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Megan Fox has most viral image on the web

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viewmedia.jpgAccording to results released from Attributor Corporation, the image of Megan Fox from Maxim magazine’s “2007 Hot 100” list is the most popular across the web. Despite her official ranking of 18 on Maxim’s Hot 100, web users unofficially placed her at number one.

The image of Fox published in Maxim’s list was the most copied web-wide, compared against all of the images of women published in both the Maxim list and FHM magazine’s “100 Sexiest Women 2007.” The viral appeal of Fox’s image propelled it throughout the web, appearing many more times than images of list-toppers Lindsay Lohan (officially ranked number one by Maxim) and Jessica Alba (officially ranked number one by FHM). The hottest image features Megan Fox in a scene from the Transformers movie and Attributor’s platform found both exact copies and dramatically altered images, such as one with a cartoon quote bubble obscuring Fox’s face.

According to Attributor, images of the official winners, Alba and Lohan, were also popular across the Web with respective rankings of two and five. The Attributor Top Ten Hottest Images of 2007 list, in order of image popularity: 1. Megan Fox, 2. Jessica Alba, 3. Rihanna, 4. Halle Barry, 5. Lindsay Lohan, 6. Eva Mendes, 7. Angelina Jolie, 8. Jessica Simpson, 9. Christina Aguilera, 10. Uma Thurman. The study ranks female celebrity images from FHM and Maxim’s sexiest women lists of 2007 in terms of how frequently they were copied across the web using Attributor’s image monitoring platform.

Originally posted on January 10, 2008 @ 11:09 am

PageOnce secures $1.5 million in funding

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pageonce.pngPageOnce, the Personal Internet Assistant, announced that it has secured $1.5 million in funding led by Liron Petrushka and Bobby Lent. Petrushka is a serial entrepreneur who founded Commercebid.com, which was acquired by Commerce One. Currently the Managing Partner of Hillsven LLC, Lent was the co-founder of Ariba, the recognized leader in Enterprise Spend Management. PageOnce also announced that Petrushka and Lent have joined the company’s Board of Directors.

PageOnce, currently in private beta, offers consumers a new way to manage their Internet experience and marketers a new way to become a part of the daily lives of their customers. Using its patent-pending technology, PageOnce brings consumers and marketers together.

Originally posted on January 8, 2008 @ 4:04 pm

Shopit wants to buy the ugliest gift you received

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shopit.pngShopit.com, the social shopping community on the web, is spending $10,000.00 on two of the crappiest gifts received this holiday season.

Members simply add their crappy gifts to their Shopit stores in one of two categories; Ugliest Apparel Item, and Most Useless Item. The Shopit community will then vote on which item they think is the crappiest and the winner of each category will receive $5,000.

Contestants’ gifts will appear everywhere their Shopit store appears, including Shopit’s Flash Store Widgets. Members can also have friends vote for their gifts through their Facebook profiles by adding the Shopit Facebook Application.

The portability of Shopit’s stores allows for maximum visibility of a store’s items, a useful feature for members competing for the most votes from their peers in the Crappy Gift Contest. Anyone is welcome to participate by adding a gift or voting. They simply join the free Shopit community and begin adding items, the crappier the better. Contest ends January 31.

Originally posted on January 8, 2008 @ 11:02 am

Pandora expands availability to Reciva-powered Internet radio devices

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reciva.pngReciva and Pandora announced their partnership to make Pandora available on Reciva-powered Internet Radio receivers and networked devices in the US. Products from more than 30 Consumer Electronics brands are expected to be upgraded to offer Pandora’s unique Internet radio service.

Pandora is a personalized music service which has exploded in popularity to more than 10 million users, almost entirely by word of mouth. Pandora makes listening to favorite music and discovering new music simple and fun. Users just type in a song or artist that they like, and within seconds, Pandora delivers a free and personalized radio station with a continuous stream of songs that fit the same sound and style.

The songs are selected based on the Music Genome Project, Pandora’s innovative system that utilizes highly trained musicians to analyze music one song at a time. These musicians identify hundreds of different musical qualities of each recording, including melody, harmony, rhythm, instrumentation, arrangement, lyrics and vocals. Using this analysis, the listener’s personalized radio stations are created

Reciva-powered radios allow users easy and convenient access thousands of live radio stations from across the world without the need for a PC. These are mostly terrestrial broadcasters streaming their broadcast signal over the Internet in a process known as “simulcasting”. The addition of Pandora to the Reciva platform adds a unique and highly personalized service that is tailored to the user’s preferences.

Users can rate songs on Pandora through the “Reply” button on every Reciva powered Internet Radio with either “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” so Pandora can immediately adjust the station’s programming, and they can pause a song as well as skip a song that they don’t want to hear. Using the “Reply” button, listeners can also bookmark a song, and the song name and artist will be saved.

Originally posted on January 9, 2008 @ 1:01 pm

MTV Networks unveils targeted online syndication strategy

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mtv.jpgMTV Networks, a unit of Viacom, unveiled its targeted online syndication strategy, announcing partnerships with online video sites to deliver a vast library of short and long-form video content from MTVN’s popular music, kids and family, comedy and pop-culture brands. These sites include Dailymotion, GoFish, imeem, MeeVee and Veoh, and join AOL, Bebo, Fancast, Joost and MSN to comprise MTVN’s portfolio of online syndication partners.

MTVN’s targeted online syndication strategy will enable the company to build dynamic relationships with its partners across the globe and work closely with them to enhance their content offerings. The company will collaborate with each site to engage users, co-market and optimize MTVN’s programming line-up, and use filtering technologies to ensure copyright protection. All of MTVN’s partner sites will carry individual channels for each participating MTVN brand, streaming ad-supported video clips free to the consumer. Like MTVN’s own branded websites, the partner sites will enable global audiences to embed MTVN clips on their own blogs, social networking pages or websites.

In addition to its online syndication partners, MTVN currently has agreements with all domestic cable operators and MSOs and delivers video content through all major download-to-own services. The company also makes a wide variety of video available through its portfolio of approximately 300 websites, including TheDailyShow.com, which archives more than 13,000 clips dating back to 1999. Additionally, the company has more than 80 mobile distribution agreements in place globally, with all major carriers.

Originally posted on January 8, 2008 @ 2:17 pm