News Mixx Wants You to Build a Community Social news site Mixx introduced a new feature today: Mixx Communities. Mixx always had a strong emphasis on 'groups,' but the Mixx Communities take this to a different level by offering a higher degree of customizability and a stronger emphasis on communication between group members. There has been a recent trend of allowing groups of users to… Social Frederic Lardinois View comments
web WikiCafe: MetaCafe Invites Users to Edit Video Metadata Popular video sharing website MetaCafe just announced the launch of a fascinating new experiment it's calling WikiCafe - the ability for any registered user to "edit, enhance, and even translate video tags, descriptions, and other types of metadata." Somehow Metacafe has a much lower idiot-to-civil commenter ratio than YouTube, where we can only… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Features The Top 40 Online Video Producers in May - This List Might Surprise You We're watching the media landscape change in real time and one of the most interesting ways that's happening right now is through new online video producers breaking the monopoly of the old TV giants. Who's taking the lead in the new video landscape? Though old media is making a strong play - it's not winning so far. New, independent online… Play Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Product Reviews PutPlace Launches Public Beta Last year, we told you about PutPlace, an online application designed to help you manage all your digital media. PutPlace isn't just your usual file backup service, though - it also provides web access to your files while allowing you to track where you've stored those files online. That's because in addition to setting up files and folders to be… Sarah Perez View comments
Social Web Mainstream Web Watch: OleOle Football Sticking with the sporting theme, and in deference to the European Championship currently in progress in Austria and Switzerland, our latest look at mainstream use of web 2.0 is a football (i.e. soccer) website. OleOle is a fully featured social media platform for football fans - and it has shown impressive growth since its launch on 28 April '08… Social Richard MacManus View comments