If you are making the trip out to Las Vegas for CES 2010 (the largest electronics show in the world), Magnify will be there and would love to meet you! Steve Rosenbaum, CEO of Magnify, will be out and about as well be speaking on The Broadband Economy Panel at Digital Hollywood (part of CES) on Friday, Janauary 8th. The panel brings together a group of industry leaders to weigh in on today's biggest issues in the space and it is garenteed to be a good show. To catch up with Steve, either go see the panel or reach out to him via twitter @magnify.

Below is a group picture of the Magnify.net team taking a little break at our beach getaway (thanks to the wonders of photoshop). Anyone who can correctly identify each staff member, including a few hidden surprises, will get a Magnify gift pack shipped to them (which has an amazing amount of schwag and useful gadgets). Email Billy (at) Magnify.net with your entry.

Last night was the annual Magnify Holiday party at Magnify Head-Quarters in New York. We all had a ton of fun and wanted to thank everyone who came out to help us celebrate a great year (even those who celebrated a little too much - and you know who you are).

For this year's party we stepped it up a notch and got a fire eater/juggler, a fortune teller and some really good beer. If you weren't able to make it, there are some great pictures from the night and some awesome video (you have to watch the fire eater videos). Take a look at both the pictures and videos at the Inside Magnify channel. You can see more pictures on our Flickr page as well as the Magnus the Mascot's facebook page. 

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What does a tweeting bird, Facebook and a little orange man have in common? All are exciting ways to become more involved with the Magnify community. It is now easier than ever to connect with Magnify via Twitter and Facebook. (Don't worry, you will still be able to connect with the community via the forums and the support channels, but now you can make Magnify part of your daily social media diet.)

So stop by today and become a friend of Magnus the Mascot on Facebook to get all the latest information on his wild adventures across the world as well updates from other members of the Magnify community. We post of bunch pics up there, have some interesting conversations with community members and oh course, give away Magnify schwag.

Also make sure to follow @magnify on...

Steve will be sitting down (don't worry, he will be clothed) Wednesday, December 9, 11:30 a.m. (EST) with a couple industry heavyweights including IAB president and CEO Randall Rothenberg and Blip.tv founder Dina Kaplan for a live chat with the always entertaining Dorian Benkoil. Topics will range from "why advertising is creepy" to exciting work going on in the advertising/technology space. It's definetly worth your time!

You can register now for FREE here: http://nakedmedia1.eventbrite.com/

For more information on the show visit the official site: http://live.scribemedia.org/

About This Webcast
Live from the offices of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, the 
trade association for interactive marketing in the United States, Dorian Benkoil of Teeming Media sits down for live video discussions with IAB president and CEO Randall Rothenberg, Magnify.net CEO Steve Rosenbaum and Blip.TV co-founder and COO Dina Kaplan.

Today, we are happy to announce a new Magnify Channel Record - Susan-Boyle.com just passed 40,000 channel members! The site not only has an amazing membership, but has also peaked as the number one Magnify channel by traffic across the network (another fairly impressive record). It is an amazing feat and a real testament to the power of building community around video.

The Susan Boyle Fansite has been around since the early days of Susan Boyle's emergence as a pop super-star and continues to grow as the largest and most active Susan Boyle fansite on the web (currently at 40359 active members). Spend some time on the channel and you will catch a glipse of why Susan Boyle has the biggest selling album of the year. You will also see the most complete Susan Boyle video collection on the web - ranging from Susan's performances to hundreds videos sent in from fans around the world. This is really video curation at its best!

We want to give a special shout out to sit...

We are pleased to announce the addition of Ava Seave to the Magnify.net Board of Directors. Seave, well known as a forward thinking leader in the media industry, is a co-founder and principal of Quantum Media, a New York City based consulting firm focused on marketing and strategic planning for media, information and entertainment companies. Seave has held a number of high level positions at media companies including Scholastic, The Village Voice and Dell Publishing and will provide a valuable asset to Magnify.net.

Before founding Quantum Media with four others in 1998, Seave was a general manager at Scholastic Inc., where she directed the Trumpet Club and Scholastic Specials business units, at The Village Voice where she was responsible for all non-advertising revenue and administrative management including circulation, shipping and distribution, list sales, print and on-line syndication and consumer advertising and public relations and at TVSM, the country's largest cable listings magazine.  Seave started...

By Steve Rosenbaum, Magnify.net CEO

(Article originally appeared in the The Huffington Post)

Each year, the milestone moments remind me that things are changing fast, and digital is emerging as the new way we learn, share and engage the world around us. Now, Thanksgiving may seem like the least likely of the Digital Holidays. After all, for Christmas we've been tracking Santa on the Web for years, and e-commerce has replaced the slog to the mall for many of us. But Thanksgiving, how can that be digital? After all it's about tastes, smells, family and food -- right? Well, for those of you just discovering a Digital Thanksgiving, here's a beginners guide to going digital for the Thanksgiving Holiday.

1. The Food Unless you're one of those folk who's going to eat Thanksgiving dinner at the local diner, chances are you're going to end up cooking something. For some tha...

Magnus the friendly Magnify Mascot has resurfaced! He made an unexpected and triumphant return to the spotlight for the Web 2.0 expo in New York. (After his last trip to Madagascar, many believed he wouldn't have the energy to get back to his globetrotting ways.)

Magnus spent the last couple of days attending events, meeting new fans and visiting old friends around New York. Make sure to check out the pictures of his recent adventures and even better, the below video. It has also been announced that Magnus is looking for the next location of his World Tour adventure. If you would like to host him for a couple days, write into to Billy (at) Magnify.net for details.

Magnify.net partner The Weather Channel just unveiled The Guaranteed White Christmas video contest and it is awesome! Out of all the video contests we have run on the Magnify platform, I have got to say, this one might take the cake in the originality department...

The contest gives participants the chance to upload a video telling The Weather Channel why they have been good for goodness sake with the winner getting their house turned into a winter wonderland (for those of us from warmer locals, the thought of The Weather Channel bringing in snow machines to cover our house in snow during the holidays is what dreams are made of). The Weather Channel will also broadcast live from the winner's home and get their video in front of a huge audience. 

Beyond the grandprize, The Weather Channel will also be giving away a bunch of smaller prizes for the contest - there's some good stuff, so get those cameras ready and start shooting.

You can see the official contes...