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MercuryNews.com | 06/26/2006 | Betting on the big bundle

Actually, the big cable and phone companies want to do it for you.
They’re hoping that by investing in businesses beyond what they’re
known for, they’ll be able to offer customers bundles, or what they
call the “quadruple play:'’ Internet, television and home- and
cell-phone service, all from one company. They’re banking that
consumers will prefer the convenience of getting one bill from one
provider rather than choosing from the growing number of phone, TV and
Internet options.

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Mejor que Jerry Springer???

Telegraph | News | CCTV channel beamed to your home

Big Brother, the reality television show that attracts up to seven million viewers, is old hat.

In the world of boundary-pushing television, it was surpassed yesterday by a group of Eastenders who have become the first to monitor their own neighbourhood via a home CCTV channel.

Why ABC’s ‘Lost’ Is the Future of Online Media

ABC’s “Lost” has done more than any other media before it to enable interaction around a brand on multiple platforms. It is the first truly pan-media experience, and that holds lessons for content producers everywhere.
“Lost” is everywhere. It’s a television show that was born in a traditional analog world but came of age in a digital world where the very idea of “television” is giving way to the idea of ubiquitous, platform-agnostic video.

But the show’s presence extends beyond just video. Viewers interact with the brand on multiple platforms. There are Web sites devoted to translating the whispers heard on the show. People track the literary works mentioned. ABC has even created fake Web sites for elements of the show, like for the band Driveshaft.

CBS launches entertainment Web site - Yahoo! News

CBS Corp. has launched a Web site that will offer new programming as well as some of its existing TV shows, as competition intensifies between broadcasters and Internet firms such as Google Inc.

The site, called innertube, was launched on Thursday and will be free to viewers and supported by advertising. Cadbury Schweppes, Chili’s, Pier 1 Imports Brinkmann Corp. and Verizon SuperPages.com are its initial advertising sponsors, CBS said.

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | BBC unveils radical revamp of website

The BBC today unveiled radical plans to rebuild its website around user-generated content, including blogs and home videos, with the aim of creating a public service version of MySpace.com.

» The new meaning of programming | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

But what happens when broadcast networks start putting up TV shows on the web, like ABC and Fox announced last week. Put another way, what happens to the value and need for traditional media programming when a show is placed on a non-linear medium like the web? Does making a show viewable on-demand negate the need for programming?

NBC Nightly News Netcast - Nightly News with Brian Williams - MSNBC.com

“NBC Nightly News” is the first and only network newscast to be offered free on the Internet in its entirety.

Mini-cursos de Flash…

gotoAndLearn.com

AddictingClips – Play and share habit-forming video, animation, and Flash games

AddictingClips is the place to watch, upload, and share cool video clips, cartoons, and Flash games. We’ve got free funny videos, indie music videos, hilarious cartoons, video game clips, eye-opening animations, movie clips, sports clips, celebrity clips, stunts, crazy videos, stupid videos, and more.

Video Bomb

Video Bomb filters up the hottest videos on the internet: people submit links to the ‘Incoming!’ page and you bomb the best ones. If a video gets a lot of bombs quickly, it makes it to the front page.

Dabble

Dabble is a video remix community that makes it easy and fun for people to create, browse, and find video online. We provide the tools that put you on the other side of the lens, whether that’s a digital camera, cell phone, or video camera.

Revver

Revverize your videos. Share them with the world. Make money.

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• Mashable* » AddictingClips - More User-Generated Videos
• SiliconBeat: AddictingClips now taking your videos
• Mashable* » VideoBomb - Digg for Video
• Mashable* » Dabble - Del.icio.us for Video?

Wired 14.03: START

DVRs, DVDs, iTunes Video - no one watches TV in real time anymore. So Nielsen Media Research, the venerable monitor of America’s viewing habits, is rebooting.