Digital Media: Austin

iCrossing, an integrated digital marketing company, has announced plans to utilize Pluck’s SiteLife platform to integrate social media into its client’s websites.
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Speaking of Austin Ventures and Bazaarvoice, the Austin Business Journal is reporting that the social commerce company has raised more money in a series C funding round. The money will be used to expand internationally as well as locally here in Austin.
The story states that the company will be “aggressively hiring sales people, Java [...]

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So I haven’t posted in forever but thought I’d get back in the game. This particular story struck me as post worthy. The New York Times’ DealBook is reporting that Austin Ventures is partnering with former Intermix CEO Sherman Atkinson to create a new media company called Atcor Holdings.
The venture capital firm is [...]

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Fresh off his 60 Minutes interview, SXSW has announced that Mark Zuckerberg will be the keynote speaker on Sunday, March 9 at 2:00pm.  I have a feeling that there will be more people there than for Dan Rather last year.

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Paidcontent.org announced last Tuesday that Austin based, Pluck, will be integrating their SiteLife social networking platform with Facebook and OpenSocial.  Currently media sites such as Reuters and the Washington post utilize the platform to add web 2.0/social media functionality such as comments, profiles, and blogs to their pages.  Mashable has a post about how they [...]

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Today, Google and many other partners plan to unveil new APIs which allow developers to create applications that will work on any participating social networks. The project is called Open Social and all the techsters are talking about it.
Unlike Facebook, which uses its own markup language (FBML), Open Social utilizes HTML and Javascript to [...]

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Well I assume Joel has gotten busy so I am posting what he forwarded me.
eSession.com, founded by CEO Gina Fant-Saez and 5-time GRAMMY award-winning producer Kevin Killen, is an Internet-enabled, software-based system that allows musicians anywhere in the world to seamlessly collaborate with world-class musicians, producers, mixers and engineers regardless of geography, time zone [...]

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I was initially going to write about eSessions in my post about Slacker in a discussion involving music centered digital media companies here in Austin. However, that post became too long and I decided that both companies deserved a full story. This company is of particular interest because a student who just graduated from the [...]

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There are a few events coming up next week that I wanted to inform people of. The first one is the fall kickoff meeting for the Austin Social Media Club. The second is the inaugural meeting of the Austin Interactive Marketing Association. Both events are on Thursday August 23rd. Both events have been added to [...]

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Bazaarvoice released a press release touting 500 million product reviews served by their systems in July 2007 alone. What exactly does that mean? Well, according to the company’s website the company “develops outsourced technology, services, analytics, and expertise to encourage and harness word of mouth marketing and bring it closer to a company’s brand and [...]

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