A venture capitalist reader recently turned us on to a new company with a new angle on the social networking and user-generated content space, Thousand Oaks-based Kevo (www.kevo.com). Kevo is developing an online, wiki-based consumer service focused on co

I recently bumped into Seth Alsbury, founder of Los Angeles-based Panjea (www.panjea.com), an online social networking and media web site. Panjea has gotten some attention for its service, particularly the company's music and music video content. There's

Los Angeles-based Userplane has scored another win for its instant messaging and audio/video chat tools, and has signed up-and-coming social networking sites Dogster and Catster. The two sister pet destinations have rolled out Userplane's instant messagin

San Diego-based vMix, an online web community focused on video slideshows and mashups, has introduced a new instant video recording feature to the company's services. vMix said that its new vMix Capture feature allows members to instantly record video and

Los Angeles-based dating web site TeamDating reports this week that it has tied into the popular voice-over-IP service Skype, with a new feature that allows members to see Skype presence, make calls, or chat through the service. The online dating site sai

In most technology circles we talk to people now, it's inevitable that when the topic goes towards MySpace.com, there's a huge divide between people who are big fans of the huge audience and traction the social networking site has, and the many detract

Santa Monica-based ThisNext (www.thisnext.com) debuted the firm's social wisdom/blogging product yesterday, to help users on the Internet find products recommended to them by others. We have been trying to get ThisNext to talk about the startup since last

Fox Interactive Media announced yesterday afternoon that it has entered into a multi-year search technology and services agreement with Google, where Google will be the exclusive search and keyword targeted advertising sales provider for MySpace and Fox's

Social networking web site MySpace.com is courting the comedy community, in a new initiative to target the comedy world. MySpace said today that it has launched a portal, MySpace Comedy, designed to let comedians engage with fans and share their talent. T