleTVHacks.net is born.
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The Onion just launched its online fake news network. A taste…
Gotta love the ad in the embedded player. No, we don’t get a cut.
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On the heels of launching OneSearch, a mobile search product with a local focus, Yahoo is poised to debut a mobile ad network with text, display and video capabilities. Initial partners include MobiTV, Opera and Go2, with others in discussions. “Yahoo has plunged aggressively into the business in the last few months,” said Gary Arlen, president of Arlen Communications, a research firm. “But it’s so new, nobody is ahead.”
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NBC Nightly News became the first network evening newscast to air in HD Monday night. Watch a clip here (in MSNBC.com’s 16×9 player) of Brian Williams describing the transition, and Nightly’s director Brett Holey has many more details on The Daily Nightly blog. Of course, it’s not a full switch to HD. While the studio cameras and graphics are in high-def, field coverage remains in standard definition (with curtains) for now. But NBC is gradually upgrading field gear and editing facilities to HD.
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Today YouTube announced the winners of its first YouTube Video Awards contest. Users picked the clips over a week of voting.
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Verizon’s IPTV network FiOS will take the wraps off a local TV channel called FiOS1 later this week in the D.C. area. It’s Verizon’s first “owned and operated TV channel in the country,” and it will carry local news, weather, traffic and sports programming — including live college games. FiOS1 will also air video from local citizen journalists. It’s yet another competitive threat for local TV news, and you can bet FiOS will launch more of these around the country as it rolls out its IPTV network.
Update: InvitedMedia in comments reminds us that this is the Michael Rosenblum project we mentioned a few months ago.
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As I was loading the Voicemail clip (see post below), I was prompted to download a quick app for ABC.com’s new video player. Sure enough, the new player is rolling out with new features such as full-screen and “mini” player modes. As previously reported, ABC.com is also adding the “pause ad,” which appears when you pause a clip.
When you mouse-over the “size” icon on the player, you see these choices.
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It’s a web-only, weekly video series that features actual voicemails from co-creator Michael Wilde (he saved them for ten years.) Pretty funny stuff, especially “Poetry.” ABC.com plans to debut several new episodes every week. Voicemail will also be available on mobile. Screen grab followed by a press release…
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WFLD-TV in Chicago is prepping a high school sports site called FoxJox.com that encourages users to upload short video highlight clips. WFLD is visiting various schools and educators, reports this blog, to explain the new service and give shooting and editing tips. The trademarked tagline is “You Shoot it, We’ll Share it.” It’s unclear if FoxJox.com is just WFLD’s beta site or if it will become the new high school sports destination for all the Fox owned-and-operated stations. As we reported last week, CBS bought MaxPreps.com in an effort to compete on this same front. (Thanks Mike for the link!)
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For the next week, I’m going to conduct a test. I’m going to turn off my cable TV and attempt to replace the shows I watch by buying them on iTunes and watching them on Apple TV. Then at the end of the week, I’ll compare the costs and see how many shows I missed — and how many new shows and video podcasts I’ve discovered along the way. This experiment, by the way, does not preclude me from watching online video that isn’t available on iTunes, because I do that anyway. But I will miss the Final Four. Stay tuned for a full report in a week.
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In the first six weeks since Yahoo launched “Panama,” the new search ad platform has increased click rates by 10 percent. “It’s just working quicker and better than people had expected,” said UBS AG analyst Ben Schachter in New York.
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The show would feature some of the best user-generated video on the web while offering real-time feedback from viewers. Uh, viewsers. (We believe Safran invented this word years ago on Lost Remote, so we’re proud the CW is planning to call the show Viewsers.) Meanwhile, VH1’s user-generated show Acceptable.TV premiered last week (here’s some background). Screen grab below…
On Acceptable.TV, you can watch mini-shows on TV and the web. Some shows are produced by users, others by the show’s producers. Then you vote for your favorites online, and the ones with the most votes are cleared to produce another episode for the next week’s show.
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Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling has begun a blog, 38 Pitches (Curt’s #38) where he talks about baseball directly with the fans. On the blog, Curt even broke some news about the Red Sox choice for which pitcher would be their closer this season. Now Schill is definitely an outspoken guy - he calls into sports radio and has posted on Sox forums, and the blog is a logical extension of his persona. So does the Boston media welcome this refreshingly open exchange with a ballplayer? Nope. In today’s Boston Globe, sportswriter Dan Shaughnessy mocks the blog and the people who comment there.
Adds Cory in comments: “Sports is a key section on newspaper sites (and many TV sites), and it draws a ton of traffic. But now the pro teams are creating their own online media destinations with their own video reporting and player blogs. At the same time, the leagues are restricting the video we can show online, and most won’t allow their players to blog for us. You get the picture. They want our users to shift to their sites. They want our eyeballs, yet at the same time, our reporting has promoted their teams and their players for years. So from a personal perspective, let this guy blog. But professionally, blogs like these are a direct competitive threat.”
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