TechCrunch writes about social music site MOG:
MOG has announced that it received a $2.8M strategic investment from Universal Music Group and The Angels’ Forum. We’ve also heard that Sony BMG was also part of the round, which means two major record labels have come together to invest in the same online music venture.
TechCrunch writes about social travel site Nile Guide:
Nile Guide is a travel planning website launching today with an appreciation for that fact. It has aggregated travel data from over 10 sources, including Citysearch, OpenTable, and Expedia, and added its own reports and reviews from local experts for 80 international destinations. It’s then made all of the information searchable from within a tool that takes into consideration both objective and subjective factors related to your preconceived preferences.
Silicon Alley Insider writes about social travel site TravelZoo:
Web travel site Travelzoo (TZOO) missed even Wall Street's lowered expectations for earnings, turning in a loss of $0.08 per share, compared to a $0.25 profit in the same quarter last year. The Street had been expecting a profit of $0.08 a share, but Wedbush Morgan Securities Analyst Edward Woo lowered his first-quarter estimate to $0.02 hours before the company reported this afternoon.
Mashable writes about social travel site My Life of Travel:
My Life of Travel started out as a personal side project for Calan Horsman back in 2005, but has demanded more as the site began to grow organically. Nearly three years later, My Life of Travel has gained almost 20,000 users, with tens of thousands of entries created, and half a million images uploaded. As a result, Horsman has needed to put a bit more effort into his growing site, and has relaunched its as an officially public offering today.
Mashable writes about social tv:
Break Media has been at the leading edge of online video entertainment in terms of both content development as well as monetization and producer rewards for a good while now - longer than a lot of the other players that see a lot of press in the Web 2.0 game. They’re leading again, as last week they announced the formation of the Online Video Advertising ROI Council.
VentureBeat writes about social music site iLike:
ILike is an emerging leader in this competitive but still relatively young marketplace of “music discovery” services that help musicians build fan bases. We’ve been tracking the Seattle, Wash. company for years, and at this point it appears to have become a significant component of how music will be shared in the future. Both new and existing acts are using it to help advertise album releases, and iLike is starting to have a big impact.
Mashable writes about how Madonna embraces social music:
Madonna has never failed to reinvent herself with the times, somehow always managing to stay relevant, and her 11th studio album, Hard Candy, seems no different. Showing she is still with the times, you can catch her new album streaming on her MySpace page four days before it’s official release.
TechCrunch writes about social music site MyPlayList:
Bootstrapped service MyPlayList, the free music/ Flickr mashup service we wrote about earlier this month, is on the market, but with a twist: a majority stake (51%) is being offered free to a good home.
Mashable writes about social tv site Stage6:
We brought you word a couple of months ago about DivX’s closure of the Stage 6 video portal, which, in all its time of activity, never managed to become a lossless or a profitable platform. According to Martin of gHacks.net, evidently “bandwidth and server costs accumulated to more than a million dollars each month.” It was certainly popular, but it’s financial legitimacy was very much in question, so it ceased to operate.
Techcrunch writes about the social music site Chilirec:
You start with Chilirec by choosing from a preselected set of a few hundred channels. Two downsides: you can’t load your own channels and you can’t listen to them normally before choosing to record. But once you to start recording, Chilirec will begin loading the songs into its Flash-based player so you can play them back at your convenience (somehow it knows just when songs begin and end, and which ones they are).
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