Facebook, one of the world’s largest social networking sites, is testing out a feature called “People You May Know,” that shows you the public profiles of people it figures you want to be Facebook friends with.
This seems like a smart feature to add. Every Facebook user has friends who they didn’t know were on [...]
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Flixwagon, a mobile live video casting platform, has just launched a “Flixee” widget that lets users stream video from a mobile phone to a blog, website, or social networking site.
Additionally, Flixwagon users can deliver their mobile-to-web broadcasts directly to YouTube through their Flixwagon account, thanks to YouTube’s recently opened API. The widget and YouTube uploading [...]
Wikia today announced a partnership with collaborative video site Kaltura that will allow the more than a million users of its MediaWiki software to post and collaborate using Kaltura content.
Kaltura, the self-proclaimed “YouTube meets the Wiki” (previous coverage here and here ), has a video extension that lets its users start a collaborative video project by uploading video clips, [...]
Germany-based ad network Adconion Media Group is moving quickly to spend the $80 million it raised a few weeks ago.The company just announced that it has acquired Frontline Direct, a data management and direct marketing company, for $20 million.Adconion, which we reported Fox Interactive was interested in, is using the acquisition to expand into North [...]
Wannabe guitar players seem to have become a promising market lately.
Last year, popular console music games Guitar Hero and Rockband outsold digital music sales by over $100 million, according to sources cited by game-review site Primotech.
Now, Atlanta startup iVideosongs is trying to tap into the market with its guitar instructional video site, which launched [...]
Companies still releasing music and movies locked with digital rights management technology may have one more software application to worry about.
DoubleTwist, Norwegian programmer Jon Lech Johansen’s (aka DVD Jon, pictured here) latest startup, yesterday launched a beta application that lets users “liberate” their media, be it music or video.
DoubleTwist’ free desktop application lets users [...]
Overlay.tv today launched a video-commerce platform that may give marketers a new way to monetize on online video.
Even online video mammoth Google/YouTube hasn’t successfully implemented a way to extract revenue from its billions of user generated videos. A number of sites have taken to inserting “pre-roll” ads into the videos they offer — ads that [...]
Video is getting a lot more social — and a new startup is trying to make it even easier to discover and share videos. The company’s called Unknown Vector, and it launched its social video desktop application, uvLayer, just a couple of weeks ago.
Users download the uvLayer desktop application (for Mac OSX or Windows XP and [...]
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There are five arms to the music industry: The record label, publisher (sometimes combined), managers, artists, and fans. While we’ve previously examined labels, and surveyed numerous sites that help fans in their attempt to get music, companies that focus on getting profits to artists (who struggle to manage copyrights and track down royalties globally) are a bit [...]
We’ve seen social editing, social networking, social news, social bookmarking, and even social music take off. Now a social shock to the system is coming to a market usually dominated by insiders and experts: the finance industry.
Online trading brokerages have existed since E*Trade pioneered the market in the early ’90s, but now an onslaught of [...]
Lifestreaming site UStream.TV is rumored to be in talks with Microsoft, for a purchase price of $50 million. However, the company’s chief executive, Chuck Wallace, tells us only that the company is open to offers, and is otherwise talking to VCs about raising a round of venture funding.
Like many competitors, UStream.TV lets you use a [...]
Live video mobile broadcaster Flixwagon has partnered with MTV in an attempt to promote citizen journalism today, Super Tuesday.MTV is using Flixwagon’s mobile-to-web broadcasting platform for its “Street Team” of youth journalists covering the primaries from 23 different states. The live broadcasts will be available on ChooseorLose.com and MTVnews.com, while MTV will periodically run edited snippets [...]
Amazon said it will buy Audible, a digital audiobook publisher, for roughly $300 million.
Audible provides 80,000 products in audio form, ranging from books by famed authors Stephen King and Jane Austen, newspapers such as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, magazines as well as TV and radio subscriptions. Audible has 160 employees [...]
To say the music business is a bit volatile would be a gross understatement — at least looking at this past week.Just one week ago, I posted a comparison of 38 of the best sites for listening to music on the cheap. Since then, one company has been bought, another has been sued, and another [...]
Ever since Napster brought free MP3s mainstream — and subsequently garnered the wrath of the Recording Industry Association of America — the music industry has been reeling.
No single strategy for listening to music online has come to dominate the market, as record labels, managers, artists, fans, Apple’s music offering, Internet radio and recommendation companies all [...]
Conduit, an Israel-based startup that lets anyone customize a browser toolbar that they can offer to their friends or others, reports rapid user growth.
Rapid enough, at least, to draw $8 million in a second round of financing from aggressive venture capital firm Benchmark Capital. This follows an initial $2 million investment by Israeli venture [...]
A week ago, Africa tech blogger Erik Hersman read a post by Kenyan tech and human rights blogger Ory Okolloh calling for a web application to track incidents of violence and areas of need during the post-election turmoil in Kenya.
Within a few days, Hersman had organized Okolloh and a couple of like-minded developers in the [...]
A 23-year old programmer in Thailand has launched a Twitter-like service that lets users add location-based information to their Facebook profile, website, or blog.
The Thailand-based service is called LetsProveWhere, and Peerapong Pulpitpatnan (aka “Pete”) developed it almost single-handedly in just three months. After a few days, he’s reporting about 100 registered users.
Pete says he got [...]
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Last week we covered Jawbone’s noise-cancelling bluetooth headset, but this week STEP Labs debuted a headset technology that STEP chief executive Robert Mitro says will blow the competition out of the water.
Mitro says STEP’s technology creates a virtual acoustic bubble six inches from your mouth, so that all the other noises are blocked away. He [...]
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