HiveLive, a social startup based in Colorado, has raised $1.15 million in Series A funding led by Aeneas Ventures, according to regulatory filings that are coming to light today (I haven't seen an announcement yet). I tested HiveLive way back in July...
Last.fm will announce four new features in a press release tomorrow, although a few observant users will notice them going live today. Last.fm, you may recall, is a neat social network that lets you get music recommendations based on what people like...
At the end of last week, clips from Comedy Central's shows, including the Daily Show, South Park and the Colbert Report, were pulled from YouTube due to copyright violations. I suggested that this was perhaps a negotiating tactic by owners Viacom: Yo...
A few months back, Snocap partnered with MySpace with the intention of offering paid downloads through MySpace music. Snocap, you'll remember, had a MySpace music player and backend technology that sold music via Paypal: the deal meant that Snocap's ...
YouMe.Us, which launches in public beta today, is a relationship advice site where people post questions and others respond with advice. Just as Maya's Mom is trying to do for parenting, YouMe.Us think that the Yahoo Answers model could be successful...
Remember that company Universal Tube that owns the domain UTube.com? A release on one of the press wires says that UTube is now suing the video sharing site, demanding that YouTube stop using their name. Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporatio...
Another personalized news site appears on the scene. Neoows is a new service that gathers feeds from around the web and lets you read them in a social environment. You have your own feed reader called "MyNeoows" that can be populated by feeds from th...
Social networks are on course to make a killing from ads, according to a report coming out of eMarketer today. U.S. marketers are expected to spend $350 million in 2006, an increase of 25% over previous estimates. Estimates for 2010 are also up 16 pe...
yourminis, which will launch officially on November 6th, is a brand new widget-based startpage from the makers of Goowy. Goowy, you'll remember, is a web desktop that includes free email and IM capabilities - in many ways, yourminis is a more accessi...
Yahoo is launching another new site this morning, complete with social features. Yahoo! Food has been developed by the company's Lifestyles group in Santa Monica, and focuses on professional content like recipes from celebrity chefs. These partners i...
Certainly the most popular way to decorate a MySpace page is to add a photo - these are typically used for backgrounds, direct placement, contact tables, and comments. MySpace makes it easy to upload photos yet many users turn to external photo shari...
YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley said at a conference yesterday that YouTube will launch a service for mobile phones in 2007. Speaking at the OgilvyOne Digital Summit, Hurley said that mobile video is "going to be a huge market", and that the move will...
MyPickList are launching a brand new version their social shopping site today. The site, you may remember, is a social shopping service like Kaboodle that lets you create a list of items you'd recommend to friends, post that list to blogs and social ...
Two new chat services are launching this week: Geesee and Plugoo. The former allows you to embed a chatroom for visitors to your blog or website, while the latter is more like MeeboMe, a widget from the makers of Meebo that lets you use your existing...
Brad Greenspan, the guy who started the company that created MySpace before it was sold to News Corp in July 2005, just notified me that he's suing News Corp today over alleged censorship. He's also launched CensorSpace, a blog that aims to shed ligh...
Microsoft just informed all the users who signed up a few weeks back (including me) that the site Zune.net has gone live. Zune, in case you haven't been following it, is Microsoft's "iPod killer", and they claim to be making music more social and sha...
Could everybody who isn't threatening to sue YouTube please put your hands up? Today the German soccer team Bayern Munich threatened legal action against the site over the use of game footage. What's interesting here is that Bayern president Karl-Hei...
eefoof, a San Diego-based video and photo-sharing site that shares advertising revenue with users who upload clips, has been funded. The $225K in angel funding comes from the Tech Coast Angels, and they plan to spend it on improving the site and laun...
It's being widely reported in Indian blogs and news sources this week (the latest one is a story in SDA Asia today) that the Indian YouTube clone MeraVideo is "close" to getting $1.5 million venture capital funding. The source, of course, is the site...
Submitted by Kelvin Beecroft of Mashable Labs, edited by Pete Cashmore This week on Mashable we've covered three major markets for social networking add-ons: video-sharing, photo hosting and slideshows. We looked at MySpace specifically, because fran...
Google knew when they acquired YouTube last month that they were not only snapping up the future of TV, but also a massive amount of legal baggage. So it's not surprising to see a story in the FT last night stating that Google is frantically making p...
Evoca, the service that lets you share voice recordings, announced a new voice comments widget yesterday for MySpace and blogs. They already had a tool that allowed you to post your own audio clips to MySpace, hi5, Multiply, Piczo and the rest via a ...
Travelhiker is a new social network for travel that went under the radar when it launched in August. Based in Harrogate, UK, they're getting by on less than £50K ($95K) in funding so far, and report a few hundred members. Today they'll announce a rev...
Chicago-based Planypus will officially launch their site on November 6th, but all the features appear to be live now. Intended as a place to share event plans, Planypus provides a broadly similar service to HeyLetsGo, ILCU, Eventful and MingleNow's "...
Flixster is a San Francisco-based social startup that's been running for 10 months, and they've been trying to stay off the radar for most of that time while they improve the service. This week they mailed me to say they're starting to promote the si...
Meebo, the popular web-based IM client, came out of alpha last night and skipped to a 1.0 release. The improvements include a new look that's much cleaner - if you liked the old design, however, you can revert to "classic". In fact, "skins" are a who...
There have been murmurings over the past few months than Google will integrate their Google Talk IM and voice client with their social networking site Orkut. This week those rumors have been confirmed, with Google set to announce the integration next...
Pixilis, which is currently in private beta, is an upcoming site from Codency, the Montreal-based creators of the file storage site GigaSize. It's a fairly straightforward photo and video-sharing site, with features like batch uploading of images, ta...
SoundLoud is a new service, launched in the past two weeks, that aims to help artists sell their music through social networking widgets. Built by a two-man team and based in New York, the site's core service is the SoundStation Music Store, a music ...
Israel-based Gigya, which launches tomorrow, is positioning itself as email for the MySpace generation. The recently-funded startup provides a web-interface that lets you embed widgets in your mail: videos from YouTube and Metacafe, photos from Photo...
