Buzzd, a location-based city guide and social network for mobile devices, announced on Thursday that it has raised an undisclosed sum of first round financing, led by Greycroft Partners and Monitor Ventures.

New York-based Buzzd offers a location-based mobile service that includes both user-generated reviews and content from partners including Citysearch, Flavorpill and Time Out New York.

The company will use the funds for product development and distribution.

Pulse 87 FM a subsidiary of Mega Media Group, Inc., (BULLETIN BOARD: MMDA) (www.megamediagroup.com) — New York’s new Rhythmic Top 40 radio station was featured on the TheStreet.com (NASDAQ:TSCM) a leading financial portal. The article and the video interview can be viewed at www.thestreet.com reported by Gary Krakow.
Commenting on the announcement, Mega Media’s CEO Alex Shvarts stated, “It is very exciting after just 6 weeks on the air to have such an amazing response and to be featured on the TheStreet.com and garner the attention not just of the radio listening audience but the business community as well.”
About Mega Media Group
Mega Media Group, Inc. is a multimedia entertainment holding company with several subsidiaries that offer a broad range of services.
The divisions include recording, music production and distribution, video production, radio broadcasting, and Pulse 87 a Rhythmic Top 40 Radio station serving the New York Tri State Area.
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Everyone knows that the Google search engine no longer wants to be a social donut.

But the first true social search engine may have already escaped the innovation machine at the Googleplex.

CNET reporter Stefanie Olsen scooped the industry on the launch of Mechanical Zoo, a stealth search engine currently in alpha with several hundred users.

Led by Nathan Stoll, former product lead of Google News, Mechanical Zoo may launch in beta as early as May, 2008. Search Engine Watch readers may remember Stoll’s Google News presentation at SES San Jose in 2005.

San Francisco-based Mech Zoo was co-founded by Max Ventilla, a former Google business development manager; and computer scientist Damon Horowitz, former lead engineer of Perspecta, a search software firm. Former Google Firefox app-security engineer Fritz Schneider, is on staff.

Ex-Yahoos joined the team, too: Winton Davies, (Yahoo Research Labs), and Bob Zoller (Yahoo 360).

Sep Kamvar, founder of search technology company Kaltix (sold to Google) is an adviser.

Mechanical Zoo is building products that enable “social search” by accessing the knowledge of people in your network. It’s not too far from the old Bebo space.

Their plan is to develop several experimental offshoots built around their core technology.

The 12-man team is looking for a few good people. So what skills would you need? AJAXy web development; rapid prototyping and development with rails; new paradigms of data availability and access (OpenSocial); distributed systems and large datasets; statistics; algorithms; NLP and machine learning; recommendation systems; usability research; online community building; and data-driven marketing.

Sounds like there’s more than a one-trick pony search engine at the Mechanical Zoo.

eWorld Companies, Inc.
(Pink Sheets: EWRC) has officially launched its eWorld Music subsidiary
with an invitation-only two-day premiere red carpet event at Hollywood's
renowned Knitting Factory. The purpose of the event was two-fold: (1) to
celebrate the launch of eWorld Music's much-talked-about entry and early
success into the online music industry, and (2) to provide a glimpse of the
company's immediate and future plans to eWorld's investors and affiliates,
independent artists, and music industry insiders.

    By all accounts, the weekend was a huge success, with a full house
turnout throughout the entire weekend. Friday night's attendees gave
rousing approvals to presentations of eWorld's technologies and innovative
online marketing system, punctuated by stellar performances from top
independent artists including Vinyl Soul, Cal Bennett, Katya, David Thiele
and Starving for Gravity. Saturday's training and educational events
allowed participants to meet and question some of the music industry's most
successful professionals and artists, and to attend panel discussions with
topics ranging from "Maximizing Your Social Network" to "The Digital
Goldmine: Making Money With Your Songs." Saturday's panels featured an
impressive list of industry notables, including Patrick Arn, president of
Gotham Records; Bernard Baur, award-winning journalist and instructor and
artist crusader at Musician's Institute; Versa Manos, Founder of the global
media firm Gorgeous Public Relations; Jean Renard, one of the industry's
most notable artist managers and marketing specialists; and eWorld Music
President Jim DeCicco. Between presentations, participants were treated to
soulful acoustic performances by Derren Raser, Jonathan Blake, Bill Reveles
and Jenny Archimede.

    ABOUT EWORLD MUSIC, INC.

    The business of music promotion and marketing continues to move to the
Internet at an accelerating pace. eWorld Music, Inc., wholly-owned
subsidiary of eWorld Companies, Inc., intends to capitalize on this trend
by utilizing the parent company's patent-pending technologies to provide a
revolutionary new online delivery platform for independent music artists
around the globe. eWorld is aligning itself with cutting edge music
companies and providing new marketing technologies and strategies that work
in tandem with eWorld's Boomerang Media Station(R) and PlayTV online
broadcast network to enable independent artists to upload their own content
and promote and market their wares in unique ways that are sustainable and
profitable to the artists. eWorld Music will also conduct a variety of
online music promotional events, stage live music events in Hollywood, CA
and in other U.S. and international locations, and sponsor an annual major
Music Awards Show, the first of which will be held in Hollywood this
November and simulcast worldwide. For more information visit
http://www.eworldmusic.org.

    ABOUT EWORLDCOMPANIES, INC.

    eWorld Companies, Inc. is an online marketing & advertising
technologies company that develops and markets cutting edge technologies
using rich media, flash, animation and 3D graphics to help individuals and
businesses market and advertise on the Internet. eWorld Companies, Inc.
markets and distributes these technologies through its wholly-owned
subsidiary eWorld Entertainment, Inc. and its International network of
Affiliates, users and strategic partners. eWorld’s unique and patented
Boomerang Media Station(R), named for its ability to return to the user’s
screen no matter what web site you visit, is a free software program that
streams rich media within the actual application and remains ever-present
as the user browses the Internet, offering the user one-click access to
limitless entertainment experiences and convenience benefits. eWorld’s
WALRUS(R) system, which is downloaded along with Boomerang, continues to
work in the background to provide assistance as the user searches, surfs or
shops the Net, suggesting relevant topics, products and services based on
the each user’s browsing and searching habits. The Company’s revenue model
consists of six major components: (1) Advertising Revenues; (2) Affiliation
Fees; (3) Affiliate Monthly Subscriptions; (4) Product Sales; (5)
Technology Licensing; and (6) International Marketing License Fees.

    For more information visit http://www.eworldcompanies.com or call (310)
471-7674.

Trampoline’s new Sonar Dashboard, which is part of its broader Sonar appliance product suite, is designed to look like popular social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace but is tailored specifically to be used internally by enterprise users. Essentially, the dashboard lets users create individual profiles complete with pictures, their declared areas of expertise, the recent projects that they’ve been working on, and the connections they have to other people within their company.

Additionally, the dashboard has a search function that allows users to search for people within their companies who have different skills and experience in particular fields. For example, if users have questions on such topics as government compliance or IT security protocols, they can search the dashboard for people in their company who have knowledge on these topics. The dashboard also provides users with references for their search results so that they can talk to other people within the company about just how knowledgeable a given employee is on a particular topic.

“The Sonar Dashboard is our way of addressing the problems of expertise location and contact finding, which are pretty much universal among all large enterprises,” says Charles Armstrong, the CEO of Trampoline Systems.

Because privacy and security are obviously paramount to any business application, says Armstrong, the Sonar constantly asks its users what information they want to make public and what information they want to keep to themselves. Thus, if three employees are working on a project that has a lot of sensitive corporate data, users can elect to not have it be part of their profile. Because the dashboard system provides automatic updates to profiles, it regularly sends e-mails to users to make certain that they want new information to be public.

“Trampoline is in a unique position in that we were founded to do social computing for the enterprise,” he says. “We knew that security and privacy and having automated updates were going to be crucial.”

Armstrong says that this initial version of the Sonar Dashboard is very simple and does not yet have advanced features such as click-to-call, which the company is interested in adding in the future. For now, though, the goal is simply to make an accessible profile system that mixes in the consumer-friendly format of Facebook with the professional slant of LinkedIn.

Earlier this month, Trampoline announced that it was offering the Sonar Flightdeck, a corporate relationship-mapping tool designed to take information from sources such as SMS, e-mails, databases, and data repositories, and provide IT managers with visual data to depict information flows and social networks within their company.