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iTunes Store tops 3 billion songs

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itunes.jpgApple today announced that more than three billion songs have been purchased and downloaded from the iTunes Store. iTunes is the world’s most popular online music, TV and movie store featuring a catalog of over five million songs, 550 television shows and 500 movies. iTunes recently surpassed Amazon and Target to become the third largest music retailer in the U.S.

“We’d like to thank all of our customers who have contributed to this incredible milestone,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of iTunes.

Originally posted on July 31, 2007 @ 12:35 pm

Olive Software powers Red Herring digital edition

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redherring.jpgAfter years of reporting on emerging trends and changes in the Silicon Valley tech industry, Red Herring magazine is embracing digital media and transforming its publishing model by launching an electronic edition. Powered by Olive ActiveMagazine, a web-based and easy-to-navigate solution that preserves the magazine’s original layout, viewing Red Herring on the web is now as compelling and easy as reading the magazine in print.

The electronic edition is part of Red Herring’s strategy to expand reporting coverage and analysis to a broader circulation base. The company hopes to attract up to 500,000 digital subscribers globally over the next two years, and it already has readers from all over the world.

“As shown by the strong interest in Red Herring Europe 100, Red Herring North America 100 and Red Herring Asia 100– tens of thousands of entrepreneurs and companies are determined to make a difference in many (new) regions around the world. An electronic edition allows us to reach this increasingly global audience without increasing our print production and distribution costs,” said Red Herring publisher Alex Vieux.

Originally posted on July 31, 2007 @ 10:20 am

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Eyespot launches Media Campaign Platform to empower advertisers and brands

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eyespot.jpgEyespot announced the launch of its Media Campaign Platform, a powerful new addition to the Eyespot application suite, which enables brand managers and advertising firms to directly harness the energy of social networks and user-generated content. The system allows for the creation of interactive video campaigns that will associate brands with both Hollywood and other professionally produced content.

In the rapidly evolving Internet economy, Eyespot’s Media Campaign Manager is a market first that empowers the creative industry and communities to initiate their own interactive video sharing campaigns directly with consumers. The unmitigated appeal of UGC is available alongside a significant array of premium content supplied by producers, networks, studios, and record labels to engage with new customers, increase brand recognition, and further exploit existing brand loyalty.

The Media Campaign Manager’s robust campaign creation system is specially suited to the needs of advertising and marketing firms. This online suite requires no technical expertise and is an easy-to-use administrative content management system that only requires the oversight, leadership, and decision making of a brand manager or marketing director.

Originally posted on July 31, 2007 @ 12:35 pm

NowPublic secures $10.6 million funding

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nowpublic.jpgNowPublic.com, a participatory news network which mobilizes an army of reporters to cover events around the world, has secured a landmark $10.6-million round of series-A venture capital funding and is expanding an agreement to provide content for Associated Press’ extensive string of bureaus across the U.S.

Though there are similar sites, NowPublic boasts of having 118,910 members who write and post news stories, including videos from 3,852 cities in 140 countries.

Originally posted on July 30, 2007 @ 10:06 am

PropertyMaps.com adds sex offender registries to real estate search

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jessicalunsford.jpgIn dedication to the memory of Jessica Lunsford, a young Floridian who fell victim to a sexual predator that lived nearby, PropertyMaps.com announced that it has added the locations of registered sex offenders to its map-based real estate search.

A sex offender is the generic term for all persons convicted of crimes involving sex, including rape, molestation, sexual harassment and pornography production or distribution. This dataset contains over 300,000 convicted offenders gathered directly from the official registries maintained by state governments. Not all criminal offenses require registration.

offenders. “Our realtors are in the business every day, and we know that there is nothing more important to prospective home owners than protecting their families. Awareness is a critical first line of defense. We believe that consumers should have access to as much information as possible that is relevant to their home search. Sexual offender registries are in the public domain, and we want to make this information conveniently available to all of our home searchers,” Keith Hanenian, CEO of PropertyMaps.com, said.

Originally posted on July 30, 2007 @ 8:01 am

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