AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

Business Week
Blinkx, the online video search site, launched the world’s first searchable web-based television channel yesterday.
Users will access the peer-to-peer service using downloadable software to view TV-quality news and entertainment content from the firm’s 250 existing partners such as ITN and the Ministry of Sound. The channel will also include a library of 40 feature [...]

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Paid Content
Advances in the filtering, monitoring and targeting of online video are beginning to make user-generated content a less fearful proposition for advertisers, or so says Lehman Brothers analyst Doug Anmuth in his Internet Inside Weekly report (PDF only, not online). Anmuth’s take: in addition to those protections, the audience-size thresholds imposed by sites like [...]

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According to CURRENT:
Independent Lens has launched its second annual Online Shorts Festival of 11 comedy, drama and documentary films. The Grand Prize winner C. Beck was selected by the curators of the series and broadcast on PBS in November. A jury of industry folk selected the 10 online winners and awarded a Grand Jury Prize [...]

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Numbers You Should Know: Beyond TV; YouTube Uploads; 5,000 ?s for GOP - New Tee Vee
We often plunge into research reports to pluck out everything from the boldest to the most most cautious estimates about the past, present, and future of online video. But sometimes numbers don’t come all nicely packaged and illustrated. Here’s some [...]

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BBC sets sights on youth - Variety Intl
Network chief unveils Open Media initiative to press
LONDON — “I feel a bit like Steve Jobs up here,” announced Bebo topper Joanna Shields at last week’s launch of the social networking site’s Open Media initiative.
Wishful thinking? Or does Shields have a point about Bebo’s marriage between new and [...]

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