Wondering what Boardistan.com is going to look like on the new Apple iPad? It’s going to look just like this. Click here for more.
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Looks like Funny Feelings LLC founder Jeff Galbraith is learning to let go as Colin Wiseman, the former Managing Editor of frequency: The Snowboarder’s Journal has been promoted to editor of both the magazine and the website.
Beginning with his internship in 2007, Colin has proven to be an integral part of our growth and creative quality,” said previous Editor and current Publisher Jeff Galbraith. “His passion for freeriding, quality journalism, and the culture of snowboarding make him a perfect choice to lead frequency TSJ’s editorial into its next decade.”
Congrats to everyone involved. We’re guessing Jeff just wanted to spend a little more time on his new baby: The Flyfish Journal. Follow the jump for all the details.
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Verizon Wireless has signed on as title sponsor of Fuel TV’s Daily Habit according to a press release.
Aside from “branding in all show graphics, as well as online banners and a unique brand page on the FUEL TV website” the company is also buying lots of coverage for their athletes.
Many of Verizon Wireless’ sponsored athletes will appear on “The Daily Habit,” including surfer, musician, and “Drive Thru” star Donavon Frankenreiter; surfer and “New Pollution” host Matt Beacham; surfer Sterling Spencer; freestyle motocross rider and three-time X Games Gold Medalist Kyle Loza, six-time X Games Medalist Todd Potter; three-time X Games Silver Medalist and 2008 Red Bull X-Fighters Series champion Mat Rebeaud; legendary skateboarder Omar Hassan; two-time X Games Gold Medalist and three-time AST Dew Tour winner BMX pro Daniel Dhers, and others.
We’re having a hard time getting used to the new face of sponsored editorial, but it looks like it’s here to stay.
[Link: Fiercewireless]
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Kind of crazy that with all the drama surround the US Snowboard Grand Prix Olympic Qualifiers that it’s taken until the last event in Park City, Utah to get a live Internet feed rolling. Now, thanks to Fuel TV, we can all see the final stop of the Olympic qualifying series Saturday January 23, 2010 at 5:30 PM PT.
Seems like doing more of these live web events would be good for Fuel’s business, doesn’t it? Follow the jump for the official start list.
[Link: Fuel TV]
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Bridge to Terabithia star Anna Sophia Robb is staring as Bethany Hamilton in a bio-pic titled Soul Surfer which tells the story of a surfer girl who gets her arm bitten off by a shark while surfing, according to celebrifi. Another blog, The Boot adds the following info:
One of the actors in the film, Kevin Sorbo shared information about Carrie being cast in the film via Twitter: “Name of movie is ‘soul surfer.’ touching story. i will be starring with dennis quaid, helen hunt, carrie underwood, anna sophia robb,” he writes.
Shooting starts January 25, 2010 on Oahu.
[Link: celebrifi and The Boot]
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Zinio, one of the first companies to put secure PDF versions online in a nearly unusable format, has just released an iPhone app that will allow Transworld Skateboarding digital magazine subscribers ($6.97) to stumble through a digital version of the mag on their iPhones.
Zinio’s CEO spares no hyperbole in his description:
“In one fell swoop, Zinio is mobilizing the entire publishing industry and moving it light years ahead,” said Rich Maggiotto, President & CEO, Zinio. “While many publishers are battling digital distribution with a platform-by-platform approach, Zinio has announced ‘Unity’ for consumers to explore and enjoy reading digitally regardless of their device from anywhere in the world.”
One fell swoop? It’s like magic for magazines. Who doesn’t love magic? There is one very cool function, however. It is called “read mode” and it makes it possible to view a “text-only” version of the magazine which can save loads of frustration with the magazine layouts.
After cruising around a magazine issue with the Zinio app ourselves we have to say it is smooth-running, nicely designed, and easy to use. In fact, it’s probably the best “digital magazine reader” we’ve tried so far.
Follow the jump for all the details.
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Looks like the crew behind Bangmaster General’s Warning have completed their first feature film Machotaildrop featuring Steve Olson, Rick McCrank, and others. Sadly we haven’t seen it yet, but appears to be epic in a seriously jacked up way.
[Link: Thrasher Mag]
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Factory Media, the parent company of Onboard, Whitelines, Kingpin, Cooler, Sidewalk, Surf Europe, and the Surfer’s Path (along with others) has fully committed to the iPhone app market with 13 different apps representing their media properties, according to a release issued today.
Users will be able to download a free trial of the magazine when they download one of the Apps from apples iTunes App store. They will then be push notified when new magazines and offers are available allowing them to purchase individual magazines or subscriptions, as well as back issues. . . The App comes with interactive page flipping, where pages follow your fingers and a zoom feature, which overcomes the inherent problem of reading magazines on the mobile devices.
The magazine apps were created in partnership with Pixel Mags. We’re found most magazine apps to be almost unuseable and annoying for all kinds of reasons, but maybe Pixel Mags has done these right. Follow the jump for all the details.
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With BNQT Media Group USA Today and its parent Gannett Co. have quietly snuck up on mainstream action sports advertising by aggregating some of the ad sales of smaller blogs and websites into one large platform. For better or worse, this brings mainstream advertisers like Ball Park Franks, Dial Soap, and KMart-Sears and their money to smaller blogs
Formerly called the Cold War Collective, BNQT Media Group now represents 50 sites including like Surfline.com, Surfersvillage.com, Snowboard-Mag.com, Concretedisciples.com, and Freecaster.tv. While the 50-50 revenue share may not be that attractive to some online publishers, 50 percent of something is often better than 100 percent of nothing.
The only reason we’re mentioning is that they’ve just relaunched their website and it gives a much clearer vision of what President Rudd Davis and crew have been building for the past five years.
“BNQT Media Group has been very fortunate that an exceptional amount of our business has been generated from positive word of mouth,” explains Rudd Davis, president of BNQT Media Group. “But we’ve grown so rapidly that it was necessary to give our current and prospective clients an online resource to get up-to-date information on our services, capabilities and continued expansion.”
Check it out.
[Link: BNQT Media Group]
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Somehow we missed Tony Hawk as an over-eager Dive & Surf shop employee on the CBS show I Get That A Lot. Here are some out-takes.
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