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Last.fm inks partnership with Sony BMG Entertainment

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lastfm.jpgLast.fm, the online social music network, announced a new global content agreement with Sony BMG Music Entertainment. As part of the agreement Sony BMG’s extensive catalogue of recordings, which includes some of the most popular artists of today, as well as classic tracks from some of the greatest artists of all time, will be made available to the 20 million users of Last.fm’s online radio streaming service.

As well as listening to their established favourites, users in the Last.fm community will now be able to discover new artists from the Sony catalogue through its unique recommendation system. The addition of such a major catalogue boosts Last.fm’s mission of building the biggest and best online music community, as it takes their already unrivalled music database to another level.

“This partnership affords Last.fm users a whole new set of terrific content for building community. We’ve always aimed to have everything ever recorded available to listen to on our site, and having access to Sony’s collection of some of the world’s most popular music takes us another huge step closer,” Martin Stiksel, Last.fm co-founder, said.

Originally posted on July 9, 2007 @ 10:00 am

Chess.com launches social network

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Chess.comWith a premium domain as such, I’d have to agree, Chess.com would have made a lot of money already, just parked as it is.

But the owners of Chess.com wants something more. And they made a good decision by turning it into a social network of, obviously, chess enthusiasts around the world.

Launched in June and now with over 10,000 members, and 1 million page views on the first month alone, Chess.com gives members access to a wide range of fun stuff including profiles, blogs, video sharing, events posting, directory of clubs, email (users get to have [email protected]), the opportunity to connect with people with the same love for chess, and a whole lot more.

You can visit this new chess hangout at.. well, ok, you know where.

Originally posted on July 9, 2007 @ 3:59 am

Online nursing community expands its global outreach

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johnshopkins.jpgAn innovative and highly successful worldwide online community of practice, The Global Alliance for Nursing and Midwifery Electronic Community of Practice (GANM CoP), has received funding that will broaden and enhance efforts to deliver connectivity and best practices to nurses and midwives worldwide.

The GANM CoP, a component of the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON), will use a $450,000 grant from the international investment company Kentrik Group to expand its global outreach efforts and to create specific learning modules and on-line teaching materials for health care practitioners in diverse settings.

The GANM CoP is based at the JHUSON in the Institute for Johns Hopkins Nursing PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for Nursing Knowledge, Information Management, and Sharing (KIMS). In 2005, in response to WHO actions to increase the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for knowledge management and dissemination, the collaborating center created the GANM CoP-a first of its kind electronic Community of Practice specifically designed for nurses, midwives, and other community care providers in diverse and frequently poorly accessible practice settings throughout the world. Since its launch in 2006, the GANM CoP has grown exponentially from an initial membership of 100 nurses and midwives to a current total of 1,300 that now includes public health practitioners and policy makers and draws representatives from 118 countries.

Originally posted on July 6, 2007 @ 8:06 pm

HubPages launches Q&A feature

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HubPagesHubPages has recently launched a Q&A feature to its site today, the HubPages Requests.

HubPages is an online publishing community where HubPage authors earn money by publishing content-rich Internet pages on topics they know and love. Members get recognized through a community-wide HubScore ranking system. To spruce it up a little, and to encourage more involvement among members, as well as create more ways to give information about specific questions through community effort, HubPages Requests come to existence.

This latest development in HubPages allows users to generate a page around a question, which can be answered by members in the form of a blog or an article. Much like Yahoo Answers, yes. HubPages Requests allows users to include images and videos into their “answers” as well.

Originally posted on July 4, 2007 @ 8:58 pm

Kelly Rowland to host 24 hours of progamming in Zwinktopia to raise awareness on global warming

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stagez.jpgIAC Consumer Applications and Portals, a wholly-owned business of IAC/InterActiveCorp, announced that Kelly Rowland, Scott Ian, Lil Mama, Hinder, Teddy Geiger, and Jordan McCoy will serve as celebrity hosts at “Stage-Z” – a full-day concert to be held July 7th in its virtual world, Zwinktopia. Environmental reporters Amy Sedaris, Tina Fey, and Amy Poehler, and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog will also be participating. Stage-Z will raise awareness of the global warming epidemic and need for climate control reform.

“Global warming is an issue that we need to confront, and I am proud to do my part to help today’s teens understand the dire consequences of inaction on this issue,” said Kelly Rowland. “Hosting at Stage-Z in Zwinktopia is an innovative way for me to spread this message to the online community.”

In conjunction with The Alliance For Climate Protection, Stage Z will broadcast in Zwinktopia, a virtual world for the more than seven million Zwinky avatars worldwide. Stage-Z will feature a 24-hour block of music videos, interviews, comedy, short films, and exclusive programming from today’s top hip-hop, rock, pop, electronic, and metal artists as well as celebrity DJ’s, comedians and actors.

The event will coincide with Live Earth, a 24-hour, 7-continent series of 9 concerts taking place on July 7th that will bring together more than 100 music artists and 2 billion people to trigger a global movement to solve the climate crisis.

The Stage-Z Concert will be held in the new outdoor amphitheatre in Zwinktopia built especially for the event.

Originally posted on July 6, 2007 @ 8:25 am