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Reunion.com Receives $25M Funding
16 Apr 2007 at 9:33am
Can a social network be Web 1.0? Reunion.com, which is announcing $25M in funding today from Oak Investment Partners, certainly doesn’t adhere to the principles of modern web design and features. But it does have 28 million users, making it a major force (just behind Bebo, if you can believe any of these [...]
BungeeLabs, Sneaking Out of Stealth
16 Apr 2007 at 8:56am
Also at the Web 2.0 Expo: Bungee Labs, which is starting to drop hints about its Bungee Connect product. Connect is a “100% on-demand web development and deployment environment” that launches in May. So what is it? Without going too deep into dev speak, it’s an IDE (integrated development environment) for building [...]
TED.com - TED Conference Launches Interactive Site
16 Apr 2007 at 8:23am
The TED Conference, the annual, invite-only summit featuring 50 of the world’s leaders in Technology, Entertainment and Design, is launching a revamped website today focusing on the distribution of its audio and video podcasts. The newly designed site is featuring more than 100 full-length TED talks, including some that haven’t been seen outside of the [...]
Last.fm Partners with IODA - Even More Music on Last.fm
16 Apr 2007 at 8:07am
Last.fm, the social discovery and recommendation music site, will announce a deal today with the Independent Online Distribution Alliance. The partnership between Last.fm and IODA means that even more music is now available for Last.fm users. IODA’s full catalog, which includes over 800,000 tracks, will be accessible to Last.fm members, and over 24,000 PromoTracks will [...]
FlixFocus, Latest Online Video Thingy
16 Apr 2007 at 7:44am
Please stop launching these things. Debuting today, FlixFocus is the latest site for uploading photos, music and videos and posting them to MySpace, Friendster, Piczo, hi5 et al. But cumulative effects say that YouTube has this one sewn up.
Recommended: Piczo Layouts at Mashcodes!

JobThread Launches EasyPost
9 Apr 2007 at 3:37pm
JobThread, a job board publisher, a fast way to post your job across a network of sites. With JobThread’s new EasyPost option, there are various ways in which an employer can reach potential employees. Test Reach is free, while Good Reach and Best Reach are premium options that gain higher visibility for websites that publish [...]
Who?s Famousr?
9 Apr 2007 at 3:28pm
The latest photo ranking site to launch: Famousr, which went live today, challenges you to decide which celebrity is more famous. The site has 8,000 actor and actress photos, and ranks them using a ?fame rank? algorithm, determined by a combination of how much people are talking about them and how many big acting [...]
Mobivity, Stikkit Mashup for Mobile Notes
9 Apr 2007 at 2:53pm
Mobivity, the mobile marketing solutions provider, has mashed its API with Stikkit, the online sticky note maker. With the mashing of these two APIs, Stikkit users can now create a note from their phone as well as retrieve existing notes. This mobile solution is great for business people and students that are always on the [...]
More Fabrik?
9 Apr 2007 at 2:45pm
Fabrik, the company that serves up “Web 2.0″ storage software and the hardware to accompany it, will start shipping new external storage drives today. The SimpleTech SimpleDrive, with design by Ferrari designer Pininfarina, comes in red, white, sapphire, onyx and gray. The capacity ranges from 160GB to 500GB, and drives come with a [...]
VMIX, Union Tribune Partner
9 Apr 2007 at 2:16pm
Video provider VMIX and Union-Tribune Publishing announced a deal today in which VMIX will power video uploads and community features for SignOnSanDiego.com?s new site, which is focused on the South San Diego area. UTSouth San Diego is a hyperlocal site that focuses on news and sports from San Diego’s South County. VMIX, of [...]

Photobucket Launches Mandy Moore Mashup Contest
3 Apr 2007 at 1:35pm
Photobucket is teaming up with pop singer Mandy Moore today to launch a video remix contest for high schoolers, and promote the singer’s new single “Extraordinary”. Photobucket members can use images, music and video clips of Mandy Moore to create their own mashup, combining the artist’s content with their own. The mashups will be created [...]
ClickTale Heatmaps Launching Now
3 Apr 2007 at 7:51am
ClickTale, a user tracking service for websites similar to CrazyEgg, will announce the launch of ClickTale Heatmaps in the next few minutes. ClickTale provides a multi-colored overlay for your website that shows where visitors look, which parts of the page they focus on and how far they scroll. The results might enable you [...]
MySpace Holds Presidential Primaries - Fox Helping the Left?
3 Apr 2007 at 6:47am
Editor’s note: This is really odd…why is Fox, generally considered to be a conservative network, promoting political participation among young Internet users, who tend to be left-leaning? And why are they pushing things further by declaring regular votes and a virtual primary that’s likely to favor left-wing candidates, perhaps even influencing the outcome of [...]
This Is Dave?s United State of Technorati
3 Apr 2007 at 5:49am
I’ve never understood why others have said that Technorati is losing it: yes, the search is full of spam, but the site is clearly doing a bunch of referred traffic from Google, and the blog search is still my number one choice. Founder David Sifry has just put out the latest stats for the [...]
BrightRoll, On a Roll?
3 Apr 2007 at 4:03am
The latest “momentum release” (ooh, look how big we are!) comes from video ad provider BrightRoll, which is announcing today that it has served 500 million ads in video players since its launch in late ‘06. It sounds impressive at face value, but then you can consider that YouTube was serving 100 million clips [...]