The insurance arm of breakdown recovery firm the AA has been warning about the dangers of wearing an iPod when around busy roads.
The AA coins a new phrase, “iPod oblivion”, which afflicts Apple gadget users – and indeed other MP3 player or smartphone owners – turning them into zombies in a “trance-like state” which can [...]

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AA says iPod zombies are shuffling into traffic

As
Ohio State fans gear up for the season, buzz surrounding the school’s athletics is
fueled by the relaunch and new look of OhioStateBuckeyes.com,
the official website for The Ohio State University Department of Athletics.

Working with its Digital Media Partner NeuLion,
the official website relaunch brings video to the forefront with a modernized appearance
and new design elements. The improved site offers fans many new online experiences
through an easily accessible homepage video player, simplified navigation and increased
access to multimedia features for all 36 varsity sports. The new Buckeye destination
is very video and photo centric.

The site’s homepage showcases large format photos and great visual elements capturing
the history of The Ohio State University. Fans have easy to find access to updated
scores and schedules, a live score-ticker, links to live web-streamed event broadcasts
on Buckeye Vision and high quality video profiles of student athletes.

Building the brand experience, visitors have the opportunity to purchase event tickets
and shop multiple areas for classic memorabilia, photos, bid on exclusive fan experiences
and shop for the latest Buckeye gear.

Fan-friendly elements such as Game Day Central introduce new live streamed and on-demand
features including postgame press conferences and game highlights. The site offers
increased fan interaction with polls and links to Ohio State’s official Facebook page
and Twitter. Coming soon from NeuLion is the Buck-i App for download to Ohio State
fans with i-Phones!

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The Ohio State University Expands NeuLion Partnership

Boxee and eGuiders announce
the launch of a custom app for Boxee and their community of 600k users. Boxee is the
easiest way for web content providers to bring their video into an interface optimized
for a TV and remote. The new partnership brings eGuiders’ innovative online video
curation service to the living room and makes it easy to enjoy videos from the couch.

The eGuiders’ Boxee App features video content from YouTube, Vimeo, Daily Motion,
Crackle and other video sharing sites, curated by a team of “eGuiders,” media mavens
who handpick and review the most interesting and entertaining online videos. In addition
to the core team of eGuiders’ which is made up of an array of traditional and new
media professionals from filmmakers and producers to editors and designers–the community
also features notable guest eGuiders, including John Landis (Animal House), Jerry
Stiller & Anne Meara (King of Queens), Damon Lindelof (Lost), Willie Garson (Sex and
the City), Margo Alder (NPR’s All Things Considered) and Shawn Ryan (The Shield, The
Unit), among many others. The Boxee App allows users to watch a variety of entertainment
organized by genre including Animation, Comedy, Drama & Genre, Documentary/Non-Fiction,
Music, and Viral as well as the ‘Pick of the Day’.

The eGuiders’ Boxee App has a clean design, is easy to navigate and content is updated
daily.

The eGuiders’ Boxee App is one of several recent new market and product initiatives
by eGuiders to provide compelling content to digital publishers who specialize in
delivering video in unique formats and on new platforms to their users, including
the Tribune Media Services syndication partnership for the eGuiders Curated Video
App.

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eGuiders Launch Custom Boxee App

Time
Warner and YouTube announce
an online video distribution agreement that will give consumers access to an extensive
variety of high-quality, short-form content owned by Time Warner, including clips
from movies, television shows and news programming. The agreement will allow Time
Warner’s Warner Bros. Entertainment and Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. to program
videos on YouTube using a Time Warner embeddable player.

YouTube will host the content made available from a wide range of Time Warner-owned
television shows and movies. Consumers will have easier access to a wide selection
of existing and future clips, ranging from CNN news coverage to Cartoon Network and
Adult Swim animated shows to TNT’s hit dramas to Warner Bros. Television productions
like “Gossip Girl” and “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.” Another Time Warner property, HBO,
has been programming a branded channel on YouTube since early last year with promotional
content from shows including “True Blood,” “Hung” and “Entourage.”

In addition, this deal gives Time Warner the ability to create separate channels for
its key participating brands as well as to control and sell the ad time on YouTube.
Warner Bros. Entertainment and Turner Broadcasting will work with YouTube to offer
their advertising and agency partners unique packages of targeted advertising, supplemental
marketing and branded channels.

Under the agreement, videos from Time Warner properties will appear on YouTube and
across Google’s product suite. Clips will include advertising, with time sold by Warner
Bros. Entertainment and Turner Broadcasting System. Time Warner’s properties will
share ad revenue with YouTube. The flexibility of this ad sales model differentiates
YouTube from its competitors in the industry and was a key factor in the agreement
with Time Warner. YouTube also will feature Time Warner content in marketing and promotional
campaigns, including display ads.

Many of the Time Warner brands or television shows will have the opportunity to create
and program YouTube channels, beginning this year.

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Time Warner and YouTube Sign Online Video Distribution Agreement

While
‘The Wrestler’ is knocking out Silver-Screen Audiences and TNA and WWE are dominating
TV screens, ClickWrestle is
bringing professional wrestling to the computer screen. At one time, it was every
professional wrestling federation’s dream to attain the glitz and glory of its very
own television show, but today wrestling promotions are taking to the ‘net to get
their video broadcasted to the world.

Video is making a big splash on the internet; according to a recent study by comScore,
online video popularity is up 40% in the last year and niche interest video producers,
such as wrestling promotions are taking advantage of the growing trend in online video
broadcasting. ClickWrestle is a great example of a niche website that has pioneered
the industry of broadcasting online video – bringing backdrops, bodyslams and video
on-demand to professional wrestling fans since 2002 and now going stronger than ever.

ClickWrestle offers full-length wrestling matches and other professional wrestling
content from over thirty international wrestling federations. ClickWrestle currently
carries hundreds of hours of wrestling footage in the form of thousands of matches.
These videos are available for high-resolution, direct-download and are sold as low
as $2.95 per match.

Wrestling promotions are even incorporating their ClickWrestle into their long-term
sales and marketing strategies. Dave Prazak of Shimmer, a leading all-female wrestling
promotion, says, “Online video has played an integral part in the success of Shimmer!
With business partners like ClickWrestle, we’ve been able to reach a lot of new fans
and increase our profit margins.”

The internet has transformed not only the way that people watch video, but the way
that companies do business. The wrestling industry has been forever transformed by
websites like ClickWrestle. With a new source of revenue and exposure, professional
wrestling federations are becoming empowered and even more profitable.

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ClickWrestle Brings Pro Wrestling to the Computer Screen