Industry Moves: Bravo Digital; Bookish; CCC; FRWD
– Bravo Digital Media Suejin Yang has been named VP of Bravo Digital Media. She’ll manage strategic development, content, operations and ne… Read more »
Five Stages Of Grief: A Cautionary But Hopeful Tale For Online Communities
The emerging local news ecosystem looks as chaotic as ever. But a few patterns are emerging in the way online community news startups develo… Read more »
paidContent Advertising Video: Everson: No Facebook Mobile Ads For Now
Facebook has had a lot of scrutiny over how it uses information about you to market to you — something that has only been heightened the in… Read more »
Sun Online Relaunch Due Soon, MySun Closing
The Sun is understood to be ready to relaunch its Sun Online website in the next few days.
It is closing its five-year-old reader community… Read more »
Is Facebook A Guardian Or Gatekeeper?
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As if to prove that Facebook’s F8 announcements were truly seismic we are still feeling the aftershocks now. Interestingly, though, it is Sp… Read more »
I Made The Wrong Choice With Facebook
Yes, the new Facebook changes have caused a typical storm of user outrage: “You’ve changed things! How dare you!”
But I think this storm is… Read more »
Pew: Mobile Is Only A “Secondary” Channel For Local News; Apps Very Niche
Pew, in its latest, ongoing research into news consumption and news creation, took a pit stop in the world of mobile today, and found that w… Read more »
How The Social Web Has Rewired The Digital World From The Ground Up
In the wake of Facebook’s F8 mega-event, with its parade of product, feature and platform announcements, I’m struck by the recent major infl… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-23-11
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» @ F8: Facebook Unveils New Class Of Social Apps And Redesigned ‘Timeline’ (paidContent)
» @ F8: Zuckerberg Wants Us… Read more »
With Update, Facebook Is Aiming To Be More Social
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Mark Zuckerberg must have something big up his sleeve for Thursday’s f8. Facebook on Tuesday night unveiled the third – and biggest – up… Read more »
The Real Reason For WSJ Social
photo: Corbis / Victor Habbick Visions
As I discussed in a previous post, The Wall Street Journal is launching their WSJ Social today which is a way for the denizens of the Facebo… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-20-11
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» What Does AOL’s Life After Access Look Like? (paidContent)
» Update: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Buys Groupon Clone And Lau… Read more »
Excite Europe Owner Buys A Blog Network To Chase Content Heft
Dublin- and Rome-based blog network and Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) lookalike Populis is buying its second blog network of the year. Read more »
Deezer Streaming Music Service Launching In UK
They may not have produced a band as big as The Beatles, and may bear some responsibility for the musical output of Claude Francois, but the… Read more »
Social Media’s Mob: Disconnected From Riots’ Reality?
The moment David Cameron uttered those troublesome words, “social media”, during Thursday’s emergency Commons debate on England’s riots, it… Read more »
What I Learned Mapping The London Riots
photo: Getty Images / Dan Istitene
“Wouldn’t it be interesting”, I thought, “if I did a little map of where the riots are?” So, at 6 o’clock or so last night, I started to put… Read more »
NYTimes.com Opens Research Project Beta620 To The Public
The NYTimes.com (NYSE: NYT) is rolling out a “new features” site beta620 to the public in a bid to solicit more involvement on the site’s fe… Read more »
Klout Adds Foursquare And YouTube; Coming Soon: Google+ And Facebook Pages
Klout score is not yet an easily recognizable metric compared to, say, one’s number of Twitter followers or Facebook friends. But the compan… Read more »
Will Businesses Really Use Foursquare’s New Self-Serve Check-In?
I will warn you on this one. I have tried to be a location-based services user but I lose interest real quickly. My erratic check-ins at res… Read more »
If Your Website’s Full Of A-Holes, It’s Your Fault
photo: Corbis / Jim Frazier
We’re twenty years in to this world wide web thing. Today, I myself celebrate twelve years of writing this blog. And yet those of us who lov… Read more »
Latino Social Net Quepasa Buys myYearbook For $100 million
Teen-focused social net myYearbook is being bought by Quepasa, the Spanish and Portuguese community site and social gaming operator, for $10… Read more »
Glam Unveils ‘Owned & Operated’ Content System, Author-Centric Community
Glam Media, the lifestyle network currently the source of speculation as a likely IPO candidate, will offer sites it works with the option o… Read more »
Specific Media Buys MySpace for $35 Million; Justin Timberlake Gets A Stake
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Online ad firm Specific Media has agreed to take MySpace off News Corp.’s hands for between $35 and $40 million, according to AllThingsD and… Read more »
Seattle Crowd Backs Mobile App Zapd In New $3.5 Million Round
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Mika Salmi described the new backers of PressPlane, the parent company of new mobile app Zapd, as a “who’s who” of Seattle in a note to me a… Read more »
Socially Awkward Google Tries Biggest Facebook Challenge Yet With Google+
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has launched yet another project geared at making its search engine a more social beast. The awkwardly titled Google+ we… Read more »
‘Chinese Facebook’ RenRen Slims Its Loss After Nasdaq Float
RenRen – “the Chinese Facebook” – expects to make $30 million revenue during the quarter in which it went public on the Nasdaq last month. Read more »
What’s Up With MySpace (And Why Isn’t Yahoo Interested)?
Is the MySpace sale saga nearing a close? News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). may finally be near the end of the painful process of finding a resolution… Read more »
Main Street Connect’s Most Ambitious Launch Yet
Hyperlocal network Main Street Connect has rolled out 32 community-based news sites in its biggest launch to date. The areas covered by the… Read more »
Huffington-ization Of AOL Continues With Daily Finance Reset
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AOL’s Daily Finance channel has been one of its most highly trafficked over the past few years, but as the integration with Huffington Post… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 5-26-11: Google Sprint NFC; Chinese Android; O2; New Fund
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: more details spill about Google’s not-so-secret mobile wallet launch today; worrying stat… Read more »
Glam Media Buys UK Moms Site For Broader ‘Family’ Vertical
Glam Media has acquired Britain’s BabyWorld community site, a purchase that’s meant to both spur the company’s growth in the “family/parenti… Read more »
AOL’s Patch Targets Primary States For Expansion
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Patch, which has continued to grow rapidly in the wake of AOL’s purchase of the Huffington Post earlier this year, is launching 33 hyperloca… Read more »
Yahoo’s Balogh Resurfaces At StumbleUpon
Ari Balogh, the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CTO and EVP of products who left the company a year ago, is joining StumbleUpon as its VP of engineering.… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 05-13-11
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» Hulu, Networks Close To New Deal (MediaMemo)
» New App Rules Cause Ripples (WSJ)
» Alibaba CEO Lu Says… Read more »
Writing Marketplace Helium Raises $10 Million More
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Writing community Helium has raised another $10 million in funding, the company tells us. Third-party publishers post writing assignments on… Read more »
Infographic: A Look At LinkedIn On Its 8th Birthday
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LinkedIn was born eight years ago today, in Reid Hoffman’s living room. While the social network now adds a million new members each week, i… Read more »
MySpace Losses Grow Despite Cuts; News Corp Buoyed By TV But Disappoints
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Despite its running costs having been cut in a recent restructure, ongoing falling advertising and search income at MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) was… Read more »
Citizen Journalism Site Allvoices Sold To Digital Marketer Datran
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Citizen journalism site Allvoices has been sold to digital marketer Datran Media. The deal seems like an an odd tie-up, considering Datran i… Read more »
News Corp.-Backed Honk.com Sold To TrueCar
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Honk.com, a News Corp.-backed startup which provides personalized recommendations to car shoppers, has been sold to TrueCar, a site which fe… Read more »
Patch Hires Brooklyn Hyperlocal Blogger Zagare To Ramp Up Engagement
AOL’s Patch network of hyperlocal blogs, which has suggested that a number of initiatives are coming to increase community engagement with i… Read more »
