Netflix Now Streaming South Park And Nickelodeon Shows
Netflix has announced it will be offering programming from Viacom’s MTV Networks and Comedy Central via its streaming service.
The first nine seasons of "South Park" featuring 139 episodes are now available to be instantly streamed from Netflix.
Online Journalists Optimistic About Future
Online journalists are more optimistic about the future of their profession than those who work in traditional media, according to a new survey by the Online News Association and the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.
A majority of those surveyed (57%) say the Internet is " changing the fundamental values of journalism." The biggest changes, the respondents said, were a loosening of standards (45%), more outside voices (31%) and an increased emphasis on speed (25%).
Guardian Asks British Govt. To Investigate Google
We’re not witnessing the death of newspapers or journalism, just the apathetic and bloody culling of evolution; those with sustainable business models will survive, and those without, well, it’s curtains for ya. Nothing personal, just the way it’s gotta be.
TV Still Dominates Media Consumption
Nielsen has shared results of its "State of the Media" research. Not that this fact is surprising, but television is still the most preferred gateway for media consumption.
Digg Gets Ready For Search Improvement
Digg announced the unveiling of its new DiggBar yesterday to much enthusiasm. The toolbar makes Digg a direct competitor with StumbleUpon and TinyURL. You can check that out here:
AT&T Versus The Future
If consumers and competition win, there will eventually be no dividing line between your phones (mobile and home line), your computer, your Internet access, and your TV. Ideally, it all merges into one, consumers have a choice of providers of all those services, and the providers do nothing but provide access. You can attach whatever you like that doesn’t harm the network. You can download anything legal. You can use whichever service available.
Google Rumored To Be Breaking Up With Firefox
Google is obligated to support Mozilla’s Firefox browser through a search contract until 2011. But rumors suggest that may be the end of the Google-Firefox alliance.
People were relatively stunned when Google launched its own web browser, Chrome, and they wondered allowed what that would mean for Google’s relationship with the browser that quickly rose to the second most used browser in the world.
Drop in Email Marketing Performance Among British Retailers
If there’s ever been a time when email marketers need to be on the ball with their communication, it’s right now. Consumers are harder to part from their cash and the competition for sales is hotter than ever. However, dotMailer’s annual benchmark study, “Hitting the Mark”, shows that the overall email marketing performance of the U.K.’s leading retailers is actually down on last year.
New AdWords Templates From an Analytical Standpoint
Google recently launched some new templates for the AdWords Display Ad Builder. These templates cater to rich media and video ad content.
The templates allow advertisers to highlight several different products in one ad, and send them each to different landing pages with unique URLs. If you’re not familiar with the templates, watch the following clip:
Put Less Effort Into Your Gmail Searching
Google introduced a new lab for Gmail today that improves the search feature. The new Search Autocomplete lab is basically like Google Suggest for your inbox. Start typing in the searchbox, and it gives you suggestions.