Archive for September, 2009

Livestream Launches Livepack – Solution for Wireless Live Streaming at HD Quality

Livestream

Livestream, the leader in live Internet video platforms, launched the world’s first solution for wireless live streaming at HD quality. This innovative development will have a profound impact on the ability of the mainstream media to stream live from anywhere with the highest quality, less equipment, and at far lower costs than traditional solutions such as broadcast trucks.

Livepack is ideal for live broadcasting any events including concerts, interviews, sporting events, town hall meetings, paparazzi, university graduations, weddings, ceremonies, transmission from a moving car, and a variety of enterprise applications. (more…)

Jobvite Launches Tool to Find Candidates on the Web and Social Networks

Jobvite

Jobvite, the recruitment technology innovator, launched Jobvite Source, the first Web application to help employers find the right candidates in social networks and on the Web. The application helps employees find referral prospects in their social networks and contacts and helps recruiters target prospective candidates on the Web. Any company can use Jobvite Source on its own or along with other recruiting technologies.

The Web and social networks have huge potential to help companies find employees, but it takes special skills and often hours to identify a prospect. Case in point, a Google search for a product manager in San Francisco turns up more than 50,000 results, few of which actually suggest a person who’s appropriate for the job.

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eFans – Sports Social Network for Sports Fans

eFans

Social networking has quickly gone from buzzword to household term with popular sites like MySpace and Facebook taking off. If you are a sports fan you may have found yourself left in the dust as there haven’t been any online networks catering to your needs. With teams rosters and records changing every day, real sports fans need an easy place to stay in-the-know on sports news. Until now, there hasn’t been one location for fanatics to get all their news, chat with other fans and peruse the various video and photo content of their tried and true teams.

From this need, eFans emerged as the brainchild of Venice, California -based Stephan Maric, the founder and CEO.

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100 Tips, Tools, and Resources for Twitter Research

100 Tips, Tools, and Resources for Twitter Research

Twitter has exploded into a must-track resource for news, rants, consumer reports, public health, shopping deals and emerging trends. But if you’re looking for something or someone specific, how can you expect to carve out a niche and listen in on just a single thread of conversation? Our list of 100 tips, tools and resources for Twitter research will help you keep it all together.

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Hotmail Founder Sabeer Bhatia Joins Viadeo Board

Viadeo

Sabeer Bhatia, founder of Hotmail, has been appointed to the Viadeo Board of Directors. Viadeo, one of the world’s largest business social networks.

Sabeer will be joined by Bill Melton, co-founder of Verifone and an early investor in AOL. Derek Ling, founder and CEO of Tianji.com (also owned by Viadeo) and Yogesh Bansal, cofounder and CEO of ApnaCircle have also been appointed.

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