Amazon Studios greenlights ‘Betas,’ a comedy about Silicon Valley geeks

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Amazon Studios is piloting its eighth comedy, and this is one that tech geeks may really enjoy — unless it ends up anything like Bravo’s “Startups: Silicon Valley,” of course. Directed by Michael Lehmann (Dexter, 40 Days and 40 Nights, True Blood), the show is called called Betas.  Here’s Amazon’s description: Set in the land of Silicon… Read More…

Geeky flick marks first feature-length movie to premiere on Xbox Live

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For the first time ever, a feature-length movie is debuting on Xbox Live. Pulp is an indepedent British comedy about a struggling comic book store owner who, with his two “geek sidekicks,” unwillingly helps the police solve a crime. The film debuts today and it’s the first time a movie will be made available first to Xbox… Read More…

Report: Amazon hires actor John Goodman … for original comedy series

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Netflix may have scored Kevin Spacey for its new political drama House of Cards. But Amazon.com, which is making its own heavy push into original content, has landed its own star. TechCrunch reports that actor John Goodman will star in the upcoming comedy Amazon series, Alpha House. The show, which is written by Pulitzer-Prize winner Garry Trudeau,… Read More…

Amazon is producing six comedy sitcoms and wants you to choose the best ones

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There were rumblings earlier this year about Amazon producing its own original TV content, and now the online retail giant is pulling back the curtains on its plans for six original comedy series. A product of Amazon Studios, the original film and series production arm of Amazon, the six pilot shows include some names you might recognize… Read More…

Tech humor: The crazy, wacky and stupid things that VCs do

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Venture capitalists do some of the wackiest things. (OK, not really). But now, thanks to venture capitalist Brad Feld, there’s a new comedy Web site devoted to the wacky and silly behavior of this privileged investment class. Feld has started a new comedy site called I Can Has VC, hosted on Cheezburger. There you will… Read More…

A YouTube star in the making?

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Ethan Newberry wants to be a YouTube star. And the Seattleite is moving closer to that goal having been selected to participate in NextUp, a new program in which YouTube is trying to assist 45 rising media stars “who’ve demonstrated passion, talent and huge potential in video making across a range of genres.” The program… Read More…

Meet Marcy: An original Web comedy from Lockerz

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Lockerz just scored $30 million in venture capital financing from the likes of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and former Microsoft CFO Greg Maffei. And how is the Seattle social networking upstart — geared toward teens and twenty somethings– using some of that cash? Well, meet Marcy. That’s the title character of a new original comedy… Read More…

Hey developers: Forget the cheeseburgers, have a LOLcat

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The guys from Seattle startup Giant Thinkwell will be our guests on the next GeekWire Podcast. And it looks like they’ll have a lot to talk about, because they’ve been very busy trying to poach Amazon.com developers literally from the online retail giant’s doorstep — using a strategy “inspired” by Cheezburger’s cheeseburger giveaway this week…. Read More…

Jeopardy Fail? Contestants unable to identify FailBlog on game show

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Maybe Alex Trebek is a secret FailBlog fanatic. The wildly popular humor Web site — developed by the folks at Seattle’s Cheezburger Network — was the subject of a little Jeopardy trivia this week. You know you’ve hit the mainstream when your company’s product appears on a game show. It’s even better if folks actually… Read More…