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Actors sought for online casting call for web and TV series

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406403_clonelogonopremieredate.jpgIn early March, Briggs Digital Media, whose first series “The Acquirer” starring Matt Schulze (“The Fast and the Furious,” “Blade II”) is currently filming in Southern California, will begin production on their second series for the Web and Television Syndication, entitled Clone. The company is slated to film twenty-two episodes of the new series, which centers on a young man who has discovered a group of human clones that are the creations of a brilliant scientist whose genetic experiments with some of history’s most celebrated individuals resulted in living, breathing, human replicas of the great individuals. Something went wrong along the way, however, and now these clones have turned into evil alter-egos of the great human beings from which they were created. Now it is up to one man, Clone Hunter Erik Berlin, to bring these beings to justice.

Actors are invited to submit themselves for consideration by visiting the Briggs Digital Media entertainment website. There, they will find complete instructions for submitting resumes and photos to Briggs’ casting directors.

Originally posted on February 15, 2008 @ 10:44 am

Filed Under: Web

Groove Mobile Signs with Indie Mobile to expand library of independent tracks

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Groove Mobile announced a worldwide licensing deal with Indie Mobile that will extend Groove Mobile’s independent music library to include multiple mobile content rights including full music tracks, videos and realtones from an extensive catalog of 70,000 songs.

Groove Mobile will work closely with Indie to explore myriad direct-to-consumer opportunities at concerts and other live events, such as full track, off-portal downloads.

With 60 million transactions completed since launching the service in 2004, Groove Mobile has continued to strengthen its command of the marketplace through recent distribution deals with Bell Canada, Vodafone, 3 UK, Universal Music Group and Sony BMG. A pioneer in the mobile music industry, Groove Mobile sold 400,000 audio singles in its first year alone and in July of last year enabled nearly three million downloads in a single month. In addition to this latest deal with Indie, Groove Mobile provides music fans access to the content of other leading independents including, The Orchard, Beggars Group, Redeye Distribution, IRIS Distribution, INgrooves, GrooveSource, IODA, Artspage and Phonofile.

Originally posted on February 14, 2008 @ 10:48 pm

Red Planet Media’s JumpIn mobile social network launches desktop experience

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The JumpIn mobile social network now extends to the desktop with a simple, elegant interface that mobile phone users will find immediately familiar. JumpIn developer Red Planet Media, Inc.is enabling a cross-pollination of both desktop and mobile users by providing both groups a similar look and feel. Current members will find the new desktop replicates the experience on the mobile phone and at the same time provides powerful enhancements. For new members, the desktop is fun, easy, and provides the perfect training ground for the mobile experience.

JumpIn’s new desktop experience replicates the look and feel of a mobile phone but at the same time enables new desktop-only features such as uploading pictures and media files directly from the desktop using the industry-standard “browse” and “upload” paradigm. Members can also now use a full keyboard and mouse to navigate the site.

Originally posted on February 14, 2008 @ 10:43 pm

Magnify hits three million visits per month

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Magnify.net is celebrating its first anniversary with almost three million visitors per month, up from one million just three months earlier. Magnify.net lets people create and run an online, themed TV station out of their home or office.
 
Unlike typical social networks that host video and connect people, Magnify.net provides the tools and resources to discover, review, organize and broadcast themed video — regardless of where it’s hosted.
 
Videos can be easily collected from other networks including YouTube, Metacafe, Dailymotion, Crackle.com, Yahoo, ClipSyndicate, Veoh, among others, or uploaded directly. Users can fully customize their channels to reflect their personal or corporate brand as well as share ad pages through the Magnify Ad Share Network to also monetize traffic.
 
Magnify.net January 2008 Stats:
 
• Page views totaled 15,745,953, which represents a 23.71% increase
• Unique visitors jumped by 30.18% increase
• 2,209 new channels created
• 1,134,376 new content items were submitted to the network
• Total channels on the network are now over 30,000, up from 14,000 in September 2007
• Worldwide growth has skyrocketed by 174% in six months

Originally posted on February 14, 2008 @ 6:53 pm

AOL, Citysearch announce content and advertising partnership

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citysearch.pngAOL and Citysearch inked a strategic partnership that will extend the reach of Citysearch’s local content and pay-for-performance advertising network, while further enhancing the local content on AOL’s network of websites. Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed.

Under the agreement, Citysearch, a leading online local guide and an operating business of IAC, will provide its local content, including editorial reviews, user reviews, merchant videos, photos and offers for distribution across AOL properties, such as AOL CityGuide, AOL Local Search and MapQuest. AOL will integrate local advertising and content from Citysearch’s broad base of local advertisers into AOL’s leading local properties, offering advertisers access to more than 57 million unique users per month.

Originally posted on February 14, 2008 @ 7:09 am