A slew of media and tech companies are working together to take on YouTube’s dominance of online video. Fox, NBC, MySpace, MSN, AOL, Yahoo and others will launch a video-sharing website this summer. They will upload their own content, including the Simpsons, Heroes, Prison Break, Saturday Night Live, films like The Devil Wears Prada, and other "premium content from at least a dozen networks and two major film studios." They’ll promote the site to their massive collective user base, which makes up 96% of all web traffic, according to their press release. They claim to be in talks with Viacom, who is currently suing YouTube for copyright infringement. Said NewsCorp’s COO: "This is a game changer for Internet video. We’ll have access to just about the entire U.S. Internet
audience at launch."
nation will be better served – if we allow our scientists to have
access to more cell lines."
a section of the site that presents information on 2008 Presidential
candidates as well as social and charitable organizations. "MySpace hopes to play a ‘powerful role’ in the 2008 elections, CEO Chris DeWolfe said in a statement." Presidential candidates will soon be able to raise funds through their MySpace pages. Thanks for the add, senator!
chirping, having a good time, and their phones even twitter."
done, but it allows us to bring in some nontraditional sources and
approaches.”
TowleTech is written by TR correspondent Daniel Williford.