The Weekly Money Trail- July 13, 2008
Bellevue, Investors Brings Alerts.com Back To Life A few years ago, investors poured more than $18 million into Alerts.com, a developer of software that alerted users when content changed on high-traffic Web sites. http://www.alerts.com
Read MoreKarrine Steffans Joins Twitter?
Just when you thought Twitter was falling off due to its technical difficulties, Twitter gets a new kid on the block: Karrine Steffans. Karrine Steffans recently joined Twitter, and instead of quietly setting up an account, it appears as though she executed a pub stint by announcing her Twitter membership on her website. I suspect she [...]
Read MoreThe T-Pain Effect
Grammy Award-Winning singer, song writer, and producer T-Pain recently launched his much anticipated full digital independent record label Nappy Boy Digital. The label’s mission is to create a direct artist to consumer connection without the constraints of the traditional major labels. Nappy Boy Digital is an obvious next step for record labels who may have [...]
Read MoreTHE WEEKLY MONEY TRAIL-6/20/2008
San Francisco, Mochi Media Makes $10M To Monetize Games With plans to build out its infrastructure to meet demand from game developers for its ad platform, Mochi Media Inc. has raised a $10 million Series B round of funding. http://www.mochimedia.com New York Hanger Network Racks Up $10M More Hanger Network In-Home Media Inc., which distributes [...]
Read MoreeVIPlist.com: Social Ranking as a promotional tool
At first glance eVIPlist.com may look like another Digg clone. While the site does use Digg’s open API its business and web strategy is far from the typical “rank news/info” model that we typically see from other sites using the same API. While similarities can certainly be found between eVIPlist.com and other sites such as [...]
Read MoreMaybe 50 Cent Gets Social Media After All
Back in April, on RushmoreDrive, I wrote What Does 50 Cent Know About Social Media?. I didn’t have the space to do a real analysis of the efforts there, but there are other sites that have dug in a little deeper, such as ReadWriteWeb and even the Tech Observer blog over at Portfolio in 50 [...]
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