4-Minute Roundup: Google TV Disrupts; Facebook Passes Google

This episode of 4MR is brought to you by the Knight Digital Media Center, providing a spectrum of training for the 21st century journalist. Find out more at \"KDMC's website\":http://bit.ly/knightdigital. It's also underwritten by GoDaddy, helping you set up your own website in a snap with domain name registration, web hosting and 24/7 support. Visit \"GoDaddy\":http://www.godaddy.com/mediashift?utm_source=4MR_5Across&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=GoDaddy to learn more.\n\nHere's the latest 4MR audio report from MediaShift. In this week's edition, I look at Google TV, the new alliance between Google, Intel, Sony and Logitech to create a new TV or set-top box that will finally connect the TV with the Net in a simple way. Plus, Facebook last week surpassed Google in traffic for the U.S., according to Experian Hitwise, and Facebook referrals to news sites were more loyal visitors than referrals from Google News or the Google search engine. And I asked Just One Question to Time magazine TV critic James Poniewozik, getting his take on Google TV.\n\nCheck it out:\n\n\n\n

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\n\n>>> \"Subscribe to 4MR\":http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/audio_podcast.xml <<<\n\n>>> \"Subscribe to 4MR via iTunes\":itpc://www.pbs.org/mediashift/audio_podcast.xml <<<\n\nListen to my entire interview with James Poniewozik:\n\n\n\nBackground music is \"What the World Needs\" by the \"The Ukelele Hipster Kings\":http://www.mevio.com/music/?artist_id=1930 via PodSafe Music Network. \n\nHere are some links to related sites and stories mentioned in the podcast:\n\n\"Google and Partners Seek TV Foothold\":http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/technology/18webtv.html at NY Times\n\n\"Google TV Should Finally Push Apple TV Beyond A Hobby\":http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/18/google-tv-apple-tv/ at TechCrunch\n\n\"It's Official - Facebook Rules the Web\":http://www.pcworld.com/article/191635/its_official_facebook_rules_the_web.html at PC World\n\n\"Facebook surpasses Google in weekly traffic\":http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_14698296 at San Jose Mercury News\n\n\"How Facebook overtook Google to be the top spot on the Internet\":http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2010/03/17/how-facebook-overtook-google-to-be-the-top-spot-on-the-internet/ at Fortune Brainstormtech\n\n\"Facebook edges past Google for weekly traffic\":http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/techchron/detail?entry_id=59202 at SFGate's Tech Chronicles\n\n\"Facebook Visitors Come Back Again and Again\":http://weblogs.hitwise.com/us-heather-hopkins/2010/03/facebook_visitors_come_back_ag.html at Hitwise blog\n\n\"If You Tell Them On Facebook, They Will Come...Again and Again\":http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/if_you_tell_them_on_facebook_they_will_comeagain_a.php at ReadWriteWeb\n\n\"The Google giant begins to topple\":http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/58737 at Network World\n\nCheck out some of our write-in answers to last week's poll question about what people thought about geo-location services such as Foursquare:\n\n

\n\nAlso, be sure to vote in our poll about what you think about your cable or satellite service:\n\n\n\n\nMark Glaser is executive editor of MediaShift and \"Idea Lab\":http://www.pbs.org/idealab. He also writes the bi-weekly OPA Intelligence Report email newsletter for the \"Online Publishers Association\":http://www.online-publishers.org. He lives in San Francisco with his son Julian. You can follow him on Twitter \"@mediatwit\":http://www.twitter.com/mediatwit.\n\nThis episode of 4MR is brought to you by the Knight Digital Media Center, providing a spectrum of training for the 21st century journalist. Find out more at \"KDMC's website\":http://bit.ly/knightdigital. It's also underwritten by GoDaddy, helping you set up your own website in a snap with domain name registration, web hosting and 24/7 support. Visit \"GoDaddy\":http://www.godaddy.com/mediashift?utm_source=4MR_5Across&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=GoDaddy to learn more.