I just found this hilarious video from The Daily Show (Comedy Central) on paidContent. In the video, The Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones dropped by the New York Times to meet NYT executive editor Bill Keller and assistant managing editor Richard Berke. Have a look at the outcome – it’s hilarious!!

LyricRat a simple app developed by 9astronauts that allows users to send snipplets of song lyrics to @LyricRat. In return, users get a title, an artist, and a link. Sounds like a great little app, but does it really work?

The movie studios Lionsgate, Paramount, and MGM have joined forces to launch Epix, an HD television channel and accompanying online 720p streaming service, as Nate Anderson of ars technica reported today. It’s like Hulu, but for movies not yet released on DVD. Epix will air movies that are in the “pay-TV” window, i.e. the weeks before a movie gets released on DVD.

Today, TechCrunch reported, that Italy-based startup beeTV has secured $8 million from Italian VC firm Innogest. beeTV aims to revolutionize the way we watch TV by introducing a Personal Content Channel, a personal TV suggestion system that helps you find your way in the ocean of VOD content out there.

Nielson has recently released its Global Online Media Landscape report for April 2009.

Here some of the findings: Social media and video engagement deepens; video audiences have been growing at meteoric rates; accessing videos online has gone mainstream; growth in early 2009 is centered around long-form videos (e.g. hulu, NBC Universal, …).

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