news about social networking and user generated content
- PhoneCasting.com set to launch in early summer 2007, is an online social network that brings you the best in podcasting, phonecasting, mobile and video content. Use our simple tools topublish your own pocasts and phonecasting channels to publish your own content to the nets podcasting community.
- Emap's Kiss Radio is inviting listeners to upload user generated content including images, music and videos to Kiss Life to demonstrate what Kiss means to them. .su intellagencia.com
- The Magnify team is a growing band of media makers, code wranglers, and web evangelists who are committed to making video a team sport
.su magnify.net
NEWS ABOUT USER GENERATED VIDEO ONLINE
- The deal allows Five News to expand its Your News strand with a new user-generated feature called Your Views using material posted to http://www.friction.tv/. .su digitalspy.co.uk
- New User-Generated Online Video sharing site for the South Asians launched at AajKaTV.com .su press-releases.techwhack.com
- http://www.pczapper.tv video portale
- You can watch now the short films entered by the three finalists at the MYSPACE - my movie mashup myspace.com/mymoviemashup
- The VCAM project ( by current.tv) is a unique platform for user-generated ads that provides valuable opportunities for filmmakers and advertisers. Filmmakers can go to http://www.current.tv/make to see a list of advertisers and ad assignments
- Headquartered in New York, NY, WeShow (www.weshow.co.uk) is creating a revolution in video consumption on the web. It is a unique human powered guide to the world of online video entertainment providing a simple, country specific and personalised view of all the top quality videos from around the globe.
- AtomFilms, a division of Viacom's MTVN Entertainment Group, doubled its US audience during the month of May, driven by the launch of its new user-generated-content community, AtomUploads. The new service offers creators the ability to post and share their video and animation content, with the most successful uploads earning the attention of development and programming staff at AtomFilms and COMEDY CENTRAL. To view AtomUploads log-on to http://uploads.atomfilms.com /
- A perfect example of such a revolutionary filmmaking project is the aptly titled "Lets Film" project (www.LetsFilm.com). The project aims to create an ambitious action-packed, high intensity movie (that would understandably need a big budget for special effects and stunts!) completely online. Although it is not clear who is investing in and backing the project, the site has already raced to forming a neat little community online that’s buzzing with excitement. .su movievine.com
- After six years of cutting-edge research and development, streaming media specialists Rawflow Inc will this weekend launch SelfCast, a revolutionary new service that threatens to turn the television industry upside down. http://www.selfcasttv.com
- The Los Angeles Times has launched Metromix, an entertainment site combining editorial and user-generated content.
- By downloading fix8's free software, Stickam users can choose from avatars, creative "dress-up" accessories, flash animation and more to create live animated videos. Stickam users can also let their imagination run wild with fix8's personal photorealistic avatar creator. The companies will cross- market the service. fix8 will also create unique avatars, accessories and images for the Stickam community as a premium software offering. http://www.fix8.com/
SOCIAL NETWORK- about TRAVEL - Today SideStep announced that they have done just so with the acquisition of TripUp, a web community based around travel.- Yepic (http://www.yepic.com/) is a collaborative content marketplace for premium user-generated content. Bringing together the most popular Web 2.0 trends, Yepic provides bloggers and other subject matter experts with a new way to monetize their premium content.
- Zillow, a free home evalutation service, Adds User Generated Content - website http://www.zillow.com/
- Zootoo is the first and only user-generated Web site for lovers of all pets -- from dogs and cats to horses, iguanas, fish and more. ... www.zootoo.com
- King.com, the world's largest skill games site, today announced the launch of MyGame.com, the first social games site to bring together user-generated content, casual games, and revenue-sharing. MyGame is already available in eight languages and visible now at www.mygame.com
- Blogbang est une plate-forme publicitaire 2.0 Les marques y déposent des briefs, les internautes créent des pubs et les bloggeurs diffusent celles de leur choix contre rémunération.
http://www.blogbang.com
- A new site, UPedia www.UPedia.com, offers a free platform to make money and promote your business by uploading educational how-to videos: From sports to cooking, guitar lessons to gardening tips -- everything goes.
- The newly launched sites http://www.marchex.com/network/ now feature more than 15 million business listings across all major yellow pages categories, a deep refinement system, user-generated reviews and ratings, and third-party expert reviews aggregated by Marchex's Open List local content publishing engine. The sites in the launch include tens of thousands of vertical, local and local-vertical web sites, such as www.cuisine.com , www.locksmiths.com , and www.remodeling.com ; www.bayareahotels.com , www.newyorkdoctors.com , and www.denverautorepair.com, http://www.videocameras.com/; and Marchex's ZIP Code web sites, which cover 96% of all ZIP Code areas nationwide, such as www.90210.com ...
- EXAMPLE of collaboration book - In a remarkable example of collaboration, The Age of Conversation is about to be released. DrewMcClellan and Gavin Heaton - along with over 100 bloggers - are pulling it off.
.su onereaderatatime.blogspot.com
- Thoof lets you share interesting news articles, websites, videos, photographs, and other links with your friends and other Thoof readers. You can let Thoof know what interests you just by clicking on stories you like— each time you visit, we'll be able to show you more of what you want to see. http://www.thoof.com
- Part search engine, part multimedia gallery, WEBMUNISM is a new service for finding online pictures, videos, albums, and knowledge, all united into self-organizing categories. Each category is called a "webmune" and is composed of all the media which our automatic categorization engine places into the webmune.
The media displayed and categorized on Webmunism are drawn from other well-known content services on the web. We use photos from Flickr, videos from Youtube, music data from last.fm, book details from Amazon, and subject headings and brief descriptions from Wikipedia. We are not a part of any of these companies but use the excellent APIs they provide.
. su maestroalberto.it
- Chess.com is dedicated to becoming the premier online community for chess players around the world. Chess.com aims to provide a safe and enjoyable environment where chess players of all skill levels can learn, contribute, play, build, chat, and share.
.su mytech.it
- Make Me Sustainable è quello che fa per voi: un social network verde che aiuta a tenere traccia dei propri consumi energetici e a ridurre l'impatto personale sull'ambiente, a partire dall'adozione di nuove abitudini. http://makemesustainable.com/
.su mytech.it
- With the advent of the social networking phenomenon in the modern world of today, http://www.maktoob.com/ has paved the way with a huge move in one of the key areas of Web 2.0, by partnering with http://www.faye3.com/ , the winner of this year's Queen Rania National Entrepreneurship Competition
CONFERENCES ABOUT SOCIAL MEDIA- about crowdsourcing at The FORTUNE Tech Summit (July 12-13, 2007) in SanFrancisco, California http://www.timeinc.net/fortune/conferences/conferences.html
Crowdsourcing: How Communities Change Media, Marketing, and Making Money Jim Buckmaster, CEO, craigslist Max Levchin, CEO, Slide Jeremy Stoppelmann, CEO, Yelp
Richard Barton, CEO, Zillow.com
- due interessanti sessioni su user generated content
1. Content Is King!Content, content, content! That's all you've heard from speakers throughout the show -- that good content is crucial. But what exactly is good content? This session looks at how to go beyond selling. Offering useful, substantial information can be a key to long-term success with search engines and visitors. We'll show you good content to help you visualize what you should be building.
Speakers:
Jeannette Cézanne, Communication, eWayDirect
Benjamin Lloyd, President, Amplify Interactive
Dave DeVries, Marketing Manager, Microsoft Small Business
2. User Generated Content & SearchLooking for good content to please search engines but don't have a lot to spend. How about turning to your users? Discover the wonderful world of user generated content!
Speakers:
Andrew Goodman, Principal, Page Zero Media
Matt Mcgee, SEO Manager, Marchex
Lee Odden, CEO, TopRank Online Marketing .su searchenginestrategies.comThe new widget campaign on Freewebs encourages people to interact with the movie and its characters, as well as enjoy playing with a fun 'Baby Maker' photo page which allows people to upload a photo themselves and someone else to see an automatically generated funny baby picture showing an amusing mix of features from both photos. http://www.knockedupbabymaker.com /and something about CONTEST- Contestants are invited to create an animated short film starring Dippin' Dots' mascot, Packy, via an easy-to-use, web-based game tool located at www.dippindots.com/contest. - AL Gore contest - Submissions are due by Sept. 12, and the spots will be judged by a panel of activists, scientists and celebrities like Cameron Diaz and George Clooney. The alliance may choose to broadcast several of the entries; a Toyota Highlander hybrid S.U.V. will be awarded for the best spot. (Contest details are at www.current.tv/ecospot/on NYTimes- From SCI FI Channel - how wants to be a hero - comics contest - For complete contest rules and regulations, visit http://superhero2-CBC.1up.com
