CBS has released a behind the scenes video of the Twitter-inspired TV show “S#*T My Dad Says.” A lot of the content will be from Justin Halpern’s Twitter account (@shitmydadsays). Check out the video below and let us know what you think in the comments.

CBS Corporation has signed up the show “$#*! My Dad Says” for the fall season. The show is based on Justin Halpern’s Twitter profile account @shitmydadsays. Other titles that CBS considered was “Shat My Dad Says” and “Bleep My Dad Says.” The show will star Ryan Devlin as the young lead based on Halpern. William Shatner will star as Halpern’s father in the show. James Burrows directed the pilot. [Hollywood Reporter]

CBS anchorwoman Katie Couric has interview Twitter co-founder Biz Stone during a live “webshow” earlier this week. Couric asked Stone why they decided to have 140 characters and why they rejected Facebook’s offer. One thing I did not like about the video is how Couric called mobile payments “boring” when talking about Jack Dorsey’s business. Check out the video below:

Super Bowl Sunday is here again folks. Personally I’m rooting for the Colts because Ervin Baldwin went to Michigan State around the same time that I did. And I also think highly of Mike Hart even though he went to U of M. And of course I also think that Peyton is one of the best QBs I’ve seen. And usually when I pick my favorite team, it is based on proximity to where I live. Lucas Oil Stadium is a couple hundred miles south of me. But one of my most favorite parts of the Super Bowl is the ads.

Every year advertising companies spend millions of dollars to advertise for the Super Bowl. A large portion of the money spent on Super Bowl ads go behind the creativity too. Although Pepsi won’t be participating in Super Bowl advertisements this year, CBS was able to sell about $200 million worth of ad space. About 100 million people are expected to tune into the game.

I have compiled a list of 40 of the greatest Super Bowl commercials of all time. Check it out and let us know what you think about this year’s commercials in the comments:

1. Ed McMahon and M.C. Hammer – Cash 4 Gold

Vevo is a music video website in stealth mode that was started by YouTube and Unviersal Music.  The company is currently seeking funding and is reportedly finding partners for their content.  Reuters recently revealed that CBS Corporation and NBC is in talks with Vevo to license and develop shows for Vevo.  Vevo is expected to officially launch in December and will have high quality music videos.  The website will also have music-related shows streaming.

YouTube will be providing the technology and back-end for the website while Universal Music will provide the content.  Sony Music is also on board with Vevo, but it is Warner Music and EMI have kept their distance thus far.  Rio Caraeff is currently the CEO of Vevo.  Vevo will make money from the advertising banners and text laced throughout the website.  Since the quality of video will be higher, Vevo hopes to have higher advertising rates than YouTube. About 40 people are being hired to work for Vevo.

One of the reasons why Tr.im decided to initially shut themselves down is because of the monopoly that Bit.ly has for URL shortening services.  Twitter and TweetDeck both use Bit.ly as the default URL shortening services.  Now Google, TypePad, and CBS has embraced Bit.ly for shortening the URLs of their content.

One of the reasons why Bit.ly has become the preferred choice for URL shortening is because of their constant service upgrades.  Last month Bit.ly started to track what links are malicious in content and warns users before sending them to the link.

Within the last few weeks, Google added Bit.ly to Google Reader’s “send-to” feature.  This feature allows anyone using Google Reader to send Bit.ly links on Twitter to their followers.

TypePad added a feature that generates Bit.ly links on Twitter for new blog posts.  Bit.ly statistics have also been added into TypePad’s dashboard.  All TypePad users will see this feature integrated by this fall.

CBS is also launched a new service called cbs.bit.ly.  This service tracks the URLs on CBS’ website that has been shortened and tracks how many people clicked on the shortened links.

John Resig of Mozilla also designed a Retweet button using the Bit.ly JavaScript API.

iBiquity Digital Corporation is a company that develops HD radio technology.  It gives radio signals better sound quality and less static.  The company has been working on better radio technology on cars and households for several years now.

According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, iBiquity has raised $42 million in funding from investors such as Grotech Ventures, CBS Radio, Radio One Inc., Entercom Communications, FirstMark Capital, New Venture Partners, Union Square Ventures, and Clear Channel Radio.  This round of funding puts iBiquity at over $172 million in total funding over the last decade.

[via BizJournals]

Its not every day that you see a traditional media company poach from a new media company, but this is exactly what happened when CBS hired Richard Lawson from Gawker Media.

Lawson will be writing for TV.com in a role that is similar to what he already has been doing for Gawker: writing what is happening on famous TV shows.

Lawson will be writing fewer posts per day and do actual reviews.  Lawson has supposedly been generating 2.4 million pageviews per month for Gawker, more than any of Gawkers’ others writers.

[via BusinessInsider]