http://www.mitracreative.com/blog Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:55:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In its never-ending quest to deliver technical innovation, renewed behaviors and refreshed revenue streams, today Google launched a Beta version of their new "open source" Internet browser. The browser is called Google Chrome. Promises are faster browsing, integration with the open source community Google Gears and a Javascript VM. The browser will also ... http://www.mitracreative.com/blog/2008/09/google-chrome-new-browser-from-google/ Today's Contentinople announced that the video/multimedia platform, CONVIVA, received a $20M B Round funding. See the article by Contentinople writer, Ryan Lawler. According to the article, Conviva received the funding to "target broadcasters and sports leagues that want to broadcast live video on the Internet" with "a brand new and built from the ... http://www.mitracreative.com/blog/2008/08/big-news-for-conviva/ Our firm, Mitra Creative,  just launched a small but important site for Ricky Lizalde, one of the Season 4 participants on Bravo TV's celebrated Fashion Design show, "Project Runway". The site is for Ricky's new Fashion Lingerie line, LIZALDE. Ricky succeeded to progress through "Project Runway" Season 4 until late in the ... http://www.mitracreative.com/blog/2008/08/mitra-creative-launches-lizalde-design-website-ricky-lizalde-of-project-runway-season-4-bravo-tv/ Former Google employees just launched a new Search Engine--Cuil (www.cuil.com). According to a Reuters article today, Cuil, which is being launched to compete with the Search giant, "goes beyond prevailing search techniques that focus on Web links and audience traffic patterns and instead analyzes the context of each page and the concepts ... http://www.mitracreative.com/blog/2008/07/cuil-new-search-engine-by-ex-googlers/ Contentinople announced today that Yahoo! will open its search to external developers as "search-as-service". This is an important trend: opening their search code and enabling search customization. Access to tools which will support truly personalized search is revolutionary, similar to the social media phenomenon of YouTube where video content became ... http://www.mitracreative.com/blog/2008/07/yahoo-search-20/ Another negotiation between media giants -- this time, between Hollywood and a web goliath -- will further chip away at the current digital content delivery dividing lines. According to an article published in today's "New York Times", by Media reporter, Brooks Barnes, "Google is experimenting with a new method of distributing original ... http://www.mitracreative.com/blog/2008/07/family-guy-and-google-exclusive-adsense-web-distribution/ Today, a great article appeared on Light Reading's ever-intelligent, entertaining Contentinople.com, the 2007-launched "website covering the rise of the digital media industry." The article, by Contentinople contributor, Erin Barker, further demonstrates the connection between "Big Media" and Web 2.0. According to the article, "Slide, producer of the Facebook/MySpace SuperPoke application" has joined ... http://www.mitracreative.com/blog/2008/07/from-contentinople-news-bits-facebook-app-airs-on-vh1/ YOUTUBE continues to actualize the digital multimedia/video revolution that has been long-coming, and about which Mitra Creative's team has been aware for many years. Many of the current innovations in the communications applications and true socialization of video and other rich media were pioneered some two decades ago in incubation centers like ... http://www.mitracreative.com/blog/2008/06/youtube-meets-independent-film-the-revolution-continues/ It was announced today that, after three years of development, Mozilla will release Firefox 3, a refreshed version of their popular browser which has become a serious competitor to Microsoft's Internet Explorer . According to an article from Newsfactor.com by AP writer, Nedra Pickler, which was published today: "Firefox already has more than 18 ... http://www.mitracreative.com/blog/2008/06/firefox-v-internet-explorer-the-coming-of-firefox-3/ Several months of talks of an acquisition of the pioneering search engine, Yahoo!, by Microsoft ended today. On the same day, an announcement was made that Yahoo! signed a deal with the other giant, Yahoo!'s to-date rival, Google. Reports on the deal are that Google ads will now appear in certain Yahoo! Search Results. The ... http://www.mitracreative.com/blog/2008/06/big-yahoo-news/