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eBay Acquires StumbleUpon
2007-04-19 08:37:00
It looks like eBay is looking at Stumble Upon . According to sources eBay is looking to acquire the social bookmarking tool StumbleUpon for $40-$45 million. StumbleUpon is a browser toolbar that lets you rate sites with a ?thumbs up? or ?thumbs down?. The more sites you rate, the more StumbleUpon learns about you, meaning that the sites ...
More About: General , Ebay , Acquire

NetBucket.net - New Webmaster Marketplace Launches!
2007-02-03 13:12:03
NetBucket.com launches today! A new webmaster’s marketplace auction web site. With NetBucket you can place auction classified ads for web sites for sale, domain names for sale, templates for sale or advertise your services such as programming, advertising, link exchanges, and hosting services. The web site will be in beta mode for about a month. All listing are free! If you have any sites to sell feel free to post them on NetBucket. The web site is planning on doing heavy advertising this month to get more traffic and hoping to grow quickly.
More About: Webmaster , Market , Launch , Place , Master

Minggl Toolbar for MySpace and Facebook
2007-01-31 01:09:01
Minggl, a new plugin has launches a beta toolbar for users of MySpace and Facebook. You start by entering your usernames and passwords for MySpace and Facebook. Then, when you?re visiting a compatible social network, Minggl pops up a little box at the top right (the ?MiNGGL Social Palette?) and allows you to add that user to your ?multi-site friends list?. This basically provides easy access to your contacts in the sidebar, and allows you to search them or browse by tags.Users can also annotate their social networking pages with ?notes? - you can add images, sounds and text to your profile on Facebook or MySpace, all neatly integrated so it looks like part of the profile page. These notes can be made viewable by all Minggl users, or just your friends. Other features includes the ability to jump straight to your various profiles, send messages and invite friends. In short: Minggl is a way to aggregate your friends (a bit like Profilactic) and annotate your profile. Having an aggregat...
More About: Myspace , Ebook , Book , Tool

Facebook deal with Jobster?
2007-01-31 01:09:01
Facebook.com is working on a deal with Jobs ter.com to become career partners. This deal would provide a massive boost for Jobster. There are many college students that are looking for jobs. Having Jobster integrated with the popular college social networking site “Facebook” would benefit both website. This deal would be similar to the deal SimplyHired scored with MySpace.
More About: Ebook , Book , With , Deal

Share files on GigaTribe!
2007-01-30 01:08:02
GigaTribe .com is a new website that provides you with a free software that allows you to share specific folders on your computer with friends and family located anywhere. Folders and files exchanged can be huge! All exchanges are encrypted, so no one, not even your ISP, knows what you’re exchanging. GigaTribe is free but you can also get a premium account for as low as $3.99 per month. With a premium account you can get maximum number of simultaneous downloads, support and more.
More About: Share , Giga , Files

JukePix.com - Juke Your Pix(Photos) Launches!
2007-01-26 07:04:01
JukePix.com is officially announcing the launch of their website today! JukePix provides you with tools to juke your photos and make them funnier. Insert your face or your friend’s face into someone’s body, billboard, magazine, awards or MySpace bling. Create funny photos and share them with friends. JukePix.com has been online since December as beta. According to the owner, the website has already been a huge hit on MySpace and has over 2000 registered members in just one month and over 5000 photos juked! The term “Juke Your Pix” means edit your photos to make them funny. JukePix.com seems pretty cool and entertaining! You upload your photo into any of the given templates, resize them to make sure they fit, save them and get linking html code so you can share them with your friends. Your friends can view your juked photos and leave comments.
More About: Photo , Photos , Launch , Juke

Fox Hunts Down YouTube?s User
2007-01-25 19:03:02
Twentieth Century Fox has subpoenaed YouTube , demanding that the site provides the details of users who uploaded four episodes of ?24? and twelve episodes of ?The Simpsons?.  - it reads: On or about January 8, 2007, Fox became aware that a subscriber (?the Subscriber?) of YouTube Inc.s? Internet-based service uploaded pirated copies of the works onto YouTube, making it available for illegal viewing over the Internet to anyone who wishes to watch it. Fox has not authorized this distribution or display of the works. The subpoena request YouTube, Inc. to disclose information sufficient to identify the Subscriber so that Fox can stop this infringing activity. It is weird that Fox is going after the user rather than just issuing a DMCA and getting the clips pulled. Google is known to protect their users so it will suprising that they would turn in that information to Fox.
More About: Youtube , User , Down , Hunt

MySpace launches Mexican Version
2007-01-25 19:03:02
MySpace has launched a Spanish-language Mexican version earlier today. The new version will be tested for the next 2 weeks before it will be released to the public as beta. About 1 million of MySpace users are from Mexico. Once the new version is released all the Mexican users will be automatically taken to the Spanish-language site based on their IP address. MySpace is planning on continuing to develop International versions of their site. MySpace already has German, Irish, Italian, Spanish and British versions and is still testing French, Australian, Japanese and Chinese versions.
More About: Myspace , Launch , Sion

MySpace E-mail Verfication
2007-01-24 19:03:02
Well it’s about time! I think they finally got tired of all the spammers signing up. MySpace now is going to verify the e-mail address you sign up with. You will receive an e-mail with a verification code for you to click on to verify your account. No more signing up with fake e-mail addresses. This will not only ensure that more of the site’s users can be tracked down if necessary, but it also means that those creating spammy accounts should have a harder time. MySpace says it held off adding this feature for fear that the mails would end up in spam folders and many users will not know how to retrieve that e-mail and have a hard time signing up for MySpace.
More About: Mail , Cat , Myspace , E-Mail

Tom?s MySpace Hacked!
2007-01-24 19:03:02
Well it was just a matter of time until someone would hack Tom?s account. MySpace seems to suffer spam and phishing attacks on a fairly regular basis, partly because it?s a hub of inexperienced users, and for other reasons too - the freedom to edit your profile?s html and insert malicious code.On January 14th, Tom?s profile was hacked, sending spam to his 148 million friends. A bulletin came from Tom?s profile and invited users to click a link. This link took everyone to a phishing site that asked them to log in again. If you logged in, your email and password was then stored into the hacker?s database where it was later used to send our more spam mails and bulletins from your own account. This is becoming a fairly regular event on MySpace. We don?t yet know how the attack was orchestrated, but if Tom?s account can be hacked then yours can easly too. Make sure you keep an eye on your account everyday. Check your profile for weird links, check your bulletin history and sent messages ...
More About: Myspace , Hack , Hacked , Pace

MySpace Files Law Suit Against ?Spam King?
2007-01-24 19:03:02
MySpace .com has filed a lawsuit against the ?Spam King ? for blasting the portal with spam through the use of compromised user accounts. MySpace also seeks a permanent injunction to bar Scott Richter and his affiliates from using the popular social networking site. Richter runs Optinrealbig.com, an e-mail marketing company based in Westminister, CO. MySpace accused Richter of running afoul of the federal CAN-SPAM act and California?s antispam law. MySpace users can send bulletins to all of their friends. This distribution power has made MySpace a frequent target for spammers, who can reach up to thousands of users if they have the login and password for each person?s account.  The lawsuit accuses Richter and his associates of sending millions of bulletins from different user accounts without their knowledge between July and December 2006. The bulletins advertised ringtones and polo shirts.
More About: Myspace , Again

Wize Gets $4 Milion From Partners
2007-01-24 19:03:02
Wize.com has announced a first round of financing. Mayfield Fund and Bessemer Venture Part ner s have both invested a total of $4 million to Wize. Wize is a site that tracks expert and user product reviews across the internet and churns them through an algorithm to create a singe, 1-100 rank called “WizeRank”.
More About: Lion , Gets , Partners

DailyMotion Partners with Warner Music
2007-01-24 19:03:02
DailyMotion.com announced today a partnership with War ner Music Group to share ad revenue from Warner’s music videos. DailyMotion is kind of like YouTube.
More About: Daily , Partner , With