San Fran residents, are you busy on Thursday, Sept. 9? Because if you’re not, GigaOM and NewTeeVee want to invite you out to the movies to see a sneak preview of Catfish, a documentary that explores online identity, relationships and love in the time of Facebook. Read More »
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Getting seen is one of the toughest challenges for a web series, even a web series like the highly successful Guild. But looking at a survey conducted on The Guild‘s Facebook wall, making a music video seems to be a big help. Read More »
The Arcade Fire’s new album release has been accompanied by relatively new uses of web video; today, thanks to some help from Google’s Chrome, the band’s track We Used to Wait gets an all-HTML5 “musical experience made specifically for the browser.” Read More »
The US Open are about to start, and this year, tennis fans will be able to enjoy the tournament through live streams from every session. Video will be streamed in HD, and tennis fans will be able to follow the action from all five courts. Read More »
A recent LA Times profile of “Chief TWiT” Leo Laporte reveals how much fun Laporte seems to be having as a professional podcaster — and also reveals that TWiT may make up to $3 million in revenue in 2010, thanks in part to crowdsourcing. Read More »
Aydin Senkut, an early employee at Google, was the company’s first product manager, then its first head of international sales. He’s has now been an angel investor for four-and-a-half years and recently closed a fund of about $40 million at Felicis Ventures. Read More »
Hey, San Francisco, let us treat you to a night at the movies! Thanks to Rogue and Universal Pictures, GigaOM and NewTeeVee will be hosting a free screening of the controversial “reality thriller” Catfish on Thursday, Sept. 9 at the AMC Metreon. Read More »
Are you surprised to learn that this year’s Emmy Awards aren’t going to be live-streamed online anywhere? Of course not. But the social media surrounding the ceremony is growing denser: Twitter and live-streaming initiatives are in the process of gearing up for Sunday’s ceremony. Read More »
Chatroulette has been down for the better part of this week, and we still don’t know when and in which for the site is going to return. So why not check out some alternatives? We compiled a list of five that are worth checking out. Read More »
The independently-created web series Universal Dead is just the latest example of how people keep finding new approaches to genres like zombie horror, ones that transcend medium. Because for Dead‘s creators, making a web series has paid off in a feature film deal. Read More »
The rising popularity of music videos online has made discovering classic viral videos tougher than it used to be. Which means that when you see something called Indian Pole Gymnastics climbing the viral video charts, you know you’re in for something special. Read More »
For web video old-timers, the premise and cast of the series FCU: Fact Checkers Unit may seem familiar — and that’s because there’s a strong chance they’ve seen it before. But the celeb-featuring show is still clever fun, even three years later, sans Bill Murray. Read More »
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