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Entertainment is an activity designed to
give people pleasure or relaxation . An audience may participate in the
entertainment passively as in watching opera or a movie, or actively as in
games.
The playing of sports and reading of literature are usually included in
entertainment, but these are often called recreation, because they involve some
active participation beyond mere leisure.
The industry that provides entertainment is called the entertainment industry.
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Albino Blacksheep
Albino Blacksheep is a website based in
Toronto, Ontario that posts humorous and artistic member-submitted digital
media. Most of these are movies or games created with Adobe Flash. The website
also features image galleries, audio files, and text files. Additionally, there
is a mobile section that provides ring tones, screensavers, and wallpaper for
mobile phones. The website was ranked fourth in blogs of the year (2005) by
Blogpulse.
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AmIAnnoying.com
AmIAnnoying.com (AIA) is a website that
allows users to vote on celebrities based on their annoyance factors. With more
than 20,000 profiles of public figures, it lays the claim as the largest
on-going celebrity polling site on the Internet.
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Amie Street
Amie Street is an indie online music store
and social network service created in 2006 by Brown University seniors Elliott
Breece, Elias Roman, and Joshua Boltuch, in Providence, Rhode Island. They have
since graduated and moved the company to Long Island City in Queens, New York.
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Anime
News Network
Anime News Network (ANN) is an anime
industry news website that reports on the status of anime, manga, Japanese
popular music and other otaku-related culture within North America and Japan.
Additionally, it sometimes features similar happenings throughout the
Anglosphere and elsewhere in the world. The website offers reviews and other
editorial content, forums where readers can discuss current issues and events,
and an encyclopedia that contains a large number of anime and manga with
information on Japanese and English staff, theme songs, plot summaries, and user
ratings.
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Black
Cab Sessions
The Black Cab Sessions is a series of
one-song performances by musicians and poets recorded in the back of a black cab
and filmed for an internet audience. A black cab is a type of hackney carriage
(taxicab) common to Great Britian. The sessions are recorded while the the black
cab that serves as the studio travels through city streets, usually in London,
England. Most of the performances feature rock bands, ranging from popular acts
such as Death Cab for Cutie, The Kooks and My Morning Jacket to lesser known
acts such as the Cave Singers. Other performances stray from the rock music
scene, featuring poetry and beatboxing, for example.
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Black20
Black20 is a broadband entertainment
production company founded by former NBC pages J. Crowley, Neil Punsalan and
Nelson Castro. The company operates out of Long Island City, Queens, New York.
Their website, which launched January 2007, features web series including
net_work, The Middle Show, and Black20 News. The company also produces viral
videos. Some of their biggest hits include Sheffield Quigley: Professional
MySpace Photographer, Star Wars PSA and 300: PG Version. Jeff Jarvis is an angel
investor in the company.
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Blinkx
Blinkx (London AIM:BLNX.L) is an Internet
search engine for video and audio content, based in San Francisco, that allows
searching and classification of audio files, video clips and streaming media.
Blinkx’s video search engine differs by using speech recognition to listen to
the audio component of the video content, and then uses both the phonetic and
text transcripts to match content with search queries. blinkx also indexes and
searches podcasts and video blogs. It claims to be the largest deep indexed
Video search engine with 26 million hours indexed and agreements with over 242
content companies.
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Bloggingheads.tv
Bloggingheads.tv is a political, world
events, philosophy, and science video blog discussion site in which the
participants take part in an active back and forth conversation via webcam which
is then broadcast online to viewers. The site was started by the journalist
Robert Wright (The Moral Animal) and the blogger and former journalist Mickey
Kaus on November 1, 2005. (Kaus has since dropped out of operational duties of
the site as he didn't want his frequent linking to be seen as a conflict of
interest.) Most of the earlier discussions posted to the site involved one or
both of those individuals, but since has grown to include a total of more than
150 other individual contributors, mostly journalists, scientists, authors, well
known political bloggers, and other notable individuals.
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Bossip
Bossip is an online gossip and
entertainment magazine with an urban sensibility. The site is owned by Moguldom
Media Group whose owners are private. Bossip is considered to be one of the more
visible and successful blogs focusing on African-American celebrities.
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Break.com
Break.com (formerly Big-boys.com) is a
humor website founded in 1998 that features comedy videos, flash games, and
pictures among other material. The chief executive officer of Break is Keith
Richman. The web site's target audience is men 18-35.
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Brickfish
Brickfish is a company and San Diego-based
networking website which hosts regular competitions ("campaigns") in art and
design. The campaigns are generally sponsored by marketers from the music or
fashion industries, or by political groups. Rewards typically include
scholarships, cash prizes, and/or Brickfish-funded trips to meet various
individuals and groups.
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Broadcaster.com
Broadcaster.com is a video entertainment
community and live webcam social network. The site allows users to create
personal profiles, post pictures, upload videos, and chat with the site's other
users through a live webcam chat feature. User uploaded video clips can be
rated, and the ratings and number of views are published. The site also allows
users to embed their live webcam streams into other websites. In addition to the
user provided content, Broadcaster.com produces their own video news clips, and
provides 3rd party content such as full-length movies, movie trailers, music
videos, musician database, and online flash games. Broadcaster News is
broadcaster.com's very own pop culture news show. The daily show is hosted by
actress Amy Paffrath and features all the latest gossip, red carpet events,
exclusive Hollywood parties, music news, and viral vids of the day.
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CastTV
CastTV is a web-wide video search and
aggregation company based in San Francisco, California. CastTV was founded in
2006 by Edwin Ong and Alex Vikati. CastTV's consumer destination site can be
found at CastTV.com. In addition, CastTV licenses its video search technology to
media companies. CastTV claims to solve the 2 main challenges in video search:
having a meaningful index of videos and ranking them in a way that makes sense
to the user. CastTV builds a fresh, high quality index with both popular and
longtail content, including TV shows, movies, celebrity, news, sports and viral
videos. The technology filters out expired videos, duplicate videos and video
spam. CastTV's ranking algorithm delivers a balance of recent and authoritative
/ popular content to help users find videos that matter.
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Comedy.com
Comedy.com is an internet video
sharing/social networking website. Lots of funny content from comedians and
funny people, stand up, jokes.
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Comic Book Resources
Comic Book Resources also known as CBR is
a website dedicated to the coverage of comic book-related news and discussion.
Described by the University of Buffalo's research library as "the premiere
comics-related site on the Web" this news site has become the favored research
and news site on comics and graphic novels by American Libraries and
Universities.
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Comics Bulletin
Comics Bulletin is a website with an
emphasis on the American comic book industry, updated daily with news, reviews,
interviews, and editorial content. Coverage ranges from mainstream to
independent/small press comic book and graphic novel publishers.
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Crackle
Crackle is a multi-platform video
entertainment network and studio, administrated by Sony Pictures Entertainment
(SPE) and formerly known as Grouper.
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Critical Metrics
Critical Metrics is a B2B
(business-to-business) entertainment media recommendation and discovery service,
offering the aggregated opinions of thousands of professional reviewers from
around the world, in the form of editorial picks, celebrity reviews, best-ever
lists, industry awards and notably positive reviews from periodicals, blogs,
radio and other electronic and print sources.
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Critics.gr
Critics.gr is a Greek evaluation and
reviews aggregation website. It collects Reviews and ratings for products
circulating in the Greek market. It is developed by nett O.E. (nett C.O), based
in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. It is the first greek website that
collects greek and international reviews from a wide variety of media, and
present a small summary of each. Non-greek reviews are translated in greek
language.
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DVD Talk
DVD Talk is a website for DVD enthusiasts
founded in January 1999 when DVDs and DVD players were first beginning to hit
the market. The site was started by Geoffrey Kleinman with the purpose of
creating an online resource to help people decide what to watch on DVD. The site
started in January 1999 as an online forum, an email newsletter, and a page of
DVD news and reviews.
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Digital Spy
Digital Spy (or DS as it is often known by
its users) is a British Entertainment and Media website, noted for its extensive
Big Brother coverage and forums. According to comScore figures, it is the fourth
largest British entertainment website with 2.1 million unique users on its news
site and 3.1 million forum users. According to Alexa Internet traffic
statistics, as of June 2008, Digital Spy is the 83rd most popular website in the
UK and has an overall Alexa ranking of 1,862.
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DisneyChannel.com
DisneyChannel.com is the official website
of Disney Channel, a children's TV channel. Completely powered by Adobe Flash,
it includes many features.
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Dogster
Dogster is a dog-themed social networking
and forums-based website. Users of the site create a pet page which is a
customizable web page for which they can give treats or purchase virtual items
using what are called zealies. This virtual currency can be given to the users
after engaging in some of the website activities, using PayPal or by purchasing
a Plus subscription. Dogster won the 2005 Webby category for best community
site.
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eBaum's World
eBaum's World (subtitled "Media for the
masses") is a website featuring media such as videos, Flash cartoons and web
games. It is highly controversial for many reasons, primarily because content on
the website is taken from other sources without permission and rebranded with
the eBaum's World logo. The site, which was originally co-owned by Eric "eBaum"
Bauman and his father, Neil Bauman, of Rochester, New York, ranks in the top
1000 sites on the Internet according to the website Alexa. On August 2, 2007,
eBaum's World was acquired by HandHeld Entertainment in a complex deal involving
stock and $15 million in cash.
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Encyclopedia Dramatica
Encyclopedia Dramatica (sometimes styled
as Encyclopædia Dramatica) is a parody of Internet encyclopedias such as
Wikipedia, written on a wiki, using the MediaWiki engine. It uses apparently
comprehensive referencing and linking, but is written in an irreverent, obtuse,
intentionally politically incorrect, and often abusive style. Many articles are
written in an ironic manner to upset those who take the content seriously
(writing in a manner that is known on the Internet as trolling). The site claims
that it is "[d]one in the spirit of Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary".
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Ents24
Ents24 is a website that provides
entertainment listings and information, encompassing live music, clubbing,
cinema, theatre, arts, and stand-up comedy. The site contains details of
thousands of events happening across the UK every day and is visited by more
than one million people every month.
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Fabchannel.com
Fabchannel.com is a Dutch company that
aims to give attention to artists unrecognized by the mass media. The project
was founded by Justin Kniest in 2000 in collaboration with internet service
provider XS4ALL and broadcast facility company N.O.B. The website streams free,
live, and on-demand video from the Paradiso, Melkweg venues in Amsterdam, the
Netherlands and The Roxy Theatre venue in Los Angeles. With more than 900 live
concerts, festivals, performances, debates and lectures, Fabchannel.com has
built the biggest concert videovideo on demand archives in the world. The
website has about 10.000 visitors a day.
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FunBrain.com
FunBrain.com is a educational browser game
website for children and adults. The website was founded in May of 1997 and is
owned by Family Education Network, a division of Pearson Education. The company
said the site has 65,000 teachers registered, 35 million visits per month, and
60,000 page visits per day, and provides mathematics and arcade-style games.
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Funny or Die
Funny or Die is a comedy video website
founded by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's production company, Gary Sanchez
Productions with original and user generated content. Funny or Die is also
unique in that it contains a good deal of exclusive material from a number of
famous contributors (e.g. Judd Apatow, James Franco) and has its own Funny or
Die Team (FOD Team) which creates original material for the site. Michael Kvamme,
an aspiring young comedian, came up with a concept for a new kind of comedy site
and the site was developed by Randy Adams. Videos are voted on by users of the
site; those that are deemed funny stay, but those that are not "die" and are
relegated to the site's "crypt".
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