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The Echo Nest Adds Twitter to Its Music Toolkit

A partnership announced today between The Echo Nest and Twitter makes it simple to incorporate the immediacy of tweets into a recording artist’s app, preserving the all-important data identifiers along the way.

Frequency Tailors Sit-Back Channels from Online Video

Personal video aggregation platform Frequency has made its formal debut, launching its first official consumer products. In addition to online and on iPad, and perhaps more interestingly, the Frequency app also will come packaged with Samsung’s line of Smart TVs.

Tom Hanks Brings Yahoo Its First Scripted Series

Tom Hanks’ animated series "Electric City" has found an exclusive home at Yahoo, in a deal that will be officially announced Jan. 10 at 2012 International CES by Hanks and Ross Levinsohn, Yahoo’s executive vice president Americas.

File Sharing Gets Personal with Share

A new service called Share enables people to send files of any size, free and as often as they like, to one or more specified people. It’s being offered to the public in open alpha from its developers, the folks at BitTorrent.

Burnett and Downey Partner on 'Bible' Companion App [with demo video]

Transmedia entertainment producer Mark Burnett and actor Roma Downey have partnered with Immersion Digital and Zondervan on Bible360, a free app that melds the religious text together with multimedia, interactivity and social media.It stands alone and also will serve as a companion to a 2013 History Channel series.

Montagner Takes CFO Reins at LightSquared

LightSquared, Philip Falcone's 4G-LTE open wireless broadband network company, has named Marc Montagner as chief financial officer. The telecommunications veteran assumes the role previously held by Michael Montemarano, who left the company.

FilmOn.com Adds Network TV Via Gizmo

Television service FilmOn.com has developed a legitimate way around the court order that currently prohibits it from showing major network content. The company announced a small plug-in device, FilmOn Air, that enables local television content reception.

Nolan Bushnell Joins Savtira Advisory Board [with videos]

Savtira Corp., a B2B cloud commerce solutions company founded by Timothy Roberts, announced that Nolan K. Bushnell has agreed to serve on its advisory board.

The 'Tintin' Experience, Now an Interactive App [with demo]

HarperCollins Publishers, Weta and Moulinsart have partnered on "The Art of the Adventures of Tintin," a comprehensive app that can stand alone or be an immersive companion to the Paramount Pictures and Columbia Pictures 3D animated movie directed and produced by Steven Spielberg, and produced by Peter Jackson and Kathleen Kennedy.

MadHumans.com Handles Politics with Satire and Rotten Fruit [with trailer]

The proliferation of political talking heads is only going to get worse as the 2012 election heats up. Helping to deal with it, MadHumans.com offers profiles of national political characters, along with relevant satirical commentary, games, news feeds and social engagement.