November 2011
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Netflix Viewing Seen Swelling U.S. Cable Bills →
US cable internet subs are about to become Canadian…
Time Warner Cable Inc. (TWC) and U.S. pay- TV companies, weighing how to profit from surging Internet demand spurred by Netflix Inc. (NFLX) and Hulu, are on the verge of instituting new fees on Web-access customers who use the most.
At least one major cable operator will institute so-called usage-based billing next year, predicts Craig...
Hot for “Bad Teacher”: Sony Spikes Sales With... →
Hollywood is trying to figure out how to get people to buy more movies instead of renting them. Sony might have an answer: Sell the flicks on iTunes, Amazon and other digital outlets before viewers can buy or rent them anywhere else.
Sony tried doing this with “Bad Teacher” last month, and the results sound encouraging for the studio. It says its “windowing” experiment boosted digital unit...
How 'Victoria's Secret Fashion Show' Turns $12... →
Broadcast in more than 180 countries, the $12 million made-for-TV-event attracts the world’s top models and features A-list musical guests. And it’s all designed to burnish a brand that peddles fantasies to everyone from teenagers to suburban housewives of America.
“It’s the only one-hour network show dedicated to a single brand,” says Mitro. “It puts our...
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VOD Rides to the Rescue of Indie Film →
Buoyed by good reviews, “Margin Call” has been rented online 250,000 times, noted Jon Feltheimer, co-chairman and CEO of Roadside stakeholder Lionsgate, during a conference call with media and analysts following the studio’s recent earnings announcement. “Margin Call” has made nearly $4 million at the domestic box office, and Feltheimer said he expects the movie to make as much, if...
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“Apple is designing a television that you can shout and gesticulate at – and it...”
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Next up for Apple, it’s iTV – the television that will respond when you shout at it | Technology | The Observer
With Connected TVs Expected to Boom, Marketers...
We’ve been hearing a lot about the convergence of television and the Web this year. From second screen apps and Twitter chatter about TV to set-top boxes and Internet-connected HDTVs, the two worlds are colliding in a big way. Apple is even rumored to be planning to get in on the game, launching an HDTV set of its own next year and possibly making a ..read more.. Smartr - your personal...
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“In mid-September, Viacom executives found what executives later called an...”
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Kids’ Nets Face the Mystery of Missing Children | MediaWorks - Advertising Age
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“It’s a big deal when an analyst as respected as Credit Suisse’s Stefan Anninger...”
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Analyst Warns: Pay TV Will Fade As Young Viewers Look For Cheaper Alternatives – Deadline.com
YouTube's Monetization Gap with Hulu - via Digiday →
When it comes to sheer revenue, YouTube is blowing the doors off of Hulu. Analysts peg YouTube’s 2011 haul at anywhere between $1.2 billion and $1.6 billion, while Hulu has said it expects to pull in $500 million this year — a number that includes revenue from its subscription service Hulu Plus.
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“In the late 1990s, high-end outer suburbs contained most of the expensive...”
– Christopher Leinberger, The Death of the Fringe Suburb (via stoweboyd)
Original branded video content has highest...
Original branded video content ranks highest for brand favourability and recall rates compared with other forms of video ad formats, according to Specific Media’s Video Testing and Measurement Insights (Vitamin) report.
The ad network worked with consultancy Decipher on the research, the results of which it unveiled at the IAB’s Video Engage eve ..read more.. Smartr - your personal newspaper
The Industrial Age Has Finally Run Out of Gas: An...
“Throughout the 20th century, we created wealth through vertically integrated corporations. Now, we create wealth through networks. We are at a turning point in human history, where the industrial age has finally run out of gas.” – Don Tapscott
Somewhere, between the APEC CEO Summit with world leaders in Hawaii, receiving a place on the Thinke ..read more.. Smartr - your personal newspaper
“personal manufacturing is currently going through much the same phase as...”
– 3D printing: Difference Engine: Making it | The Economist
#ProjetColumbus les nouveaux territoires narratifs...
J’ai toujours pitié du monde qui pleure sur la stérilité des médias sociaux plutôt que d’embrasser le changement #jeudiconfession #columbusSacha DeclomesnilNovember 24, 2011 2:44:30 PM ESTReplyRetweetOn parle beaucoup de création de sens #ColumbusSacha DeclomesnilNovember 24, 2011 2:39:35 PM ESTReplyRetweetImportance de prendre le temps de s’ennuyer pour faire place...
Forget Shopping, Friday Is Update Your Parents'... →
“Because Starz is also going into competition with Netflix by partnering with the...”
– House of Cards - TechCrunch
“But when Netflix snaps up an original program, it solidifies its...”
– Netflix gets back in the game
“If someone were to have told you a few years ago that New York’s Metropolitan...”
– TribecaFilm.com | Future of Film | Can Hollywood Learn Innovation From The Metropolitan Opera?
“The rogues’ gallery of Wall Street crooks, such as Lloyd Blankfein at Goldman...”
– Chris Hedges (via azspot)
“We are at decades-high inequality and declining social mobility - two major...”
– Facing Inequality - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast
“There’s more to Sony’s problems than acts of God and currency traders. The maker...”
– Longreads
“But if data from The Guardian is to be believed, physics is becoming more...”
– The Next Web
The industrial age has finally run out of gas: An...
“Throughout the 20th century, we created wealth through vertically integrated corporations. Now, we create wealth through networks. We are at a turning point in human history, where the industrial age has finally run out of gas.” – Don Tapscott Somewhere, between the APEC CEO Summit with world leaders in Hawaii, receiving a place on the Thinke ..read more.. Smartr - your personal newspaper
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“iCow, a mobile-phone application that allows herders to register each individual...”
– iCow: Kenyans now manage their herds via mobile phone - CSMonitor.com (via interestingsnippets)
“As of this morning, “Take This Lollipop” has been liked by 9,976,146 people,...”
– World’s Fastest-Growing Facebook App Will Scare the Crap Out of You
“We had a very big decision to make when it came time to renew the deal, because...”
– Does John Malone Have A Big Deal In Mind For Starz? – Deadline.com
“Sony Corp. has held talks with content companies about licensing channels for a...”
– Report: Sony mulls Internet TV service - Entertainment News, Technology News, Media - Variety
“While there’s still some debate over how many users are ditching pay TV in lieu...”
– The children are our future, and they don’t pay for TV — Online Video News
“One of the things that makes mobile web browsing slow is the fact that the...”
– Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think | Magazine
Hotels Find New Ways to Help Guests Do Business -... →
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Business travel is changing as fast as the liquid world it is floating in, so hotels are scrambling to change their public spaces to make them increasingly like co-working spaces.
Julie Weed via NYTimes.com
As part of a large survey project, Holiday Inn gave guests a journal to record what they did in the hotel and where they spent their time. The company found that business...
Climate change episode of Frozen Planet won't be... →
An episode of the BBC’s Frozen Planet documentary series that looks at climate change has been scrapped in the U.S., where many are hostile to the idea of global warming.
British viewers will see all seven episodes of the multi-million-pound nature series throughout the Autumn.
But U.S. audiences will not be shown the last episode, which looks at the threat posed by man to the natural...
“I’d call Tumblr a sleeping giant, but it is perhaps better described as the best...”
– Channeling Brian Solis: Did you know that there are 38,000 posts per minute on Tumblr?
Watch(via Keen On… Tyler Cowen: Why The Internet Isn’t As Innovative As a Flushing Toilet (TCTV) | TechCrunch)
“As a result of these divergent trends, in 2009 the typical household headed by...”
– The Wealth Gap Between Older and Younger Adults Gets Even Bigger - National - The Atlantic Wire
“Warner Bros., Lionsgate and Universal have collectively distributed about 45...”
– Movie Studios Have New Ally in Distribution Plans: Facebook | Digital - Advertising Age
“En Masse, Montreal-based collaborative art initiative, brought 35 artists into...”
– (1) EN MASSE at Montreal Museum of fine arts
“Earlier generations have weathered recessions, of course; this stall we’re in...”
– Emptyage: Generation X Doesn’t Want to Hear It
“As Netflix works to build itself into a legitimate provider of video content,...”
– Netflix Should Copy the Cable Model | MediaWorks - Advertising Age
How To Be An Optimist In A Pessimistic Time
Editor’s note: Contributor David Kirkpatrick the author of The Facebook Effect and founder of the Techonomy Conference, taking place Nov. 13-15 in Arizona.
It’s no secret to most readers at TechCrunch that technology is changing the world. Unfortunately, there are a surprising number of people who don’t get it. Many of them, even more unfortun ..read more.. Smartr - your personal newspaper
Africa the newest land of mobile opportunity «...
The number of mobile phone users in Africa has increased by nearly 20 percent every year for the last five years to nearly 649 million people in Q4 2011 according to GSMA, a telecom trade body. Ninety-six per cent of subscriptions are pre-paid with voice services currently dominating. There are currently six live HSPA+ networks across Africa. The ..read more.. Smartr - your personal...
Spanish social network Tuenti takes advantage of...
Do you know many invite-only websites with millions of users? Probably not many. Yet, this is the case of the Spanish social network Tuenti. With a whopping 12 million registered users, the site accounts for 15% of Spain’s Internet traffic.
Well, it may very soon account for an even larger share, as Tuenti is launching its own film rental service. ..read more.. Smartr - your personal newspaper
The Tyranny of Meritocracy - Megan McArdle -...
I don’t care about income inequality. I care about the absolute condition of the poor—whether they are hungry, cold, and sick. But I do not care about the gap between their incomes, and those of Warren Buffett and Bill Gates. Nor the ratio of Gates and Buffett’s incomes to mine. And I’m not sure why anyone should. Other than pure envy, it ..read more.. Smartr - your...
Douglas Rushkoff - Blog - Occupy Reality...
People have been asking for a transcript of the little speech I gave at Occupy Wall Street on Wenesday November 9. It amounts to a one-page summary of my book Life Inc. (In other words, if you wonder how any of this could be true, read the book for the full story and documentation. I won’t argue it out here.)
My name is Douglas RushkoffI am humbled ..read more.. Smartr - your personal...
