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Weekly Rewind: The Olympic Edition

August 3, 2012
By Greg Franzese

People are still tuning in to NBC's Olympic coverage, even if they know who won, thanks to a flurry of activity on Twitter and other social media sites.

Almost half of the Olympics streams are coming from smartphones and tablets, NBC says.
 
The biggest TV event of the summer is leading viewers to ignore Netflix, which has suffered a 25 percent hit in streaming activity. 
 
Which Olympian is the social sphere most excited about? Michael Phelps, Tom Daley and Ryan Lochte round out the top three in terms of volume of social media comments. 
 
Don't expect a standalone service from HBO anytime soon. The total number of subscribers for HBO and Cinemax has topped 100 million, up 7 million since the end of 2011.
 
Time Warner and DirecTV both saw rising revenue despite losing U.S. subscribers in the second quarter.
 
Even with more competition, Apple's still king in the tablet wars, with a 68.2 percent market share, according to IDC.
 
Is it wrong to embed a video that infringes on copyright? A judge has ruled that such an act isn't illegal. 
 
Google may have shelled out more than $150 million to fund 100 new channels on YouTube, but it also secured that much in ad revenue for the year.
 
 
More than 20 percent of eligible neighborhoods in Kansas City, Mo. have already registered for Google Fiber.
 
Viggle, a second-screen loyalty app, has passed the 1 million user mark in six months.
 
Consumer Reports says 81 percent of its subscribers who used a streaming video service turned to Netflix, but the publication called out the service for not streaming enough movies.
 
TechCrunch is skeptical that a real-name policy on YouTube won't make people nicer, pointing to a failed experiment by South Korea in 2007.
 
More companies are saying goodbye to focus groups in favor of Facebook apps.
 
YouTube's Your Film Festival has announced 10 finalists, who will show their shorts at the Venice Film Festival. The winner will walk away with half a million dollars to produce content for their YouTube channel with help from Ridley Scott, Michael Fassbender and a crew.
 
The Center for Investigative Reporting launched a new channel, the I Files, which will curate videos from news sources. CIR, which has an $800,000 grant from the Knight foundation, will be YouTube's first investigative news channel.
 
The Onion has a great piece on a deranged CEO demanding more online videos.
 
The cost of "dumb" flat-panel sets is dropping, but the average price paid for a TV has increased because people are opting for more features, including 3D technology, Web connectivity and LED-backlit screens, to name a few.
 
Meet, the Corgi Cam -- yes live streams of Corgi pups. (Before you click on that link, realize you might not be able to accomplish anything else for the rest of the day.)
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