Social Media

EQAL, the creators of “LonelyGirl15,” is expanding further into the technology business with the launch of a social platform for Web video creators, the company announced today.

Ning, the social network software company, has raised a venture round of $15 million, putting the company's private valuation at $750 million, Kara Swisher reports tonight.

Live video, one of the fastest growing areas of the Web, could get a big boost with Facebook's integration with Ustream.  It's part of a new Facebook application called Live Stream Box.

Showtime’s top-rated comedy “Weeds” has seen strong online results for its newly launched original companion Web series, Beet.TV has learned.

Word-of-mouth is one of the most powerful types of marketing, but also one of the toughest to execute and measure. But with eight years under its belt, word-of-mouth agency BzzAgent can now measure reach, return and change in sales to determine the value of a word-of-mouth for brands, the company’s CEO Dave Balter told Beet.TV […]

Tweets from within Iran are gettting retweeted as much as 300 times, according to an analysis done today by Simon Owens. 

Michael Wolff, who has written a much talked about book about Rupert Murdoch and the rise of News Corp, sees MySpace in a downward spiral. 

CARLSBAD, Calif — Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, told me that while Twitter "breaks" stories, it is not the whole picture and "journalists and reporters" are essential to make this work.

Is "Prison Break's" Michael really dead? That's what Fox wanted viewers to wonder before the series finished its run on May 15.

Hollywood production studio Endemol (producers of “Deal or No Deal”) has teamed up with MySpace to produce the online interactive reality series “Married on MySpace” kicking off this week on the site.

SplashCast has had considerable success with its Facebook app, a video player that allows users to chat around video content. 

We read Caroline McCarthy's report on CNET News.com that Ning has reached 1 million networks. 

SAN FRANCISCO — We caught up with Sarah Milstein, Web strategist and author, who explains how businesses can use Twitter effectively. 

SAN FRANCISCO — Video, which is already a part of Facebook through the use of embeddable players and a few applications, will become more extensive and "social" with the release of the first Adobe Flash toolbox for developers, according to Josh Elman, Facebook platform manager.

SAN FRANCISCO — Rich media on Facebook, exemplified by the CNN/Facebook Inauguration collaboration and simple games made by companies like Playfish, have made Facebook an increasingly multimedia experience. 

As video consumption becomes increasingly less destination based, video publishers are embracing a strategy to get their content out to where consumers are — notably in social networks. 

Video consumption is becoming less of destination scenario. Many of us are watching videos on social networks, so widgets are increasingly important.  

Amplify, which provides Natural Language Processing solutions for customers who want to understand and better target advertising to online content, announced its first big U.S. partnership with social Media ad targeting firm Lotame, CEO Mark Redgrave told Andy at the AlwaysOn conference last month.

There’s been a lot of debate lately over whether branded applications for social networks, created by companies like Buddy Media, are effective.

You’ve seen the little green ShareThis widget before: According to comScore the button, which allows users to share news stories, images, and other multimedia across social networks like Facebook, MySpace, and Digg, is seen by 128 million people on the web, CEO Tim Schigel told me at the AlwaysOn conference earlier this month. Over 1 […]