A cross-between a game and a personal content manager, MSNBC's NEWSBREAKER is certainly 'breaking' new ground, pun intended...blogged by Joyce Schwarz, Hollywood2020.blogs.com. 
msnbc's Newsbreaker-- multi-colored --part game/part personal content manager....shades of Pointcast for the web 3.0 crowd...
NEWSBREAKER MOVES INTO THEATRES....breaks monotony of pre-movie ads/promos...Here's the first graph of MSNBC's press release which explains the app which has gone into local movie theatres....Explore the Works of Bob Bejan
| Explore the Works of Bob Bejan. Explore the Works of Bob Bejan. Writer: Bob Bejan. I'm Your Man (1992). Director: Bob Bejan ... www.amazon.com/gp/imdb/actor/nm0067335 - 33k - Supplemental Result - |
Redmond, Wash. - May 7, 2007 - Msnbc.com liberates movie audiences from the out-of-date trivia, static billboards and the impatience of waiting for the summer blockbusters to begin with NewsBreaker Live, the first in-theater, audience participatory video game. Modeled after classic video games, NewsBreaker Live combines live msnbc.com RSS newsfeeds, the movement of the audience as a human joystick, and the big screen as a game board to bust audiences out of their pre-movie doldrums with an interactive game that delivers real-time news headlines to kick start the moviegoing experience.04-02-07: MSNBC.com launches 'A Fuller Spectrum of News' Brand ...
| "NewsBreaker," an online RSS-fed game developed with Fuel Industries, will allow the consumer to interact with the day's headlines from msnbc.com in a ... www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17912203/ - 37k - |
Wonder what my long time pals like Bob Bejan from Interfilm Inc. would say about this-- they were the ones who created an interactive movie called "I'm Your Man" in 1992 that encouraged audiences to use retrofitted pistol grips to vote on the endings of movies and even which movie they were going to see...(you can actually buy the DVD version of this
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