Daily Archives: July 25, 2009

A few days ago, the German company Trivid launched a new application, the Clipgenerator technology for MySpace. The Flash variant of the practical tool for creating online videos uses the latest technology and allows MySpace users to create their own professional music videos in just a few steps.

First, select your favourite track from the extensive Clipgenerator music pool, which is regularly updated with the latest songs and well-loved classics. Depending on the length of the track, 10 to 15 photos can then be added from any website or the user’s own hard drive to the clip using a simple drag-and-drop function. An integrated image editing tool allows users to edit and optimise the photos first. Finally, the effects and animations tailored to the music by professional motion designers transform the images into a spectacular, personal music video in seconds, which can be posted straight to the MySpace user profile via a dedicated streaming solution.

The incredible speed of the video production is due to the innovative combination of Adobe’s Flash technology and the patented and multi-award winning ClipTemplate Technology from Trivid. The video is created on the fly in Flashplayer 10.

This means even less technically-minded users can use Clipgenerator to create their own high-quality and professional-looking videos using holiday, party or event snaps quickly and easily, and show these off to their friends on MySpace.

The application can be called up directly at the following link: http://www.myspace.com/clipgenerator

About MySpace

MySpace is world’s biggest music platform and an international social network for communication, entertainment and lifestyle. MySpace allows its users to express their creativity and passions via personal profiles, find and communicate with friends, form networks, and discover pop culture. MySpace Germany, Switzerland, Austria has its head office in Berlin and two sales offices in Hamburg and Düsseldorf, and belongs to Fox Interactive Media Germany GmbH. According to the German online research study group AGOF, MySpace Germany registered 4.94 million unique users a month in the first quarter 2009, and logged 746 million page impressions and 55.2 million visits in June 2009, according to the IVW, a German advertising analysis group. MySpace is a division of News Corporation. (NYSE: NWS – News, NWS.A – News; ASX: NWS – News, NWSLV – News)

About Trivid

Clipgenerator™ from Trivid GmbH works with a newly developed patented ClipTemplateTechnology (CTT). The software prepares music tracks so well that the result is equal in every way to today’s professional music videos. Clipgenerator runs online on-the-fly in the Internet browser without the end user having to install any software. The only prerequisite is the use of Flashplayer 10. Users can access their uploaded photos directly, create a high-resolution video in just 2 minutes, publish it in real time, post it immediately in communities and video portals, and share it with friends. The music pool is constantly updated with copyright-protected hits. Clipgenerator technology is currently the only legally protected technology to link private content with copyrighted music to a legal user-generated video.

Tycoon Systems Inc. today announced a new educational business game application built on Facebook Platform. Tycoon Systems’ IndustryMasters application is a real-time multiplayer business game, which provides hands-on entrepreneurial experience for Facebook users worldwide.

“IndustryMasters is an opportunity for Facebook users to challenge their management skills and to grow their business acumen,” said Tycoon Systems CEO Thomas Lehnert. “Players can compete 24/7 in real-time with users from anywhere in the world in this very realistic, multiplayer business simulation game. IndustryMasters is a serious game, an empowering and fun educational experience.”

The IndustryMasters application allows Facebook users to build up their own corporation and to manage their products within a virtual economy, while competing with other players for the highest share price. As they play, users learn and absorb important elements of finance and accounting, corporate strategy and economics. By playing multiple rounds this learning is strongly grounded and embedded.

IndustryMasters on Facebook Platform is open to anyone with an interest in business. Facebook users can easily and instantly access IndustryMasters using their already established Facebook account, without leaving the Facebook Website. They can invite their Facebook friends to join the business game and to become their shareholders. They can also team up with friends to play simultaneously and coordinate strategies using Facebook Chat.

Facebook gives companies and the developer community access to the social graph through Facebook Platform. Using a rich set of tools and online services, developers such as Tycoon Systems are able to build an application that is deeply integrated into the Facebook Website.

About Tycoon Systems

Tycoon Systems was founded in 2005 and is a leading business education software company. Tycoon Systems’ business simulations are used in business education around the globe, in a variety of formats – from custom simulations used in executive education to ready-to-use SCORM compatible business e-learning modules – and now on Facebook Platform.

For more information please visit http://apps.facebook.com/industrymasters

Gigya, Inc., the leading technology for connecting content and consumers with the social web, today announced that its Socialize technology is now available as a module for Drupal. The Socialize module was developed in conjunction with Acquia, the enterprise guide to the Drupal Social Publishing System.
The new Socialize module enables site owners to authenticate users with a single point of access to Facebook Connect, MySpaceID, Sign in with Twitter as well as OpenID providers like Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and AOL Mail. Publishers using Socialize have increased site registrations by more than 30 percent.

“The Gigya Socialize Drupal module is a perfect complement to Drupal’s social publishing features,” said Rooly Eliezerov, President and co-founder, Gigya. “The module makes it easy for any site built on Drupal to add powerful social features, including pushing content and user activity out beyond the site and into the social networks, driving interactivity and viral promotion.”

Powerful Authentication, Social and Promotional Features

Gigya’s new Socialize Module for Drupal makes it easy for Drupal site owners to:

Enable users to link existing accounts with social network and OpenID identities, and personalize the user experience by making it easy for sites to integrate user profile and social graph data.
Increase user acquisition by enabling users to invite friends to the site, or to share site content or a specific event. For example, using the Socialize module users can choose to invite their Facebook friends to comment on a new post they created.
Increase site traffic through viral promotion, enabling users to send status updates, tweets and newsfeed events to their social networks. The Gigya Socialize module has been fully integrated with Drupal’s user action and trigger core modules so Drupal site owners can configure the viral promotion channels to work dynamically.
Easily configure the user experience, design, and module functionality using the Drupal administration panel.
“Content and community are the critical components of many Drupal websites and the Gigya Socialize Drupal module connects Drupal-based communities with the leading social networks on the web,” said Dries Buytaert, Drupal project founder and Acquia CTO. “Simplifying site authentication processes and integration with various networks and platforms can improve the user experience and extend the reach of every website.”

The new Gigya Socialize Drupal module is fully configurable and installs in minutes with no programming. The module is available, free of charge, on Drupal.org at http://drupal.org/project/gigya.

To learn more about how to use Socialize on your Drupal website, Acquia and Gigya are jointly hosting a webinar on August 4th, 2009 which will cover product features, implementation, and best practices. To register go to https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/550274306.

About Acquia

Acquia helps organizations of all sizes build social publishing websites quickly, easily and with a lower total cost of ownership by leveraging Drupal, the open source social publishing platform that blends content and community. Our products, services and support enable companies to leverage the power, technical innovation and economic value of Drupal while simplifying the experience, removing the complexity and minimizing the risk. Please visit: http://acquia.com. Download Acquia Drupal, the completely free Drupal distribution, at http://acquia.com/downloads.

About Drupal

The Drupal social publishing system has been downloaded over two million times since its inception and powers more than 400,000 web sites globally. Drupal includes an enterprise class content management system and is used to deliver a wide variety of web applications including single or multi-user blogs, wikis, community networks, digital media portals, e-commerce, and many more. Assisted by a thriving ecosystem of consultants and developers, a diverse set of organizations use Drupal, including SonyBMG, Warner Brothers Records, the New York Observer, Forbes, Disney, Intel, Harvard University, and Amnesty International. A huge community has grown up around Drupal, with thousands of active contributors to the open source technology. For more information, visit http://drupal.org.

About Gigya

Gigya’s technology opens the social web for publishers and marketers, providing powerful tools that increase audience reach and engagement. Gigya reaches more than 250 million people each month on its rich media social advertising network, enabling marketers to engage consumers in social environments and enlist them as brand advocates. The company’s Wildfire and Socialize products enable publishers to syndicate and track their content across more than 70 unique platforms and to integrate and promote their own websites with social networks including Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. Publishers and advertisers working with Gigya include: CBS, Coca-Cola, DoubleClick, Electronic Arts, Hyundai, JCPenney, Levis, MTV, Photobucket, Samsung, Turner, Unilever and Walmart. For more information, please visit: www.gigya.com.

Wrike Inc., the leading provider of on-demand, online project management solutions, today revealed a free application that will change My Yahoo! users’s everyday experience by letting them work on tasks and projects together in real-time.
Wrike Simple Projects (http://apps.yahoo.com/-JOaEL34s) is the first My Yahoo! app that lets users keep track of changes made in projects by their friends. Thanks to the ability to see who created, edited, reassigned and completed tasks in real time, they can always stay in the loop. Wrike Simple Projects lets anyone who has a personal My Yahoo! page easily create and assign tasks, organize tasks into projects, invite people to work on projects together and keep track of changes.
Saving time and making people all over the world more productive is a part of Wrike’ss mission. We developed Wrike Simple Projects for free specifically for Yahoo! to help millions of people become more effective in getting things done together, said Wrike’ss founder and CEO, Andrew Filev.
Wrike Simple Projects features basic task management and collaboration functions, such as sharing projects and assigning tasks. People who need a more powerful solution for managing business projects are invited to use Wrike’ss main product, which features the patent-pending Intelligent E-mail Engine, unique Flexible Structures and Dynamic Timeline. A free, 30-day trial is available at http://www.wrike.com.
About Wrike:
Wrike, Inc. is a provider of an award-winning, on-demand, online project management solution. It provides executives with a unique platform for gaining productivity for the whole team and getting things done throughout the company. Wrike helps companies from SMBs to global corporations stay in control of their business (http://www.wrike.com/stories.html). Its e-mail integration is the most advanced in the project management space. Wrike, Inc. has patents pending. Wrike was named a winner of RedHerring’ss Top 100 Global Company Award and a winner of eWeek’ss Excellence Award. Founded in 2003, Wrike Inc. is a privately held corporation located in California.

LinkedIn Group “Sales and Marketing Professionals Promoting HighTech and Technology in Los Angeles” invites you to the first group’s networking reception and panel which is produced in association with iHollywood Forum at the conclusion of their 7th annual Digital Media Summit. Over 200 are expected to attend from LinkedIn members and the Digital Media Summit attendees. The cocktail party is from 6pm-9pm on Wednesday, July 29 at UCLA Covel Commons.
Qualified press can receive a comp ticket by contacting event organiziers. Qualified press include editorial press only for commercial print, news, blogs, online, or trade outlets and must apply in advance for approval.
All others can purchase tickets for only $20 at:
http://www.linkedin7-29.eventbrite.com
To learn more about the Digital Media Summit from 9am-6pm, go to www.ihollywoodforum.com/digitalmediasummit or you can register at:
:www.digitalmediasummit.eventbrite.com. You can also call 310 736 1541 or send an email to [email protected].
The LinkedIn “Sales and Marketing Professionals Promoting HighTech and Technology in Los Angeles and its Vicinity”,
http://www.linkedin.com/groupRegistration?gid=1827… is the largest LinkedIn group in Los Angeles with about 4000 members. Or call Tommy Orpaz at 818 825-8167.
Address: UCLA , Covel Commons, 200 De Neve Dr. , Los Angeles, CA 90024 . Parking permits can be puchased from kiosk for adjacent UCLA lots.
Register now at : http://www.linkedin7-29.eventbrite.com
Program:
6:00 – 7:30 pm – Networking reception.
7:30 – 9:00 pm – Panel discussion on Using Social Networking to Generate Revenue
Our panelists will share the ways that social media is utilized for branding companies and individuals and social networking as a business strategy.
The panelists:
Fernando Espuelas , Host & Managing Editor at Cafe Espuelas on 1020am in Los Angeles
This is a radio talk show broadcast live M-F on 1020 AM. It is the number 1 rated Spanish language AM station in Los Angeles, part of the Univision Radio Network. Espuelas founded StarMedia, the first multi-platform digital media company for Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking people worldwide. StarMedia transcended national barriers, becoming the most recognized pan-Latin new media brand, eventually serving 25 million people per month. Espuelas went on to raise $500 million dollars for StarMedia in a combination of private and public offerings, including raising the first dollar of venture funding and the first IPO for a Latin Internet company.
Lane Soelberg, President – COOP Media Ventures
Creating engaging story systems around a brand and its community are his specialty.
The COOP is a brand entertainment boutique, which has served clients such as Ford, Mazda, Gateway, Virgin Mobile, Microsoft, Intel, and Chili’s.
Majid Abai, Chief Executive of Pringo, Inc.
This is an Enterprise Social Networking platform provider located in Los Angeles. His topics:
• What Are Enterprise Social Networks (ESN)?
• Effects of ESN on Business
• Convergence of ESN and Enterprise Portals
• ESN as a Marketing tool
• How Bank of America, Jack-in-the-Box, and other companies established successful ESNs
Neal Schaffer, Author
Author of “Windmill Networking: Understanding, Leveraging & Maximizing LinkedIn” . His topics are: LinkedIn LIONs and the benefits of open networking.
Brian Selzer , Executive and digital/social media producer ; Founder of Omgento .
Brian Selzer is a creative executive and digital media producer who has made a career pushing the boundaries of interactive entertainment. He has created, produced, and distributed multimedia content to a client list that includes Fox, Universal, Warner Brothers, Sony, Activision, EA, Marvel, Hasbro, Nike, Lego, Honda and many others. His topic: Augmented Reallity, as recently featured in the NY Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/business/12proto…
Contacts:
For more information about the Linked In Group, please contact Tommy Orpaz, [email protected] , (818) 825-8167 or join the LinkedIn Group Sales and Marketing Professionals Promoting HighTech and Technology in Los Angeles, at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/business/12proto…
The LinkedIn “Sales and Marketing Professionals Promoting HighTech and Technology in Los Angeles and its Vicinity”
For information about the iHollywood Forum and the 7th Digital Media Summit held on July 29 from 9am-5pm at UCLA, contact Zahava Stroud at [email protected] or call 310 736 1541. Qualified editorial press can apply for a comp press pass. Send full contact info with links to articles and “press pass” in subject line.

RealWebMarketing.net (http://www.realwebmarketing.net), a website marketing firm specializing in working with small to medium-sized businesses, has launched a new “Social Media Gateway Page” for clients.

The purpose of these gateway pages is to make it easy for visitors to connect with and follow a person or company on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter, and to include links to all the person’s or company’s web sites and blogs, and to all the products they sell. It becomes a gateway to all of their activities. The service can also include setting up accounts in Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and other social media sites if the client doesn’t already have them. Readers can see a sample of a Social Media Gateway Page here: http://www.flourishandprosper.com/

John Eberhard, President of RealWebMarketing.net stated “These social media gateway pages are perfect for people who have a number of activities or businesses, or for companies who have a lot of news and other things going on. It gives you one central gateway page which links to all your various websites and activities. This is perfect for celebrities, giving one page that links to all their various activities and allowing people to connect up with them on social media sites. It’s also perfect for entrepreneurs or any company that wants to connect more with customers, followers or fans.”

John Eberhard has been involved in marketing for a wide variety of businesses for 20 years. RealWebMarketing.net was founded in 1999 in the Los Angeles area, and has clients all over the U.S, in a wide variety of fields such as health care, consulting, construction, personnel recruitment, court reporting, drug rehabilitation and detoxification, publishing, software, jewelry, residential and commercial real estate, dance instruction, tax consulting, plumbing, dentistry, pool remodeling, and many others. The services offered by RealWebMarketing.net include social media marketing, pay-per-click advertising campaign management, web design and blog design, search engine optimization, link building, article syndication, optimized press releases, and video production.

Vodafone customers will be able to access Facebook for free on their mobile or their computer using Vodafone’s mobile broadband service for a whole week starting on Friday 24th July.

Giving customers free access to Facebook is part of Vodafone UK’s Free Friday series, which launched with Free Mobile Internet in May to mark the start of a flat daily rate of just 50p to browse the mobile internet, and continued with Free Music Friday in June when Vodafone became the first mobile operator in the UK to launch DRM free music. This time the only difference is that Free Facebook is the first offer to last seven days.

To check out what you can do with Facebook on your mobile click here to see the N97 in action

Connecting to Facebook on a computer or laptop using Vodafone’s mobile broadband service will also be free. Customers who use their mobile will not pay any data when they look at their Facebook account. Browsing other sites will be chargeable at Vodafone standard rate – 50p per day for pay as you go customers and customers without data bundles. Anyone using mobile broadband to access Facebook will see their data counter stop for the time they use and browse Facebook.

Free Facebook marks the start of Facebook text alerts from July 24. Vodafone customers will be able to sign in to www.facebook.com/mobile and select those notifications they wish to receive as free text alerts, from status updates to pokes, and from which friends. They will also be able to respond to these alerts by text. These texts will be charged at the standard text rate.

To find out more about the promotion and how to set up alerts go to www.vodafone.co.uk/facebook. To get you or your Facebook friends set up simply text ‘Friends’ to 97886. You’ll receive a link that will take you straight to Facebook. To view Vodafone’s full mobile phone range and find out more about mobile broadband, please visit our website at vodafone.co.uk

For more information visit http://www.vodafone.co.uk