TechCrunch
Netflix has come up with a new way for users to save a list of movies and TV shows they want to watch later. As TechCrunch reports, The “My List” feature lets uses click the ‘Add To My List’ button in a video’s description, and then it will be added to a group of titles they can come back to and watch later.
AllThingsD
Google is considering buying the rights to the NFL’s Sunday Ticket package, an all-inclusive subscription-TV service presently owned by DirecTV. The DirecTV deal ends at the end of the 2014 NFL season, which, as AllThingD points out, “would mean it would make sense for the league to start talking to potential bidders now.”
9to5Mac
Determined to make watch-like smartphones the next great gadget craze, Apple has brought in Jay Blahnik to work on the company’s so-called iWatch. Along with being “a globally recognized fitness expert,” 9To5Mac reports that Blahnik served as an instrumental consultant in the development of several Nike fitness products, including Nike+ Kinect training, and the FuelBand.
Gigaom
Despite its best efforts to adapt, Barnes & Noble continues to struggle in the digital age. Rounding out another sad quarterly earnings report, Nook revenues crumbled 20.2%, while the company’s retail segment -- which includes BN.com -- saw revenues slide 9.9% year-over-year.
The New York Times
Beginning in 2016, Netflix will become the exclusive subscription television outlet for Weinstein movies, the companies announced on Tuesday. “Netflix already shows foreign films and some others from Weinstein under an earlier deal between the companies,” The New York Times notes.
AllThingsD
Google on Tuesday rolled out its first Waze integrations since buying the mapping service for more than $1 billion in June. “The traffic tab on Google Maps for iOS and Android will now include notifications of accidents, construction, road closures and other incidents reported by Waze users,” AllThingsD reports. “Meanwhile, the Waze app now supports Google search, and Waze map editors will have access to Google Street View and satellite imagery.”
The Verge
If nothing else, Google Glass could help marketers figure out which ads are catching consumers’ eyes. Yes, Google was just granted a patent for "pay-per-gaze" advertising, which, as The Verge reports, “would employ a Google Glass-like eye sensor in order to identify when consumers are looking at advertisements in the real world and online.”
The Hollywood Reporter
What does it take to break the world record for tweets-per-second? If you’re a Japanese TV network, getting viewers of a classic anime to tweet a magic word ("balus"), which they believe triggers a spell of destruction when said by characters at the film's climax. Fans of the film, Hayao Miyazaki just set a new record of 143,199 tweets per second (TPS), according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Variety
Hoping to improve its Hollywood ties, Twitter has brought in Jennifer Prince, Google’s former head of media and entertainment ad sales. As Variety reports, Prince “plans to hire a sales team to widen Twitter’s coverage of movies and TV and possibly expand into the videogame biz.”
Marketing Land
LinkedIn on Monday launched University pages and an Education section designed to help students compare colleges, majors and even alumni. “As of today, LinkedIn will no longer simply be about professionals,” Marketing Land writes. “It will now cover the full path from student, to college to their post-degree careers.”