Briefly NotedFacebook Rolls Out New Privacy FeaturesAuthored by Jay Baage on July 2, 2009 - 8:32am.
Palo Alto - Facebook has begun testing new privacy options. Once the changes - now in beta and not yet final - are complete, users will be able to decide who can see their Facebook posts on a post-by-post basis, according to PC World. Nickelodeon Launches AddictingGames For iPhonesAuthored by Jay Baage on July 2, 2009 - 8:19am.
Los Angeles - Viacom-owned kids channel Nickelodeon (NYSE: VIA) is launching a cross-promotion network for the iPhone, dubbed the AddictingGames iNetwork. AddictingGames will be publishing games from its own and other Viacom properties on the network as well as invite indie game developers to benefit from the brand name. Report: Evite Lays of a Quarter of EmployeesAuthored by Jay Baage on July 2, 2009 - 8:08am.
New York - Online invitation service Evite, owned by IAC (NSDQ: IACI), is has laid off almost a quarter of its personel, 9 employees out of 38 total, and will reorganize to cope with a slump in advertising, according to Paid Content. IAC Chairman Barry Diller said in the first quarter earnings call that display advertising on Evite, its main source of revenue, has been hurt due to the downturn. YouTube Co-Founder Chen Takes Position at GoogleAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on July 1, 2009 - 9:28am.
San Bruno,
Calif. - YouTube co-founder and
chief technology officer Steve Chen has stepped down to take an unspecified
position at parent company Google (NASD: GOOG), All Things D reported. "Steve shifted
his focus to help with some Google engineering projects. He's still involved
with YouTube and invested in its success," YouTube spokesman Ricard Reyes
told The Times' Bits Blog. Chen's holdings in YouTube, which was acquired by
Google for $1.65 billion, reportedly were worth more than $326 million in
February 2007.
Pandora Comments on New Submission RequirementAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on July 1, 2009 - 9:27am.
San Francisco
- Tim Westergren, founder and CEO of streaming music service Pandora, has
responded to complaints about the company's new requirement that independent
artists first list a CD for sale on Amazon before they are eligible for play on
Pandora, Hypebot reports. Westergren chalked the move up to three reasons:
"user experience, improving the metadata, and managing submissions."
"We are huge believers in not discriminating against aspiring/emerging
artists -- 70% of the 75,000 artists in our collection are not on a major
label," Westergren told Hypebot. "All we're asking of artists is to
make great music, and have it available for easy purchase for Pandora's
audience."
Sony Music, RED in Talks With IODA for Distribution, MarketingAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on July 1, 2009 - 9:25am.
Los Angeles
- Major record label Sony Music Entertainment and its RED Distribution arm are
in talks to partner with IODA, a provider of digital distribution services for
independent artists, Digital Music News reported. The proposed deal reportedly
centers on use of IODA's Rightsholder Dashboard, an online tool that artists,
managers and labels can use to track sales and related data.
Yahoo Enables Flickr Photo Posting to TwitterAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on July 1, 2009 - 9:23am.
San Francisco
- Yahoo's (NASD: YHOO) Flickr photo-sharing site has launched a new feature that lets users easily
post Flick photos to their Twitter accounts. The Flickr2Twitter feature lets
users post photos to Twitter with a new button above the photos on Flickr,
which creates a shortened URL at the address flic.kr.
Hype Machine Outs Bands it Thinks Manipulated ChartsAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on July 1, 2009 - 9:22am.
Los Angeles
- Hype Machine, an aggregator of music based on coverage and buzz generated on
blogs, has made changes to its chart of popular songs after it found allege
manipulation of some of the placements. The company found that multiple fake
accounts had been created whose only actions were to favorite a single band's
songs, upping their ranking. Hype Machine also went as far as to name the bands
"who (or their managers, promoters, interns, determined fans, there is no
way to ultimately know) we believe have attempted to manipulate the charts on
the Hype Machine."
1Cast Mobile Clip Service Adds Al Jazeera English, Fox BusinessAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on July 1, 2009 - 9:21am.
Kirkland,
Wash. - 1Cast, the provider of a
video news aggregation service for smartphones and the Web, said on Wednesday
that it has added programming from Al Jazeera English and Fox Business Network
to its service. 1Cast also offers up-to-the-minute video clips from the
Associated Press, BBC, Bloomberg, Reuters, CNBC and All Things D.
Lime Wire Store to Stock CD Baby Digital CatalogAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on July 1, 2009 - 9:20am.
New York
- Lime Wire, a provider of peer-to-peer file-sharing software and an online
media store, announced on Wednesday that it has partnered with online CD
retailer CD Baby. Under the deal, the LimeWire Store will now sell CD Baby's
digital catalog, boosting its library to over 3.5 million songs. CD Baby offers
recordings from over 240,000 artists.
Report: U.S. Used Game Market Hits $2B, 100 Million UnitsAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on June 30, 2009 - 8:39am.
New York - The U.S. market for
used video games has reached $2 billion in annual revenues, with 100 million
units now changing hands each year, according to a report from Wedbush Morgan
cited by GamesIndustry.biz. The figure represents one-third of all games sold
every year. The firm said that just 5% of new game sales are affected by the
used market, noting that most used games do not appear on the market until more
than two months after their physical release dates.
Pandora Requires Indie Artists to Have CDs Listed on AmazonAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on June 30, 2009 - 8:35am.
San Francisco
- Streaming radio service Pandora is now requiring independent artists to stock
a physical CD for sale at Amazon.com before adding their songs to the service,
Hypebot reported. Submissions must be available as a physical CD, and include
cover art and a UPC code, in part due to a deal to display album art on Pandora
via Amazon's servers. Artists are also encouraged to joint the Amazon Advantage
Program, which costs $29.95 per year and gives Amazon a 55% cut of profits from
CD sales.
White House Launches New Site to Track Federal IT SpendingAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on June 30, 2009 - 8:32am.
Washington
- The White House on Tuesday launched USASpending.gov, a new web site designed
to inform visitors about how the federal government is spending money on
information technology projects. Speaking at a forum in New York Tuesday morning, Vivek Kundra, the
federal chief information officer, said that although information on the site
already was publicly available, the site's new "dashboard" format is
designed to make it much easier to understand. The site, available at the link
below, features information on nearly 7,000 federal IT investments.
Microsoft's IE8 Sponsors Free Music via Live NationAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on June 30, 2009 - 8:28am.
Los Angeles
- Concert promotion giant Live Nation announced on Tuesday that it partnered
with Microsoft to offer free music downloads to fans who download new customized
versions of the recently-launched Internet Explorer 8 Web browser. The Live Nation
custom browsers will give access to access to an exclusive song from
Nickelback, and content from the Bamboozle Music Festival. IE 8 will be a
sponsor of the band's tour and the Live Nation festival.
French Xbox Users Get Canal Plus TV, Movies, SoccerAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on June 29, 2009 - 11:04am.
London
- Microsoft (NASD: MSFT) has partnered with French pay-TV company Canal Plus to offer
movies, TV and soccer on demand through its Xbox 360 video game console,
Reuters reported. The deal will give French Xbox Live members access to some
3,000 programs, as well as French Ligue 1 soccer matches. Microsoft signed an
Xbox Live programming carriage deal last month with BSkyB.
Nextgov.com Tool Aggregates Government Twitter FeedsAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on June 29, 2009 - 11:03am.
Washington
- Government Executive Media Group, publisher of the Nextgov.com federal
technology community site, said on Monday that it has launched a new tool
designed to aggregate official Twitter feeds from federal government agencies. "Readers
can see real time tweets from across the federal government such as a report
from the Rose Garden on the President's energy bill speech, a warning from the National Terror
Alert Response
Center about terror threats in Sudan, and a
tweet from the NIH on recent findings from their cancer research," said Nextgov
executive editor Allan Holmes.
MTV Games Names Scott Guthrie Vice President, General ManagerAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on June 29, 2009 - 11:02am.
New York
- Viacom's (NYSE: VIA) MTV Networks on Monday named Scott Guthrie as vice president and
general manager of MTV Games. Guthrie was formerly executive vice president of
publishing at THQ. The company also said it named former Sony Computer
Entertainment America executive David Cox as its senior vice president of
sales.
"Transformers" Posts Biggest Opening in IMAX HistoryAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on June 29, 2009 - 11:00am.
Los Angeles - The IMAX Corporation (NASD: IMAX) announced on Monday that
Paramount's "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" posted the biggest
opening in IMAX history, with a single-day domestic gross of $3.9 million, and five-day
gross of $14.4 million. The film was available from 169 IMAX screens in the U.S.,
making for a per screen average of over $85,000 during the five-day opening
period. The company said the IMAX release contributed more than 7% of the
film's $201 million total, on less than 2% of the screens showing the picture.
Sirius XM Debuts Michael Jackson Tribute ChannelAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on June 29, 2009 - 10:58am.
New York
- Sirius XM (NASD: SIRI), the satellite radio firm with major operations in DC, on Saturday
launched The Michael Jackson Tribute Channel, honoring the pop music icon who
died last week. The limited-run channel, featuring Jackson's music, as well as interviews and
stories from other artists, will air through midnight Monday on Sirius channel
51 and XM channel 62.
YouTube Ups Video Upload Size Limit From 1GB to 2GBAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on June 26, 2009 - 12:05pm.
San Bruno,
Calif. - Google's (NASD: GOOG) YouTube has
increased the maximum size of video file that may be uploaded from 1GB to 2GB,
keeping the maximum length of videos at 10 minutes, Mashable reported. The move
should make it easier for publishers of HD video to post their content to the
site.
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