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Where do you ‘Pop the Question’? TripAdvisor has the answer

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TripAdvisor’s travelers and editors revealed the top 10 places in America to propose.

“Some classic, some exotic and some relatively obscure, these are ten amazing places to propose and are all replete with romance,” said Michele Perry, director of communications for TripAdvisor.

1. Central Park, New York, New York
2. Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
3. Kapalua Bay Beach, Maui, Hawaii
4. Napa Valley, Napa, California
5. Niagara Falls, Niagara Falls, New York
6. Christmas Point, Twin Peaks, San Francisco
7. Bellagio Fountains, Las Vegas, Nevada
8. Empire State Building, New York, New York
9. Red Rocks, Sedona, Arizona
10. Mount Aspen, Aspen, Colorado

Community fueled site on instructional videos launched

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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.

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mtvU selects Polopoly’s content management solution to power online college newspapers

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mtvU has selected Polopoly to power the next generation of its end-to-end College Publisher platform. College Publisher is the only online publishing system designed specifically for the unique needs of the campus newsroom, and is currently used by the more than 550 college newspaper members in mtvU’s College Media Network.

The new web-based framework, which begins rolling out this semester, will enable student-run publications to interact with readers in much more meaningful ways. The system is optimized for today’s 24-hour multi-media news cycle, allowing publishers to quickly develop and deliver compelling news packages that combine text (stories or blogs),
photos, video and audio – without writing a single line of code. Further, upgraded community features – including user-developed profiles, forums and blogs, as well as Facebook distribution will enable papers to cultivate a rich dialogue with and amongst their readers.

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