Lego Rock Band is a music video game that is being put together through a partnership between Harmonix Music Systems, MTV Games, EA, and Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment. This game will be released on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and the Wii on November 3.
IngBoo is a company that aims to organize content on the Internet that you visit frequently. This may include posts on Craigslist, weather, traffic, sports scores, RSS feeds, etc. In my opinion it looks like they want to compete with Netvibes.
IngBoo has raised $800,000 in seed funding from Elis Nemes (Amidzad Partners), Saeed Amidi (Amidzad Partners), Doug Tsui (Horizon Ventures), and Allen Miner (Sunbridge Partners). Nemes also participated in a previous round which included Peter Green and Mohan Ramanujam.
“Over the last several years, we have had the opportunity to evaluate hundreds of innovative startups from around the World,” stated Amidzad CEO Saeed Amid. “We believe that IngBoo is a category-defining startup, perfectly positioned to facilitate and accelerate the growth in users who organize their Web activities by subscribing to content previews.” IngBoo launched in September 2007 and the company has about 12 employees.
MySpace and Facebook are rumored to be working in conjunction with each other on a new project. The new project involves MySpace users having the ability to share content on Facebook using Facebook Connect. The rumor was started by The Telegraph UK.
This deal is probably being set up by current MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta. Natta was the previous Chief Revenue Officer and VP of Operations at Facebook. This means that you may start seeing MySpace Videos and music being embedded on the Facebook News Feed. Last week Natta even said that he does not consider Facebook to be a competitor any more.
I think that this would be a good deal all around for both parties. Facebook users would see more artistic expression provided by MySpace users. Artists on MySpace would have a bigger audience.
On November 18, EA Sports will be releasing NCAA Basketball 10. Blake Griffin of the University of Oklahoma Sooners is gracing the cover of the game. Griffin was selected first in the 2009 NBA Draft as a player for the Los Angeles Clippers. Above is a video trailer of the game.
The AOL exodus continues. America Online SVP of Global Messaging David Liu is stepping down next month. Liu worked at AOL for only a year and a half. Liu was the man behind hiring Brad Garlinghouse from Yahoo! Garlinghouse is now going to be responsible for AIM/ICQ, AOL SMS services, and AOL E-mail (“You’ve got mail”). Liu also helped integrate Twitter, Facebook, and other social networks with AOL services. No word yet on where Liu is headed, but this post will be updated when we find out.
Actress Kate Hudson is in a legal battle with a domain name squatter. Hudson filed for arbitration of the domain name with the National Arbitration Forum. Hudson starred in movies such as You, Me and Dupree and Almost Famous.
KateHudson.com is covered with links to other spam websites that has text such as “kate hudson pics,” “celebrity photos,” and “kate hudson biography.” Below is a screenshot of how it looked when I visited the website. The domain is currently owned by a man in Shanghai, China.
Aviary is a web-based software company that has designed applications such as Image Editor, Color Editor, Vector Editor, Effect Editor, Screen Capture, Image Markup, and Audio Editor. Aviary is based in Long Island, New York. And now the company has raised $7 million in Series B from Jeff Bezos (founder and CEO of Amazon.com) and Spark Capital.
Bezos’ investment was made through his venture firm Bezos Expeditions. Aviary competes directly with Adobe Systems Inc. To access Aviary’s web based applications, the subscription cost is $24.99 for the Pro version. The Pro version gives more enhanced file privacy, full watermark control, higher quality thumbnails, and unlimited storage. The basic version gives access to the web base applications too.
“We are disrupting the status quo by eliminating the long-held barriers to digital creation and giving creators the tools they need to create, market and monetize their vision,” stated Aviary Inc. founder and CEO Avi Muchnick. “We are extremely excited to have Spark Capital on board. Their broad-ranging internet, software and consumer experience will be a tremendous asset to us in furthering our mission to make creation accessible to creators of all genres.”
Josh Elman was the former platform manager at Facebook. But now Elman is joining another California based social networking slash micro-blogging firm Twitter.com. Elman is joining Twitter at a time where the micro-blogging company is receiving a lot of interest from third party developers.
TweetDeck is one of the most used Adobe AIR applications and Tweetie is one of the most downloaded applications on the iPhone. When Elman worked at Facebook, he was responsible for Facebook Connect. Elman was also responsible for cleaning up the design of the social network after applications made Facebook look very cluttered.
Elman has also previously worked for LinkedIn, Zazzle, and RealNetworks. Louis Gray broke the news of Elman’s hire after spotting the Twitter official list of employees. Twitter has about 113 employees.
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