Govt Wants Power To Remove Videos From YouTube, All UGC Sites
The UK should create a Council For Child Internet Safety that would monitor user-generated content sites for offensive material, according t… Read more »
The UK should create a Council For Child Internet Safety that would monitor user-generated content sites for offensive material, according t… Read more »
Deluxe, yes, the Deluxe that prints old fashioned paper checks, wants to get in the social networking game: This evening it announced the ac… Read more »
–Qwest Begins Selling Wireless Services Under Verizon Wireless Brand: Qwest has begun offering Verizon Wireless services to all of its new… Read more »
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YouTube, part of Google (NSDQ: GOOG), has done a rare acquisition: it has bought online video tools firm Omnisio, for an undisclosed sum. Th… Read more »
Last week, NY-based social networker Meetup announced a new round of funding, sans-price. According to a regulatory filing, the round was fo… Read more »
T-Mobile is planning to launch a video-on-demand service for films and TV shows that can be watched on either a mobile or PC. NMA.co.uk repo… Read more »
These social network fundings, they keep coming, downturn or not. Teen-focused social network myYearbook, based in New Hope, PA, has receive… Read more »
Garena, an online gamer community based in Singapore, has raised $2 million from angels, according to Alarm:Clock. Investors include Skype c… Read more »
Dan Pelson, the SVP of Global Consumer Marketing at Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG), has left the company and joined back as the CEO of music… Read more »
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Updated: Facebook says the decision to block Scrabulous for U.S. and Canadian users was made by the Scrabulous developers, not Facebook. The… Read more »
Skyfire threw another hat in the mobile browser ring recently with the launch of its second private beta program. So far the new beta has be… Read more »
NBC has released details of its digital coverage for the Beijing Olympics, and there’s a fair amount in there. NBCOlympics Mobile will inclu… Read more »
PopularMedia, a developer of social media marketing tools, has raised an $8 million third round led by DAG ventures, along with past backers… Read more »
As social nets look to increase their ad revenues, MySpace is taking a more serious stab at the online classified market with a new channel.… Read more »
Given the popularity of individuals speculating on the foreign exchange (currency) markets, this seems inevitable… Social media firm Tradu… Read more »
trueAnthem, a developer of widgets for musicians, has raised a $2 million angel round from unidentified investors. The SF-based company offe… Read more »
CBC/Radio-Canada Mobilize: Canadian national public broadcaster CBC/Radio Canada is launching ad-supported mobile sites which will offer rea… Read more »
Gannett (NYSE: GCI), which has been doing a number of strategic investments in the last year or so, has now invested in Mogulus, the New Yor… Read more »
This is quite a win for geo-location and mobile social net GyPsii. Its owner, the Finnish-Dutch company GeoCentric, announced today it had s… Read more »
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– MPAA creating movie site to fight piracy: The MPAA is developing a yet-to-be named site that will allow users to search for films to lega… Read more »
After yesterday’s story about some trimming at AOL (NYSE: TWX), including its Weblogs Inc blog unit, AOL has sent out another internal memo… Read more »
Facebook is planning to launch a mobile version of its Facebook Connect service this fall, starting with the iPhone because the company has… Read more »
So the lawsuit has had the desired effect: RedLasso, the controversial online video clip and sharing service, is suspending its open service… Read more »
Official Games: Sega has announced a couple of official mobile games for the Beijing Olympics. The two titles are Beijing 2008 The Official… Read more »
This is quite a push for Stephen King Read more »
Four Google (NSDQ: GOOG) executives may be standing trial over failing to adequately monitor third-party content posted to their Italian lan… Read more »
In front of a standing-room only crowd, Om Malik, founder of GigaOmni Media, kicked off an afternoon panel pitting mobile versus web and did… Read more »
A survey of 600 mobile phone users in Australia by marketing agency Fresh has thrown up some interesting points, including that almost half… Read more »
– Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) Mobile: UK publisher Trinity Mirror is developing mobile sites for 2 national newspapers and 12 regional ones,… Read more »
So it isn’t just in U.S., but some frentic blog media activity in UK as well:
– Datamonitor founder Mike Danson, who bought half of left-… Read more »
Datamonitor founder Mike Danson, who bought half of left-leaning current affairs mag New Statesman from Labour MP Geoffrey Robinson in April… Read more »
Users seeking celebrity news and content want something more, something deeper that they can socialize around, Tyler Goldman, CEO of Buzznet… Read more »
Social Gaming Network is by one measure the third largest distributor of Facebook apps, and just last week it announced a fresh investment f… Read more »
While some of the crew is in Hollywood for EconCeleb, we’re here at the “office” holding things down… but via the magic of streaming, we,… Read more »
After several months in beta, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is going wide with content site Knol. While the site appears to be a challenge to Wikipedi… Read more »
Meetup, one of the original social network/event organizing sites, has received new funding from Union Square Ventures. No other details wer… Read more »
MessyMedia, an attempt by Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) former European news director to set up a Gawker-style UK blog publisher, has just been shut… Read more »
LiveJournal’s new owner plans to launch the blog community in India in the next few months. Moscow-based Sup bought the host from MovableTyp… Read more »
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