ICTV Changes Name To ActiveVideo Networks, Broadens Vision @ 18-05-2008 01:25
ICTV, a leader in bringing web content to televisions, has decided to adopt their ActiveVideo brand as their primary title. ActiveVideo Networks will be the name the company as a whole goes by from the present day onward. The name change is a result of the company wanting to better convey the move of the company [...]
Bebo Installs New Head Of Sales Specific To Irish Market @ 18-05-2008 00:50
We’ve said it numerous times before, and we’ll say it again. Bebo is big in the UK. One of the largest social networks in the region. More specifically, it’s Ireland’s #1. So it presumably comes as welcome news to Irish users that the company, recently sold to AOL to the tune of $850 million, has recently [...]
Tengaged: Meet New Friends. Then Eliminate Them. @ 17-05-2008 23:20
Tengaged, a new social site for meeting friends and playing to popular opinion, is bringing aspects of the well-known “Big Brother” game to the Internet. The system seems pretty straightforward. You sign up for a game, and as soon as the one you’ve chosen gets a list of 10 people, the play begins. For the [...]
The Web Sheriff Puts The Pirate Bay On Notice @ 17-05-2008 21:50
Not a week passes by without The Pirate Bay making some headline somewhere in the world. Whether its flouting copyright owners or battling law enforcement agencies, the site’s administrators are wont to spread a mixed bag of misery and cheer to big-business content producers and and consumers, respectively. This week marked an announcement by none other [...]
Cast And Producers Of Indiana Jones Take To The Web On Seesmic @ 17-05-2008 20:40
Ahead of this weeks release of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and with the Cannes Film Festival as a backdrop, the cast of the film, including its director and producer took questions from the public on Seesmic. Seesmic has been in the news a lot this month with the addition of video [...]
Sony Bridges Playstation With YouTube APIs For Gameplay Uploads @ 17-05-2008 19:32
If you’re a videogame buff, and have the desire to share captures of the action via the Web, chances are you’ll like this story. Now, as far as online video hosts are concerned, YouTube is king. No question about that. But in the realm of video game clips, some players may pay greater mind to more [...]
The Importance Of Being An Early Adopter @ 17-05-2008 18:50
Back in the summer of 2006, a new and - to many - not that interesting service called Twttr was launched as a side project from Odeo. It was later renamed to Twitter, and it started gaining some serious traction somewhere in 2007. At the time of Twitter’s humble beginnings, it didn’t seem very important to [...]
ComScore: People Now Paying More Visits To Google Than Yahoo @ 17-05-2008 18:47
While it may surprise some people it hadn’t yet happened (or perhaps that it actually did happen), Google has finally overtaken Yahoo as the most visited site on the Web. Linda Rosencrance of Computerworld relayed some data out of comScore which shows that what some might have considered an inevitability has finally happened: Google is numero [...]
Yahoo Shareholders Claim Company Is Concealing Critical Documents @ 17-05-2008 17:44
The shareholder lawsuit against Yahoo over the board of directors’ failure to accept the buyout from Microsoft is getting more complicated by the day. According to Michael Liedtke of the Associated Press, a new motion has been filed by shareholders’ lawyer stating that Yahoo is attempting “to whitewash embarrassing documents” related to a Yahoo employee severance [...]
Mozilla Debuts Firefox 3 Release Candidate @ 17-05-2008 16:55
En route to an official launch next month, Mozilla put up for download its Firefox 3 Release Candidate yesterday evening. Mozilla is describing Firefox 3 RC1 as yet another milestone “focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform.” According to notes associated with Firefox 3 RC1, the [...]
70 Fresh And Modern Blogger Templates @ 17-05-2008 12:47
You can never have a too wide choice of templates for your blog, especially if you’re the experimenting type. Therefore, we started another round up of Blogger themes, this time focusing on fresh and modern designs, and came up with about 70 of them. Please note that many of the template authors’ sites are [...]
Glubble Filters a $3 Million Series A @ 17-05-2008 02:37
Glubble is a developer of a parental control plugin for Firefox, which aids adults in the ability to watch over their kids internet usage. In their approach is something similar to the Kidzui method, where they create a whitelist of kid-friendly sites. Instead of working on generating the list themselves, the sites on the whitelist are [...]
Confirmed: Wired Buying Ars Technica @ 17-05-2008 00:53
It seems the rumors reported earlier today by TechCrunch were spot on, and Wired is the proud new owner of Ars Technica. In a call to Alexandra Constantinople, Executive Director of Communications for Wired, she confirmed that, “the story is accurate, but (Wired) won’t be issuing an official statement until next week.” This is sure [...]
HealthWorldWeb: Find Doctors and Support Groups [The Startup Review] @ 17-05-2008 00:30
Editor’s Note: If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion in “The Startup Review” series, please see the details here. STARTUP DETAILS: Company Name: HealthWorldWeb 20 word description: HealthWorldWeb.com is a health-focused patients social network, doctors search portal and community-based reviews and recommendations engine for local medical providers. CEO’s 100 word description: [...]
Why’d You Have To Go And Make Things So Complicated? @ 16-05-2008 21:44
When Data Portability was first announced, it sounded like it would solve what had become one of the biggest problems in the social networking space: a seemingly endless array of new services, each of which required you to setup and maintain your own profile, friend’s list, photo albums, etc. With the support of just [...]
AOL Launches ParentDish @ 16-05-2008 20:04
AOL has added a new channel to its AOL Living portal; this one is for parents. As we all know, blogging has become a favorite pastime for parents all over the world. Sites like CafeMom has taken off, and have raked in some high valuations. Most of the older portal sites from [...]
Vodafone Buys ZYB, Cites Likeminded Interest And Philosophy @ 16-05-2008 19:02
Vodafone, the largest mobile network operator in Europe, has announced the acquisition of ZYB, a company based in Denmark with an eye on content backup as well as social networking. Vodafone intends to add ZYB to its “Total Communications” strategy, in which it seeks to serve customers with an integrated mobile phone and PC experience.The [...]
Jerry Yang To Workforce: Nevermind The Pitchforks And Torches. Keep Coding. @ 16-05-2008 18:06
The past 24 hours have been thoroughly intriguing. It hasn’t been very long since Yahoo and Microsoft ceased their deeply fouled rendezvous with a reversal from Redmond. And though Yahoo seems to have staved off a shareholder mutiny in post-prod, at least for the short term, it is now forced to contend with a purportedly [...]
Pushed By Icahn, Yahoo Jumps Back Into Ad Deal With Google? @ 16-05-2008 16:45
According to the New York Post, Yahoo-Google advertising deal is not far from reality. After Carl Icahn announced his plan to seize Yahoo’s board of directors, which would consqeuently accept a Microsoft buyout, Yahoo execs are up for an open alliance with Google, and there’s a good possibility that an ad deal between two companies [...]
Thanks to Our Sponsors @ 16-05-2008 16:30
Want to get noticed? Advertise with us. If you’d like to help support our growth, development, and help us continue to produce great content, contact us for more information. This week, the following companies deserve some awesome recognition. Our sponsors are EdgeCast, Weblin, and Userplane. EdgeCast Networks offers a superior, cost-effective, global content delivery service that gives [...]
FriendFeed - Does It Enrich The Conversation Or Add To The Noise? @ 16-05-2008 13:50
Muhammad Saleem made an interesting point about FriendFeed on Twitter earlier today, which turned - ironically, and against his will - into a big discussion on FriendFeed. As many of you know, FriendFeed aggregates all your other social profiles into one feed. But it does more than that; it’s another social network in itself, meaning [...]
Web 2.0 Invites for May 16th, 2008 @ 16-05-2008 10:55
New Web 2.0 services await; all you need to do is grab your free invites over at Mashable Invites! ---Related Articles at Mashable! - The Social Networking Blog:Web 2.0 Invites for January 2nd, 2008Web 2.0 Invites for February 17th, 2008Web 2.0 Invites for March 4th, 2008Web 2.0 Invites for March 9th, 2008Web 2.0 Invites for [...]
Web 2.0 Marketplace Listings for May 16th, 2008 @ 16-05-2008 10:55
The Web 2.0 Marketplace is a place to list Web 2.0 and “New Media” websites for sale, job offers, consulting services, Facebook development services and more. ---Related Articles at Mashable! - The Social Networking Blog:Web 2.0 Marketplace: Your Feedback PleaseFacebook Marketplace: WRONG! Not OodledWeb 2.0 Marketplace Listings for February 21st, 2008Web 2.0 Marketplace Listings for [...]
Podiobooks Signs Ad Deal with Wizzard Media @ 16-05-2008 07:38
A couple of months ago, on Mashable Conversations we spoke with Scott Sigler, a published fiction writer who launched his career with social media (specifically podcasting). He, along with a number of other aspiring and accomplished authors, would debut his work to the public by releasing serialized episodes of the chapters of his book, something [...]
Lori Drew Indicted over Megan Meier Cyberbullying @ 16-05-2008 06:37
Well, it turns out that it just might be illegal to impersonate someone on MySpace and crush a teenage girl’s spirit so much that she ends up hanging herself. Just when you thought the saga of Megan Meier was over with and the villain was going to get off free and clear, the culprit Lori Drew [...]
Metacafe Launches the Cafe Council @ 16-05-2008 05:56
Back in November, YouTube announced the creation of something called the Community Council, which is where they got some of the more visible video posters together, and appointed them as folks to act as liasons to the community at large. Metacafe is growing at a decent clip themselves, and has embarked into creating something similar; they’re [...]
MashBash NYC Tomorrow - Last Minute Tickets Added @ 16-05-2008 04:58
Still don’t have your VIP tickets for this Friday’s MashBashNYC? We were sold out but I managed to finagle the venue into adding 50 more last minute tickets. Please buy them directly through Webster Hall. Any remaining tickets will be available at the door between 8pm and 9pm only. Who’s ready for a crazy night?! Join [...]
Plaxo’s John McCrea Sheds Some Light on the Comcast Deal @ 16-05-2008 04:15
I had a chance to talk to John McCrea today regarding the acquisition of his company by Comcast, and while a lot of the raw information is probably found elsewhere or in other analysis, the way he laid it all out to me showed me exactly how much sense the joining of these two organizations [...]
Buru: FriendFeed Plus Delicious [The Startup Review] @ 16-05-2008 03:46
Editor’s Note: If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion in “The Startup Review” series, please see the details here. STARTUP DETAILS: Company Name: Buru 20 word description: Users can collect web contents into collections and easily share them in buru.com. CEO’s 100 word description: There is always someone who has [...]
More Love Notes: Yahoo Responds to Icahn’s Master Plan @ 16-05-2008 02:08
Surprise! Yahoo doesn’t agree with Carl Icahn’s assessment that “it is unconscionable that you have not allowed your shareholders to choose to accept an offer that represented a 72% premium over Yahoo’s closing price of $19.18 on the day before the initial Microsoft offer.” Those were the words used by Icahn in a letter [...]
