Remember when Friendster was the hot social network, publishers doubted that ebooks would ever sell, and Netflix thought DVDs in red envelopes was the future? We do — that was that state of digital media when paidContent launched in 2002. Read more »
DataSift’s new Historics service promises to mine the Twitter archives going back two years for insights that could guide business decisions… Read more »
Is Twitter a publisher and distributor of information like a newspaper, or is it just a dumb pipe like a telephone network? Lawyers in Australia seem to believe that a case could be made that Twitter is a publisher, like a newspaper, and therefore it can be sued for defamation as a result of a single tweet. That may be a stretch — especially in the United States, which has legislation that protects online commentary from such lawsuits — but it highlights the difficulties that Twitter could have as it tries to expand around the globe and into different legal environments. Read more »
Russia’s big Mail.ru portal is trying to ape Chinese companies’ microblog boom by launching its own Twitter clone. Futubra launched in beta… Read more »
With it now certain that China’s popular Weibo (microblogging) services – prime among them being Sina’s (NASDAQ:SINA) and Tencent’s (HKG:0… Read more »
Twitter’s slick new redesign has brought it – visually and practically – closer to China’s most dynamic microblogging platform, Sina’s (… Read more »
Twitter apparently allows its clients to buy adverts using rivals’ brand names.
I noticed UK supermarket chain Sainsbury’s had bought ads o… Read more »
The world’s largest microblog service does not want to take on Twitter on its home turf. But it does want to further limit Twitter’s chance… Read more »
As of Tuesday, SB Nation no longer stands alone. The sports site, which has grown from a federation of sports blogs to a prominent network a… Read more »
The TV engagement product co-founded by ex BBC iPlayer chief Anthony Rose launched on Thursday evening to ride the booming trend in two-scre… Read more »
Social referrals are driving up online video consumption, while TV viewers are increasingly multi-tasking, according to two separate researc… Read more »
Inside Spotify, staff say their big U.S. delay left them “constipated”. Now that its American passage has been unblocked, Spotify is free to… Read more »
While surfing around Tencent Weibo today, we realized something unique about the Chinese microblogging site – it has launched an option to… Read more »
Twitter was due to roll out its first advertising for testing in the UK on Thursday, with more to come in the next few weeks, marking the ne… Read more »
Twitter is now offering its web interface in Simplified Chinese. But a two-year-old block on Twitter being accessible in China has allowed S… Read more »
Dublin- and Rome-based blog network and Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) lookalike Populis is buying its second blog network of the year. Read more »
George W. Bush’s younger brother Neil has just started microblogging – not on Twitter, nor in English, but on Sina (NSDQ: SINA) Weibo, in Ch… Read more »
The government has climbed down on plans to ban suspected rioters from using social networking websites in times of civil unrest. Read more »
Russia’s leading search engine is making a foray in the nascent market segment of socially-organised news delivery, by buying The Tweeted Ti… Read more »
The online audio-sharing market’s early darling, AudioBoo, is coming under increasing pressure from well-funded competitor SoundCloud. Read more »
Facebook and Twitter are preparing to face down UK government ministers over calls to ban people from social networks or shut their websites… Read more »
Sina’s Weibo microblogging service isn’t even available in English yet – but that hasn’t stopped it reaching 200 million users in two years,… Read more »
The UK’s Home Secretary will meet media and social media companies regarding blocking access during emergency situations, in the wake of Eng… Read more »
The operator of China’s biggest instant messaging service says its growth has slowed due to “increased scale and reduced growth rate in the… Read more »
Baidu (NSDQ: BIDU) is closing its microblogging platform, in what is a victory for Chinese portal Sina (NSDQ: SINA) in the Twitter rival sta… Read more »
“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 »
You can file this one under, “When it rains, it pours.” A UK resident who wanted to stop her subscription to BSkyB’s pay-TV service got into… Read more »
Last month’s rumour that Sina (NSDQ: SINA) Weibo, a Chinese equivalent to Twitter, will launch internationally is gaining credence.
To star… Read more »
News media this week reported next year’s London Olympics will allow athletes to tweet from the Summer Games.
In fact, that consent was con… Read more »
How do you say Facebook and Twitter in French? You don’t – at least, not if you are on radio or television, where French officials have ba… Read more »
Sina (NSDQ: SINA) Weibo, the microblogging service operated by China’s Sina portal company, is planning to launch in English in the U.S. in… Read more »
After refusing to confirm the deal rumoured over recent weeks, Twitter and TweetDeck have now announced the latter’s acquisition by the form… Read more »
Maybe people don’t want to share everything online. Blippy, a site that let users share information about their “favorite purchases” with fr… Read more »
Pressure to reveal the identities of celebrities protected by British legal injunctions has intensified after Twitter accounts began circula… Read more »
We have an answer to the tech publishing world’s version of And Then There Were None: the core team formerly known as Engadget has surfaced… Read more »
MSNBC.com, which purchased hyperlocal aggregator EveryBlock a year and a half ago, is relaunching the site as a way for neighbors to share i… Read more »
Twitter has told third-party developers straight-up what it has been implying for months: Don’t build Twitter clients. In a message on the c… Read more »
DailyBooth, a social network that lets users share photos in real-time, has raised $6 million in a first round of funding. DailyBooth users… Read more »
UberMedia, which has accumulated a portfolio of Twitter clients in recent months and is in the process of acquiring TweetDeck, has raised $1… Read more »
Some of Huffington Post’s 9,000+ bloggers have already announced that they won’t be following Arianna to AOL (NYSE: AOL) – either unhappy ab… Read more »
