Launching today, MTV’s Backchannel is a very cool-looking social game synergizing a very silly product— specifically, the network’s “reality” show The Hills. As the title suggests, Backchannel’s a chat interface that runs live online while a Hills episode airs on TV; players quickly post… Read More »
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This week’s ABC interview with Sarah Palin has been big news, and of course, excitement is high over whether or not Tina Fey will return to SNL Saturday night to fulfill her destiny by sending up the candidate. The online video reaction to all… Read More »
Filmmaker Wayne Wang (The Joy Luck Club) will debut his new film The Princess of Nebraska for free on YouTube on Oct. 17th, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The film will appear in YouTube’s Screening Room, the section of the site devoted to independent… Read More »
Movie rental chain Blockbuster has taken a lot of heat this year. Netflix dominates the rent-by-mail space (when its shipping centers aren’t down), and Blockbuster’s bid to buy Circuit City was derided by just about everyone. So what’s the company doing to prep for… Read More »
Travis Kalanick who sold his P2P company to Akamai in April 2007 for $18.7 million will leave at the end of this month. Read More »
The first quarter of 2007 has been good for DSL, thanks to higher than expected growth in China and other Asian economies, according to Dittberner Associates. China contributed more than a third of the total 12 million new DSL connections in the first quarter, which… Read More »
Is Amp’d Mobile gearing up for a change of the guard? Valleywag prints a rumor that the CEO and founder of the high-spending youth-oriented MVNO, Peter Adderton, has left the company. We heard this rumor a few weeks ago and asked Amp’d's PR team directly… Read More »
John McFarlane, is chief executive and founder of the consumer electronics company, Sonos Inc. Contrary to most of his peers, McFarlane believes that his company, and the entire digital music industry, stands to benefit from the DRM free music movement. Apple and Amazon were the among… Read More »
If you’re tired of the old cliché that information is power, here’s a new one: Disinformation is every bit as powerful. That much we know from the mischievous email that was apparently sent out to Apple employees and that – naturally – quickly found its way… Read More »
Passion Spotting: Hiring is one of the most difficult, and most important, things founders do. We all have our methods for finding great employeers, but passion is what counts for me when searching for talent. Tips for plucking the right talent out of… Read More »
CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED. THANKS FOR ENTERING! Happy birthday to us, happy birthday to us, happy 3rd birthday jkOnTheRunnnnnnn, happy birthday to us. Can you believe it? Three years ago today jkOnTheRun was born, with us never anticipating how far it would come in such a short… Read More »
Back in the day when ESPN launched Sports Center, it put an end to the value proposition of the sports page — wire-service box scores and game recaps. The highlights game was over, for both newspapers and the three-minute sports-guy recap at the end… Read More »
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