We've already covered YouTube's Super Bowl event, and the fact that iFilm will also be posting the ads after the big game. But now a number of startups - Meebo, Meez, Multiply, Plaxo, Technorati and RockYou have launched their own "Super Bowl ads" an...
Zoodango - We covered the professional social network Zoodango back when it was in preview mode: it launches officially today. Tagging Popular? Tagging is taking off, it seems - Pew says that "28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content ...
LisaNova, one of the top YouTubers, has followed Barats and Bereta and Brookers by scoring a TV contract: she's moving to the sketch show MADtv. LisaNova, aka Lisa Donovan, will start on the show on Saturday, February 17th. Donovan moved to LA to sta...
The online photo editors just keep getting better and better. We covered Fauxto, Picture2Life, Snipshot, Preloadr and more in the past, but I think Picnik may be one of the best. Picnik is simpler and more intuitive than most desktop apps, and thanks...
MySpace Notifier, which is yet to launch, is a desktop application for MySpace users who want to stay updated without visiting the site repeatedly. The Windows application sits in your system tray and alerts you to new messages, new friend requests, ...
The Sports Business Journal reported in December that Sports Illustrated/Time Inc had a “deal in principle†to get a 40% stake in FanNation for $25 million - making the sports social network worth a stunning $60 million. Today, Sports Illustrated is ...
A Mashable reader spotted that Google has added a video section to Orkut today, giving users the ability to add videos from YouTube and Google Video straight into their profiles without copying and pasting code - instead, you just enter the URL of th...
PayPerPost, the service that pays bloggers to write about certain products, is rolling out a series of new features on Monday. Most interesting: they're going to pay video bloggers for creating videos about certain products. In short: paid product pl...
Widgipedia Launches - Widgipedia, the widget gallery we wrote about at the start of the month, has launched officially today. It overlaps with Widgetbox, Musestorm, Spring Widgets and many more. Digg Payola, No More Top Diggers - Two Digg stories are...
MyDesignIn, which is launching at DEMO, is a social service for those remodeling their homes - a niche that hasn't really been targeted by the 2.0 crowd yet. It's based around social bookmarking: find beds, baths, sinks and more as you browse around ...
I've been off sick (again!), but here are some of the stories that are filling up the Mashable inbox today... MySpace Hacker - Samy Kamkar, aged 19 at the time, has been sentenced to three years of probation and given 90 days of community service by ...
Blogwerx Sentinel is an application I've been following for at least six months - it finally debuted at DEMO this week. Perhaps due to the DEMO rush, the site seems incomplete - the interface doesn't work yet, and all you can really do is sign up. No...
The widget world hasn't escaped the Super Bowl frenzy, it seems: marketing company MediaSauce has created a Flash widget and viral video campaign called Bear Vs Colt, which seems to be an experiment into how powerful social media marketing can be. Th...
Predictably, perhaps, YouTube is launching a Valentine's Day promotion that follows the same pattern as the Coke-YouTube eCards at Christmas, and similar holiday promos by StupidVideos and Motionbox. The sponsor this time around is Procter & Gamble's...
YouTube Japan - As promised, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen are headed to Japan to talk with JASRAC on Tuesday regarding the Japanese media group's copyright complaints. JASRAC originally ordered that 30,000 videos be pulled from the site, but they conti...
Webwag, the web-based startpage, is announcing a new feature on Monday: the Widget On Demand (WOD) allows you to create a module for your startpage from any site, regardless of whether the site provides an RSS feed. You just enter the URL of the site...
PureVideo Networks, owner of StupidVideos, PureVideo and GrindTV, is set to go live with a fourth video site on Monday: HollywoodUpClose is a portal for celebrity videos. The PureVideo team noticed that over a third of PureVideo.com's 1.8 million mon...
Skype 3.0 - Skype just notified users of the release of Skype 3.0. The feature set was already known, and a Mac version is still being worked on. Krillion - Krillion, which launches officially today, is a new search engine for household appliances (y...
IMified, which just launched, is a service for operating websites - Basecamp, Google Calendar, Salesforce, Blogger, RemembertheMilk, Backpack, 30Boxes, Wordpress, MovableType and TypePad - from your IM client. To start, you just add the user "IMified...
You'll remember we're big fans of Gigya, the new webmail service that allows users to add MySpace layouts and other decorative elements to email. You can, for instance, add RockYou slideshows, MySpace music players, YouTube videos, photos from Photob...
The YouTube Superbowl site we mentioned in January went live last night, and it seems to follow a Digg-like system, but with a unique twist: users drag and drop items on the list to move them up and down, and hit "submit" when they're done. There's a...
There was a flood of video widgets at DEMO, and soon we'll have one more option for posting video clips to social networks - tomorrow, VodPod will launch the "Pod Player". VodPod, for those who aren't familiar with it, is a place to create your own v...
RedBubble - Aussie social network RedBubble, which launched a preview site today, is targeting creative people. Users can upload artwork and sell framed prints - there's some really nice artwork here, and it's a shame it's limited to Australia right ...
The widget invasion will kill us all. Two more new video widgets - this time offering the ability to post webcam videos to social networks, were submitted to Mashable today. With Flixn and Flikzor (to some extent) playing this game already, it looks ...
On Tuesday (today, for many of you), the wiki service Wetpaint is announcing a series of new features - they're already live on the site. The non-widget stuff includes custom URL domain mapping to your personal or business website and autolinking (it...
Great news for fans of the social music recommendation service Last.fm - they're announcing a partnership today with Warner Music Group. WMG is the world's fourth biggest label, and Warner's entire catalog from the US and Europe will now be streamed ...
Flip.com, Conde Nast's new social network for girls that could rival Piczo, is now open to everyone following the "girls-only" launch we covered in December. As we suspected, it's an awesome site. As mentioned previously, Flip.com is based around "fl...
Facebook and Comcast are set to launch a TV series called "Facebook Diaries", made entirely from user-generated videos. The show will consist of ten half-hour episodes and appear on Comcast's video on demand service, the Ziddio website (Ziddio is Com...
Bebo Safety - Bebo hosted a series of workshops today as part of "European Safer Internet Day". As usual, this gives the impression that Bebo is concerned about safety, and gives them some positive press coverage. Zooof- Zooof is launching its new "f...
We're quickly losing track of these video meta-search and aggregation tools. The latest to debut is ClipRoller, a site founded by web dev company CliPro that searches across the video sites we're all familiar with: YouTube, Metacafe, Revver, Brightco...
