Federated Media Partners with Facebook Apps

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Despite the recent Beacon controversy, Federated Media Publishing has joined the Facebook bandwagon. They have signed partnership with the owners of Facebook app Graffiti and Watercooler Inc., a company that’s responsible for all those Addicted To The (insert TV series name here) applications. Two initial sponsors are Hewlett-Packard and Wacom. ...

SixApart Unloads LiveJournal on Russian Media Company SUP

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Six Apart, the blogging software and services company, has sold its network of topic-based blogging communities LiveJournal, Inc. to SUP, an international media company based in Russia. The financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Having acquired LiveJournal in 2005, Six Apart will remain involved with LiveJournal ...

FeVote Adds Scribd, Flickr and YouTube Media to “Suggestion Box”

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Nearly every company has a suggestion box, and for online companies, that suggestion box sends along a nice little email to the “community guy.” When FeVote came around, they made structured suggestion boxes easier for users and companies to manage, and today it’s rolled out some new options ...

YouTube-CNN Republican Debate Reflects Poorly on New Media

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Politics are a touchy subject. American politics, doubly so. Wednesday night, CNN and YouTube played host to a Republican debate that, as it turns out, has stirred up a bit of controversy. It would appear that either CNN has the worst screening process known to man, or that there is indeed ...

IPTV Provider Avail Media Raises $25M

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

IPTV and media service company Avail Media, Inc. has just closed the final tranche of a $25 million Series B equity round. Valhalla Partners joined previous backers Columbia Capital, Novak Biddle Venture Partners, and Pioneer Ventures for this round. Along with the company’s $5 million in debt financing ...

Facebook Application “Crushes” Acquired by Buddy Media

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Buddy Media, the company behind the nicely-funded AceBucks Facebook application, has acquired the Crushes application to add to its ever-growing repertoire. The amount for the acquisition was not disclosed, but Crushes reportedly has about 30,000 daily active users, which is about 3% of its total user base. The ...

Who’s Your Favorite New Media Douchebag?

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

Ha, I strongly suspect I qualify as a “new media douchebag”, as evidenced in this educational video. A trollbait question: who’s your favorite new media douchebag? Bonus points for insulting Mashable and its staff. [via Scoble] Share This Can't see the video? Click here

Wizzard Media Joins the Navy

Monday, November 19th, 2007

A threshold in new media has been crossed today. Wizzard Media has announced that they’ve signed the U.S. Navy as a client for a far reaching advertising campaign running until the end of January. The campaign will include twenty shows on the podcasting network and more than 3,000 ...

Microsoft Wants to Rule the Media World Too

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

We heard of Microsoft’s plans earlier to take over the web, especially in terms of search and its ad market. Now we’re hearing of the company’s plans to take over media. Of course the first thing that comes to mind is Microsoft’s ongoing mission for a connected ...

20+ Media Cataloging Sites

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

If you’re anything like me, you have more DVDs than you could ever watch, but you keep buying. Sometimes it would be nice to know what you have, same with CDs, games and so on, at anytime. What follows are 20+ ways to keep track of all the ...