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Revvers Million Dollar Pay Out
Revver’s announced it’s pay out of $1 million over the past year, meeting a milestone for the amount of money drummed up and split with content owners that promote and leverage Revver’s video-sharing network.Revver has also noted that this milestone coincides with its one year anniversary. Congrats to Revver. As one of the [...]

Yahoos Deal of the Day Powered by Woot
Woot, the online daily deal website, has partnered with Yahoo to offer its service on the Yahoo Shopping home page. The service is not yet live, but is set to be available to users in a few hours.Yahoo is looking for a way to better engage users. This means access to a great [...]

My So-Called Life: The Next Generation, Premiering on MySpace TV
Quarterlife TrailerMySpace TV is premiering a new show called “quarterlife,” a new online series from Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, the creators of “My So-Called Life,” “thirtysomething” and “Blood Diamond.” “quarterlife” debuts on MySpace TV on November 11. The show will be about six creative people in their twenties, with the central character, [...]

iStats Keeps You Sexy
iStats is a new community for tracking your fitness regiment and stay motivated from the help of others.By setting goals and having iStats automatically track your progress, you’re better able to see where you’ve been, and your current status. You can create your own workouts, differentiating between the different body parts and types [...]

Google Founders Sign Elusive Deal with NASA
Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have signed a deal under their LLC H211 with NASA for use of its Moffett Federal Airfield, which is near Mountain View.The agreement is non-exclusive, and details that Page and Brin can use the former naval air station in exchange for allowing NASA to place instruments and [...]

Amazon Music Store Awaiting Bezos Approval
Amazon is reportedly getting very close to launching its online music download service, which has been in the works for some time now. An Amazon source has reportedly indicated that the music service is awaiting the approval of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and could be launched as early as early next week. You all [...]

Google Files Trademark Suit Against JewTube
Google’s Trademarks division is apparently ready to battle with a company called Netparty, as it’s filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office, alleging trademark infringement from JewTube.There doesn’t appear to be any association between Netparty and JewTube, however. Netparty is an event-planning organization for Jewish singles. And there is more than one [...]

Google Denies Ownership of Your Docs Content
Concerns have emerged in the last couple weeks over wording in the Google Docs & Spreadsheets terms and conditions that suggest the company can re-produce and publish content from your account for marketing purposes. The terms in question read:“By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through Google services which are intended to be [...]

QuePasa.com Launches New Beta
QuePasa.com announced today that they are launching a newly enhanced beta version of their site.Considered the largest Latino social network, QuePasa is adding several new features including multiple photo albums with slide shows that allow tagging and commenting, video and music sharing, chat functionality with automatic friend detection, and free e-mail. You can also [...]

Mercora Renames Itself Social.FM
Mercora, a social music discovery service has announced a name change Social.FM. Similar to services like Last.fm, Social.FM helps users find new music through their social network. User profiles include a DJ Rank based on the number of hours people have listened to their station, charts showing your recent songs and artists, [...]

Fora.tv Launches Pfizer-Sponsored Health Channel
Fora.tv, the “YouTube for Thinkers,” is launching a Health and Wellness channel on its site in partnership with Pfizer, which is sponsoring the niche channel.The purpose of this channel is to raise awareness about diseases, offer a platform for announcing and discussing new medicines, treatments options, etc. You’ll find aggregated content from [...]

UStream Coverage of World Cyber Games Finals
UStream, the webcam broadcasting community, will be providing exclusive coverage of the World Cyber Games U.S. Finals on September 14-16, in partnership with the Global Gaming League. The event takes place next week in Orlando, FL.This will be a live broadcast, and will also offer in-game views and commentary from Marcus Graham, a famed [...]

vSocial Announces Second Round of Funding
White label video site provider vSocial has announced a second round of funding from Biltmore Ventures and Consor Capital. The company also announced that Howard Lindzon, the creator of Wallstrip, will be joining the companys board of directors. We previously covered vSocial in September of last year when they raised $1.5 million, also [...]

Socializer is not Affiliated with Socializr. But it Does the Same Thing.
Socializer is a new event planning and tracking community. You’ll notice that this particular website seems to have an extra vowel. So don’t get this mixed up with Abram’s Socializr, which does pretty much the same thing as this newbie (and just got more funding), but the two companies don’t seem to [...]

GDrive Domain Updated. A Launch to Finally Arrive?
Google has reportedly updated its name servers for GoogleDrive.com, which are now pointing to NSx.GOOGLE.COM. This is often a sign that the domain will be used for a product in the very near future. With the recent and growing speculation surrounding a Google GDrive product that will be integrated with Google Apps, [...]

Yahoo Opening Up (Kind Of)
This week Business Week features a comprehensive look at how Yahoo is moving towards a more open environment for developers. The most interesting news (some of which is already well known) is that Yahoo will be offering APIs for some of its services, allowing developers and entrepreneurs to gain exposure for their applications to [...]

SetDot Officially Launches Great Event Planning Site
Setdot, the event-planning service, has officially launched, and has added some new features since we last checked them out.Among the new stuff you can do at Setdot are new themes, directions, venue reviews, and calendar integration. The themes are plentiful, and offer a wide range of event-planning detail, from poker night to a Halloween [...]

Wikipedia. 2 Million Entries & Growing.
Wikipedia has hit a record 2 million articles for its user-regulated online encyclopedia. On Monday, the English Wikipedia’s two millionth article was “El Hormiguero,” detailing the Spanish TV show of the same name. After its launch six years ago, I think we can all attest to the establishment of Wikipedia, its example [...]

Google.org Commits $10 Million to Transportation Entrepreneurs
Googles non-profit arm, Google.org, has announced a $10 million commitment to investing in companies and entrepreneurs focused on sustainable transportation, such as hybrid vehicles. The goal of the funding is to help accelerate mass commercialization of plug-in vehicles according to the company. Google.org has already granted more than $1 million to non-profits that [...]

LonleyPlanet, Music Wall & radiusIM Facebook Apps
LonelyPlanet has launched a Facebook application called LonelyPlanet Trips that lets you plan and share trips, and see the trips of your friends. You can search for destinations, hotels and hostels from this application, and view it all on a map. From the application’s homepage map, you can select what types [...]

Microsoft and Internap Partner to Distribute Silverlight to Radio Stations
Microsoft has announced its first major deal to have its Silverlight-enabled player used to stream online radio. The software giant has partnered with Internap, a content delivery network, to provide Silverlight technology to Citadel Communications, Univision, and Radio One. Under the deal, these radio conglomerates will be using the Silverlight player to stream [...]

Ringblender: Mix Your Own Ringtones
Ringblender.com is giving you the power to remix songs the way you want, and turn them in to your own ringtones.To get a feel for the service, Ringblender has teamed up with the TVT Records symphonic rock group, The Polyphonic Spree, to bring you the song “Running Away” from the band’s new album, The Fragile [...]

Veoh Announces New High Profile Investors
Big money continues to pour into online video, with Veoh announcing the addition of several high profile investors today. New financiers include Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs, FireFly3 (the venture firm of former Viacom and MTV Networks CEO Tom Freston), and Jonathan Dolgen, the former CEO of Viacom Entertainment Group. According to [...]

Kewego Gets $6.9 Million
Pan-European video sharing upstart Kewego has raised a $6.9 million (EUR 5 million) second-round investment to fund further international development. Formed last year from the rollup of two French video-sharing sites, the Paris-based site raised $6.3 million from Banxei Venture Partners in its first round; Banxei returns for this round with CDC Enterprises, the [...]

Avatars Everywhere: 27 of the Best Avatar Makers
Avatar creator Meez is back in the news this week, but there are dozens more avatar creation tools gunning for this market. Today we attempt an overview of that market: please add more suggestions in the comment section.Recommended: MySpace MP3 Player at Mashcodes!Share This

35+ Ways to Find and Plan Events Online
It seems to us that it’s conference season all of a sudden. But no matter what events you’re trying to track down or plan, there are hundreds of tools to do just that. We’ve rounded up 35 of them: feel free to add more in the comments.Recommended: Piczo Layouts at Mashcodes!Share This

StrikeIron & IBM Using Widgets to Create Ready-Made Mashups
Strikelron, a DaaS company, has partnered with IBM to offer web services for creating enterprise-ready mashups.Through IBM’s enterprise mashup maker QEDWiki, Strikelron will provide its data and live data tools to make it easier for the development of mashups. Operating from a set of data widgets, these can be moved directly into the QEDWiki editor [...]

Amazon Launches Web Startup Contest
Amazon Web Services, Amazon’s service that gives developers access to Amazon’s technology platform with pay-as-you-go pricing, is launching something called the Amazon Web Services Start-Up Challenge - a contest for the best web startup. The winner will receive $50.000 cash and additional $50.000 in Amazon Web Services credits, as well as mentoring sessions from an [...]

Yahoo Selling Ads on Bebo
Yahoo and Bebo have signed an ad deal, which entails that Yahoo will be selling the majority of the social network’s display and video ads. The financial details of this deal were not disclosed. Yahoo has indicated that this greatly increases its advertising inventory for the U.K. and Ireland, and this is [...]

SlideRocket is a Slick Slideshow Creator for Presentations
SlideRocket is a web-based presentation creation site. The site has just launched its private beta, and I’ve gotten a chance to try out its service, and it looks pretty slick. The company has offered up some invites for Mashable readers. Click here to get yours.With SlideRocket, you get the ease of creating [...]