San Francisco - Online publishing and advertising firm Federated Media announced on Thursday that it has signed a deal to represent Mixx, a social media site with six million monthly unique users that offers user-recommended media and personalization tools. Federated Media represents over 100 sites and social networking applications, including Boing Boing, Mashable and Graffiti.

Mixx.com, the social news website supported by many big mainstream media brands, is in the news for releasing results that show its traffic has more than doubled in May. I was following the thread on this story this morning on Techmeme and thought I'd share some Hitwise data that may answer some of the questions being raised. Marshall Kilpatrick at Red Write Web suggests that while the growth is impressive he is surprised the site receives less than 5% of the traffic that goes to Digg. Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch points out that the growth in May came as a result of links from the bottom of all CNN.com stories.

McLean, Va. - Mixx, an online social news start-up that allows users to submit news stories, vote on their favorites and view the most popular on the site's front page, said on Wednesday that it has forged a key partnership with CNN. Under the deal, users of CNN.com will be able to add CNN headlines and articles to Mixx's platform through "add to" Mixx buttons on CNN.com story pages.

McLean, Va. - Mixx, a provider of social news aggregation services, has raised $2 million in its second round of financing from previous investor Intersouth Partners, VentureBeat reported.

Los Angeles - The Los Angeles Times Media Group (NYSE: TRB) announced on Tuesday that it has taken a small equity stake in Mixx, a social news website whose user-driven news article, photo and video rankings will be integrated at LATimes.com.

McLean, Va. - Mixx, a social media site that lets users create personalized news feeds, announced on Tuesday that it has raised an undisclosed sum in first round funding from Intersouth Partners, and plans to launch a public beta test of its service this month.