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CBS announces new online video strategy
CBS has announced a major new online video strategy called CBS Interactive Audience Network.For now, that means distribution deals with AOL, Microsoft, CNET, Comcast, Joost, Bebo, Brightcove, Netvibes, Sling Media, and Veoh. Curiously absent from the list is YouTube. All of the content, which will include full-length television episodes and video clips will be advertiser-supported.
While most of the partners are online video websites and portals, Sling Media is in the business of letting users stream their own media over the internet. Sling's upcoming SlingCatcher box will be a device for playing web video on a television set. But the company is also branching into the online video market with its upcoming Clip+Sling service that will let viewers share video clips with one another, with the permission of content owners like CBS.
Sling Media plans to launch a Clip+Sling online video site this summer, which will feature CBS content. But users will also be watch the videos using SlingPlayer software, or using the upcoming SlingCatcher box, which lets users watch web video on their television sets.
Some of the content to be made available will include clips and episodes from CSI, The Late Show with David Letterman, Survivor, Showtime Championship Boxing, and CSTV Game of the Week.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Gardiner Westbound said 6:22PM on 4-12-2007
At last, a media company with the brains to make the Internet work for it!
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