Uvoto.com Launches Worlds
Largest Talent Contest and Interactive TV Show. 

San Diego, CA (PRWEB) Jan 15, 2008 – What if a few
tips from your friends could launch your singing career?   What if your mom really is your biggest
fan?   Does a local indie band from Kansas really have a fair shot at fame in Hollywood?    Until now the answer was no, but that is
all about to change on January 15th, 2008 with the beta launch of www.uvoto.com
and the worlds largest talent contest called ‘America’s Next Video Star’.

The
free contest gives millions of people the chance to become the next TV star by
sharing their audition videos online in categories such as singing, dancing,
acting, modeling, fitness, cooking, and martial arts.  The videos are promoted on digital media
networks, social network community sites, blogs, mobile phone carriers, and
television, thus making it the largest interactive TV contest platform in the USA.

Contestants
can catapult to the top of the rankings chart 
and earn money by accepting tips from fans who text message their
supporting votes.   Uvoto.com is unique
because it provides a marketplace to directly pay money collected from
advertising and votes specifically to the stars who receive tips.  This business model can disrupt the Hollywood dependence on singular mass audiences and
successfully aggregates many micro-audiences.  
Uvoto does not spend money on commercials or have celebrity judges who
influence mass opinion.  Instead Uvoto
lets the Mob of fans decide the winners and tip their favorite performers.  The contest allows unlimited numbers of
contestants to access media distribution channels and promotion tools that
spread through viral marketing.  

America’s Next Video Star was created by a San Diego start-up called
N1NE Multimedia.  Tom Marchesello is the
young CEO who turned down VC money, and quietly built the company over the last
2 years. He says it is easy to make mistakes if you listen to too many of the
wrong people.  “I had an idea for making
a powerful media experience that bridged TV, mobile, and web technology.  But the challenge was to make it fun and easy
to use.   I think Uvoto is the first
generation of platform that really achieves the goal of delivering fairness and
opportunity to millions of talented people. 
I’m excited to see who is going to be Americas Next
Star.”    For additional information on Uvoto and Americas
Next Video Star, contact Tom Marchesello or visit www.uvoto.com.

About
N1NE Multimedia:
N1NE Multimedia is a digital media and entertainment company that produces
interactive television shows, SMS voting systems, and web 2.0 applications.   The CEO is Tom Marchesello, an internet and technology
entrepreneur, who has previously built innovative media companies such as e-commerce
giant SonyStyle.com to digital advertising network FuelCast media.  

Contact:

Tom
Marchesello
N1NE.com
858-240-2248
http://www.uvoto.com

Americas Next Video Star and Uvoto have teamed up to bring you the Worlds Largest Talent Contest with the biggest prizes and most life changing benefit ever offered. Tom Marchesello the CEO of N1NE multimedia is the creator of the contest and the executive producer of the show. “I am so pleased to be able to offer UVOTO to teh public and be a part of finding Americas Next Video Star. We have all watched these incredible shows like American Idol, Survivor, dancing With the Stars, and others. But the problem is that so many people wish they could compete, but so few people actually get to be in the contests. Often times this is a reflection of location, time, age, experience, or other life factors. There are a lot of people with talent in the world. Just becasue you missed a casting call should not limit someone from competing and showcasing thier talents. So I created Uvoto to provide a year long contest, with monthy mini-contests in over 16 major catagories. Then I placed the entire system online at www.uvoto.com. that stands for You Vote in Italian. This way anybody that wished to compte can go to our site and self register. We provide all the tools to link to your amazing audtion video, select the catagory of contest such as singing, or dancing, or modeling, or sports. We help you link to your video and then tell the world about it. Once a person is in the system competing all sorts of things can happen. They can spread their videos all over the web, but it still has their video ID code attached so people know exactly who to vote for. When Someone watches your video audition, they can vote for that person. And the text vote automatically credits the persons account with the vote. For every vote a contestant recieves, they move up the video contest rankings list.

Americas Next Video Star is built on this Web 2.0 technology from Uvoto. and it is the powerful contest engine that allows anyone to enter their viral video into our video contest community and compete for monthly and yearly cash and prizes. Each month Don Voto will review the leaders in the top 10 of every contest catagory. He will hand select the best videos of 2008 and place them on his tv show. During the year fans can watch the videos online and on tv and vote for their favorite star. Each vote that someones casts mosts that competitor up in rank in the vote rankings and that person is closer to winning the talent contest. By the end of 2008 we will really have selected Americas Next Video Star from all the thousands of people who compete. That person will gain a lot of exposure and success for their career. This competition is unique and nobody has ever attempted such a large scale talent contest before. The reason we are able to offer this contest is because technology, the internet, cell phone voting have all matured to a point that it is possible to host manage, track, and accurate provide this contest. The best part about it is that it is democratic in its nature. The Fans decide the winners, not a panel of judges. www.uvoto.com. Go now and join the worlds largest talent contest. Thanks for visiting. Enjoy Uvoto. Tom Marchesello, CEO N1NE

300 is one of the best movies of 2007.  At this years MTV movie awards 300 was nominated the most times. 

They’ve battled bloodthirsty Persians, supernatural pirates and a seemingly endless charge of soldiers, spooks and sea monsters. Now, 300 surly Spartans and the Pirates of the Caribbean will face their greatest adversaries yet: each other.

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 The Don picks “300″

“300″ and “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” are the most-nominated flicks for this year’s MTV Movie Awards, leading all films with five and four nods, respectively (see “Sarah Silverman To Host MTV Movie Awards; Promises ‘Pinch Of Fun’ “). The adrenaline-fueled action flicks will vie for Best Movie, while stars from the films will battle in the Best Performance and Best Villain categories.

If you’ve seen the trailer, you know that the movie looks full of obscenely ridiculous action sequences that would kick unholy amounts of arse. The movie is a two hour, R-rated version of that trailer. It inspires many an exagerrated obscene comment, but it’s completely deserving in doing so. 300 is adapted from the graphic novel by Frank Miller.

It tells the story of the 300 Spartan warriors led by their bad ass King Leonidas (Gerard Butler), as they stand up against the tens of thousands of Persians awaiting to conquer and absorb Sparta into the empire. The Persians are lead by Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro), who figures himself a god among men. And the movie is about their battle. Sure, there’s a fair amount of political intrigue amongst the Queen (Lena Headey, who is quite yummy) and a traitor among the Sparta elite (Dominic West), but really the movie is about the battle, which is a technically accomplished series of fight scenes like I have yet to see before. Seriously. You’ll want to compare them to scenes from Lord of the Rings or Gladiator, but you’d be wrong. Oh my, you will be wrong. One example would be the long, unbroken shot of Leonidas fighting in the first battle, the one that doesn’t cut and keeps speeding up and slowing down, was quite invigorating, and a stand out among many great epic battle sequences.

Jaw dropping, and I might even be so inclined to say awe inspiring, battle sequences. The visuals themselves, even when not involving bloodshed or carnage, are a sight to behold. Much like the previous Miller adaptation Sin City, 300 was made with generous help from all digital environments. I don’t know how faithful the film is to the graphic novel, but I can say that it looks damn fine, like the novel had come to life. Although what I viewed tonight was a workprint, most of the effects and digital rendering had been completed, and it never looked obnoxiously fake at all. It’s a beautiful looking movie. The actors do well for their roles, with Gerard Butler as a very convincing badass leader, even though he doesn’t need to keep shouting everything as if it were a grand statement. But you know what? It doesn’t matter because I’d follow him into battle any day.

Mainly because I know that he could pretty much single-handedly take care of everyone for me, but he’d know I have his back. Zach Snyder, he of Dawn of the Dead (’04) fame, directs 300 with a sure hand, telling a rock solid tale of honor and valor and mostly about kicking ass. Looking back upon the film, I’m starting to pick up on some themes that are a little freaky if you stop to think about them. (Spartans discard imperfect babies, so as to keep their army full of the strongest. This leads one to realize that the Spartans are kind of creating their own master race. And when you think of creating a master race, Nazis also come to mind. And yet, we the viewer are supposed to identify and support these Nazis. These superior soldiers who, by the way, all kind of look like He-Man action figures, and made me feel inadequate about myself.)

There is a lot one can take away from this film. But purely on a knee-jerk visceral level, it’s going to be very hard to top this movie. It’s an adrenaline shot to your standard epic film. It packs a lot of testosterone into a two hour gap, but when compared to the bloated epics of late (Troy, Alexander, Kingdom of Heaven), it’s quite refreshing. I don’t know if I can keep lavishing praise on this film. I know this much, I can’t wait to see it again. It’s nice to see a movie that’s not afraid to do new things while at the same time telling a solid story. A story of fighting. A lot of fighting. A hell of a lot of fighting, but done so well, and in such a damn good looking movie. It’s a movie that makes you excited about movies again. Hell, it reduced me to obscene fan-boy gushing like I lost my virginity or solved the world’s economic crises, full of hyperbole and nonsensical ramblings. That’s what this movie does!!! 300 is one hell of a film.

the office had a party today…it was neat

isn’t it pretty?

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