Kinoma Notes

We had such a great time at gdgt live in San Fran­cisco last month that we’re doing it again this Tues­day night!

When: Tues­day, June 21st, 2011 from 7–10pm
Where: The Alt­man Build­ing, 135 West 18th Street, New York, NY
Who: Marvell’s Kinoma team + a bunch of the other hottest brands in tech.
How: This event is free, all-ages, and open to the public…invite your friends!

RSVP right here:

We’ll be show­ing off the next ver­sion of Kinoma Play on a giant touch-screen dis­play and talk­ing with mobile app devel­op­ers about the new Kinoma app platform.

Whether you’re a Kinoma Play fan, a devel­oper inter­ested in the new plat­form, or a mobile enthu­si­ast who wants to learn more, we hope to meet you there!

The spir­i­tual mother of shows like The Daily Show, The Onion is a pow­er­house of news par­ody and satire. When­ever you need a laugh, “America’s Finest News Source” is just sec­onds away in Kinoma Play.

The Onion’s come a long way from roots as a slim paper for Uni­ver­sity of Wisconsin–Madison stu­dents. Once The Onion intro­duced their web­site in the mid-90s, it soon because a cul­tural force. A Com­edy Cen­tral buy­out gave The Onion the abil­ity to bring their unique brand of humor to other medi­ums, includ­ing the Onion News Net­work and Onion News Radio that you can enjoy in Kinoma Play today.

In April 2009 The Onion was awarded a Peabody Award, which noted that “the satir­i­cal tabloid’s online send-up of 24-hour cable-TV news was hilar­i­ous, tren­chant and not infre­quently hard to dis­tin­guish from the real thing.”. In fact, wackos and the main­stream media alike have a his­tory of mis­tak­ing arti­cles from The Onion as actual news.

Sounds great! What’s available?

• 24 Hour News — Com­pletely unbi­ased report­ing of national and inter­na­tional fake news, this par­ody of 24-hour news chan­nels presents impor­tant sto­ries like, “Sources Warn Miley Cyrus Will Be Depleted By 2013″.
• A.V. Talk — The web’s smartest movie and tele­vi­sion review show, hosted by the edi­tors of Onion’s A.V. Club. With new episodes on Fri­day, A.V. Talk is your required view­ing for the weekend.
• A.V. Talk [Large] – A very-high-quality edi­tion of A.V. Talk, per­fect if you’re on Wi-Fi and have a fast device.
• In the Know — A par­ody of Sun­day morn­ing pun­dit shows where a cur­rent polit­i­cal event is exam­ined earnestly by a panel from com­pletely bizarre angles.
• Onion News Net­work — All videos by the Onion, includ­ing videos from The A.V. Club.
• The Onion Radio News — America’s Finest News Pod­cast, cov­er­ing sto­ries like, “Rich First-Grader Buys Whole Sheet Of Gold Stars”. Hosted by old-school (and fic­tional) news­caster Doyle Redland.
• Today Now! — A par­ody of morn­ing lifestyle and news pro­grams com­plete with smarmy, clue­less hosts, cov­er­ing human-interest sto­ries like, “Being A Detec­tive Who Talks To Ghosts Not As Excit­ing As TV”.

Where do I find it?

You can find The Onion in Kinoma Guide, in Providers > The Onion. Or, just search for “onion” or one of the shows above.

Enjoy!

As usual, this new Kinoma Guide con­tent is free for all Kinoma Play customers.

Are we miss­ing cool inter­net con­tent? Please take a few sec­onds to let us know! Just send links and short descrip­tions to content@kinoma.com and we’ll add them to Kinoma Guide for every­one to enjoy.

[Con­tent note: These shows are for grown-ups. Like Kevin Smith’s movies and Q&As, the SMod­cast Net­work shows use strong lan­guage and often have adult themes.]

It all started with a lit­tle pod­cast called SMod­cast. In 2007, film­maker Kevin Smith (the “S” in SMod­cast) per­suaded his long-time pro­ducer and friend Scott Mosier (the “M”) to join him in funny and can­did con­ver­sa­tions about life, pop cul­ture, fears (e.g. sharks) and dreams.

iTunes named it one of the best new pod­casts of the year.

Four years and 169 SMod­casts later, Smith now pre­sides over a mod­est pod­cast empire with a bunch of shows. Sev­eral were fea­tured on iTunes’ Best Pod­casts of 2010. The brand-new SMod­cast Inter­net Radio (S.I.R.) live broad­casts 4 hours of orig­i­nal pro­gram­ming per day.

And now you can now lis­ten to SMod­cast Net­work shows and S.I.R. in Kinoma Play.

Snoochie boochies!

In addi­tion to the live S.I.R. stream, these SMod­cast Net­work shows are now avail­able in Kinoma Guide:

• Bagged and Boarded – Matt Cohen, Bren­dan Creecy and guests pon­der and pon­tif­i­cate the finer points of exis­tence, includ­ing movies and comic books
• Blow Hard – Lis­ten weekly as the leg­endary blowhard Mal­colm Ingram threat­ens to remove a pinky, while Kevin holds the knife
• Hol­ly­wood Babble-On – There’s no busi­ness like Ho(llywood) busi­ness, as dis­cussed by Ralph Gar­man and Kevin Smith
• Jay & Silent Bob Get Old – Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith fight a los­ing bat­tle against adulthood
• Plus One – Kevin Smith Jedi-mind-tricked Jen­nifer Schwal­bach into mar­riage, and they talk about it here
• Puck Nuts – Hockey fans deal with the Dev­ils and the NHL
• Red State Of The Union Q&As – Learn about Kevin Smith’s hor­ror flick Red State direct from the filmmakers
• SMinter­view with @ThatKevinSmith – Inter­views with inter­est­ing people
• SMod­cast – Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier ARE…the orig­i­nal SModcast
• SMovieMak­ers – Kevin Smith talks with other filmmakers
• Tell ‘Em Steve Dave – Walt Flana­gan and Bryan John­son mut­ter and bicker, entertainingly

Plus, lis­ten to archives of these S.I.R. shows:

• Jay & Silent Bob Get Jobs [Archive] – Every day Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes broad­cast live with news, guests, and lis­tener calls. Lis­ten live daily at 10am PST/1pm EST on S.I.R.
• Plus One Per Diem [Archive] – Every morn­ing Kevin Smith and wife Jen Schwal­bach bring you a morn­ing show from their home. Lis­ten live daily at 8am PST/11am EST on S.I.R.

Where do I find it?

You’ll find SMod­cast Net­work shows and S.I.R. in Kinoma Guide > Enter­tain­ment & Com­edy > The SMod­cast Net­work.

Enjoy!

If you know have other favorite con­tent that we should include in Kinoma Guide, send links and short descrip­tions to content@kinoma.com and we’ll add them for every­one to enjoy.

Tomor­row is Super Bowl Sun­day. The cham­pi­onship game of the National Foot­ball League (NFL). The high­est level of pro­fes­sional foot­ball in the United States.

Peo­ple watch the Super Bowl for two things: (1) The game, and (2) the ads. And right now, you can watch, re-watch and share the com­mer­cials of Super Bowl XLV on your phone with Kinoma Play.

This year we’ve got even more Super Bowl com­mer­cials than we had last year — over 50 — and the game isn’t even until tomorrow.

Go to Kinoma Guide > Sports & Recre­ation > Super Bowl Com­mer­cials 2011 to enjoy these future classics:

• “The Force” — Already con­sid­ered a favorite, this spot fea­tures a pint-sized Darth Vader who uses (or at least tries to use) the Force.
• “Bum­ble­bee” — Seem­ingly ad for a local Al’s Chevy Deal­er­ship, until a car on the lot does some­thing unexpected.
• “Sev­er­ance Pack­age” — The sur­pris­ing things peo­ple will do to get fired for a sev­er­ance pack­age of “lite” beer.
• “One Epic Ride” — Let me know if you’ve heard this one before: A police­man, vil­lain, Posei­don, an alien and an ancient chief travel through space and time to get their hands on a car…
• “Miss Eve­lyn” — Two guys come up with the per­fect Camaro ad.
• A bunch of funny viewer-created ads (granted, some of these view­ers have mad skills) for Dori­tos and Pepsi MAX.
• Trail­ers and teasers for a upcom­ing movies, includ­ing Cow­boys and Aliens, Drive Angry 3D, Kung Fu Panda 2, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, J.J. Abrams’ Super 8, Thor, Trans­form­ers 3: Dark of the Moon.
• Lots of car ads, and much more!

Be sure to click “More” to see all of them, or just start the first and let ‘em roll. We’ll update the list as more ads become avail­able online.

As we count our bless­ings, we’d like to thank every­one for a won­der­ful 2010.

Thanks to our cus­tomers, because we lit­er­ally couldn’t do it with­out you.

Spe­cial thanks to every­one who has rec­om­mended Kinoma Play and helped out on var­i­ous forums. Your par­tic­i­pa­tion really makes a difference.

Finally, thanks to the blog­gers and jour­nal­ists who con­tinue to help us get the word about Kinoma Play. (And stay tuned, because we’re going to have some pretty big announce­ments for you this year.)

We hope you have an absolutely amaz­ing 2011!