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Will Robert Kyncl and YouTube Revolutionize Television?
On the evening of April 23, 2005, Karim uploaded the first video [above] to YouTube—an eighteen-second clip of him, standing in front of the elephant enclosure at the San Diego Zoo, wearing an ill-fitting hiking jacket. He says, “The cool thing about these guys is that they have really, really, really long trunks, and that’s cool,” smirks a little, and ends with “And that’s pretty much all there is to say.” Civilization would never be the same.
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For first time in 20 years, TV ownership declines
The decline was not trivial, either — from 115.9 million TV households in 2011, Nielsen estimates that only 114.7 million homes in the U.S. will have a TV set in 2012. That’s a decline of almost 1 percent at a time when the total number of U.S. households continues to grow.
Full Story: Kansas City Star
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Last night I was talking to my mom. She recently got an ipad and discovered the Netflix app. Because she now streams netflix to her TV with Boxee and to her ipad, she decided to drop HBO from her cable tv package.
Then this morning, i read an interesting article in todays NYT about the number…
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American Internet Use Catches Up With TV Use - NYTimes.com
we knew this day was coming. thank god.
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While people younger than 30 years old have spent more time with the Internet than television for several years, Forrester’s survey shows that this is the first year that people in older age groups are also doing so.
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Just 42% of Americans say they consider the television set to be a necessity, according to a new nationwide survey from the Pew Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends project. Last year, this figure was 52%. In 2006, it was 64%.
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