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Facebookers Donate to Haiti
More than one-third of Facebook users in the US, UK and Australia have donated money and/or goods to relief efforts aimed at the January 12, 2010 earthquake which struck Haiti, according to a joint survey conducted by Facebook and The Nielsen Company.
Money Leads the Way
Donations of money were by far the most popular type of aid [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 26th 2010
Google, NASA to Launch Singularity University
Google, NASA and a number of other science and tech giants are combining forces to start a school, Singularity University. Its objective will be to solve "humanity's grand challenges" -- a manifesto reminiscent of the ambitious one Ezra Cornell posed for Cornell University: "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study."
Taking after the International Space University, the school avails a number of cutting-edge tech [...]
Posted: Tuesday, February 3rd 2009
Economist Gives World a Vote in US Presidential Election
London-based business rag The Economist has created a global version of the US Electoral College, based on the population of each country.
The magazine hopes to stimulate online brand engagement through the effort, which leverages overseas interest in the US election -- a "closely watched contest" worldwide, said VP Ron Diorio of product and community development in New York.
"We thought it would be fun and a bit of an educa [...]
Posted: Wednesday, September 24th 2008
Microlender Kiva Runs Out of Loan Recipients
Kiva, a nonprofit site that organizes microloans for entrepreneurs in developing countries, has run out of people to lend to.
In toto, Kiva brought in $19.5 million worth of loans from 220,000 lenders, reports The New York Times.
Though it may seem risky to dole $450 out to a r [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 29th 2008
Intel Taps Crowds to Find All-New 'Google'
Intel is channeling the power of crowds in an effort to "stay on top of the latest software trends and cool new startups," according to Wired.
This week the company publicly released [...]
Posted: Wednesday, October 10th 2007
Mobile Broadcast TV to Hit 120MM Users by 2012
Nearly 120 million mobile users in over 40 countries are may have broadcast TV services by 2012, compared with less than 12 million in 2007.
And DVB-H will serve as the dominant transmission standard, according to a new report from Juniper Research, writes [...]
Posted: Monday, October 1st 2007
Japanese Merchandise Mascot Hits US via Fans, not Marketers
It took Spongebob a couple seasons on television before becoming a merchandising machine, but that's not the case with Domo, America's newest animated star.
Domo started life in the US a little backwards. Before landing a two-minute series on the Nicktoons Network that begins this fall, he was already well-ingrained among American consumers, appearing on T-shirts at Hot Topic and on greeting cards in Barnes & Noble, [...]
Posted: Wednesday, July 25th 2007
Social Network Hi5 Raises $20 Million
San Francisco-based social networking startup Hi5 has just raised a hefty $20 million in its latest round of funding.
Now touting some 30 million members, GigaOM notes the social network's unusual history.
Hi5 began life as matrimonial site with social features targeting the Indian diaspora, then morphed into a social network, garnering a following in some Latin American [...]
Posted: Tuesday, July 24th 2007
Nokia Cuts Mobile GPS Orientation Time by Over Half
Adding promise to the future of location-based online services, Nokia has launched a service that cuts the time a GPS-based mobile phone takes to pinpoint its geographical position.
ZDNet reports that the service, available for owners of its N95 smartphone, will cut start-up time from three minutes to one minute in most countries. GPS' current location orientation speed has dampened interest mobile-ba [...]
Posted: Friday, July 20th 2007
Etsy: Artisans Get Their eBay
In adding an e-commerce component to the typical social network model, co-founder Rob Kalin helped to create Etsy, an online marketplace for the arts and crafts set.
According to BusinessWeek, Etsy "fits the mold for a second-wave dot-com success almost perfectly."
The two-year-old site has $ [...]
Posted: Thursday, July 19th 2007
On Quest for Sponsors, Ocean Racing Opens to Internet
S360S has just launched a new marketing website geared toward those that would like to sponsor competitive events in ocean racing, according to a release from the company.
Images of the races, and associated brands, are broadcast from boats via satellite and streamed across the Internet for public access.
Sponsors can choose from a number of platforms, and brands are welcome to interact directly with racers. Sponsors and VIP g [...]
Posted: Tuesday, July 10th 2007
MySpace CMO Reveals Ad Intentions at ad:tech Miami
In an interview with CNN's Alberto Padilla, CMO Shawn Gold discussed MySpace's near-term strategies for advertising. The ad:tech blog divulges that at some point the social networking site will conduct psychographic research on its users in the near future.
In the fall, advertisers will also have the ability to implement micro-advertising. Targeting by zip [...]
Posted: Thursday, June 28th 2007
MSNBC Grants Gig to 'World is Flat' Author
Author Thomas L. Friedman of The World Is Flat is getting his own online destination, which will be integrated into MSNBC.com, reports AdWeek.
The online destination will feature video of the author interviewing news makers. The first guest will be Bill Gates. Users can also get involved by posting their own content relat [...]
Posted: Friday, June 15th 2007
Study: Digital Distribution, Virtual Items to Make Up 40% of Gaming Market by 2012
In the gaming industry, digital distribution and the sale of virtual items will account for 40 percent of the estimated $13.1 billion global online gaming market by 2012, according to market researcher DFC Intelligence (via Next Generation).
In 2006, the global online gaming market was worth $4.5 billion. Half of online gaming revenues will come from East Asia - think South [...]
Posted: Friday, June 1st 2007
Google Buys Geo-Tagging Photo Site Panoramio
Based on its apparently seamless integration with Google Earth, geo-tagging photo site Panoramio will be acquired by Google, reports GigaOM.
Panoramio is a one and a half year-old startup based in Spain. Google is expected to acquire more location web startups in the coming months to fuel geo-based services like Google Maps and Google Earth. [...]
Posted: Friday, June 1st 2007
MySpace Invades Canada - Officially, Anyway
To a degree, Canadian teens are already afflicted with Top 8 syndrome. With 6 million members - one quarter of the country's Internet users - spending an average of almost 90 minutes on MySpace in March, Canada has earned its own official version, reports Globe and Mail.
Ca.myspace.com is part of News Corp. [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 16th 2007
Even Virtual Worlds Can Outsource
Linden Labs, creators of Second Life, are aiming to boost a paltry 12 percent retention rate by inviting businesses to open up private orientation islands for niche communities to combat the virtual world's steep learning curve, reports Reuters.
Behind this move is a slow but orchestrated attempt to gradually outsource the open-source virtual world's infrastructure - inc [...]
Posted: Monday, May 7th 2007
MySpace Sets Sights on China
News Corp.'s MySpace signed a licensing deal in China to allow entrepreneurs in the country to build a custom business through its technologies, an unconventional approach the company believes will put them ahead of at least 100 other companies competing for the Chinese social networking business, reports The New York Times.
News Corp. and two venture capital firms [...]
Posted: Friday, April 27th 2007
Viacom, 10tacle to Make Virtual World of Online Games
Game developer and producer 10tacle Studios and Viacom Germany, owner of MTV Germany, have announced that they will launch an ambitious multiuser 3D world in 2008, writes Next Generation.
10tacle will handle the implementation and operation of the 3D online world, which will offer a range of online ga [...]
Posted: Wednesday, April 4th 2007
Yahoo to Feature News and Iraq Blog from McClatchy
Yahoo will offer international reporting from newspaper publisher McClatchy Co., including a blog written by Iraqi staffers.
Yahoo News will feature coverage of the project, dubbed "Trusted Voices," in the second quarter of this year, Reuters reports. The project will feature coverage from McClatchy foreign correspondents based in the Middle East, China, Latin America [...]
Posted: Thursday, March 29th 2007