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Spin.de rises into the top 3 social networks in Germany
The social network spin.de (spin.de) has now also officially risen into the top 3 German communities. According to the latest IVW evaluation, page impressions in September more than doubled compared with the previous month. This puts spin.de in third place in the social networks segment after StudiVZ and Lokalisten. With 309 million reported page impressions, the platform is among the top 15 of all German web offerings.
Google deletes controversial YouTube video
In the video, a mentally ill man was made ridiculous. However, the Internet giant took its time
Kaspersky Lab integrates PhishTank database into Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0
Kaspersky Lab is now integrating the PhishTank database into the anti-phishing module of Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0. The PhishTank service from the Californian company OpenDNS collects known phishing websites in a database that is constantly updated by the international open-source community. Kaspersky Lab has also been actively participating in this project for some time and supplements the PhishTank database with its own information about phishing sites.
Turner Distributes Programmes on Dailymotion
Turner brings CNN International, Adult Swim and Nuts TV material to Dailymotion as part of a European online-distribution agreement.
Online Games Build Offline Communities
German World of Warcraft players use online communities and local gatherings to extend game relationships beyond virtual worlds.
gamearea Promotes Frankfurt Games Sector
gamearea FRANKFURTRHEINMAIN adds a blog and industry events to connect regional game developers, publishers and technology companies.
Film retellers wanted
TOTAL RECALL- the Int. Festival of the Retold Film, is looking for people who retell films.
blog.de supports Blog Action Day
Bloggers from all over the world will join together on October 15
to publicly draw attention to an urgent subject.
Mobile social networking with 12.3 million consumers
Social communities are becoming one of the most important drivers of the mobile Internet. 12.3 million users have access to Web 2.0 offerings on the mobile Web. M:Metrics publishes authoritative data on the mobile community market for Germany and Europe.
AREA: 3D Community Portal Celebrates First Anniversary
The 3D community portal “AREA” from Autodesk Media & Entertainment is celebrating its first birthday. Since its launch in August 2006, AREA developed into a popular online portal with more than 150,000 registered members.
Biting Film Website for SICKO Goes Online
As of today, the official German website at www.sicko.senator.de is online.
Adobe Releases Flash Lite 3
Flash Lite 3 adds Flash video and dynamic web content to mobile devices across S60, BREW, Windows Mobile 5 and embedded platforms.
BerlinCalling Seeks Creatives for Mobile Content Platform
New marketplace for mobile content promises creatives fair and transparent revenue participation / Opens at the beginning of October
OGame Gameforge Classic Still One of the Most Popular Online Games
According to a recently published study by the market research institute Nielsen/Netratings, OGame is one of only three MMOG (Massive Multiplayer Online Games) - alongside “World of Warcraft" and “The Tribes" - to have made it into the top 10 most popular German online games.
German Autodesk User Group AUGIde Launches
International platform AUGI offers German-language information and support for Autodesk users
New Video Competition from Pinnacle Studio
Pinnacle Systems, the consumer division of Avid Technology and provider of video-editing solutions, TV tuners for the PC and digital media adapters, is holding a new video competition:
Internet Use Among Seniors Continues to Rise
The Forum for Seniors Internet community catches rising trend Internet use among seniors continues to rise according to the results of the (N)ONLINER Atlas 2007.
eBay with Price Reduction and New Appearance
The Internet auction house eBay aims to stimulate its business in Germany with a price reduction and a revised appearance.
Mister Wong Launches International Logo Contest
Internet users all over the world are called upon to design a new logo for the social-bookmarking portal.
Games world is becoming digital at a rapid pace
While revenue from traditional board games hardly increased in recent years, digital games for computers, consoles and mobile phones generated record revenues.
Disney buys children’s website Club Penguin
The US media and entertainment giant is intensifying its online efforts. The purchase price is 350 million US dollars (257 million euros).
gamersprofile.de online
Web 2.0 application for growing gaming market officially launches today.
BBC’s IPTV offering triggers wave of protest
At the weekend, the BBC launched its new IPTV service for the first time. There were protests among Mac user.
Paramount Home Entertainment has new website
At www.paramount.de, the Paramount Home Entertainment website presents itself in a new design, packed with a great many new features. Clarity, scope of functions and information as well as user-friendliness were at the forefront of the website relaunch.
Media companies rely on community strategies
With nearly 2.6 billion page impressions, the StudiVZ.de student community left top dogs such as T-Online, Yahoo or Mobile.de behind in May from the start of its IVW listing.
stern.de: Pornography on youth portal “SchülerVZ”
On the “SchülerVZ” youth Internet portal, which belongs to the Holtzbrinck media group, there are hundreds of entries that are explicitly pornographic or far-right.
ingame launches wiki for upcoming game hit Starcraft 2
For years, the computer-game scene has awaited the launch of the real-time strategy game Starcraft 2. Only a few weeks ago, manufacturer Blizzard held out the prospect of the launch. ingame is now launching its own knowledge database for it as a wiki on the almost ten-year-established Stracraft site inBroodwar.de.
TV consumption devours more time than online role-playing games
The average television consumer spends considerably more time in front of the television than the online gamer in front of the computer monitor. This is a finding of the “Daedalus” research project, to which the Xchar game community (www.xchar.de) draws attention on a current occasion.
Maxon User Meeting 2007 on September 8 and 9 in Cologne
For one weekend, everything in the Media Park revolves around Cinema 4D
Amazon.de ships more than 220,000 copies of Harry Potter
The long wait was finally over: Right on time for publication day, Amazon.de and DHL ship more than 220,000 preordered copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows free of shipping charges on Saturday.
tv14 searches for the video star
tv14, Europe's largest programme magazine from the Bauer publishing group, and the Internet portal clipfish.de are now launching a summer campaign: They are looking for the most beautiful children's video - the main prize is a family trip to Mallorca worth 2,000 euros, while places two to six each receive 1,000 euros in cash.
Online journalism on an equal footing with print
As a result of the increasing shift from print to online, the Internet can become the journalistic leading medium. That was one of the conclusions at yesterday's media coffee by news aktuell in Munich.
Powerflasher makes the “Perfect Dinner” a pleasure online too
Web 2.0 in Action: Instead of sitting exclusively in front of the television and enjoying VOX's cooking shows, fans of the TV series “The Perfect Dinner” can now also dine actively themselves.
FOCUS Online begins beta test of “My FOCUS”
Users can assemble their personal news homepage.
SAE Alumni Convention in Berlin
Broad range of talks on October 12 and 13/ presentation of the SAE Alumni Awards
Mobile TV Channel with Exclusively User-Generated Content from October
Munich service provider Gofresh promisses users interaction and advertising clients precise targeting
ProSiebenSat.1 Acquires Stake in German Video Community “MyVideo”
Entry into user-generated content / 30-percent stake with takeover option
Swiss Flash User Group Announces Tutorial Competition
Full Version of Macromedia Studio 8 and Devnet 12 to Be Won