Instructional-video site 5min announced on Monday that it has partnered with Scripps Networks to offer programing from the broadcast company on its site. Scripps Networks owns television brands HGTV, Food Network, DIY Network, and Fine Living Network, among others.
Under the deal, Scripps plans to distribute some of its video content from its home and food channels to 5min. Scripps is currently offering content on topics ranging from work around the home to meal preparation.
As with any partnership, there is a financial side to this deal. According to the companies, Scripps will start offering its advertisers the opportunity to target 5min users through its Home and Food pages.
5min will also provide its content to Scripps Network sites. The companies didn't divulge which videos will be offered, but it did say that it would syndicate "contextually relevant" content to the company's sites.
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There's something quite sad when people fall out over Internet porn.
However, relationships do not appear to be anywhere closer to a consummated hug at Ireland's Green Isle Foods pizza-making plant.
Should you not have been arrested by this pulsating tale, Green Isle Foods dismissed three workers after accusing them of enjoying Internet porn on the job. Thirty-five pizza-producing people went on strike. This was five weeks ago.
Now, according to the Leinster Leader, the workers are trying to seduce the management into some making up and kissing.
In my mind, this pizza represents the fractious relationships at Green Isle.
(Credit: CC Kevitivity/Flickr)The Technical, Engineering and Electrical Union, which represents the workers, has offered a visit to the local Irish sex therapist, otherwise termed the Labor Court.
Management is playing rather hard to get. It has already refused to bare the other cheek by communicating with the union through the Irish Labor Relations Commission.
And now, a Green Isle Foods spokesman dismissed union efforts, telling the Leader that this is not an issue for group therapy.
"It (the company] will continue to interact with employees locally and directly to resolve the issue. In the meantime, operations remain as normal," he said.
I cannot possibly imagine who is making the pizzas if the workers and their highly sensitive dough-stroking fingers are outside picketing (and having pizzas delivered to them by sympathetic locals).
September 11, 2001, gave many people pause for thought. But how many can say that such a dark day made them want to cook?
That was the interesting claim made by Preeti Mistry, the 33-year-old executive chef with Google's Bon Appetit management company. She made her declaration on the latest episode of Bravo TV's "Top Chef," in which she was a contestant.
Was.
For Mistry was removed by the judges after serving a paltry pasta salad to the brave and hungry airmen and women at Nellis Air Force Base.
You see, the judges, led by the bald, lip-twitching Tom Colicchio (he of New York's Craft restaurant), weren't merely upset that she had prepared something that a bankrupt British public school might offer its pupils during a power outage.
They were distraught that, even when challenged, she thought the dish was good.
When all around her blanched at the blandness, Mistry was unbowed. So for her stubborn myopia, she had to hear the words that lead so many young chefs to tears, recriminations, Xanax and a job at the Outback Steakhouse: "Please pack your knives and go."
Mistry's reactions lay somewhere between blase and Buddhist. But she had already proved that she was incapable of shucking clams. Now here she was shirking criticism.
Regretfully, this was not the finest advertisement for the Google brand. Nor for the Google canteen.
After Woz's demise on ABC's "Dancing with the Stars," the tech world continues its search for a reality TV breakthrough.
It is a troubling situation, one that should surely be discussed at the highest levels.
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Thanks to a new agreement with pizza giant Domino's, owners of TiVo set-top boxes can now order food from the chain directly through their televisions, and even track delivery time so they know just when the pizza guy will be showing up to bring them a nice, tasty treat.
Oh, boy.
Here's the deal: when a Domino's ad or product placement shows up, TiVo users can click through with their remote controls to order pizza, or can access an on-demand ordering screen through a TiVo menu. It's similar in theory to the deals that TiVo has with Fandango for movie ticket ordering or with Amazon.com for ordering products related to TV shows, except that you get a pizza.
"This is the first time in history that the 'on-demand' generation will be able to fully experience couch commerce by ordering pizza directly through their television set," Rob Weisberg, Domino's vice president of marketing, said in a statement. "You'll see a television ad for Domino's, and you'll click, 'I want it' through your remote. In about 30 minutes, your pizza will show up at your door." And then you won't just be a couch potato, you'll be a Digital Age couch potato.
One thing you can't do: pay for the pizza through TiVo. That has to be done in cash when the pizza guy shows up.
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