Oy this is a doozy. Darren meets Joan on J-Date, the online dating service for Jewish singles. They go to dinner at China Grill in NYC (yummy, by the way). Darren pays for dinner, despite Joan’s offer to split the bill. When Joan doesn’t call him for a second date, ‘DarrenStalker'(tm) emerges, hounding her to pay half the bill. Wonderful recordings of his messages to her in the link that follows…
Ads for the Kiddies
I’m happy to say that we’ve succesfully moved our ad serving for Cartoonnetwork.com, sister sites CartoonnetworkYa.com (en espanol), TickleU.com (goo-goo) and AdultSwim.com (en slackerese). 
So please enjoy ads featuring pooting, meat beards, and boogers via our DoubleClick system. We’ve had a huge team including members in Atlanta, New York, Chicago and LA all working together to pull this off, and it’s come together nicely. Click here for the photogallery of images of the team in Atlanta.
C|Net: CNN.com getting jiggy with UGC
From a story on Sunday on C|Net, pointing out new move towards adding an outlet for ‘citizen journalism’ to the flagship CNN.com site, called CNN Exchange.
On Monday, CNN is expected to announce the launch of CNN Exchange, a page on the company’s Web site that will feature user-submitted video, audio and articles.
CNN snatching page out of YouTube’s book | CNET News.com
In other CNN news, they have also launched a new 3-minute free preview of live streams from the premium Pipeline product. Nice way to sample this cool service.
Maybe next time…
Although it was an honor to be an Emmy finalist, the CNN interactive television project I led for Dish Network called CNN Enhanced lost out to the entry from TiVo. Having never won an Emmy, Tivo was announced as the 2006 Emmy Award for outstanding achievement in enhanced television programming. This year’s Interactive Television Emmy Awards recognize original interactive television programming content, applications and services that have been deployed in the United States between June 1, 2005 and May 31, 2006 and that have demonstrated creative excellence.
Other finalists include AOL Music on Demand and DirecTV Interactive Sports. The awards will be presented at the Creative Arts Awards Ceremony at the Shrine Auditorium in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, August 19.
And while I won’t be getting a statue, I did take home a nice certificate for our project. As a special bonus, I was able to meet both Julie Brown (of Earth Girls are Easy and many other flicks) who was attending the AFI event with Richard Cardran of ZeTools and Sharon Lawrence (of NYPD Blue fame) who was the lead on one of the AFI’s recent Digital Content Lab projects.
I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that the groundbreaking business model shown by ABC was also honored in the new broadband category by the Academy. Their full-length, ad-supported video player (designed by the smart team at Schematic) was simple and elegant. There was also coverage on Engadget and Gizmodo – take a look there for more info.