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MyLifeBrand launches MyLifeTV, a customizable video channel

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mylifebrand1.jpgMyLifeBrand, a social platform which allows users to aggregate and manage their favorite social networks, communities, services and friends on one site, announced today a new multimedia video platform, MyLifeTV.

The customizable multimedia platform enables any community on the social platform to create a fully community focused, immersive line up of video broadband channels for their specific community members. Additionally, community creators will have the opportunity to syndicate their channels into thousands of other target communities on MyLifeBrand, as well as more broadly across the Internet. This video platform will also provide some default channel content ranging from comedy to sports and lifestyle programming.

MyLifeTV provides users a unique experience specifically tied to whatever community they are a member of on the MyLifeBrand platform, and enables them to not only view, but organize, save, share and soon upload user inspired video content around a range of interests. MyLifeBrand has partnered with Brightcove and Revver, leaders in the internet video space to deliver the highly interactive MyLifeTV video platform.

Originally posted on July 24, 2007 @ 2:35 pm

National Lampoon joins Joost

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nationallampoon.jpgNational Lampoon, Inc. announced that it will launch the National Lampoon channel and bring program offerings to Joost.

“We are excited to launch the National Lampoon channel on Joost, as our partnership with this new and innovative service provides another destination for our fans worldwide to interact with our programming,” said Daniel Laikin, National Lampoon’s Chief Executive Officer. “We increasingly have found that more and more of our fans reach us through the Internet, and providing a premier viewing destination like Joost with our content is a natural way for us to extend the reach of our brand.”

All of National Lampoon’s new programming will be made available on Joost through the National Lampoon Joost channel. Initial programming includes National Lampoon’s hugely popular webisodes, which have drawn praise from top critics nationwide, as well as National Lampoon’s SpinCycle mashimations and the Fat Guy Nation series.

Originally posted on July 23, 2007 @ 6:04 pm

Over one fifth of world’s population will be online by 2011

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jupiterresearch.jpgJupiterResearch said that the worldwide online population will increase from 1.1 billion users in 2006 to 1.5 billion in 2011, representing 22 percent of the overall worldwide population in that year. Outlined in a new report “Worldwide Online Population Forecast, 2006 to 2011: Emerging Economies Catalyze Future Growth,” Brazil, Russia, India, and China will provide impetus for future growth of the online population.

The rapid expansion of Internet access in the US, Canada, Japan, and Western Europe during the past decade has produced largely mature online populations in those countries and, as a result, they will witness comparatively slower Internet growth rates through 2011. According to the report, North America’s share of the worldwide online population is expected to erode from 21 percent in 2006 to 17 percent in 2011.

“China and India, given their large population base will provide the most substantial push to the worldwide online population,” explained Vikram Sehgal, Research Director at JupiterResearch. “In these countries, increased infrastructure development and relatively higher purchasing power from rapid growth of gross domestic product will coincide with increased consumer adoption of the Internet through 2011.”

Online penetration will remain the highest in North America, measuring 76 percent by 2011. Western Europe, according to the study, is expected to mirror that penetration rate.

Originally posted on July 23, 2007 @ 11:05 am

Fotolog enters multi-year search agreement with Google

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fotologcom.jpgFotolog.com and Google today announced a multi-year search technology and services agreement where Google will be the exclusive search and keyword-targeted advertising provider for Fotolog’s growing international network.

Google will provide search functionality and advertising across Fotolog’s network under a three-year agreement. Fotolog users will be able to search the site for photos, blogs and online communities, and will also have the ability to search the Web from any page. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

Fotolog is a photo-blogging site with a large audience in Europe and Latin America. With more than 15 million unique users and 3.5 billion page views a month, Fotolog ranks 20th on Alexa’s list of the world’s most-trafficked websites, 20th in page views in Comscore’s May 2007 report, and thereby weighs in as the Web’s third-largest social network as measured by traffic.

Fotolog also announced that it is nearing the milestone of 10 million registered members— a little more than two months after hitting the 8-million mark. More than 4 million new members have joined Fotolog in the first half of 2007, making the site one of the largest independently operated blocks of traffic on the Web. Fotolog is the number 10 site in Spain, according to Comscore, and in Argentina, Fotolog is the number one web domain in the country.

Originally posted on July 20, 2007 @ 11:40 am

AmericanTowns.com intrduces new web solution for local sports leagues

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americantowns.jpgAmericanTowns.com, a national network of hyper-local community websites, announced the launch of AmericanTowns SPORTS, a comprehensive set of website and communications solutions for local sports teams and leagues in each of the 10,000 communities it serves. AmericanTowns SPORTS provides tools that enable leagues and teams to keep players, fans and families informed and to reach the broader community. A streamlined version is offered free of charge to individual teams, and a more comprehensive, “premier” version, intended for league use, is available for a fee.

The free, easy-to-use web solution allows individual teams to post their schedules, refreshment assignments, and contact information on the web; to announce rainouts and delays in real time; and to post registration dates, special awards, volunteer recognition and team coverage to their own page and to the homepage of their AmericanTowns community website.

Originally posted on July 18, 2007 @ 6:36 pm