Social TV NPR API allows you to roll your own podcast By David Johnson on Dec. 18, 2008 - 12:57 PM Oh, now this is a whole lot of audio only green-screen kind of fun. NPR has an API that allows you to mix up your own podcast using their content. With today’s launch, however, the API now allows users to slice through the N ...
Social TV XBox Live’s new experience launches By David Johnson on Nov. 23, 2008 - 3:09 PM Xbox users who fire up their boxes this weekend will get the prompt to download the new interface, or experience. I was pretty stoked to get it because the new experience carries the new streaming Netflix service (many in HD). The ...
Social TV Yang stepping down as Yahoo CEO By David Johnson on Nov. 18, 2008 - 9:08 AM Yahoo cofounder Jerry Yang will step down as CEO and return to his former role as Chief Yahoo once the board of directors finds a replacement. Yang assumed the CEO role at the Board’s request in June 2007. He has led Yahoo t ...
Social TV Pithy observations on media from Bioneers By David Johnson on Oct. 22, 2008 - 10:05 AM The Bioneers 2008 conference focused on how nature and technology can join forces to better the planet. Jaymi Heimbuch posted the following snippets on Treehugger after attending the panel “iTube, YouTube, WeAllTube: Digital ...
Social TV Domain typos are a million dollar business By David Johnson on Oct. 14, 2008 - 11:05 AM Harvard University professor Ben Edelman charges Google is making millions off of typo URLs, domain names of trademarked brands that are off by one letter. The real sore spot here is that the owners of those brands buy them as key ...
Social TV Escaping reality drives video game sales in economic downturn By David Johnson on Oct. 3, 2008 - 9:16 AM One of the (many) great things about being in academia is being surrounded by smart, talented and articulate people. It often leads to serendipity. As I was in my office hours the other day, I heard broadcast professor John Doolit ...
Social TV Politifact game now on Yahoo elections By David Johnson on Oct. 3, 2008 - 9:05 AM @mattwaite twitters: Ever wanted to play PolitiFact the game? No? Well, we made one anyway with Yahoo! News. Middle of this page: http://news.yahoo.com/elections It is a quick quiz flash game, but great play for a great site that ...
Social TV ONA08 news game session By David Johnson on Sep. 11, 2008 - 6:57 AM I’m sitting in the J-Lab news games pre-session for ONA08, which the LR faithful know is a topic near and dear to my heart. There is a lot more out there since we first started talking about serious games and the news, but s ...
Social TV Knight-Batten innovation awards announced By David Johnson on Sep. 10, 2008 - 11:54 AM Wired‘s WikiScanner coverage took the top honors from the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism, given today at the National Press Club in Washington, DC ahead of this week’s Online News Association meetin ...
Social TV Palin is good news for Anchorage Daily News By David Johnson on Sep. 3, 2008 - 7:32 AM But not so much for Anchorage TV sites, as you can see from the Alexa graph. Sara Palin’s call to duty to fill out the GOP presidential ticket has given the Anchorage Daily News something else to print other than bear cub st ...