14 January 2008
Video sharing site Dailymotion has announced the addition of three new video advertising options for advertisers and marketers.The new in-video add formats include:Toaster Ad: animated flash overlay that appears on the bottom portion of a video and disappears after 10 secondsHome Theater Ad: ad unit that 'wraps around' the video and provides a c...
14 January 2008
Video ad network VideoEgg has today announced new partnerships with music and video sharing sites Buzznet, imeem and MetaCafe. The partnerships come after improvements to the Eggnetwork Advertising Platform (EAP), which allows sites to easily integrate VideoEgg's in-video advertising into their own video platforms.Matt Sanchez, CEO of Vide...
11 January 2008
Outspark, publisher of free online community games has today received $11 million USD in Series B funding from Tencent Holdings, Doll Capital Management (DCM) and Altos Ventures. Altos and DCM participated in first round funding of $4 million in April 2007. Outspark have offices in both South Korea and The United States. ...
11 January 2008
High definition search development company Collexis Holdings, Inc. have launched a new social network that will promote collaborative medical research and development. BioMedExperts officially launched today, the 11th of January 2008, and was built in collaboration with computer giant, Dell.Collexis formed an agreement with Dell Healthcare...
11 January 2008
A day after WatchMouse declared Facebook as the worst of the "slow and inaccessible" social networking sites (according to their study), Facebook have announced that user profiles will soon be easier to un-clutter and faster to load. The announcement was made on the Facebook Development Blog last night after an increased number of complain...
10 January 2008
Social networking sites could be a useful source of revenue for internet marketers in 2008, it has been predicted. Industry analyst E-consultancy makes the forecast in a round-up of the likely "digital trends" which will emerge over the course of the year. A key aspect of social media is the ability to target users with specific demo...
10 January 2008
Online community MySpace have today launched a new celebrity channel, aptly named MySpace Celebrity.The new channel will focus heavily on content, particularly celebrity news, blogs, videos, photographs and event details. MySpace currently hosts in addition of 300 official celebrity profiles, and these will be indexed on what MySpace are d...
09 January 2008
Live broadcasting platform, Mogulus, have raised a further $1.5 million USD from angel investors. Combined with funding they received in May 2007, Mogulus have raised a cool total of $2.7 million.Max Hoat, founder of Mogulus says on his blog, "We are very excited about this new funding and to have our new investors on board - some of which are s...
09 January 2008
Popular online community for teens, Gaia Online today announce the receipt of a "strategic investment" from Time Warner, Inc. The investment by Time Warner will allow Gaia to upgrade the site. Gaia's CEO Craig Sherman comments, "We've been able to develop a compelling user experience that keeps teens coming back, but there is no sho...
08 January 2008
As of the 15th of January 2008, personalised music service Pandora will block access to listeners from the UK. In an email received today, Pandora Founder Tim Westergren expresses his sadness in not having been able to negotiate an 'economically workable licence fee.' Westergren states that both the PPL (on behalf of record labels) a...
07 January 2008
Genealogy networking site, Geni.com has today announced they want to become a "digital scrapbook" for families. To do this, Geni.com have launched two new features, Timelines and Family News.Geni's CEO David Sacks says, "The most important events in people's lives involve family. The benefits and workload of memorializing these events shou...
06 January 2008
Convicted sex offenders would be barred from using online social network sites used by minors under new legislation proposed by Indiana?s Attorney General Steve Carter. Currently, when handing down sentences to sex offenders, judges can opt to restrict access to social networking sites, but Carter said the legislation would standardize the...
06 January 2008
At the great internet drinks party, LinkedIn had been looking decidedly like a social wall- flower. Over the past three years MySpace had stormed centre-stage with its 60 million following of spotty teenage music fans and unsigned bands. Its preppy emulator Facebook had also turned many heads, while LinkedIn lurked quietly in the corner sipping ...
06 January 2008
Plaxo invited blogger Robert Scoble to try an alpha version of a robot script (a program) that can grab specified fields from one's Facebook friends' profiles and export them (a process sometimes known as 'scraping'). Scoble duly ran the script. Facebook's servers detected the activity and sent him a message and inactivated his Facebook account....
05 January 2008
PassAlong Networks have launched a new widget, Rostr, that allows users to create a playlist of songs to share on their own social networks and blogs. In November 2007, PassAlong formed a partnership with BMG owned label RCA Music Group through a series of co-branded OnTour widgets, According to co-founder and CEO Dave Jaworski, Rostr is ...
05 January 2008
At the start of 2008, online social networking site MySpace invited its US community to participate in the first MySpace Presidential Primary. The ballot will was hosted on the community's Impact Channel, just prior to the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primaries.Barack Obama for the Democratic party and Ron Paul of the Republican party can...
05 January 2008
At MySpace, they use the F-word a lot. Facebook may have double the number of syllables than most expletives, but in the offices of what was once the world?s ascendant social network, it is pronounced with all the malice of a four-letter word. In the space of a year, MySpace?s greatest rival has gone from being a relatively unknown site us...
04 January 2008
Overweight and out-of-shape, former RealNetworks and Revenue Science executive Brad Hefta-Gaub vowed to make a change in his personal health a few years ago. He took up running, biking and swimming, reducing his weight from 200 pounds to 145 pounds. Now, the 38-year-old executive is building on his personal weight loss regimen to roll out ...
04 January 2008
Bebo has been judged the best social networking website, narrowly beating off Facebook, in a consumer report released yesterday. Computing Which? magazine praised the website, which is aimed at 13-to-24-year-olds, for encouraging "responsible networking". It puts Yahoo! Groups at the bottom of its survey of 10 of the most popular sit...
04 January 2008
China has announced tough new rules to crack down on the explosion of audio-visual content on the Internet, reiterating that sex and politically sensitive material will not be tolerated. Only state-controlled entities will have the right to operate websites that post audio-visual content, according to the rules, placing into doubt whether ...
03 January 2008
Plaxo, an early social networking site that helps people keep their address books updated, is up for auction, people briefed on the offering said Wednesday night. The company, which has not made a profit, is seeking as much as $100 million, these people said. Plaxo, which has been overtaken by rivals like Linked In and Facebook, has tried ...
03 January 2008
Companies will focus on upgrading and integrating their human resources technology in 2008 in an effort to improve administration and better engage employees, according to experts at Watson Wyatt Worldwide, a leading global consulting firm. Among likely trends are the increased adoption of advanced Web solutions, such as wikis, blogs and social ...
02 January 2008
When you're trying to piece together a band, guitarists are relatively easy to come by, but drummers -- with their bulkier equipment and noise-proofing requirements -- are a rarer breed. For many bands, this is a sticking point. Good drummers are in high demand wherever music is made. To help bands track them down, a soci...
02 January 2008
Japan's prime minister has begun posting English-language messages on the video-sharing Internet site YouTube in an apparent bid to raise his country's international profile. In his online New Year's message for 2008, Fukuda speaks in English about the challenges facing the world in the coming year and promises to play a leading role in fi...
28 December 2007
Blogfuse have announced the launch of a new service that allows Bloggers to quickly and easily create their own Facebook application in order to integrate their blog's RSS feeds with the popular social networking site.The Blogfuse Facebook App Creator is compatible with any blog that has a RSS feed, including MySpace, Wordpress, Drupal, Blogger,...