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Highly targeted mobile advertising from AdInfuse

The race to become early leaders in the world of mobile advertising is on. AdInfuse now brings a fresh perspective. Companies like AdMob and Third Screen Media have also been working on their targeting more...
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Media 2.0 and The World of Online Video

It increasingly obvious that the traditional publish and consumption model has outlived its usefulness and applicability. That model has big media businesses generating content and we, the consumer, passively more...
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Multiply's Big International Following

Multiply has been growing rather quietly internationally. The social media aggregator now has 7 million registered users and 10.5 million monthly unique visitors according to their internal numbers, nearly more...
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Bebo joins platform Bandwagon

Not to be left behind, Bebo announced its platform move. Bebo's new Open Media plan will benefit both the content providers and the users. more...
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Classmates Media IPO to raise $12M

Woodland Hills, Calif.-based company plans to go IPO to raise a total of $12 Million by selling Class A shares priced between $10 and $12 per share. Classmates is currently a subsidiary of United Online, more...
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Russian Media Firm buys LiveJournal

Six Apart CEO Chris Alden announced that he was pleased about the sale of LiveJournal by a Russian Media firm called SUP. The financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Russian accounts add up more...
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Startup Pudding Media takes first funding

Pudding Media has pulled in $8 Million in its first round of funding from Opus Capital. It is trying to create a way where the advertisements will be entirely determined by the conversation at hand, and more...
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Digg - A social media Petri dish

The social media site startup Digg is actually a social media petri dish where a lot of experimentation is going on to determine the future of this new field. Scott Karp opines that a completely open more...
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The Rise of Twitter as a Platform for Serious Discourse

ReadWriteWeb is reporting that Twitter has captured our imagination and bloggers in particular and become a new hybrid of chat, social networking and blogging. Further Josh adds "Twitter still exists outside more...
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Twitter's Open Platform Advantage

Twitter from the beginning has kept itself open, resulting in many applications based on its API. The old perception is that closed data is a competitive advantage. The new reality is that open data is more...
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