10 posts and columns on frequency

L.A. Stories: What’s the Frequency for Web Video Discovery? (Video)

in Media on April 9 at 9:04 am PT

Tuning in with the Los Angeles-based social TV Guide for online video.
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Frequency, a TV Guide for Web Video, Tries a New Look

in Media on January 8 at 7:00 pm PT

Along with an iPad app and a Samsung TV deal. It will need all that and more to fight off Google TV and a long list of competitors.
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Frequency Finds $3 Million To Help You Find Cool Web Videos

in Media on May 26, 2011 at 4:00 am PT

There are plenty of Web video discovery sites out there. But this one is run by a Web video veteran – former iFilm CEO Blair Harrison.
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News Byte

You People Were Totally Twittering During the Super Bowl

in Media on February 9, 2011 at 2:32 pm PT

More fuel for Twitter’s “we work really, really well with big TV events” pitch: News that the service set a new frequency record during Sunday’s Super Bowl. Twitter says users generated a peak of 4,064 tweets per second at the end of the game, eclipsing the old high for televised sports set during last year’s World Cup. But that’s not Twitter’s all-time record, which was set, oddly, in Japan last year on New Year’s Eve.

Exclusive: Former Facebook Ad Head Mike Murphy Takes Senior Advisor Role at Zynga

in News on January 23, 2011 at 7:02 pm PT

Mike Murphy–Facebook’s first head of advertising sales, who left the social networking giant in October to take some personal time off–seems done with relaxing. He is now taking a part-time, but significant, role at online gaming phenom Zynga to help formulate its advertising strategy. In addition, though, Murphy is also close to formalizing an additional consulting relationship with Facebook.

AT&T Ranked Last in Consumer Reports’ Best Cellphone Service Survey

in News on December 1, 2009 at 7:15 am PT

The annual survey of wireless customer satisfaction from Consumer Reports hits the streets this week and it doesn’t have much good to say about AT&T. In a canvass of more than 50,000 readers spanning 26 U.S. cities, the organization found the carrier had the lowest customer-satisfaction rating in 19 cities surveyed.
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India Is Set to Begin Bandwidth Auction

in News on October 26, 2009 at 5:05 am PT

India will launch auctions on Jan. 14 to allot radio bandwidth for third-generation, or 3G, telecommunications services. The government will hold a separate bandwidth auction for broadband wireless access, a document on the Department of Telecommunications Web site said Saturday.

Fancy Charts of the Week: Mobile App Loyalty–”They Use or You Lose"

in News on September 28, 2009 at 7:30 am PT

This week, BoomTown has found an interesting chart to peruse about the loyalty people have for their smart-phone apps. The takeaway for developers: Try to stay in Quadrant I! In other words, Sally-Field-at-the-Oscars territory–it’s where they love you, they really love you.
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Why Portfolio’s Peers Shouldn’t Be Celebrating

in Media on April 28, 2009 at 9:17 am PT

While the chattering classes continue to pick over Portfolio’s bones, it’s worth checking in on the business titles Condé Nast was targeting with its ill-fated magazine. In short: None of them are suffering from a Portfolio-like swoon, but they’re all in lousy shape. And while we’re at it, let’s dispense with the story that Condé Nast burned $100 million or more on this one.
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