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Reunion.com Receives $25M Funding
16 Apr 2007 at 9:33am
Can a social network be Web 1.0? Reunion.com, which is announcing $25M in funding today from Oak Investment Partners, certainly doesn’t adhere to the principles of modern web design and features. But it does have 28 million users, making it a major force (just behind Bebo, if you can believe any of these [...]
BungeeLabs, Sneaking Out of Stealth
16 Apr 2007 at 8:56am
Also at the Web 2.0 Expo: Bungee Labs, which is starting to drop hints about its Bungee Connect product. Connect is a “100% on-demand web development and deployment environment” that launches in May. So what is it? Without going too deep into dev speak, it’s an IDE (integrated development environment) for building [...]
TED.com - TED Conference Launches Interactive Site
16 Apr 2007 at 8:23am
The TED Conference, the annual, invite-only summit featuring 50 of the world’s leaders in Technology, Entertainment and Design, is launching a revamped website today focusing on the distribution of its audio and video podcasts. The newly designed site is featuring more than 100 full-length TED talks, including some that haven’t been seen outside of the [...]
Last.fm Partners with IODA - Even More Music on Last.fm
16 Apr 2007 at 8:07am
Last.fm, the social discovery and recommendation music site, will announce a deal today with the Independent Online Distribution Alliance. The partnership between Last.fm and IODA means that even more music is now available for Last.fm users. IODA’s full catalog, which includes over 800,000 tracks, will be accessible to Last.fm members, and over 24,000 PromoTracks will [...]
FlixFocus, Latest Online Video Thingy
16 Apr 2007 at 7:44am
Please stop launching these things. Debuting today, FlixFocus is the latest site for uploading photos, music and videos and posting them to MySpace, Friendster, Piczo, hi5 et al. But cumulative effects say that YouTube has this one sewn up.
Recommended: Piczo Layouts at Mashcodes!

JobThread Launches EasyPost
9 Apr 2007 at 3:37pm
JobThread, a job board publisher, a fast way to post your job across a network of sites. With JobThread’s new EasyPost option, there are various ways in which an employer can reach potential employees. Test Reach is free, while Good Reach and Best Reach are premium options that gain higher visibility for websites that publish [...]
Who?s Famousr?
9 Apr 2007 at 3:28pm
The latest photo ranking site to launch: Famousr, which went live today, challenges you to decide which celebrity is more famous. The site has 8,000 actor and actress photos, and ranks them using a ?fame rank? algorithm, determined by a combination of how much people are talking about them and how many big acting [...]
Mobivity, Stikkit Mashup for Mobile Notes
9 Apr 2007 at 2:53pm
Mobivity, the mobile marketing solutions provider, has mashed its API with Stikkit, the online sticky note maker. With the mashing of these two APIs, Stikkit users can now create a note from their phone as well as retrieve existing notes. This mobile solution is great for business people and students that are always on the [...]
More Fabrik?
9 Apr 2007 at 2:45pm
Fabrik, the company that serves up “Web 2.0″ storage software and the hardware to accompany it, will start shipping new external storage drives today. The SimpleTech SimpleDrive, with design by Ferrari designer Pininfarina, comes in red, white, sapphire, onyx and gray. The capacity ranges from 160GB to 500GB, and drives come with a [...]
VMIX, Union Tribune Partner
9 Apr 2007 at 2:16pm
Video provider VMIX and Union-Tribune Publishing announced a deal today in which VMIX will power video uploads and community features for SignOnSanDiego.com?s new site, which is focused on the South San Diego area. UTSouth San Diego is a hyperlocal site that focuses on news and sports from San Diego’s South County. VMIX, of [...]

Photobucket Launches Mandy Moore Mashup Contest
3 Apr 2007 at 1:35pm
Photobucket is teaming up with pop singer Mandy Moore today to launch a video remix contest for high schoolers, and promote the singer’s new single “Extraordinary”. Photobucket members can use images, music and video clips of Mandy Moore to create their own mashup, combining the artist’s content with their own. The mashups will be created [...]
ClickTale Heatmaps Launching Now
3 Apr 2007 at 7:51am
ClickTale, a user tracking service for websites similar to CrazyEgg, will announce the launch of ClickTale Heatmaps in the next few minutes. ClickTale provides a multi-colored overlay for your website that shows where visitors look, which parts of the page they focus on and how far they scroll. The results might enable you [...]
MySpace Holds Presidential Primaries - Fox Helping the Left?
3 Apr 2007 at 6:47am
Editor’s note: This is really odd…why is Fox, generally considered to be a conservative network, promoting political participation among young Internet users, who tend to be left-leaning? And why are they pushing things further by declaring regular votes and a virtual primary that’s likely to favor left-wing candidates, perhaps even influencing the outcome of [...]
This Is Dave?s United State of Technorati
3 Apr 2007 at 5:49am
I’ve never understood why others have said that Technorati is losing it: yes, the search is full of spam, but the site is clearly doing a bunch of referred traffic from Google, and the blog search is still my number one choice. Founder David Sifry has just put out the latest stats for the [...]
BrightRoll, On a Roll?
3 Apr 2007 at 4:03am
The latest “momentum release” (ooh, look how big we are!) comes from video ad provider BrightRoll, which is announcing today that it has served 500 million ads in video players since its launch in late ‘06. It sounds impressive at face value, but then you can consider that YouTube was serving 100 million clips [...]

Skype 3.2, Radar, NaturallyCurly, Trace.tv, LG-Google, HIVConnect, Gmail Down…
28 Mar 2007 at 6:12pm
Skype 3.2 - Skype 3.2 beta for Windows is out, and features the long awaited integration with Paypal. Radar - Some updates today to the mobile photo-sharing service radar.net - they’ve added instant notifications through AIM and launched a new mobile app. NaturallyCurly - Talk about niche. This Austin-based community for people with curly hair has [...]
Revish to Launch Social Network for Book Lovers
28 Mar 2007 at 4:34pm
Revish, a book lovers’ site planned to launch on Friday, has taken a rather academic approach to book reviews. Revish allows you to search books from Amazon’s database, and add them to any of your lists, such as “favorites,” “watch,” or “reading.” Users can review books that they’ve read, and others can comment [...]
Pluggd in to Twitter
28 Mar 2007 at 4:13pm
It’s the latest cat-blogging craze sweeping the nation, and it seems that everyone is hooking into Twitter in some way. The latest to do so is the podcasting service Pluggd - starting today, registered users can click the Twitter logo at the top right of every page and follow the brief instructions to set [...]
Serph Launches a Better Buzz Tracker
28 Mar 2007 at 3:36pm
If you’re a blogger, you’ll no doubt be familiar with vanity searches - searches for your name (or blog name and citations) on services like Technorati and across the web. Or perhaps you want to track the buzz about products and companies you’re interested in. The usual method of doing this is subscribing to tag [...]
Tailrank Launches Spinn3r
28 Mar 2007 at 2:49pm
At noon PST today (about now), the social news tracker Tailrank is launching Spinn3r, a solution that opens up the company’s spidering infrastructure so that other services can build applications on top of the blogosphere. Founder Kevin Burton has mentioned on his blog before that Tailrank was offering its “clean” index to outsiders, so [...]

Blogsticker - Free Blog Stickers
22 Mar 2007 at 11:06pm
Update: we take back all the criticism: BlogSticker just created this uber-cool Mashable blog sticker to post to your blog. All the cool kids have them. Blogsticker, launched a few hours ago, has created a bunch of banner-shaped stickers that you can place in the top left of your blog. They have several categories [...]
iFilm-SpikeTV, Lyro, Scanr, Picasa API, RealEditor, GeoRSS, Glimpse.com, Phot…
22 Mar 2007 at 10:09pm
iFilm-Spike - Viacom is bringing together two of its units, iFilm and SpikeTV, to create the “leading Web platform for men under the SPIKE brand”. Although it’s not explicitly stated, that suggests iFilm may be rolled into Spike. The iFilm CEO will also leave his current position as iFilm is brought under the [...]
MSN Soapbox Closes Doors - Microsoft Cowers Behind Them
22 Mar 2007 at 9:03pm
Unbelievable. While GoogTube brazenly defies copyright, gets sued over it and tells Viacom they don’t need their crappy content anyway, Microsoft has just shut down its MSN Soapbox site for 30-60 days while it implements the same Audible Magic technology that YouTube is set to deploy. Microsoft wants to stay on the right [...]
YouTube Primetime: 5PM to 8PM Weekdays
22 Mar 2007 at 6:42pm
So we told you how to game YouTube and get even the most pointless video to the top of the Most Viewed list. The next question is: what’s the best time to execute your evil plan? According to the latest ComScore report about online video viewing, it would be between 5 and 8 [...]
YouTubers Sue Viacom Over Stephen Colbert Clip
22 Mar 2007 at 5:28pm
Hilarious. We mentioned last week that Viacom could face legal action over its decision to delete YouTube clips that weren’t infringing. That’s exactly what has transpired today, with MoveOn.org Civic Action and Brave New Films suing Viacom in a San Francisco court. The case revolves a clip called “Stop the Falsiness”. It’s a [...]

Snipitron Building a del.icio.us for Research
17 Mar 2007 at 5:49am
Snipitron, a new social bookmarking site for academics, professionals and students, launched in pre-beta mode on Friday. On many levels, it’s your conventional bookmarking site: you add URLs via the web interface, a bookmarklet or the browser plugin (IE and FF), add tags, add friends and explore websites bookmarked by others. Slightly different [...]
MySpace Bugs, Google Phone, VoIP Deaths, Blogger Security, Wiki Dictionary, …
16 Mar 2007 at 11:38pm
MySpace Bugs - Remember the guys who did a month of Apple bugs to attract the attention of the Digg crowd? Now they’re doing the same thing to MySpace: look out for a month of MySpace bugs on their blog. Mashable asks: only one month?! Google Phone - Google has confirmed it’s working on [...]
Google Acquires Adscape, Officially
16 Mar 2007 at 9:01pm
Update: in vaguely related news (mergers, acquisitions and deaths), our buddy Om gets the scoop that VoIP startup Tello has turned to Jello - it’s no more. – Just a quick note to say that Google has announced its acquisition today of the in-game ad provider Adscape, which we mentioned about two months ago (Google is being [...]
Exclusive: Userplane To Launch Userlist - Free Buddylist for Your Site
16 Mar 2007 at 8:18pm
Userplane, the web and video chat provider that was acquired by AOL in August 2006, will announce the launch of a new service on Tuesday. For those who aren’t familiar with the company, Userplane provides both ad-supported and paid options for its text, voice and video chat, which is added to a site in [...]
Deleted YouTube Videos? Delutube
16 Mar 2007 at 6:30pm
We’re not really sure why we’re suddenly being mailed links to check out Delutube - perhaps because Viacom’s pulldown and lawsuit have led people to look for missing clips. The site, which went live at the end of last week, is the first port of call for those who see that familiar YouTube message: [...]

The Evolution of Blogging, Cat Version
11 Mar 2007 at 6:15am
So blogging has evolved once more, and the talk of the town - or at least the talk of Austin, Texas during the SXSW Conference - is Twitter, that increasingly popular text messaging/blogging service from the makers of Odeo. It’s so popular, in fact, that Twitter has suffered some downtime over the last hour [...]
YouTube Blocked in?Thailand
11 Mar 2007 at 5:06am
Nope, not Turkey this time. Not Brazil either. From this Friday to late Saturday afternoon, YouTube fans in Thailand found the site redirecting to MICT, the government agency responsible for Internet censorship in that country. Some users could gain access at one point by excluding the “www.”, and later the entire site [...]
Trillian Astra?s Awesomeness, Google TV Ads, Mockatoo, S! Town, Rocketboom So…
10 Mar 2007 at 7:28pm
Trillian Astra - The awesomeness of Trillian Astra’s upcoming release cannot be denied. We originally thought that the desktop instant messaging service was only building a Meebo rival - interesting, but not mind blowing. This week, however, they put out a video (below) that shows some unprecedented functionality. You launch the IM [...]
Mii to Become Social Network - MiiSpace?
9 Mar 2007 at 8:50pm
Although it has given very few details, Nintendo has hinted at its intention to expand the Mii idea into the realm of social networking. Miis are 3D characters created on your Nintendo Wii - they represent you in a number of Wii games. It’s a concept that has proven popular on the web, [...]
iLetYou - Run Own Your Own Netflix
9 Mar 2007 at 8:12pm
iLetYou, which is currently in private beta, is a new social DVD and video game exchange. However, iLetYou is a bit more innovative than existing DVD swaps: it allows stores, entrepreneurs and individuals to create their own rental stores and earn money or credit on a revenue share basis. It’s a bit like [...]

Odeo $1M, MySpace Thief, YouTube Licensing, FeedFlash, Let?s Film, Stukt, Ust…
4 Mar 2007 at 2:50am
Odeo $1M - Podcasting startup Odeo, which is up for sale, has reportedly received a $1 million offer. Based on their relatively healthy stats, I think they should be able to get more than that. (via TSB) MySpace Thief - On the surface, a funny story picked up by the mainstream media, but not a [...]
New at RockYou: MySpace Countdowns, Corkboards, Musical Slide Shows
3 Mar 2007 at 8:30am
Other startups may betting on one great widget for success, but market leaders RockYou and Slide are diversifying rapidly. Today, for instance, RockYou notified users of the launch of three new features: an animated Flash countdown timer, a corkboard widget (yes, they call it a widget) and the ability to create musical slideshows. [...]
WTF is Cisco Doing?
3 Mar 2007 at 3:16am
I don’t get it. The NYTimes reports in Saturday’s edition on Cisco’s purchase of social networking provider FiveAcross, and adds that they’re buying the tattered remains of Tribe.net, the San Francisco-based social network that fell out of favor and was reported to be the subject of an acquisition by NBC - a deal that [...]
Bebo IPO - Possible?
3 Mar 2007 at 12:22am
You gotta love the way founders always say the company is staying independent - and even hoping for an eventual IPO - at a time when tech IPOs are still rare and companies are getting acquired all over the place. Like Bebo CEO Michael Birch, who says in an interview published today that he’d [...]
Nearbie - Social Networking Through Time
2 Mar 2007 at 9:50pm
I like Nearbie. Not because it’s a particularly outstanding new social network - it’s very similar to many social sites built around people, photos and events - but because it creates a new paradigm for thinking about social networks. Launched officially yesterday, Nearbie allows you and your friends to post events and link them to [...]

King of The Blues - Guitar Center?s Socially Networked Contest
27 Feb 2007 at 2:49am
The folks at GuitarCenter let us know that they’re launching a contest with a social network attached - something that seems to be a growing trend. The “King of the Blues” contest claims to be the world’s largest guitar competition - it kicks off on March 13th, and 199 stores will be holding in-store [...]
vFlyer Launches Widgets
27 Feb 2007 at 2:30am
vFlyer offers a web-based service that allows users to create customized flyers and automatically distribute them through several classifieds sites such as eBay and Craigslist. It makes for professional looking ads that draw attention and provide the necessary information. Their launch late last year has been met with much success and they continue [...]
Ning Launches ?Your Own Social Network?
27 Feb 2007 at 12:00am
Ning, the site that lets you build your own social apps, is launching version two of the service at around 10pm PST. Key to the new launch is a service called “Your Own Social Network”, which wants to give everyone the ability to create a social network. YoSN (sounds kinda [...]
Mabber Challenges MeeboMe
26 Feb 2007 at 11:36pm
Mabber, a web-based instant messenger that’s been around for at least a year, relaunched today with a new interface and a series of new features, including a widget that allows your blog visitors to chat with you through your Mabber account and on your phone. Mabber, in case you don’t recall, is a web [...]
Hot or Not Lives On
26 Feb 2007 at 9:01pm
Early web success Hot or Not may not be so hot anymore, but the idea lives on, with plenty of services building Hot or Not-inspired mashups that pull content from social sites. The latest one to appear on the scene is FlickrCombat (occasionally NSFW), which pits two Flickr photos against one another. Understanding [...]

StyleFeeder Widget, Yaplet, WorldCat, Netvibes Updates, TrialPay, WhatShouldI…
20 Feb 2007 at 7:12pm
StyleFeeder Widget - StyleFeeder, a social shopping site for fashion that we’ve mentioned before, is launching a widget today. It’s being promoted for use on Facebook, MySpace and Friendster, allowing you to post a visual wishlist to those profiles. FiveAcross $30 million - Marc Canter said over the weekend that Cisco may have paid [...]
ITube, YouTube, WiiTube
20 Feb 2007 at 5:10pm
WiiTube’s name should be self-explanatory: it’s a niche video site for Wii videos. Not to be confused with WiiToob, which launched a few weeks back and offers a big interface for interacting with YouTube videos on your Wii, WiiTube is a brand new site that’s more concerned with videos about the Wii than providing [...]
Snowvision - A YouTube for Snowboarding
20 Feb 2007 at 3:49pm
Snowvision, which is set to launch tomorrow (it’s password protected at the moment), is a niche video site for snowboarders. It’s the product of Diversion Media, which launched a site called Travelistic in October 2006 - both sites run on the same platform, written in Ruby on Rails. But why stop at two [...]
Sproose and Blinkx Partner
20 Feb 2007 at 3:17pm
Sproose, which we’ve considered up until this point to be “yet another social search engine” is announcing a partnership today with Blinkx, the video search engine. You’ll notice the video tab links to a Blinkx-powered search, and the two companies are sharing revenue. Blinkx indexes around 7 million hours of audio and video. Sproose [...]
Renkoo Launches Social Networking Profiles, With a Twist
20 Feb 2007 at 3:30am
The group event organizer Renkoo announced the launch of public profile pages on Monday, bringing the site in line with conventional social networks. But the way they’ve implemented the profile pages seems to break with convention: instead of spending hours adding info about yourself and loading up the latest bling and MySpace layouts, Renkoo’s [...]

Comeeko - Comic Strips for MySpace
14 Feb 2007 at 10:01pm
The team behind Buttonator and Pikipimp has launched a cool new tool aimed straight at MySpace users: Comeeko lets you create a comic strip from your images. Your photos can be uploaded or imported from Flickr, and you can then add speech bubbles, captions and more. Once you’re finished, you can post your [...]
MySpace Charity Badges - CareBadges
14 Feb 2007 at 8:20pm
Raising money via MySpace widgets has become a growing trend: ChipIn has refocused around MySpace widgets, while Heifer also has one. Another newcomer, CareBadges is starting to emerge, and its links with RockYou should help it succeed. CareBadges are Flash-based fund-raising widgets that let you collect money or raise awareness for any cause. The [...]
MyStrands, GMail Opens Up, Krugle-Yahoo, TripUp, Famster, MySpace Suit, Blogl…
14 Feb 2007 at 7:04pm
Krugle-Yahoo - Krugle, the code search engine, has scored a victory after being selected to power the search on the Yahoo Developer Network, the place to find info about Yahoo’s APIs and web services. Krugle is that rare thing among web startups: useful. (via) GMail Open - GMail is open. No [...]
Somebody Think of The Children! Illinois Banning Social Networks?
14 Feb 2007 at 3:48pm
In the past we’ve covered the Deleting Online Predators Act, its death, and its re-emergence as a bill from Senator Ted Stevens called the Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act. Now a Senator in Illinois is also “thinking of the children”, having filed Senate Bill 1682, aka the “Social Networking Web site Prohibition [...]
Quepasa Acquires Corazones.com, Blows Other Latino Social Networks Away
14 Feb 2007 at 3:03pm
A smart acquisition for the Hispanic social network Quespasa: they’ve just snapped up Corazones.com, a Hispanic dating site. We’re not sure whether they held back the announcement for Valentine’s Day, but it seems like good timing. Quespasa claims to be the fastest growing social network in the US, and reports 500,000 members - add to [...]

Sportsvite, Txtms, MotionBox Valentines, Jamglue Valentines, DareJunkies Cont…
8 Feb 2007 at 9:50pm
MotionBox Valentines - Like many social sites, the video sharing site MotionBox is running a Valentines Day promo: their Christmas eCards section has been replaced by a Valentines eCards feature. Jamglue Valentines - Likewise, the music remixing site Jamglue has launched a Valentines Day remixing promo. See it on the site’s homepage. Sportsvite Funded - [...]
Lycos Mix Launches, Too Late?
8 Feb 2007 at 10:01am
Lycos isn’t totally out of the game when it comes to online video: not only did the company launch Lycos Cinema to enable live chats about movies, but today they’re set to launch a new video playlist service called Lycos Mix. Lycos Mix is all about creating playlists: users import clips from YouTube, Google [...]
IQONS to Launch MySpace for Fashion
8 Feb 2007 at 7:41am
When I spotted Iqons in mid-January, I thought we’d missed out on the launch of one of the most interesting fashion social networks so far. As it turns out, Iqons hasn’t launched officially yet: that will happen on Tuesday to coincide with London Fashion Week. The site was founded by Rafael Jimenez and [...]
Yahoo Pipes - The Internet is a Series of Them
7 Feb 2007 at 11:52pm
Yep, they should have called it Yahoo Tubes, Ted. Nonetheless, Yahoo just went live with Yahoo Pipes, a service that allows you to create your own mashups. Pipes provides a drag and drop editor that lets you find data sources, mix them up and spit them out - in short, a way to [...]
YouTube Has Porn?
7 Feb 2007 at 11:27pm
Update: use “flickr-eroticr” as your code to gain access. Yup, we were surprised, too. But a brand new service, currently in private beta testing, aims to extract the “soft erotic” videos and images from the popular social media sites YouTube and Flickr. Members of eroticr (behind a holding page) can import photos from Flickr, [...]

YouTube Launches Valentines Day Promo
3 Feb 2007 at 7:08am
Predictably, perhaps, YouTube is launching a Valentine’s Day promotion that follows the same pattern as the Coke-YouTube eCards at Christmas, and similar holiday promos by StupidVideos and Motionbox. The sponsor this time around is Procter & Gamble’s Herbal Essences - the promo allows users to send one of six video cards starring a chubby [...]
Bear Vs Colt MySpace Widget
3 Feb 2007 at 6:17am
The widget world hasn’t escaped the Super Bowl frenzy, it seems: marketing company MediaSauce has created a Flash widget and viral video campaign called Bear Vs Colt, which seems to be an experiment into how powerful social media marketing can be. The company has created a series of videos - far more amusing than [...]
Blogwerx Sentinel Hunts Down Sploggers
3 Feb 2007 at 3:21am
Blogwerx Sentinel is an application I’ve been following for at least six months - it finally debuted at DEMO this week. Perhaps due to the DEMO rush, the site seems incomplete - the interface doesn’t work yet, and all you can really do is sign up. Nonetheless, here’s what Sentinel does in [...]
MySpace Hacker, Meosphere, Yahoo Sports, LinkedCampus, YouTube-Viacom, Stikki…
3 Feb 2007 at 2:17am
I’ve been off sick (again!), but here are some of the stories that are filling up the Mashable inbox today… MySpace Hacker - Samy Kamkar, aged 19 at the time, has been sentenced to three years of probation and given 90 days of community service by an LA court for unleashing the “Samy” worm on MySpace [...]
MyDesignIn Launches Social Home Design
2 Feb 2007 at 12:11am
MyDesignIn, which is launching at DEMO, is a social service for those remodeling their homes - a niche that hasn’t really been targeted by the 2.0 crowd yet. It’s based around social bookmarking: find beds, baths, sinks and more as you browse around the web and hit the bookmarklet to post them to your [...]

YouTube Users Get Paid - Death Blow to Revver?
27 Jan 2007 at 7:22pm
YouTube founder Chad Hurley is making waves for hinting that YouTube plans to share revenue with users - he made the statements at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Friday. Jeff Jarvis grabbed a video of Hurley’s comments and posted it, fittingly, to YouTube (also embedded below). Hurley didn’t go into much [...]
Weren?t Google Ads Already Live on MySpace?
27 Jan 2007 at 6:45pm
There’s a story bubbling up in the search advertising community that Google ads have gone live on MySpace. That seems a little odd to me, since both the search and advertising deals went live on December 1st 2006 - Mashable was the first to notice the change and grabbed screenshots of the Google AdSense [...]
YouTube, NewTube
26 Jan 2007 at 4:11pm
YouTube has just rolled out an impressive number of new features. One of the biggest changes: they’ve integrated Google search. YouTube’s previous search was terrible, and it’s now massively improved. This seems to complete the loop: Google Video now indexes YouTube, and YouTube search is now powered by Google. They also claim to [...]
Midomi, Zypsy, Google Bombs, Pageflakes, AnswerU, PopteenUS
26 Jan 2007 at 3:13pm
Midomi - This is pretty neat. Midomi is a newly-launched service that allows you to sing a song into your microphone and find the title. It does this by comparing your version to song signatures in a database, and allows you to buy the track online. But there’s much more to it [...]
Bebo Minicards Launched
26 Jan 2007 at 3:44am
While over on Bebo checking out the new Slide.com guestbooks, I spotted an announcement for Bebo Minicards, from the printing startup Moo. Moo first attracted blogger love back in September 2006 with the launch of their Flickr Minicards - Flickr users can convert their shots into a box of 100 printed photo cards for [...]

YouTube Users Get Paid - Death Blow to Revver?
27 Jan 2007 at 7:22pm
YouTube founder Chad Hurley is making waves for hinting that YouTube plans to share revenue with users - he made the statements at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Friday. Jeff Jarvis grabbed a video of Hurley’s comments and posted it, fittingly, to YouTube (also embedded below). Hurley didn’t go into much [...]
Weren?t Google Ads Already Live on MySpace?
27 Jan 2007 at 6:45pm
There’s a story bubbling up in the search advertising community that Google ads have gone live on MySpace. That seems a little odd to me, since both the search and advertising deals went live on December 1st 2006 - Mashable was the first to notice the change and grabbed screenshots of the Google AdSense [...]
YouTube, NewTube
26 Jan 2007 at 4:11pm
YouTube has just rolled out an impressive number of new features. One of the biggest changes: they’ve integrated Google search. YouTube’s previous search was terrible, and it’s now massively improved. This seems to complete the loop: Google Video now indexes YouTube, and YouTube search is now powered by Google. They also claim to [...]
Midomi, Zypsy, Google Bombs, Pageflakes, AnswerU, PopteenUS
26 Jan 2007 at 3:13pm
Midomi - This is pretty neat. Midomi is a newly-launched service that allows you to sing a song into your microphone and find the title. It does this by comparing your version to song signatures in a database, and allows you to buy the track online. But there’s much more to it [...]
Bebo Minicards Launched
26 Jan 2007 at 3:44am
While over on Bebo checking out the new Slide.com guestbooks, I spotted an announcement for Bebo Minicards, from the printing startup Moo. Moo first attracted blogger love back in September 2006 with the launch of their Flickr Minicards - Flickr users can convert their shots into a box of 100 printed photo cards for [...]

YouTube Users Get Paid - Death Blow to Revver?
27 Jan 2007 at 7:22pm
YouTube founder Chad Hurley is making waves for hinting that YouTube plans to share revenue with users - he made the statements at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Friday. Jeff Jarvis grabbed a video of Hurley’s comments and posted it, fittingly, to YouTube (also embedded below). Hurley didn’t go into much [...]
Weren?t Google Ads Already Live on MySpace?
27 Jan 2007 at 6:45pm
There’s a story bubbling up in the search advertising community that Google ads have gone live on MySpace. That seems a little odd to me, since both the search and advertising deals went live on December 1st 2006 - Mashable was the first to notice the change and grabbed screenshots of the Google AdSense [...]
YouTube, NewTube
26 Jan 2007 at 4:11pm
YouTube has just rolled out an impressive number of new features. One of the biggest changes: they’ve integrated Google search. YouTube’s previous search was terrible, and it’s now massively improved. This seems to complete the loop: Google Video now indexes YouTube, and YouTube search is now powered by Google. They also claim to [...]
Midomi, Zypsy, Google Bombs, Pageflakes, AnswerU, PopteenUS
26 Jan 2007 at 3:13pm
Midomi - This is pretty neat. Midomi is a newly-launched service that allows you to sing a song into your microphone and find the title. It does this by comparing your version to song signatures in a database, and allows you to buy the track online. But there’s much more to it [...]
Bebo Minicards Launched
26 Jan 2007 at 3:44am
While over on Bebo checking out the new Slide.com guestbooks, I spotted an announcement for Bebo Minicards, from the printing startup Moo. Moo first attracted blogger love back in September 2006 with the launch of their Flickr Minicards - Flickr users can convert their shots into a box of 100 printed photo cards for [...]

MySpace New Zealand, LiveVideo, Schmedley, Wikipedia NoFollow, Emokoo, Quizle…
22 Jan 2007 at 12:13am
MySpace New Zealand - MySpace New Zealand (nz.myspace.com) launches officially next month. Fox says that 500,000 New Zealanders use the site at the moment, but they expect that number to increase significantly once the NZ site is launched, just as it did with MySpace Australia. As mentioned previously, MySpace and Bebo are the [...]
Merlin to Sell Music on MySpace
21 Jan 2007 at 2:16pm
Another success for Snocap: Merlin, a new record label launched at MidemNet in Cannes yesterday, has announced a deal with the company. Merlin is a new non-profit that aims to be the “fifth major” record label, with the aim of securing licensing deals with MySpace, YouTube and other sites. The label will sell [...]
In-Game Ads, SpiralFrog, Ozmozr Launched, DuggSpace
20 Jan 2007 at 5:44pm
Google’s In-Game Ads - Google is looking to acquire Adscape Media, an in-game ads company, in an attempt to combine Google’s contextual ads with Adscape’s technology. A deal could come as early as next week, says the WSJ. DuggSpace - Someone put up a holding page simply suggesting that there should be a “MySpace for [...]
Weekend Amusement: Iqons, ShoutLife, Wipbox, Vidmeter
20 Jan 2007 at 12:21am
Wipbox - Launched this week, Wipbox wants to help you make better listings to post on Craigslist and eBay. Mashes up the eBay Developers API, Amazon Web Services API and more. Not a serious attempt at building a business, but one of the many interesting little one-man projects that keep popping up. Shoutlife - [...]
Fabchannel Launches Video Player for MySpace
19 Jan 2007 at 6:11pm
Embedded Flash-based music players are a growing trend, and may continue to be now that we know MySpace has no plans to charge developers. Today Amsterdam-based Fabchannel, which broadcasts and archives concerts from Paradiso and Melkweg (two major concert venues in the Netherlands) is launching a player that lets you embed a series of [...]

YourMinis Serves Up MySpace Codes
16 Jan 2007 at 12:43am
YourMinis, the Flash startpage from Goowy, has added the ability to post your minis (aka widgets) on MySpace, Facebook, Friendster and everywhere else, the site’s founder told Mashable today. You can see this functionality by visiting the site, adding a mini to your dashboard, customizing it to suit your style and clicking on the [...]
Boxxet Launches - Will You Contribute for Free?
15 Jan 2007 at 11:20pm
Boxxet, the human powered portals service first mentioned on Mashable way back in March 2006, is launching on Tuesday. They’re also announcing funding of $900,000 from Ascend Venture Group. As mentioned previously, Boxxet (as in “box set”) is a series of user-generated portals - it’s very similar to Zimbio, and also bears similarities to Squidoo, [...]
Footnote, iJigg, TheFoundBin, SocialNetwork.in, AdGridWork, AdvisorGarage
15 Jan 2007 at 7:58pm
Footnote - Footnote is a new service that puts historical documents online - 4.5 million documents are currently indexed. There is, however, a fee for accessing certain documents. (via) iJigg - Launching today, iJigg is Digg for music. There are far too many Digg clones around already, but this one is fun to [...]
Music Nation, A YouTube for Music Videos
15 Jan 2007 at 5:22pm
Music Nation, an artist development agency that launched in March 2006, has raised $5.5 million in first round funding led by Greylock Partners, it’s being reported today. Point Judith Capital also contributed to the round. The founding team includes media veterans like Daniel Klaus, Lucas Mann, Peter Read and ShopWiki co-founder Kevin Ryan. [...]
Trig.com - MySpace Meets Digg, Has Beautiful Baby
15 Jan 2007 at 2:08pm
Trig.com, which is currently in private beta, is a slick-looking new social network with an interesting twist. Users of the Stockholm-based site can skin their profiles with one of twelve designs and you have the choice to include a biography, a friends list, a blog, comments and a photo gallery. But the slick [...]

Pandora Audio Ads Unwelcome
10 Jan 2007 at 12:22am
Pandora, the music recommendation site that rivals Last.fm, has started testing audio ads - they’re not going down too well. Pandora has been running on-screen ads for a while, and users seemed to accept them as a necessary part of the service. But over the last few days, some listeners have started to [...]
MySpace France Launches This Week
9 Jan 2007 at 8:00pm
We reviewed MySpace France way back in August 2006, but it seems that was just the beta test period - the official launch will take place this Thursday. The French site is at fr.myspace.com, but be warned that clicking the link will set the French version as the default in your browser - click [...]
MySpace Blocks MySpace Tracker (Updated)
9 Jan 2007 at 7:05pm
Update: Trakzor say that while the URL “Trakzor.com” was blocked a few months back, they’ve since changed the URL in the embedded tracking code and Trakzor continues to work. MySpace blocking an external service is becoming a pretty common event - Stickam, VideoCodeZone and ClustrMaps are among the services that seem to have been permanently banned [...]
iPhone, Mini Friday, Boxbe, Truphone
9 Jan 2007 at 6:18pm
iPhone - I’ve got to say I love the look and feature set of the iPhone, which (astoundingly) seems to be living up to the hype. It has a 3.5-inch 480 x 320 touchscreen display, runs OS X and supports Widgets, Google Maps, Safari and iTunes. I can’t find an excuse to write [...]
YouTube Campaigns: MyCadillacStory and Real Housewives
9 Jan 2007 at 4:41pm
Two more YouTube campaigns to add to the list today. First up, MyCadillacStory, a promotion by Cadillac (in partnership with YouTube) that asks owners to upload videos about the role Cadillac has played in their lives. Celebrities including Joan Jett, rapper Fat Joe and drummer Travis Barker have already uploaded their “authentic” stories, [...]