Updated: Real Time Search Engine OneRiot Raises $7 Million
Updated: OneRiot has raised $7 million in a round of funding — the latest sign that venture capitalists have high hopes for the hot real ti… Read more »
Facebook Adds Some Automatic Twitter Integration
Facebook has steadily been adding Twitter-like features to its site — and now it’s introducing a feature that can automatically cross-post… Read more »
How Do You Define Hyperlocal?
When the MSNBC acquisition of EveryBlock popped Monday, just about everyone — paidContent included — quickly added “hyperlocal” as the key… Read more »
Industry Moves: Heist Promoted to CEO at HighGear; Founder Kutscher Upped To Chairman
Nearly a year after he joined High Gear Media as COO, Matt Heist is moving up to CEO, while founder Hesky Kutscher becomes chairman of the b… Read more »
Ypulse Blog Merges With College Research Firm SurveyU
Ypulse, a youth marketing blog run by our friend Anastasia Goodstein, has merged with SurveyU, a college survey and market research firm. Ab… Read more »
Twitter's New Director Of Search Hails From Yahoo, Inktomi (Via A Wine Search Engine)
photo: Flickr / Matt Hamm
Twitter’s search engine is arguably its most important asset, and the microblogging site has quietly brought in a Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and Ink… Read more »
What A Streamlined Version Of Facebook Could Mean
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Facebook is testing an uber-streamlined version of its site that limits users to making comments, writing on other people’s walls, and looki… Read more »
URL Shortening Service Tr.im Is Back — For Now
Apparently, there was more interest in tr.im than the owners of the URL shortening service initially thought. Only two days after Nambu anno… Read more »
Facebook Buys Sharing Service FriendFeed For Reported $50 Million
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Updated: Facebook has purchased social sharing service FriendFeed — in a deal that should give it both additional technology and engineers… Read more »
Tr.im Shuts Down; Is There A Business In URL Shortening?
Updated: In the market for URL shorteners, it helps to have an “in” with Twitter. Shortening service TinyURL has seen its traffic sink since… Read more »
The Social Networking Outage: The Aftermath
photo: Flickr / Matt Hamm
Twitter is finally back up, as is Facebook — and some details are emerging about this morning’s cyber attacks:
– Some third-party Twitter… Read more »
Latest High-Profile Cyber Attack Knocks Twitter Out
Twitter went offline for at least two hours this morning due to a cyber attack, a high-profile target in what may be a wave of recent attack… Read more »
Broadcast.com Founder Wagner, Others Bet On New Social-Networking App
Now that there are so many social networks, the next challenge is helping users figure how to manage all their accounts. John Muse of levera… Read more »
StockTwits Lands Nasdaq Sponsorship; Adds Real-Time Stock Quotes
StockTwits has proved that investors are interested in talking about stocks on Twitter — and the startup has now landed a high profile endo… Read more »
When Did Mommy Bloggers Become The Devil?
With all the controversies raging around mommy bloggers and their product reviews and FTC looking into the practice (for all bloggers, not j… Read more »
To Boost Retention, Twitter Tries To Explain Itself
Over the last few months, Twitter executives have talked about improving retention rates but until now haven’t done anything obvious about i… Read more »
How Livestream Upstaged Justin.tv With Its New Video Streaming Service On Twitter
Justin.tv has learned a painful lesson this week: If you’ve got a business idea, better to be discreet about it in public until it goes live… Read more »
How Much Free Publicity Has Twitter Gotten? Report Says $48 Million Worth
It’s no secret that the media industry has become smitten with Twitter — just turn on CNN. So what’s all that free exposure worth? Forty-ei… Read more »
Another Day in Hollywood Media: Anne Thompson Goes Indie With IndieWire
Hollywood trade journalists have gone stir crazy. Sort of. With the trades Variety and Hollywood Reporter bleeding and LA Times in its own e… Read more »
Twitter Expects $140 Million In Revenue By 2010
Twitter may give the impression that it’s in no rush to make money, but the company certainly seems confident that it will start bringing in… Read more »
paidContent Quick Hits: 7.13.09
» Facing pressure from Facebook, MySpace plans to turn itself into an entertainment-information portal. [WSJ]
» Tribu… Read more »
Confirmed: O2 Restores Twitter UK SMS Service
On March 2, we were first to report that O2 was the first UK network to strike a deal to reinstate free inbound SMS service in the country.… Read more »
Industry Moves: Twitter Hires Google Lawyer As General Counsel
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The latest established executive to fall for Twitter’s luster: Google’s Alexander Macgillivray, who is joining the company as general counse… Read more »
Top Twitter App TweetDeck Raises “Several Million” Dollars
TweetDeck — which has seen its Twitter desktop app downloaded more than one million times — has raised “several million” dollars. London-b… Read more »
paidContent Quick Hits: 7.10.09
» Will downloading a song from a game like Rock Band be soon a ticket to number one song status? [MCV UK]
» Pay VOD c… Read more »
CoTweet Raises $1.1 Million To Manage Corporate Twitter Accounts
CoTweet, a startup whose software is behind many high-profile corporate Twitter accounts, has raised $1.1 million in a first round of fundin… Read more »
Technorati Seeks Some Twitter Juice, Launching Twittorati
Apparently, Technorati is still going. The seven-year-old blog index site once threatened to be to the web’s nascent conversational search p… Read more »
TalkingPointsMemo Gets Funding From Andreessen, Others
Left-of-center political news blog TalkingPointsMemo has received its first outside money, from Marc Andreessen and other angel investors, a… Read more »
paidContent Quick Hits: 7.06.09
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» Welcome Disney-ABC’s first entry into the Hulu Universe… Grey’s Anatomy! [Broadcasting and Cable]
» How Federated… Read more »
Twitter Accidentally Disables Accounts
To add to the legend of Twitter’s service problems: The day the microblogging site accidentally suspended some users’ accounts. After multip… Read more »
mocoNews Quick Hits: 7.02.09
» Dada cutting staff in U.S. a day after announcing an acquisition. It is merging Dad.net with Dada Entertainment. [Billboard]
&… Read more »
‘Newspaper Club’ Aims Custom Newsletter Publishing At Community Groups
The notion of personalised, print-on-demand newspapers is still firmly on the drawing board at the popular publishers. But one little startu… Read more »
Microsoft’s Bing Starts Indexing Some Tweets In Real-Time
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) said Wednesday that its relaunched Bing search engine would begin to index some Tweets in real-time — becoming the f… Read more »
ODing on Gadgets: Engadget and Gizmodo Founders Launch Social Net Gdgt
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Update: And lo behold: with 30 minutes of launching, the fanboys brought down the site. It is unreachable as of 11:30 AM PST. Delicious iron… Read more »
paidContent Quick Hits: 6.30.09
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» Journalism Online, the start-up led by Steven Brill (pictured) Gordon Crovitz and Leo Hindrey, inked a deal with ITZ Publishing… Read more »
paidContent’s Quick Hits: 6.29.09
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» Will Threshold Entertainment’s lawsuit against Midway over rights to Mortal Kombat hurt Warner Bros. Read more »
paidContent’s Quick Hits For Saturday
» With a market valuation of $419 million and $370 million in cash, is incremental innovation for the sake of it, and fighting bi… Read more »
Blog Platform Posterous Buys Social News Site Platform Slinkset
Posterous, a startup that lets people blog via e-mail, has purchased Slinkset, which makes it easier for users to set up Digg-like social ne… Read more »
Twitter Considers E-Commerce As A Possible Revenue Stream
Each month, a few additional details about Twitter’s plans to make money trickle out, although so far nothing has come from any of them. The… Read more »
Twitter Start-Up Funding, By The Numbers
New funding may be sluggish, but there’s at least one category that investors are more than happy to pour money into: Twitter-related startu… Read more »
