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Entertainment on the Web (5/12/2000)

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Up until now the Web has been mostly used for finding information, doing research, chatting, and exchanging email. But now the Web is challenging television as a primary entertainment medium. A look at new Web sites that offer movies, videos, music, and cartoons. Originally broadcast in 2000 from the Club I internet cafe in San Francisco.

This movie is part of the collection: Net Cafe

Keywords: shockwave; entertainment; atomfilms
Contact Information: stewart@cheifet.com

Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs

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Atomfilms.com
As the pioneer in streaming film distribution, AtomFilms.com buys high quality short films and offers them to audiences over the Web. By making deals with content providers such as the producers of the animated Wallace an Grommet series and the famous USC film school, Atomfilms is racing to distinguish itself from other online film distributors.

ShareYourWorld.com
Now there's a site where you can share your home movie with anyone who has a web browser, and at the same time offer it for sale to anyone who might be interested in using it.

Spiderdance
In collaboration with MTV's "webRIOT", Spiderdance is creating the infrastructure to link the worlds of online and TV entertainment. webRIOT is a music trivia game show where Internet users can play along with the TV in a real-time sync-to-broadcast experience.

Anteye.com
Unlike some streaming sites, Anteye gives anyone a voice on the Web. They claim that if you shoot it they will stream it - everyone gets the chance to make it big and have their five minutes of fame, and have members vote on it's popularity. Films with lots of votes get to be in a top 20 list on the front page and in top 20's for each of the genre categories that films are separated into.

Shockwave.com
Shockwave.com is fast becoming the site to beat in online entertainment. The site offers both high and low bandwidth entertainment streams and a variety of ways of being entertained. You can play games, send fun greeting cards, play and play with music, and you can watch short films.