Posts Tagged with ‘CBS’

I've been keeping my eye on Red Lasso since November 2007 when it first hit the social media news scene.  It had been in various stages of closed beta and development for a while before then.  The content wrangling site found rapid success and several early adopters, but quickly started to hit snags.
The premise behind Red Lasso is that users of the service can find, select and share multi media content. It is geared toward video and audio content, [...]

Though integrating social aspects to websites seems more and more to be a necessary factor in keeping up with the Joneses, there is such a thing as going social for the wrong reasons.  At the heart of the web 2.0 and social push is to deliver a better online experience for users.  If companies try to integrate social functionality without keeping the interests of users in focus, those companies won't come off as much more than wolves in a cheap [...]

I'm starting to think I may just want to skip right over the rest of 2008 and start fresh in 2009 when companies come to their senses. First HP decides to acquire support service dinosaur EDS, then Comcast snaps up Plaxo (all the better to throttle your bandwidth AND that of your social graph, my pretties!), and now CBS buys CNET.
I'm sure CNET is ecstatic about the news; several of their properties have been financially struggling now for what seems [...]

With News Corp. and NBC offering up such oldies as The A-Team, Kojak, Partridge Family, and S.W.A.T. (among many others) to their online audience at Hulu and other NBC sites, it only seems logical that other television networks would follow suit in offering former fan favorite shows for viewing via the internet.
Today, CBS has become the latest network to join the online old-school bandwagon, as the company's CBS Interactive division has announced that some of their classic televisions shows [...]

After purchasing Last.FM for a cool $280 Million USD last year, CBS kept its plans for the company close to the vest. The company held a press conference today to reveal the direction it was taking its acquisition. Some sites have speculated that the big secret was going to be video on demand, but that wasn't the case (at least not yet).
The news from CBS today was that they were making Last.FM into a streaming audio service. After [...]

Celebrity gossip is big on the web, as the success of Perez Hilton and TMZ.com has shown. That is why Anthony Soohoo, a former VP at Yahoo!, founded Dotspotter in January 2007.
Essentially, Dotspotter is Digg for celebrity news, photos and video, aggregating content from various celebrity websites and blogs.
Now, just 10 short months after its incarnation, it has been reported that CBS will become the new owner of the web service at a cost of $10 [...]

It has been very apparent lately that many television networks are on a trial-and-error basis when it comes to providing content on the web.
Many are now providing full episodes online, but CBS seems to be paying closer attention than most, noticing the shorter attention span of its web audience when compared to television viewers.
In what seems like a step backward, CBS has now launched EyeLab, a service with a collection of short clips from several hit shows that air on [...]

CBS has apparently recently realized that in order to bring in more traffic and to increase views of its online video, it must become viral… in the sense that they must spread their video content across the web. That did, of course, play a big role in the massive growth of YouTube, which is currently the most popular destination for online video.
Quincy Smith, the president of CBS Interactive, has stated that "CBS is all about open, nonexclusive partnerships." He realizes that [...]

The members of Last.fm, on average, really like Last.fm. It’s a 20-million-strong network of music fans that spans the globe, and there’s no reason at all to think it’s going anywhere but up. Sure, it’s now owned by CBS, so it really can’t be seen an “indie” favorite (not in the musical sense of the term, but the corporate sense) anymore, but no matter. It’s still a fantastic piece of kit in its members' view - and ours as well.
Sony, [...]