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Industry Buzz & Snippets: 10/28/09

Media Strategies: The WSJ's odd mobile application strategy. Disney offers iPhone app. Online Marketing Scams: Gawker   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, October 28th 2009

Google Eyes Digital Music Biz

Google appears to be prepping for a push into the digital music business, despite previous denials by the company. According to an article in the Financial Times, the search giant is readying plans to launch a music search service with two online music platforms - News Corp's MySpace, and Lala. The new service will be part of Google's On  [...]
Posted: Friday, October 23rd 2009

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 10/23/09

Web 2.0 Trends: Amazon: Earnings are up; Kindle is best seller. It's official – Facebook is king of the social networking scene: MySpace has conceded defeat in contest to become the largest online social network. Dailymotion, Europe’s biggest online video challenger to YouTube  [...]
Posted: Friday, October 23rd 2009

Jambool Raises $5M for A-La-Carte Micropayments System

Jambool, the parent company of micropayment platform Social Gold, has raised $5 million in a funding round led by Madrona Venture Group, adding to the $1 million it raised in late 2008. Bay Partners reportedly also participated. Social Gold enables developers to easily implement a micropayments system into virtual worlds, social networking games and similar engagement offerings. Its suite includes an in-game payment system with support for credit cards, mobile payments and online transaction   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, August 18th 2009

Twitter to Charge for As-Yet-Unspecified Add-Ons

Twitter is further solidifying plans to implement a premium account structure for "power" users or companies. Co-Founder Biz Stone confirmed that the company recently hired a product manager to develop commercial accounts, but reiterated that the service would be "free to use by everyone," and for-profit services would be add-  [...]
Posted: Thursday, March 26th 2009

YouTube, Universal Plan Premium Music Video Hub

YouTube and Universal Music Group are contemplating an alliance by which the former would build a music video hub for the latter. According to The Wall Street Journal, YouTube will also provide ad sales support and a platform to distribute Universal video content to other sites. The pending project's been tentatively dubbed "Vevo" and has been underway since last year. People familiar with the matter   [...]
Posted: Friday, March 6th 2009

Lucky's iPhone App Steers Ladies into Local Stores

Lucky, the Condé Nast publication about "shopping and style," released an iPhone application that lets shoppers locate a particular brand, color, and size of shoe in nearby stores. The Lucky at Your Service app taps into inventories of stores carrying the 70+ types of shoes listed in the magazine's March shoe guide, then narrows the search down to those with the model in stock. It then uses iPhone's GPS capability -- or an entered ZIP code -- to zero in on stores closest to the user,   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, February 4th 2009

Droga5's Honeyshed Dries Up at Week's End

Honeyshed, a web shopping venture launched by Droga5 and backed by Publicis, is shuttering at the end of the week for financial reasons. "Honeyshed was a great experience and an idea we all firmly believed in," founder David Droga stated somberly. "Sadly our ambitions weren't quite in sync with the economy." The site launched as a branded entertainment experiment in 2007. It relaunched in Nove  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, February 3rd 2009

'Google Holiday Shopping' Leverages Top Product Searches

Google has launched Google Holiday Shopping, which aggregates top product searches for certain categories. "To find the season's most wanted gifts, Santa's elves mined millions of recent Google Product Search queries to put together some of the most popular products people are searching for," the site reads. Categories include Video Games & Toys, Cold Weather and Specialty Foods. "Bakugan," "peacoat" and "chocolate fount  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, December 3rd 2008

SmartyPig: Higher Savings, Wiser Spend, Over 'Net

Observing how the economy has affected discretionary spending, a service called SmartyPig aims, with a friendly face and soothing pink motif, to help users save ... and pass savings on from online retailers. The site launched this year. Its modus operandi is to help users build online savings goals for major purchases, including travel, electronic devices and gifts for the holidays. A high-yie  [...]
Posted: Thursday, October 30th 2008

MySpace Plots to Monetize Panoply of User Pics

Through a partnership with HP, MySpace hopes to encourage its resident narcissists to print photos and buy customized merchandise from their profile pages. HP's web-based printing software will be available in the photo sections of MySpace users, which uploaded nearly four billion photos to date, reports the Associated Press. Click-to-print   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, October 8th 2008

RIAA, DMA, Musicians, Songwriters Seal Streaming Music's Fate

The RIAA and Digital Media Association (DMA) inked an agreement with organizations that represent musicians and songwriters, intended to provide a clear licensing procedure for digital music distribution. The model applies specifically to streaming music services like Last.fm or Blip.fm, as well as subscription or ad-supported offerings like We7. Download-to-own music was not included. Music organizations that signed the agreement included the National Music Publishers' Association, the Na  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, September 24th 2008

Record Labels Go 'All In' on MySpace Music

In the fast-paced world of social media, it seems a lifetime ago that MySpace announced the impending debut of MySpace Music -- but it was actually only last April. While it isn't clear what called for the big delay, the social network is now ready to launch the music site -- which could debut in mere days, Ars Technica   [...]
Posted: Monday, September 15th 2008

TurnTo Widget Socializes Online Shopping

A big part of the online shopping experience is reading product reviews from anonymous customers. One media company hopes to make those reviews a little more personal. TurnTo Networks introduced the beta version of a social-shopping network that gives potential customers access to recommendations and feedback from friends rather than strangers, writes Internet Retailer (  [...]
Posted: Friday, September 12th 2008

Casual Male Launches Supersized Social Network

Big men can social network about fashion and what it's like to be "big and tall" with a new network from Casual Male Retail Group, parent company of brands like Casual Male XL and LivingXL, MediaBuyerPlanner writes. The site, BoldXL, targets larger-sized 18- to 24-year-old men, and will include articles, blog posts and videos on the issues facing them,   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, August 19th 2008

Image Search Draws Impulse Buyers to Online Pubs, E-tail Brands

PIXSTA, a United Kingdom-based search firm that lets users search for images with other images, then purchase items they like without excess verbage, added eight media brands to its content network. Names were not disclosed, but a list of companies that implement PIXSTA are available in the press release. "PIXSTA is alrea  [...]
Posted: Monday, August 18th 2008

'Vogue' Follows Fresh Young Models for Reality Web Series

Vogue will follow the lives of three young women as they enter the world of top modeling, pulling video together for a web-based reality series called Model.Live, reports MediaBuyerPlanner. Clothing retailer Express, LLC paid in the low seven figures to serve as lead sponsor of the series. Model.Live consists of 12 eight-minute episodes. The first will debut Aug. 19, on-demand  [...]
Posted: Monday, July 21st 2008

GOP Unhappy Over Use of Its Trademarks in CafePress Merchandise

The Republican National Committee (RNC) plans to sue CafePress for permitting vendors to sell unlicensed Republican merchandise, including shirts and stickers that portray the Grand Old Party elephant -- even if those portrayals are positive. CafePress.com enables users to "brand" shirts, caps, stickers and other items, then sell them in their own CafePress online stores. "Please cease and desist from allowing vendors to utilize the federally registered trademarks of the RNC or we will be   [...]
Posted: Friday, July 18th 2008

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 7/1/08

Ad Networks and Analytics: Lyris has upgraded its HQ product for the marketing and ad industry. HQ for Agencies enables users to manage online marketing campaigns.Google Ad Planner was playfully blamed for yesterday's Google Analytics crash.Italian motorcycle vendor Duc  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, July 1st 2008

Online Entertainment Recommendation System Goes Live

Personalized content filtering system The Filter has finally gone live. The Filter has been in beta since 2006. Originally a playlist creation tool for iTunes, the recommendation system now includes internet videos, movies and TV, tailored to users' personal tastes -- a glorified Pandora.com for all facets of online entertainment. Read Write Web has more on The Filter, inc  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, June 3rd 2008