If we told you that a former CEO of Myspace was now involved in the mail-order underwear business, would it surprise you? According to a Portfolio.com profile of the two west coast entrepreneurs responsible for MeUndies.com, which officially busts out of beta today, Mike Jones‘ Science Inc. provided seed funding for the company at the end of last year.
The main competition for MeUndies.com is Manpacks.com. However, both the lower monthly delivery price point and higher-quality source material may give this LA-Turkey based operation a waistband edge:
The underwear is made from Modal, a soft, smooth fabric made of reconstituted cellulose from the beech tree, which, unlike cotton, is designed not to shrink. “It’s a great-feeling fabric,” says [co-founder] Jonathan Shokrian. “We searched for the best factories and the best fabric.”
Create a social media strategy, launch your campaign, and track the results in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. The online event and workshop will feature speakers including The Onion‘s Baratunde Thurston (left), Facebook’s Morin Oluwole, and bitly’s Tim Devane. Register now.
AOL/Huffpost is taking a serious plunge into the video content business with their Huffington Post Streaming Network. By this summer, HPSN plans to host 12 hours of daily weekday programming. According to the New York Times, four of those twelve hours will be produced in LA. Arianna Huffington describes her vision for the new site below.
In the latest episode of Elevator Pitch, host Alan Meckler talks with entrepreneur Ella Gorgla about her startup, I-Ella, an online marketplace where users can buy, swap, sell, and borrow clothes, accessories, and shoes.
The LA Times Media Group announced the launch of the Spanish-language website Hoylosangeles.com today. The site will be the online home of LATMG’s weekend paper Hoy Los Angeles and will also post some translated stories from the LA Times.
“Local online advertising is expected to enjoy annual double-digit growth through 2014,” says Hoy Publisher and General Manager Roaldo Moran, “and Hoylosangeles.com is uniquely positioned to deliver an engaged Hispanic audience for advertisers keen to reach one of the most important marketplaces in the country.”
Political journos beware. The eXiled just announced it’s launching a media transparency project “to expose corrupt shills and corporate trolls among political journalists and bloggers in the US.”
For those unfamiliar with The eXiled, allow us to give you a brief primer–takedowns of journalists they consider hacks or co-opted in any way are the site’s specialty. Whether throwing a pie filled with horse sperm in the face of New York Times Moscow Bureau Chief Michael Wines for his shameless Putin apologism, or their recent investigation into Malcolm Gladwell‘s shilling for big tobacco, the site is as vicious and unforgiving as they come.
Writes Team eXiled:
Our computers are bulging with files on corrupt publications, bloggers and journalists, and it’s time to get it all out in the open. We’re going to launch a separate website, and a slick corporate troll tracking platform to do it. The blogosphere has a very short memory, allowing blog pundits to hide from their past shilling campaigns. But not anymore…
It just wouldn’t be Thursday if The Huffington Post didn’t announce the launch of a new section. This time the latest addition to the HuffPost lineup is Huffpost Science: “a one-stop shop for the latest scientific news and opinion, [f]rom the farthest reaches of space to the tiniest cells inside our bodies,” according to Arianna Huffington, in a lengthy personalized introduction to the site.
David Freeman, whose previous gig was at CBSNews.com, will be editing the section.
Huffington’s full ode to science and her new site posted in full after the jump.
The New York Postseems to think so. Sources tell the paper the Kardashians are working on a deal with American Media Inc., which publishes The National Enquirer, to launch a new glossy mag entirely devoted to all things Kardashian. Kim Kardashian already runs a blog devoted to news of herself. So a new mag isn’t exactly a stretch.
Normally we’d be thrilled to hear word of a potential print launch…
You know what. Fuck it. We’re still thrilled. Elated even. Seems like half the entertainment stories we read these days are about the Kardashians anyway. Maybe this new mag will suck up all the Kardashian news and free up some space for real arts and culture coverage elsewhere.
EC Hispanic Media is launching a new free Spanish-language weekly in the new year called El Punto Semanal, reports Portada. The weekly will have a circulation of 140,000 and will be distributed through EC’s distribution network for its advertorial paper El Clasificado.
El Punto Semanal also marks a departure from EC Hispanic Media’s main product line of mostly no editorial 100% classified advertising products, including its flagship publication El Clasificado (weekly, circ. 460,000). El Punto Semanal’s editorial focus will be Soft News, Education, Entertainment, Finance, Insurance, How To’s and Sports. The editorial team of El Punto Semanal is headed by Alicia Garcia , EC Hispanic Media’s Director of Content with a staff of 5 full time reporters and editors.
“Good Food” radio host Evan Kleiman just launched a new iPhone, iPad app called “Easy As Pie.” And, yes, it involves pie. Lots of pie.
Writes Kleiman of her app: “It’s no secret that I love pie, and what better time of year to express that love than the holidays? Appetites’ breaks down each step of the recipe into a short video clip from my own point of view in the kitchen. No guesswork and no fear. Just cook along with me to make delicious pies!”
The app will set you back $4.99 and it includes a recipe for apple butternut squash pie with bacon. Which, to this Jew, sounds absolutely sacrilicious.
In the latest episode of Elevator Pitch, host Alan Meckler talks with Kogeto founder and CEO Jeff Glasse about the Dot, his company’s panoramic video iPhone attachment, which was built with funding from Kickstarter.
If we told you that a former CEO of Myspace was now involved in the mail-order underwear business, would it surprise you? According to a Portfolio.com profile of the two west coast entrepreneurs responsible for MeUndies.com, which officially busts out of beta today, Mike Jones‘ Science Inc. provided seed funding for the company at the end of last year.
Create a social media strategy, launch your campaign, and track the results in our 
The LA Times Media Group announced the launch of the Spanish-language website Hoylosangeles.com today. The site will be the online home of LATMG’s weekend paper Hoy Los Angeles and will also post some translated stories from the LA Times.
Political journos beware. The eXiled just announced
It just wouldn’t be Thursday if The Huffington Post didn’t announce the launch of a new section. This time the latest addition to the HuffPost lineup is Huffpost Science: “a one-stop shop for the latest scientific news and opinion, [f]rom the farthest reaches of space to the tiniest cells inside our bodies,” according to 
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