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Operation MySpace launched: an exclusive concert live from the Middle East for American troops

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MySpace, in cooperation with the Department of Defense’s Armed Forces Entertainment and America Supports You program, announced the launch of Operation MySpace, a landmark concert event designed to bring troops serving in Kuwait a taste of home and enable the MySpace community to show their support for troops serving overseas.

On March 10, MySpace Co-Founders Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe, along with some of today’s most popular musical acts, will participate in a 3-hour plus MySpaceLive! concert in Kuwait that will be streamed in high definition flash video using Kulabyte’s XStream Live Solutions exclusively on the official Operation MySpace profile. The MySpace community can watch the entire concert webcast starting at 11a.m. PT/ 2 p.m. ET.

Operation MySpace will be the largest MySpaceLive! concert to date with performances by the Pussycat Dolls, Jessica Simpson, Disturbed, Filter, DJ Z-Trip and Carlos Mencia.

Starting today, the Operation MySpace profile (http://myspace.com/operationmyspace) will serve as a communication hub where troops’ families and friends, along with the entire MySpace community, can post videos and messages of support via a video blog section. The profile will also feature a scrolling ticker of goodwill messages uploaded to the community during the live stream. A condensed 1-hour version of the show, featuring the best and most stirring moments, will be nationally broadcast on FX on April 12.

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Originally posted on February 28, 2008 @ 11:55 am

Jenny McCarthy joins ‘In the Motherhood’

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Building on a successful inaugural season, ‘In the Motherhood,’ a multi-platform online comedy series conceived by Sprint , Suave and MindShare Entertainment, returns to MSN this February with an expanded roster of Hollywood talent and a more robust online community.

The web series, which achieved an amazing 5.5 million views last season, will feature a star-studded ensemble cast. This season, joining Leah Remini and Chelsea Handler is newcomer Jenny McCarthy to profile the ever-hectic, yet always humorous lives of three mom girlfriends.

While Remini, Handler and McCarthy are the stars in front of the camera, the real stars of this unique program are the everyday moms from across the country whose real-life stories will be incorporated into the scripted short-form comedy series.

Here’s how it works: Professional Hollywood screenwriters create the storylines for each of the webisodes and then Moms submit their real-life stories in simple paragraph form. The online mom community votes on its favorite submissions and the winning entries, as voted on by moms across America along with an Advisory Committee, are then polished by the show’s professional writers and developed into the web-based films.

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Originally posted on February 8, 2008 @ 10:52 am

Paltalk partners with CRN Digital Talk Radio

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paltalk.pngPaltalk announced a partnership with CRN Digital Talk Radio to provide live broadcasts of one of Paltalk’s most popular interactive online programs, News Talk Online. News Talk Online is hosted by news veteran Gary Baumgarten and airs live on CRN Channel 5 daily at 5 PM EST/ 2 PM PST. CRN Digital Talk Radio, which features news, information and entertainment programming, is carried by major cable television companies nationally and heard in over 24 million homes.

CRN, which reaches millions of households, is currently broadcasting the audio feed from the live show to its cable affiliates around the country, and will soon be including interactive video features from its online portal as well. By logging on to Paltalk.com, viewers can also interact with Gary and his guests via real-time audio and video chat.

Originally posted on January 28, 2008 @ 9:41 am

PodTech to stream online coverage of ShowStoppers press event in NY

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showstoppers.jpgPodTech announced it will broadcast live video coverage, product demonstrations and executive interviews from ShowStoppers for the Digital Holidays, a press-only event in New York City that previews a blizzard of digital holiday gift ideas for work, home and play months before Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanzaa and Black Friday.

PodTech will stream the coverage from ShowStoppers in New York to its team of pioneering and influential technology reporters, analysts, bloggers, vloggers and podcasters located in Silicon Valley and around the world.

PodTech and ShowStoppers will also host a Virtual BlogHaus Beta at ShowStoppers that includes Internet access for journalists and bloggers to use as they produce print and online coverage from the press event, which features more than 30 companies.

Originally posted on September 19, 2007 @ 11:58 am

Pearl Jam cries censorship against AT&T

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att1.jpgPearl Jam is crying censorship against AT&T after the lyrics “George Bush, leave this world alone” were silenced during the webcast of Lollapalooza.

“What happened to us this weekend was a wake up call, and it’s about something much bigger than the censorship of a rock band,” the band said in a statement posted in their web site.

AT&T is blaming a webcast editor for the incident.

Originally posted on August 9, 2007 @ 12:35 pm