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Latest, in a string of announcements after being acquired by AOL, Userplane has announced the latest features to its free multi-user, multi-room, audio/video chat platform. Userplane Instant Install, an unlimited use, ad-supported version of the company’s robust Flash apps communication suite, will now include Anonymous Calling and a private messaging “whisper� function.
Userplane recently announced [...]
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There is not enough pr0n on the internet. I was in NYC for a friend’s birthday party in a rented loft in Soho. While lounging in the floating bed, I perused the bookshelf, where I came across Bunny Tales, stories about being one of Hef’s girlfriends. A few days later, SF Chronical has the story [...]
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Userplane is in the dog house. Popular pet destinations Dogster and Catster are rolling out Userplane’s real-time, one-to-one instant messaging and audio/video chat. Fido and Spot have entered the internet age.
The Dogster and Catster IM player is highly customized to solve a unique challenge: namely, that one user often has several profiles. Each profile uses [...]
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Paltalk, the Internet’s largest Video Chat community with more than four million active members, announced today launched Paltalk People 2.0.
Paltalk says it’s the only social networking site in the world that allows users to communicate through video, voice and text chat. This is totally false. I’ve been videoconferencing since 1994 and have used every program [...]
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I just got off the phone with Userplane CEO Mike Jones after taking a few much-needed days off the grid in Vermont.
I met Mike a few years ago in San Francisco and have always liked the way we approached chat in the dating and social networking spaces. Mike has been a startup junkie and [...]
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Today I decided to search for videos tagged as “dating” on YouTube. After quickly tiring of Dating Advice on Threesomes and Dating Boot Camp I finally came across some talent, in this case Vince Vaughn, who “wants to make some bad decisions.”
Continuing my troll through YouTube, I began to notice how people were inserting mentions [...]
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Today Ingenio announced Ether, which according to Greg Sterling of Sterling Market Intelligence, “creates a range of interesting e-commerce opportunities for experts who sell advice rather than products.” I thought this launched months ago, I wrote Ether in November 2005. following the link for details about Match’s old Profile Helper service.
Ether allows those who have [...]
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According to Marketing VOX, Google Video has been updated. Still not up to par with YouTube but getting better.
Google, which provided a special site for video-makers with many titles to upload, is promoting the new video service via a program that coincides with “National Break-Up Day,” June 2, and the release of the film “The [...]
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Rafat @ PaidContent tells us that FIM president Ross Levinsohn said video uploads on MySpace surpassed YouTube in a matter of days. YouTube visits are still longer at 15 minutes. Bill Tancer at Hitwise says that 25% of YouTube’s traffic was coming from Myspace while Nielsen says the number was 2%.
Technorati Tags: myspace, youtube
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