Social TV TBS tries again at ‘pause promos’ By Liz Foreman on Jun. 5, 2008 - 10:14 AM Blogger Jason Kottke has described his negative reaction to purposefully disruptive TBS promos. The promos pause the current TV show DVR-style and deliver a 10-second pitch before returning to regular programming. The “pause ...
Social TV You need to try Wikia Search By Liz Foreman on Jun. 4, 2008 - 6:01 AM I’m loving Wikia Search in ways I don’t usually like non-Google search engines. Jimmy Wales’ (Wikipedia founder) relaunch of his community-edited search may be what it needs to start gaining audience traction. To ...
Social TV YouTube’s head of revenue leaves for startup By Liz Foreman on Jun. 3, 2008 - 1:38 PM Shashi Seth is heading to Cooliris, not Facebook, where several Google execs have recently landed. YouTube revenues have been in the spotlight lately because of remarks by Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
Social TV Time Warner’s internet cap is to gas prices as… By Liz Foreman on Jun. 3, 2008 - 6:40 AM …Americans are to Europeans? My European friends laugh at our “high” gas prices. Now, they have something else to rib me about – the seeming imminence of consumption-based pricing for US web access. Time Wa ...
Social TV Finding a news application for BrandTags By Liz Foreman on Jun. 2, 2008 - 8:21 PM BrandTags runs off of a simple idea: users enter a keyword or phrase to help generate a tag cloud for a brand. With 600,000+ tags so far, here are some results: Fox News, NYT, Google, Oprah, NPR, ESPN. I think this would be an exc ...
Social TV Auto dealer remotes, YouTube style By Liz Foreman on May. 29, 2008 - 12:33 PM I wanted to pass along a fun project I just completed at Cincinnati.Com: our very first video advertiser remote. The client, a group with 13 car dealerships, wanted something a little different, so we shot user-generated-style vid ...
Social TV The intersection of media layoffs and religion By Liz Foreman on May. 16, 2008 - 10:38 AM PrayingForPapers combines newspaper layoff updates with sincere prayers for the well-being of the industry and its employees. Webmaster Mike Koehler, whose day job is deputy sports editor at the Oklahoman, told me, “I can ...
Social TV Brits raise the stakes for online news archives By Liz Foreman on May. 11, 2008 - 10:15 PM When putting together a data retention policy (specifically, public archives) for your website, where do you start? Where do you stop? Does the policy vary for video and database projects? What’s the presentation like? What& ...
Social TV North Carolina market to make DTV switch early By Liz Foreman on May. 11, 2008 - 8:39 PM In a test run of sorts, Wilmington, N.C. will be the first market to transition to all-digital TV at noon, Monday, September 8. Well, kinda. The PBS station and a low-power station will remain the only analog sticks in town. To co ...
Social TV Speaking of embedding video… By Liz Foreman on Apr. 29, 2008 - 7:31 AM Saw this on El PaÃs yesterday and had to grab a screenshot: Two video embeds above the fold! It’s as if El PaÃs uses the video embed as their story art for the tease whenever possible. Brilliant!