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The great gamer folks over at Kotak have already slapped together the only guide to iPhone games that you'll need.
Nuff said. Click the link below.
Kotaku iPhone Game Guide
Oh, Kangaroo, will you ever see the light of day? Or will you be permanently vaporware?
Kangaroo has come up against another set of problems. The joint venture between BBC ITV and Channel 4 has been referred to the Competition Commission by the Office of Fair Trading. And this is before it has even been seen on a computer screen anywhere.
In a statement, the OFT said ...
"In reaching its decision, the OFT carefully considered all evidence as to whether the joint venture would face enough competition from other sources."
"While it is easy to speculate about what different UK viewers might do if the joint venture charged a higher price, there was a lack of good evidence available on these issues."
If this is the sort of problems kangaroo faces before it is available, I dread to think what will happen when or if it ever launches.
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YouTube.com Accounted for Nearly Half of All Videos Viewed Online
LONDON, U.K., June 25, 2008 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from the comScore Video Metrix service, indicating that 27.4 million U.K. Internet users viewed 3.5 billion videos online in March 2008. comScore Video Metrix, which was the first to market in the U.S. more than two years ago, has become the leading service for online video measurement and is the only service of its kind in the U.K.
Google Sites Ranks as Most Popular Online Video Viewing Property
Google Sites, driven by the popularity of YouTube.com (which accounted for 99 percent of all videos viewed on the property in March), attracted a 48-percent share of all online videos viewed in the U.K. BBC Sites ranked second with a 1.2-percent share, followed by Fox Interactive Media (0.9 percent share), Microsoft Sites (0.7 percent share), Yahoo! Sites (0.6 percent share), and French video sharing site, Dailymotion.com (0.4 percent share).
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Top U.K. Online Video Properties* Ranked by Videos Viewed
March 2008
Total U.K. – Age 15+, Home & Work Locations**
Source: comScore Video Metrix
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Property
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Videos (000)
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Share (%) of Videos
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Total Internet
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3,500,627
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100.0
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Google Sites
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1,681,887
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48.0
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BBC Sites
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42,417
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1.2
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Fox Interactive Media
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29,748
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0.9
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Microsoft Sites
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25,287
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0.7
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Yahoo! Sites
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19,975
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0.6
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DAILYMOTION.COM
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15,590
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0.4
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VEOH.COM
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15,070
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0.4
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Disney Online
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13,893
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0.4
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Viacom Digital
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13,528
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0.4
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Metacafe
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13,090
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0.4
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*Rankings based on video content sites; excludes video server networks. Online video includes both streaming and progressive download video.
**Excludes searches from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.
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According to a recent study, the amount of video we consume in a day will rise to five hours by 2013.
Imagine..
- waking up to a video alarm clock;
- checking satellite weather videos on your mobile phone;
- watching traffic videos on your GPS unit while driving in to work;
- watching an ad for a Ford Edge on Gas TV while fueling up at a gas station;
- streaming MSNBC stock reports from your desktop at work;
- seeing a short address from your CEO in a meeting-room photo frame;
- watching a promo for American Gladiators in the back of a video-enabled taxi on the way to the airport;
- hearing Glenn Beck’s take on the elections while waiting at the airport gate;
- watching a clip from your daughter’s middle-school debut in Guys and Dolls that your spouse emailed as you board the plane;
- indulging in American Idol on the satellite TV on your JetBlue flight;
- checking in at your hotel through a video kiosk; and finally
- catching Iron Man in HD on the hotel room’s flat-screen TV
That's a lot of video. Lets hope it doesn't all come with pre roll....
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