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It’s nice to see the medium of online video used to its greatest potential. Today’s pinnacle: a mash-up of the new trailer for J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek and the Beverly Hills 90210 theme song. Magnificent. And sometimes making your content available to… Read More »

So, um, I watch Gossip Girl. But I do it on my laptop, when nobody else is around. And as I read recently of complaints by Lipstick Jungle‘s creators that its cancellation threats are unfair because much of its audience isn’t measured, I had to… Read More »

 
 

Thanksgiving is a week away (Wait, really?), and we have a bounty of Apple news to report — though not all of it will make you give thanks. First, the good news. Our colleagues over at the mobile devices blog jkOntheRun are excited that the… Read More »

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) said yesterday that big media companies weren’t honoring the contract to end last year’s writer’s strike by failing to pay residuals for work used in new media. Read More »

Here are some of the scenes and many of the shining faces from our second-annual NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco last week. All of the photos were taken by Katie Basso. Read More »

Lots of great stuff in the viral world today (see our video ribbon above for more), but here’s my favorite so far: via the EPIC-FU blog comes this live performance from the group Naturally 7, who went all Improv Everywhere on the Paris subway… Read More »

Blaming poor economic conditions, TiVo started laying off some of its staff yesterday in an effort to lower operational costs. Read More »

This weekend Chris and I will be at YouTube Live, the online video site’s first big in-person event in San Francisco. We really have no idea how exactly you turn a website into a variety show, but we’ll be there covering both the pre-show festival and… Read More »

Sonic Solutions, maker of the Roxio line of media applications and Qflix DVD-burning software, said today that has agreed to buy privately held online movie distributor CinemaNow. Read More »

Vid-Biz: Move, iTunes, Unhappiness

Move Networks Partners with Permission TV; adaptive streaming company hooks up with online video platform provider to resell integrated services to smaller media companies. (Broadcasting & Cable) ITunes Numbers Still Tiny for NBC; TV by the Numbers says at most, iTunes downloads are less than one… Read More »

Blinkx Makes Another Bid for MIVA

If at first you don’t succeed… After a failed first attempt, video search company Blinkx announced today that is once again making an offer to buy pay-per-click ad company MIVA. Read More »

The famed British comedy troupe has launched their own official YouTube channel. Read More »

More Must Reads

Netflix’s chief product officer offers an exhaustive rundown of the company’s encoding for streaming. Read More »

Today Amazon Web Services launched the beta version of its pay-as-you-go content delivery network service, CloudFront. But the simple service isn’t everything a video shop could want — there’s no streaming, live broadcasting or transcoding, and a low level of customer service. See the… Read More »

Anticipating that a financial crisis like the one we’re currently experiencing wasn’t far away, I’ve run my company, richrelevance, on a zero-fat budget, raising small rounds of capital to ensure our team built the discipline to operate with small budgets. Yet, anticipation of the downturn… Read More »

Over the last few weeks, we have all heard admonitions to startups (and all companies) to tighten their belts, be realistic about their businesses and hunker down for the long term. This is certainly good advice (in this market, and probably most of the time).… Read More »

I’ve read a lot here about how to hack a funding term sheet, or how to navigate the confusing terms and conditions in the legal contracts startup founders must sign. But what about rent? It’s probably one of your biggest operating costs, and in… Read More »

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