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Evo.com opens world’s largest green shopping destination

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evo.pngJust in time for the holiday shopping season, EVO announced that evo.com is open for business to provide shoppers with the widest selection of green gift items on the web. EVO has prescreened millions of products for their green attributes and only offers products for sale on evo.com that earn an EVO rating of one to five leaves. evo.com features more than 100,000 green products and services from 1,200 retailers in one location to make it easy for holiday shoppers to find great green gifts for everyone on their list, from babies to grandparents to business associates.

In addition to toys, evo.com features gift baskets, clothing, jewelry, bath and body products, food, home accessories, gadgets, and even eco-travel packages, cars and solar energy products. Retailers offering products and services on evo.com range from specialty brands to large retail giants and include American Apparel, Baby Center, Burt’s Bees, Comet Skateboards, Eileen Fisher, GE, Hanna Anderson, HP, Home Depot, Macy’s, Method, No Sweat Apparel, Nordstrom, Patagonia, REI, Target, Toys “R” Us, Toyota, Under The Canopy, Whole Foods, Victoria’s Secret, Viva Terra, and more than a thousand other sellers.

EVO has partnered with Trees for the Future to plant a tree in the name of everyone who joins the evo.com community, and has pledged to plant at least 100,000 trees this holiday season.

Originally posted on November 30, 2007 @ 9:00 am

KickApps integrates with Drupal

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drupal.pngKickApps announced the availability of a Single Sign-On (SSO) module that enables a seamless member login experience between Drupal powered sites and KickApps hosted social media sites. Developers and publishers using the open source content management system (CMS) can now easily integrate social media experiences, such as social networking, user-generated content, programmable video players and widgets for content syndication, with their sites to fuel audience growth and engagement.

The module includes support for versions 6.x, 5.3 and 4.7 of Drupal. When developers enable the KickApps SSO module for their Drupal sites, registered site members will be auto-registered into the site’s KickApps powered community during sign in, requiring no initial user import by the developer. Once logged in and on the community site, the member is brought over to his or her profile page, where they can start uploading video, photos and audio, and manage their media.

Originally posted on November 29, 2007 @ 4:11 pm

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College Tonight, Inc., finalizes merger with Simex Technologies, Inc.

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cllegetonight.pngCollege Tonight, Inc., a social networking experience and marketing platform, announced the completion of its merger with Simex Technologies, Inc. As a part of the transaction, College Tonight raised $1,639,500 in equity capital in private placements to accredited investors.

“We are elated to begin writing the next chapter of not only College Tonight, but also of the social networking revolution. As part of a public company, College Tonight intends to continue its mission of promoting actual social interactivity, rather than the sedentary lifestyle to which most sites relegate their users. Through diligent execution of our innovative mobile strategy, implementation of our unique privacy protection, and matchless local focus, we are leading college students across the country and the sector as a whole, towards what social networking should have evolved into by now– taking the experience from computer interface, to face-to- face,” Zachary R. Suchin, the founder of College Tonight and the new President & CEO of Simex, said.

Over the next several months, College Tonight will introduce its members to an array of fresh and unique features including mobility. Through this dual online/offline marketing platform, sponsors will have an opportunity to expose their product to what has been called the most difficult to reach and fragmented audience in history, and to introduce their brands to students in ways that are inherently a part of the college experience.

Originally posted on November 30, 2007 @ 7:16 am

uBid.com teams up with Mary Kay and CMA to kiss domestic violence goodbye

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marykayash.pnguBid.com has teamed up with Mary Kay, the official beauty sponsor of “The 41st Annual CMA Awards” to launch “A Kiss for Country,” a philanthropic campaign dedicated to ending domestic violence.

uBid.com will host more than 30 different online auctions for one-of-a-kind framed kiss prints of Country Music artists like Reba McEntire, Sara Evans, Miranda Lambert, Tanya Tucker, George Strait and Martina McBride.

The online auctions for the “kiss card” plaques all have a starting bid of $55 and run from November 6, 2007 to December 31, 2007. Entire roceeds will be donated to the Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation to help end domestic violence against women and children.

Originally posted on November 29, 2007 @ 3:58 pm

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Agence France-Presse takes shareholding in Scooplive

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citizenguide.pngAgence France-Presse (AFP) and IAM, a company founded by Xavier Gouyou Beauchamps and Pascal Josèphe, reported that it had taken minority shareholding in Scooplive, renamed Citizenside.

Scooplive, a company founded in 2006 by Matthieu Stefani, Julien Robert and Philippe Checinski, gives individuals the opportunity to sell their pictures and videos on current news, in return for a small commission. The company now takes a step forward and becomes Citizenside, a site which enables the media to use the platform that has been developed for two years as a white label. The media will thus be able to cultivate nearness and interaction with their readers or audience, and to obtain from them news documents to complement their own or agencies production.

With contributors from around 90 countries, Citizenside.com is a site pursuing strategic aims: acceleration of its international development, widening of its community, increase of the documents received and of the number of partnerships with the press, TV, web and mobile media.

Originally posted on November 29, 2007 @ 3:55 pm

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