Fab 5 Freddy Launches New “Place 2 Be” on Zude.com
Hip-Hop icon Fab 5 Freddy, the original host of MTV’s seminal Yo! MTV Raps, and Steve Repetti, Chief Technical Officer of Fifth Generation Systems, Inc. (5g), will launch the “Place 2 Be” on Zude™, with Fab as curator. The “Place 2 Be” will be the Urban Lifestyle destination on Zude, encompassing music, fashion, cars and [...]
Read MoreSplashCast Corp Closes $4 million Series A
SplashCast Corp. has raised a $4 million Series A round of funding, the company plans to blend advertising with the viral effects of social media. The company openly boasts on its site that it has served some 260 million videos already. “Brands have to do that if they want to stay relevant to that younger [...]
Read More3.21.08 webNews Wrap-up
LinkedIn continues to beef up; adds company profile pages. Joost web video player will launch later this year. Starbucks gets Social.
Read MoreApple considers Total iTunes Access
I must confess, I am not an IPod owner *gasp*. I know…I know…, but before you lose all respect for me let me explain myself. I was torn between Apple’s IPod and Microsoft’s Zune, and researched them both before finally settling with Zune. There were many features that attracted me to the Zune; the built [...]
Read MoreHip-Hop 2.0: Notorious Blog
Wayne Barrow, Producer of the film NOTORIOUS, has started a blog at the Fox Searchlight site to document the making of the movie about your favorite rapper the Notorious B.I.G (aka Biggie) [née Christopher Wallace]. Barrow and his partner, Mark Pitts, managed B.I.G throughout his career and have helped Ms. Wallace build the legacy of [...]
Read MoreYahoo! to Add Video to Flickr
Yahoo is taking bold new steps to cut into Google’s 22% video streaming market share with the announcement of the addition of video content to Flickr, Yahoo’s extremely popular photo sharing service. Flickr’s video service, expected to release in beta in April, will not replace Yahoo Video which ranks 3rd in video streaming with 4.6% [...]
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