KickApps Enables Mobile User-Generated Content Authoring

KickApps, a hosted social media platform, announced new, Mobile User-Generated Content (UGC) Authoring functionality for sites powered by the KickApps platform.

“By supporting mobile phone media capture we've expanded user-generated content authoring to a new and very broad community,” said Alex Blum, CEO of KickApps. “Together with today’s announcement about our collaboration with VeriSign to design and develop new multi-screen solutions that will work on the broadest set of mobile devices and networks across the world, KickApps continues to set the bar for the industry around innovative new features that further eliminate the barriers for both publishers and their communities."

One of the inaugural clients to take advantage of the Mobile UGC Authoring functionality is the Cleveland-based, CBS affiliate, 19ActionNews

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Digital Music Sales to Overtake Physical by 2011 in Western Europe

Digital music sales are forecast to overtake physical sales in Western Europe by 2011 according to a report from Sweden-based market research firm Berg Insight.

The firm expects digital sales to offset the decline in physical sales and push the European market back into growth beginning next year.

The total European music retail market value forecasted to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 6.5%, from $11.5 billion in 2007 to $15.7 billion by 2012.

"Music enabled handsets already outsell portable music devices massively," said Berg Insight telecom analyst Hanna Hallberg.

"We expect that the handset is going to become the primary portable listening device."

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