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Look kids, it’s Yo Gabba Gabba!

by Mathew on December 3, 2007 · View Comments

Interesting piece in Ad Age magazine about how Nickelodeon has noticed huge traffic to some of its Nick Jr. shows, including one psychedelic Teletubby-style offering called Yo Gabba Gabba (wonder if The Ramones are pondering a trademark suit). The show has accumulated about 4.4 million TV viewers since June, according to Nielsen, but more than [...]

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Quarterlife moves from Web to TV

by Mathew on November 17, 2007 · View Comments

There were rumours even before the U.S. writers strike started that it might lead to one of the networks picking up Quarterlife, the new Web drama about twentysomethings created by Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz, the team behind Thirtysomething and My So-Called Life, and now it appears that those rumours have come true. NBC, which [...]

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It’s Hulu vs. Brightcove, not YouTube

by Mathew on October 29, 2007 · View Comments

So Hulu, the joint venture between NBC and News Corp. that some thought would be a YouTube competitor, has sort of launched — or at least it has given some of the chosen few in Silicon Valley a look at the service. As far as I can tell from most descriptions of it, it sounds [...]

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Maybe people don’t really want UGC

by Mathew on October 22, 2007 · View Comments

The vision of social media as a vast, harmonious collective that both generates and consumes “user-generated content” is mostly a straw man set up by Web 2.0 critics so they can demolish it (yes, I’m looking at you, Nick Carr), but there’s no question that social media is built on the idea that there’s plenty [...]

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Joost launches — will anyone care?

by Mathew on October 1, 2007 · View Comments

So Joost says that it is now finally open to the public (Liz Gannes at NewTeeVee and Kara Swisher at BoomTown have the details, including interviews with CEO Mike Volpi), after a long beta program that started as invitation-only. But the streaming peer-to-peer TV project from the guys behind Kazaa and Skype — Janus Friis [...]

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