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.

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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 (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: XKCD, 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
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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.
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  • Intertainment
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