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Demand Media announced the availability of Facebook Connect features and functionality within the company’s industry leading Pluck social media platform. By combining the two technologies, Pluck and Facebook enable users on Pluck customer sites to share their community interactions with their friends on Facebook. The integration offers an unprecedented model ...

Eventful announced that it has raised $10 million from lead investor Telefónica and existing investors, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Bay Partners. Eventful says that they will use the capital to extend its leadership position in the local events space through expanding sales and marketing, increasing its lead in the ...

Big Fish Games announced that it closed an $83.3 million common stock financing from Balderton Capital, General Catalyst Partners and Salmon River Capital. Big Fish Games said that they intend to use the new capital raised to accelerate its global expansion.

Muse Weddings, a new, alternative online resource for the wedding industry, introduced an exclusive wedding social network that combines easy-to-use planning tools with user-to-user connectivity. Backed by an urban-chic appeal, engaged couples on Muse create and share their wedding experiences online, utilizing some interesting web 2.0 technology. Members can access ...

This has been a pretty exciting news for the tech industry, I've been using this new browser for the past two days and I've finally come to the conclusion that Google is just flat out good at what they do. Google launched Google Chrome, a new open source browser intended ...

Metacafe became the first video site to open its metadata for community contributions and editing. Metacafe’s more than 34 million unique monthly viewers can now add and improve the tags, titles, descriptions and more for any of the millions of videos on the site. This feature, called Wikicafe, is central ...

The Answers Corporation announced that its WikiAnswers social knowledge Q&A community reached four million questions only 72 days after reaching the 3 million milestone.

The chumby makes keeping up with friends easier than ever with the addition of content from some of the Internet’s leading social utilities, delivering them in a friendly, always-on, always-fresh format. Chumby is adding content and rich capabilities from Facebook and Twitter to features already available from dozens of leading ...

DailyMe is putting a face to the news. The interactive media and technology start-up today announced the launch of Meme-It, which allows users to vote on news stories based on the responses the stories trigger. DailyMe users can choose from six distinct descriptors by clicking on the appropriate Meme-It ...

UberSpat.com is a debating site that allows users to submit articles and blog posts, much like people do on Digg. This evidence can be submitted in support or in opposition to a debate. This evidence is then rated by users. The best of the evidence floats to the top, thus ...