Posts Tagged ‘Seth MacFarlane’

First, photo-sharing service TweetPhoto got a new name, becoming Plixi in August. Now, it has a new owner — members-only social-commerce site Lockerz — and it will soon have another new name, as Lockerz said Plixi will become Lockerz Photos and the combined traffic of the two sites will total more than 31 million unique monthly users.

Plixi serves more than 1 billion photos per month, and more than 300 developers have integrated its technology, with the service receiving more than 67 million requests daily via application program interfaces.

The two companies will team up to develop new media-sharing features, including the ability for Lockerz members to share activities, photos, and videos on other social networks. They will also focus on celebrity content, as Plixi celebrity users currently include Justin Bieber, LeBron James, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, Seth MacFarlane, and Chelsea Handler.

Terms of the transaction were not revealed.

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Fortune released its 2010 40 Under 40 rankings Thursday, and technology and media are well-represented, with Andreessen Horowitz co-founder and Netscape Communications founder Marc Andreessen occupying the top spot, followed by Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and a third-place tie between Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone.

Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page tied for fifth; News Corp. chairman and CEO, Europe and Asia James Murdoch was No. 8; Univision Networks president César Conde No. 12; Aol chairman and CEO Tim Armstrong No. 18; there was a three-way tie at No. 27 between Facebook vice president of product Chris Cox, VP of engineering Mike Schroepfer, and chief technology officer Bret Taylor; foursquare co-founder and CEO Dennis Crowley was at No. 29; Slide founder Max Levchin and Vevo president and CEO Rio Caraeff tied at No. 31; Google head of location and mobile services Marissa Mayer at No. 34; Hulu CEO Jason Kilar at No. 37; and Microsoft global head of advertising Carolyn Everson at No. 39.

The 2010 40 Under 40 rankings will appear in the Nov. 1 issue of Fortune, which will be on newsstands Monday. The full list appears after the jump:

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This morning the winners of the 2009 Webby Awards were announced. In addition to winners in 72 categories, special Webbys are being presented to Jimmy Fallon as Person of the Year. Trent Reznor wins for Artist of the Year “for making his music available to fans for free.” Sarah Silverman wins for Best Actress and Family Guy‘s Seth MacFarlane wins Film & Video Person of the Year.

Other winners include The New York Times for Best Copy/Writing, Best Practices and video awards for “Pogue’s Posts” and “The Frugal Traveler: Budget Europe.” The Huffington Post wins best political site. NBC.com wins for best Variety video for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. They also won for best full episode player. And the BBC’s Website beat out Salon.com, msnbc.com’s Spectra Visual Newsreader, The Daily Beast and The Huffington Post for best News site.

The Webbys will be presented June 8 in New York City during a ceremony hosted by SNL’s Seth Meyers.

The full list (and it’s long) is here. And which media organization got the most awards? After the jump…

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