» ‘Everybody and their mother is humping their leg’
Mar 18, 2010 12:05 PM from Lost Remote
You can\'t sum it up any better than that. Foursquare, one of the hottest tech companies in the hottest space right now (local-social), is reportedly searching for a new round of financing. As you might imagine, they\'re not having any trouble finding potential investors. “Everybody and their m..
» AOL steps up aggressive local news push
Mar 18, 2010 11:52 AM from Lost Remote
AOL is going great guns with local news. We already know about Patch , AOL\'s quickly-growing network of local news sites that aims to expand into the hundreds. And now AOL says it\'s creating a hyperlocal venture capital fund for budding entrepreneurs in the space, as well as relaunching its “..
» Fwix inks deal with New York Times Company
Mar 18, 2010 11:34 AM from Lost Remote
The local and hyperlocal news aggregator Fwix has signed its first big media deal: an agreement with the New York Times Company to distribute headlines across local newspaper sites. “We are extremely proud to be working with The New York Times Company, one of the world\'s leading news companie..
» Modern day storytellers and journalists are everywhere
Mar 18, 2010 10:20 AM from Lost Remote
With the launch of iPad pre-orders, the new media stories coming out of SXSW, and the surge of announcements around the hyperlocal sector (ex: NY Times is working w/ FWIX), it’s nearly impossible for me to go a day without thinking about the future of news. It could be in the form of citizen jour..
» Is Facebook about to go QR code crazy?
Mar 16, 2010 1:11 PM from Lost Remote
Imagine that you\'re walking around a bar. Everywhere you turn you see people wearing shirts emblazoned with checkered barcodes. No one is talking to each other. Instead of dancing and conversing, the majority of the establishment\'s patrons are taking camera phone pictures of those around them. Pict..
» A look at Seattle’s news entrepreneurs
Mar 16, 2010 11:10 AM from Lost Remote
As SeattlePI.com approaches its one-year anniversary of online-only operation later this week (stay tuned for an update on how it\'s doing), it has published an overview of Seattle\'s thriving independent news scene. On the list, which includes my own company, Next Door Media , there\'s the West Seatt..
» Marijuana legalization ad to hit Times Square Digital Billboard
Mar 15, 2010 3:00 PM from Lost Remote
The smoke has cleared, yet a suspicious odor still lingers in the air. Representatives from the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws Foundation ( NORML ) are inhaling a sigh of relief. In the end, the marijuana legalization flag is set to fly high above Times Square. First it was ..
» Verimatrix Secures ABS-CBN Pay-TV with Cardless Solution
Mar 15, 2010 2:30 PM from Digital TV News
ABS-CBN International has deployed the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS™) on its DVB-S and IPTV networks. This marks the pay-TV industry\'s first major upgrade to cardless security for separate networks on a single security head-end.
» FCC to Send National Broadband Plan to Congress
Mar 15, 2010 2:20 PM from Digital TV News
The FCC will deliver to Congress a National Broadband Plan setting an ambitious agenda for connecting all corners of the nation while transforming the economy and society with the communications network of the future -- robust, affordable internet.
» Local TV news audience in sharp decline
Mar 15, 2010 1:14 PM from Lost Remote
The one piece of data that jumped out to me in the Project for Excellence in Journalism\'s annual media report (that Steve posted below) is this one : local TV newscast ratings are in steady decline across all timeslots . Early evening newscasts dropped 1.7%, late news is down 6.4% and morning news ..
» SXSW: The iPad is better than print
Mar 15, 2010 10:58 AM from Lost Remote
Do you still run into people who tell you they like reading a newspaper or magazine or book in print vs. digital? The iPad is about to change that. Scott Dadich, creative director at Wired magazine, says Wired measures reader engagement in hours, not minutes like online. And that allows for higher ..
» Digivision Selects Microtune TV Tuner for High-Definition Set-Top Box Design
Mar 15, 2010 9:20 AM from Digital TV News
Microtune (NASDAQ: TUNE) has announced that Shanghai Digivision has selected the Microtune MT2066 single-chip broadband tuner for use in its advanced high-definition cable set-top boxes for the Chinese market.
» Annual report: local media audience in rapid decline
Mar 15, 2010 7:25 AM from Lost Remote
The annual Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism\'s “State of the News Media” report is out, and it is a compendium of discouragement for anyone tied to the media. Here are just some of the top lines : Local TV news audiences fell by an average of 5-6% in the past year, depending upon..
» California Watch rewards civility – with iPods
Mar 15, 2010 6:53 AM from Lost Remote
The genius of this… California Watch is having a contest and all you have to do is comment on the site. The site is giving away a free iPod Touch each month for the next six months. (Seems they got the Touches free when they bought computers and wanted to put them to good use.) So they\'re try..
» SXSW: Obligatory celebrity party photos
Mar 15, 2010 5:41 AM from Lost Remote
SXSW Interactive is all about the parties, so I feel obligated to post a few bad party pics from my iPhone. Here is Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley, who did not offer any details about who owns his code , and Anna Robertso n from Yahoo hanging out at the Mashable party Sunday night. And here\'s Gi..
» SXSW: Highlights from online news of tomorrow
Mar 14, 2010 10:36 AM from Lost Remote
The power of the human link, all that traffic that comes from Twitter and Facebook for example, will drive the new economy for news more than pay walls set up by Rupert Murdoch and the Associated Press. That was one of the key observations by Jeff Jarvis from panel called Online News of Tomorrow ht..
» SXSW: Mirror worlds are the next web, may redefine local
Mar 13, 2010 1:34 PM from Lost Remote
Mok Oh, Founder and CTO of Everyscape , says mirror worlds are the next web and his company is positioning itself to be a part of this coming goldrush. What are mirror worlds, you ask? It\'s a direct representation of our actual world replicated in the digital world. He pointed to Google Earth as th..
» SXSW: Work smarter, and more social media strategy
Mar 13, 2010 1:04 PM from Lost Remote
Jason Fried and Erik Qualman anchored a packed morning at the Day Stage for book readings at the South by Southwest Conference in Austin this morning. Fried, CEO and co-founder of 37 Signals, likes to dish out straight talk on business. So much so, he wrote a book about it, called ReWork. He highli..
» STMicroelectronics Arms Pay-TV Industry in Battle Against Piracy
Mar 11, 2010 6:20 AM from Digital TV News
STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) is sampling the first STB System-on-Chip (SoC) devices featuring advanced CryptoFirewall™ security helping to prevent hacking of pay-TV broadcast signals and enable faster, lower-cost development of new set-top box products.
» Telekom Malaysia to launch High Speed Broadband Service on March 24, 2010
Mar 10, 2010 2:20 PM from Digital TV News
Telekom Malaysia (TM) is set to launch its next-generation High Speed Broadband (HSBB) retail service on 24 March 2010. The HSBB retail packages will comprise triple-play services of voice, video (IPTV and Video on Demand), and high speed Internet.