Lance Armstrong is daring you to share your personal life-changing story.
Livestrong.com, Armstrong’s online destination for health, fitness, and lifestyle, announced the launch of “Dare to Share Your Story” contest on YouTube.
Contestants must upload an original video describing how they dared to make a healthy or positive change in their life or the life of someone […]

Zipit, the sponsors of the YouTube phenomena of Fred (our coverage) are attempting to place positive stories about their product and Fred on blogs, casting a long shadow over the entire Fred success story.
I get a fair amount of email from PR representatives, and often they ask for permission to send through media releases. […]

Ever wonder who’s on top when it comes to Web 2.0 services? Hitwise Intelligence has some answers.
The research company has released a list of the top 20 Web 2.0 sites based on U.S. visits in July. It used Wikipedia’s definition of a service designed “to enhance creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration […]

AIM is expanding its reach to include integration with other social-oriented services.
The options come as part of the newly launched BuddyUpdates feature for AOL’s instant messaging platform. The feature lets you link your buddy list to third-party sites including Twitter, Blogger, Flickr, del.icio.us, Mixx, StumbleUpon, and YouTube. There’s also an option to add […]

YouTube is looking to get more interactive with the newly announced acquisition of Omnisio.
Omnisio — a Silicon Valley startup that just publicly launched this past March — focuses on bringing Web 2.0-type concepts to the world of online video. It offers integrated options for sharing, adding comments directly within the video box, […]

We’ve heard of police using the Internet to try to catch robbers and vandals, but officers in the UK are now going after pranksters online.
British police have started posting inappropriate emergency calls to YouTube. The calls range from the absurd — a guy calling to complain that his wife left him only subpar salmon […]

Facebook is reaching new heights in the UK — and that means MySpace is slipping.
New analysis out from Hitwise today shows Facebook taking 45 percent of all social network traffic in the UK in June. Both Bebo — now in second place, with 25 percent — and MySpace — in third, with just under […]

Spanish microblogging service YouAre has moved into private beta after a year in development.
A lot has happened in the microblogging space in the last twelve months, but Blogs Media, the company behind YouAre has maintained a steady as she goes, get it right development approach. The private beta is planned to last anywhere between […]

Google’s turning a new eye to privacy — a topic high on many minds following its lost battle to protect YouTube users’ data this week.
The recently revamped “Privacy” section — now accesssible at the bottom of the Google homepage — takes you to a detailed listing of all of Google’s policies and procedures. You […]

Google’s getting into the game of home media networks.
The company quietly unveiled its new Google Media Server desktop gadget this week. The tool works with the Google Desktop program to find and catalog all videos, music, and photos on your computer — then stream them to any Universal Plug-n-Play devices in your home. […]

If you haven’t seen Fred yet, Fred is the HOTTEST sensation on YouTube at the moment, with his videos being watched by millions of people. If Fred were a TV show in most countries, he’d be topping the ratings (scary).
So above a dose of Fred, and below some more Fred as well. I’m not sure […]

Qbox is a new tool that lets you aggregate and play music from a variety of social networking sites like MySpace, Bebo, and YouTube. I was pretty pumped when I read a write-up about the idea over at Mashable, but then I quickly grew disappointed when I decided to try the thing out for […]

Non-HD YouTube videos are now available in selected Sony Bravia LCD HDTVs through an attached $300 video module.
Aside from YouTube, Sony is offering content from Yahoo!, AOL, Sports Illustrated, blip.tv, CondéNet’s Style.com, Men.Style.com, Epicurious and Concierge.com channels, Sony Pictures Television’s Crackle, The Minisode Network and Inside Sony Pictures channels, FEARnet, Ford Models, SingingFool and […]