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Tastemycooking.com launches Filipino Cooking Forums

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Filipino cooking web site Tastemycooking.com has launched its online cooking community. Providing hundreds of tasty recipes, Tastemycooking is one of the most important Filipino recipe sites on the web.

Visitors can register for a free account to share their cooking knowledge and recipes with other users. The community categories include: Recipes by members, recipe requests, recipe videos and also a recipe feedback area. Unlike many other web sites, Tastemycooking provides authentic Filipino recipes, which are posted by people who are originally from the Philippines.

Additionally the site has launched its cooking video section which allows web site visitors to browse and watch featured Filipino cooking videos online.

Originally posted on January 26, 2008 @ 10:10 am

GetSelfCentered.com launched

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A new-school movement, launched today, aims to inspire one million young people to get “selfcentered”: become more authentic, grounded, balanced and self-aware by spending time each day connecting to their inner selves.

The selfcentered Tour, a nationwide series of experiential events, teacher training programs, and entertainment, supported by a content-driven web community, kicks off in February. At the core of The selfcentered Tour are unique and simple tools to get selfcentered, practices that are easy to understand, live, teach, and love. The techniques include signature meditation, breath styles, and body opening flow that give the mind an opportunity to quiet down, the body an opportunity to relax, and chaos an opportunity to exit.

Founder and chief enlightenment officer Max Simon, who at 22 became the youngest teacher in the history of the world-renowned Chopra Center for Wellbeing in Carlsbad, Calif., has spent the last four years traveling the country teaching meditation and yoga to thousands of people at the Chopra Center’s prestigious workshops and events. Noticing that traditional methods of teaching weren’t attracting a younger demographic, Simon decided to create an alternative approach to show his generation how to step away from the endless mind-chatter, disconnect from the buzz, and settle into a world of authentic inner calm.

Originally posted on January 27, 2008 @ 11:21 pm

Real Time Content chosen among OnMedia Top 100 winners

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Real Time Content (RTC) was chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the OnMedia 100 Winners. Inclusion in the OnMedia 100 signifies major developments in the creation of marketing tools, services, venues, advertising, branding, and public relation campaigns. RTC was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and other industry experts, based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value and media buzz.

The OnMedia 100 was selected from over hundreds of companies, nominated by a panel of industry experts in the online ad service, technology, community platform, mobile advertising, marketing and Web analytic sectors from around the world.

Originally posted on January 28, 2008 @ 4:22 am

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MySpace names Jeff Berman Executive Vice President of Marketing and Content

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viewmedia.jpgMySpace announced that Jeff Berman has been appointed Executive Vice President of Marketing and Content of MySpace.

In his newly created role, Berman will be responsible for spearheading the development and implementation of marketing initiatives and campaigns for MySpace’s more than 110 million users worldwide. He will also oversee the growth and expansion of popular MySpace franchises including Music, Film, Comedy, Impact Channel, MySpaceTV, and the newly launched MySpace Celebrity. Berman will report to MySpace’s CEO and co-founder Chris DeWolfe.

Berman joined MySpace in 2006 as Senior Vice President of Public Affairs, where he led the creation of the Impact Channel, MySpace’s hub for social and political engagement. The Impact Channel houses the official MySpace pages for all of the major party Presidential candidates and a variety of non profit organizations, as well as tools to enable voter registration, fundraising, and volunteering. Berman was instrumental in developing an innovative partnership with MTV to launch the groundbreaking Presidential Dialogue series. Each an hour in length and held on college campuses nationwide, the MySpace/MTV Presidential Dialogues provides a national audience with the opportunity to engage with frontrunner presidential candidates from both the Republican and Democratic parties by posing questions online, in real-time, via MySpaceIM.

In 2007, Berman was promoted to General Manager of MySpaceTV, where he oversaw the launch of the company’s global video platform.

Originally posted on January 24, 2008 @ 5:33 am

Automattic gets $29.5 million in funding

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The New York Times reports that Automattic, the commercial arm of the popular WordPress publishing platform for blogs, has received $29.5 million in financing from four companies, including a small portion from The New York Times Company.

The additional funds would provide the company with a buffer as it invests in other services, including an antispam filter and an online-identity product.

Originally posted on January 23, 2008 @ 12:47 pm