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Hulu Removing The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, Linking Directly To Comedy Central Going Forward
Andy Forssell, SVP of Content and Distribution at Hulu announced today that Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report will be removed from Hulu.com. Hulu was unable to extend both shows for a longer period of time. However the two programs will be hosted on TheDailyShow.com and ColbertNation.com. Hulu will link episodes to those two websites directly, but they will not be using the Hulu video player any more. [Hulu Blog]
News Roundup: Facebook 400 Million and Project Titan, Location Based Apple Ads and iTunes Web Browser, Snoop Vader, Sony Profits, Snooki Crasher, WWII On Google Earth, FriendFinder Cancels IPO, TC Intern Fired, Patrick Stewart On Twitter, and Stewart vs. O’Reilly
Happy Friday everybody. Today is February 5, 2010 and below is the Pulse2 News Roundup. We are going to talk about Facebook, Apple, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Sony, Jersey Shore, Google Earth, FriendFinder, TechCrunch, Patrick Stewart, Jon Stewart, and Bill O’Reilly today.
Facebook 400 Million and Project Titan
Facebook is working on overhauling their message system in order to replace it with a web mailing system. The code name for the project is Project Titan [TechCrunch]. Facebook has also turned 6 years old this week and has reached the 400 million user milestone. [Mashable]
Location Based Apple Ads and iTunes Web Browser
Apple has notified App Store developers that they will be prohibited from using location based advertisements for their applications. “If your app uses location-based information primarily to enable mobile advertisers to deliver targeted ads based on a user’s location, your app will be returned to you by the App Store Review Team for modification before it can be posted to the App Store,” Apple said [MacNN]. You can now browse the App Store on the web [PCWorld].
Snoop Vader
Rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg was caught in the middle of an imperial march walking around SoHo New York. It looks like Snoop has crossed over to the dark side since he is walking right next to Darth Vader. [HuffPo]
Sony Profits
Sony announced yesterday that they have returned to profit during the last three months of 2009. As a result, the company raised their outlook. [New York Times]
Snooki Crasher
A new meme has hit the Internet thanks to Jersey Shore character Nicole “Snooki” Pilozzi. The meme is called Snooki Crasher and it features images of Snooki in places where she doesn’t belong. Below are a couple of examples. [URLesque]
World War II on Google Earth
Images of World War II destruction have been uploaded to Google Earth. The cities where the images were uploaded include Berlin, Bordeaux, Hamburg, Cologne and Dresden. [Telegraph]
FriendFinder Cancels IPO
The FriendFinder Network filed for an IPO about a month ago. The FriendFinder Network is a brand that oversees porn websites and social networks. The company was supposed to start trading this week, but they have cancelled due to “market conditions.” [AllThingsD]
TC Intern Fired
TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington apologized to his readers on behalf of an intern that accepted a MacBook as compensation for writing a blog post. The intern was fired and every blog post he wrote was deleted. “I apologize to each one of you. I promise that we will always maintain complete transparency with you on how we operate, even when it isn’t such an easy thing to do,” stated Arrington in his apology. [TechCrunch]
Patrick Stewart on Twitter
Patrick Stewart, the Star Trek Captain Jean-Luc Picard, calls his mobile phone “my beautiful iPhone.” But he doesn’t quite understand Twitter and is has a fear of getting addicted to gaming. “To reduce life to–how many? 140? Just seems to me to be a little bit simplistic. Maybe I like complexity and abstraction too much.” [HuffPo]. And if you’re a fan of Patrick Stewart, check out a project that my friend Mo Kakwan made at Yahoo! Hack Day a few years ago.
Bill O’Reilly vs. Jon Stewart
Comedy Central news host Jon Stewart was a guest on FOX host Bill O’Reilly’s TV show earlier this week. The debate between Stewart and O’Reilly attracted 4,091,000 viewers. And about 1,041,000 of those viewers were aged between 25 and 54. [BusinessInsider]
Tucker Carlson Preparing To Launch HuffPo Competitor TheDailyCaller.com
Conservative media personality Tucker Carlson is very well known for being called out by Jon Stewart on former CNN show Crossfire. Carlson is now planning to launch a news website that competes directly to The Huffington Post. Carlson plans to launch a website called TheDailyCaller.com, but more from a conservative news angle.
Carlson claims that his website will focus on “telling the truth and be accurate.” The journalists on TheDailyCaller.com will share in the profits. The motto of TheDailyCaller is “every seven minutes” because Carlson claims that breaking news will happen a lot faster than The Huffington Post and The Drudge Report.
Personally I’m not much of a fan of Tucker Carlson because of the attitude he had during the program below. I’m a big fan of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart. I believe that maintaining humor in the serious world of politics is a great mix to have. Questioning Comedy Central’s credibility as a defensive strategy did not seem to give Carlson much merit. And in terms of being able to compete with The Drudge Report, I think that may be a joke because Drudge is already very established and has a massive audience.
[via TechCrunch]