It was just a few years ago that the Internet and television seemed doomed to remain separate if not antithetical entities, but with the continued rise in broadband Internet connection penetration, ever zippier and more capacious computers, and a tidal wave called YouTube, video and the Internet suddenly find themselves inseparable bosom buddies.
Following in the wake of YouTube, MySpace, and countless other video hosting and sharing sites and platforms — and influenced by the rise of digital video recorders (DVRs) — the major television networks, cable and satellite channels, and local channels have been madly integrating preview and highlight clips, web exclusives, and even whole episodes of their programs into their web presences as though their lives depend upon it, which they quite possibly may.
So, hmm, wouldn't it be convenient if someone gathered, from all corners of the web/video/television continuum, a personalizable TV programming guide that also searched the webosphere for online video that match your interests?
What if they also built an entertainment info portal with news, clips, program details, credits, pics, and user/community input to go along with the nifty guide?
And just so no one could say they didn't, what if the said eager gnomes also added relevant writing from some of the most astute and entertaining blogs around to add depth and personality to this heady, helpful video/TV stew? And what if it was free?
Then you would have the new MeeVee, which just launched yesterday with a boatload of new features to add to its already impressive TV guide, and its homegrown blog with original interviews, reviews, news and opinion, led by the spunky and beguiling Marjorie Kase.
Article comments
1 - Jon Sobel
This is gonna whup Batman's ass!
2 - Eric Olsen
Wesley did an live studio performance when I was a DJ on The End in Cleveland in the mid-'90s, and he was mind-shattering combination of characteristics, especially up close: huge, goofy, intimidating, vulnerable, otherworldly, extremely present. I always loved his catch phrases
3 - CW Fisher
Eric, your magazine (as it has become) is proof that when it comes to producing a useful (and subsequently important) website, technology and all its self-touted synergies remains trumped by good old-fashioned commitment. Great job, and congratulations to you all.