Blog platform LiveJournal‘s new Russian owners are endeavouring to make the site more open by appointing some of their users to their advisory board. LiveJournal admits it stepped in it…

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— Online Catch Up For Channel 4: Channel 4 has rolled out a free seven-day catch-up service on channel4.com, reports NMA.co.uk. The click-and-play streaming service is in addition to its…

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Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) UK is doing away with its separately priced internet bundles, and instead will now integrate the cost of access to the mobile web and email into its…

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Professional social network LinkedIn is getting serious about expanding outside the US to help grow its share of the social net market. In January, after months of speculation that the…

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As expected, the newly relaunched Friends Reunited has dropped its pay wall, hoping that going free will allow it to keep a grip on its members who are increasingly decamping…

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AOL president Ron Grant, appearing on our EconSM panel, suggested new acquisition Bebo would be used to thread social features throughout AOL’s new-look websites. In a later chat with my…

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AOL’s (NYSE: TWX) $850 million purchase of Bebo back in March was one of the big social media deals of the year. In a Q&A with ContentNext co-editor Staci Kramer…

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I’m at our EconSM social media conference in Los Angeles. You can find the team’s rolling coverage from our speaker-laden panel-fest at paidContent.org. I caught up with Loic Le Meur,…

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Music and book retailer HMV (LSE: HMV) is trialling its social networking site with 1,000 users prior to its offical launch in September, reports the telegraph.co.uk. Code named “Get Closer,”…

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It’s worked for a football club (MyFootballClub.co.uk) and for bands (Sellaband, Slicethepie, Marillion); now a stealth-mode new online cooperative aims to let movie buffs call the shots in the film…

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-- Hello: Before Gawker, folks got their celebrity gossip from the likes of Hello magazine. The distinction may now be clear that Hello treats long-form features best while blogs excel…

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Though he no doubt took a healthy slice of that $850 million, Bebo’s English co-founder Michael Birch went to ground when AOL (NYSE: TWX) bought the site in March -…

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Veteran blog host LiveJournal has joined the wave of social media sites trying to win larger audiences by opening a formal developer effort. Launched last night, LJ Labs will usher…

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And yet, the funding keeps flowing in: EQAL, the new name of the production company behind the pioneering online video series Lonelygirl15, has received $5 million in funding from various…

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Songwriter Billy Bragg has reprised his recent New York Times op-ed, in which he criticised social media sites like Bebo for making money that they don’t pass on to artists,…

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MySpace has signed a distribution deal with UK TV production house ShineReveille that’s intended to expand the reach of their original programming internationally and online, according to The Hollywood Reporter.…

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French Digg clone Fuzz has been forced offline after a link posted by a user to an off-site story was deemed to have constituted privacy invasion. Paris’ court of the…

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Threads from the TV content market happening on the Croisette in Cannes… -- Hulu aims global: Jason Kilar, CEO of the NBC/News Corp (NYSE: NWS) web TV JV Hulu.com, told…

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Fan-funded musician site Sellaband has scored $5 million funding from Prime Technology Ventures to embark on a US roll-out. CEO Johan Vosmeijer of the Amsterdam-based outfit, which lets visitors buy…

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Irreverent adult-oriented social network Faceparty is shifting strategy to rely solely on its premium SMS income after ditching all ad support to return to its “naughty” roots. Looking for, let’s…

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CBS (NYSE: CBS) Radio is to begin adding its streams to Last.fm, in the first real integration of the social music site with its new owner since the $280 million…

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Berlin-based Metaversum, operator of the beta 3D virtual world Twinity, has landed a “significant multi-million euro investment” from Balderton to take the environment global. Twinity’s take on 3D immersion isthat…

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- Sportingo: While some continue to wonder whether user-generated content-dependent sites should pay their contributors, sport fan editorial site Sportingo has decided to give away that money to a charitable…

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ITV (LSE: ITV) broadband MD Annelies Van Den Belt is leaving the broadcaster after 14 months to head Russian online media company Sup, which bought blog platform LiveJournal in December.…

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Two UK social media bosses have penned obituaries for their start-ups… - BlogFriends: London-based i-Together’s BlogFriends Facebook app, which tried to build an RSS reader with recommendations inside the social…

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