Online career development network MyWorkster is now bridging Facebook members with employers, universities, and career development resources.

Full integration with Facebook Connect, enables both Facebook and MyWorkster users to login using Facebook usernames and passwords, integrate MyWorkster activity feeds into Facebook profiles, and share professional content on MyWorkster with friends on Facebook.

MyWorkster enable individuals to link with employers, job openings and career development information through common associations like universities. The innovative site makes the job search process more effective and efficient for both the MyWorkster member and the employer. Through MyWorkster’s Recruiter 3.0, employers brand themselves through individual profiles, and allowing them to target specific interests, universities and locations.

MyWorkster members have immediate access to nearly 5,000,000 jobs and thousands of decision-makers. They can seek mentorship from their university alumni, connect with others in their field of interest, and find information resources to help them land the job they deserve.

MyWorkster partners with institutions like universities to help strengthen their career development assistance to students and alumni. These partnerships also help those institutions improve communications within their own constituencies.

The Missing Manuals series, published by O’Reilly Media, has migrated its book about Wikipedia to Wikipedia. Starting today, the entire contents of Wikipedia: The Missing Manual (O’Reilly) by John Broughton is available for free online for editing and updating just like any other Wikipedia entry.

“What makes this project different than any of the other zillion books online today is the format we’ve chosen–a wiki,” explains Peter Meyers, Missing Manuals’ managing editor. “Book viewers will be able to do all the same things they do on any other wiki: view the document, edit it, add to it–in short, whatever they want. The book is going to reside in the site’s Help area, naturally, since the book is all about helping people edit and navigate their way around Wikipedia.”

“Once it’s live, our hope is that the Wikipedia community will flock to the book and ‘curate’ it by adding tips, tricks, and by updating the material to reflect changes to Wikipedia since we’ve published the original edition. Down the road, when it comes time for us to consider publishing a second edition of the print book, we’ll think about whether to incorporate some of the community’s changes into the new edition,” Meyers added.

The drive to post “Wikipedia: The Missing Manual” to Wikipedia was spearheaded by author John Broughton. Broughton, a registered editor at Wikipedia since 2005 with more than 20,000 edits under his belt, says he’s looking forward to seeing what changes and improvements his fellow Wikipedians will make to his book.

MTV Networks (MTVN) has expanded its “Tribes” vertical ad network initiative with the launch of the humor-focused Comedy Tribe, anchored by ComedyCentral.com. Among the launch publishers in the new vertical ad network is JibJab.com, the producer of premium video content and digital greetings, which has signed an exclusive ad repping agreement with MTVN.

Under its agreement with JibJab, MTVN will serve as the exclusive sales force for all advertising inventory on the site, as well as JibJab’s popular brand integrations and custom sponsorships. During 2008, JibJab.com received 105 million visits and the company currently has over 6.3 million registered members.

MTVN’s Tribes are demographic-focused vertical ad networks anchored by the company’s core digital properties and extend to sites beyond its online portfolio. The Tribes are intended to offer advertisers extensions of the same audiences and content they find on MTVN sites, while offering greater scale and efficiency. The newly-launched Comedy Tribe joins MTVN’s Parenting Tribe, anchored by ParentsConnect.com, MTV Generation Tribe and Tribes from CMT, Spike and VH1. Through the Tribes initiative, MTVN currently sells inventory across more than 220 partner sites and offers 17 vertical targeting categories.

Two ‘citizen reporters’ from MySpace and YouTube have been invited to attend the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos-Klosters following online contests on both sites. These “Citizen Reporters” won the opportunity to attend the prestigious conference and will report back to their respective communities by using the MySpace and YouTube platforms.

Rebecca McQuigg from Los Angeles, California has been chosen by the “MySpace Journal” panel of judges that included Mark Adams (Head of Communications of the World Economic Forum), Arianna Huffington (Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Huffington Post), Frank Luntz (Communications Specialist and Political Consultant) and Chris DeWolfe (CEO and Co-Founder of MySpace) to represent the MySpace community. The “MySpace Journal” contest gave contestants less than a week to submit a video explaining why they should be chosen to attend Davos and report on the conference for the global MySpace community as well as answer any one of the below questions:

• If you were given the opportunity to take one person (living or historical figure) to Davos in order to make an impact on the conference, who would it be and why?

• If you could engage the entire MySpace community in doing one thing to help make an economic difference, what would it be? (Click here to see her reply.)

• Why do you deserve the chance to attend the World Economic Forum as the MySpace Special Correspondent and how will your participation engage the audience?

Rebecca McQuigg will receive all-expense paid travel to/from Davos, Switzerland and media access to the Congress Centre. She will document her Davos experience via blogging/vlogging on MySpace and on the Wall Street Journal online.

Pablo Camacho from Bogotá, Colombia has been chosen to represent the YouTube community. Pablo is a 24 year old student and an independent writer. He is also singer and guitarist in the band the Mmodcats. He is one of over 250 YouTubers who participated in the Davos Debates sending in video replies from all over the world including Afghanistan, Canada, Egypt, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Panama, the Philippines, Russia, Sweden, the UK, and the US. (Click here to watch Pablo’s winning entry). Follow his reports from Davos on YouTube.

“LuvChat”, a live interactive online variety show will premiere on February 16 and will stream Monday thru Friday from 8pm to 10pm PST. The show will be hosted by Executive Producer Jim “Poorman” Trenton and co-hosted by Dr. Gabrielle Davis, M.D., along with nightly celebrity guest ‘Luv Doctors.’

For the first time ever, guests with ‘Luv Problems’ will appear on-screen (if they so desire), via web cam, as opposed to just phoning it in. If the guest does not wish to be seen on screen, the web cam image will be silhouetted.

Everyone will be encouraged to login on their web cams at “LuvChat,” with the love, sex, and drug problems they wish to discuss. A typical scenario could have Poorman in the show’s main studio, Dr. Davis on a web cam from the hospital, the celebrity ‘Luv Doctor’ on their web cam from an “A” list party, and a guest inquiring live via his/her web cam. Additional participation will be encouraged from other viewers who will pop in with remarks on their web cams as well.

Jim “Poorman” Trenton is a household name in Los Angeles, from his multiple #1 radio shows on several local stations, his TV Show “Poorman’s Bikini Beach” and many other radio and television stints and stunts. Poorman is the original host of ten years and mastermind behind the nationally syndicated monster hit, “Loveline,” which has had a long run as the #1 rated nighttime radio show.

Dr. Gabrielle Davis is finishing up her residency at USC/LAC and currently mentors and educates youth in the areas of STD awareness and prevention.

The Knot Inc. announced the acquisition of WedSnap, developer of Weddingbook, the wedding application on Facebook Platform. Weddingbook will join The Knot Wedding Network’s suite of leading wedding websites– TheKnot.com and WeddingChannel.com.

“For 12 years, the success of The Knot has been fueled by the robust growth of our community,” said David Liu, CEO of The Knot Inc. “With this acquisition, The Knot community broadens by branching into the fastest-growing social network of brides on Facebook, while Weddingbook members will have access to our extensive repertoire of tools, content, and vendor directories.”

Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Mobile games publisher Glu Mobile Inc. revealed its North American lineup of games for the first quarter of 2009, reinforcing the company’s publishing strategy that emphasizes cross-platform global game launches.

The announcement reflects several months of internal resource realignment to incorporate new mobile platforms from Apple, the Open Handset Alliance and Nokia into its existing massive global network of J2ME and BREW handsets.

Glu, which currently supports more than 1,000 devices in more than 10 languages and 65 countries worldwide, has reallocated approximately 30 percent of development resources to reflect the emergence of new platforms introduced by Apple, Nokia and the Open Handset Alliance, while continuing its strong support for Windows Mobile, Blackberry, J2ME and BREW devices. Glu’s development approach, which utilizes years of technological intelligence and internal infrastructure, gives Glu the unique ability to execute launches across all platforms and devices.

The titles launching in North America in the first quarter of 2009 will be available on J2ME, BREW, Blackberry and Windows Mobile platforms with additional platforms noted. More →

Metacafe solidified its position as the world’s leading independent online video site, attracting more than 44 million unique monthly viewers worldwide in December, as recently reported by comScore Media Metrix. This represents a 54% year-over-year increase and 15% growth over the month of November.

Metacafe remains focused on two key initiatives launched in 2008:

Teaming with content partners in key short-form entertainment categories including TV clips, movie trailers, music videos, sports highlights, video game trailers, comedy sketches, news and animated videos; and

Growing usage of Wikicafe, which empowers the Metacafe community to add and edit the tags, titles, descriptions and more for any of the millions of videos on the site, helping improve video search results and recommendations.

Dogpile.com has reached the $250,000 mark just two months into its goal of raising $1 million through the end of 2009 for pets in need. Since the launch of its Search & Rescue campaign the company has received an overwhelming response from pet lovers around the world.

Search & Rescue is a creative online philanthropy program designed to aid pets in need by donating a portion of the revenue generated from Internet searches conducted on Dogpile.com to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) and other animal-related charities.

In addition to searching on Dogpile.com directly, a search engine that pools results from all major search engines, consumers can help raise funds and awareness by downloading a Search & Rescue toolbar or by inviting a friend to help out through the Dogpile Search & Rescue Facebook application.

Federated Media Publishing (FM) announced a partnership with Mixx, a social media website. Mixx joins FM’s industry-leading collection of more than 100 conversational media sites and social networking applications like Boing Boing, Dooce, Mashable and Graffiti.

Mixx has more than 6 million unique users per month. Unlike one-size-fits-all recommendation sites, Mixx puts users in control of their own personal blend of news stories, photos and videos. Mixx users search and discover relevant media and interact within networks of friends by submitting, voting and commenting on online media using social networking and personalization tools.

FM will leverage Mixx’s large, engaged audience and unique structure in order to bring brand marketers into conversations while maintaining the transparency and credibility that are crucial to Mixx users. FM and Mixx will work closely together to design and implement successful conversational marketing executions for FM’s long list of Fortune 500 brand marketing partners.