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Christina Norman Set to Infuse OWN With Oprah's Essence

Norman, CEO of the Oprah Winfrey Network, is tasked with creating an entire TV network around Oprah Winfrey's call to "live your best life." Her challenge is to suffuse the new self-help channel with Oprah's essence.READ»

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Vevo Partners With Google TV, Takes Aim at MTV

Unveiled today, Vevo will now be available on Google TV, complete with a custom user-experience, a variety of channels, and on-demand music videos. It's kind of like MTV...when MTV had music. READ»

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Nic Harcourt's "The Live Buzz" Offers a Curated Alternative to Vevo, YouTube, MTV Clutter

Will the former KCRW "Morning Becomes Eclectic" tastemaker and "Star Maker of the Semipopular" find the next Coldplay, Interpol, or Norah Jones -- or just offer sweet relief from bland Internet music video?READ»

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MTV for Music Videos? Try Vevo TV

MTV's videos killed the radio star. Then the Situation killed the video star. Now Vevo wants to fill the void.READ»

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Branded Virtual Goods and What Good They Can Do

Brands hope to use virtual goods to soak up any discretionary spending especially among the Web-savvy under-40 crowd. Analysts agree that the virtual goods market will be worth over $2 billion this year. This is just one way that brands are responding to a very real challenge--how to make themselves relevant, sharable, and likable within the social ecosystem.READ»

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New Start-Up Jibe Marries Facebook, LinkedIn to Help Your Job Search

The old boy network meets the social network.READ»

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MTV.com's VMA Livestream: The Behind-the-Scenes We Never Wanted

MTV has officially lost it. While those with TVs get to watch the least essential awards show of the year, those with mere Internet access get a bizarre, uncomfortable glimpse behind the curtain.READ»

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MTV Bumps Vevo as Top Online Music Destination, Igniting a Web Video Flame War

MTV Networks has taken over Vevo as the No. 1 spot for music videos online. What does this mean for labels Universal and Warner Music Group?READ»

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Atom.com Creates Campy Comedy Web Series

Explosive late-night comedy -- and a shot at TV.READ»

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Babelgum Actually -- gasps -- Pays for Users to Create Videos

Ambitious long-form programming -- with a Sundance vibe.READ»

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Hot Damn! My Damn Channel, the HBO for the Internet, Turns Three

Rob Barnett, founder and CEO, explains how he’s built an artist-friendly network that also plays nicely with brands.READ»

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The Arcade Fire Duets With Google For Cannes Grand Prix Winner "The Wilderness Downtown"

Hot new code, three-way Chrome browser action, and tunes by indie rock darlings--it's everything a geek could want (short of a girlfriend). UPDATE: Arcade fire's feats win the Grand Prix at Cannes Lions!READ»

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Why Good Brands Fail

Is your brand underperforming? Do inferior brands position your brand, putting you in a defensive role having to "prove" your brand's superiority? Are you sick of your brand blending in, rather than standing out? Herein lays the problem. And the cure.READ»

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Facebook's Live Web Video Channel May Not Rock Your Socks Off

Facebook's due to launch its official live video streaming service today, and there're no prizes for guessing its name: The Facebook Live channel.READ»

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MTV Catching Web TV Bug With First Digital-Only Drama

MTV, a veteran at changing how a complete entertainment genre actually works, is launching its first Web-only TV drama show. Thing is, is MTV shining a light on the way ahead for TV, or just late to the party?READ»

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MTV Appoints First-Ever TJ--That's Twitter Jockey

This is Gabi Gregg, a 23-year-old, Detroit-born, Chicago native, and now New York's newest New Yorker. She's also the world's first TJ, or Twitter Jockey, which entails tweeting music news as it happens. She beat out four rivals for ...READ»

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I Want My MTV, er, Vevo

Once the most popular vehicle for music promotion, MTV has just lost its access to the world's largest record label. Universal Music Group announced Friday that MTV.com will no longer be carrying its artists' music videos, a big ...READ»

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Triple Bottom Line: Clif Bar & Company

The early 90s saw the birth of a lot of great things, Clif Bar is one of them. READ»

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Zilch: Get What You Want for Nothing

How to profit by behaving like a not-for-profit.READ»

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Interview: Blip Boutique's Mary Fagot, Creative Force Behind Robyn's Killing Me Video

The oil spill is killing me. My suitcase is killing me. But mostly it's Robyn's interactive twideo that's killing Twitter users. The firm behind it is Blip Boutique, an L.A.-based collective led by James Frost--the guy behind ...READ»

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Exclusive: The New Touching Stories App Brings Four Interactive Films to the iPad

A new app created by Tool of North America and Domani Studios blends cinematic-quality narrative with a choose-your-own-adventure immersive experience that taps the best powers of the iPad.READ»

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Stamen Design Wins a $400,000 Grant for New User-Generated Data-Viz Project

The San Francisco designers known for their urban mapping and data visualization projects won the top grant from the Knight Foundation for their new concept CityTracking.READ»

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Microsoft Uses Cirque to "Kinect" With Gamers, and Everyone Else

Microsoft unveiled the final name of their Project Natal motion control at a press event last night—Kinect. Actually, they leaked it to USA Today around the time we press were on line waiting for the event (with cool Cirque du ...READ»

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Microsoft's Motion-Controlling Project Natal Is Now Named Microsoft Kinect

This just in from the E3 gaming conference in Los Angeles: Microsoft's Wii-without-the-controller Project Natal is now named Kinect. What new announcements came along with the name change?READ»

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Prepare for Catchphrase, "HTML5 it!"

Long and painful is the road of overcoming buzzwords and catch phrases in the interactive space. Here comes another one.READ»