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Bing & Ping Connects Search to Socnets; Windows Live Ominously Omitted

Microsoft is now inviting Facebook fans to test a new program called Bing & Ping, which enables them to share their Bing search results with friends on various social networks, as well as email. Results include restaurant recommendations, local movie times, flight statuses and other means by which data has been terraced. "Say you use Bing's Instant Answers feature to check the score of the game, and you notice that your buddy's favorite team has just been beaten pretty handily," surmised N  [...]
Posted: Friday, September 4th 2009

1-800-Flowers Pings Facebook for eCommerce

1-800-Flowers.com has enabled registered fans of its Facebook page to order floral arrangements right on Facebook. Customers can shop 1-800-Flowers.com and execute transactions without leaving Facebook. Using technology from online ad network Alvenda, the site also lets users gain access to an online product assortment by clicking on a "shop" button. They can browse items, place them in a cart, select a delivery date, and send. Planned upgrades include birthday calendars and group gifting  [...]
Posted: Thursday, July 30th 2009

EyeWonder Helps Fox, GE Pontwificate with Users

To promote Season One of "Dollhouse," out on DVD and Blu-ray on July 28, Fox Home Entertainment launched a rich media ad that streams Twitter tweets and enables users to engage in conversation through the ad itself. The unit was developed with help from EyeWonder and Moxie. It showcases tweets from the feed of Eliza Dushku, star of "Dollhouse," and encourages users to jump in by logging in with existing Twitter accounts. Submissions are manually screened, after which tweets are permitted t  [...]
Posted: Thursday, July 23rd 2009

Twitcam Brings Livestreaming to Twitter

Live video streaming firm Livestream has launched twitcam.com, an ad-supported app that lets users add live streaming video to their Twitter feeds. The offering works like popular Twitter app Twitpic, which enables users to log in with an existing Twitter account, upload an image and then automatically updates their Twitter streams with a link to the image, as well as any message they include. Following suit, Twitcam.com u  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, July 22nd 2009

Yahoo's New Homepage: A Social Aggregator Flanked by Contextual Ads

At 4:30 Eastern today, Yahoo will release a fully-redesigned homepage "[balances] "push" and "pull," adding simple but useful customization without diminishing the broad reach that the page offers," according to Search Engine Land. Search is more prominent on the page, which is also less cluttered. The left-hand column is now a customizable menu where users can stream RSS feeds. Widgets and   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, July 21st 2009

Printcasting Democratizes Magazine Publishing

A company called Printcasting is experimenting with a way to compel more advertisers and readers to print magazines with model that allows nearly anyone to be a magazine publisher. Printcasting ("People-powered Magazines") lets would-be publishers choose articles and blog posts, insert them in a template of their choice, then print and distribute the resulting "magazine" themselves, The New York Times   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, July 21st 2009

Meebo Unifies SocNets, Content Sites on Engagement Platform

IM service aggregation site Meebo has launched "multi-network IM access," which enables users to unify other social graphs on its platform, including major social networks and gaming sites. A sharing interface also enables them to swap content with greater ease. "Content sites interested in increasing the volume of content sharing, but without their own social graph, can use the multi-network IM feature to expand their reach and drive social interactions," the company said. Mother-driven   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, June 10th 2009

Hulu Sets Sights on Live Streaming; Dave Matthews Band Enlists

Hulu, the on-demand TV/film content site owned by News Corp. and NBC Universal and Disney, is prioritizing more live content, beginning with an aggressive promotional effort for the Dave Matthews Band. On June 1 the site shall stream a Dave Matthews Band concert, live from the Beacon Theatre in New York, between 9PM and 11:30PM EST. The even  [...]
Posted: Friday, May 22nd 2009

Adap.tv Weds Publishers to Perfect Streaming-Vid Partner

Would-be video publishers suffering from options paralysis may soon be saved: Adap.tv has launched the Player Partner Program, which matches publishers to the video player partners that suit them best. Partners available through this hub include Brightcove, thePlatform, Mogulus, VMIX, Twistage and Kaltura, but Adap.tv claims to work with more than 300 premium video publishers. All are pre-integrated with Adap.tv's OneSource, which supports "Str  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 13th 2009

Glam 'Tinkers' with 'Twitter for Journalists'

Lifestyle content network Glam Media has launched Tinker, a Twitter-style platform tailored to journalists, bloggers and PR professionals. Crucially, Glam also claims Tinker is "the first safe monetization model for brand advertisers" seeking exposure in the microblogging space. In tandem with Tinker, a Tinker Micro-Blogger Network was released. Tinker aggregates conversations on specific topics or events being discussed on Twitter, Friendfeed and Facebook, among other brands. This way, us  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, April 1st 2009

Sony Reader Signs Devil's Deal with Google Books

Sony and Google have reached a deal whereby Google will avail a half-million copyright-free books on Sony's own Reader device -- a rival to Amazon's Kindle e-book/blog/Wikipedia reader. Google has been scanning books from major universities and research libraries since 2004. At present, it is able to   [...]
Posted: Thursday, March 19th 2009

Growing Interest in Widgets, Web-TV Features Drives US Adoption

A growing appetite for video on-demand (VoD) libraries and customizable widgets that are accessible through TV sets will pave the way for adoption of such enhanced video services in the US, according to a recent report from Parks Associates. The research finds 33% of US broadband users are interested in widgets, and almost 50% are interested in pre  [...]
Posted: Thursday, March 5th 2009

Social Media Zeitgeist Takes Over Skittles.com

Late last week Skittles announced the relaunch of Skittles.com, which isn't so much a website as an app pointing visitors elsewhere online where Skittles material -- official or not -- is hosted. Visits to Skittles.com drive users to a search for "skittles" on Summize, a real-time search engine for Twitter.com. Floating above this material is a Skittles navigation bar: product links drive users to Wikipedia, and media links send them to either YouTube or  [...]
Posted: Monday, March 2nd 2009

MyNewPlace Launches Socnet Apartment Search API

Apartment/home rentals site MyNewPlace has added Facebook Connect functionality to its site, enabling users to get feedback on prospective home rentals by posting property information to their Facebook pages. "Most people want the opinion of friends, family and roommates before choosing a new place to live. Facebook's more than 150 millio  [...]
Posted: Thursday, February 19th 2009

YouTube Tests Charge-to-Download Program

In what has been dubbed a "test" initiative, YouTube is permitting select video publishers to charge users to download videos onto their computers. At present a selection of YouTubers can offer video downloads, either for free or at cost, paid via Google Checkout. Most participating videos are charging about $1 each, TechCrunch reports. In addition to determining download rate, partners   [...]
Posted: Friday, February 13th 2009

MLB.TV Supports HD Video, Elective Playbacks

This season, Major League Baseball is introducing a new gimmick to an old sport: enhanced streaming video, and granular replays on MLB.TV. Technology provided by Swarmcast enable the site to determine the speed of a viewer's internet connection, then adjust the quality of the video accordingly, reports The New York Times. The   [...]
Posted: Monday, February 9th 2009

Obama Inauguration Drives Droves to Web

Viewership at the top three US cable network news websites surged fourteen-fold from 12:00-1:00 p.m. EST on Inauguration Day, accounting for 30% of online event viewing, as millions of viewers tuned in to watch Barack Obama take the presidential oath and deliver his address, according to data from comScore Video Metrix (  [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 29th 2009

Conde Nast Rethinks Digital Strategy

Conde Nast has consolidated its digital properties under a single head, MediaBuyerPlanner reports. Sarah Chubb, former president of CondeNet -- the unit that oversaw destination sites like Epicurious.com and Style.com -- will lead the department and report to president/CEO Chuck Townsend. The move marks a shift in the company's strategy of keeping destination sites separate from the sites of it  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 27th 2009

TubeMogul Snaps Up Flash Analytics Firm

TubeMogul, a video deployment, syndication and tracking site based in Berkeley, has acquired Flash player analytics firm Illumenex. The merger broadens the data tracking offerings available to TubeMogul's existing clients -- which total about 40,000, ranging from individuals to networks and studios like CBS. TubeMogul provides a free service that enables video producers to upload videos to over 20 video sharing sites almost at once. It then tracks views, comments and ratings across those p  [...]
Posted: Friday, January 23rd 2009

TV.com Restructured as Hulu Competitor

CBS is expanding the content on TV.com in the hopes of making the site a video destination, reports MediaBuyerPlanner. CBS announced today that it has non-exclusive distribution deals with PBS, Sony, MGM and Endemol that will help it to expand its library of online videos. In the last month, TV.com was redesigned to better promote the thousands of TV episodes it offers. CBS is a  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 13th 2009