New York Times Opens Movie Reviews For Syndication (NYT)
Silicon Alley Insider — ... or Rotten Tomatoes. With the new links to NYTimes data, a company like Netflix (NFLX) could use the new code to automatically link to ...

Industry Moves: FIM's Mickie Rosen Departs For Velocity Interactive
paidContent — ... . Rosen, who served as FIM's SVP and GM, Entertainment, had a wide-ranging brief at FIM: She ran properties like Rotten Tomatoes, oversaw content acquisitions and managed Fox on Demand on MySpace, the company's foray into streaming video. As an investment partner at Velocity, she'll focus on video, music, social media, publishing, games and online advertising. Rosen worked with Velocity partner and founder Ross Levinsohn when he was FIM's President. ...

HOW TO: Get the Most Out of StumbleUpon
Mashable! — ... Along with rating pages, reading and writing reviews will help you determine what sites of similar interests are the ones you really want to visit. A person is usually more inclined to check something out after seeing reviews and a positive rating for the particular item. Think of it kind of like Rotten Tomatoes, but for webpages. ...

Current Picks Rotten Tomatoes for TV Show [NewTeeVee]
GigaOM Network — ... Rotten Tomatoes and Current are partnering to create a new TV series based on the famous vegetable-centric movie review site, the two companies announced today. The Rotten Tomatoes Show on Current (yikes, that’s really an… unimaginative title) will be a half-hour show aired weekly on Current TV and distributed on Current.com and RottenTomatoes.com. From the press release: In addition to the latest movie news and information, each irreverent episode will feature crowd-sourced rants and ...

Broadband Content Bits: Samberg/YouTube; Workplace Video; Machinimia; Current/Rotten; Network Shows
paidContent — ... cash to develop 15 new shows. Kotaku says writers from TV shows like The Simpsons, Family Guy, King of Queens and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air have signed on to craft scripts for the shorts, which will be part of "The Machinimia Comedy Lab." No date has been set for the first pilot. More after the jump. —Current and Rotten partner in series: And another original series play ... Al Gore-backed media company Current will partner with IGN's Rotten Tomatoes to launch a weekly show that digs into the latest movie ...

Broadband Content Bits: Samberg/YouTube; Workplace Video; Machinima; Current/Rotten; Network Shows
paidContent — ... that cash to develop 15 new shows. Kotaku says writers from TV shows like The Simpsons, Family Guy, King of Queens and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air have signed on to craft scripts for the shorts, which will be part of "The Machinima Comedy Lab." No date has been set for the first pilot. More after the jump. —Current and Rotten partner in series: And another original series play ... Al Gore-backed media company Current will partner with IGN's Rotten Tomatoes to launch a weekly show that digs into the latest ...

Add Movies to Netflix Queue from NYT, Rotten Tomatoes
AppScout — Ever read a promising movie review but forget the movie's title before you could add it to your Netflix queue? The DVD rental company feels your pain. Netflix is partnering with The New York Times and Rotten Tomatoes to let you add movies to your queue or watch instantly, directly from the two Web sites. Both sites now have buttons on their reviews that let you add select movies to your queue without taking you away from NYT.com or rottentomatoes.com. A pop-up window confirms that the film has been added to your queue, and you have the option of deleting the addition or moving it ...

Current TV Premiering Rotten Tomatoes-Inspired Show
AppScout — "You get your friends around and it's fun to trash the hell out of a movie," Brett Erlich begins. "But it's also fun to disagree with people. A lot of people loved "Benjamin Button." I, for one, wanted to kill myself at many points during that film. If it was four hours, instead of three hours and 45 minutes, I might have done it." David Fincher-induced suicide threats aside, it's a fairly apt summation of Erlich's new gig. The Current TV writer, along with Chicago comedy veteran, Ellen Fox, has been tapped to co-host the interactive cable station's latest venture, "Rotten Tomatoes." Based on the popular site of ...

Rotten Tomatoes coming to Current TV with users' three-word reviews
Webware.com — Rotten Tomatoes, the popular online destination for movie buffs, will premiere in all its television glory (TomatoMeter and all) Thursday night at 10:30 p.m. EST on Current TV. The 30-minute show, which is hosted by Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox, will run weekly in that time slot where the hosts ...

Newssift: business-oriented news trend browser
Download Squad — Filed under: Business, NewsNewssift is a way to gauge the media buzz around various business topics, companies and people. It analyzes qualitative data from a whole bunch of news sources, and lets you browse stories on a subject and see if the overall media vibe is positive or negative. It strikes me as a sort of Metacritic or Rotten Tomatoes for the business world. Newssift has a search feature, and also a list of popular topics to browse from the front page. You can combine more than one topic into a single search, and save ...

Newssift: business-oriented news trend browser
Download Squad — Filed under: Business, NewsNewssift is a way to gauge the media buzz around various business topics, companies and people. It analyzes qualitative data from a whole bunch of news sources, and lets you browse stories on a subject and see if the overall media vibe is positive or negative. It strikes me as a sort of Metacritic or Rotten Tomatoes for the business world. Newssift has a search feature, and also a list of popular topics to browse from the front page. You can combine more than one topic into a single search, and save ...

MotorMouths is the Rotten Tomatoes of Car Reviews
Mashable! — This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Name: MotorMouths Quick Pitch: MotorMouths tells you which new cars get the best reviews, and which reviewers are the most credible. So car shoppers can shop smarter. Genius Idea: There are few purchases where consumer research is more paramount than buying a new ...

30 Utterly Essential Movie Resources – An Ultimate Guide
Friedbeef's Tech — ... looked to be an excellent tool which interpreted Tweets about movies, assigned each one as a positive or negative tweet, and aggregated them.  Though promising, it looks like the project has stopped development.  An alternative would be to use blippr, which is a twitter clone which focuses mainly on reviews. 4. How to summarize reviews from professional movie critics When it comes to movie review sites, few sites come close to Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic.  Both services aggregate professional movie critic opinions ...

Social networks for the movie buff
Webware.com — Connecting with other movie fans and discussing films you select from Netflix can be fun. Although sites like IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes have become important parts of the online experience for movie buffs, they aren't exactly the forums for engaging movie chat and social networking that the sites in this roundup are. Below are some of the best I've found. Movie social networks Filmcrave Filmcrave lets you create lists of all the movies you love, rate films, and discuss those ratings with friends in the site's forums. You can also find other members who ...

Top Movie Review and Rating Sites
RotorBlog.com — ... tips to avoid watching a crappy movie. There are many ways to get more information on movies and movie review sites are probably one of the best ways to do that. You can get instant idea whether specific movie is great just by looking at it’s ratings and if you are interested in more detail information you can read movie reviews done by users. Below you can find top movie review and rating sites and share your movie taste with others. Rotten Tomatoes One of the largest communities of people sharing their passion for movies. You can find ...

Review: Movie showtime finders for iPhone
Macworld — ... . The latest version, which is optimized for the iPhone OS 3.0 update, is much more stable. The geo-location feature that gave me such fits last year works much better now, thanks. The app will let you enter a ZIP code or use GPS to find theaters near your location. Along with the user reviews, you can also browse films by their Rotten Tomatoes ranking (which sometimes varies widely from Flixster ratings— Transformers 2 didn’t fare nearly as well). The app also features photo galleries for most of the films, from which you can pick and save images and use as wallpaper. Many ...

SkinniPopcorn.com: Pared-Down, Crowdsourced, Mobile-Friendly Movie Info
ReadWriteWeb — Skinni Popcorn is a new app we just saw. It integrates movie-related tweets, movie trailers, New York Times reviews (when available), and synopses of films, all in a mobile-friendly app that looks great on an iPhone. Created by digital shop mN, Skinni Popcorn was created because "sometimes you just quickly want to know 'is this film worth seeing?'" according to the website. Also, the creators think that people enjoy reading mini-reviews from real people in addition to the opinions of film critics. All of this information is packaged in a concise, easily digestible format and seems to work well ...

Skinni Popcorn. Best use of Twitter for Movie Reviews yet.
The Next Web — SkinniPopcorn is oh so very cool. Cleverly designed, easy to ‘get’ and twitter at its core. The homepage shows three main sections; now showing, top box office and most talked about (the number of mentions a movie had had on Twitter). Each movie has its own ...

Why I'm Not Posting This Week
Techland — ... " I think one way you can view the violence is an effort by the Taliban to intimidate people from actually voting. " Secretary of State HILLARY CLINTON, on the violence in Kabul on the eve of Afghanistan's presidential elections More Quotes Today in Pictures [image] Wiiiiiiiings More News from CNN 'Runway' and Klum stay in fashion Katey Sagal: Peg Bundy to motorcycle mama Madeleine Peyroux looks deep inside from Rotten Tomato Exclusive: Inglourious Basterds - The Cast Discuss Their Characters RT on ...

Twitter Effect's Power Overstated when it Comes to Making and Breaking Movies
ReadWriteWeb — ... But was Twitter really the impetus behind the movie's success? According to Matt Atchity, editor in chief of News Corp.-owned review site Rotten Tomatoes, the answer to this question would be "no." He thinks Twitter's influence is being overhyped and overrated. In a recent ...

The Prisoner
Techland — ... after the actor challenged Australian newspaper reporter Annette Sharp to a bicycle-riding duel because she mocked a picture of him smoking and eating on a bike ride. Crowe says he has also taken director Luhrmann for a ride in the past More Quotes Today in Pictures [image] The Weight More News from CNN Michael Jackson reaches his 'final resting place' Susan Boyle tops Amazon.com chart Alter egos on 'Real Housewives' from Rotten Tomato RT Visits the Set of Cemetery Junction Tomorrow series finds its star ...

Vudu on Blu-Ray, Rotten Tomatoes on Vudu
Technologizer — ... The company also announced that Vudu has now integrated Rotten Tomatoes movie reviews into its service’s slick user interface, providing access to a much richer database of critiques as you browse for stuff to watch. ...

Don't Bother Me, I'm Making Vast Unsupported Generalizations
Techland — ... The Curious Capitalist Tuned In VG Cats WilWheaton.net Wired XKCD Archive [image] October 2009 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 More News from Our Partners CNN 'Where the Wild Things Are' gets it right Sad night for Atlanta 'Housewives' '30 Rock' still brings the laughs Rotten Tomato Wolverine Creator Len Wein Talks About the Film Critics Consensus: Where the Wild ...

Now everyone can really be a movie critic – without knowing it
The Inquisitr » Technology — ... I don’t get out much so going to the movies isn’t high on my wife or my list of things to do so we’re not ones to pay much attentions to movie ratings. That doesn’t mean that other folks are the same as sites like RottenTomatos.com can attest to with lots of people adding their votes to the list. ...

A Look At All The Sites Owned By Rupert Murdoch That 'Steal' Content
Techdirt — ... remind us that Murdoch's News Corp. owns IGN, which has a variety of properties, including the ever popular RottenTomatoes movie review aggregation site. Yes, the entire site is based on "parasiting" (according to Murdoch) movie reviews off of every other site, and pulling them all together: Good thing Murdoch is planning on working on ways to get the court to ban that sort of "fair use." ...

Is Rupert Murdoch Is A Hypocrite?
Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — ... . News Corporation also owns IGN which has many websites that “steal” content from other websites such as RottenTomatoes. And I am sure that there are many other examples. ...

FlixUp Is Rotten Tomatoes For Twitter Movie Talk
TechCrunch — Rotten Tomatoes is a great site because it takes all the movie reviews from around the web and condenses them into an easy-to-understand aggregate score. But let’s be honest: Most movie reviewers suck. Why not instead rely on people in your social circle to recommend movies to you? That’s the idea behind FlixUp. This new iPhone app unveiled at our Realtime CrunchUp event in San Francisco today essentially scans Twitter for what people are saying about a movie and shows you a rating based on that. It can return a general score from across Twitter, or the tweets about the movie from ...

Is the Leonard Maltin Movie Guide app ready for its closeup?
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Filed under: iPhone, iPod touch, App ReviewLong before people went to the Internet for film information, movie buffs annually bought the latest revisions of huge paperback books like The Leonard Maltin Movie Guide and Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever. These were, and are, massive reference books; the current version of Maltin comes in at 1664 pages, and the current version of Videohound at 1700 pages. You needed a strong coffee table to hold these massive tomes. Today there are many ways to get movie reviews, with IMDb and Rotten ...

Exclusive: MySpace Eyes Flixster for Acquisition
BoomTown — ... Sources said such a deal is not immediately imminent, but that MySpace has been conducting extensive due diligence on the San Francisco-based Flixster, part of a plan to combine it with Rotten Tomatoes, another News Corp.-owned site run by its IGN Entertainment division. ...

Flixup Brings Its Movie Tweet Aggregator To The Web For The Holiday Movie Season
TechCrunch — At our Realtime CrunchUp in November, Bazaar Labs showed off their iPhone application Flixup, which scans Twitter to create aggregate scores for movies. Tonight, just in time for the busy Christmas movie-going season, they’re launching the website for the service. The website works just like the app. The main page shows the “Top Movies” based on the amount of talk on Twitter. For example, right now Avatar leads the pack by far. Flixup’s Buzz meter also shows if the talk about the movie is positive (green), neutral (yellow), or negative (red). Avatar is ...

FlixUp bringing its movie Twitter tracker to the web
VentureBeat — ... Bazaar Labs, the San Francisco startup that created FlixUp, released an iPhone app earlier this month, and today it launched the FlixUp website. The company compares the app to Rotten Tomatoes, the site that aggregates (mostly professional) movie reviews. There are other review aggregators out there (I’m a big fan of ...

Flixster Acquires Rotten Tomatoes
ReadWriteWeb — Flixster just announced that it has acquired Rotten Tomatoes, the popular movie review site, from IGN Entertainment. IGN is a division of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Flixster is one of the world's most popular movie communities and currently features about 2.3 billion user ratings and reviews from its users. Rumors about this acquisition first surfaced in late December, when Kara Swisher first reported that a potential acquisition of Flixster by MySpace would hinge upon a merger of Rotten Tomatoes and Flixster. Sponsor The financial terms of ...

UGC Buys Out the Critics: Flixster Acquires Rotten Tomatoes
NewTeeVee — ... the authoritative online movie review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes from News Corp. The acquisition gives News Corp, via its subsidiary IGN Entertainment, a minority stake in Flixster, which operates movie trivia and fan review applications on social networks and mobile devices. ...

News Corp. Unloads Rotten Tomatoes Onto Flixster
TechCrunch — News Corp is unloading more of its digital assets. This time it’s the movie review site Rotten Tomatoes, which is being acquired by startup Flixster, which has the most popular movie app for the iPhone and other mobile devices. The purchase price was not disclosed, but it was at least in part a stock transaction. News Corp now owns a minority stake in Flixster, which has only raised a total of $7 million in venture capital. Flixster already shows Rotten Tomato reviews and ratings within its iPhone app (you can contrast the ...

Flixster Buys Film Rating Site
WebProNews Feed — ... Both Flixster and Rotten Tomatoes will continue to be available to Internet users as individual properties. The combination of Flixster and Rotten Tomatoes reaches a global audience of 30 million monthly visitors across a number of platforms, including their websites, social networks and via apps for mobile devices. ...

News Corp. Sells Rotten Tomatoes Movie Review Site To Flixter
BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily — ... the Rotten Tomatoes movie ratings web site of its IGN Entertainment unit to the movie-focused social networking site ...

Breakfast briefing: The Guardian heads to CES - but a pitstop for Google
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — ... Rotten Tomatoes to rival Flixster. It's the latest in a series of relatively quiet moves that have left News Corp with a much smaller digital ...

Flixster Eats Up Rotten Tomatoes
Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — Social movie website Flixster.com encourages users to share movie ratings and write reviews. Earlier this week Flixster acquired another movie reviews website RottenTomatoes.com. RottenTomatoes.com was owned by IGN Entertainment which is a subsidiary of News Corporation. Last month ...

Facebook Roundup: Privacy, FTC, LivingSocial, Causes, AdNectar, Zoosk, Virtual Suicides Blocked and Bras
Inside Facebook — ... quiz and updating the FBI Most Wanted iPhone app. The video widget allows users to embed the FBI’s videos in their pages and blogs, the quiz allows users to determine what FBI career would best suit them and the iPhone app features the FBI’s most wanted list, as well as news about breaking crime stories and a geo-locator for their nearest office. Flixster Acquires Rotten Tomatoes – Flixster, Inc. turned its partnership with movie review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes into a business deal this week, when it acquired Rotten Tomatoes. Now, ...

Critical Mass: Online Pundits Weigh In On The iPad (humor)
iSmashPhone - Turn your Phone into your MyPhone — ... decided to take a tip from the Rotten Tomatoes film-review aggregater site and poll the Interwebs for critical consensus of the new iPad, either yea or nay.  They quote from some of the Usual Suspects (Mashable, Techradar, Yahoo Tech -- but not iSmashPhone, dammit!) and pretty much concur that, in its v1.0 incarnation, the new tablet is more sizzle than steak :-) ...

Flixster continues rapid growth with new $12.5M
VentureBeat — A little over a month after it gobbled up primary competitor Rotten Tomatoes, Flixster, a social-networking site for movie enthusiasts, has landed $12.5 million in a new round of equity and common stock, according to a filing with the SEC. The San Francisco company has already been growing fast, but the new money could kick it up another notch. The January Rotten Tomatoes acquisition came at an opportune time. Flixster was looking to expand its market share, and News Corp., Rotten Tomatoes’ parent company, was looking to purge subsidiaries that were not so relevant to ...

State of the Art: Vudu Drops Box for Improved Movie Service
NYT > Technology — We like to think of ourselves as rational creatures. But if that’s true, why do we eat stuff we know isn’t good for us, fall for people who treat us badly and text while we drive? And for heaven’s sake, why is the movie industry so determined not to make money? Hollywood executives seem determined not to sell what the world really wants: any movie, any time. DVDs are “any movie,” but not “any time.” Movies from the Internet are “any time,” but not “any movie,” thanks to the industry’s self-defeating system of rights and availability windows. (You know: a movie plods first to hotel rooms, then pay-per-view, then airplanes, ...