Jockipedia is a new website started by Douglas Warshaw that focuses on one-on-one communication with athletes. Every day there are more and more athletes launching personal websites, Facebook fan pages, and tweeting personal messages but it is hard to find out which athletes are active in social media. Warshaw, a former sports news producer aims to resolve that problem through Jockipedia.
Currently there are over 3,000 athletes listed in Jockipedia’s database. On the homepage of Jockipedia, the athlete’s information can be fileted by the league, sport, and country. Warshaw claims that his website could mine the websites of players even faster than Google or other search engines. “We’re going to have every athlete in the world,” stated Warshaw in an interview with The New York Times.
Jockipedia is quite similar to Chickipedia, a database that contains the photos, videos, and even body measurements of famous actresses and female celebrities.
For those of you that have downloaded the Remember The Milk iPhone application, you will be excited to know that there is now push notifications built in to the application.
This allows you to be instantly notified of task reminder alerts. The new version of the Remember The Milk application also includes stability and performance improvements.
Remember The Milk is a small Australian company founded by Emily Boyd and Omar Kilani. Remember The Milk started in October 2005 and has about one million registered users.
Moonfruit is a website that makes it easy to build a website without advertisements. There is also social networking tools, drag and drop editing software, website promotion, ability to add third party content from YouTube and Google Maps, and the ability to embed your own video and MP3s. As part of the company’s 10th anniversary, they have decided to run a promotion campaign on Twitter in which users had to use the hashtag “#moonfruit” to be eligible for a daily drawing of one out of ten Apple MacBooks.
On Thursday evening, the hashtag moonfruit surpassed Twitter trends such as Michael Jackson and Wimbledon. According to Moonfruit founder Wendy White, traffic to their website increased 600% and the number of users doubled. Many Twitter users decided to add the hashtags in subliminal messages such as “I wonder if #moonfruit would make my dog sick” and “I will make a #moonfruit cake if I win a MacBook.” Anyone that creates a Moonfruit tribute will also win an iPod Touch such as a YouTube video or a song.
Magellan had built the world’s first commercial GPS receiver back in 1989. Twenty years later they have given us the Maestro 4700 which has a plethora of features that are different from your average GPS. Features include OneTouch favorites, predictive traffic mode with alternate routes, AAA TourBook databases, a “Find Your Car” feature when in pedestrian mode, 3D Landmarks while driving around, and QuickSpell with Smart City Search. The GPS is Bluetooth capable which gives you the ability to use it as a cellphone when it connects to your handset. The Maestro 4700 is expected to hit the shelves on July 15 and is available for pre-order at a price of $299.
One of YouTube’s most critical flaws when the company first started was that the video quality was inferior. This is where companies such as Joost and Veoh wanted to hit YouTube where it counted. Both Joost and Veoh had higher quality videos than YouTube, but they lacked in quantity. Last week Joost decided to focus on video platforms for companies rather than making deals with companies to stream their content.
Now Veoh is reportedly giving up on being a streaming video start-up company. AllThingsD is reporting that the company is looking for a buyer for a price that is below the $70 million in funding that they have raised over the last four years. The $30 million Series D round of funding took place back in June 2008.
Some of the previous investors include former Disney CEO Michael Eisner and Goldman Sachs. The company has not been profitable and last year alone they lost about $6 million. Veoh is also facing litigation from Universal Music Group which is accusing them of copyright vilations.
Currently there is no word on who a potential buyer may be, but considering how much traffic Veoh is receiving I would not be surprised if an acquisition takes place in the near future.
Back in late April, Disney signed a deal with Hulu. As part of the deal Disney would retain 27% ownership in Hulu but would be expected to add some of their owned TV shows on the video website. Through the Disney-owned channel ABC, Grey’s Anatomy has started to appear on Hulu.
It was rumored that Hulu and YouTube were competing to get the Disney deal. Google wanted Disney to be one of their first partners in offering premium content on YouTube, but they opted for ownership in Hulu instead.
Considering that Grey’s Anatomy is starting to appear on Hulu, it will only be a matter of time before we start seeing other shows such as Lost and Desperate Housewives.
When people say that when it comes to web companies, they move very quickly I believe them. Ian Brotherston stepped up to be the CEO of DailyMotion about three months ago and now he is finding himself being replaced by Cedric Tournay. Tournay is coming to DailyMotion from Doctissimo, a European medical website.
Brotherston will be working as the EVP of International Strategy at DailyMotion. Initially DailyMotion was not planning to announce Brotherston as the new CEO three months ago, because he was considered being an interim CEO. A PR rep at DailyMotion also said that the press that went out about Brotherston joining as the CEO was incomplete information.
In February, Midway filed for bankruptcy and then the company decided to use cash collateral to keep their company alive. Looks like the company will not need to hang by a financial string anymore because the Mortal Kombat company was bought by Warner Brothers for $33 million.
As part of the deal, Warner Brothers will get most of Midway’s assets. And some of the legal disputes existing between creditors, senior executives, and major stakeholder Mark Thomas have been resolved.
Some of the companies that objected to the Warner Brothers sale include Hollywood production company Threshold Entertainment, which produced two Mortal Kombat movies. Tigon Studios Inc., a company founded by Vin Diesel also objected to the sale. Tigon and Midway both worked on a video game called Wheelman which starred Diesel. All of the objections were resolved.
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