) February 9, 2009 -- Gutenberg.com launched today, as a new central information resource and social network for the ebook community. Gutenberg.com is for people who read ebooks or would like more information about them, as well as professionals involved in the ebook and publishing industry.

Gutenberg.com is a central resource for ebook lovers, ebook newbies, and the ebook industry.

The new Surf homepage contains an overview of the most interesting user submitted news, information and articles, latest comments and activities and top list of users who contributed the most popular content.
Based on a almost similar concept to Croportal homepage, Surf homepage includes a separate flash box with the most popular user submitted news and lots of user generated content. During its creation, the designers collaborated with users who are active in submitting content and took their suggestions and needs into consideration. Their desire to submit high quality content was a motive for emphasizing the best and most interesting user submitted content.

) March 6, 2009 -- Mockingbird Games announced plans today to demonstrate Mockingbird Platform, the game making technology behind Mattel's U.B. Funkeys™ Game Factory, at the Engage! Expo in New York on March 10-11. Mockingbird recently began licensing its game making components to websites and virtual worlds, giving people the opportunity to make, change, and share games relevant to their favorite online communities.

) September 30, 2009 -- TurboSquid, the world's largest online marketplace for stock 3D models, has been named the exclusive marketplace provider of user-generated 3D product models on the Autodesk Seek web service. TurboSquid provides marketplace services for Autodesk 3ds Max, Autodesk Revit, Autodesk Maya, Softimage, AutoCAD, Autodesk Mudbox and other Autodesk formats.

) January 6, 2009 -- Gutenberg.com, a central Internet resource for the emerging ebook industry and ebook users, today released a list of 20 reasons why the ebook will dramatically expand its presence in business and society in 2009. Providing a comprehensive and colorful picture of the current and future state of ebooks, the list includes diverse technology, cultural, social, and investment reasons supporting the expansion of both ebooks and ebook readers.

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 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.

) July 4, 2009 -- Reality Digital, the leading provider of brand focused social media solutions, has indicated that the summer festival period is likely to be followed by an influx in the number of consumers using online video and user generated content within social networks.

The constant development of technology has meant that recording devices such as camcorders and cameras have become far more mainstream through the combination of their features in new equipment such as digital cameras and mobile phones. Video recording has become more accessible to the consumer, and because they are also much more portable, many people will no doubt look to capture some of their favourite acts at festivals across the world using video.

) October 14, 2008 -- Keibi Technologies, the leading provider of moderation solutions for user generated content (UGC), has announced the availability of two research reports concentrating on social media and UGC. The surveys and resulting reports were administered and aggregated by an independent, third-party research firm and provide insights into brand marketers' and publishers' current strategies, tactics, and future plans with social media.

) June 15, 2009 -- Online video has become a staple of most Web users' media diet, yet very few online retailers have been able to harness the opportunity provided by video e-commerce. Overlay.TV, a leader in user-generated clickable video, is seeking to change that with the launch of its new e-commerce product, Overlay.TV for Retail.

) April 8, 2009 -- WatchMojo.com served its 50,000,000th video stream in March 2009. Unlike most video companies that host user-appropriated content from other media companies or aggregate third-party professional content, WatchMojo.com produces professional videos and distributes it to social networking and media sites.

The slowing economy has accelerated the company's growth as consumers turn to home entertainment. "A few years ago, we had to explain why we produced professional videos. Today, there's an enormous appetite for it as user-generated content fails to win over advertisers despite soaring demand for video content" confesses CEO Ashkan Karbasfrooshan.

) April 14, 2009 -- Twenty years ago, a CD-ROM was burned 'live' for the very first time, in front of a packed room of journalists from entertainment, technology, and business.

Gutenberg.com is giving away free ebook on history of digital media, for people signing up for email list.

) 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.

) January 22, 2009 -- Bebo, the global social media network, and Motionbox, the leading personal video sharing service, today announced that Motionbox would provide video publishing tools to Bebo's audience of over 49 million members worldwide.

) 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.

) April 8, 2009 -- Today, SiteRapture (http://www.siterapture.com), a vertical directory of websites and online services, announced the release of its official list of social networking websites and related information.

) March 9, 2009 -- VMIX, the fast-growing digital media management SaaS provider, has been selected by TownNews.com to enable its newspaper customers to feature sponsorable video-on-demand on their websites. Founded in 1989, TownNews.com is the largest company in North America providing online solutions for newspapers.

"TownNews.com's network of sites stands to benefit tremendously by creating a more interactive experience for its viewers and advertisers," noted Greg Booras, vice president of sales at TownNews.com. "The VMIX video solution allows our newspapers to offer advertisers the product they need to engage online consumers. Plus, the VMIX platform supports a variety of desirable advertising options, including overlay and sponsorship opportunities."

) September 17, 2009 -- The variety of accessible content on a website is of vital importance when it comes to engaging users and consumers according to Reality Digital, the leading provider of social network software for brands and businesses.

The rise of social media as a marketing tool has meant that brands have had to look at all possible avenues in their efforts to make their brand stand out. The creation of a brand focused social network is one of the key methods of tapping into online audiences, and - as with the majority of online marketing initiatives - content is of huge importance.

Entrepreneurs found the need for an organized way to arrange the user generated content on tourist destinations in India, before they quit their high paying jobs to start their own venture.

) September 16, 2008 -- Ad-funded social networks will provide the bulk of revenues in the mobile user-generated content (UGC) space by 2013, according to a new report from Juniper Research.

) 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.

Platformic Mobile Blogging Tool Images

) December 2, 2008 -- A Couple of Chicks e-Marketing, founders of Online Revealed Canada, have taken the lead as the first show producers to create a User Generated Content platform to create the 4th annual event.

"We are the only conference asking the online community what they want to see before we plan the program," said Patricia Brusha, Co-Founder of A Couple of Chicks e-Marketing and Online Revealed. "We will listen to the voice of the Industry to plan the '09 program, and not simply assume that our program is relevant to Canadian tourism professionals moving into 2009."

) January 19, 2009 -- A new Juniper Research report has found that new revenue streams from event-based charging and advertising will help to push the value of the mobile dating and chatroom market to nearly $1.4 billion by 2013, part of a burgeoning user-generated content (UGC) market that will reach $7.3 billion by the same time.

) December 7, 2008 -- WorldTV (http://worldtv.com), a leading online video aggregation platform with 750,000 users in 190 countries today announces the launch of WorldTV Empower™ - an advertising platform for future media moguls.

WorldTV lets users create full-screen, TV-like channels online. The new system going live this weekend introduces advertisements alongside the channels and enables the channel owner to share in 50% of the advertising revenue the channel generates. The advertising system is the result of extensive research by WorldTV into effective ways to monetize User Generated Content video.

) August 12, 2009 -- Knoxville, Tenn. based Web Services Corporation offers a user-friendly website where authors can sell ebooks online. The ability to sell tangible merchandise items like printed books, cd's and dvd's is also included. This virtual utopia known as DigitalContentCenter.com is the answer for all types of authors searching for a single service that can bring all of the components of selling ebooks together including storage, file protection, instant delivery, detailed order tracking, design services and marketing.

) 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.

) May 17, 2009 -- Reality Digital, the leading provider of brand focused social media solutions, offers advertisers the tools, techniques and expertise to build, manage and monetise a moderated brand-safe environment for user generated content. With the demand still increasing for social media sites, so does the necessity to offer advertisers the protection of a moderated, brand-safe environment.

) June 22, 2009 -- Gigya, Inc., for the standard for connecting content and users with the social web, today announced growth figures that show Gigya's network now reaches nearly one-third of all web users worldwide. According to comScore's Extended Measures Report, Gigya now reaches 258.3 million unique users worldwide and 85.8 million unique users in the U.S. This represents a 27 percent increase since Q1 2009, and an 82 percent increase since June 2008.

Half a year after the launch of the integrated media brand of "der Freitag," a weekly German newspaper and its new Web edition, Deputy Editor-in-Chief Jörn Kabisch shares the editorial team's experiences with vjoon's Crossmedia Publishing Platform. (PRWeb Aug 12, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/08/prweb2733274.htm

) 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.

) 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.

) September 28, 2008 -- With its rapidly growing stable of informative and entertaining web video shows, Louisville startup VuPal Network has been tapped by Howcast, a web video startup, to provide expert content to the Howcast Network. Howcast, founded by veterans of YouTube and Google Video, will distribute informational videos produced by VuPal's FoodVu franchise as part of its growing base of how-to educational videos on the Internet.

While YouTube and similar video sites offer a wide variety of consumer-generated videos, FoodVu.com, a VuPal Network property, offers high-production-value video segments that provide education and unique entertainment value for growing numbers of people seeking informative and insightful video content from professional producers.

) November 3, 2008 -- TV Everywhere today announced the release of VidZapper, a low cost video content management system.

The new service that allows web video and Internet TV channel operators to combine professional, user generated and third party hosted content and will be available through a global network of resellers, who will provide support and management services for the software.

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) 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.

) June 5, 2009 -- Reality Digital, the leading provider of brand focused social network software for businesses, has been awarded a place on the Red Herring North America 100 List as one of the companies that will lead the next wave of industry innovation.

Reality Digital delivers software products and a hosted service platform for storing, sharing, managing and monetising user generated content such as video, photos, games and text and the company's Harmony solution is an easy-to-use, self-serve social media solution for SMBs.

) September 22, 2009 -- DigitalContentCenter.com, a leading service provider that helps thousands of self-publishing authors sell and deliver ebooks has introduced it's newest feature, The PDF Protection Suite. The suite contains four independently operated protection features that authors control.

Digital Content Center Helps Self Publishing Authors Protect Their PDF Ebooks

) October 13, 2009 -- AudioMicro.com, a crowd-sourced marketplace for royalty-free music and sound effects licensing, announces that its users can now download more than 13,000 new production music tracks from its online library. Consumers and professionals alike now have direct and immediate access to professional quality production music supplied by one of the largest production music libraries in Hollywood.

) February 18, 2009 -- Saveology.com™, a consumer comparison-shopping portal focused on lowering the cost of living for households by providing valuable cost savings on known brands and services, announced the winner of the Evolution of Dance Off!

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) November 17, 2008 -- Apeer Inc. today announced that CEO Bob Goldstein will show the world's first all-in-one group communication and collaboration application for digital media at the 6Sight® Future of Imaging Conference, November 18 - 20 at the Monterey Conference Center. 6Sight focuses on the explosive global spread of imaging technology, and its potential for exciting new opportunities to improve people's lives in the personal, work, and community spheres. The featured technology presentation will highlight how Apeer can transform post-and-share photo applications into instantly interactive social networking experiences.

) June 23, 2009 -- PigSpigot (http://www.PigSpigot.com) announces the official launch of its user-generated greeting card company into public beta. From the site www.PigSpigot.com, users can browse, rate, and comment on hundreds of hip and hilarious cards -- or even upload their own designs. Once they find cards they like, users can send personalized greetings over the internet or via snail mail, all without leaving the comfort of their couches. Crowdsourcing is at the core of how PigSpigot works.