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Some interesting numbers from Michael Eisner’s daily teen soap opera, Prom Queen, which is produced exclusively for the web. The show has been live for 40 days so far, and it has racked up 5.2 million total views so far: 3.7 million views on MySpace, 854,000 on Veoh and 232,000 on YouTube (there are other sites, too). Over 18,000 people have added the show as a friend on MySpace.
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I was browsing KPRC’s site today, Click2Houston, and I just noticed a nifty home page video player that I thought was worth sharing. One of the big challenges for TV sites these days is effectively integrating a video player on the home page without devouring up too much space — and without ending up with a player that’s too small. The Post-Newsweek sites, which are powered by Internet Broadcasting, have a small player that expands and layers over the home page when played. While the player isn’t perfect, the functionality is slick, if you ask me. Screen grab of player in action…
Adds Warren in comments: “They’ve had this at least 7 months. The only problem with it is that until you notice the ‘play’ word you have little indication its a video player. They need to make it LOOK more like a minature video player… for the longest time, I thought it was just an ad.”
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The NBC stations’ interactive weekday show iVillage Live, which has been broadcasting from Orlando, will move to WMAQ-TV in Chicago for its second season. Sources told TV Week that NBC felt that moving the show to Chicago — away from a vacationing audience with children — will make iVillage Live more in common with big-city markets and would allow producers to make some of the content edgier.
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The majority of shares from the family that controls a majority stake of Dow Jones will vote against selling the company to News Corp., a trustee said. This despite an extremely generous $5 billion all-cash offer that sent Dow Jones’ stock skyrocketing. Members of the company’s union also opposed the takeover. “The staff, from top to bottom, opposes a Rupert Murdoch takeover of Dow Jones & Co.,” they said in a statement. “The massive premium Mr. Murdoch is offering suggests only one recourse to make the acquisition profitable: gutting the enterprise and slashing the staff that make it the leading financial news organization.”
Earlier: News Corp bids for Dow Jones Company
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Our Joost watch continues with news that Turner, Sony Pictures Television, Sports Illustrated, NHL and Hasbro are adding content to the video platform. Later this month, CNN will add shows like Anderson Cooper 360 and Larry King Live. Also, Joost is now “commercially available,” but only if you’re invited by an existing beta tester. Release…
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The first-ever Webby Film and Video Awards — created to highlight some of the best video premiering on the internet — announced its list of winners today. NBC’s “The Office Webisodes” won for best comedy, National Geographic’s “Atmosphere 2006″ won in the experimental category and Yahoo’s “Kevin Sites in the Hotzone” won for news, among others. Lonelygirl15’s Jessica Lee Rose and Ask a Ninja won for best acting. Check out the full list of winners with links right here.
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The Flip Video camera can record up to 30-minutes ($119) or 60-minutes ($149) of video, and it has a flip-out USB port that plugs straight into your computer. When you plug it in, editing software automatically launches. When you’re done, you can email the clip to a friend or post it straight to YouTube or Grouper. Nifty. Of course the video quality is only “acceptable,” but this idea of plug-and-play cameras will certainly catch on, and I’m sure we’ll see higher-quality units on the market soon.
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Shares of Dow Jones are surging (chart) on reports from CNBC that News Corp. made an unsolicited takeover bid for the company. The $5 billion offer ($60/share) would be a 65 percent premium to yesterday’s close.
UPDATE: Dow Jones confirmed that News Corp. has made a takeover offer, and it says it has hired advisors to help it consider whether or not to sell. From the press release: “The Board of Directors and members and trustees of the Bancroft family, who hold shares representing a majority of the Company’s voting power, are evaluating the proposal. There can be no assurance that this evaluation will lead to any transaction.”
ALSO: See a list of Dow Jones properties here. Beyond the WSJ, it also includes Marketwatch, Barron’s and Factiva.
UPDATE from the WSJ: “The mere possibility that Mr. Murdoch could get control of The Wall Street Journal is almost certain to spark a firestorm of controversy…. Disclosure of the Murdoch offer — and the company’s evaluation of it — is likely to bring other potential buyers into the picture.” More… (sub. req.)
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PrezVid.com is Jeff Jarvis’ video blog on the 2008 election. “Washingtonpost.com saw us covering this arena and found a way to incorporate our content while helping to support the coverage,” Jarvis wrote. “This is an important experiment, showing how a news organization can expand by building a broader network of coverage through independent blogs.” Prezvid will provide content in exchange for traffic, promotion and revenue.
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Google homepages got a little rebranding overnight. They’re now called “iGoogle”:
Interestingly, according to the AP:
The team behind the product had originally planned to call it “iGoogle” only to be vetoed at the last minute by Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, said Marissa Mayer, the company’s vice president of search products and user experience. The project’s secret name has always been evident in the “ig” shorthand that appeared within the Web address of the personal pages, although no one knew the meaning of those two letters until now.
It’s important to pay attention to this. This is what our homepages look like now. In the 2.0 world, it’s no longer about “Make us your homepage.” It’s about what you’re going to own the one square inch on my iGoogle page or my Newsvine or RSS reader. I have hundreds of feeds coming into my personalized homepage now. How will your station or newspaper earn that space?
UPDATE: Some of you have commented that your personalized Google homepage was reset or wiped out during the transition to iGoogle. LR readers Ed and Jason report their choices have vanished. One commenter points us to this board at WebmasterWorld.com where several other people are reporting the same problem.
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