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Vimeo releases app that streams user-generated videos directly from the web onto living room television sets
Video sharing website Vimeo.com released a new app for Xbox 360, via the Xbox LIVE online entertainment platform. Using the new app, Xbox 360 users will be able to stream Vimeo videos to their HD televisions from their living rooms. The Vimeo app for Xbox brings Vimeo to millions of HD televisions, while keeping Vimeo’s
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Youtube opens second free content development facility
Cleeng gives indie filmmakers new ways to make money from their content
Selfstarter gets the middle-man out of crowdfunding
The developers behind Selfstarter were rejected by Kickstarter and decided to create their own, open source crowdfunding platform that lets you implement your own crowdfunding campaign on your website.
CLICK HERE to download the Selfstarter code for free over at GitHub.
VHX aims to become distribution platform for indie filmmakers
American Film Market announces conference series
The American Film Market (AFM), which is set for October 31st through November 7th, in Santa Monica, today announced the topics and schedule for its five day AFM Conference Series. The Conferences cover a range of timely and valuable topics spanning from treatment to screen, will take place 9:15 am – 12:45 pm daily and
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Innovative deal lands The Raven film’s official website at IMDB
Relativity Media and IMDb today announced that IMDb is hosting the official movie website for Intrepid Pictures’ The Raven, the stylish, gothic thriller starring John Cusack as infamous author Edgar Allan Poe, releasing nationwide by Relativity Media on April 27, 2012. The innovative, cross-platform campaign also includes integration on Amazon’s Kindle with Special Offers and
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IMAX co-developing next-generation laser projection technology
IMAX today announced it selected Barco to co-develop ground-breaking new laser projection technology for IMAX theatres. The new IMAX digital laser projector will present greater brightness and clarity, a wider color gamut and deeper blacks, and consume less power and last longer than existing digital technology. This state-of-the-art solution, which will implement the patents IMAX
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L.L. Bean teams with photographer to recreate classic catalog cover illustrations
This will be of interest to fans of L.L. Bean and good advertising (I’m both). To celebrate its 100-year anniversary, L.L. Bean teamed up with photographer Randal Ford to re-create some of their old catalog illustrations, including the first cover (shown above). By focusing on casting, styling and location, Ford’s crew recreates the original illustrations
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Kickstarter for book projects launches with crowd-sourced fundraising
On Emphas.is photojournalists pitch their projects directly to the public. By agreeing to back a story, and for a minimum contribution of $10, the public can assure the issues they care about receive the in-depth coverage they deserve, in print. In exchange, you’re invited along for the journey. This year the website is taking the
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Merging of film and music media continues with Relativity Spotify deal
Film studio Relativity Media, looking to forge unique marketing partnerships and alliances, has entered into a long-term commitment with award-winning digital music service Spotify, to become an exclusive launch partner in the Film category, making Relativity the first studio to run media on the platform in the U.S. Relativity kicks off this new partnership by
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Facebook giving away $20,000 cash and a social media business makeover to five small businesses
American Express OPEN is teaming up with Facebook to help small businesses do more business. Five small business owners will win the ultimate Big Break: A trip to Facebook headquarters for a two-day, one-on-one business makeover and $20,000 to help grow their business with social media. Learn more about the Big Break For Small Business
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Amazon.com adds live streaming capability to its web services
Amazon.com has announced the launch of live streaming capabilities for Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Web Service’s easy-to-use content delivery network. Using Amazon CloudFront with Amazon EC2 (Elastic Cloud 2) running Adobe’s Flash Media Server and Amazon Route 53 (AWS’s DNS service), developers, filmmakers and musicians can now easily and cost-effectively deliver live video online. Amazon has
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App Developers Conference coming to Santa Clara
Show Initiative has announced the App Developers Conference taking place October 26-27, 2011 in Santa Clara, California. ADC addresses the broad implications of app development, marketing and distribution from a developers’ perspective. The conference brings together major brands, media, social networking, mobile, consumer electronic, and software platforms and, of course, the worldwide developer community. Held
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First Native American news website aiming to be go-to destination for updates on Indigenous Peoples
Ray Halbritter, Nation Representative and CEO of the Oneida Indian Nation, announced today that the just-launched Indian Country Today Media Network, the country’s first-ever website and media network for news and information about Native American and indigenous peoples, will introduce itself to the entertainment community with a poly-bag insert in Variety’s Friday Golden Globe issue.
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Preview season 2 of Craigslist TV
Superheroes Strike Back!” Part 2: an epic battle of costumed characters on Craigslist TV Season 2 LIVE now! Craigslist TV is a unique webseries from Craigslist and documentary filmmakers Brownstone Entertainment. Real Craigslist users are followed from the very beginning, when they post their ad, and throughout their entire journey. By choosing an opt-in button
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Attention Marketers – Facebook content to be included in Bing search results!
Bing announced an expansion of its partnership with Facebook yesterday. According to Website Magazine, the search engine will enhance its search results with Facebook ‘Likes’. That means when you search on Bing, you will now see which of your Facebook friends liked that same result listing. Bing will also enhance its index with a Facebook
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Cel phone numbers go public in a few days
Just read in the art blog DART that cell phone numbers go public in October. All cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies, who can in turn add them to their RobotCall lists. To prevent your number from being called, you can call the National Do Not Call Registry at the following number
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Optimizing a press release for online use and important Facebook publishing strategies
Website Magazine has posted the latest WM Podcast, this time focusing on optimizing press releases for online marketing success. In addition, they recapped highlights of recently released data about Facebook publishing, that was gathered by social media company Virtue, which found some important, and somewhat surprising results. Virtue examined Facebook user interaction with various content
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