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Kevin Bacon performs on 14,110-foot Pikes Peak
Actor Kevin Bacon hiked the 14,110-foot Pikes Peak to play a concert at the top as part of an event to raise money for a cancer charity. Bacon and his brother, Michael, climbed Pikes Peak on Saturday with about 95 people as part of a fund raiser for the Love Hope Strength Foundation cancer charity. The hikers made the event a tribute to Farrah Fawcett, who died Thursday after battling anal cancer. – Catherine Tsai, June 27, 2009

Jackson memorial gives web boost
"I thought the first screen became the second screen and the web won out over TV," said Mark Ghuneim, founder of Trendrr which tracks and reports on social and digital media. "The immediacy of the live web and its ability to let people collaborate and share was better than watching it on the tube. The TV showed itself as a much more isolated experience. "Michael Jackson had the effect of bringing people together and it was another of those mass experiences that acted in the same way as the presidential inauguration but in order of magnitude world-wide. This was a great day for the real live web," said Mr Ghuneim. – Maggie Shiels, July 8, 2009

GGL, Pro Vs GI Joe Launch Online Game Tournament For Soldiers
A little Independence Day-themed news ... GGL Global Gaming, a social network and online gaming platform, has teamed up with Pro Vs GI Joe to launch Military Online Gaming (MOG), an online gaming network that gives U.S. military troops overseas a central hub where they can chat, play games together and even compete in sponsored tournaments. – Tameka Kee, July 3, 2009

Concurrent, Clearleap Team on VOD, Advanced Ads
Video-on-demand vendor Concurrent, which provides hardware and software to large operators like Time Warner Cable and Cox, has formed a partnership with Clearleap, a venture-backed Atlanta company founded in 2008, to integrate their products to provide what the companies call a “comprehensive end-to-end view of the subscriber experience.” – Glen Dickson, July 8, 2009

Michael Jackson death news: Online activity heats up Twitter and Google, slows down some sites
According to initial data from Trendrr, a Web service that tracks activity on social media sites, the number of Twitter posts Thursday afternoon containing "Michael Jackson" totaled more than 100,000 per hour. That put news of Jackson's death at least on par with the Iran protests, as Twitter posts about Iran topped 100,000 per hour on June 16 and eventually climbed to 220,000 per hour. – Wailin Wong, June 25, 2009

Concurrent, Clearleap Announce Web TV Partnership
According to Jarratt, the deal is a co-marketing, co-sale arrangement where Clearleap and Concurrent salespeople will work together on accounts looking to leverage both companies' products. "The default is that customers will pay each of us separately, but we're open to customer-driven deals on a case-by-case basis," he says. – Ryan Lawler, July 9, 2009

Concurrent, Clearleap Integrate Technologies to Provide "Comprehensive View" of Subscriber Experience
According to the companies, the partnership sees them integrating Concurrent's Media Data and Advertising Solutions (MDAS--formerly branded as Everstream) with Clearleap's network-based media management and distribution platform to offer a joint solution that they say will provide a "comprehensive end-to-end view of the subscriber experience." They are billing the hosted solution as enabling TV service providers to gain near real-time visibility into user consumption through an integrated Web-based management interface that aggregates and processes rich data from a combination of the companies' respective interfaces. – Tracy Swedlow, July 9, 2009

Concurrent, Clearleap Team Up for Internet TV
Concurrent Computer Corp. (Nasdaq: CCUR) and Clearleap announced that they are integrating Concurrent’s hosted Media Data and Advertising Solutions (MDAS) product with Clearpleap’s network-based content distribution platform. Clearleap’s distribution platform works by allowing MSOs to subscribe to feeds of Internet-based video content and tailoring those feeds to show up in customer’s set-top-based interactive program guides (IPGs)….- July 9, 2009

Concurrent, Clearleap combo on addressable ads
For service operators, the advantage of the combined Concurrent/Clearleap products is gaining increased visibility into on-demand content from the point of origin to the point of playout. The ability to track viewing behavior end-to-end provided by the combination of Concurrent’s and Clearleap’s management systems provides invaluable data for addressable advertising in the on-demand environment. – Brian Santo, July 8, 2009

Concurrent Partners with Clearleap
Concurrent, a provider of video and media data products, today announced a partnership with Atlanta-based Clearleap, an Internet-based TV technology platform. The two companies are partnering to offer an end-to-end view of the subscriber experience. The hosted solution will empower TV service providers to gain near real-time visibility into user consumption through an integrated Web-based management interface that aggregates and processes data from a combination of Concurrent’s and Clearleap’s interfaces. – July 8, 2009

Concurrent forms partnership with Clearleap
Utilizing Concurrent's Media Data and Advertising Solutions and Clearleap's network-based platform for media management and distribution, the two companies are offering an integrated solution to improve subscriber experience. Concurrent has said that the hosted solution will empower television service providers to gain near real-time visibility into user consumption through an integrated web-based management interface that aggregates and processes rich data from a combination of Concurrent's and Clearleap's interfaces. – July 8, 2009

Execs & Accounts: Seiter & Miller, Molecular, Adicio
Full service ad agency Thomas Taber & Drazen designed a Web portal for Park City Mountain Resort. The site features a vacation planner allowing vacationers to pick and organize activities with fellow vacationers. Spike Ferensen led site design and architecture. – Kate Kay, July 8, 2009

Concurrent partners with Clearleap to offer media lifecycle services
The hosted service reportedly allows television service providers to obtain visibility into user consumption through a web-based management interface that aggregates and processes data from a combination of Concurrent's and Clearleap's interfaces. The partnership will also allow television service providers, using the Clearleap platform, to monetize their video offerings through addressable advertising. – July 8, 2009

Test your gaming skills against peers, pros
A nonprofit that lets service members pit their stick skills against professional athletes is spreading the word about its new military gaming network with a worldwide video game competition.Pro vs. GI Joe has connected troops to athletes via video game consoles since its founding in 2007. Now, with the help of with the help of GGL Global Gaming, it’s launching Military Online Gaming to connect troops to other troops around the world. – July 5, 2009

Military gets its own gaming network, the MOG

Though you might think they'd welcome a break from shoot-'em-ups, members of the military are known to be a rich breeding ground for hardcore gamers. Now, just in time for Independence Day, they have their very own space in which to catch each other in the friendliest of fire: The Military Online Gaming program, a Global Gaming League-powered service that kicks off on the 4th with a Call of Duty: World at War tournament. – Justin McElroy, July 3, 2009

Pro vs. GI Joe Launches Military-Only Gaming Network
With the US Independence Day fast approaching, charity Pro vs. GI Joe has announced the creation of an military-only online gaming network to help troops frag each other. Powered by the GGL Global Gaming social networking and competition platform, the Military Online Gaming program will connect enlisted gamers across the globe. – Alice O’ Conner, July 2, 2009

Pro vs. GI Joe and GGL Global Gaming Unveil Exclusive Interactive Gaming Network for America's Troops, Military Online Gaming (MOG)

Pro vs. GI Joe has teamed up with GGL Global Gaming, a gaming platform that provides millions of gaming fans with a unique social/interactive platform where they can connect, compete & manage their gaming lives across hundreds of game titles on all game platforms, as the online host for their MOG tournaments. – July 2, 2009

Pro Vs. GI Joe, GGL, USO Join to Host COD Tournament on MOG
Acronym enthusiasts cream their jeans
Pro Vs. GI Joe is a nonprofit organization tasked with providing US troops with the opportunity to compete in gaming tournaments worldwide, against professional athletes, in cooperation with the USO. This July 4th, Pro Vs GI Joe has partnered with GGL Global Gaming, one of the largest online gaming communities in the world, to host an exclusive, military-only program known as MOG (Military Only Gaming). – Jeremy Azevedo, Jul 2, 2009

Overloaded With Data? Trendrr Launches Pro
The competition between these and few other companies is in its early stages; and there is room for more than one winner. Exactly how the data is gathered, presented and priced by each provider will, for example, appeal to different users. But its clear that today Trendrr entered the race. – June 30, 2009

PCMR website wins award brief
The Park City Mountain Resort website has just earned a coveted Webby Honoree Award. The site was completely redone by Thomas Taber & Drazen to cater to the needs of travelers in all phases of the planning and vacation experience and features a collaborative vacation-planner application that has increased the average visitor duration from 90 seconds to just under eight minutes. – Andrew Kirk, June 30, 2009

Kevin Bacon's mountain performance
Kevin Bacon hiked 14,110-foot up a mountain to play a concert for charity - and admitted it was "one of the hardest things" he'd ever done. The Hollywood actor and his brother joined several other hikers for the six-hour trek up Pikes Peak in America in a bid to help the Love Hope Strength Foundation cancer charity - then once they reached the top, the duo performed three songs. - June 30, 2009

Taking Names
Actor Kevin Bacon scaled new heights to pay tribute to the late Farrah Fawcett while raising money to fight cancer. The 50-year-old actor hiked the 14,110-foot Pikes Peak on Saturday to play a concert for the Love Hope Strength Foundation, Denverpost.com reports. -Robyn-Denise Yourse, June 30, 2009

Atlantic Broadband Deploys Clearleap's clear|flow Platform

Clearleap, a company which offers a content-acquisition, delivery, management and distribution platform, called clear|flow, that brings broadband video and other Internet-sourced content to television sets, including sets equipped with low-resource legacy cable set-top boxes (note: its most prominent competitor is ActiveVideo Networks, which is currently deploying its platform with Cablevision--see the article posted on itvt.com, June 24th), announced Monday that it has deployed the platform with Atlantic Broadband, the 15th-largest cable operator in the US. – Tracy Swedlow, June 30, 2009

Trend Spotting Service Trendrr Switches to Freemium Model
We wrote about Trendrr approximately 9 months ago; it’s a nifty free service that lets you follow a number of interesting graphs related to a company, brand, person – any entity, really, that makes an impact on the net. Want to know how many Twitter followers, Delicious links and Flickr images someone has? It’s all there on Trendrr. Now, adding to the free service, they’ve introduced a pro version, aimed at companies and marketing professionals who are a bit more serious about tracking this sort of data. – Stan Schroeder, June 29, 2009

Kevin Bacon sings from mountaintop at Love Hope Strength Foundation concert
Actor Kevin Bacon scaled new heights while raising money to fight cancer. The 50-year-old actor hiked the 14,110-foot Pikes Peak Saturday to play a concert for the Love Hope Strength Foundation…..Cy Curnin of The Fixx hiked with the group and later played "Remember Me When I'm Gone" in honor of Farrah Fawcett ,who lost her battle against anal cancer on Thursday. - Clare Trapasso, June 29, 2009

~ WEBSITE OF THE DAY ~
What marketers and entertainment executives really need in today's interconnected media world are tools to help them understand what moves the online needle for their own shows and products - where the results are tracked in thousands of responses rather than millions. Web tracking service Trendrr will help fill a niche with the launch of a professional service today that tracks social media activity across multiple sites and services. - Wayne Karrfalt, June 29, 2009

Atlantic Broadband Offers Local Events, Web Clips On VOD
Atlantic Broadband also will provide selection of 60 to 70 short-form clips from Revision3 and Next New Networks, through agreements those companies signed with Clearleap. Isenberg said the deployment of Clearleap's Internet-based VOD catcher took Atlantic Broadband's most junior engineer only half a day to install. "It's drop-dead simple to use," he said. – Todd Spangler, June 29, 2009

Clearleap Jumps on First Win
The MSO has Clearleap's clear|flow system up and running in its Johnstown/Altoona, Pa., system, and expects to deploy it later this year in Miami Beach, as well. Those two systems cover roughly 75 percent of the operator's digital customers, according to Atlantic Broadband VP of products David Isenberg. Although the deal allows the MSO to bring in video from Web-based sources such as Next New Networks and Revision3 , Isenberg said the operator was eager to use Clearleap's Web-based platform to rapidly load local content onto its video-on-demand (VoD) system. – Jeff Baumgartner, June 29, 2009

Atlantic Broadband does Web VOD with Clearleap
Clearleap, a start-up that integrates Web-based content into service providers’ video-on-demand offerings, has signed up its fifth customer (but its first announced): Atlantic Broadband (ABB). The MSO will deploy Clearleap’s clear|flow – a next-generation content acquisition, delivery, management and distribution system – along with the vendor’s clear|profit ad platform, which enables the insertion of ads into on-demand programming. The two systems were introduced in March. – Brian Santo, June 29, 2009

Atlantic Broadband Deploys Clearleap
Atlantic Broadband, the 15th largest cable provider in the U.S., and Clearleap, an Internet based TV technology platform, announced deployment of clear|flow, a next-generation content acquisition, delivery, management, and distribution system. The deal brings the power and flexibility of the Internet directly into the Atlantic Broadband Video On Demand and Digital TV infrastructure and will enable the service provider to expand VOD offerings, increase efficiencies in workflow, and leverage the clear|profit ad platform to quickly insert ads into on-demand programming. – June 29, 2009

Atlantic Broadband Using Clearleap for Web Video

Companies like Clearleap, ActiveVideo Networks and AnySource have been pretty hush-hush about which customers are using their particular brand of video-to-TV services. But today, Clearleap broke its code of silence to announce that Atlantic Broadband has deployed Clearleap’s Internet-based TV technology. – Chris Albrecht, June 29, 2009

Web 2.0 sets the news agenda
Twitter, albeit relatively new to the social network scene, was seen by users as vital to spreading to world of Jackson's premature death. Trendrr, a web service that tracks activity on social media sites, said the number of Twitter posts containing 'Michael Jackson' totalled more than 100,000 per hour. - Mustafa Alrawi, Saturday, June 27, 2009

Blow by blow: A look inside the USA Boxing national championships
The USA Boxing national championships were held earlier this month at the Denver Coliseum, with 46 junior and senior weight classes featuring 455 men’s and women’s amateurs, including Colorado Springs fighters Alice Avila and Abdur Raheem. A look at six fights, courtesy of www.jookt.com. – Brian Gomez, June 26, 2009

Michael Jackson’s passing too much for AIM to handle
We wouldn’t go as far as to say that the AIM outage forced users to use other communication platforms, but AIM was far from the only site used yesterday. Trendrr reported 250,000 tweets mentioning Michael Jackson and Google News found more than 3,000 articles written about him yesterday alone. – Michael Kaufmann, June 26, 2009

Web slows after Jackson's death
According to initial data from Trendrr, a Web service that tracks activity on social media sites, the number of Twitter posts Thursday afternoon containing "Michael Jackson" totaled more than 100,000 per hour. That put news of Jackson's death at least on par with the Iran protests, as Twitter posts about Iran topped 100,000 per hour on June 16 and eventually climbed to 220,000 per hour. – Maggie Shields, June 26, 2009

AOL Confirms AIM Outage After Jackson's Death
News of pop legend Michael Jackson's death surfaced shortly before AOL was forced offline, forcing many to visit Twitter to share the news. Trendrr, which tracks activity on social media sites, counted more than 250,000 Twitter posts containing the words "Michael Jackson" within them for June 25. Google News reported more than 3,500 separate news sources covering the story. – Mark Hachman, June 26, 2009

Bacon Brothers carve up some altitude
But there's a lot more to Saturday afternoon's concert on one of America's most visited mountains. The Denver- based Love Hope Strength Foundation organized the Pikes Peak Rocks concert to raise awareness of its national bone- marrow drive. And the Bacon Brothers — Kevin and Michael, plus their backing band — are fully in support of the cause, even if it does involve hitting the trail at 5:30 a.m. – Ricardo Baca, June 26, 2009

Kevin Bacon To Play Concert On Top Of Pikes Peak
Kevin Bacon's band is going to new heights, planning a concert on top of 14,110-foot-high Pikes Peak. The band is set to play June 27, and is part of the Pikes Peak Rocks concert, an event organized to raise money for bone marrow donors around the world. The Pikes Peak Rocks Concert is sponsored by the Love Hope Strength Foundation, a group that raises money for cancer centers by organizing high-altitude benefit concerts, according to the Colorado Springs Gazette. – June 26, 2009

Cablevision Tunes Up With ActiveVideo
ActiveVideo, which competes with Clearleap , has already signed up several application partners, including a few such as Blip.tv that can bring Web-sourced video to the TV. –Jeff Baumgartner, June 23, 2009

StatShot: True Blood Sinks Its Teeth Into Twitter

OK. I give up. Why do people like True Blood so much? In a brutal experiment, I watched all of season one to see what the big deal was. It’s got horrible acting, it’s poorly conceived, and pays no attention to itself. So why are so many people buzzing about it on Twitter? The folks at Trendrr created a separate graph for the show because it was so much more popular than the competition. – Chris Albrecht, June 22, 2009

5 ways to aid your Twitter or Facebook experience
Trendrr seems a little daunting at first, but it's the power that sets it apart. Think of it as hanging out with the cool kids, in that you can track how popular certain trends are online. And it goes way beyond Twitter and Facebook, monitoring videos, blogs, downloads and much more. – Scott Klienberg, June 21, 2009

Up To 200,000 Tweets About Iran Sent An Hour
In recent days, there have been around 10,000 to 50,000 tweets every hour mentioning "Iran", according to US blog Mashable and data from the trend tracker Trendrr. – Ruth Barnett, June 18, 2009

Cynopsis:Digital
Online measurement service Trendrr, which aggregates traffic data from popular social networks, blogs and video sites using raw data directly from the companies' servers, published some startling figures leading up to the blockade. "Iran" mentions peaked at over 220,000 posts/hour. There were 2.3 million new blog posts about Iran and another 3,133 new Iran-related video posted on YouTube. – Wayne Karrfalt, June 18, 2009

Mindblowing #IranElection Stats: 221,744 Tweets Per Hour at Peak
While we knew that these social tools have been instrumental to the Iranian protests (so much so that the U.S. Government asked Twitter to reschedule downtime), we had no idea about the actual number of tweets sent or YouTube videos uploaded until now. Thanks to the social media trend tracker Trendrr, we can show you the sheer scale of the #IranElection crisis discussion. – Ben Parr, June 17, 2009

New Call of Duty World at War Zombie footage released/GGL Competition announced
With the release of the Call of Duty:World at War Map Pack 2 today we've got two new goodies for you. The first is that the GGL folks are having a new competition where you can win up to $2,500 in cold hard cash. All you need to do is sign up and follow the rules and regulations for the competition. Registration is now open and closes on June 23rd so sign up early if you are interested. – Charles Husseman, June 11, 2009

GGL Global Gaming - World At War Map Pack 2 Tournament
On the heels of the Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack 1 Tournament where more than 30,000 competitors battled for bragging rights and prizes, GGL Global Gaming, one of the world’s largest community networks for gamers, today announced the new Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack 2 Tournament . Fans of Activision and Treyarch Studio’s exclusive first person shooter game will now be able to compete on a worldwide playing field. – Nick Tan, June 11, 2009

StatShot: Conan Flexes His Tweet Muscles; BitTorrent Is Into You
Conan O’Brien’s debut on The Tonight Show made him the talk of Twitter last week, spiking with more than 3,500 Tweets on June 2, according to Trendrr. Elsewhere, Burn Notice, well, burned up the charts as the summer programming season kicked into high gear. And speaking of kicks, So You Think You Can Dance performed nicely as well last week. – Chris Albrecht, June 9, 2009

Kevin Bacon's band to perform on top of Pikes Peak
Move over John Denver. This will be a real Rocky Mountain high. Actor Kevin Bacon's band is set to play a concert on top of 14,110-foot Pikes Peak as part of a cancer charity fundraiser.The Bacon Brothers, Cy Curnin of The Fixx and The White Buffalo will perform June 27 for about 100 people hiking to the summit to raise money the Love Hope Strength Foundation. – June 5, 2009

Peakin’ At The Peak

Yes, there’s a reason for all this mountain climbing, thin air and the resulting fantastic view. The Pikes Peak concert and the Hard Rock follow-up will benefit global cancer care and a nationwide bone marrow registration campaign to match donors with patients suffering from leukemia and other blood disorders. The event is being put together by the Love Hope Strength Foundation, an international organization that uses music to make a difference in global cancer care. The Foundation, known as LHS for short, has its headquarters in Denver and chapters in the United Kingdom, Peru and Australia. Its purpose in this world is to bring critical funding, material support and awareness to cancer initiatives worldwide. – Jay Smith, June 8, 2009

Kevin Bacon and Friends To Rock Pikes Peak Against Cancer
Put together by the Love Hope Strength Foundation (LHS), an international foundation that uses music to make a difference in global cancer care, the event is scheduled for Saturday June 27th, 2009. The proceeds will benefit global Your browser may not support display of this image.cancer care and a nationwide bone marrow registration campaign to locate matches for patients with Leukemia and other blood disorders. – June 7, 2009

Kevin Bacon's band to perform on top of Pikes Peak
The Bacon Brothers, Cy Curnin of The Fixx and The White Buffalo will perform June 27 for about 100 people hiking to the summit to raise money the Love Hope Strength Foundation. There is no cost for the concert, just pay the regular price for the toll road or the cog railway. Tickets for the after-party are $50 each. – June 5, 2009

How CableCos View Web Video
Up until a few years ago, the only way to watch video was through an antenna or your cable or satellite provider. But as online video has grown, so too have our options. The video landscape is shifting, and multi-service operators are adapting to accommodate the new possibilities of not only web content, but of video delivered via the web. Clearleap and ActiveVideo Networks are two players in the web-video-to-TV sector working to expand MSO offerings beyond just traditional television. They have a front-row seat to this change the MSOs are going through, so we talked with Clearleap CEO Braxton Jarrett and ActiveVideo’s SVP of marketing, Edgar Villaplando, for their insights into the merging of new and oldteevee. – Chris Albrecht, June 5, 2009

Kevin Bacon will rock on Pikes Peak
Kevin Bacon may face just six degrees himself when he and older brother Michael perform a free concert at the summit of Pikes Peak at the end of the month. The Pike Peaks Rocks concert, sponsored by the Love Hope Strength Foundation, will raise money for bone marrow donors around the world, contributed by 100 registered hikers. But to hear the Bacons, they face a 12.6-mile hike to the top. - Edward Paik, June 5, 2009

Red Rocks and Love Hope Strength Team up to Fight Cancer - A Top Story This Week
Red Rocks and Love Hope Strength Team up to Fight Cancer was a top story for this week. Here it is again: (PR) Red Rocks Amphitheatre's summer concert calendar for 2009 will have one major difference from previous years, concert goers will have the opportunity to save someone's life at every show this season. The Love Hope Strength Foundation (LHS), an international charity dedicated to fighting cancer through the power of music is teaming up with world renowned venue, Your browser may not support display of this image.Red Rocks Amphitheatre and the world's largest bone marrow donor center, DKMS to host one of the most comprehensive, concerted bone marrow registration drives in history. June 2, 2009

RAM: Right Back at Ya
It's Internet television in reverse. In one of those wild and woolly everything-comes-full-circle kind of moments, technology start-up Clearleap wants to bring Web shows back to the TV set. Sure, that's been the goal all along for some - incubating a hit show online and moving it to the tube. But let's get this straight: Is the business of Web video - bred on the meritocratic notion that creators who were roadblocked from TV for whatever reason finally had an outlet to reach audiences thanks to the Internet - now headed back to the living room? Apparently so. - Daisy Whitney, June 1, 2009