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* WGA committee recommends strike. * MYSPACE and BEBO join GOOGLE's OpenSocial. * VERIZON promises 150 HD channels by end of 2008. * FTC commissioner vows to regulate online advertising. * WARNER MUSIC snubs NOKIA music service over "Mosh."

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N97 video of Anahita Social Engine from Vancouver DemoCamp 7 July 7, 2009: http://www.anahitapolis.com/

N82 video of Anahita Social Engine from Vancouver DemoCamp 7 July 7, 2009: http://www.anahitapolis.com/

Desarrollando aplicaciones para redes sociales. In Silico 19.

1. Ex-Googlers Working On Social Search Service Site Mechanical Zoo, 2. Photobucket Goes Public With Its API

1. Yahoo Reports Strong First Quarter Financial Results, 2. Google Launches Developer Sandbox for iGoogle, 3. Yahoo Updating Search Indexing, Crawling, Rankings

COMCAST and TIME WARNER CABLE are in discussions to fund a WiMax joint venture with SPRINT and CLEARWIRE. The current deal calls for Comcast to invest $1 billion and TWC to put in $500 million. Bright House Networks, Google and Intel may also participate. In exchange for funding, the cable companies will receive equity as well as the ability to use the networks for wireless data and voice services at wholesale rates. Of course, this is just the latest development in the ongoing cable-telco conversions, where cable delves into voice and data and telcos enter the television space. GOOGLE announced that it will give up control of the OpenSocial application platform and establish a non-profit foundation to oversee the venture. Yahoo and MySpace have committed to joining the new entity, ensuring a large user base. OpenSocial was created as Google s response to the Facebook application platform. It allows developers to create one application that can be deployed across all member networks with little or no additional coding. Facebook has not joined and will continue to focus on its own closed application platform. CREATIVE ARTISTS AGENCY, PEQUOT CAPITAL and MLB ADVANCED MEDIA will unveil WePlay.com, a new social network focused on youth sports. The site will act as a hub for posting profiles, game schedules, highlight videos, car pool arrangements and just about anything related to children s involvement in athletics. The site will also offer rare home videos of superstar athletes as children, shooting hoops in their parents driveways and in their high school gyms. Major athletes have been digging trough closets looking for old videotapes and memorabilia to add to the site. With the support of top athletes and the online capabilities of MLBAM, this is worth keeping an eye on. MTV unveiled a number of short-form projects that will be offered on the network, the web and via mobile devices. The shows include North Palm Wrestling, a five minute sketch show, and Anton a claymation version of Jackass. MTV also announced that it is collaborating with CollegeHumor.com to develop a network show and, most importantly, bringing Rock Band to the Wii. SONY BMG is developing its own online music subscription service. Subscribers would pay between $9 and $12 a month for unlimited access to the entire Sony BMG catalog. The service will reportedly work with a number of devices, including the market-leading iPod. The company is looking to bring other music labels and mobile phone operators into the venture, which currently has no exact release date. Read more at http://www.ShellyPalmer.com

GOOGLE submitted a letter to the FCC requesting that the white spaces between television channels be authorized for wireless Internet signals. The letter stated that most viable spectrum is unused or grossly underutilized and that white space Internet services will offer ubiquitous broadband access to all Americans. Google believes that spectrum-sensing technology can avoid any interference with television signals. It pledged free technical support for third parties trying to implement it. THE DOJ approved the merger of the SIRIUS and XM satellite radio services. The Department argued that satellite radio is just one part of a much larger audio market, which is growing and includes Internet radio, HD Radio, the MP3 format, iTunes and traditional AM/FM radio signals. It believes a combined XM-SIRIUS will not be anti-competitive in this market. The deal must still pass one final hurdle: FCC approval. ESPN has ended its participation in online ad networks, claiming the practice dilutes its brand and undermines its quality. The ad networks, which included Specific Media, sold inventory on ESPN sites along with thousands of other online destinations. ESPN will end all such agreements. Turner is reportedly considering a similar move. IMEEM launched an application platform that will allow developers to tap into its growing media library. Applications will be able to integrate the site s video, music and images to create sharing apps, recommendation engines, music quizzes and more. Imeem will handle all licensing. The new platform increases Imeem s status as a multimedia-focused social network with forward-looking approaches to new media. MLB.COM is expected to unveil a number of enhancements this year, including a site overhaul that emphasizes video content. Streaming video will be increased to near-hi-def quality, adopting a 1.2 Mbps data rate and a 16 9 aspect ratio. The site will begin tagging all aspects of game clips, including players involved, teams, type of play and more. This will allow users to find exactly what they re looking for. The changes are meant to further improve an undeniably successful online video service. MLB.com users average 37 minutes of video per viewing virtually the same average that baseball receives on traditional television. Read more at http://www.ShellyPalmer.com

Thoughts on Open Social from Dave Morin, Josh Williams, Eric Yieh, Darin Divinia @ the Dallas Facebook Developer Garage. I asked the panelists what they thought about the Open Social platform. The answer from Facebook's Dave Morin is particularly interesting considering the firestorm Facebook had to weather two weeks after this session a la Beacon.

Joseph Smarr demonstrates and discusses Plaxo's OpenSocial implementation, taking questions from Marc Canter and Adam Green. This was shot on FRI November 2, 2007 on location at Plaxo's HQ in Mountain View, CA