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The TUESDAY INTERVIEW: Ben White, chief creative officer, Sling Media

THE SLINGBOX IS A cool little device – a neat-o box that lets users place shift their home TV – making their laptop into a second TV in the home, or delivering their cable TV to a conference in Berlin. Of late, however, the company has gone beyond being a box maker and towards becoming a media company. They’re not making content, however. Instead, the company has created a platform where Sling users can create their own clips of shows and upload them to a secure portal where ads are sold around the clips – letting the content owners monetize...