Social TV Twittering the VP debate…a few notes By Liz Foreman on Oct. 3, 2008 - 9:58 AM Last night’s vice presidential debate was yet another example of how Twitter has become a great companion tool for live events, what few are left in this DVR-driven world. I’m usually a multiple web browser tabs kind o ...
Social TV Breaking the fake news By Liz Foreman on Oct. 3, 2008 - 9:29 AM I’m a sucker for local news parody sites (Anyone remember KRAP4.com and Super Duper Doppler 40,000?) Now there’s a newspaper website parody that is clever in the same way, Not the L.A. Times. It has fake stories and fa ...
Social TV Gannett’s high school sports grid, week two By Liz Foreman on Oct. 3, 2008 - 9:16 AM The LiveNewsCameras-esque grid for high school football goes live again this Friday night. Here’s Al Tompkins’ Q&A on the project.
Social TV Think LiveNewsCameras but for HS football… By Liz Foreman on Sep. 25, 2008 - 3:03 PM My employer, Gannett, which has invested in Mogulus, is about to embark on a fun project. Friday, we will have 12 live high school football games showing on LiveNewsCameras-esque widgets that will be posted to USAToday.com as well ...
Social TV When is Friend Feed coming to my favorite news sites? By Liz Foreman on Jun. 26, 2008 - 12:29 PM I don’t know about you, but I’m not entirely on an aggregator/RSS diet. So, given today’s news that MySpace has launched data portability, here’s something on my want list: Friend Feed functionality built i ...
Social TV Lost remote? What remote? By Liz Foreman on Jun. 25, 2008 - 1:09 PM I thought I’d get one of these for the front of One LR Plaza. The photo above is of the world’s largest LED video display, located on the side of a building in Bejing. Per the official website, “the building perf ...
Social TV Add this to your feed reader: VideoIsNow.com By Liz Foreman on Jun. 19, 2008 - 8:43 PM Freshly-hatched VideoIsNow focuses on one topic: monetizing web video. Video Is Now also includes a widget to check out video ads in action. Speaking of, it led me to something from ’07 but new-to-me: NPR theme song guy B.J. ...
Social TV Michael Eisner on web video By Liz Foreman on Jun. 6, 2008 - 4:47 AM Guys like Eisner are fashioning themselves as the cable channel programmers of the future. Understanding that the web video audience will explode once more people watch web video via TV, they’re getting their creative assets ...
Social TV Tribune revamping business model, websites By Liz Foreman on Jun. 5, 2008 - 8:36 PM Check out this memo from Tribune bosses Sam Zell and Randy Michaels, detailing the planned overhaul of their business model. It starts: Instead of recapping our first quarter numbers, which you can see in our news release online, ...
Social TV TiVo looking for newspaper partners By Liz Foreman on Jun. 5, 2008 - 11:50 AM TiVo is looking for newspaper partners, so says chief executive Thomas S. Rogers in a New York Times article. For example, TiVo will soon allow subscribers to automatically record the recommendations of the Chicago Tribune’s ...