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Friendster launches all-new blogs and forums

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Friendster, Inc. announced that the all-new Friendster Blogs and Forums are now available to Friendster’s over 90 million members worldwide. Both products have been enhanced with new features and redesigned.

The newly enhanced Friendster Blogs, built on WordPress, enable members of the Friendster community to quickly and easily create a personal blog. Each blog can be customized with themes and skins available on Friendster, and thousands more available across the web, or users can create their own style, colors, fonts and page layout using common HTML and CSS web languages. Friendster users can also add a variety of widgets and a personalized badge for their blog right from the design tab of every Friendster blog. Users can also embed into their blog photos directly from their Friendster photo albums and videos from popular video sites such as YouTube.

Friendster’s new Forums allow Friendster users to participate in discussions within a variety of categories including music, sports, lifestyle, celebrities, TV, fashion, health, religion, food, dating, finance and more. Users can join a current discussion or start a new one under a specified category. Posts are organized under each category by most recent. Each post is time stamped and includes a thumbnail photo linked to the Friendster profile of the user, so users can easily meet others in a discussion.

Originally posted on December 31, 2008 @ 11:11 am

New Year’s Eve in Times Square live on the Internet

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Times Square Corporation and Mogulus Corporation is teaming up tonight to bring the world New Year’s Eve for the first time ever, live on the Internet. Anyone with Internet connection can enjoy the New Year’s Eve party in Times Square, live all night long.

The event starts at 4:00 PM eastern time on December 31, 2008 to 12:15 AM on January 1, 2009.

Both parties also said that they will be working closely in 2009 for more events to cover.

Originally posted on December 31, 2008 @ 2:33 pm

Young Money launches stock market game with UpDown.com

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UpDown.com, the online community that allows young people to practice investing, has partnered with Young Money to power YoungMoney.com’s “Stock Market Game.”

The Young Money “Stock Market Game” features real-time trading simulation and multiple contests. Beginning investors can practice stock market trading, compete with friends and investors, and even win real money.

UpDown.com is a free community for investors that allows members to practice trading in a lifelike brokerage simulation. By participating in the community, UpDown.com members learn the ins and outs of Wall Street by investing $1,000,000 in virtual money. UpDown.com also provides a platform for investors to improve their financial analysis skills by sharing stock tips with other members.

Originally posted on December 29, 2008 @ 4:12 pm

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Kraft releases iFood Assistant for iPhone

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Kraft Foods announced the release of iFood Assistant, a new application for iPhone and iPod touch that offers users access to food and meal planning ideas. Unlike similar Web Apps that only link to external websites designed to be viewed on an iPhone, iFood Assistant is a resident program that can be downloaded from the Apple App Store and installed on any iPhone and iPod touch.

Fresh features of iFood Assistant include:

• Over 7,000 tested, searchable recipes with clear, step-by-step instructions – also includes an alternate horizontal view to follow along while cooking

• Users can review comments on recipes and share with others

• Shopping lists with nearby store recommendations and the ability to add custom ingredients

• High quality video demonstrations with easy to follow instructions

• Useful tips and shortcuts to aid on-the-go consumers like the “Dinner Tonight” and “Recipe of the Day” sections that feature daily recipes

Originally posted on December 22, 2008 @ 8:44 am

Warner, YouTube fail to reach new agreement

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With no new licensing terms, Warner Music Group demanded that thousands of its videos be removed from YouTube, The New York Times reported.

It is expected that with music videos a favorite staple among YouTube users, and with the company going big in video advertising, music companies will expect nothing but to be fully compensated.

Does this mean the end of Madonna in YouTube?

Originally posted on December 22, 2008 @ 8:38 am