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Property social network launches

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Property Network, a new dedicated social network for property investors worldwide has launched. The website provides a central online community for investors, agents, landlords and the like to meet, discuss ideas and develop their contacts and business potential.

The Property Network provides members with a space to communicate with people from the industry, upload images and videos, post blogs, and discuss all areas of property investment in the forums.

The website has been launched in its initial beta form, but is having regular additional content and features added to heighten the user experience. Property Network is associated with Golf Network, the online community for golfers worldwide.

Originally posted on December 12, 2008 @ 9:31 am

Logitech sells billionth mouse

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Logitech has shipped its billionth mouse.

Founded in a farmhouse in Apples, Switzerland in 1981 and shortly thereafter establishing strong ties in Silicon Valley, Logitech introduced its first retail mouse in 1985 and reached the 100 millionth mouse mark in 1996. Sales of Logitech mice topped 500 million seven years later. Today, Logitech sells mice in more than 100 countries worldwide and manufactures an average of 376,000 mice per day and 7.8 million every month.

That’s a lot of mice. Mouse?

Originally posted on December 11, 2008 @ 9:54 am

YieldBuild partners with Chitika to increase ad performance

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YieldBuild and Chitika announced a partnership that would support Chitika’s Premium Ad service within YieldBuild’s Publisher Solutions product, a deal that benefits both publishers and advertisers.

The partnership will allow interested publishers using YieldBuild Publisher Services to employ Chitika’s Premium ads to more effectively monetize their site content. Publishers will see their page revenue increase as their existing inventory has access to another high-quality ad network optimized by YieldBuild.

Chitika’s patented ad-targeting platform delivers ads targeted to end-users’ search queries, providing extremely relevant ads at high eCPMs. That, coupled with Chitika’s virtually unlimited ad-inventory and incredible ease of deployment made Chitika | Premium ads a great fit for YieldBuild’s userbase.

Chitika will join other top contextual and display ad networks, including Google AdSense, Yahoo! Publisher Network, Platform-A’s Advertising.com, Tribal Fusion, BlueLithium, ValueClick Media, and others, made available to YieldBuild publishers. Publishers will maintain a direct relationship with Chitika, as they do with all other YieldBuild-supported ad networks.

Originally posted on December 10, 2008 @ 1:15 pm

Faith-based Cross.tv launches

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The first faith-based multilingual online community has launched in time for Christmas. Providing an online community for people who want to impact their world, the new Cross.tv combines the best of social networking with high quality HD streaming and a multilingual communications platform; making it the first faith- based social media community in the world to support multilingual interaction and communication.

Users upload videos, upload pictures, publish blogs, add friends and even develop their own sub-networks for their families, churches, ministries or projects. They can also communicate with others and raise awareness of different causes using cross.tv’s unique “cross pollination” functionalities which allows them to publish content in multiple languages.

Originally posted on December 12, 2008 @ 4:31 pm

Dailymotion is world’s largest independent web video site– comScore

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Dailymotion continues to be the most popular independent web video site globally, with over 38 million unique visitors worldwide, according to comScore Media Metrix Data. In addition, Dailymotion’s year-to-date monthly average of over 36 million unique visitors leads all independent online video web sites.

Dailymotion’s users have not only increased in numbers, but have spent a substantial amount of time on the site viewing web video. Year to date, Dailymotion users spent almost 13 billion minutes viewing approximately 17 billion pages on the site. Dailymotion lead in engagement with users averaging 10.8 minutes per session, 40% more than any other independent video sites.

Dailymotion US has been a key part of the global growth, with unique visitors more than doubling from 3.2 million in October 2007 to 7.3 million in October 2008, a greater than 128% increase year over year.

Originally posted on December 16, 2008 @ 12:51 pm