Intertainment
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Intertainment is a method of delivering "traditional" entertainment media through the Internet.
The characteristics of Intertainment would include high-quality content optimized for Internet Broadcasting, Narrowcasting, and On-Demand delivery. This revolutionary communications medium by-passes traditional distribution barriers, thus allowing a direct audience connection.
The term was first used in 1993 with the formation of the company INTERTAINMENT Media Concepts & Licensing GmbH. "Creating Internet Entertainment" (Jeannie Novak & Pete Markiewicz, 1996) was first to define Intertainment as internet entertainment. In 1996, James Tadewald wrote a business plan for internet kiosk services while attending the Post MBA/MIM program at Thunderbird, School of Global Management and trademarked Intertainment TM (USA). In 1998, J.C. Diaz' MBA thesis described the first global Intertainment company, iNTERTAINMENT.NETWORK inc., as an internationally interactive entertainment network and broadcast communications gateway. In 2003, Whatis.com defined Intertainment as the e-business initiative that encouraged shopping malls and other public places to provide visitors with free high-speed Internet access. In 2004, Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang said interactive entertainment services or "intertainment" "is mainstream media for a lot of people," "for the next generation, this is their media."
Forms of Intertainment would include:
- Traditional: music, broadcasting, film, publishing, visual art & performance
- Recreational: cybercafes, gaming, sports, travel & personals
- New: exploratory fiction, collaborative arts, tele-operation, chat rooms, multiplayer games, virtual worlds and advertainment
- Usenet, one of the original decentralized, distributed discussion group architectures.
- BBS: The WELL, GEnie, Dead Runners Society, The Meta Network
- Academic: EIES, USENET
- Blog: LiveJournal, Xanga, MySpace, Facebook, Blogger
- Webcomic: UserFriendly, Penny Arcade, Sluggy Freelance, Ctrl+Alt+Del
- Virtual world/city: LucasFilm's Habitat, Second Life, Millsberry, Red Light Center, IMVU
- IM: ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, AIM
- IRC: EFNet
- MMORPG: EverQuest, Final Fantasy XI, RuneScape, World of Warcraft, Silk Road Online
- MOO: LambdaMOO
- Mososo: Dodgeball, Meetro
- MUD/MUSH: TinyMUD
- P2P: Kazaa, Morpheus, Napster, Limewire
- Wiki: Wikipedia, WikiWikiWeb, Wetpaint, PBWiki
- WWW: eBay, GeoCities, Slashdot, Digg
