CBS made a smart move creates “EyeLab”

September 28, 2007 on 8:10 pm     5 Comments

Ah! CBS finally understands in practical why YouTube is so successful. The media company has launched EyeLab that would create and distribute short clips from the popular shows. Seems like a good move and might get popular as this is what web users have - short attention span. {via}

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IBM Labor Union Strike on SecondLife

September 28, 2007 on 7:16 pm     4 Comments

Things like labor unrest usually doesn’t happen in US, but in other parts of the world , it is very much a part of life. Now, all this happening in 3D is something new we have come across. According to news reports, IBM labor union upset over a paycut impacting Italian workers. Company refuses comment, strike leaders claim success, 1850 total attendance (including bananas and geometric dissenters). {via}

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Classmates Media shows $570,000 operating profit

September 28, 2007 on 7:00 pm     5 Comments

Classmates media, company operates one of the popular site Classmates.com shows $570,000 operating profit vs $212,000 operating loss in the year-ago period and the $442,000 loss in the prior quarter. Its good comback for the company looking to go for an IPO and industry analysts watching it closely and if the IPO goes successfully then lot of social networking sites will follow. via

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Steroids on MySpace

September 27, 2007 on 6:16 pm     4 Comments

Officials arrested 120 people on Monday and charged 5 men for selling Steriods on the MySpace. All this happening in New Haven, CT, Tempe, Arizona, and Pennsylvania. More details at IHT

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efans.com- Social network for sports lovers

September 27, 2007 on 6:07 pm     3 Comments

As if we didn’t have enough, or we couldn’t create enough via Ning or KickApps, Efans.com has launched social networking site for sports lovers where they can network with sports fans, athelets and teams. Others in this space -Takkle(review), SportsVite(review), ArmchairGM.

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linkedln users can now connect using Photos

September 27, 2007 on 6:02 pm     4 Comments

Linkedin users can now associate the photo to their profile and also provided the feature to hide your photo incase if you do not want to show your picture to your connections. Eitherway, not sure what it took them so long.

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Jaxtr growing faster than Skype

September 27, 2007 on 5:53 pm     No Comments

Jaxtr increased userbase to 100000 in just in a month . Jaxtr dosen’t require a download as opposed to Skype and can hook up your phone to the web and also can embed Jaxtr widget on social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook. Still, we would like to get comparison between Jangl and Jaxtr userbases. Press Release

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Wi-Fi memory card is coming; Thanks Eye-Fi :)

September 27, 2007 on 5:46 pm     1 Comment

Taking a small dip on the hardware side of things, Atheros Communications has announced that its single-chip AR6001GL ROCm(TM) (Radio-on-a-Chip) mobile WLAN solution was chosen to provide 802.11g connectivity in the world’s first wireless memory card for digital cameras designed by Eye-Fi. The Eye-Fi Card is expected to debut this fall — in time for the holiday season. The wireless memory card for digital cameras will capitalize on Wi-Fi, making it effortless for users to upload, save, share and print photos, thereby removing virtually all obstacles to instant photo sharing. Now I really need that it’s been months I moved photos and videos from my camera over to my PC to eventually print them out some day.

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YouTubeVibes Sold

September 27, 2007 on 5:44 pm     4 Comments

Nt Media acquired YouTubeVibes, where users can upload media and share with users. Press Release

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ApnaCircle - Sabeer Bhatia’s SN venture

September 27, 2007 on 5:42 pm     1 Comment

I guess more and more entrepreneurs are getting motivated by the $10 billion valuation that Facebook is getting. Newest to join the mad-mad race is Sabeer Bhatia, who made a fortune in 90s by selling Hotmail to Microsoft. Sabeer has teamed up with Yogesh Bansal to launch social networking site ApnaCircle(aka MyCircle) targeted at Indian users. I think it was about time India got an experienced pro to work on that, as compared to jackass teams spamming their users.

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