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The Scoreboard: Thursday, September 2
25-54 demographic: (L +SD)
Total day: FNC: 323 | CNN: 134 | MSNBC: 133 | HLN: 119
Prime: FNC: 399 | CNN: 167 | MSNBC: 268 | HLN: 115Â 5p: 6p: 7p: 8p: 9p: 10p: 11p: FNC Beck: Baier: Shep: O'Reilly: Hurricane: Greta: O'Reilly: Â 490 304 416 511 391 295 368 CNN Blitzer: Blitzer: KingUSA: Rick'sList: King: Cooper: Cooper: Â 129 147 122 164 161 177 119 MSNBC Matthews: EdShow: Matthews: Olbermann: Maddow: Olbermann: Maddow: Â 118 186 222 326 292 184 144 HLN Showbiz: Prime: Issues: Grace: Behar: Grace: Showbiz: Â 81 91 135 166 102 83 125
Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.
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"media blocs anglès" via Fundació in Google Reader | 9:42pm | 03.9.2010
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Wave in a Box: Los zombies caminan libres
La muerte de Google Wave fué anunciada a bombo y platillo hace poco y ahora parece que, después de todo, los muertos caminan. Google ha decidido liberar el código del proyecto y bautizarlo con el nombre de Wave in a Box.
Aunque el cese de la actividad de Google sobre el proyecto no habÃa sido al 100%, sà habÃan anunciado que dejarÃan de desarrollarlo por falta de acogida (a ver si hacen lo mismo con Buzz). El caso es que han seguido desarrollando el protocolo y su utilidad asà como implementando nuevas cosillas utilizando éste proyecto en aplicaciones como Google Docs.
Wave in a Box ahora es un proyecto libre, de código abierto disponible a todo el mundo lo que te permitirá instalarte en tu propio servidor una versión de Google Wave, que interactúe con el servicio oficial, desarrollar nuevas funciones, aplicaciones... a ver si tienes más suerte que el gigante de las búsquedas.
Quizá el salto que no dio Google y la visión y aplicación que no supo ver en su pequeño gran fracaso lo sepan aplicar otros usuarios o la enorme comunidad Open Source y veamos, quizá, un buen proyecto al que se le ha sacado partido a todas éstas lÃneas de código que ahora pertenecen... a todo el mundo.
Via: Genbeta
Wave in a Box: Los zombies caminan libres escrita en Bitelia el 3 September, 2010 por Diego Fraga
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"tic blocs espanyols" via Fundació in Google Reader | 9:17pm | 03.9.2010
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Que le den morcilla al periodismo
1) El diario te dice lo que debes pensar. Si tienes suerte, te cuenta los hechos relativos al caso debidamente cocinados. La noticia es la interpretación y no el evento. Es una opción. A uno le gusta más otra: dÃgame qué pasa y yo solito me haré mi pensamiento. Lo otro se parece más a una cárcel de papel:
2) El diario se pone de perfil para no perjudicar al Querido LÃder. Cocina light y sin sal. Por lo menos hoy dejan a la gente más sueltaâ¦
3) El diario trata de dar un paso más al frente sin imponer su interpretaciónâ¦
Y lo peor: todos pican âme pareceâ en la fullerÃa gubernamental: tapar con una politiquerÃa poco trascendente el alza del desempleo y el fracaso de la reformita laboral de hace cuatro meses, asuntos ambos de los que, precisamente, se ocupaba el ministro dimisionario.
Menuda nos espera hasta que se celebren elecciones en primavera del⦠¡2012! Qué cansancio.
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"media blocs espanyols" via Fundació in Google Reader | 9:12pm | 03.9.2010
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Pricing Could Determine Samsung Galaxy Tab's Fate
Samsung has not released official pricing for its new Android tablet, but its business partners are publishing prices that exceed $1,000 for the seven-inch Tab.
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"tic mitjans anglès" via Fundació in Google Reader | 9:05pm | 03.9.2010
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Facebook Search Now Displaying Top âLikedâ Stories from Across the Web
In todayâs world of real-time status updates, search is evolving to account for the social nature of the web. Facebook is pushing forward in this direction with on-site search functionality that now displays search results â for Facebook and web content â based on âLikesâ and shares.Facebook appears to have quietly rolled out the beefed-up search offering some time over the past few days; it was first spotted by All Facebook.
From the looks of it, Facebook is ranking results based on how users engage with content via its social plugins. Itâs unclear how Facebook is defining its formula â the formula seems to account for shares and Likes from a memberâs friends as well as shares and Likes from everyone else to determine an itemâs placement.
Just recently, Facebook was awarded a search patent for âranking search results based on the frequency of clicks on the search results by members of a social network who are within a predetermined degree of separation.â
The company has yet to officially announce the new search functionality or explain how it works. Weâve reached out to Facebook for more information and will update this post when we know more.
For the time being, consider this yet another small step in Facebookâs designs to capture search share and harness the abundance of data available around their social plugins.
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El ex presidente español José MarÃa Aznar ganó 171.300 euros como consejero de Rupert Murdoch
NUEVA YORK.- El ex presidente del Gobierno José MarÃa Aznar percibió el último año una retribución de 220.000 dólares (171.300 euros) por su labor como consejero de News Corporation, el conglomerado de medios presidido por el magnate Rupert Murdoch, lo que supone una mejora salarial de más del 50% respecto al ejercicio anterior, según informó la multinacional.En concreto, el sueldo de Aznar en el último ejercicio fiscal de NewsCorp., propietaria de The Wall Street Journal, The Times o las cadenas CNBC y Fox News, comprende el pago de 100.000 dólares en efectivo (77.872 euros), idéntica cantidad a la cobrada el año anterior, mientras que la retribución en acciones se disparó hasta los 120.000 dólares (93.428 euros), más del doble de los 46.161 dólares (35.950 euros) cobrados el año prededente.José MarÃa Aznar se incorporó en junio de 2006 al consejo directivo del grupo dirigido por el magnate de origen australiano Rupert Murdoch, que ha propuesto su renovación como director no ejecutivo en la próxima junta de accionistas de NewsCorp."Su amplia experiencia, incluyendo su periodo como presidente del Gobierno de España, aporta conocimiento, experiencia y perspectiva internacional al consejo, proporcionando una valiosa comprensión de los asuntos polÃticos y gubernamentales mundiales, con un conocimiento único y profundo respecto a numerosos paÃses en los que opera la compañÃa", destaca la multinacional al referirse al papel de Aznar.Por otro lado, NewsCorp informó de que el presidente del grupo, Rupert Murdoch percibió una retribución de 22,7 millones de dólares el último ejercicio (17,7 millones de euros), un 14,6% más que el año anterior.ÂNews Corporation concluyó su ejercicio fiscal 2009/2010 con un beneficio atribuido de 2.539 millones de dólares (1.924 millones de euros), en constraste con las pérdidas de 3.378 millones de dólares (2.560 millones de euros) al cierre del ejercicio precedente.La cifra de negocio de la multinacional alcanzó los 32.778 millones de dólares (24.845 millones de euros), un 7,7% más, gracias al aumento de la facturación en sus divisiones de pelÃculas (+28,5%), TV (+4,3%), cable (+14,8%), satélite (+1,1%) y prensa (+3,9%), mientras que la unidad editorial facturó un 35,6% menos.En el cuarto trimestre de su ejercicio, NewsCorp obtuvo un beneficio atribuido de 875 millones de dólares (663 millones de euros), frente a las pérdidas de 203 millones de dólares (154 millones de euros) del mismo periodo del ejercicio anterior, mientras que su cifra de negocio aumentó un 5,7%, hasta 8.110 millones de dólares (6.147 millones de euros).Publicat per:
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How Americans Spend Mobile Internet Time: A New Look
Nielsen applies a wide variety of methodologies to derive insights from our data for clients and the marketplace on what consumers watch. Our recently published âWhat Americans Do Onlineâ article produced a fantastic level of interest, including questions and suggestions about other ways to look at the data. Since this is how we typically work with clients, collaborating on how to get to the best analysis, we acknowledge that data alone doesnât always provide the complete picture.
The following alternative analysis, comparing category- and site-level data, for example, shows the different insights made possible by alternate approaches and interpretations. We have long taken pride in our leadership in measurement science and our participation in rich debate around methodology to arrive at the best insight possible. Weâre looking forward to continuing the conversation to develop new ways to look at measurement both online and in the mobile arena.
For the mobile element of the research, our original share of time analysis used the average time spent at a category-level, the broad groupings of websites that offer similar types of content. This time we went to a more granular level, looking at share of time by basing it on the total time at the individual site-level.
U.S. Mobile Internet Time by Category: May 2010 RANK Mobile Sector Share of mobile
Internet Time based
on total time at an
individual site-level*Share of mobile
Internet Time based
on average time spent at a
category-level**1 E-Mail 38.50% 41.60% 2 Social Networking 10.70% 10.50% 3 News & Current Events 7.20% 4.40% 4 Search 6.30% 7.10% 5 Portals 4.60% 11.60% 6 Entertainment 4.30% 3.30% 7 Sports 4.10% 2.30% 8 Music 4.00% 3.10% 9 Videos/Movies** 3.00% 2.00% 10 Weather 2.80% 2.80% Source: The Nielsen Company
*The original share of time analysis was based on the average time spent at a category-level **The Videos/Movies category refers to time spent on video-specific (e.g., YouTube, Yahoo! Videos, Hulu) and movie-related websites (e.g., IMDB, Blockbuster and Netflix) only. It is not a measure of video streaming or inclusive of video streaming on non-video-specific or movie-specific websites (e.g., streamed video on sports or news sites).
**New Analysis
This alternative way of slicing the data still shows Email to be, by far, the dominant sector in terms of mobile time, although this dominance shrinks by a few delta points to 38.5% from 41.6%. Search is another that nets out with a smaller share, although by less than a percentage point from 7.1% to 6.3%.The share held by Social Networking remains very similar but News & Current Events comes out much stronger using the site-level analysis at a 7.2% share of time compared to 4.4% of time using the category-level analysis.
Share of time on Portals shows something more dramatic, with a change from 11.6% to 4.6% share of time, but this doesnât mean that people are spending any less time on Portal sites. Nielsen classifies both channels and brands into categories and so a category-level analysis includes both brands (e.g. Google) as well as channels under than brand (e.g. Google News). Using the initial methodology means that all Google time would be assigned to Portals (because Google is a portal) but using the site-level method means the Google News element would be assigned to the News & Current Events sector. Thus, the Portal element is limited to more general and entry pages rather than including content-specific sectors such as news.
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"institucions TIC" via Fundació in Google Reader | 8:50pm | 03.9.2010
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How Americans Spend Mobile Internet Time: A New Look
Nielsen applies a wide variety of methodologies to derive insights from our data for clients and the marketplace on what consumers watch. Our recently published âWhat Americans Do Onlineâ article produced a fantastic level of interest, including questions and suggestions about other ways to look at the data. Since this is how we typically work with clients, collaborating on how to get to the best analysis, we acknowledge that data alone doesnât always provide the complete picture.
The following alternative analysis, comparing category- and site-level data, for example, shows the different insights made possible by alternate approaches and interpretations. We have long taken pride in our leadership in measurement science and our participation in rich debate around methodology to arrive at the best insight possible. Weâre looking forward to continuing the conversation to develop new ways to look at measurement both online and in the mobile arena.
For the mobile element of the research, our original share of time analysis used the average time spent at a category-level, the broad groupings of websites that offer similar types of content. This time we went to a more granular level, looking at share of time by basing it on the total time at the individual site-level.
U.S. Mobile Internet Time by Category: May 2010 RANK Mobile Sector Share of mobile
Internet Time based
on total time at an
individual site-level*Share of mobile
Internet Time based
on average time spent at a
category-level**1 E-Mail 38.50% 41.60% 2 Social Networking 10.70% 10.50% 3 News & Current Events 7.20% 4.40% 4 Search 6.30% 7.10% 5 Portals 4.60% 11.60% 6 Entertainment 4.30% 3.30% 7 Sports 4.10% 2.30% 8 Music 4.00% 3.10% 9 Videos/Movies** 3.00% 2.00% 10 Weather 2.80% 2.80% Source: The Nielsen Company
*The original share of time analysis was based on the average time spent at a category-level **The Videos/Movies category refers to time spent on video-specific (e.g., YouTube, Yahoo! Videos, Hulu) and movie-related websites (e.g., IMDB, Blockbuster and Netflix) only. It is not a measure of video streaming or inclusive of video streaming on non-video-specific or movie-specific websites (e.g., streamed video on sports or news sites).
**New Analysis
This alternative way of slicing the data still shows Email to be, by far, the dominant sector in terms of mobile time, although this dominance shrinks by a few delta points to 38.5% from 41.6%. Search is another that nets out with a smaller share, although by less than a percentage point from 7.1% to 6.3%.The share held by Social Networking remains very similar but News & Current Events comes out much stronger using the site-level analysis at a 7.2% share of time compared to 4.4% of time using the category-level analysis.
Share of time on Portals shows something more dramatic, with a change from 11.6% to 4.6% share of time, but this doesnât mean that people are spending any less time on Portal sites. Nielsen classifies both channels and brands into categories and so a category-level analysis includes both brands (e.g. Google) as well as channels under than brand (e.g. Google News). Using the initial methodology means that all Google time would be assigned to Portals (because Google is a portal) but using the site-level method means the Google News element would be assigned to the News & Current Events sector. Thus, the Portal element is limited to more general and entry pages rather than including content-specific sectors such as news.
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Dominick Bonny: Violence, the Media and Dripping Sweat on Dateline
Sweat poured down my face as the Dateline correspondent questioned me.
And before you jump to conclusions -- I was not on To Catch a Predator.
My flop sweat was due to being interviewed about a story I worked on in college about a girl who was almost killed. Her name is Kristen Grindley. The case is ongoing and her ex-boyfriend has been charged. Dramatic.
Couple that with the fact that the town -- Pullman, WA -- is, for fear of being cliché, a quiet little hamlet nestled among the wheat basket of eastern Washington and it kind of ups the ante.
And, as much as Dick Wolfe and whoever does CSI would have you believe, young women don't normally meet mortal violence in Smalltown, USA.
After all, this ain't Aruba.
Plus Kristen survived. That's the kicker.
After waking from a coma she couldn't remember what happened. At least not well enough to give the prosecutor what he needed.
That's a lot of back story. Hence the reason I included links. But me dripping sweat was the way I began so to that I must return.
Sweat poured from me, a) because I was nervous, b) I've been cursed genetically and c) it was during that interview I realized why I hadn't gone into broadcast journalism.
The fact that I, the 25-year-old sweating mess of a student reporter, was the expert on this story spoke volumes to me about the state of the media.
Lil' 'ole me -- a print journalism kid in po'-dunk Washington -- got the scoop before anyone in New York or L.A. or Seattle. But more importantly, as a student and community-member, what happened to Kristen impacted me just as much as everyone else.
People had questions. They wanted answers. So did I. And I was a reporter. So I went about getting them.
I filed public records requests for police reports and found that Grindley's boyfriend had been arrested a few months prior for hitting her in public. The cop saw him.
I posted the records on my blog (which I shamelessly link to here). But during Kristen's coma, when there was not much movement on the case, the documents generated much discussion around town.
Naturally, everyone I spoke with assumed he was guilty. And to this I cannot attest. No one knows. Just because a jury announces a verdict or a judge bangs his gavel doesn't make a ruling gospel truth. I wasn't there on that road that night. The blood's dry.
What I do know is that, as a young journalist, covering this story confirmed my ardent belief in community journalism.
I felt what others felt and it's not bias - it's empathy.
Out-of-town reporters with camera and lights, microphones and makeup can't cover the story -- just the drama. Just the heat that real-life tragedy emits.
And that's why we hate the media. And our hatred might be well founded.
But the media and journalism are not always the same.
In this age of globalism everyone's looking back to the local. Buy local, eat local, be local. And it's because we've expanded everything -- communication, technology, commerce -- to such an extent that we've lost our sense of belonging to a community.
I'm still a kid in many peoples' eyes but I can see the writing on the wall. We are social animals and we communicate through story. We've been that way since we lived in tribes and we're still that way even though we live in condos.
Stories make us relate and feel empathy. And storytellers need to be invested in the community. Not as a part of the story but as someone who can understand what people are feeling.
That's the conclusion I came to while dripping sweat on Dateline.
What do you think?
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"media mitjans anglès" via Fundació in Google Reader | 8:46pm | 03.9.2010
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NVIDIA Updates Mobile Lineup with GeForce 400M Series GPUs
Today, NVIDIA announced the GeForce 400M Series, a major addition to its lineup of mobile graphics processing units (GPUs).The 400M series features seven new processors, including the GTX 470M and GTX 460M monsters aimed at âenthusiast users,â as well as the GT 445M, GT 435M, GT 425M, GT 420M and GT 415M, intended for real-world use.
If youâre questioning why NVIDIA is releasing five GT GPUs, youâre not alone. While there will likely be a noticeable difference between GT and GTX models, the variations between any two of the GT processors are likely to be minimal.
Like all things currently graphics-related (or so it seems), the 400M will support stereoscopic 3D video. Those of you with a 3D TV will be pleased to know that the 400M GPUs include NVIDIA 3DTV Play software, which enables 3D content playback on compatible TVs.
More important, though, is the inclusion of NVIDIA Optimus, a technology that switches the GPU off in order to conserve battery power when its not processing graphics-heavy materials. This allows for flexibility in notebook longevity, while not degrading performance.
The GeForce 400M GPUs will be available in upcoming notebooks from Acer, Asus, Dell, Lenovo, Samsung and Toshiba.
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The Most Unforgettable Lies From Prominent Americans
Glenn Beck may have been caught lying, but he's far from the first American to do so.
Plenty of prominent people in American history have stretched the truth at one time or another. Sometimes the "untruth" is minor; others its effects are wide-reaching.
Here are some of the most memorable cases involving well-known Americans. Vote on those you think was the worst and be sure to submit those we've missed!
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Larry King Sings Lady Gaga's 'Poker Face'
Presenetd without comment, outgoing CNN 9 PM host Larry King singing Lady Gaga's "Poker Face" on Ryan Seacrest's radio show this morning:
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La infografÃa de moda sobre las infografÃas de moda
⦠â â¦The Thruth About Infographics era necesario: es una infografÃa sobre las infografÃas web de moda: esos resúmenes gráficos a 500 pÃxeles de ancho y alturas imposibles que tanto circulan por ahà desde hace meses. Para algunos saturan tanto que ya huelen, aunque muchas son realmente geniales.
El resumen infográfico de «cómo funcionan las infografÃas» es algo pobre en cuando a la parte gráfica, pero está lleno de sabidurÃa⦠aunque tal vez es demasiado crÃtico al considerar que muchas de ellas son infografÃas-spam (yo dirÃa más bien que la mayor parte son bastante elegantes, pero sobre todo hay opiniones, los de BuzzFeed es que se lo toman todo a cachondeo).
Según explican, el secreto para que la cosa funcione es coger un tema cebo tal como «tetas y culos», «cómo funcionan cosas raras» o algún tipo de «guÃa del blogger» y enviarlo a Digg. A partir de ahà la gente lo popularizará, proporcionando visitas y transfiriendo PageRank; muchos incluso lo incrustarán directamente apuntando al original (el secreto: cuanto más grande mejor, asà no cabe y la gente prefiere enlazarlas). Todo eso pasa al circuito de la publicidad orientada a búsquedas, que mueve millones e idealmente al finalâ¦Â Profit!
(VÃa TechCrunch.)
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Youtube ya es rentable: 350 millones de euros en publicidad
NUEVA YORK.- Cuando Google compró Youtube en el año 2006 a los jóvenes Chad Hurley y Steve Chen, surgieron las dudas sobre la rentabilización de este modelo de negocio. Pasados cuatro años, la respuesta parece ser positiva, toda vez que los analistas estiman que el portal de vÃdeos entrará en números verdes en 2011, tras ingresar 350 millones de euros en publicidad.  Pese a que Google nunca ha hecho públicos los ingresos de Youtube, sà ha desvelado que éstos se habÃan duplicado anualmente en el último trienio. Ahora, con la cifra prevista para este año, el portal alcanzarÃa la deseada rentabilidad y el secreto de este éxito podrÃa estar en los anuncios insertados.  Hace un año y medio, el CEO de Google Eric Schmidt planificó un cambio de estrategia que pasaba por "amasar una audiencia primero y, después, rentabilizarla con nuevas herramientas", según confesó el propio directivo en una entrevista, tal y como recoge 'Portaltic' de 'The New York Times'.  AsÃ, la inclusión de publicidad de anuncios en los vÃdeos y la compartición de ingresos con los propietarios de los derechos fue uno de los primeros pasos en esta dirección que, a la postre, se han mostrado claves para el despegue del negocio.  De hecho, a dÃa de hoy en Youtube más de la tercera parte de los 2.000 millones de visitas semanales a vÃdeos con anuncios corresponden a este modelo --'clips' subidos por usuarios sin derechos de autor pero con el permiso del propietario--.
  Este cambio de rumbo ha permitido a Google --cuyos ingresos por anuncios en las búsquedas de texto suponen el 90% del total-- mejorar las relaciones con los propietarios de derechos, en especial con productoras y distribuidoras. Un buen ejemplo serÃa Lions Gate, responsable de la serie 'Mad Men', una de las preferidas por los usuarios a juzgar por el número de vÃdeos.  "Hace unos años, nuestras reuniones con estas compañÃas estaban llenas de abogados y los responsables de marketing estaban sentados en una esquina. Ahora, cuando acudes a un encuentro apenas hay abogados y se intenta trabajar codo con codo", resumió el director de contenido compartido de Youtube, Chris Maxcy.  Las medidas también alcanzan a los videoclips musicales, donde se utiliza incluso la redirección a otros espacios donde se puede comprar las canciones o los álbumes como en el caso del single del rapero Eminem 'Not Afraid'.  Estos beneficios se convierten de esta manera en una buena noticia para Google, que pagó 1.650 millones de dólares (1.285 millones de euros) por la adquisición del portal de vÃdeos.Publicat per:
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Amazon responde a Apple TV con una bajada de precios
NUEVA YORK.- 'Amazon.com' ha reducido el precio para descargar programas de televisión como 'Glee' a 0,99 dólares  (0,77 euros) en una oferta para igualar a Apple, ya que ambas compañÃas luchan por ganarse los corazones de los teleadictos.  La página web de Amazon ya contiene una serie de programas de televisión y pelÃculas en su sección de 'video bajo demanda', que por lo general están disponibles para su venta individual desde 1,99 dólares (1,5 euros).  La tienda de compraventa por internet llevó a cabo esta iniciativa después de que Apple presentara el miércoles una nueva versión de Apple TV, que ofrecÃa la posibilidad de alquilar programas de ABC y FOX TV, como 'Modern Family' o 'Glee' por 0,99 dólares (0,77 euros).    No obstante, no está claro si Amazon ha alcanzado un nuevo acuerdo con la cadena Fox, propiedad de News Corp, o con ABC, de Walt Disney, para reducir sus precios, ya que ningún portavoz ha confirmado la noticia.  Por otro lado, Amazon se ha dirigido a varias compañÃas de medios de comunicación con una propuesta de un servicio de suscripción que dé a los usuarios acceso ilimitado a algunos programas de televisión y pelÃculas en internet, parecida a la estrategia online de la compañÃa de alquiler de vÃdeos Netflix  Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Google y Sony han estado cortejando a los conglomerados de medios para explotar programas de televisión y pelÃculas mientras luchan por hacerse con el control del salón.Publicat per:
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Wall Street: cierre en verde de una semana esperanzadora
El informe favorable de empleo supone un balón de oxÃgeno para los mercados
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"tic mitjans espanyols" via Fundació in Google Reader | 8:20pm | 03.9.2010
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Our Favorite YouTube Videos This Week: The Secrets Edition
Happy Labor Day weekend, folks! Iâm guessing that many of you are heading home this fine Friday to dine and drink with friends and merry relations. Well, you know what happens when you get scads of loved ones together in one room? Dark truths are revealed (that and Aunt Margeâs bald head after she loses her wig limboing at your yearly BBQ).So in honor of all the upcoming unburdening, weâve made âSecretsâ the theme of this weekâs YouTube roundup.
The below vids, however, are less Tear-Your-Family-Apart and more Fun-For-The-Whole-Clan, so we suggest firing up the old laptop (or iPad) and gathering your brood around the screen for some thoroughly illuminating YouTube fare.
Snoop Dogg's Secret
Josh Catone: Snoop... seeeeeeecrets.
Beatboxing Flute Inspector Gadget Remix
Erica Swallow: Inspector Gadget can solve any secret with the help of his trusty friends Penny and Brain, but can he figure out how this guy plays the Inspector Gadget theme song on the flute while beatboxing simultaneously?
Scary Hidden Camera
Jay Irani: I'm so glad no one told these people about the hidden camera.
Turkey Scared Squirrel
Sarah Kessler: I'm glad no one told this squirrel about the hidden camera.
Inception Cat
Brenna Ehrlich: Psst... Your world is not real!
Image courtesy of iStockphoto, bobbieo
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Los diputados españoles prefieren iPhone a Blackberry
MADRID.- El Congreso ha comenzado ya a repartir entre los diputados los nuevos teléfonos móviles que Movistar puso a disposición de la Cámara conforme al contrato que tiene con la institución. Sus señorÃas pueden elegir entre el último modelo de iPhone (ya sea el 3G o el 4) o la Blackberry, se informó en fuentes parlamentarias.  Los primeros en renovar sus móviles han sido los miembros de la Mesa y la Junta de Portavoces, que en su mayorÃa han optado por el iPhone, una vez que los servicios de la Cámara han constatado que los problemas que se habÃan detectado en las primeras series del iPhone 4 han sido solventados en los fabricados con posterioridad.  Cada una de sus señorÃas ha recibido un correo electrónico informándoles de que tenÃan que escoger entre los citados modelos de teléfono. En función de su elección, en las próximas semanas se completará el reparto de nuevas terminales, que serán personalizadas con el correo y la firma electrónica de cada uno de los parlamentarios.  Según aseguraron fuentes de la Cámara Baja, la renovación de los móviles no supondrá ningún coste adicional para el Congreso, sino que está contemplada en el contrato global de telefonÃa con Movistar, la operadora con la que, en la anterior legislatura, se firmó un contrato con un presupuesto anual de unos 400.000 euros, que cubre tanto la telefonÃa móvil como la fija e Internet.  Ese contrato fue renovado en abril después de que Movistar ofreciera como mejora adicional, para garantizarse su continuidad, la sustitución de los terminales de telefonÃa móvil. Las citadas fuentes aseguran que la renovación conllevó incluso un ahorro del presupuesto global.Publicat per:
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John Shore: And Yada, Yada, Yada ... Glenn Beck's a Christian
I don't watch TV. I mean, I watch stuff on my TV -- but "only" DVD's, since I don't subscribe to any cable service. I would, but I have issues with commercials. So I don't.
Ah, DVD's. Right now I'm (back on) a Seinfeld phase. Last night I watched the "Yada, Yada" episode. Classic!
Another reason I don't watch TV is because I'm afraid that if I do, I might accidentally watch Glenn Beck. And life's too short for that.
I can't tell you with what assiduousness I ignored this recent thing with Beck daring to screw with Martin Luther King's legacy. But I'd have had better luck ignoring a tornado taking out half my house. It's everywhere.
Ah, Glenn. What a swollen, festering pimple on America's giant pink butt.
Anyway, I've gotten a few emails asking for my take on Beck's "Restoring American's Honor," or, "Call to God," or, "Hey, look, everybody: Sarah Palin! Finally, a hottie cheerleader's talking to me!" big event last Saturday. So here that is:
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn.
An attention-crazed showman gets super-popular because he taps into the racism engendered by a half-black president. Lots of right-wingy types embrace him, and he becomes the wild-eyed public mouthpiece for whatever weird amalgam of conservative political philosophy and raw fear-mongering he can concentrate on long enough to start crying about.
He craves more power and attention, because that craving is all he knows. Having captured what he can of the political right, he starts eyeballing their longtime allies, the Christian right. But he understands that being a Mormon who was raised Roman Catholic might make him a hard sell with the evangelicals. But no worries, because he's got what a lot of mega-church leaders desperately want, which is legions of devoted fans and major media access. So at the John F. Kennedy Center the night before his big "Restoring America's Honor" rally, Beck holds an event modestly billed as "Glenn Beck's Divine Destiny"; thousands of Christian leaders wanting part of Beck's action attend (giving him, of course, a standing ovation); and voila: standing beside him on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial the next day are the likes of Rev. Richard Land, spokesman for the Southern Baptist Convention (which boasts 16 million members and more than 42,000 churches), and Jim Garlow, lead pastor of Skyline Wesleyan, the mega-church in La Mesa, Calif.
Said Mr. Garlow in a statement, "Beck is being used by God---mightily."
And the following morning, there's Beck on "Fox News Sunday," piously intoning, "There's nothing we can do that will solve the problems that we have and keep the peace unless we solve it through God."
God, Jesus, God, Jesus, God, Jesus, God, Jesus. Say them both enough times---and hey! You're a Protestant evangelical!
On "Fox News Sunday" Beck also recanted his statement from last year that "Mr. Obama is a racist with a deep-seated hatred for white people." He allowed as how he shouldn't have said that.
Now, he explained, his problem with Obama is that he isn't a true Christian.
"Obama is a guy who understands the world through liberation theology, which is oppressor-and-victim," said the sagacious Beck. "People aren't recognizing his version of Christianity. You see, it's all about victims and victimhood; oppressors and the oppressed; reparations, not repentance [read:"Watch out, White America: he's comin' to get you!"]; collectivism, not individual salvation [read: "He's a socialist!]. I don't know what that is, other than it's not Muslim [dingdingdingding!], it's not Christian. It's a perversion of the gospel of Jesus Christ as most Christians know it."
And in one weekend, he wraps up what he can get of the Christian market. (Not of course, that he's yet done with that crusade.)
Yaaaaaaaaaaaawn.
We have always had among us media-savvy megalomaniacs craving power and artfully appealing to the worst in people. We always will. When one of them starts getting real elected power, then we've got a problem. But as long as they're contained to posturing and braying on TV---which, in the end, is about nothing but selling cars and laundry detergent? Then I'll keep happily tuning out, and thanking God for the likes of Jerry Seinfeld and Steve Carell. On DVD.
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John also blogs at JohnShore.com.
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Google relanza Wave en forma de aplicación independiente opensource
SAN FRANCISCO.- Wave parecÃa muerto pero ha renacido de sus cenizas con una interesante propuesta. Después de echar el cierre a su desarrollo y liberar las más de 200.000 lÃneas de su código, Google ofrecerá una aplicación: 'Wave in the box'.  La compañÃa proporcionará herramientas como un servidor y cliente con soporte para la colaboración en tiempo real usando la misma estructura de conversaciones de Google Wave, soporte para búsquedas o importación de datos desde wave.google.com, entre otras cosas.  Esta nueva versión de Wave no tendrá las mismas funciones del servicio tal y como nació. La intención de Google "es la de dar a los desarrolladores y usuarios empresariales la oportunidad de poner marcha servidores wave y albergar waves en su propio hardware".Publicat per:
