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BBC launches phase one of its Connected Studio initiative
Adrian Woolard, Project Director at the North Lab for BBC Research & Development has updated the BBC Internet blog with interesting details about the Connected Studio project.
Launching its first phase today, Connected Studio is designed to allow crea...
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L.A. Stories: Scarfing Up Big Media at Gobbler (Video)

Another very interesting company I stumbled across in a funky building in Hollywood on my recent trip to Los Angeles is Gobbler, which bills itself as a “high-speed file transfer & backup for pro audio.”
In other words, a hopped-up versi...
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Google Currents launches internationally with dynamic sync and automatic translation
Google has today announced that its Google Currents app has launched worldwide in any country that has access to the Google Play or App Store markets. The app had previously launched in the U.S., where 400 publisher editions and 14K self-produced editions...
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Viral Video: What Do You Get When You Mash Up Google Glass, FaceTagram and Gosling?

Once again, Jon Stewart nails it perfectly on this “Daily Show” segment — and all at once, too, with biting commentary on Google’s new augmented- reality glasses, the $1 billion Facebook just forked over for Instagram and, yes, Mr...
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Amazon now lets you trade in your old CDs
Amazon‘s Trade-In Program will now include CDs, the company has announced. Until today, it was available for a large range of electronics, such as iPads, but it is the first time that users have been able to trade recorded music for Amazon’s g...
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Spotify’s embeddable Play Button: Awesome idea, but not as good as it should’ve been
In case you missed it, Spotify launched its embeddable Play Button earlier today, letting you embed any Spotify song, album or playlist directly into your website. Just like YouTube, right? Erm, no actually. Now that the initial dust has settled, it’...
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The BBC’s Global iPlayer gets its first ever sporting event
Nine months after BBC Worldwide launched its global iPlayer app to 11 Western European countries on iPad, the commercial arm of the UK broadcaster has announced that the first ever sporting event has been made available to customers around the world.
The ...
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Spotify opens its music to the wider Web with new embeddable Play Button
Spotify has gone from strength to strength since it launched in 2008, and last year its deep Facebook integration and US launch helped take the music-streaming service to the next level. From today, however, Spotify takes a pretty big step towards really ...
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Netflix comes to Windows Phone in Latin America, UK and Ireland, adds subtitles in US and Canada
Netflix is releasing an international version of the Netflix app for Windows Phone, greatly increasing the number of devices it runs on in the UK, Ireland and Latin America.
Netflix is now available on devices from HTC, LG, Nokia and Samsung that run Wind...
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Google hasn’t given up on social network Orkut, launches deeper YouTube integration
Google is debuting a deeper integration between YouTube and Orkut, the company announced on its first social network’s official blogs in English and Portuguese.
Following the announcement, Orkut now features a pretty slick YouTube widget, which lets...
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TED Podcasts now available to 30 million TuneIn listeners
We are huge fans of TED here at The Next Web for its seemingly endless inspiration and world-changing potential. Recently, we got exited when Netflix announced its “TEDTalks Shows” are available on instant streaming.
Today, we have more news to bring you:...
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It's Official: Yahoo Reorgs Itself Just Like We Said (Memo Time!)

Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson just sent this email to Yahoo employees, about a new leadership organization for the company.
“It’s time for Yahoo! to move forward, and fast,” wrote Thompson (using punctuation I really like, with nice comma de...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook to Appear as Opening Speaker at the D10 Conference

Walt Mossberg and I could not be more thrilled to announce that Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, will be the opening-night speaker at our 10th D: All Things Digital conference.
It will be Cook’s first appearance at D, as well as his first time being onstag...
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Amazon’s in-app purchasing is now available to all Android and Kindle Fire developers
Amazon’s in-app purchasing is now available to Android and Kindle Fire developers, the online retail and publishing giant announced today.
In practical terms, this means that anyone will now be able to offer digital content for purchase within apps,...
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Yahoo Preps Its New Structure Down to the Wire -- Set to be Unveiled to Staff at All-Hands Meeting This Morning

Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson and a very close-knit team at the Silicon Valley Internet giant worked into the night last night to put the final touches on a restructuring of the company that will drastically change how it is run.
Sources said Thompson has not...
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Viral Video: Bravo's Andy Cohen Is Very Cute (Mocking Him Even Cuter)
Here is a perfect impression on “Saturday Night Live” this week of Andy Cohen — the shih tzu of a television talk show host who helms “Watch What Happens Live” on Bravo.
The skewering is epic, especially since it so spot-on. ...
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More D10 Speakers: Ellison, Meeker, Myhrvold, Along With Pixar and Visa!

A month ago, I posted an initial list of speakers for the 10th D: All Things Digital conference.
After a decade, the event — which is held in Rancho Palos Verde, Calif., just south of Los Angeles, at the end of May — has attracted another ama...
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Ze Frank is back with a new crowd-funded version of his popular Web show
Before the “YouTube Generation” of video stars that made bucks from ads for their rambling videos, there was Ze Frank. His appropriately titled “The Show” launched in 2006 and was a year-long experiment. While some of Frank’...
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YouTube is funding weekly shows for Cosmo, Marie Claire & Seventeen
Hearst has an extremely well-known roster of publications under its belt, but as print magazines begin to be eclipsed by new media, the media giant is at risk of losing its hot seat. To compensate for this, some publications have opted for digital subscri...
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FaceTagram? InstaBook? Whatever You Call It, All Your Mobile Photo Are Belong to Facebook (for $1 Billion)!

If you want a quick analysis of why Facebook would pay $1 billion for popular photo-sharing service Instagram, please ignore the obvious financials that just don’t add up at all and have most of the typically unshockable digerati shocked by the she...
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L.A. Stories: What's the Frequency for Web Video Discovery? (Video)

Earlier this year, Peter Kafka wrote an update about Los Angeles-based Frequency, which is essentially a social TV Guide for online video.
I stopped by Frequency’s HQ — on a recent visit there to check out SoCal start-ups — to chat with...
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Clicking on a Fortune: Facebook to Acquire Photo-Sharing Start-Up Instagram for $1 Billion

Facebook has just announced that it will acquire Instagram, the popular mobile photo-sharing service for $1 billion in cash and shares.
The social networking giant posted on the acquisition, its biggest yet, on its site, as well as on CEO and co-founder ...
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Netflix update for Xbox 360 brings single sign-on, Facebook Connect in the UK and more
Netflix’s Xbox 360 app just got an update, the film and TV streaming company announced minutes ago on its blog. As part of its new version, users can now log in via a single sign-on.
In practical terms, this means that it will now be easier to acces...
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Digital Newsstand PressReader gets a new iPad app, and rolls out instant translation in 12 languages
The collation of news and other media content from multiple sources is perhaps one of the most notable changes ushered in by the digital age, whether it’s through apps such as News Republic, digital newsstands like Zinio, or simply Google News.
Now,...
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The first ever Google TV Hackathon Weekends are set to run concurrently in Mountain View and London
We recently reported that TV’s open data is way behind that of the music industry following our attendance at MIPCube’s TV Hack Day, however we also noted that there is real potential in the space.
With that in mind, Google has announced that itR...
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Despite huge shifts, “TV’s still going to look a lot like TV five years from now”: Ooyala’s Bismarck Lepe
Unless you take a keen interest in back-end online video technologies, you’ve probably never heard of Ooyala, and yet you’ve probably used its services without realizing it. It powers video offerings from the likes of Dell, ESPN, Virgin Media ...
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Viral Video: Let the Hipster Games Begin!
I meant to post this last week — a very clever spoof on the hit movie, “The Hunger Games.”
This version: “The Hipster Games,” with ironic young people from five districts — – Portland, Austin, Brooklyn, Oakland, a...
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Movies from Universal Studios are now available on Apple’s iCloud service
Apple has taken a major step forward with its iCloud service, by adding content from Universal Studios to the list of movies and videos which users of the ‘iTunes in the cloud’ service can re-download after purchase.
The development, reported ...
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From Amazon to YouTube: This Week’s Media News in Review
Let’s start our weekly media roundup with two shows that we look forward to watch. While much has been written on Steve Jobs’ upcoming biopic and its lead actor Ashton Kutcher, we are perhaps just as curious to discover the Angry Birds’ ...
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22tracks brings expert music curation to The Next Web Magazine
The latest issue of The Next Web iPad Magazine (it was released two days ago; if you’ve got an iPad – subscribe today!) sees the launch of a partnership with music startup 22tracks that will see us share five of the hottest tracks selected by ...
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Second screen content, coming soon to your movie theaters
The cinema advertising company Screenvision is launching a second-screen experience for movie theaters. Called The Limelight, it will let users browse additional content before their movie starts.
To access this pre-movie content, they will have to downlo...
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Viral Video: Google Glasses in the Wild Imagined (Complete With Inevitable Annoying Ads)

Here’s an aggressively adorkable video mashup, called “ADmented Reality — Google Glasses Remixed with Google Ads” by Rebellious Pixels.
Project Glass, which the search giant unveiled earlier this week, could bring the world augmen...
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Netflix to tweak vacation hold feature so that it doesn’t automatically restart your subscription
There is a Netflix feature called vacation hold that allows you to freeze your account for up to three months while you’re away and wont be using it. The feature automatically restarted your subscription after three months. I often used this when I ...
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Free audiobook service LibriVox hits 100m downloads
Librivox, the community that provides public domain texts, read by volunteers, has hit 100 million downloads. The organisation creates hundreds of audiobooks for free as mp3 or ogg files, providing access to an amazing selection of audio that is no longer...
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Movie crowdsourcing company Mofilm taps Audiosocket’s indie music licensing platform
Music-licensing technology company Audiosocket has announced a partnership that will see film-contest community Mofilm tap its catalog of 38,000 tracks from more than 2,000 emerging bands, composers and record labels.
We last covered Audiosocket back in S...
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Exclusive: Yahoo's Chief Product Officer Blake Irving Resigns

According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo’s Chief Product Officer Blake Irving has turned in his resignation and it has been accepted by the company.
The process for Irving’s departure is a bit more formal since he is a top officer a...
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Amid Worries About Strategery, Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson Tries to Soothe the Savaged Troops (Memo Time!)

Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson, who has developed a tough-talk reputation within Yahoo of late, went all sweet — well, less crabby, I guess — the day after the layoffs in which 2,000 employees were fired.
After dressing down top execs the night bef...
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The ABA vows to offer a ‘better product’ when Google pulls its eBook reseller program next year
Google has announced that from next year, it will no longer allow independent bookstores to sell its digital books through their websites.
The American Booksellers Association (ABA) broke the news in an email to its members earlier today, noting that that...
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American Idol episodes are now Shazam-enabled as the company broadens its scope
American Idol episodes are now Shazam-enabled, the music recognition startup announced today. The next time you watch the reality TV show, you will be able to use Shazam‘s app to find the song list in real-time.
Besides links to buy music from both ...
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Indie music rights agency Merlin reaches $1.6m settlement with Sirius Satellite Radio
Global independent rights agency Merlin has agreed to the settlement of a long-running copyright infringement dispute with New York-based Sirius Satellite Radio for a sum of $1.6 million.
Merlin fought for the settlement with Sirius Satellite Radio over i...
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Boxee rolls out big updates to its Spotify app, bringing search, social and shuffle into the mix
We’re big fans of Boxee here at The Next Web, and we’ve previously noted it’s one of the easiest ways to bring movies, TV shows, photos and music from the Web to your TV.
Boxee has since announced a slick new iPad app, and integrations w...
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Amazon launches ‘eBooks Kindle en Español’, a Kindle Store for Spanish speakers in the US
Amazon is introducing a new Spanish-language eBook store within the Amazon.com Kindle Store, the company announced today. Called ‘eBooks Kindle en Español‘, it is targeted at Spanish speakers in the US.
According to Amazon, the store boasts 30...
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China’s state-run People’s Daily news site in $84 million IPO move (as Chairman Mao rolls in his grave)
The online arm of People’s Daily, China’s state-run news agency, has launched an initial public offering (IPO) in Shanghai. The move is aimed at raising funds to develop its editorial team, technology and delivery to mobile, as it looks to bet...
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Canadian retailer SSENSE taps WireWAX to let fashionistas shop direct from a music video
We first covered UK-based startup wireWAX and the intelligent video movement back in September. To give you a quick recap, wireWAX is a Web-based, motion-tracking taggable video tool which allows video-creators to add clickable hotspots to their films.
Ha...
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Yahoo and Twitter Get New Communications Heads From PayPal and Google
Big moves in the Internet PR biz, as Yahoo grabs Amanda Pires from eBay’s PayPal unit and Twitter snatches Google communications exec Gabriel Stricker.
Pires, who is currently senior director of communications and brand at PayPal, worked with new Ya...
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Check out The Next Web’s Hermione Way on ‘Silicon Valley’, Bravo’s new reality TV show
The news is out, today the world has heard about a new reality TV show being made for US TV network Bravo about Silicon Valley, starring a cast of seven Valley movers and shakers including an executive producer role by Randi Zuckerberg, the sister of Face...
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The Next Web is a proud partner in Zite’s brand new publisher program
Today, personalized news magazine Zite announced its new publisher program that will allow it to deliver personalized news sections from a set of carefully chosen partners. These sections will contain 50 new stories for that day from the partner.
The Next...
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L.A. Stories: Mike Jones and Peter Pham Talk About the Science of Tech Studios (Video)

While swanning about Los Angeles last week, I paid a visit to a number of interesting techies, including Mike Jones and Peter Pham, who recently founded Science.
While there are a lot of incubators and accelerators out there fiddling with start-ups, the...
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This documentary on crowdfunding is seeking financing through, yup, crowdfunding
“Capital C. How the crowd liberates itself” is a new documentary in the works about how crowdfunding is “no longer the nerdy pipe dream of a bunch of Internet geeks”. So naturally the project is on Kickstarter.
The basis of the fil...
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20th Century Fox taps Civolution’s media intelligence to monitor global broadcasts
Twentieth Century Fox has announced that it’s to start using Civolution‘s media-monitoring technology to monitor the broadcast of its video content around the globe.
Civolution’s technology helps companies monitor, manage and, subsequent...
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