Broadband Content Bits: SNL Political; Entertainment Rights; MTVN; CSG-National Lampoon
– NBCU launches Saturday Night Live politics minisite: SNL still doesn’t have a real contender for Obama impressions but it does have “SNL… Read more »
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MySpace And Facebook Already Biggest Mobile Social Networks
By James Quintana Pearce
VentureBeat has done a good analysis of the mobile social networking space, covering (what it thinks are) the 10 largest most significant co… Read more »
Social Mobile Bits: ShoZu Adds Services; Nimbuzz Launch; More Mobile Users Accessing Social Nets
– ShoZu: Mobile media and info sharing service ShoZu says it has added eight new destinations, taking its roster up to 36. Users can now up… Read more »
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iPhone Gets More Video, But Not From Apple
By James Quintana Pearce
A couple of new services are sending video to the iPhone, which has been hampered by a narrow choice of supported video formats (Flash being… Read more »
Facebook Issues Improved Privacy, Obscenity Protections; Joins MySpace On Internet Safety Task Force
By David Kaplan
Facebook makes a PR push on the privacy and safety front today, instituting an array of enhanced privacy safeguards and obscenity blockers a… Read more »
Microsoft Tries For Residual Buzz With Online Video Contest
By David Kaplan
With Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) getting its most positive presentation from the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) ads starring comedian John Hodgman as the hap… Read more »
SlideShare Gets $3 Million For Presentation Docs Hosting
Powerpoint presentation sharer SlideShare has raised a $3 million first-round investment. David Siminoff, a partner with lead investor Venro… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: VZ Navigator; Paramount Games; Java Video
By James Quintana Pearce
– Verizon (NYSE: VZ) launches VZ Navigator version 4: Verizon has launched version 4 of VZ Navigator, which lets customers access informati… Read more »
Updated: Chernin On FIM: ‘Yes, We Will Fall Short’ On $1B Revenue; ‘Too Soon To Milk For Margins’
First chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch got defensive about Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS), then News Corp COO Peter Chernin hit the stories about Fox… Read more »
Fora.TV Gets $4 Million First Round For Intelligent Video Programming
By Joseph Weisenthal
Fora.TV, a distributor of online video for a discerning audience, has raised a $4 million first round from Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE), William Rando… Read more »
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NBC Pulls The Curtain Up On Virtual Women’s Network; Plans Hyper-local Content Center In NYC
By David Kaplan
NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) has finally launched Women@NBCU, its long-anticipated virtual female-targeted content and ad network. Also as expec… Read more »
Burrp Had Received Angel Funding From Network18 Group CEO Haresh Chawla
By Nikhil Pahwa
There’s a rumour doing the rounds that Web18 has invested in social media startup Burrp.com. We’ve confirmed from official Network18 sources… Read more »
Sprint-Clearwire: First Reactions To JV Are Mixed: ‘Spaghetti-like Mess,’ Google, Intel ‘Good Signs’
By Tricia Duryee
A joint-venture deal between Sprint (NYSE: S) and Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) that includes investments of $3.2 billion coming from Intel (NSDQ:… Read more »
Reed Weighs Pay-Per-View Salaries; Depends On Divesture
Gawker Media publisher Nick Denton sparked controversy last month (not least amongst his writers) with a new salary structure that rewards b… Read more »
Goodrec Gets $900k For Social Reviews
By Joseph Weisenthal
Goodrec, a recommendation sharing service, has raised $900,000 of a planned $1.05 million first round, reports peHUB. Investors include Soft… Read more »
Earnings: United Online Q1 Revs Slip 6 Percent; Classmates Revs Up 22 Percent
By Joseph Weisenthal
United Online (NSDQ: UNTD), the owner of a dial-up business, Classmates.com and eventually flower company FTD, announced Q1 revenue of $121.… Read more »
Personal Assistant Rearden Commerce Raises $100 Million For Expansion To Mobile
By Tricia Duryee
Rearden Commerce, which has been focused on creating a Web-based personal assistant that lets you manage calendars and make travel arrangeme… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Springer; Frengo Mobile Apps; Coldplay Ringtone; Nokia Film Awards
By Tricia Duryee
– The Jerry Springer Show has launched some mobile interactivity, with some features also available though a landline. It includes ringtone… Read more »
LiveJournal Cleans Up Premium Accounts Mess By Appointing Users To Board
Blog platform LiveJournal’s new Russian owners are endeavouring to make the site more open by appointing some of their users to their adviso… Read more »
Social Bookmarker Mister Wong Acquires Lifestream.fm
By Joseph Weisenthal
Mister Wong, a social bookmarking start-up based in Germany, has acquired Lifestream.fm, a service that lets users aggregate their web activ… Read more »
Can “Free” DVB-T Drive Mobile TV Uptake?
By Dianne See Morrison
Is mobile TV gaining momentum or isn Read more »
Canvera Raises Series A Funding From Footprint, DFJ And Mumbai Angels
By Nikhil Pahwa
Canvera, a Bangalore-based digital photo startup has raised an undisclosed amount of funding in a round led by Footprint Ventures, reports V… Read more »
CraveOnline Buys Two Hockey Fan Sites; Keeps Craving For More
By David Kaplan
Male-focused online entertainment network CraveOnline and its parent AtomicOnline have been on an acquisition tear lately. The company tells… Read more »
Hoping For Ungodly Returns: Christian Video Sharing Site GodTube Gets $30 Million Funding
By Rafat Ali
GodTube, one of the fast growing Christian online video sharing and social networking sites, has received a big $30 million funding round fr… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: C4 Catch Up; Gurgle Books; Cheapflights; Virgin Radio TV; ITV Social Support
By Dianne See Morrison
– Online Catch Up For Channel 4: Channel 4 has rolled out a free seven-day catch-up service on channel4.com, reports NMA.co.uk. The clic… Read more »
Social Shopper Wishpot Raises $1 Million First Round
By Joseph Weisenthal
Wishpot, a social shopping start-up, has raised a $1 million first round from Monster Venture Partners, along with Italian internet firm H-F… Read more »
Vodafone UK Incorporates Internet Pricing Into Monthly Plan
By Dianne See Morrison
Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) UK is doing away with its separately priced internet bundles, and instead will now integrate the cost of access to the… Read more »
Adobe Sets Flash Free; Aims For 40 Percent Mobile Penetration By Year’s End
By Dianne See Morrison
Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) is licensing its video-enabling Flash software for free for mobile devices in an attempt to make the technology as ubiqui… Read more »
LinkedIn Playing Catch Up In Europe
By Dianne See Morrison
Professional social network LinkedIn is getting serious about expanding outside the US to help grow its share of the social net market. In J… Read more »
AT&T’s MediaFlo Mobile TV Service To Launch Next Week; Pricing Will Make It DOA
By Rafat Ali
AT&T (NYSE: T) Wireless will finally launch its much delayed mobile TV broadcasting service next week, and it has made all the necessary mov… Read more »
Time Warner and Others Invest $25 Million in Meebo; Korea, Japan Expansion Plans
By Rafat Ali
As we reported first earlier today, social IM firm Meebo has closed its third round of funding, and it came in at a big amount: $25 million.… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Bluetooth Races; Filipino DVB-H; Find.mobi; UrbanWorld
By James Quintana Pearce
– The Australian Jockey Club has launched a sponsored content service at Randwick racecourse in Sydney. Supported by brands like Thrifty an… Read more »
Social IM Firm Meebo Closes Funding; Announcement Tomorrow
By Rafat Ali
Mountain View, CA-based Meebo, the popular web-based IM service, has closed its big round of funding, we have learned, and the announcement… Read more »
Friends Reunited Drops Subs For Ad-Funded Model; Emphasis Now On Socialising Online
By Dianne See Morrison
As expected, the newly relaunched Friends Reunited has dropped its pay wall, hoping that going free will allow it to keep a grip on its memb… Read more »
@ EconSM: Interview: Ron Grant, President, AOL: Bebo Will Return Us To Our Roots
AOL president Ron Grant, appearing on our EconSM panel, suggested new acquisition Bebo would be used to thread social features throughout AO… Read more »
@ EconSM: Deals And Dealmakers: The Outlook For 2008
By Joseph Weisenthal
The final panel at EconSM was the deals panel, which ContentNext Editor and Publisher Rafat Ali described as the “flagship” panel.
Economy… Read more »
@ EconSM: Taking Social Media To Mobile Is An Experimentation For Some; Risks Exist
By Tricia Duryee
Almost the entire ContentNext gang is in the Los Angeles hills at the Skirball Cultural Center for EconSM, an entire day’s worth of panels a… Read more »
@EconSM: AOL & Bebo; ‘The Final Leg Of The Stool’
By Joseph Weisenthal
AOL’s $850 million purchase of Bebo back in March was one of the big social media deals of the year. In a Q&A with ContentNext co-editor Sta… Read more »
Mobile TV Advertising Worth $2.44 Billion By 2012: Report
By James Quintana Pearce
The market for rich media advertising on mobile — in the form of TV, video, games, user-generated content (UGC) and music — will reach $2.… Read more »
@ EconSM: Advertisers’ Love/Hate Relationship With Social Media
By David Kaplan
Advertisers and media companies have a strange disconnect when it comes to social media. On one hand, they’re heartily embrace the ability t… Read more »
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