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Top Stories
o Second Online Gambling Executive Arrested by U.S. Authorities
o FTC Fines Social Network Xanga $1 Million for Underage User Accounts

o Facebook Alters New Social Network Features After Member Outcry
o Yahoo to Webcast Live NFL Games Outside North America
o Met to Beam Operas to Movie Theaters, Internet, Satellite Radio
o Red Sox's Curt Schilling, Todd McFarlane Launch Game Studio
o Fox Websites to Offer Sneak Preview of New Season of "The Simpsons"
o Freewebs Gets Backing From Novak Biddle, Columbia Capital
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DMW Announcements
  DMW Events Listing
    · Digital Music Forum - October 4-5, 2006 - West Hollywood, CA
  Job Opportunities at DMW - Join the DMW Team!
  Digital Entertainment & Marketing Awards - Submissions Deadline: September 15


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  2006 Digital Entertainment & Media Directory - 1,000+ Company Profiles

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Briefly Noted
o Nokia to Launch Mobile TV Service in Vietnam
o Telecom Italia Taps EXPWAY for Mobile TV Program Guide
o ROO to Power Online TV Service for U.K. Tabloid The Sun
o Two Early Priority Video-on-Demand Patents to Sell at Auction
o EZTakes Adds Mac OS X Support for Movie Download Service
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Wired News: Algorithm Changes at Digg Anger Heavy Users

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o Amazon.com Launches "Unbox" Video Download Service
o Buzz Watch: Kate Moss and the Birth of the Pornomercial
o Video-sharing Service Motionbox Raises $4.2 Million in First Round
o Warner Bros. TV Group Launches Digital Studio for Short-Form Content
o Mobile Ad Network AdMob Lands Funding from Sequoia Capital

Online Extras
o Buzz Watch: Google Current TV and NYT Popcast
o Report: 484,000,000 New Cell Phone Connections in Last 12 Months
o Poll Result: Toss-up - MTV is, like, so yesterday, or will be a powerhouse
o Morning Links: September 8, 2006
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  Panel Discussions on MySpace and YouTube - Sept. 15, George Washington University
  IME Executive Education Programs - Fall 2006 - New York, NY
  YOUR HOTEL ROOM IS WAITING FOR YOU IN LAS VEGAS!
  Job Opportunities at DMW - Join the DMW Team!
  Associate, Investments - Time Warner Inc. - New York, NY
  West Coast Sales Manager & Marketing Director - Inlet Technologies – Raleigh, NC
  Video Broadcast Engineers - OMNITEC Solutions - Washington, DC
  Profile Your Customers, Cleanse Your CRM at 40 percent of Market Costs
  SVP, Sales and Business Development - SmarterTravel.com - Boston, MA
  Director, Business Development - NBA - Beijing or Shanghai, China
  Analyst, European Digital Home - JupiterResearch - London
  Interactive Media Buyer - White & Partners - Herndon, VA
  Product Manager - Right Media – New York, NY
  VP of Marketing - Zillow.com - Seattle, WA
  2006 Digital Entertainment & Media Directory - 1,000+ Company Profiles
  PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Entertainment and Media Outlook: 2005-2009


Top Stories

o Second Online Gambling Executive Arrested by U.S. Authorities

New York - U.S. authorities have arrested an executive from another overseas online gambling company, this time targeting the chairman of U.K.-based Sportingbet, Peter Dicks, Reuters reported. Dicks was arrested in New York on Thursday and charged with using a computer to gamble, as part of an investigation by authorities in Louisiana. David Carruthers, the CEO of Costa Rica-based gambling site BetOnSports, was arrested while traveling in Texas in July, and indicted on racketeering charges. Reuters said the second arrest of an online gambling executive by U.S. authorities prompted share prices of companies in the sector to lose over $1.5 billion in market value on Thursday. Sportingbet's Dicks was released on $50,000 bail on Friday, and will appear in court in New York on Sept. 14 to face extradition to Louisiana.
http://tinyurl.com/qyed5 (Reuters)
http://www.sportingbet.com
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o FTC Fines Social Network Xanga $1 Million for Underage User Accounts

Washington - The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced this week that social networking site Xanga.com will pay the largest civil penalty levied thus far -- $1 million -- for allegedly violating the Children's Online Privacy Act. The company is alleged to have allowed some 1.7 million accounts over the past five years to be created by persons whose stated age was younger than 13. The FTC said Xanga disclosed personal information about the members without first notifying and obtaining consent from parents, in violation of the law. For its part, New York-based Xanga argued that some of the "underage" accounts were created using a pet's birthday, a couple's wedding date, or a religious person's "born again" date. "[The law] requires all commercial websites, including operators of social networking sites like Xanga, to give parents notice and obtain their consent before collecting personal information from kids they know are under 13," said FTC chairman Deborah Platt Majoras. "A million-dollar penalty should make that obligation crystal clear."
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2006/09/xanga.htm
http://press.xanga.com/2006/09/07/statement/#more-5
http://tinyurl.com/g46q7 (CNET)
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o Facebook Alters New Social Network Features After Member Outcry

Palo Alto, Calif. - Facebook, the second-largest online social network with 9.5 million members, made alterations to new features on the service late Thursday, after more than 600,000 members complained via online petitions. On Tuesday, Facebook introduced a feature called "News Feed" that automatically notified all of a member's friends each time new pictures were added, blog comments posted -- even when a user's relationship status changed. An outcry ensued, from members who deemed the new feature an invasion of privacy. The company on Thursday added the ability to opt out of the News Feed feature entirely, and also to control which profile updates would be visible on friends' pages. "We really messed this one up," Facebook chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a blog post on Friday. "We did a bad job of explaining what the new features were and an even worse job of giving you control of them." The post went on to say the company has been "coding nonstop for two days" to make changes to the News Feed feature that reflect member concerns. "We're making changes because we feel it's important to react to this quickly," Zuckerberg told The Washington Post. "But we think it's a good product, and we're not taking it down."
http://blog.facebook.com
http://tinyurl.com/zlq6k (Washington Post)
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o Yahoo to Webcast Live NFL Games Outside North America

Santa Monica, Calif. - Yahoo announced on Friday that it has signed an agreement with the National Football League (NFL) for the rights to stream every NFL game live outside of North America. The NFL Game Pass service from Yahoo Sports will charge fans $24.99 per week or $249 for the entire 17-week NFL regular season, with each game to be available on-demand for up to 24 hours following its conclusion. Yahoo said it will stream the games to computers at up to 700 kbps.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060908/20060908005216.html?.v=1
http://www.nfl.com/nflgamepass 
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o Met to Beam Operas to Movie Theaters, Internet, Satellite Radio

New York - New York's Metropolitan Opera this week announced plans to broadcast live performances to movie theaters and stream them over the Internet and satellite radio services. Six Met performances from the upcoming season will be beamed live in high-definition audio and video to movie theaters in the U.S. (National CineMedia), Canada (Cineplex Entertainment) and Europe (Odeon/UCI). They include productions of "The Magic Flute," "I Puritani," "The First Emperor," "Eugene Onegin," "The Barber of Seville" and "Il Trittico." In addition to the live broadcasts, more than 1,500 historic radio broadcasts from the past 75 years will also be offered online through RealNetworks' Rhapsody digital music service. The organization did not name a satellite radio partner, but said it also plans to expand distribution into digital downloading, video-on-demand, instant CDs and ringtones. The Met said the distribution deals were made possible through agreements between the opera and its unions that eschew substantial upfront payments in favor of a revenue-sharing model with more inclusive distribution rights, bypassing traditional channels such as record labels.
http://www.metoperafamily.org/operanews/news/pressrelease.aspx?id=1258
http://tinyurl.com/r4b4d (Reuters)
http://www.rhapsody.com
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o Red Sox's Curt Schilling, Todd McFarlane Launch Game Studio

Maynard, Mass. - Curt Schilling, the Boston Red Sox pitcher, on Friday announced he has founded a new multiplayer game development studio with Todd McFarlane, the comic book writer and creator of the "Spawn" franchise, and fantasy writer R.A. Salvatore. The new company, called Green Monster Games, is now in pre-production on its first title and is currently looking for employees at its Maynard, Massachusetts offices. "Publishing great games has more to do with the people you have on board than it does with the cash and ideas you bring to the table," said Schilling. "With that in mind, I conceived a plan years ago in which I envisioned a 'dream team' of talent. At the top of my list were Todd McFarlane and R.A. Salvatore, and it's a dream come true that they have agreed to join Green Monster Games in the production of our first title."
http://tinyurl.com/ocxe9
http://www.spawn.com
http://www.greenmonstergames.net ____________________________________________ 

o Fox Websites to Offer Sneak Preview of New Season of "The Simpsons"

Los Angeles - Fox Interactive Media announced on Friday that it will offer a promotional preview of the first episode of the new season of Fox's animated series "The Simpsons" on its family of websites. The first seven minutes of the premiere episode, in addition to behind-the-scenes footage on the making of the show, will be offered on Fox websites including MySpace, Fox.com and IGN TV. Fox Interactive Media's AskMen.com will also become "AskHomer" for one day, while FoxSports.com on MSN will feature Homer's week one NFL picks and RottenTomatoes.com will be made over with Simpsons branding.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060908/20060908005171.html?.v=1
http://www.myspace.com/thesimpsons
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o Freewebs Gets Backing From Novak Biddle, Columbia Capital

Silver Spring, Md. - Freewebs, an advertising-supported company that allows users to build their own websites, has completed its first round of venture capital, with backing from Novak Biddle Venture Partners and Columbia Capital. VentureWire reported that the company raised $11 million in the round. Silver Spring, Md.-based Freewebs was founded in 2001 and bootstrapped with an original investment of a couple thousand dollars. Since its founding, the company said over 11 million websites have been created using its free, do-it-yourself website building program. Most of the company's revenue has come from text ads from Google that are placed on its members' websites. According to comScore Media Metrix, Freewebs is among the top 150 most trafficked websites in the world.
http://www.venturebeat.com/wire/?p=314
http://members.freewebs.com/page.jsp?page=aboutFreeWebs

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DMW Announcements

DMW Events Listing


October 4-5, 2006
West Hollywood, CA
www.digitalmusicforum.com/west

November 7-8, 2006M
West Hollywood, CA
www.lagamesconference.com

November 16-17, 2006
West Hollywood, CA
www.televisionconference.com

Digital Music Forum West - October 4-5, 2006

www.digitalmusicforum.com/west/
October 4-5, 2006 - Bel Age, West Hollywood, CA

For the past six years, the most influential decision-makers in the music industry have gathered at Digital Media Wire's annual Digital Music Forum in New York to network, do deals and share ideas about the future of the music business. Participants have described the event as a "melting pot of the best of the best in digital music," where ideas are shared and opinions don't go unchallenged. It is with this illustrious background that we are pleased to announce the launch of Digital Music Forum West at the Bel Age Hotel in West Hollywood, October 4-5, 2006.

KEYNOTES & FEATURED INTERVIEWS
Nic Harcourt, Music Director & Host of Morning Becomes Eclectic - KCRW
Thomas Hesse, President Global Digital Business, Sony BMG Music Entertainment
Jim Griffin, Managing Director, OneHouse LLC / Co-Founder, Pho Group
John T. Frankenheimer, Chair, Music Grp Partner and Co-Chair, Loeb & Loeb LLP
Ralph Simon, Chairman, Emeritus & Founder, Mobile Entertainment Forum Americas

PANELISTS
Dave Goldberg, VP & GM, Yahoo! Music
David Pakman, CEO, eMusic
Amanda Marks, EVP, eLabs, Universal Music
Scott McKenzie, Group Editorial Director, Billboard
Ed Delfs, VP, Nat'l Ad Sales, RealNetworks
Laura Goldberg, COO, Napster
David Del Beccaro, President, CEO & Founder, Music Choice
Aydin Caginalp, Partner, Alston & Bird
Stephen Murray, President, Entertainment, BurnLounge
Erik Flannigan, VP, Programming, AOL
Mark Lam, Chairman, Exec Committee & CEO, Live365
Gerrit Meier, SVP & GM, Clear Channel Online Music & Radio
Shervin Pishevar, President & COO, Freewebs, Inc.
Gerd Leonhard, CEO, Sonific LLC
David Hyman, CEO & Founder, MOG
Dominique-Sébastien Forest, VP, Business Dev, Puretracks LLC
Paul Leakas, General Manager, Nielsen Mobile
Raghav Gupta, Director, Bus Dev & Strategy, Brightcove
Tim Bucher, CEO & Chief Product Officer, ZING
Brian Garrity, Senior Correspondent, Billboard
Kelli Richards, President & CEO, The All Access Group
Scott Fedewa, SVP & Exec Producer, Live Nation
Dave Ulmer, Marketing, Digital Media Services, Motorola
John Puterbaugh, CEO, Nellymoser
Maria C. Thomas, VP & GM, NPR Digital Media
Albhy Galuten, VP of Digital Media Tech Strategy, Sony Corp of America
Ted Casey, SVP, B. Dev & Partner Relations, MusicNet
Dave Jaworski, Founder & CEO, PassAlong Networks
Mark Pascarella, President, Gotuit Media Corp.
Ken Parks, SVP, Strategy & Bus Dev, EMI Music
David Marcus, VP of Strategic Marketing & Business Dev, Ticketmaster
Gary Cohen, General Manager, AOL Music Now
Tess Taylor, President, NARIP
Jozef Nuyens, Founder/SVP, Int’l Dev., PassAlong Networks
Marty Lafferty, CEO, DCIA
Lance Ware, CEO, SyncCast
Chris Montgomery, EVP Marketing & Product Management, MusicCrypt
Ron Milkes, VP, Business & Legal Affairs, General Counsel, Network LIVE
Michael Weiss, CEO, StreamCast Networks
Greg Scholl, CEO, The Orchard

Event Co-Chairs
Ned Sherman, CEO & Publisher, Digital Media Wire
Ralph Simon, Chairman, Emeritus & Founder, Mobile Entertainment Forum Americas
Ted Cohen, Managing Partner, TAG Strategic

more to come...

REGISTRATION RATES:

Early Bird Registration: $399 until August 11, 2006
Pre-Registration: $499 until September 15, 2006
Registration: $599 until September 30, 2006
Door Registration: $699 (space permitting) 

Online Registration:
http://www.meeting-services.com/reg/en/register.asp?event=70

Phone Registrations: (310) 855-0033

WHEN: October 4-5, 2006

WHERE: Bel Age Hotel
             1020 N. San Vicente Blvd.
             West Hollywood, CA

INQUIRIES: Tinzar Than Sherman, VP, Marketing & Events, tinzar@digitalmediawire.com

For agenda, registration and event details, please visit
www.digitalmusicforum.com/west


 

Job Opportunities at DMW - Join the DMW Team!

Digital Media Wire is growing and we are recruiting 2 full-time manager or director-level (depending on experience) hires to work in our industry leading events business in our Los Angeles office on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood.

These individuals will be responsible for managing all aspects of event production, including creating and maintaining budgets, working on agendas, establishing and implementing marketing plans, organizing event-day logistics, and interfacing with senior executives at leading media and entertainment companies about speaking, sponsorship and advertising opportunities.

Applicants should be computer and Internet-savvy. Knowledge of PC, Internet/e-mail, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word, Power Point, and Excel, and experience in event planning/management and existing relationships in the digital media industry are a "must". Basic skills in Front Page or HTML, Adobe Photoshop, and Quickbooks are a plus. Send resume to
dmwjobs@digitalmediawire.com with “DMW Event Position” in the subject line.


 

Digital Entertainment Media & Marketing Awards - Submissions Deadline: September 15

Submit your materials today for the Billboard and Digital Media Wire 3rd Annual Digital Entertainment Media & Marketing Awards and join the illustrious list of influencers who have been honored in this arena.

 

Submissions Deadline - September 15
Announcement of Finalists - By November 11
Awards Show - November 29

Entry forms, registration and more information:
http://www.billboardevents.com/billboardevents/demmx/index.jsp

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Briefly Noted

o Nokia to Launch Mobile TV Service in Vietnam

Espoo, Finland -
Nokia announced on Friday a partnership with the Vietnam Multimedia Corporation (VTC) to launch DVB-H commercial mobile TV services in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City by the end of the year. The deal marks the first commercial launch of Nokia's mobile TV service in the Asia Pacific region. The service, which Nokia aims to expand nationwide in Vietnam over a two-year period, will offer content from VTC, Vietnam's leading national broadcaster.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060908/ukf004.html?.v=74
http://www.vtc.com.vn
http://www.nokia.com/mobiletv
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o Telecom Italia Taps EXPWAY for Mobile TV Program Guide

Paris - EXPWAY, a provider of electronic program guides and other software for mobile broadcast and broadband networks, announced on Friday that Telecom Italia has deployed its FastESG electronic program guide for mobile TV. Paris-based EXPWAY noted that Italy is the first country to deploy DVB-H services on a large-scale commercial basis.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060908/ukf006.html?.v=70
http://www.telecomitalia.com
http://www.expway.com
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o ROO to Power Online TV Service for U.K. Tabloid The Sun

New York -
ROO, a provider of Internet video broadcast technology, announced on Friday that it has partnered with U.K. tabloid newspaper The Sun to launch a new online TV service. TheSun.co.uk will offer Sun content such as "Dear Deirdre" columns repurposed with video, and entertainment and news video. New York-based ROO is also powering an online TV service for The Times Online, a publication also owned by News International parent company News Corporation.
http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=178565
http://www.thesun.co.uk
http://www.roomedia.com
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o Two Early Priority Video-on-Demand Patents to Sell at Auction

Chicago -
Ocean Tomo Auctions announced on Friday that two early priority video-on-demand patents have been consigned to be sold at its Ocean Tomo Fall 2006 Intellectual Property Auction, to be held on Oct. 26 in New York City. The two patents (4,890,320 and 4,995,078) "disclose systems and methods where a central location holds a collection of preferred programs which are available for transmission to a private television upon user request. Thus, an array of programs is made available to users on their television sets without the need to travel and whenever they desire to view such programs." Ocean Tomo said the patents have been cited in related patents held by Sony, AT&T, Scientific-Atlanta, Toshiba, Hitachi, NEC, Pioneer and others.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060907/cgth045.html?.v=61
http://www.oceantomoauctions.com 
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o EZTakes Adds Mac OS X Support for Movie Download Service

Easthampton, Mass. -
EZTakes, an Internet movie download service, announced on Friday that it has released a version of its service for Apple's Mac OS X operating system. The EZTakes Download Manager will allow Mac users to purchase and download movies from the company's library of nearly 1,000 titles, and also burn them to DVDs that play in most DVD players.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060908/nyf034.html?.v=65
http://www.eztakes.com
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o Wired News: Algorithm Changes at Digg Anger Heavy Users

San Francisco -
Wired News on Friday reported on recent changes made to the algorithms that determine which news stories are most popular on the news aggregation site Digg.com. The changes were made to help prevent fraud or abuse by groups of users who team together to game the site. Digg's highest-ranking user has abandoned the community in protest. "I bequeath my measly No. 1 position to whoever wants to reign," wrote Digg user "P9." "Now YOU can spend all the time, all the effort and get stabbed in the back by fellow Diggers (aptly named)." Digg founder Kevin Rose wrote on the site's blog that the changes were made so that "users that follow a gaming pattern will have less promotion weight. This doesn't mean that the story won't be promoted, it just means that a more diverse pool of individuals will be need to deem the story homepage-worthy."
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71750-0.html
http://www.digg.com

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Panel Discussions on MySpace and YouTube – Sept. 15, George Washington University
 
The George Washington University’s Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet will release its latest publication, Person-to-Person-to-Person: Harnessing the Political Power of Social Networks and User-Generated Content, along with a series of panel discussions about social networks and online media. WHEN: Friday, September 15, 2006, 9 a.m. – noon; WHERE: The George Washington University, Media and Public Affairs Building, Jack Morton Auditorium, 805 21st St., NW, Washington, D.C., Foggy Bottom-GWU Metro (Orange and Blue Lines); COST: The event is free to the public. RSVP is requested. Please RSVP by visiting http://www.ipdi.org/social networking/registration.htm or calling Ed Trelinski at (202) 994-1003. Members of the media are welcome to attend the panel.
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Job Opportunities at DMW - Join the DMW Team!

Digital Media Wire is growing and we are recruiting 2 full-time manager or director-level (depending on experience) hires to work in our industry leading events business in our Los Angeles office on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood.

These individuals will be responsible for managing all aspects of event production, including creating and maintaining budgets, working on agendas, establishing and implementing marketing plans, organizing event-day logistics, and interfacing with senior executives at leading media and entertainment companies about speaking, sponsorship and advertising opportunities.

Applicants should be computer and Internet savvy. Knowledge of PC, Internet/Email, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word, Power Point, and Excel, experience in event planning and management and existing relationships in the digital media industry are a "must". Basic skills in Front Page or HTML, Adobe Photoshop, and Quickbooks are a plus. Send resume to dmwjobs@digitalmediawire.com with “DMW Event Position” in the subject line.
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Associate, Investments - Time Warner Inc. - New York, NY

Time Warner Inc. is seeking an Associate in its Time Warner Investments Group. The Group focuses on strategic investment opportunities such as the delivery of new services, enhancement of existing products, and entry into key strategic markets. This is a pre-MBA position. Applicants should possess two or three years of media-related investment banking, consulting, private equity or venture capital experience; have strong business judgment; and be able to communicate effectively with senior managers. For a complete description and instructions on how to apply, please visit us at: www.timewarner.com/careers and reference requisition# 66001BR.
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West Coast Sales Manager & Marketing Director – Inlet Technologies – Raleigh, NC

Inlet Technologies (www.inlethd.com) provides world class encoding solutions in support of post production and video distribution. In addition, encoders and innovative application software are being developed for High Definition and Standard Definition in the area of video streaming and IPTV. Inlet needs a West Coast manager to grow the business and leverage key programmer and post relationships. In addition, Inlet is hiring a Director of Marketing to manage both strategy and marketing implementation across growing areas of new media. Send resume to: peter.cresse@inlethd.com.

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Video Broadcast Engineers - OMNITEC Solutions - Washington, DC

OMNITEC Solutions (www.omnitecinc.com) provides multiple TV broadcast, video, and communications services supporting several US military projects requiring the convergence of internet broadcast & distribution services with network communications & infrastructure management. Seeking individuals to provide expert consulting service in the review & technical evaluation of competing technologies and assist in prep. of long-range technology plans. Positions in Washington, DC area / US Citizenship is required. Resume to: employment2@omnitecinc.com
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SmarterTravel.com is seeking a Senior Vice President, Sales and Business Development, that will be responsible for oversight and management of Smarter Living's advertising sales team, from strategy through to implementation across the company's three main product lines. You would also be responsible for enabling and ensuring that the organization meets its revenue targets while providing best-of-class service and value to its clients and partners. In addition, you would oversee the Business Development Group, identifying, negotiating, and executing key strategic business, partnership, and alliance opportunities. For more information and to apply, click here.
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 Director, Business Development - NBA - Beijing or Shanghai, China

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is looking for a seasoned Director to develop and manage new business partnerships with the interactive services companies in China. An ideal candidate will be a creative and entrepreneurial self-starter with a strong understanding of interactive media technologies -including wireless, Internet/broadband, and gaming. Main responsibilities will include content licensing and strategic partnerships. Required: business fluency in speaking, reading and writing Chinese Mandarin and English. For more information and to apply, click here.
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Analyst, European Digital Home - JupiterResearch - London

JupiterResearch is looking for an Associate Analyst or Analyst (dependent on experience) to lead our European Digital Home coverage area. The successful candidate will have a deep understanding of key digital home issues such: DTV, portable media players, home networks, DVRs, games consoles, etc. We are looking for someone who has spent at least three years working in one or more of these sectors. The successful candidate will also possess high levels of analytical, strategic, and creative thinking, have excellent written and verbal communications skills. For more information and to apply, click here.
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Interactive Media Buyer - White & Partner - Herndon, VA

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Product Manager - Right Media – New York, NY

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VP of Marketing - Zillow.com – Seattle, WA

Zillow.com, an online real estate service, is currently looking for a VP of Marketing to continue developing innovative marketing strategies to grow Zillow, the site and the brand significantly. Candidates should have significant consumer marketing expertise and be well-versed in what modern internet marketing entails. Responsibilities include: SEO, SEM, online partnerships, content, brand positioning, product planning, email marketing and PR. This position reports to Zillow?s President, and has multiple strong director-level reports already in place. For more information and to apply, click here.
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2006 Digital Entertainment & Media Directory - 1,000+ Company Profiles

Digital Media Wire's d
irectory is the definitive resource for companies prospecting clients and sales in the rapidly expanding digital entertainment and media industries. This highly unique resource is an ideal time-saving shortcut for several types of corporate activities: business development; direct marketing; sales prospecting; market research & competitive analysis; and recruitment. To order a copy, click here.
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PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Entertainment and Media Outlook: 2005-2009

PricewaterhouseCoopers forecasts revenue for the global entertainment and media market will reach $1.8 trillion by 2009. For a comprehensive look at the forecast for the entertainment and media industry including analyses and five year growth projections for 14 industry segments covering every major region of the world, purchase PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Entertainment and Media Outlook: 2005-2009. Online distribution of music, films, books and video games is beginning to fuel end-user spending but what impact will rising interest rates and higher energy costs have on the expansion. Click here for more.
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