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Originally posted on January 30, 2008 @ 6:09 pm
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FountainHeadNetworks.TV announced the launch of its Network and five new shows. FHN features original short-form video shows for distribution via the Internet, TV and to mobile devices. FHN creates, distributes, and monetizes professional quality episodic video channels over the Internet. FountainHeadNetworks.TV is creating a wide range of original short-form video shows by focusing on entertainment, news and lifestyle shows that are informative, edgy, funny, and relevant to young adults. FountainHeadNetworks’ shows will be available on YouTube, Blip.tv, and as Apple iTunes Podcasts for iPhone and PC.
The five new shows are Stock Rockets, Cosmic Sky, Encanto en Las Estrellas, 2 Minute Chef, and Must Love Wine.
Originally posted on January 30, 2008 @ 6:48 am
Mosio announced that it has integrated its live, community-based mobile question and answer service with Twitter. Now anyone can ask questions via Twitter and receive quick, personalized answers and comments in real-time from their personal network of friends and the entire, global Mosio community.
Mosio’s unique, community-based approach provides users with quick, personalized answers and opinions for free on any mobile device, from the entire community or from their friends in real-time. Mosio‘s questions and answers are also fun and entertaining, since users are interacting with live, social responders; irreverent questions often attract equally irreverent answers.
Twitter users can ask questions and have them answered by real people within the community by following www.twitter.com/QNA and then sending direct messages (“d qna your questionâ€). People who would also like to contribute answers can follow www.twitter.com/questionz.
Originally posted on January 30, 2008 @ 6:15 pm
Hoover’s, Inc. announced the launch of Hoover’s Connect, a business networking tool that helps users get introduced to and establish relationships with targeted prospects. This launch coincides with Hoover’s agreement to acquire Visible Path, the company that had been powering Hoover’s Connect Beta for the past year. The financial terms of the deal are not disclosed.
Hoover’s Connect will give Hoover’s subscribers comprehensive business insight along with professional social networking, to provide the fastest path to business. Unlike other social networking services, Hoover’s Connect provides an effective, non-intrusive way for its users to connect to a person through someone the prospect may already have a strong relationship with, and who is therefore best suited to make that introduction.
What distinguishes Hoover’s Connect from other professional business networking tools is its ability to identify users’ strongest relationships by evaluating their Outlook systems such as e-mail and calendars. The service then assesses the strength of those connections and rates them accordingly, all while maintaining customer privacy. Hoover’s Connect lets users evaluate in advance the potential of a particular networking opportunity and tailor communications accordingly, ultimately enhancing the success of online relationship building.
Originally posted on January 30, 2008 @ 9:39 am
WonderHowTo.com has unveiled the world’s biggest free how-to video index, cataloging and linking to more than 90,000 curated video clips at launch. The company has also closed a Series “A†investment led by General Catalyst Partners and ad sales will be powered by Scripps Networks. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed.
WonderHowTo.com’s team of pre-launch video curators has amassed an impressive collection of free, high-quality how-to video features from the farthest reaches of the Internet, classifying and ranking more than 90,000 videos in more than 400 categories over the last few months. With the launch, WonderHowTo.com will also begin accepting community submissions of new videos and soliciting user ratings of videos featured on the site.
WonderHowTo.com aggregates community-submitted links and reviews of how-to video from across the Internet. From mainstream queries such as how to tie a tie, to the eye-opening presentation of how to perform a Balducci levitation, to the long-tail eccentricity of how to train your cat to use the toilet, WonderHowTo embraces the ever expanding visual imagination of the collective web to provide the most comprehensive and revelatory results in the instructional video space.
Originally posted on January 30, 2008 @ 10:43 am