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Mint.com secures $12 million in funding

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mint.pngMint.com has raised $12 million in a Series B financing round led by Benchmark Capital. All of the investors participating in the company’s Series A financing in April, 2007 also invested in this round, including Shasta Ventures and First Round Capital.

Mint.com is the largest and fastest growing personal financial management application on the web. Since launching its public beta in September, 2007, Mint has signed more than 160,000 users, is now organizing $10 billion in transactions, and has identified more than $100 million in potential savings. Mint has also significantly enhanced the product since its introduction, adding budgeting, a social spending comparison tool called “SpendSpace,” and support for investment accounts such as brokerage, mutual fund, IRA and 529 plans.

Originally posted on March 5, 2008 @ 3:34 pm

International Museum of Women launches “Women, Power and Politics,” a global online exhibition

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The International Museum of Women (I.M.O.W.), a non-partisan social change museum that connects and inspires people, will confront provocative questions about women in politics and more with the new global online exhibition, ‘Women, Power and Politics’. Launched on International Women’s Day on Saturday, March 8, 2008, the cutting-edge multimedia exhibition will run until December 31, 2008 in four languages – Arabic, English, French and Spanish.

‘Women, Power and Politics’ at www.imow.org will explore how women can and are making a difference in politics around the world–just as the spotlight intensifies on groundbreaking campaigns, elections and leadership of women from the United States to Argentina and Liberia. Through online exhibitions, online community-building tools and a live speaker series, ‘Women, Power and Politics’ will cross international barriers and connect visitors to the stories of women who have harnessed politics and power to transform women’s lives and society.

I.M.O.W., an innovative 21st century museum, has showcased seven major exhibitions and its award-winning global online exhibition, ‘Imagining Ourselves: A Global Generation of Women’. Directed by Paula Goldman, ‘Imagining Ourselves’ connected and inspired people in 225 countries with over 110 exhibition-related events in 23 countries. I.M.O.W. also sponsors a world-class speaker series, ‘Extraordinary Voices, Extraordinary Change’ in San Francisco. Past speakers have included Alice Walker, Isabel Allende and Dr. Riane Eislerr. Complementing the online exhibition Women, Power and Politics, the next speaker event on May 14 will feature Dr. Vaira VÄ«Ä·e-Freiberga, former President of the Republic of Latvia.

Originally posted on March 8, 2008 @ 6:36 pm

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Mochila introduces new photo slideshow widget for publishers

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mochila.jpgMochila has released its new ad-supported slideshow player, a widget that allows pre-created static or dynamic search related photos to be displayed in a 300x-pixel wide frame that can easily be embedded in any web page. The player will provide publishers with a customized application to feature the world’s best photos from other member organizations including Getty Images and the Associated Press. The widget application also provides monetization support for publishers with in-stream 300×250 rich media ad units, as well as attached fixed display and text ad units.

Mochila is already seeing adoption of the photo slideshow player from entertainment news sites that are constantly looking for the latest celebrity photos. Mochila members Egotastic.com and CelebrityBabyScoop.com are using the widget to give their users the best celebrity images from across the web. Member sites can access photos from various Mochila channels of content based on keyword or category criteria (e.g. a certain celebrity). Anytime the marketplace receives new photos that are tagged as being relevant for the criteria, the player dynamically updates the images onto a member site.

Originally posted on March 6, 2008 @ 10:00 am

BlogHer launches “Letter to My Body” campaign, encourages women to love their bodies

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blogher.jpgBlogHer has partnered with body image expert Jessica Weiner for the launch of its “Letter to My Body” campaign as part of its Healthy Mind, Body and Wallet initiative. The campaign was developed to encourage women to love their bodies and promote self-acceptance and realistic body perception.

Initially introduced on Valentine’s Day, the campaign has generated more than 125 letters written by individual BlogHer community members in the first two weeks alone. Now, as part of the launch, BlogHer has published an in-depth and exclusive audio interview with body image activist Jessica Weiner, who discusses body image and self-esteem, in addition to responding to the letters and other questions from the BlogHer community.

Originally posted on March 5, 2008 @ 10:41 am

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AdBrite Network exceeds 50,000 sites

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AdBrite revealed that over 50,000 websites are now active in its online advertising marketplace, making it second only to Google among ad providers in number of sites. AdBrite also announced that the company is serving 8 of the 20 largest US online media properties.

The AdBrite network has grown rapidly over the past 18 months. AdBrite provided ads to over 50,000 websites in February 2008, having grown from 20,000 sites in September 2006. ComScore reported AdBrite as the fourth-largest ad network by pages viewed (December 2007), serving ads on 25 billion pages for the month. Currently adding thousands of new sites each month, AdBrite has established itself as a scale leader, helping major web publishers as well as niche specialty sites run relevant advertising and maximize revenue yield.

AdBrite now serves some of the web’s largest media properties. Eight of ComScore’s top 20 media properties are AdBrite partners. AdBrite offers banner and text ads, as well as innovative formats like BritePic, InVideo and Full Page Ad, via a transparent auction-based marketplace.

Originally posted on March 5, 2008 @ 11:31 pm