That’s right, this coming week your TV will transform into so much more with social networking, music, and movies come alive on your Xbox 360. Facebook, Twitter, and Zune video will launch November 17th, on Xbox Live.
Most exciting is instant-on HD video from Zune to be available to Xbox 360 consoles. “We’re delivering some truly exciting social entertainment experiences to our members,” said Marc Whitten, Xbox Live general manager. “Xbox Live’s differentiator has always been our community, and we’ve already seen a tremendous response to these features in our public preview.”
As well, Xbox Live will be debuting a music games store specifically for games such as Lips, Guitar Hero, and Rock Band.
I am excited!
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After the hit gambling movie “21,” Kevin Spacey is once again teaming up with author Ben Mezrich to produce “The Social Network,” an adaptation of the the new book “The Accidental Billionaires.” The book tells the story of Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg.
There have been rumours that actors including “Transformers” star Shia Labeouf, Canadian Michael Cera and “I Love You, Beth Cooper’s” Paul Rust are up for the lead role. However, in an interview with MTV News, Spacey set the record straight and said no one has read for the part.
“I can’t imagine anyone’s read for it because we haven’t really announced the director…So I don’t think anyone’s read for it. Maybe in their fantasy they’ve auditioned for it,” he told MTV News.
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Majesco Entertainment Company, a mass-market video game provider, announced today that the popular anagram game Bananagrams will be available August 18 as a free Facebook application. Developed by Large Animal Games, Bananagrams is a board game with an ‘every-player-for-themselves’ approach for fast-paced puzzle play.
The object of Bananagrams is to create as many words as quickly as possible from one initial batch of pre-selected tiles. There are no ‘turns’ is Bananagrams – all players simultaneously play to form interconnected words. Once all the tiles in the batch are used, the player who was able to get rid of all their tiles first wins. Think Scrabble, but faster and with no time to whip out a dictionary.
Facebook users will have the option to play alone or online against up to eight friends. The game will also have two single player modes where players compete against time to beat their own or their friend’s beat times. Both multi-player and single player options will allow users to chat online during game play and compare results via the Bananagrams Leaderboard.
“And now, entering the political ring at 6″7 and 350 lbs., and weighing in at approximately $15 billion…FACEBOOK!” While the above is clearly my personal dramatization, it’s nevertheless true: Facebook is a co-sponsor of the U.S. presidential debate in New Hampshire.
Though it won’t be the first tech-company to get in on the 2008 election action—Google was co-sponsor of two YouTube presidential debates in July 2007 (Democrats) and November 2007 (Republicans)—its involvement in the upcoming debate is not without controversy.
As reported by Declan McCullagh on a CNET.com news blog, while the YouTube/CNN debates were relatively inclusive, Saturday’s Facebook/WMUR/ABC debates will likely be fairly exclusive. The debate is receiving criticism because in spite of the inevitable shortening of the candidate list (indeed, iconic fan favourite Stephen Colbert is one of several who have already dropped out voluntarily), a number of candidates likely will be barred from participating even before the New Hampshire primary takes place on January 8.
The only thing that can be said with any certainty at this point is that while the YouTube/Facebook debates represent a new trend in a decades-long tradition of media organizations sponsoring such debates, it is still too early to gauge whether or not the benefits of such involvements will outweigh their costs.
Remember the first time you heard about Facebook? Putting your pictures, contact information and personal interests up online for all to see. Tagging. Poking. Sounded bizarre, voyeuristic even. But now, you can’t log off. You’re hooked.
Admit it.
Well RIM has introduced a whole new way to “book.” RIM, also known as Research in Motion, has teamed up with Facebook to give users of the popular social network service quicker access on their BlackBerry Smartphones.
Mike Lazaridis, the founder of Research In Motion, joined Facebook’s co-founder Dustin Moskovitz in San Francisco today to formally reveal Facebook for BlackBerry Smartphones.
“Facebook is one of the fastest growing web destinations among BlackBerry Smartphone users and it has become an important element in the evolving fabric of personal communications,” said Lazaridis in a statement.
“Facebook and RIM share a vision for enhanced mobile communications and social networking based on open, standards-based platforms and this has allowed us to produce a rich mobile application for Facebook users that leverages the push-based architecture, multimedia features and industry-leading usability of the BlackBerry solution.”
