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- Lonelygirl15 gets some "exclusive" MySpace company
- The season finale of the hit web video series, Lonelygirl15, is to be available exclusively on MySpace. Lonelygirl15 already has an ad-revenue sharing deal with YouTube and Revver, so this is a major coup for the News Corp-owed social networking site. And in an interesting and innovative twist, the final...
- Tags: YouTube, Video Sharing, Social Networks, MySpace, Bebo
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- Vator.tv: YouTube for the elevator pitch
- Bambi Francisco, a former tech reporter with MarketWatch, has taken the wraps off her new startup, Vator.tv. The name is a play on the words 'elevator' and 'innovator', as the site aims to be a social network / marketplace for startup ideas. Central to Vator.tv is the ability for startups...
- Tags: Video Sharing, Social Networks
- Blog posts 2007-06-07
- Open source movie project moves forward
- A Swarm of Angels, an ambitious open source movie project that I wrote about in March, is about to move into its next phase, which should see the community grow to 5,000 paying members from just under a thousand. The aim of the project is to create a UKP 1million...
- Tags: Net culture, Social Networks, Video Sharing
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- Lonelygirl15 spinoff to be exclusive on Bebo
- The production team behind Lonelygirl15, the video blog of 15 year-old Bree, that turned out to be a fake, are to launch a spinoff called "KateModern" which will be premiere exclusively on the social networking site, Bebo.From the press release:"KateModern" will expand from the original storyline to that of a...
- Tags: Video Sharing, Social Networks, Bebo
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- YouTube spotlights presidential candidates; CBS excludes YouTube/MySpace from content deals; Can YouTube Hear Me? (update); and more
- The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week…YouTube invites presidential candidates into the spotlight. YouTube is putting each of the US presidential hopefuls into the Spotlight; a weekly event on the video sharing site where each candidate...
- Tags: YouTube, Widgets, Video Sharing, Social Networks, Politics 2.0, MySpace, Joost, Friendster
- Blog posts 2007-04-13
- Google Maps goes social; Copyright infringement on YouTube exaggerated? Washingtonpost.com to embrace UGC; Facebook Diaries goes live
- The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week… Google Maps goes social. Google Maps has launched a new feature called MyMaps which the company says "makes it quick and easy to create your own custom Google Maps...
- Tags: YouTube, The Social Web weekly, Google, Facebook, Video Sharing, Social Networks
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- Digg gets more political; USA Today disowns readers; Wordpress supports OpenID
- The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week…Digg gets more political. Not sure how I missed this, but the social news site, Digg, has added a new section dedicated to stories covering the 08 US presidential election....
- Tags: Social networking, Blogging, OpenID, USA Today, Wordpress, Digg
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
- Ning v2: another do-it-yourself MySpace?
- Need more proof that social networking sites are becoming a commodity? Look no further than Ning version 2, dubbed: "Your Own Social Network". Its the companys latest iteration of its service which is designed to allow anybody to create and run their own social web site -- with little or...
- Tags: Social Networks, MySpace, Video Sharing
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
- Barack Obama launches social network
- Barack Obama, the Democrat presidential hopeful, has launched his own social network which hes calling MyBarackObama.com. The site invites supporters to create a profile, blog their campaign experiences, plan and attend events, find other supporters, and help raise funds for the campaign. Obama already has an official presence of Facebook...
- Tags: Video Sharing, YouTube, Social Networks, MySpace, Facebook, social networking, Barack Obama
- Blog posts 2007-02-10
- The Social Web weekly: MySpace mobile in Europe; Joost on Mac; White label SNS faceoff; OpenID; and more
- The Social Web weekly is a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week, in the social software and media space.MySpace goes mobile in Europe. Following similar deals with Helio and Cingular in the US, Vodaphones European customers will soon be able...
- Tags: Video Sharing, Social Networks, MySpace, Microsoft, The Social Web weekly, OpenID
- Blog posts 2007-02-08
- MySpace launches movie "mashup"
- MySpace to Facebook: anything you can do, we can do better. With Facebook announcing plans to create a User-Generated television series called "Facebook Diaries", MySpace UK is being far more ambitious. In partnership with Vertigo Films and Film4, MySpace has launched "MyMovie Mashup", a UK only competition to find the...
- Tags: Video Sharing, Social Networks, MySpace, Facebook
- Blog posts 2007-02-08
- Facebook, the TV show; but will advertisers bite?
- The social networking site, Facebook, has teamed up with cable television network, Comcast, to launch a user-generated television series called Facebook Diaries". Kicking-off in late March, Facebook will ask its millions of users to submit videos about their lives through Ziddio.com Comcasts video sharing website, the best of which, will...
- Tags: Video Sharing, Social Networks, Facebook
- Blog posts 2007-02-07
- YouTube on the campaign trail
- Theres no doubt that much of the 2008 US presidential election is going to be fought out on the Internet -- and specifically through online video. For example, Democrat potential candidate Barack Obama has a channel on Brightcove, along with Republican Sam Brownback, while others such as Chris Dodd Democrat...
- Tags: video, YouTube Inc., voter
- Blog posts 2007-01-30
- Dare Junkies: Jackass meets YouTube
- Dare Junkies, which will launch a public beta on Tuesday, combines the video sharing and social networking aspects of YouTube/MySpace, with the challenge-based formula of reality TV. Users submit challenges or dares, and those who choose to accept, respond by capturing their efforts on video. The top ten videos (as...
- Tags: Dare Junkies, Social Networks, Video Sharing
- Blog posts 2006-12-08
Additional Resources
- The Paparazzi Social Media Problem
- Jevon McDonald, someone whose opinions I rate highly, has posted a stellar piece on 'The uncertain future of Blogging' today. The idea of user-generated content was once almost exclusively owned by blogging. Blogging was the conversation, blogging was the vehicle, blogging was the...
- Tags: Collaboration, Blog, Jevon, Blogging, Internet, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Clearwire-Sprint make it official, pave way for WiMax rollout
- A mobile WiMax service, called Clear, will soon be here, now that Clearwire and Sprint-Nextel have completed a $14.5 billion joint-venture deal that was announced in May. The new company formed by the deal, which will retain the Clearwire name, will create a 4G nationwide broadband wireless network that will...
- Tags: Clearwire Corp., Sprint Communications, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- The Simpsons lampoon Apple
- No one is safe from satire on The Simpsons. The animated series, which just began its 20th season, has lampooned just about every large company, celebrity and pretty much every aspect of pop culture. Last night's episode featured a six minute segment that parodied Apple Inc. at...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Episode, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- The widget conundrum
- There's a pretty good article in Advertising Age about the benefits of widgets and the fact that not a lot of people are using it. AdAge says that "entire segment" will amount to around $100 million. That sounds like a chunk of money, and especially one for an industry that...
- Tags: Advertisement, Microsoft Silverlight, Mobile, Rich Internet Application, AdAge, Widgets, Desktops, Hardware, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Is there no end to the AutoRun madness?
- * Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Roel Schouwenberg Let's skip any introduction and get straight to the point: We're currently facing a problem of epidemic proportions in malware that is spreading via removable devices. The U.S. army's recent...
- Tags: Floppy Disk, Malware, Microsoft Corp., USB, Virus, AutoRun, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Microsoft Windows, Viruses And Worms, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Canada not the solution either
- Canadians have access to less medical technology than patients in other countries, even though the computer networks handling back-office functions may be more effective. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Health Care, Canada, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
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