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Dailymotion is world’s largest independent web video site– comScore

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Dailymotion continues to be the most popular independent web video site globally, with over 38 million unique visitors worldwide, according to comScore Media Metrix Data. In addition, Dailymotion’s year-to-date monthly average of over 36 million unique visitors leads all independent online video web sites.

Dailymotion’s users have not only increased in numbers, but have spent a substantial amount of time on the site viewing web video. Year to date, Dailymotion users spent almost 13 billion minutes viewing approximately 17 billion pages on the site. Dailymotion lead in engagement with users averaging 10.8 minutes per session, 40% more than any other independent video sites.

Dailymotion US has been a key part of the global growth, with unique visitors more than doubling from 3.2 million in October 2007 to 7.3 million in October 2008, a greater than 128% increase year over year.

Originally posted on December 16, 2008 @ 12:51 pm

Faith-based Cross.tv launches

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The first faith-based multilingual online community has launched in time for Christmas. Providing an online community for people who want to impact their world, the new Cross.tv combines the best of social networking with high quality HD streaming and a multilingual communications platform; making it the first faith- based social media community in the world to support multilingual interaction and communication.

Users upload videos, upload pictures, publish blogs, add friends and even develop their own sub-networks for their families, churches, ministries or projects. They can also communicate with others and raise awareness of different causes using cross.tv’s unique “cross pollination” functionalities which allows them to publish content in multiple languages.

Originally posted on December 12, 2008 @ 4:31 pm

Bebo launches ‘Social Inbox’ to manage online life

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Bebo is attempting to make it easier for Internet users to manage their online life by providing users with a one-stop “Social Inbox” that combines e-mail, social networking and media recommendations in one easy-to-use interface.

Designed to allow consumers to organize their lives online, Bebo’s Social Inbox makes it simple for users to keep in touch with the information and people who are important to them. The Social Inbox aggregates feeds and updates from Twitter, Flickr, Del.icio.us, YouTube, AIM and others, so users can see at-a-glance what’s going on in their online world. The new experience also offers one-click access to Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, AOL Mail, as well as user-selected media favorites, such as videos, music and photos.

Originally posted on December 10, 2008 @ 12:03 pm

MySpace releases new toolbar product

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MySpace has released MySpace Toolbar, a new internally developed product that will give MySpace users activity notifications during their web browsing experience.

With the Toolbar, MySpace users will receive real time alerts and notifications including New Friend Requests, Messages, Comments, and Friend Updates. The new Toolbar also allows the community constant connectivity with their MySpace experience wherever they travel online.

Toolbar features include:

  • Auto Login — Automatically link to MySpace without entering your email and password
  • Always On — No need to refresh the browser for updates
  • Alerts — New Messages, New Comments, New Friend Requests etc.
  • Friend Activity Updates
  • Update My Mood and Status
  • See Friends’ Mood and Status
  • MySpace Search Powered by Google — Search the Web, People, and MySpace

Originally posted on December 10, 2008 @ 12:14 pm

Dogpile.com users raise $100,000 for pets in need

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Dogpile.com has raised the first $100,000 toward its goal in raising at least $1 million to help pets in need. The Dogpile.com donations are being funded through its Search & Rescue Program, a creative online philanthropy program designed to aid pets in tough economic times by donating a portion of the revenue generated by the search engine to animal-related charities.

In addition to searching on Dogpile.com, a search engine that piles results from all major search engines into one (Google, Yahoo!, MSN Live, Ask.com), consumers can search using the Search & Rescue toolbar or invite a friend to help out through the Dogpile Search and Rescue Facebook application.

Dogpile.com’s Search and Rescue program has a goal of raising at least $1 million for pets in need through the end of 2009.

Originally posted on December 10, 2008 @ 11:09 pm