Sharing of media online, whether the content is produced professionally or for personal purposes, is now a natural way of operating. For a long while you could pass along YouTube embeds, as well as clips from sites like DailyMotion and Vimeo and so forth, quickly and easily. More recently, hosts of premium content, like Hulu, have jumped aboard the trend with social components of their own. And according to Michael Learmonth of Silicon Alley Insider , CBS is expected to reveal Monday that its bringing shows like “CSI,” “Star Trek,” and captures from “CBS Evening News with Katie Couric” out to play with third-party sites and services.
Want to blog the news and offer up an embed, too? You will be able via CBS’s main website. No convoluted rips necessary. Just grab the code and do as you please. Within reason, of course.
This development will effectively make viewers of several major television networks compatible with viewers’ desires to share video in va...
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New Action Sports Network Twinzer LaunchesFrom: nextravels.com
Post Date: 2008-06-01 08:03:54
A new social network geared toward the action sports crowd has launched today. Called Twinzer , it enters a market already well-stocked with sites ranging from BoardRideTV to Skuff TV to Action Profiles to the Tony Hawk-backed Shred or Die . Some are of course more about media hosting and delivery than connecting skaters, surfers, and bikers far and wide, but they do all populate the same general arena. Thus these comparisons are drawn.
Twinzer, the newest entry on the scene, who...
more Australian Broadcasting Company Launches Google Earth LayerFrom: nextravels.com
Post Date: 2008-06-01 07:06:16
Perhaps you heard a week or two ago that Google had launched a new layer for its Earth utility to display Google News stories . Which we thought was pretty nifty. Earlier still, The New York Times had unveiled its own news layer, too. Well, if those two data feeds weren’t enough, the Australian Broadcasting Company, or ABC, made available this weekend a feature on Google Earth for the convenience of its readership. The download is called ABC Earth , and is intended to connect user...
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