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YouTube Bleeding Money

2009-04-05T19:17:53Z

YouTube is on track to lose $470 million in 2009. Estimated operating costs = $711 million. $360 million of that is on bandwidth costs. In short, YouTube is bleeding a LOT of money. Still, that probably doesn't make you feel any better about t...

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Make your own game or world!

2008-11-02T17:12:56Z

Okay, boys and girls. This stuff is super cool. You can now make your own games and your own worlds even if you don't know how to program. Whoo-hoo! First of all, it's pretty awesome to be able to make your own game or world. But even if your...

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Online video roundtable

2008-10-30T16:30:50Z

Beet.tv had an online video roundtable this week. The videos of the roundtable are online if you missed their live streaming. They also have a liveblogging session of the roundtable, broken out by minutes. Sounds like the biggest news is that b...

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Strike.tv launches today

2008-10-28T16:30:02Z

Strike.TV is the webisode site that the WGA writers started working on during their strike last year. It launches with 10 webisodes (Variety calls them "skeins" - apparently, webisodes are so last month, but since the terminology hasn't been esta...

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Hollywood Goes Silicon Valley LIVE

2008-09-10T20:07:34Z

The “Hollywood Goes Silicon Valley” panel at Techcrunch50 is being streamed LIVE at 5PM PST today on their site. It has Joss Whedon, Stan Rogow (Gemini Division), Matthew Diamond (Alloy Media), Chris Henchy (Funny or Die), and Michael Yanover (C...

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Web Video Guide and Hollywood Goes Silicon Valley

2008-09-09T19:25:13Z

Invision, a web video guide, launched its beta yesterday. They're at Techcrunch50 in San Francisco this week, strutting their stuff to VCs and technocrats. Their beta seems to be for channels only (YouTube, Hulu, Animal Planet, Yahoo, etc) rather...

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Novel Film Hybrid

2008-09-04T03:22:15Z

Check this out. It's an interesting hybrid of novel and short films. From Publisher's Lunch list: "Creator and executive producer of the CSI television franchise Anthony Zuiker's series of three suspense-thriller "digital novels" (every five ch...

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Dr Horrible's Stats

2008-09-01T18:28:54Z

Stats on Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along-Blog (a very successful web series by Joss Whedon): Length - about 40 minutes, broken into 3 pieces. Budget - LA Times reports that it's "in the low six-figures." The Guardian UK reports that Whedon (who fina...

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Webisode gets DVD distribution

2008-08-26T17:48:55Z

Here's what Stacy Parks of Filmspecific has to say about Prom Queen, a successful webisode: Take Vuguru for example, Michael Eisner's year and a half-old production company set up expressly to produce web content. They have a big hit on their han...

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Hollywood and Silicon Valley sitt'n in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g...

2008-07-22T14:57:36Z

The economy is putting the squeeze on Hollywood. Studios are having a harder time finding money for their slates. Filmmakers big and small are looking at creative financing, which translates to Dating Attempt 2.0 between Hollywood and Silicon Va...

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