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Facebook and the Social Media Phenomenon

June 30, 2007 Culture.ca
In spring 2007, Toronto became the largest geographic community of Facebook users in the world.
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Sling’s big-picture view of video on offer at nextMEDIA

June 29, 2007 Decima Reports
For many Canadians attending nextMEDIA earlier this month, a Sling Media Inc. executive's presentation was the first time they'd been privy to details of the firm's upcoming Clip+Sling offering.
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Where Canadian casters are at with digital media

June 25, 2007 Playback.com
So, Banff. Seemed to me the festival this year was hijacked by the new media types.
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TV is doomed, but also indestructible

June 25, 2007 Playback.com
BANFF: If the Banff World Television Festival gave an award for delivering a clear, can't-miss-it message - word to organizers, think about it - this month's meet-up in the mountains would have seen Konrad von Finckenstein go home with a new trophy for his mantel.
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Lack of net neutrality threatens online economics

June 25, 2007 Playback.com
Broadcasters and producers take note: net neutrality - or, more specifically, the lack of it - could have a big impact on your emerging content distribution models.

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New Media Funding Details Released

June 22, 2007 Mediacastermagazine.com
The Department of Canadian Heritage has allocated $14.5 million to the Canada New Media Fund for each of the next two years, as announced by the Minister of Canadian Heritage, Bev Oda.
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Current charges ahead

June 15, 2007 C21media.net
This past weekend at NextMedia, the digital event preceding the Banff World Television Festival, Joanna Drake Earl, president of new media at Current TV, spoke about how to make money from social media initiatives, while also revealing what lies ahead for the US television and web company. Jenn Kuzmyk reports.
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CBC lines up digital slapshot

June 15, 2007 C21media.net
Canadian pubcaster CBC will launch a major multi-platform drive this summer, melding its TV and radio content efforts, with ice hockey coverage in the vanguard. Newly installed head of digital programming and business development Steve Billinger (pictured) spoke to Jenn Kuzmyk ahead of his appearance at NextMedia.
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The TUESDAY INTERVIEW: Ben White, chief creative officer, Sling Media

June 12, 2007 Cartt.ca
THE SLINGBOX IS A cool little device – a neat-o box that lets users place shift their home TV – making their laptop into a second TV in the home, or delivering their cable TV to a conference in Berlin.
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Internet TV channels promise to give viewers and advertisers a fresh look

June 12, 2007 Canada.com
BANFF, Alta. (CP) - The Internet's infinite universe is continuing to expand and its 700 million users are bound to provide fertile ground for the full-scale arrival of Internet TV, an international conference heard Sunday.
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NextMedia grows

June 11, 2007 Cartt.ca
“This year, more than any other, has been the year of the digital media executive,” said the organizers of nextMEDIA - The Future of Digital Content, at the end of their show.
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Banff: Web content should mimic TV

June 11, 2007 HollywoodReporter.com
BANFF, Alberta -- Young people might be flocking to the Internet, but they still watch television.
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Canada New Media Fund back with a slight bump in funding

June 11, 2007 Decima Reports
BANFF - The immediate future of Telefilm Canada's Canada New Media Fund was reaffirmed yesterday with an infusion of $29 million in federal funding for the program over the next two years.
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NextMEDIA: Oda expected to announce more new media money, but report shows many barriers to funding

June 10, 2007 Cartt.ca
Canadian Heritage minister Bev Oda is expected to announce more new media funding today at 4:30 p.m. MST, the last of the three-day nextMEDIA conference.
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NextMEDIA: Rogers to launch wireless production fund

June 10, 2007 Cartt.ca
Rogers Wireless announced today it would be launching a wireless production fund for three-to-five minute shorts, although details remain sketchy.
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nextMEDIA 2007 and Banff World Television Festival

June 10, 2007 The Alberta Movie Guide Blog
Just a note to all of you folks that will be attending nextMEDIA 2007 and Banff World Television Festival
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NextMEDIA: New production facility seen as catalyst for Calgary creative hub, delegates told

June 09, 2007 Cartt.ca
Plans for a digital creative hub surrounding a new film and digital production facility in Calgary were unveiled Friday at the “Mixer in the Mountains” opening reception of the nextMedia conference.
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Amber's BlackBerry Photos From Banff

June 9, 2007 Citynews.ca Blog
I'm out in beautiful Banff, Alberta, this weekend for a conference called NEXTMedia.
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Ottawa re-ups New Media Fund

June 8, 2007 Playback.com
BANFF -- The NextMedia conference ended on a high note Sunday with word that Ottawa has renewed its commitment to the Canada New Media Fund, putting in another $29 million over the next two years.
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With NextMedia, Banff, and the Telecom Summit, a newsy week is coming - and Cartt.ca will be there

June 07, 2007 Cartt.ca
While Canada's telecommunications leaders debate the future of telecom in Toronto at the Canadian Telecom Summit next week, the world's leaders in digital media and television will be making headlines at NextMedia and the Banff World Television Festival.
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NextMEDIA conference starts in ten days

May 30, 2007 Cartt.ca
BANFF – NextMEDIA, the new media conference organized by Achilles Media that features in-depth case studies, panels and networking opportunities, begins in 10 days in Banff, Alberta.
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The TUESDAY INTERVIEW: Sean Love, business development, media and entertainment, Microsoft

May 29, 2007 Cartt.ca
YEARS AGO, WHEN MICROSOFT launched the Xbox gaming platform, a long-time cable engineer I know told me something like "there's your future set top box."
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Current TV's Earl looks to democratize TV

May 28, 2007 Playback.com
For most of television's lifespan, programming - often costing an arm and a leg to produce - has been left to professional production companies guided by deep-pocketed broadcasters. But in the digital age, the likes of Current TV are trying to erode that model.
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nextMEDIA gets Joost with Seltzer

May 28, 2007 Playback.com
If the caliber of companies that have signed on to provide content or advertise on Joost.com is any indication, then the details of this outfit's business model will be eagerly digested by media execs trekking to the Rockies this June.
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Joost VP Seltzer to present at nextMEDIA

May 08, 2007 Cartt.ca
Stacey Seltzer, senior vice-president of content strategy, acquisition and operations for Internet television company Joost, has been booked by nextMEDIA: The Future of Digital Content conference
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Sling Media, Microsoft to Reveal Digital Strategies at nextMEDIA

May 24, 2007 Worldscreen.com
Benjamin White, the chief creative officer of the Sling Media Entertainment Group and Sean Love, the business development manager of the media and entertainment group at Microsoft, will deliver presentations on content development for Slingbox and Xbox LIVE Marketplace at nextMEDIA.
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Banff World Television Festival recognizes BBC for outstanding achievement

April 23, 2007 Cartt.ca
The British Broadcasting Corp. has been named the recipient of the Banff World Television Festival’s 2007 Outstanding Achievement Award for its “high-quality programming and overall contribution to the television industry.”

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Planning my attendances at nextMEDIA

May 19, 2007 ideasRevolution Blog
I finally found some time to start planning my nextMEDIA 2007 schedule
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Joost’s Stacey Seltzer to Deliver Presentation at nextMEDIA Event

May 9, 2007 WorldscreenNews.com
Stacey Seltzer, the senior VP of content strategy, acquisition and operations for Joost—the new broadcast-quality Internet television platform—will deliver an “Executive Download” presentation at nextMEDIA: The Future of Digital Content
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BBC set for Banff honor

April 24, 2007 HollywoodReporter.com
The BBC will receive the Banff World Television Festival's outstanding achievement award for 2007, organizers said Monday. BBC director general Mark Thompson will be on hand to accept.
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NextMedia gets more Interesting, BBC-style

April 23, 2007 DeadThingsOnSticks Blog
An announcement in my inbox this morning says that Mark Thompson, Director General of the BBC, will be accepting an award of excellence for BBC at the Banff World TV Festival.
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nextMedia, Telelfilm Launch LaunchPad

April 20, 2007 Mediacastermagazine.com
Digital content producers can make their pitch for up to $10,000 in Development Funding from Telefilm Launch Pad, a new initiative from Telefilm Canada and nextMEDIA: The Future of Digital Content.
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New prize at nextMEDIA

April 18, 2007 PlaybackMagazine.com
Development funding worth $10,000 will be up for grabs at this year's nextMEDIA conference, which has teamed with Telefilm Canada to launch a new pitch competition for the makers of digital content.
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Telefilm Launch Pad seeks digital content ideas

April 18, 2007 Cartt.ca
Achilles Media Ltd. and Telefilm Canada are looking for digital content producers with compelling ideas to be part of Telefilm Launch Pad, a new workshop and pitch competition that will launch at nextMEDIA: The Future of Digital Content, Canada’s trade event for the digital content community.
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Next Media in Banff: June 8-10

April 11, 2007 mtippett Blog
Ever wonder about the future of television? If you want to get the view from the pros you should venture up to Banff in June.
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I've Seen The Future, Boy, And It Is Murder

April 4, 2007 DeadThingsOnSticks Blog
ONCEUPONATIME it was my job to help predict the future.
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Earl to speak at nextMEDIA

March 28, 2007 Playback.com
Joanna Drake Earl will deliver the keynote address at the nextMEDIA conference, talking about the growth of user-generated content and Current TV.
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Design guru to keynote NextMedia

9 March, 2007 C21media.net
Canadian new media confab NextMedia has announced that broadcast design guru and interactive TV pioneer Dale Herigstad will deliver the keynote address at the annual event to be held in June.
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Interactive TV Pioneer at nextMEDIA

March 08, 2007 Mediacastermagazine.com
Dale Herigstad, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of interactive agency, Schematic, will deliver a keynote address on Sunday June 10, at the Fairmont Banff Springs in Banff, AB, confernence organizers have announced.
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It's like Christmas rush ... in March!

March 5, 2007 mynameiskate.ca Blog
nextMEDIA, the Future of Digital Content. I've been talking with these folks; they have some great sessions planned and ways to connect between content creators and the business (advertising) folks who need content, plus the platform jockeys who deliver it. Looks to be a great event.
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Social Networking Expands nextMEDIA

January 15, 2007 MediacasterMagazine.com
A multimedia, multi-platform social networking site will launch in mid-February, offering digital content producers the opportunity to upload their own text, photos and videos as the future of digital content gets studied, discussed, debated and shaped. The digital media industry will come together online, and in-person, at nextMEDIA 2007, June 8 - 10, 2007, in Banff, Alberta.
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nextMEDIA to precede Banff

January 15, 2007 Cartt.ca
The future of digital content will be the focus of the upcoming nextMEDIA 2007 event in Banff, bringing together content producers, TV and media executives, technology companies, and web entrepreneurs.
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