24 July 2008
To those still under the impression that user generated content (UGC) typically consists in little more than happy snaps and home videos, a contest announced today by online artist community myartspace.com may come as a revelation of user-created media?s more sophisticated side.The competition presents itself as a scholarship program for arts st...
23 July 2008
Announced
today, a new social network centred on healthcare aims to help solve healthcare
problems on two levels at once by linking the concrete medical difficulties
faced by United States? citizens
to those affecting the national healthcare system that is supposed to address
them. To this end, CheckMD endeavours to
provide a resou...
23 July 2008
AOL?s digital advertising arm
Platform-A announced today the addition of AOL subsidiary Goowy?s widget creation
and management service to its advertisement distribution offer. By putting
together creation, syndication and measurement tools into a single package, the
new feature aims to provide a key-in-hand solution for implementing
w...
23 July 2008
The
Association of Virtual Worlds (AVW), a worldwide professional association
for the fast expanding virtual worlds industry, has announced the opening on an
invitation-only basis of its company headquarters. In keeping with the object
of the organisation, these consist of a 3D subsisting online environment.
In
their current closed...
22 July 2008
Online broadsheet NYTimes.com and professional networking site LinkedIn announced today that they had reached an
agreement that will allow LinkedIn members to opt for automatic personalisation
of the news presented to them on the Business and Technology sections of NYTimes.com.
When the option is
selected, the LinkedIn user visitin...
22 July 2008
With private debt and commodity prices soaring, donations to charitable causes may be expected to slump as consumer spending patterns adjust to lower levels of disposable income. Announced today, a new website called uPlej aims to adapt fundraising strategy to less affluent times by turning the viral nature of social networks into a force ...
22 July 2008
Sports-centred social
network eFans has announced it will re-launch in time for the 2008 Beijing
Olympics. With several new features on
display, the site?s stated ambition is to become the web?s most popular venue
for all people interested in athletics, although the site also caters for all
manner of other sports.
As its na...
21 July 2008
The United States? 2008 Presidential election doubtless plays a role in the matter, yet it cannot entirely account for the rising numbers of political blogs. Proof of the genre?s sustained growth can be found in the launching of a new dedicated channel on popular blog referencing site BlogCatalog.Announced today, the Political Channel aims...
21 July 2008
In development since early this year, next generation features of popular social networking platform Facebook are being showcased as from today within a freshly redesigned visual environment. A press release posted on Facebook today invites selected users to preview the site?s new appearance and experiment with the new functionalities.Among the ...
18 July 2008
Telecommunications
giant AT&T has announced the delivery of exclusive content for Electronic
Arts? massively single-player online game (MSPOG) Spore to both its wireless
and broadband internet customers.
Designed by The Sims(TM)
creator Will Wright, Spore is a life simulation game in which the player must
supervise the evolution of...
18 July 2008
As user generated rich media content becomes an evermore widespread means of self-expression, ordinary individuals are increasingly on the lookout for ways to improve the production quality of their homemade photo and movie posts. Announced today, a new custom video editing service for members of South-Korean social networking platform Cyw...
17 July 2008
Online retail giant Amazon.com has announced the addition of video-on-demand (VOD) to its repertoire of services. Soft-launched today in the United States, the new offering (unsurprisingly named Amazon Video on Demand) presents itself as an online store of movies and television shows that can be viewed using streaming technology - a proces...
17 July 2008
Google-owned YouTube is allowing users to
exchange tips, ideas and feelings about the site and how to use it through the
launch of a new community forum today. Featuring discussion boards dedicated to
themes such as Announcements, Bug Reports & Issues, How-to's and TestTube Feedback, these new Community Help Forums are set to func...
16 July 2008
Warner Music Group (WMG) today announced it will be making its vast catalogue of content available to mobile company SendMe Mobile and its mobile sweepstakes site SoLow.com. The companies have teamed up to create a series of customisable SMS subscription products that will enable fans to directly access their favourite artists over multipl...
16 July 2008
As the start of the
Beijing Olympics draws nearer, the flames of controversy surrounding Chinese public
authorities? attitude to human rights are likely to be fanned afresh by an
imminent social media campaign set in motion by Amnesty International Australia.
The aim of this initiative is to foster and
publicise transborder solidarity...
16 July 2008
In a post on the company?s official blog today,
popular professional online network LinkedIn has announced the launching of LinkedIn DirectAds. DirectAds is a text advertising feature tailored
to the requirements of users wishing to promote their business, product or
service to a specific segment of the network?s membership.
Th...
15 July 2008
In the latest episode of the high-profile copyright litigation saga between media giant Viacom and YouTube, the video sharing site?s parent company Google announced today that it had reached an in-court agreement with its adversary?s legal representation to protect the personal data of YouTube?s users. The issue of users? privacy rights was spar...
15 July 2008
Mugzy, a new platform for monetising user generated content (UGC) sites was alpha-launched today. Engineered by Pure Verticals, Mugzy offers a series of tools for leveraging the promotional potential of user generated text or video content for the benefit of its creators as well as the social networking sites that host it.Pure Verticals cl...
15 July 2008
Popular
podcasting site Odeo has announced a comprehensive
re-launch and expansion under a new development team.
Odeo?s newly
designed website has bought new added features, including 500,000 themed
channels, personalised recommendations and improved search functionality. Findings can be sorted into playlists for
future referen...
14 July 2008
One of the most popular virtual worlds for teens, Gaia Online, today announced a cash injection of $11 million USD in Series C funding round from Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), who has previously invested in companies such as Ask Jeeves, Mobile 365 and ComScore.Norm Fogelsong, general partner at IVP says that Gaia Online is one of the mos...
11 July 2008
As apple unveils the iPhone 3G, online content and service providers are jostling each other to advertise their compatibility with the new product. Mobile social networking service Whrrl has joined the fray, announcing that it is available as a free download to both iPhone and iPod touch users.Whrrl is one step removed from classic social ...
11 July 2008
With a current catalogue listing upwards of 70,000 applications embedded on more than 929,000 unique websites, Widgetbox claims to be the world?s largest resource for widgets. It has recently expanded its offer further still with the addition of several new functionalities to its ?Custom Galleries?, a feature that enables social networks t...
11 July 2008
Current trends in social media include the expansion of user-generated resources
from everyday, commonplace knowledge in the direction of ever increasingly
specialized and even professional expertise. This tendency is illustrated by the launch of
VideoMD, a new user generated content (UGC) website encouraging physicians to upload
vid...
10 July 2008
Citizen
journalists can now count on a new platform on which to showcase their
perspective on world events in the guise of global, user-generated news community
Allvoices. Soft-launched
as a beta in April 2007, the site was declared to be fully functional in a
press release issued today.
Its
creators have presented it as an origin...
10 July 2008
Advertising network buy.at and online video solutions developer Coull have joined forces to implement Europe?s first ever combined use of interactive video advertising and affiliate marketing.Launched today, the new application is available to affiliates on the buy.at network, supported by AOL?s digital advertising business, Platform-A. It...