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"Tastemakers funded by Amazon - What is Tastemakers?  We're not really sure, but we're told it has something to do with art and design.  The Seattle-based company has just raised $1 million from Amazon, according to an email today, so clearly something is cooking here.\nMyYahoo - MyYahoo, the company's customizable web page, is set for a major upgrade, Yahoo said today.  What they didn't say is exactly what changes would be implemented. (via)\nSpaceCatch - It might say 2005 in the footer, but we're told the SpaceCatch social network is new.  It's a nice but ultimately undifferentiated media sharing platform, although it does allow you to import your MySpace profile, which is a nice touch.  Music sharing, photo sharing, videos and tagging are all supported.\nBunchball - Bunchball, the social gaming site that could have been the leader in the MySpace games market, is abandoning widgets altogether.  As of March 9th, they won't be serving up embeddable widgets at all.  Instead, they seem to be doing some B2B stuff like a deal to provide games on Colts.com.  I still maintain that MySpace games could be huge, but clearly Bunchball wasn't able to find the sweet spot.  Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake is an advisor to the company.  (via)\nSelldeo - Selldeo is a site for video-based classified ads.  Love the idea, but there's no content here yet.  And that could be the problem: classifieds sites need lots of users, and Selldeo will never reach that point.  That said, it would be great for eBay to add videos at some point.  Imagine, for instance, the awesome power of a YouTube-eBay deal to link online videos and auctions.\nBBC-YouTube - How well is the BBC-YouTube deal performing?  On Tuesday, the Beeb said that over 165,000 viewers had checked out the YouTube clips, and they expect 500,000 views by the end of this week.  Not bad at all.  Since some of this BBC content isn't readily available outside the UK, we don't expect it to drive viewers to BBC TV - the benefits to the BBC brand, however, are incalculable.  (via)\nFox-YouTube - Remember when Fox decided to go after YouTube users for uploading Simpsons and \"24\" clips?  YouTube readily handed over the details of those users, but now Fox has said it won't be suing them.  A scare tactic, perhaps, or more confused fumbling while the media companies try to figure out the video space?\nMySpace Profits - Merrill Lynch says it's optimistic about MySpace's profit potential.  MySpace can significantly increase its revenue simply by selling more inventory itself, the brokerage house said, and they're bullish about the site's prospects.  Other reasons to be optimistic: News Corp just bought an ad firm to serve its own targeted ads, and it has announced plans to sell ads in embedded videos from Fox. (via)\nWordpress OpenID - Wordpress.com, the hosted version of the Wordpress blog platform, has just announced support for OpenID, the open identity standard.  OpenID seems to be building momentum.\nImeem - Social media sharing site Imeem, which Mashable noticed was taking off quickly, announced today that it has appointed Ted Cohen, former Senior Vice President from EMI Music and current Managing Partner of digital media advisory TAG Strategic, to its Board of Directors.  That, plus other other rumblings, suggest that this massively successful company is seeking to go the legitimate route among allegations of hosting copyrighted content."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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