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William Morris-backed fund makes first investment
The Mailroom Fund - the new VC firm created by Accel Partners, Venrock and the William Morris Agency WMA - is pinning its hopes on social network analytics for its first investment. The fund is investing an undisclosed sum in Sometrics, a startup that tracks and analyses traffic and...
MySpace's Big Spam Win: Will It Be a Deterrent?
MySpace won statutory damages of more than $230 million against spammers Stanford Wallace and Walter Rines, but the big question is whether this ruling–delivered in the Federal District Court in Los Angeles–will act as a deterrent. To be sure, MySpace's win see court order PDF has some...
eBay's StumbleUpon inks video deals with Veoh and Dailymotion
Site recommendation service StumbleUpon will show clips from Veoh and Dailymotion, as part of a series of new content deals. Video sites College Humor, Funny or Die, Vimeo and vbs.tv have also signed up to distribute their clips through StumbleVideo, adding to existing partners such as YouTube, MySpace and...
Facebook Connect Matches MySpace's Data Availability Initiative
Facebook has countered News Corp.-owned MySpace's announcement of its data availability initiative yesterday with, well, an announcement today revealing the exact same thing for Facebook. This newest product, pushing both social networks toward an increasingly homogeneous end, allows users to carry public profile info, photos, and friends...
MySpace partners with Yahoo!, eBay and Twitter for ?data availability’
MySpace is announcing a ?data availability’ initiative that will see users able to share their MySpace data across a series of partner sites, including Yahoo!, eBay, Twitter and Photobucket. Although the move does not represent full data portability, with MySpace a member of the Data Portability...
MySpace to share data with Yahoo!, eBay, Twitter and more
MySpace is partnering with sites including Yahoo!, eBay, Twitter and Photobucket to share its data across the different networks. The 'data availability' initiative is the social network's first step in supporting full data portability, which uses open source standards to allow free sharing and use of different data and...
CTRL in distribution deal with Bebo ahead of programme launch
Games-focused video production company, CTRL, has signed an online distribution deal with Bebo, reports C21. The agreement marks the 35th partner CTRL-TV has secured for its forthcoming programme content. The company hopes to secure 50 online partners by its Jun 1 2008 launch. ...
CRTL-TV to distribute videogames on Bebo
Dutch games-focused video producer, CTRL-TV, has signed an online distribution deal with AOL-owned social network Bebo, says media news site C21. The agreement marks the 35th partner CTRL-TV has secured for its forthcoming videogames distribution scheme. The company hopes to secure 50 online partners by its Jun 1 2008...
MySpace to Let Users Share Profile Across the Net
By Kenneth Li NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp's NWSa MySpace social network will let users choose to share their public profile information, such as pictures, videos, and text, across the Web to spread its service beyond its own borders. At launch, the...
Monetizing Social Media: Still an Uphill Climb; Some Friends May Be Worthless
News Corp. confirmed what had been reported for weeks: Fox Interactive revenue isn't going to hit its targets. The problem: Social networking is still very hard to monetize. Does inventory matter when you can't sell it? Peter Chernin, News Corp.'s operating chief, delivered his state of MySpace...
News Corp Profit Rises on Cable and TV Ratings
NEW YORK (Reuters UK) - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp NWSa said on Wednesday its quarterly net profit rose three-fold on higher advertising sales at the Fox TV network and Fox News Channel, as well as a one-time gain from its stock swap with Liberty Media...
Jeff Tinsley: Online Reconnecting
Jeff Tinsley is the founder and CEO of Reunion.com, a website that allows its users to reconnect with people from their past. Tinsley talks about the many advantages his site has over other networking sites like MySpace and Facebook, and how he is able to generate such enormous traffic.
Why Facebook and MySpace Stink for Ads
Why Facebook and MySpace Stink for AdsSocial Network AdsAlthough these platform provide an expansive audience, in keeping with comments about it being akin to a phone conversation, ads on these networks unless very unobtrusive tend to annoy.Advertisers and web developers tend to forget that with all the fancy flash animations...
Why Facebook and MySpace Stink for Ads
I wrote yesterday about the always-declining print ad pages and urged ad firms and clients to investigate online alternatives, but not every Internet outlet is optimal. Today there was a very smart article by Michael Estrin over at at iMedia, "Are advertisers killing Facebook?", which turned a skeptical eye...
Big Media Reconsiders Role on the Net
News Corp and Time Warner Inc's willingness to make a deal with Yahoo Inc is seen as a tacit admission that big media empires will not go it alone on the internet any more.Even if they lose Yahoo to Microsoft Corp - as widely expected on Wall Street -...
Google, MySpace, Facebook Lead New Media Globalization
Google, MySpace, Facebook Lead New Media GlobalizationOld and new media forget that people all over the world read their sitesso true. I often think it strange that both old and new media organizations online tend to address their readers as if all are in the US.
Google, MySpace, Facebook Lead New Media Globalization
It's often tempting for those of who've long been active on the Web to think that the growth of new media is still being fueled by the geeks and entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley. But the truth is that there is an apparently unquenchable demand for news from...
The Five Most-visited Websites
Thanks to the data-crunching power of sites like compete.com and Alexa, we're able to size up the real traffic count of various domains on the web. Keeping a radar on these stats is important -- not only in recognizing current opportunities, but also future trends. The top sites, as reported...
The Man Who Sold MySpace
The Man Who Sold MySpacethe myspace manI would like to see him eating carbsRE: The Man Who Sold MySpaceVery innovative. changing the face of media.
Is There Life Outside Facebook?
A friend sent me a text the other night -- from a humongous holiday party held for a well-known biotech firm -- with this thought: the hallmark of mall culture is the decreased possibility of a unique experience. This feeling had come over him while walking...
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