A Mobile Social Service to Get you out to the Bar [RCR Wireless News]
BuzzD is a mobile networking program that provides real-time peer reviews of social venues. You can see your friends’ critiques of the cocktails at a local bar or the find out how long the line is at the hottest club by texting to access a mobile website. BuzzD has partnered with Time Out and Flavorpill, an online cultural events newsletter. Helio will be the first carrier of BuzzD.
For Election Coverage, Big Media Turns to Citizen Journalists
MTV, Associated Press, and the New York Times will feature user-generated content in their election reporting. Purplestates.tv’s UGC video clips will run in the Times’ op-ed section, and AP is working with MTV to recruit student journalists, who will submit video, blog, animation, podcast, or photo reports every week.
MySpace Adds New Channel for Video
MySpace has created a new channel called PrimeTime, which will show video from NBC’s Hulu and MySpace TV.
Top Online Activity Among Kids: Hint, It’s Not Homework
Kids ages 6-11 prefer games over online social networking (and just about everything else), according to Mediamark Research and Intelligence. Over 78% of the kids questioned played online games within the last 30 days.
Viewers Want More Shows, Movies Online; YouTube Rules
A recent Harris Poll
MTV Taps Bruckheimer to Craft Videogames
Television and film producer Jerry Bruckheimer—of CSI and Pirates of the Caribbean fame—has signed a deal to create video games for MTV. Other Hollywood heavyweights have also broken into the lucrative and rapidly expanding gaming industry. Director Steven Spielberg has agreed to create three original games for Electronic Arts.
Fuser Launches a MySpace Killer; On Facebook
Fuser has launched a Facebook application that allows users to see their MySpace messages, comments, and bulletins from within the Facebook site. Fuser will soon add a reply through Facebook function. Lending itself to viral distribution, the application also adds a widget to your Facebook profile, showing your MySpace communications.
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