LevelStock.com: Max Media Group, Inc. Announces Acquisition of Original Content and Distribution Rights

Feb 25th 2010,  Braintree,Ma. LevelStock.com is pleased to announce to all of its members and investors information on  Max Media Group, Inc. (Pink Sheets:MXMI).  The Company released news as follows:

Max Media Group, Inc. (Pink Sheets:MXMI), announced today that it has entered into and closed on an agreement to acquire original video content and future distribution rights from two video producers; RockHard Entertainment Urban Outreach Inc. (aka The Ladies Hood Journal) and Perk TV. The deal includes acquisition of original video content and online distribution, as well as license agreements for future additional content. The Company intends to use the content for the site www.babelation.com, the targeted social media news and information site the Company is in process of acquiring.

James Grady, Chairman of Max Media Group, Inc. stated, “We have set out to create a whole new way of doing business in the online sector by acquiring and partnering with social media content providers. The deal with RockHard Entertainment and Perk TV is a significant step in that direction. The Babelation website and lucrative niche market of ‘News and Information’ continues to grow. With these two producers we will easily add 300 to 500 new videos to our portfolio.”

Grady continued, “We will continue to seek additional content to acquire and content producers to partner with through equity investments.”

Perk TV content on the other hand will consist of a blend of medical and “How To” videos that have built up a vast established following on YouTube and various other distribution platforms.

Glen Perkins, Perk TV founder, stated, “Babelation is a wonderful source for compelling videos, without all of the distracting, useless, poor quality videos found on other sites. I look forward to continuing our relationship far into the future.”

RockHard Entertainment content will consist of real-life hard-hitting first person coverage of issues that affect the inner city urban community. The Company expects content covering everything from homelessness, job outlook, Art, Entertainment and Politics.

Babelation senior editor and director of business development Ted Flowers stated, “Quality content that builds strong audience participation is the driving force in the growth of online social media news markets. These acquisitions do exactly that. We will set a new precedence in the social media news and info market by acquiring and purchasing content from producers as well as partnering with social media digital content producers in ongoing continuous production of digital content. “

About Ladies Hood Journal

Ladies Hood Journal creator is a well-known urban reporter and former superstar CNN Ireporter known for her down to earth urban production style.

The digital platform is designed for The Urban Voice. The Ladies Hood Journal is a Power Blogger, “Satire Artiste’” Hometown Filmmaker, and Producer. Ladies Hood is popular on many book-marking sites such as Twitter, CNN and Digg

About Perk TV

Perk TV is a producer and editor of a large video catalog of “How To” and educational videos. From medical questions to how to make jewelry, Perk TV produces quality, informative and sometimes just funny video.

About Max Media’s, Babelation: News by You4You

Babelation.com is a Leading User-Generated News and Information distribution portal focused on the aggregation of content from authors, bloggers, expert reporters, students, news junkies and everyday people. It is “News by You4You”.

Babelation’s business model differentiates itself by including revenue sharing cash payments to content providers, who historically have submitted their content to social networks like YouTube, MySpace, Flickr and others without receiving compensation. Basically working for free.

To the contrary, Babelation pays content producers and is a pioneer in the revenue sharing content market. Babelation pays a varying monthly rate of 10 – 25% to content producers. Babelation’s portal enables the general public to create and organize their own news and information; anyone, anywhere, can upload breaking news stories by text, photo, or video, through cell phones, mobile devices, or Internet connection posted on the Babelation platform.

The Company expects is previously announced intent to acquire Babelation to be completed shortly, without any dilution to the current shareholders.

The Company currently has 75,098,804 shares issued and outstanding.

The Max Media Group, Inc. logo is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=7021

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Excision Exorcises Minneapolis Pt. I

Dark.

Grimey.

Sub-sonic bass.

You are now listening to Excision. Or, at least you were—had you been wise enough to scoop over to the Loft last Saturday night for an evening full of true mayhem; a dubstep maelstrom of cataclysmic proportion. If you weren’t in house, you missed the most genocidal dubstep/drum and bass warpath ever blazed through Minnesota, an attempt to wrest Sherman of his legend, an offensive annihilating ear drums of the party faithful, a punishing sentence of non-stop dance which by the end of the show caused one kid to completely flop to the floor (remember to drink water, kiddies).

Supreme props to TCdubstep, as usual, for bringing the BC dubstep sensei to Minneapolis. Mark the seventh of May on your calendar as Excision’s comrade-in-bass, Datsik, is set to rage the Loft. Another aural apocalypse not to be missed…

Links:

• Excision on Myspace
• Excision on Twitter
• Excision on Soundcloud

More footage of Excision to come this week, as well as footage of openers Vaski and Smilodon later this week!

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Networking, A College Graduate's Nightmare

Current college seniors, myself included, are being given the difficult task of securing post-graduate employment during the largest economic downturn since the Great Depression. Family, friends, professors, the media and online groups recommend the utilization of networking to aid in the daunting task.  However, even with our natural ability to build communities on Facebook and MySpace with our peers, reaching out to an unknown or lesser-known potential employer remains an intimidating endeavor.

Career-fairs, dinners and other networking opportunities are continuously pushed on students. Needless to say, the majority of attendees leave such events feeling as if little forward progress was made towards landing a job.  The mere exchange of contact information and no promise of job security in the future does not usually warrant a feeling of accomplishment.  The absence of a quantifiable gain from the time spent mingling is little motivation to attend another similar event.

A personal brand can be built using one, or a combination of, the many online channels.  These include, but are not limited to: Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter, FriendFeed, Delicious, Foursquare, Loopt, Flickr and the recently released Google Buzz.  With so many avenues to connect and voice a personal opinion, how do students know which resource will be most beneficial towards reaching his or her goal?

Networking used to require face-to-face interaction and the building of trust through reliability, sincerity and the test of time.  While these online tools enable students to network with potential employers, the same tools are available to allow employers to pass judgment on their applicants.  Students should be wary of the transparency created by having public profiles on various online communities.  It is just as important to have a consistent representation on each site, as it is to only post appropriate content.

While I attempt to maintain a similar user name, profile picture and demeanor on all of the online channels I participate in, I truly do not feel that reading material on the Internet can provide a potential employer with enough direction to deduct an informed judgment about me.

So, I pose a question: How do college students create meaningful relationships with our ever-expanding web of contacts?

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The MySpace LIVE stream of the ALICE IN WONDERLAND ultimate fan event!!!

The time is now, be ready to visit wonderland!!

As we said before MySpace will host the exclusive LIVE stream of Tim Burton’s ALICE IN WONDERLAND, the ultimate fan event, powered by Ustream.

To Watch the live stream just visit:

www.myspace.com/wonderland

Don`t miss the chance to be on line y one of the most epic redcarpets ever! with Tim Burton and his cast!

Good one Myspace, as usual!

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Contemporary Social Networking

Social networking is a concept that is fairly new, but is growing at a rapid pace. It appeals to people of all ages, regardless of being old or young. Examples of the most popular types of social networking devices are Twitter, FaceBook, and MySpace.

A video of the basics of social networking is as follows:

It has become so popular that social networking has expanded into political campaigns. Barack Obama was the pioneer of this as his campaign used social networking to expand his political views to people of all ages. All you had to do was click on his page, and you will be easily exposed to all of his ideals that he wanted to be posted on the website.

However, many see social networking as an invasion of privacy. Although there are privacy settings you can enact so that you are in control of who sees your site, there are ways of hacking so that you are able to see whatever you please.

Although this is a common flaw of social networking, it has made it so that it is very easy to keep in contact with old friends, family, and relatives, and is a concept that will continue to grow throughout years ahead.

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The Green Data Center Strategies of Web Giants

As ethereal as the terms “web services” and “cloud computing” sound, there’s nothing lightweight about the power and cooling required to make the Internet run. It takes data centers, plain and simple — each running 24/7 and housing thousands of servers and data storage systems – to satisfy our growing appetite to tweet all day long, watch the Olympics streamed online, and Skype our friends across the globe. If you’re thinking it’s a recipe for sky-high power bills and added greenhouse emissions, well, then you’re right. Let’s take a look at how some of the biggest web firms are handling IT infrastructure growth while bringing technology and innovative data center design principles to bear on lowering energy costs and reducing carbon emissions.

Google (s GOOG)

While the company fiercely guard its tech secrets of success, it has peeled back enough of the curtain to reveal how it tackles energy efficiency in the data center. It started with the surprise announcement that the company uses custom servers with built-in batteries, helping to eliminate energy loss caused by uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and it has become in recent months a virtual blueprint for operating a green data center.

Part of this blueprint involves “containerized” data centers. Rather than organizing server racks like rows of dominoes, servers are packed into shipping containers that are easier to cool and maintain than a large enclosed space. Other environmentally-friendly methods include air-side economizers (free cooling) and re-using or recycling 100 percent of its servers. For an extreme example of Google’s approach, look no further than its completely chiller-less facility in Belgium. During the week or so that temperatures rise above the safe zone, work is offloaded to Google’s other data centers and the servers are shut down.

Facebook

Facebook is breaking away from leased data center space as an IT growth strategy and is now building its own computing facility in Prineville, Oregon. Expected to reach completion in 2011, the new data center will rely on free-cooling, evaporative cooling and a proprietary UPS to help Facebook reach its goal of a super-low 1.15 PUE rating (the industry average hovers around the 2.0 mark).

In a novel cost saving twist, it will also recapture server waste heat and use it warm up offices when the weather turns cold. Also like Google, Facebook is pursuing custom, energy efficient servers that are specifically tailored to the computing task at hand and avoid the power-sapping overhead of industry standard servers.

MySpace

Because it is part of News Corp, it’s difficult to disentangle MySpace’s IT infrastructure from that of its parent company. But nonetheless, some intriguing details have emerged. MySpace has also invested in solid-state storage from Fusion-io, helping the company boost performance and save $120,000 in energy costs a year. It’s a move that eliminates a lot of power and cooling costs associated with running some of its hard drive-based systems — 99 percent in fact — and helped the company massively downsize its server footprint.

Yahoo (s YHOO)

Chicken coops sound as far removed from cutting-edge data centers as you can get, but Yahoo is banking on elements of this low-tech design to maximize its free-cooling potential in Lockport, NY and reach a PUE of 1.1. Situated near Buffalo, the $150 million complex will draw from the region’s hydroelectric sources to power its servers.

It’s a combo that attracted the U.S. Department of Energy’s attention and helped Yahoo capture a nice chunk of stimulus funds meant to spur advancements in data center energy efficiency (subscription required). Apart from its new build, Yahoo has emerged as a proponent of cold-air containment and containers in recent years.

Microsoft (s MSFT)

Microsoft is adding data center capacity at a brisk pace as it ramps up its Web- and cloud-based services. In Northlake, Ill. near Chicago, the software giant employs shipping containers in conjunction with a more traditional data center design and uses hot/cold air containment to lower cooling costs. In Dublin, Ireland, the site of another Live Services and Azure cloud computing center, Microsoft is using the region’s climate to forego powering up its cooling systems up to 95 percent of the time.

Related GigaOMPro Research:

Report: Green Data Center Design Strategies

Report: The Future of Data Center Storage

Facebook, Apple Building New Data Centers, But Why?

Image is an artists rendering of Facebook’s datacenter.

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New Mushen: 'Jitter Mittens'.

Head over to Yes Yes Yall to get a delicious little taste of underground beat assembler Mushen with ‘Jitter Mittens’, and if you’re picking up what he’s throwing down, head over to his Myspace to check out some more tracks or download his album Subsurface Flowers for free. If there’s even a shred of justice in this goddamn world, this won’t be the last you hear of Mushen, not by a long shot.

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