The Houston Dynamo became the first Major League Soccer team to launch an official fan social network with the debut of MyDynamo.net, a site where fans can interact with players, staff, and each other and share stories, pictures, videos, and more.

Dynamo season ticket holders and Dynamo Academy players were among a select group of members invited to join the site earlier this week, prior to the public launch.

The site will partner with the Dynamo’s main website, HoustonDynamo.com, to provide the most comprehensive online experience in the league.The new site, which was created using the Ning platform, will host the Dynamo’s Forever Orange blog and various player, fan, and staff blogs that will be publicly available. Many Dynamo players have online profiles that can be seen by other site members. Fans can create profiles, set up blogs, add photo galleries and videos, and track the number of games they’ve attended, among other features.

For Dummies announced the relaunch of Dummies.com, an ad-supported website that brings the world’s most highly regarded reference series online – now with a robust offering of free how-to videos, knowledgeable bloggers, photo step-by-steps, and expanded instructional articles. As with the trusted For Dummies book series, Dummies.com enlists proven experts to distill complex subjects into concise, jargon-free steps that make learning how to do anything easier.

Boasting an updated user interface with easier access to an expanded selection of free content, the relaunched Dummies.com is unveiling a comprehensive offering of interactive tutorials to suit every learning style, including:

• How-to videos
• Articles written by experts in their fields
• Blogs from bestselling For Dummies authors
• Photo step-by-steps that illustrate how to complete projects simply
• A selection of topical Dummies.com newsletters
• Sweepstakes with premium prizes

Online destination for high-definition and entertainment Jaman.com is meeting the demands of its international audience by increasing its library of content and expanding into the lucrative European marketplace. With international members accounting for more than 70% of the site’s users, Jaman marks its initial global expansion by introducing its first localized site in the United Kingdom.

Industry veteran David Fischer, former executive vice president and managing director of MySpace and Fox Interactive Media, will serve as managing director of Jaman’s UK and international operations. Based in London, Fischer will be responsible for international business operations.

The UK site debuts with more than 1000 titles, including those from leading film companies such as BFI (British Film Institute), Pathé Films, ContentFilms and Axiom Films.

The company recently announced a partnership with TiVo to make Jaman’s world-class films available in any living room in America – offering a whole new level of entertainment options for film lovers around the country. Jaman’s current content providers include Paramount Pictures, Lionsgate, Eros International, Magnolia Pictures, First Look Films, Arts Alliance America and BBC Worldwide.

The Knot Inc. has acquired Breastfeeding.com, a website dedicated to providing advice on breastfeeding. The addition of Breastfeeding.com further enhances The Knot Inc.’s robust pregnancy and first-time parenting offerings, which include TheBump.com and LilaGuide.com.

With thousands of breastfeeding Q+As, articles and videos, Breastfeeding.com has the deepest easy-to-understand, easy-to-find collection of breastfeeding content on the web.

Breastfeeding.com also has a directory of nearly 4,000 lactation consultants, Plus, first-time moms struggling with breastfeeding can log onto the website to join in 2-hour live chats with lactation consultants four times a week.

“We are thrilled to add Breastfeeding.com to our suite of number-one websites for women in key lifestages,” said David Liu, CEO of The Knot Inc.

Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.

KickApps has released KickApps App Studio, its next generation of its drag-and-drop Widget and Video Player authoring solution. Users of the web-based KickApps App Studio can create highly customized embeddable Flash applications with drag-and-drop ease, including the ability to integrate best-of-breed third party applications, content and web services. The KickApps Widget and Player authoring tool already produces over 90 million app views per month.

Meebo and Yahoo! Maps represent the first third-party embeddable applications distributed via the KickApps platform. Meebo Rooms are available now and Meebo Community IM will be integrated into the KickApps Platform in the near future.

The KickApps App Studio offers tremendous opportunity for web publishers of all sizes to very efficiently create interactive applications that can be embedded on any page of their website or shared virally across the web. With a Photoshop-like interface, users simply drag applications and components (e.g. video players, photo slideshows, RSS feeds, chat, member lists, interactive ad units, rooms and maps) onto the canvas to customize every aspect of the appearance and functionality.

Yodle, Inc. has completed a $10 million Series C funding led by JAFCO Ventures. They were joined by Draper Fisher Jurvetson Growth and existing investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Bessemer Venture Partners. The funds will be used to double investment in product and technology innovation as well as to continue a national sales expansion.

Demand for local online advertising fueled tremendous growth at Yodle in 2008, despite the economic downturn. The New York-based company reported 700% year-over-year revenue growth from 2007 and ending 2008. Yodle now boasts approximately 5,000 customers – up from 125 in 2006.

MySpace is kicking-off “MySpace Journal,” a competition in partnership with The Wall Street Journal and the World Economic Forum, giving its users the opportunity to become a special correspondent at the world’s most prestigious conference, the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2009 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland. The “MySpace Journal” winner, chosen by a panel of experts, will join the Davos press corps and leverage the MySpace platform to report on conference news and interview world leaders about issues relevant to the global MySpace community.

The “MySpace Journal” competition encourages anyone to upload a video explaining why they should be chosen to travel to Davos and represent the global MySpace community as the special correspondent. A panel of expert judges including 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) will select the winner while the MySpace community rates their favorite submissions.

Applicants must share why they should be chosen to attend Davos and report on the conference for the global MySpace community as well as 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?

• 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?

“MySpace Journal” winners will receive:

• All-expense paid travel to/from Davos, Switzerland
• Congress and Media Centre Access
• Lunch with Wall Street Journal editors
• Syndication of the winner’s MySpace blog via WSJ.com

With focus on making photo sharing easier and more convenient, Sony has introduced the world’s first Wi-Fi enabled digital camera that uploads photos and videos to web sites through any public hotspot due to its built-in web browser.

The new Cyber-shot DSC-G3 digital still camera answers one of the most pressing needs for photo enthusiasts: how to share those amazing photos and video clips of family, friends and events as soon as you shoot. The Cyber-shot camera makes it easy to upload images and video directly to popular photo and video sharing sites wherever a Wi-Fi connection is available.

The camera can wirelessly connect to any public hotspot, including hotels, restaurants, coffee shops and airports. Like a computer, the camera can connect to free or fee-based hotspots, as well as to secure and unsecured access points.

The new DSC-G3 model comes with complimentary AT&T Wi-Fi access to Sony’s Easy Upload Home Page until Jan. 31, 2012. It includes Wi-Fi access at thousands of AT&T hotspots across the US, including Starbucks, selected book stores and major quick-serve restaurant locations, as well as hundreds of upscale hotels and airports.

The Cyber-shot DSC-G3 camera is now available in black for about $500.

Network Solutions announced the launch of LinkTogether, a community created specifically for web designers and developers to grow business, leverage tools to increase productivity, and save money on products and services.

One of the major benefits of LinkTogether is the ability to connect with other developers and designers for discussions, advice and tips. Members can also increase their own knowledge base with educational resources that include whitepapers and video tutorials, and improve client conversations using the site’s Smart Guides and professional educational videos.

LinkTogether members are provided the opportunity to win even more work by creating a profile on the site, which in turn allows web designers, developers and other professionals to display portfolios of their work. Each profile is optimized to be found by searches on that member’s services and expertise. Once a member has joined, he or she can download apps, web site templates and other items shared by others in the community. Members can post their own original content for peer review.

In addition the free membership, LinkTogether also offers a Pro Membership for a monthly subscription fee of $19.99. Pro Members can access over 7,000 web site templates, 300 turnkey web sites, 100,000 graphical elements, more than 40 customizable legal and business documents, and receive exclusive pricing on services from Network Solutions.

Eye-Fi Inc., makers of the world’s first wireless memory card for digital cameras, is developing a way for users to wirelessly upload videos from their digital camera to YouTube and a home computer.

Eye-Fi is designing its video upload service to support full-resolution HD video, with newer cameras like the Nikon D90 capturing HD video and web sites including YouTube now testing display of HD video.

With Eye-Fi’s wireless SD memory cards for digital cameras, users can upload photos – and soon video – automatically through Wi-Fi networks. Eye-Fi hotspot subscribers can also upload their memories away from home at more than 10,000 Wayport and open hotspot locations across the U.S.