Tony Snow’s cancer returns, has spread to liver
White House Spokesman Tony Snow has found out that cancer has returned to his body and has now spread to his liver. Snow, 51, had his colon removed in 2005, after a diagnosis of colon cancer. Yesterday doctors removed a small growth and determined it was malignant and had metastasized to his liver.
Adobe to take wraps off Creative Suite 3
Creative Suite 3 (or CS3) includes new versions of 13 applications including Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Flash. It’s the first integrated product line since Adobe bought Macromedia. For example, web designers will be able to manipulate photos inside Dreamweaver instead of bouncing back and forth from Photoshop. This is a pre-announcement announcement: CS3 is due out [...]
Here come the Apple TV hacks
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.
The Onion News Network goes live
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.
Yahoo offers mobile ad network
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, [...]
‘Nightly’ debuts in high definition
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 [...]
And the YouTube winners are…
Today YouTube announced the winners of its first YouTube Video Awards contest. Users picked the clips over a week of voting.
Verizon to launch local news channel in D.C.
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 [...]
ABC.com rolls out video player update
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 [...]
ABC.com launches original series ‘Voicemail’
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…
‘You Shoot it, We’ll Share it’ coming to Fox Chicago
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 [...]
A test of cable TV vs. Apple TV
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 [...]
Yahoo’s new search ads working ‘better than expected’
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.
CW working on user-generated show ‘Viewsers’
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). [...]
Red Sox player starts blog, sportswriter mocks it
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 [...]
NFL may ban even more web video
The NFL is considering expanding its ban on video on newspaper and TV websites. Last year, it banned local TV photographers from the sidelines and prohibited game-day video on unofficial websites — even sound bites with coaches and players. And now it may ban any midweek practice video or press conferences, as well. “[The issue] [...]
Newsroom tools stretch to the web
Vendors that produce TV graphics, editing and newsroom systems are hard at work expanding the applications to incorporate the web and mobile. “The next wave that’s coming up is people trying to figure out how to competently and effectively do online communications and web production from the same newsroom,” said AP Director of Broadcast Technology [...]
Discovery Planet Earth’s interactive simulcast
Discovery put together a convergent online simulcast during the premiere of Planet Earth, an 11 part HD extravaganza. While watching the show on TV, viewers can log on to the synchronized online presentation for expanded material and trivia quizzes while chatting with other users.
Welcome to the two song, one ringtone record contract
The NY Times looks at how digital downloads are (finally) forcing record labels to rethink how they go about selling music. The story starts with an anecdote about a new R&B trio – Candy Hill, signed by Universal/Republic Records to record two songs. In the digital download world, people are choosing singles over albums by [...]
TV Guide joins the growing online video search field
LR pal Scott Kirsner writes about the new front in search: organizing the ever-expanding flood of web video into online guides. You’ve read me gush over TV Guide and its understanding of how it recognized it needed to get out of the “little magazine with TV listings” business and get into the video guide information [...]
