) July 9, 2009 -- iGossip.com announces its official launch from Beta to become the premier online destination for user interaction and user-generated content surrounding celebrity news and entertainment. iGossip users correspond with hundreds of thousands of others by posting opinions and commentary on recent celebrity news stories from blogs around the web. User interaction is enabled by creating and voting on polls, asking and answering questions, and writing one's own blog entries. Each and every user interaction is pushed to the top iGossip's homepage, keeping it fresh. iGossip is mostly moderated by its community of users.

) February 18, 2009 -- FreeIndie Media, an NYC-based company, has welcomed iBored.Com to their growing family of web properties.

Combining both in-house editorial and user-submitted content, iBored provides a constantly updated feed of articles, images, videos and links, tracking offbeat trends in web and pop culture. Bored web surfers can participate with the website's online community by commenting on items, submitting links and creating original articles.

) February 9, 2009 -- UserGenerated.com launched today at the first User Generated Content Conference & Expo in San Jose, California.

Finally, all those people producing User Generated Content have a place on the web where they can find a market for their content as well as find each other, and that place is named, simply enough, UserGenerated.com.

Additionally, producers of User Generated Content can use UserGenerated.com to find information about products that will help them improve the quality of their content, and techniques that will assist them in honing their craft.

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) January 30, 2009 -- In an effort to bring industry articles, blogs, news, and information into one place, DigitalSignage.com has created a custom news aggregation site for the digital signage industry. Interested Digital Signage users and consumers alike can now submit news stories, comment on recent articles, and suggest interesting and relevant information be posted to the news feed.

JamzOTA is an online social platform engaged in the development of digital communities. Allowing users to create content & share social activities. Providing internet based portals.

) January 5, 2009 -- Twitter is fast becoming the most popular social media site on the Internet today. Many Twitter users interact by sharing URLs to interesting web pages in their posts called tweets. Twitter, however, offers no method for users to save the information after a tweet. Krumlr allows Twitter users to save and keep sharing the URLs posted on Twitter.

"I am really impressed with the quality of content I find while on Twitter," says Krumlr creator Pete Wingard. "The content on most social bookmarking sites doesn't compare to Twitter's and Krumlr hopes to capture it."

HighFivez.com a new website launched last month provides blog lovers with a new source for finding the hottest blog posts on the internet today. This new community for bloggers provides a peoples view of the top blog posts.
HighFivez.coms content is 100% driven by its members who can share posts or blogs that they find interesting. Other members can then HighFive these posts if they like them or Pound them it they dont. Users are provided with news worthy information and bloggers receive a surge in traffic due to exposure on the HighFivez home page.

) April 9, 2009 -- After nearly 15 years of delivering live beach and wave imagery through Surfline's extensive camera network, allowing users to check their local breaks and conditions through over 100 online surf cameras, Surfline launches the HD surf-cam experience exclusively for premium subscribers. Over the past few days, five new surf cams have been launched, giving Surfline premium users a high-definition camera experience at Huntington Beach, Newport Beach, Rocky Point in Hawaii, South Ocean Beach in San Francisco and Malibu.

) January 7, 2009 -- Artiklz, the conversation search engine company, today announced the release of its public beta search. Several thousand private beta invitees have test driven the conversation search engine over the past several weeks and provided their feedback. Artiklz is now ready for its public debut.

) September 11, 2008 -- Oriango.com (www.oriango.com), the Universal dictionary of Web Content has officially launched.

Oriango was created to present a new search engine, making the users its only concern. The user chooses the content, and the editor makes it relevant throughout the quality of its content description.

All the information added to Oriango is arranged alphabetically, as in a dictionary, this way it is certain that only the name or the title will matter, allowing independence on their choices. Therefore it's the user that chooses what is cool, not a group selection, votes or Page Rank.

The website is fed by the users, making it always updated and informative.

) August 13, 2009 -- Cricket Site CMDN.com has announced today the availability of enhanced user experience for its community by implementing the Facebook Stream API and Facebook Connect.

Facebook Stream is the flow of information on Facebook, which manifests itself on a user's home page as the News Feed and on the user's profile as the Wall. It represents the content a user shares with friends in a real-time setting.

Lipfeed.com "Feed my LiPS". Lipfeed.com is a multimedia website with media in the form of written words, games and videos.
Lipfeed.com is a must for authors, video producers and game programmers who want to gain publicity on the Internet.
Users can read articles/blogs by authors, play flash games, and search and watch videos from major video sharing websites such as Youtube, Blip.tv, Vimeo and Livevideo at the same time without having to press the back button.
Registered users can submit their created articles and flash games, after registration users are given their own profile address which enables them to share with other people the creations they have submitted to Lipfeed.com.

A completely new way of viewing web pages is now possible.
NexaTools has launched a new and unique tool to browse content from web pages in a form that has not been possible until now.
The tool is called InfoCenter and allows the user to mix content of many different web sites into the same overview. Not on individual tab pages or browser windows, but mixed in the same view.
Each piece of content can be configured to be refreshed at a selected interval. It is even possible to select which part of each web page the user wishes to monitor.
This means, that the user can configure the content with a part that shows the headlines from a news site, another part of the screen can show the local weather report and yet another part can show stock market updates for instance.

) November 12, 2008 -- The team behind SocialReader is happy to announce their Beta version is now operational at SocialReader.net. This useful new site filters through the content of Google Reader and YouTube to provide users only with the top news stories and videos.

) October 2, 2008 -- Red Karaoke, the social singing network, has renovated its website to make it even more attractive by introducing new tools for music lovers. New functionalities include the possibility of uploading their own video perfomances and recordings to the new Red Karaoke TV video section or creating their blogs for promoting voices both inside and outside this music social community.

Sing online at Redkaraoke.com

) October 29, 2008 -- Today Skewz.com, the first user-driven political media aggregation site for exposing media bias, launched a new online tool that gives users the power to know the political bias of the websites they are visiting on the Internet. Like Digg.com, Del.icio.us, and Reddit, Skewz compiles all the news in one place, but Skewz is completely specialized in political coverage.

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) August 20, 2009 -- Platformic, an end-to-end online web development environment and content management platform that allows businesses to quickly and easily build/update websites in real-time without sacrificing creativity or writing code (and without requiring third party authoring tools), today unveiled its Mobile Blogging Tool. The new addition to the groundbreaking online platform enables users (many with little or no web or technical experience) to easily add content such as video, photos and text to update existing articles, stories and blogs. New content can be added to Platformic powered sites using an iPhone, Blackberry or other mobile device with an Internet connection.

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CODERWORDS provide a platform for members to buildup there technical skills in many fields. It is full of technically enlightening material which will surely be interesting.

) May 22, 2009 -- OneRiot, the realtime web search engine, today announced a partnership with both WebMynd and Surf Canyon to customize Google, Yahoo! and Live Search with realtime web results powered by OneRiot.

How OneRiot works within Surf Canyon

WebMynd and Surf Canyon are browser extensions that allow users to personalize traditional search pages. WebMynd and Surf Canyon are among a growing list of companies to recently join the OneRiot Realtime Search Partner Program which offers developers access to the company's search API.

) January 7, 2009 -- After the anticipated launch of the free Surfline iPhone application developed by Oakley about 6 weeks ago, Surfline is now reporting that it's already hit more than 200,000 downloads and growing. With only a few short weeks on iTunes, the global surf report iPhone application has been downloaded across the world with the top country's being United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Canada and France rounding out the top 5.

) September 14, 2009 -- Allvoices, Inc., the first open media site where anyone can report from anywhere, today became the only citizen media outlet to integrate live, event- and location-specific Twitter data into its citizen reports.

) August 25, 2009 -- Emmad Aburas is just like any other college student, except for the fact that he is the CEO and founder of Yapem.com. Yapem is the first central linking website tailored for users. Emmad was just 19 years of age when he launched Yapem on August 3, 2009. The main aspect of Yapem is its ability to use opinions and thoughts created by users, along with any webpage content, and broadcast it. Yapem allows users to instantly create embeddable content while using photos and videos with one click of a button.

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Stockholm, Sweden - Multigames.com, a new player in the web games-market is experiencing strong growth and stable inflow of new games. The web 2.0 site, which follows the concept of You tube that allows users to upload user generated content without any pre-approval. How ever the content at Multigames, as the name suggests, Games not movie clips.
The idea behind the site is to encourage developers to try out new ideas and have visitors to play the games and give them feedback. The multigames platform also provides users with tools to easy spread the games on other social networking sites such as Myspace & Facebook and blogs.

) September 29, 2008 -- The sleek new look and enhanced functionality of www.mobango.com received the internal thumbs' up last night, and was today opened (in beta) to all internet users and mobile phone enthusiasts around the World.

On the new Mobango web and mobile sites users can find close to one million items of mobile content available to download free to any handset in the world: everything in one place, simple to find, free to download and validated by the ratings and comments of other users.

) January 7, 2009 -- BonzoBox, an innovative social homepage on the Internet, has revealed its cutting edge product to the public. The website has previously operated under a hidden beta only available to selected developers located around the world.

Everyone on the Internet needs lots of new, high quality content. Website owners, bloggers, and publishers of ezine and newsletters all need content. All businesses including yours need exposure and a

The fastest way to find the hottest, most up to date and breaking news is at SpivO (pronounced Speevo). US, World, Business, Health, Technology news, SpivO has it all. And for those election watchers, scope out the 2008 election section. The SpivO news channel has it all at the click of a mouse in pretty much any language you want it. http://spivo.com/news/ .

A website design contest has been launched by ContentLaundromat.com. They are looking for a Wordpress theme design for their new website to match their vision for a new content tool. The theme for the website design is a "Laundromat" that "cleans" articles written by others so that they pass through search engine's duplicate content filters.
The website design selected as the winner will receive $350 as well as exclusive access to their one of a kind website article content tool. The contest is running from 2 June 08 until Noon on Monday, 9 June 08 and is hosted at 99designs.com. Entrants must submit a full Wordpress theme compatible with Wordpress 2.5 using a look and feel of a laundromat, however instead of clothes, articles will be "cleaned".

) January 18, 2009 -- OverflowLegal.com (OFL) launches with over 1,000 articles in over 100 niche and irreverent legal content categories.

Most on-line legal content is as stuffy and boring as a $500/hour big-law attorney blabbing about their law firm's storied history dating back to 1919. Even worse, most 'law' content-aggregators tend to serve-up poorly categorized, unrated, unfiltered, junk-laden, and irrelevant content which only adds to the ever-expanding problem of information overload.

) October 2, 2008 --Heritage Microfilm and NewspaperARCHIVE.com have formed a partnership with Google to bring more digitized newspaper pages to the Web.

Heritage Microfilm will serve as a Google digitization partner, working with newspaper publishers worldwide. Publishers can continue to take advantage of Heritage's current subscription model while at the same time working with Google to extend the reach of their brand online, as well as earn ad revenue. Publishers who wish to be excluded from this partnership will still receive the same high-quality service they are accustomed to.

) June 19, 2009 -- As there is a seemingly endless supply of child-appropriate websites on the Internet, kids' websites are facing the same challenges as other sites on the net, namely bringing traffic and capturing the users' attention.

10 Most Popular Websites for Kids

In a quest to drive website traffic and increase site popularity, marketers and brands are all doing their best to stand out and attract users, and to convince them to visit their websites. This, however, is quite a complicated task, as young kids visiting sites depend totally on their parents to set up the sites for them.

) November 3, 2008 -- Staying true to its name, topseos once again brings forth the leading players in the search industry. This month's list consists of the best Content Creation Firms sought out after a lengthy and meticulous assessment. The rankings published by topseos identify the best firms in the industry updated on a monthly basis.

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) December 9, 2008 -- WeMix.com, the user-generated music creation community created by Grammy award winning artist Christopher "Ludacris" Bridges and Phonezoo (www.phonezoo.com), the leading mobile social media and entertainment destination, announced today that they have combined forces to launch an innovative content distribution partnership.

) June 11, 2009 -- Surfline, the world's most popular surf-related website, announced today that it has launched a comprehensive, informative new channel focusing on surf gear, equipment and accessories. Titled "Surf Gear," the new channel features an overview of all the surf-specific products available in the market today, ranging from surfboards to boardshorts to fins to wetsuits and much, much more. With this valuable new content offering, visitors to the site can choose from a list of categories and/or companies and gather information about the equipment they need to pursue their wave-riding passion.

) October 30, 2008 -- Com Media Group proudly announces the open Beta of its latest website, 43Marks.com.

) January 26, 2009 -- JD Supra, the free online publishing platform for legal documents and attorney work product, today announced that its user-contributed content will be distributed by Newstex, which provides instant access to real-time news, full-text blogs and video from top sources in a variety of markets and categories. The partnership gives legal professionals a mass channel for sharing their work and expertise.

Newstex will frame JD Supra's content with stock tickers, people tags and additional context, and deliver it to millions of professionals across several business sectors.

) August 25, 2009 -- GMX, the free e-mail service for more than 11 million active users, is delighted to integrate Facebook Connect in its webmail interface (www.gmx.com). GMX will pair a mainstream communication service with one of the Web's most popular social utilities and enable Facebook users to log into their GMX email with their Facebook login credentials.

) September 10, 2009 -- Article directory submission is a "trigger" phrase to traffic-hunting webmasters interested in Search Engine Optimization. Not only must websites create multiple pages of fresh content but they must also build up numerous back links on other websites if they hope to bring in traffic. Though some websites charge a considerable fee for back linking privileges, TheArticlePlace.com is allowing "free rein" to their returning traffic.

) April 20, 2009 -- Encyclocenter features a myriad of topics of human interest and are dedicated to inform people, rather than to influence. Each and every topic is again backed by innumerable late breaking stories.

As far as the quality of writing is concerned, this online article and breaking news hub has surpassed its competitors in performance benchmarks by featuring the thoughts of intellectuals and some of the top minds in the industry. Reaching 100,000 articles posted is a sign of our commitment to providing authoritative quality content.

) October 30, 2008 -- Com Media Group proudly announces the open Beta of its latest website, 43Marks.com.