Facebook and Social Startups Meme.

Stumbleupon had done and has been doing so much to help users come across news, sites, and services over the web, generating content by giving you news that you might like based on your liking. Another service makes its way to the web scene and it’s about music.

StumbleAudio is a Social music discovery and its purpose is to help users come across new and exciting artists instead of simply playing, buying or selling the artists that are already known. And isn’t it better to lend an ear to new rhythms and artists apart from what you already love. Presently the catalog consists of a mammoth 2,000,000 tracks and more than 120,000 artists, now that’s a huge number and I thought that there are merely a few hundred.

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RadioFrame Network Inc., has recently raised $ 28 million in combined Series F equity and debt financing led by Ericsson Venture, Ignition Partners, VantagePoint Venture Partners and a new entrant, Plainfield Asset Management. Based in Redmond, Washington, USA, RadioFrame Networks Inc., is the global leading provider of complete radio access solutions for Tier 1 mobile operators and OEM partners. The company is a pioneer in initiating the concept of supplemental coverage and capacity in cellular RF.

Since 2001, the leading provider of femtocell and picocell  radio access solutions, has raised more than $100 million with a back support of some well known names in the wireless industry. It provides a complete network friendly radio access solution, so that operators can get to market quickly. Thus, it plays a pivotal role to serve and provides an integrated management capabilities.

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Digimeld; a portal that lets you deliver video programming to a large audience globally or across a selected region has raised a healthy sum in its first round of funding. The funding is worth $2 million and has been provided by various angel investors, the names of which are not specified as reported by PaidContent.

The service was founded by Alex Mashinsky, who also founded Arbinet; the same platform on which Digimeld is based on. The site also provides convenient solutions to suit the broadcasting needs and acting as a community where producers can learn and get to know preferences of their users. This can then be used to further improve programs and enhance the viewer-ship experience.

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Yahoo had attempted to make it big in the social networking scene with the launch of Yahoo 360 but things didn’t turn out to be as they had anticipated, bringing it down to a shut down. That wasn’t the last of shut downs we have seen from Yahoo and there are more to make way. However the present report is concerned with Mash.

The service is set to be choked on 29^th of September, 2008 and users having profiles on it have been requested to save any information they have on their Mash profiles. Saddening? No, I don’t think so given the microscopic number of users Mash had. The shut down wouldn’t hurt anyone in particular and even for those who did have one would over come the loss in no time given the countless alternatives (that are way much better than this).

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Google Docs, a document sharing (editing) and storing service from Google, is heard experimenting with its ‘forms’ feature. If you need to edit a form you can click on ‘view responses’ to see charts for questions with multiple choices. It also lists the first answers for freestyle questions.

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FriendFeed turned a new leaf as it recently came out with a new out-look to its GUI. Although still in beta phase, FriendFeed fanatics can check it out and experience the new look here. The main changes in affect are adding of updates which really improve the service’s social experience.

The bigger changes include bettering the photos section. Now you can post photos straight from your hard drive or via URL. Apart from this, the subscriptions and user grouping section has been updated. Now you can mass subscribe (and unsubscribe) from other FriendFeed users, unlike before where you had to select each user one at a time (which also required visiting their FF page). Also, you can now group people as favorites, personal, and professional, and you can personalize many other groupings as well.

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If you’re an avid user of Web services like Google Calendar, Twitter or Jott, Toodledo is just the right one for you. Basically, Toodledo is a task organizer, with features letting you to plug into your task list from virtually any place, including mobile phones, and start pages: Netvibes and MyYahoo, Twitter, etc. You can even access it through OS X’s Dashboard and Vista’s Sidebar.

The interface is very much user-friendly and pretty familiar I’d say. You can go about the service’s features and functions with quite a bit of ease. Cool features like Speech-to-text service Jott let you voice in and leave a do-to item. Although it’s a bit heavy on the pocket as it takes a bit of time.

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We just came across this funny video on Google Blogoscoped. It shows how Youtube would have been in 1985. Enjoy!

Ngmoco, a games publisher and creator for the iPhone raises $5.6 million in Series A funding. The funding round was supported by a premier venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), along with Maples Investments contribution.

Ngmoco is a newly incubated company that is mainly designed to develop some of the best iPhone games and focus on enhancing the entertainment experience.

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Mozilla has recently extended its search agreement with the Search Giant, Google that was going to be expired after 2 months. The deal has renewed for the second time after its first renewal in 2006.

Mozilla- Google shares a three 3 years deal, according to which Google pays $57 million to Mozilla for setting Google as the default search engine on Firefox. The wholesome amount is subjected to be 85% of the Mozilla’s total revenue. The agreement was first expired in 2006, but was extended to 2008 and now it will last till 2011.

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