Capital 2.0

The best intelligence sources for the digital content sector are Rafat Ali's Paidcontent and Moconews. So now and then some of the interesting information he aggregates is published in special reports.
The newest pearl in these series is The Social Media Deals Report, covering the venture capital and M&A deals in the social media sector (for the second half of 2005 and the first half of 2006) available at just $ 100. Some highlights:

VC INVESTMENTS PER CATEGORY:
Social Networking: 21 companies, total: $95.8 million, 8 undisclosed
Business Social Networking: 3 companies; total: $21 million, 1 undisclosed
Video Sharing: 14 companies; total: $60.2 million, 5 undisclosed
Photo Sharing: 8 companies; total: $68.26 million
Avatars: 6 companies; total: $52.73 million
Gaming/Role-Playing: 2 companies; total: $16 million
Personal Media/P2P Management and Sharing: 5 companies; total: $17.5 million, 2 undisclosed
Entertainment Content: 4 companies; total: $28.5 million; 1 undisclosed
Collaborative & Social Search: 4 companies; total: $7.3 million; two undisclosed
Listings/Review/Events/Recommendations: 7 companies; total: $20.7 million; 1 undisclosed
Music Related: 6 companies; total: $16.7 million; 2 undisclosed
P2P: 3; total: $11.75 million; 1 undisclosed
Citizen-Blog Journalism: 9 companies; total: $22.9 million; 5 undisclosed
RSS Tools and Services: 8 companies; total: $13.5 million; 5 undisclosed
News Personalization & Sharing: 4 companies; total: $43.3 million; 1 undisclosed
Podcasting: 4 companies; total: $14 million; 2 undisclosed
Blogs Tools & Services: 5 companies; total: $26.1 million; 1 undisclosed
Wikis: 3 companies; total: $10.15 million
China: 8 companies; total: $47.3 million; one undisclosed
Physical Media: 2 companies; total: $17 million
IM: 1 company; $3.5 million
Mobile Social Media: 13 companies; total: $67.35 million; 2 undisclosed

# OF M&A DEALS PER CATEGORY:
– Citizen-Blog Journalism: 5 deals
– Community Sites: 6 deals
– Social Networking/Dating: 15 deals
– Video Sharing: 4 deals– Music Related: 4 deals
– Gaming: 1 deal– Tagging/RSS: 3 deals
– Podcasting: 1 deal
– Listings/Review/Events/Recommendations: 4 deals
– Mobile Social Networks/Community: 3 deals
– Other Mobile Social Media Deals: 5 deals

BIGGEST M&A DEALS:
– Fox Interactive buys Intermix/MySpace: $580M
– ITV buys Friends Reunited: About $304M
– Viacom buys Xfire: $102M