It’s as traditional as the Bill Gates keynote on the eve of CES: the careful parceling out of interviews and tidbits. The latest but surely… Read more »
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Last week SI launched its relationship with high school social net Takkle. Now comes word that the Time Inc. magazine may be negotiating for… Read more »
While some people focus on how many people actually have a Second Life, media and tech companies continue to populate the virtual world. Som… Read more »
Collaborative music sites NetMusicMakers.com and MyVirtualBand.com (open source music and online collaboration) will be consolidated and rel… Read more »
I wasn’t able to get revenue details into yesterday’s post on the Takkle-Sports Illustrated deal but via an email exchange with Jeff Price,… Read more »
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Through a new service called OpenServing, Wikia will provide free bandwidth, computing power, storage and software for collaborative content… Read more »
UBS analyst Aryeh Bourkoff covered a lot of ground in a far-ranging chat with Peter Chernin, president and COO of News Corp. The room was se… Read more »
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Last week, the virtual world Second Life was contending with a rogue program that copies all it touches; this week parent company Linden Lab… Read more »
Missed this yesterday … In a ruling that could cloud the level of protection for online web forums, a federal judge in Chicago has ruled t… Read more »
As in the real world, all online Utopias must come to an end. Linden Lab’s Second Life has been infected by journalists, advertisers, book s… Read more »
The September redesign of tvguide.com led to huge jumps in community registrations and traffic in the third quarter, Gemstar-TV Guide CE… Read more »
Given the flurry of interest in marketing, news reporting and the potential for generating revenue in Second Life, last week’s New Media Kno… Read more »
Reuters joined CNET in opening a Second Life newsroom this week. Technology correspondent Adam Pasick and his terrifying avatar are now patr… Read more »
Hotsoup.com, a social networking site for debating political issueswill be served up tomorrow and we got an early look. In a press call, fou… Read more »
The notion that content has to be edited is a legacy of old media, said Simon Assaad, co-founder of Heavy.com. “The beautiful thing about th… Read more »
This isn’t going to alleviate the pressure on Yahoo, which is being pushed from all sides to acquire Facebook whether or not it’s the right… Read more »
What’s the motivation and the model behind independent, one-town, local news sites? iBrattleboro is typically feisty and anti-commercial, re… Read more »
What has the BBC learned about interactivity? That it’s very expensive, for starters. This week it launched a new local blogging initiative… Read more »
UK online publisher Magicalia has picked up specialty magazine publisher Encanta Media for $5.1 million, aiming to style itself as the UK’s… Read more »
Guardian tech editor Victor Keegan just got back from Telford, home of the industrial revolution, which makes a tidy introduction for his th… Read more »
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Co-founded by Mark Potts and Susan DeFife, Backfence.com goes live in the Virginia communities of Reston and McLean. The business model incl… Read more »
UK communty site Friends Reunited has made its first major acquisition, with the purchase of an Australian counterpart called Schoolfriends.… Read more »
The latest online dating services know who you know and where you are…sites like Friendster, Ryze, Trepia and others. Read more »
Fox channels will start airing Classmates from June 30, a show based and developed through Classmates.com. The show will be a “half-hour str… Read more »
An Interesting Year Ahead for Online Community: Virtual communities have long been ticking over since the days of The Well, Tripod and Geoci… Read more »
MyFamily.com Makes Available WWI Draft Registration Cards, For a Price: MyFamily.com, one of the biggest subscription websites–750,000 paid… Read more »
Classmates.com Reaches 30 Million Members: Classmates.com, the personal networking and community site, has announced that its member base ex… Read more »
MatchLive To Bring Singles in NYC Together: Online dating site Match.com today announced the launch of MatchLive.com, a new subscription-bas… Read more »
Will TEoF Go Paid?: In response to the story below, the End of Free weblog may be considering going charging to some the site down the line,… Read more »
Classmates.com’s Stories to Be Made in TV Series: In what is perhaps a first for an online community site, Classmates Online, a personal net… Read more »
We’re Broke: The Economics of a Web Community: Kuro5hin, the uber-intellectual tech community site, is going through the survival pangs. So… Read more »
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