AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

Seeking Alpha
If NBCU gets Weather.com, it propels itself into a Top 10 media property… From Alley Insider:
Google (GOOG) / 128 million unique visitors
Microsoft (MSFT) / 123 million
Yahoo (YHOO) / 116 million
Time Warner (TWX) / 108 million
News Corp. (NWS) / 79 million
eBay (EBAY) / 66 million
InterActiveCorp. (IACI) / 65 million
Wikimedia Foundation / 57 million
Amazon (AMZN) / [...]

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The Hollywood Reporter
As SAG continued its negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers on Thursday, the actors union sent its second report to membership, outlining their position on new media and why it is important to actors.
Focusing on new media, SAG’s Contract 2008 Report, No. 2, indicates that 9 billion videos [...]

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From: informITV
Joost, the online video service, is apparently preparing to scale back its global ambitions in order to concentrate on the United States market. Media reports suggest that the service is realigning its strategy after failing to convince media and sports rights holders to licence material on a global basis. Comments from insiders suggest that [...]

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MEDIAWEEK
Users of the popular young adult-centric virtual world There.com will soon be able to quote from there favorite movies–using actual clips from those movies.
There.com, which is owned by Makena Technologies, has embarked on an innovative partnership with Paramount Digital Entertainment to license short clips from thousands of movies and TV shows. Via the social networking [...]

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LA Times online.
Sony Pictures Television officially launched C-Spot today, a new web TV channel that will be home to a 13-week season of online comedy. There will be six new scripted shows, one “airing” each day of the week. Going along with the conventional wisdom about online audience-building, C-Spot will play on a [...]

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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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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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Iger: Computer Replacing TV as Primary Entertainment Source - Broadcasting and Cable
Disney President and CEO: Social Media Not a Fad, Broadband ‘Will Be the Primary Source of Entertainment’
Disney president and CEO Bob Iger expressed a very bullish take on new media at the McGraw-Hill Media Summit Wednesday morning in New York, chastising media executives for [...]

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Kaltura Adds 8mm and VHS to Collaborative Videos - Mashable
Another company has found Kaltura to be a useful integration tool for its services. Home Movie Depot, a service for consumers and professionals to have movies converted into DVDs, has teamed up with collaborative multimedia tool Kaltura. The partnership is in fact a two-way street, where [...]

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Talent agency helps launch venture fund - The Los Angeles Times
The entity, backed by William Morris and others, will invest in tech and media firms.
Entrepreneurs seeking cash for new-media start-ups get a new door to knock on today.
William Morris Agency is teaming up with Silicon Valley venture capital firms Accel Partners and Venrock as well [...]

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