Gizmodo, and the new “new journalism”

Thanks to John Cox from Networkworld for this story

Gizmodo proved that it will indeed do “anything for a story” by its involvement in the “iPhone 4G” controversy.

Two weeks ago, I got out of my car in the parking lot of a business supplies store and looked down: there was a cell phone lying on the pavement.

It was not, as it happens, the secret “iPhone 4G.” It was a very un-chic, well-used, stubby Motorola model.

Grey Powell, Steve J would like to see you in his office!

The Gourmet Haus Staudt. A nice place to enjoy good German ales. And if you are an Apple Software Engineer named Gray Powell, it’s also a nice place to make the honest mistake of losing the next-generation iPhone.

Is this the new iPhone

Busy Sunday. Despite earlier reports that the supposed next-gen iPhone prototype was actually a Japanese knockoff phone, the eagle-eyed team at Engadget hasn’t given up the chase.The latest development highlights a second device in some of the blurry spy shots from back in January that turned out to be testing shots of the in-progress iPad, and if you look at it just right… it looks quite a bit like the found phone.

Who Knew? Joost Makes a Better Ad Network Than a Video Portal

For those that questioned the acquisition of Joost by ad firm Adconion last year, or the subsequent transformation of the online video portal into a video ad network, the early results are in, and they are surprisingly positive. Hidden in yesterday’s comScore release of February stats was the tidbit that Joost led all video ad networks in terms of actual reach — that is, penetration of ads delivered to online video viewers.

From network to networked

Futurist Gerd Leonhard argues that the rise of social media is symptomatic of a greater change that will reinvent television as we know it – the shift from monologue to dialogue.

Social media is a catchall phrase now. It doesn’t really mean a lot to most people. The common confusion is to regard social media as just another marketing mechanism, but really it is the beginning of a new age of interactive, engaged and conversational consumers.

Emmy Award-Winning Producer and New Media Guru Launch Hollywood’s First Web TV School

Hollywood, CA (PRWEB) April 15, 2010 — On May 3, 2010 Diahnna Nicole Baxter (Emmy Award-Winner – Outstanding Broadband – Drama) and Damian Pellicionne (Stella Entertainment, New Media Vault) will launch WebTV Workshop (WTVW), Hollywood’s first professional school dedicated to web content and new media.

Samsung: Drinking and 3-D TV Don’t Mix

Are you expecting, elderly or prone to have a few beers while watching a soccer match? Then you shouldn’t watch it in 3-D, according to a warning label Samsung is distributing with its 3-D TV sets (hat tip to High-Def Digest).

The CE maker is also warning that 3-D could cause seizures, strokes, dizziness, confusion, nausea and a whole lot of other things you’re more used to expect from prescription-only medication.

ABC Sees Success in iPad App

ABC is the only television network so far to offer an application for watching its shows free—with ads—on Apple Inc.’s new iPad tablet computer, and it says its business model is proving fruitful.

The network said that in the 10 days since the iPad’s debut, its TV-show watching app has been downloaded 205,000 times, giving the Walt Disney Co. unit a presence on nearly half the 450,000 devices that Apple says it has sold.

Betty White Chats iPad With Craig Ferguson

Didn’t we say Apple should’ve given iPads to mainstreamers such as Betty White, to influence their corners of the market? Betty took matters into her own hands, taking her iPad on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.

The Future is Mobile

Internet analyst Mary Meeker from Morgan Stanley presented a report on Internet trends at Events@Google yesterday. Echoing those trends identified in her 2009 presentation, the report focuses on the rapid and continued growth of the mobile internet and social networking.