"Heckman was most recently at Fox Interactive Media; he joined Fox when his company, Scout.com, was acquired by them in 2005 for $60 million. Heckman was also the chief negotiator at Fox in their $1 billion search deal with Google. In other words, they made a heavyweight addition to the management team. Kleiner Perkins’ John Doerr supposedly recruited him personally." Join discussion...

"MySpace will be working with custom products company Zazzle to sell t-shirts and other merchandise via News Corp.'s social networking site. The rollout is supposed to be announced at the end of this month at the Digital Hollywood conference in L.A." Join discussion...

"a new regular feature for HipHipUK will be the fortnightly industry roundup, or “Fortnightly Thread”. Here I’ll collect the most interesting things I’ve seen over the past two weeks and if I have anything interesting to say (yeah right), my opinion on them. I used to do this sort of thing occasionally for Spreadshirt, but makes more sense to publish it here as HipHipUK has been a bit quiet of late. Lets begin:" Join discussion...

"Here’s an unconfirmed but well sourced rumor: silicon valley based Zazzle will be closing a second round of financing in the $30 million range, at a $300+ million pre-money valuation. The round is expected to be led by an as-yet-unnamed hedge fund. Kleiner Perkins (which led the company’s $16 million Series A round in 2005, is supposedly also particpating in the round. Look for confirmation from the company in the next couple of weeks. The company competes with CafePress and others." Join discussion...

"Many of you have noticed that we’ve put increased emphasis on ratings in the new search interface. Why? Well, we want the community to help us find and filter the best products from the zazzillions of products in the marketplace. Rating is just one extra piece of data that is used by the What’s Hot algorithm to determine what products to feature. It also means that we’re getting lots of accurate ratings from as many people as possible. Think of it as crowd-sourced merchandising!" Join discussion...