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Google is trying to patent “a method of providing an interactive game based on a digital video” using services like YouTube or Google Video.

videojumper:

After weeks of anticipation, I finally got a chance to go hands-on with Comcast’s Fancast Xfinity TV service while visiting family that subscribe to Comcast’s cable and broadband service. While…

This better be real.

As far as 2010 predictions, Noam noted that digital media and the online video market specifically is very young, only about 15 years old, which he attributed to being the age of a teenager.

We’re really seeing the very very beginning of this space… The real competitors are not the saturated market… the real competitors are build vs. buy.

He noted that many of the big media companies and publishers in their pipeline are moving away from their homegrown solutions and starting to invest in an online video platform, which will give rise to the promise of “TV Everywhere” in 2010.

it’s one thing to want to get in the game… It’s whole other thing to change the game.  It looks to me that Apple wants to get in the game and play by the rules.   But once they gain a little strength here, they will have the ability to change the rules as they did with the music biz.   Is Apple just pretending to play it safe right now?

According to BusinessWeek’s anonymous sources, Twitter owes its move into the black to $25 million worth of deals inked with Google and Microsoft. Thesemulti-year deals enable the Google and Microsoft-operated Bing engines to search Twitter content.

Apple’s planned subscription service, Netflix’ streaming service, maybe even Comcast’s new xfinity are early examples of the Virtual MSO.  Its attributes – premium content, multi-business model (subscription, advertising, transactional), linear and on-demand consumption, user and multi-device entitlement – come from both Web video and pay TV.   Also, with the Virtual MSO, the big screen is primary, maybe an Apple iMac with a 52” screen built for the living room or a Web-connected TV from Vizio, LG, Sony or Samsung

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The six-week ad blitz also features 60-second radio spots and a Web video entailing consumer criticism and company feedback. “Most companies hide criticism, but we faced it head on,” says an employee in the video.

Domino’s has had its share of criticism this year. The ad effort is the largest from the company since two then-employees in Conover, N.C., filmed themselves preparing sandwiches for delivery. One employee put ingredients up his nose and nasal mucus on the sandwiches. It turned into a digital disaster for Domino’s. The video, which has since been removed from YouTube, attracted more than 1 million views and disgusted many consumers.

EchoSign, Web-based provider of electronic signatures and signature automation with over 1.2 million users worldwide, launched a novel Twitter integration that allows sales teams worldwide to “ring the bell” on Twitter the moment a deal is signed and closed.

Good natured competition, and bragging rights about closed deals, have long been part of the fun, and hunt, of the sales rep. EchoSign-for-Twitter takes that to the next level by allowing sales reps and sales teams to auto-tweet the moment a deal is signed, and to auto-tweet how quickly they’ve closed a deal.