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Closing Bell: Retreat on SOPA | RIM pushes for Samsung sale | Koobface virus

Legal/Regulatory: On SOPA and PIPA, MPAA and Chamber strike conciliatory note. SOPA stalling as opposition grows. Mobile Computing: Research In Motion pushing for sale   [...]

What a Twitter Shortener Could Mean for Marketers

Twitter users learned on Thursday that the site will begin wrapping all links posted through the service with its own t.co domain. Twitter had been discussing this proposal on its blog, so the announcement is not surprising. Now that it is official, though, it is safe to start speculating on what it means to various users. For third-party developers, of course, the move is just more bad news from Twitter, which is stepping up its competition on many fronts  [...]

Digg to Users: Don't Leave, v4 is Here

Much fuss was made over Digg's declining numbers earlier this year, with some commentators proclaiming Digg all but dead. But the site's next - and long awaited - iteration is almost ready, which, it is hoped, will stave off further drops. The changes, designed to help users connect and make deeper inroads in social networks with its new features, delivers an additional plus - it finally takes the reigns out of the hands of the power users,   [...]

CBS to Experiment with 99 Cent Prices for Some Shows on iTunes

CBS has said that it has agreed to experiment with Apple in reducing the price of some of its shows on iTunes, cutting prices from $1.99 for most shows to 99 cents for some. Les Moonves, chief executive of CBS Corp., said on a conference call with analysts last week that certain shows would sell for 99 cents, but he did not yet know which those will be. Those in the industry doubt the experiment will include newer episodes of top shows like NCIS,   [...]

Univision to Launch Telenovela Web Site

Univision Communications is continuing its push online with the forthcoming rollout of a video web site for telenovela soap-operas - an unmet niche category for Hispanics, which are increasingly moving online for entertainment and news. "The world has shifted," says Joe Uva, Univision's president and chief executive. "Our audience is consuming more and more content on digital platforms and the go." (  [...]

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Streaming Olympics Coverage Foretells More Sports Specials – and Fees

TV Everywhere is still in its infancy but a new offering on NBCOlympics.com illustrates how easily it can - and probably will - be customized and segmented for specific viewers. People who subscribe to cable, satellite or telco TV service will be able to view live streaming Olympics coverage on NBCOlympics.com. Called "Olympics Online Connect", the service, for which viewers have to register, will provide more than 1,000 hours of live Olympic streaming  [...]

Hulu Adds Search and Analytics

Hulu has added search and analytics to its product line up, according to the web streaming TV site's blog, significantly enhancing the site's usefulness to marketers. The new beta feature, launched from Hulu Labs, is called Captions Search. It allows users to search the captions for thousands of videos across hundreds of shows - as well as from a new Captions tab on any show or video page with captions. The analytics will   [...]

GOOG (and Copyright Holders) Make Good with YouTube's Content ID

Through Content ID, a service that protects copyright holders, enables them to profit from music appropriated by users, and lets them track user sentiment (via YouTube Insights), Google has found a way to monetize video socnet YouTube. In general, Content ID enables companies, such as music labels, to track unofficial uses of their content, then decide whether to forbid that use (by stripping a video if its music, for example) or monetize it by adding music-purchasing buttons alongside the co  [...]

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Complaints vs Video AdNets Rise as Buyers Pay for Ineffective Ads

With the popularity of online video advertising on the rise, media buyers are faced with large variations in pricing and options to decipher. Pre-roll video ads can run anywhere from CPMs under $10 to $50 CPMs - and if buyers aren't careful, they can end up paying for ineffective ads. Some industry observers are pointing out that video ad networks are deliberately inflating ad impression numbers by running video ads that begin automatically when a user lands on a site, with those ads sometime  [...]

GOOG Hopes Fast Flip Opens Profit to Publishers

This week Google Labs launched Fast Flip, a news/story search engine that provides results as screenshots of relevant articles. The idea behind Fast Flip is to enable users to visually "flip" through the information they most want to read. Headlines and popular topics are easy to spot. Fast Flip is also "smart," meaning it tailors itself to a user based on the selections s/he makes, making it a melange of "fast browsing, natural magazine-style   [...]

YouTube Video Reviews Join Google Product Search

Google is incorporating user-created YouTube reviews onto releated results pages in Google Product Search. "Videos include reviews from sources like USA Today, Wired, and Digital Trends, and they appear above the 'Similar Items' section of the page," the company explained. One example of how reviews have been incorporated is in   [...]

Google Books Massages European Publishers' Concerns

Yesterday Google decided to make public concessions to publishers outside the US, part of an effort to ease concerns over its Google Books project. In October 2008, Google was granted temporary approval for a settlement that enables it scan non-copyright-protected books -- including those whose copyrights have elapsed -- and put them online. Final approval of the settlement was delayed for a fairness hearing, scheduled this October 7th. Meanwhile, companies that include Microsoft, Yahoo an  [...]

Bing & Ping Connects Search to Socnets; Windows Live Ominously Omitted

Microsoft is now inviting Facebook fans to test a new program called Bing & Ping, which enables them to share their Bing search results with friends on various social networks, as well as email. Results include restaurant recommendations, local movie times, flight statuses and other means by which data has been terraced. "Say you use Bing's Instant Answers feature to check the score of the game, and you notice that your buddy's favorite team has just been beaten pretty handily," surmised N  [...]

E-Tail, Auto Sites and Hollywood Top July Site Visits/Growth

Riding the strength of the popular Cash for Clunkers program, which enables car owners to exchange old vehicles for cash, websites for automotive manufacturers enjoyed disproportionate popularity in July, according to new figures from TNS Media's Compete. Compete just released its most current Competet 250, a monthly ranking of the top 250 trafficked websites.   [...]

Barnes & Noble Finds New Revenue Streams

With the financial performance of major booksellers suggesting significant declines in the reading rates of U.S. adults, book retailer Barnes & Noble has recently invested in new sales avenues such as   [...]

1-800-Flowers Pings Facebook for eCommerce

1-800-Flowers.com has enabled registered fans of its Facebook page to order floral arrangements right on Facebook. Customers can shop 1-800-Flowers.com and execute transactions without leaving Facebook. Using technology from online ad network Alvenda, the site also lets users gain access to an online product assortment by clicking on a "shop" button. They can browse items, place them in a cart, select a delivery date, and send. Planned upgrades include birthday calendars and group gifting  [...]

AP Software Tracks Appropriation of Content

The Associated Press is adding software to its articles, intended to inform readers of usage rights associated with the content -- and act as a policing agent, automatically informing the AP about how the article elsewhere online. Each article will be published with a digital "wrapper" -- data not visible to users that maximizes the content's ranking in search engines and tracks its movements across the web. The program will be introduced in stages stretching over the course of the next year,  [...]

Iger: Disney Plans to Monetize Content, Including (Maybe) Hulu

Disney plans to experiment with a paid-subscription model online, Robert Iger said, at a conference sponsored by Fortune magazine. The Disney CEO added that people are willing to pay for quality content if they perceive it has value, MediaBuyerPlanner reports. A subscription model will give Disney better knowledge of customers, as their activities and interests can be trac  [...]

EyeWonder Helps Fox, GE Pontwificate with Users

To promote Season One of "Dollhouse," out on DVD and Blu-ray on July 28, Fox Home Entertainment launched a rich media ad that streams Twitter tweets and enables users to engage in conversation through the ad itself. The unit was developed with help from EyeWonder and Moxie. It showcases tweets from the feed of Eliza Dushku, star of "Dollhouse," and encourages users to jump in by logging in with existing Twitter accounts. Submissions are manually screened, after which tweets are permitted t  [...]

Twitcam Brings Livestreaming to Twitter

Live video streaming firm Livestream has launched twitcam.com, an ad-supported app that lets users add live streaming video to their Twitter feeds. The offering works like popular Twitter app Twitpic, which enables users to log in with an existing Twitter account, upload an image and then automatically updates their Twitter streams with a link to the image, as well as any message they include. Following suit, Twitcam.com u  [...]