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"Bebo Safety - Bebo hosted a series of workshops today as part of \"European Safer Internet Day\".  As usual, this gives the impression that Bebo is concerned about safety, and gives them some positive press coverage.\nZooof- Zooof is launching its new \"family social network\" today.  Usability issues and that yellow interface are a pain, but support for 35 languages and the \"family tree\" feature have merit.  I'll keep an eye on this one, but right now I'm not won over.\nMyWaves - MyWaves is a mobile video startup that we think is one of the strongest players in the mobile space.  They've just launched a mobile video search that lets you subscribe to a keyword and have videos sent to your phone whenever clips tagged with that word appear.  (via)\nPutfile - Putfile is a fairly popular file hosting service among MySpace users - we see it appearing on the stats from Mashable Labs.  The company just got acquired by HandHeld Entertainment, a consumer electronics firm, for $7.1 million ($1.08 million in cash and $6.0 million in common stock).  UK-based Putfile doesn't get much coverage, but it's huge: it received 13.7 million unique visitors and 83 million pageviews in January 2006.  It's been around since 2004, so they had time to build the traffic.  (via)\nWebshots Mobile - We got news today from Saki Mobile that they're about to announce the launch of the Webshots Wireless Community, a service that takes Webshots mobile.  The Webshots Mobile section has been around for a while, so I can't confirm how new this is.  \nSmart Digg - Digg has released \"smart\" Digg buttons that detect whether your article has been submitted to Digg already, and links to the Digg page if it has.  You can also match the color of the button to your site.  (via)  \nLala Valentines - Lala has launched a Valentine's promotion - we don't have much interest in this CD-swapping site, apart from the fact that they have some social features. See also YouTube's Dump Cupid promotion.\nDisney.com - the new Disney.com is finally live, and it does have some widgets as promised.  But the site doesn't interact with other services - you can't embed content from elsewhere (understandable, since the quality of external content can't be guaranteed unless you have trusted widget partners like Bebo does).  But worse than that: you can't embed Disney widgets on MySpace, hi5, Friendster etc, so there's no viral element.  (via)\nYouTube Japan - The YouTube founders met with JASRAC on Tuesday (Japan time), but the only thing to come out of the meeting was that YouTube will add a Japanese copyright warning to the site.  That's something they'd already agreed to do.\nMetacafe CEO - Metacafe has a new CEO: Erick Hachenburg from Electronic Arts is taking over.  All the video sharing sites (Revver, Guba) are facing pressure from YouTube, but I'm more optimistic about Metacafe than the others.  (via Om)"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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