15Nov

YouTube, Disney joining ranks

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YouTube and The Walt Disney Co. announced on Monday they are teaming up to produce an original video series and feature “family-friendly” Disney programming on the popular video-sharing site.

Disney Interactive and Google-owned YouTube said the programming will be available on Disney.com and on YouTube and the “complementary online video destinations” will launch in early 2012.

“Disney Interactive will produce and program the co-branded video destinations for both Disney.com and YouTube, providing a family-friendly experience for viewers across both platforms,” Disney and YouTube said.

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28Oct

I Want My Siri TV: Is Apple Aiming to Make the Remote Obsolete?

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Television is broken. I know it. You know it. Steve Jobs knew it.

I have a pretty state-of-the-art 2011 Sony LED TV, complete with Hulu Plus, Netflix and YouTube apps. Yet it still usually takes me about a dozen clicks on a button-rich remote to get to what I want to watch. By the time you actually load up the latest Daily Show, your dinner is getting cold and your drink is getting warm.

Wouldn’t it be so much better if you could simply tell your TV what you wanted to see, when to pause or when to turn the volume down? The remote could stay hidden down the back of the couch for good. You could ask for a specific show or YouTube clip, or just be wonderfully lazy and say something like “play me a new sitcom.”

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4Oct

Google paying $100 million for YouTube content, report says

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Google is taking aim at the cable industry by putting up $100 million to develop original content for dozens of new YouTube channels, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

YouTube hopes to roll out the new channels next year, according to the report, which cited unidentified people familiar with the matter. The Web giant is near deals or has already reached agreements with skateboarder Tony Hawk and media companies Warner Bros. and News Corp.’s ShineReveille, the company that produces “The Office” and “Ugly Betty.” Other expected partners include FremantleMedia, BermanBraun, IAC’s Electus, Everyday Health, Iconic Entertainment, Anthony Zuiker, and DECA.

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