Move over, Yan Can Cook - Epicurious will soon be competing for boob tube eyeballs. Condé Nast announced today that its popular culinary Web site is being spun into a TV show for the Discovery Channel.
Just as the Epicurious site includes travel tips nestled next to recipes, the creators promise that the show will go beyond simple slicing and dicing to offer both cultural insights and culinary tours of food regions. The show will debut in late 1998.
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__ZDTV wants to see you:__In an effort to demonstrate the need for a technology-centered TV network in a compelling, gee-whiz manner, Ziff-Davis' upcoming venture has a plan: putting viewers themselves on TV.
ZDTV announced today that it would distribute 10,000 desktop video cameras, free of charge, in the hopes that users will want to interact with the network's programming. ZDTV is scheduled to launch early in 1998.
The Bigpicture cameras manufactured by 3Com are designed to work at different scales, for different levels of user Net access. (10.Dec.97)
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Blizzard waits till January: Trying to put a positive spin on bad news, Blizzard Entertainment announced that, though its upcoming StarCraft computer game won't ship in time for the holidays, the company felt that it was time for the industry to move beyond its narrow focus on the holiday season. The game, which is now scheduled for January release, is an anticipated entry into the science-fiction genre by the creators of the highly successful troll-, elf-, and demon-centered WarCraft and Diablo games. (10.Dec.97)
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Este es CNN: Cable News Network on Tuesday rolled out a Spanish-language news Web site, CNNenEspañol, based on its English-language CNN Web site. The service includes coverage of world news, sports, business, weather, and features, and will be edited at CNN headquarters in Atlanta. (9.Dec.97)
