AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

So that’s the name, I found out: William Morris Agency, which announced its then un-named fund along with Accel Partners and Venrock, now has a name for it: The MailRoom Fund. The explanation: rising from the mailroom…David Geffen, Barry Diller, and Mike Ovitz did, as did others. Richard Wolpert, the former president of Disney Online [...]

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From VentureBeat:
Often I find myself watching videos on the web that contain parts which are extremely funny, but the rest is painful to sit through. A new online video mashup service, Omnisio, which launched today, hopes to change that by making it super easy to re-edit videos on the web.
The company was one of [...]

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VARIETY
Get ready for Paramount the videogame publisher.
The studio has expanded its interactive department team and is putting together a slate of games that it will partially or completely finance and for which it will more directly oversee development. Games will be based either on new Par films or catalog titles.
Details on Par’s inaugural self-published or [...]

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Wall Street Journal
Civil servant Mark Thompson wants to turn the British Broadcasting Corp. into an empire on which the sun never sets.
To do that, the BBC’s 50-year-old chief executive is determined to get the world to watch more British drama, comedy and news online. His push has required radical job cuts and new business strategies [...]

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