The search for a new CEO for also-ran online video site Dailymotion has ended, as Cédric Tournay (pictured) has agreed to take the reins of the Paris-based site, the company said in an e-mailed announcement. Tournay is the former CEO of European health portal Doctissimo.

The notion of personalised, print-on-demand newspapers is still firmly on the drawing board at the popular publishers. But one little startup is hoping DIY community publishers might still be interested. Currently in beta, Newspaper Club is developing an online system to let people lay up their own news titles -…

A new network has formed to try again at creating a UK blog enterprise of any scale. BeautyAndTheDirt.com editor Krista Madden has started Handpicked Media, focusing on beauty, style, entertainment, food, art and culture.

We knew Russia’s online media were exploding; now comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) data shows the country’s internet users visit social networking sites more than anyone else in the world - an average of 6.6 hours and 1,307 pages per visitor per month. Release.

The 2004 and 2008 US elections pushed boundaries in online campaign strategy - but how well stacked are UK parties to follow America’s lead? Views shared by the red and blue slides at Activate ‘09 suggest one group’s keenness to step up - and a strategic schism between both camps…

—Independent.co.uk: INM is taking on Bluestar Mobile to overhaul its flagship mobile site, in its first client win since being bought by Germany’s YOC. Bluestar will also do marketing for the site, which will include targeted ads. The Indie says it has 240,000 mobile users now. —Nimbuzz: The social network…

—Glubble: Family-focused social network Glubble has raised $1 million (£607,000) in second round from (unidentified) European investors taking its total capital raised to date to $4 million (£2.42 million). The San Francisco-based site—founded in Amsterdam—provides with shared picture galleries and calendars and emphasises its safety benefits for young children. More…

Whether you hate it or can’t live without it, there’s no denying that Twitter has gone from early adopter craze to genuine mainstream popularity—according to the latest figures from Hitwise it was the fifth most visited social nework in the UK and the 38th most visited overall in May after…

MySpace’s cuts, announced for the U.S. last week, are spreading as expected. The company will slash its international staff by two thirds, from 450 to 150, and close at least four international offices as part of cuts that affect “all international divisions of the company.” It brings the total jobs…

Kevin Marks, who was behind many of Google’s social initiatives, has left the company—the latest in a long list of well-known employees to depart recently. At Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Marks was involved in almost all of the company’s social efforts, including Google Profiles, social networking site orkut, as well as…

When Al Gore-backed progressive, creative TV channel Current launched in 2005, the idea was to run on-air the best user-submitted videos from online. Any fans like me of the channel, which started in the UK a year later, will, over the years, have noticed Current slipping more toward a conventional…

Twitter management app Tweetdeck has ridden the wave of Twitter’s popularity to become one of the top Twitter clients, with one million downloads. The free iPhone app launched this week got more than 100,000 downloads in its first 30 hours. But its London-based founder, Iain Dodsworth, sees the company’s business…

Charging for apps may just be the wave of the future, according to Chris Wade, the brand new CEO of Shozu, whose application allows users to upload content on their phones to content sharing sites—such as Flickr and Facebook—on the internet. Though there’s been much debate about whether its only…

Veodia, the online video broadcaster, has bought ScreenToaster, a browser-based service that lets user capture web videos and audio recordings, the company told paidContent. Terms were not disclosed. Paris-based ScreenToaster launched last fall following an angel round. The three-year-old San Mateo, Calif.-based Veodia raised a $8.3 million first round last…

How much of a problem is illegal, online video downloading in developed countries? Perhaps not as much as most people think, according to a new study from research firm Futuresource Consulting. It found that just eight percent of consumers in the UK, France, Germany and the USA admit to downloading…

YouTube is being sued for €10 million (£8.3 million) by French indie label collecting society SPPF, which argues the Google-owned site is hosting 100 music videos without authorisation and despite an earlier agreement to take them down (via Billboard.biz). Nothing unusual about YouTube being sued or falling out with collecting…

It seems you can’t turn on the TV these days without being implored to share your every reaction with your Twitter followers. Tapping into the lively and ever-growing discussion that accompanies big TV events, Channel 4’s new-media investment vehicle 4iP on Thursday announced it has funded HashDash, a company that…

AOL (NYSE: TWX) People Networks president Joanna Shields, who stepped up from Bebo president in the March 2008 acquisition, is leaving the company, AllThingsD reported and we have confirmed with the company. This is CEO Tim Armstrong’s second major exec change, ex-Googler Jeff Levick having replaced Greg Coleman as Platform-A…

In the gloom of the advertising downturn, consumer social networks expect income to reverse, while subscription-focused business publishers are holding their own. Somewhere in-between, business social network Xing is chugging along quite well - Q1 revenue rose 43 percent from last year to €10.76 million, its earnings showed Thursday. That’s…