Digital Media Bytes: Last100 Edition

A periodic roundup of relevant news… from our friends at Last100:

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Netflix beats Hulu to secure “South Park” episodes
“There was no talk of ad splits or guarantees or advances, just a payment for a show Netflix seemed really happy to have,” Matt Stone, co-creator of South Park, tells NYT. “We’ve never given the show to anybody else to stream, but we like Netflix as a service. We use it.”

What Kindle on iPhone says about Amazon’s eBook strategy
Amazon is publicly pitching its iPhone app as being complementary to the Kindle rather than competing directly against it. And in some ways this is true. There’s a high degree of synergy between the Kindle experience on either device.

How I replaced Apple’s MobileMe at half the price
I’ve finally dumped Apple’s MobileMe web service in favor of a more cost effective and flexible solution. Spanning Sync + SugarSync works out at half the price of MobileMe, and is a lot more device agnostic.

Five things I like about Nokia’s N85 smartphone
The N85 has a very decent stills camera for a phone- 5 megapixel with Carls Zeiss optics - but it’s the video recording functionality that I’m enjoing most. Picture quaity is really good, especially for web video.

 

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