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Social media doesn’t speed up the news cycle — it kills it

By May. 23, 2012, 4:59pm 3 Comments

With each passing elections season, we’re seeing more how social media is changing the political news coverage business. It’s not just sped up the news cycle, but it’s helped kill it, said Josh Marshall, editor and publisher of TalkingPointsMemo.com, at paidContent2012. Read More »

JibJab sues White Castle over social media campaign

By May. 15, 2012, 1:43pm 6 Comments

Humor site JibJab doesn’t think White Castle’s animation is very funny, and has filed a lawsuit to stop the fast food chain from using its name to promote “chicken rings” on Facebook. Read More »

Adaptly launches reach amplification ad product, raises $10.5m

By May. 9, 2012, 9:00am No Comments

Brands may put plenty of time and money behind the content they share on social networks, but only a small percentage of their intended audience may actually ever see it. New York-based startup Adaptly believes it has a solution. Read More »

The decline of social-news apps and Facebook as a gatekeeper

By May. 8, 2012, 12:29pm No Comments

The recent dramatic declines in users of some Facebook social-reading apps from newspapers like the Washington Post reinforces a lesson that media companies need to keep in mind at all times — namely, that Facebook is the information gatekeeper now, and you are just a provider. Read More »

Young women are (still) the best internet bait and 5 other lessons from ESPN’s blogger scandal

By May. 6, 2012, 9:30am No Comments

Sports media was in a lather this week over Sarah Phillips, a 22-year-old ESPN writer who blogged, tweeted and scammed her way to online infamy. Read More »

Prismatic wants to be the newspaper for a digital age

By May. 3, 2012, 5:53pm No Comments

Surrounded by an overwhelming amount of digital content, many people are looking for something that can fill the role of a digital newspaper — filtering and highlighting interesting content. Among the many startups trying to solve this problem is a San Francisco outfit called Prismatic. Read More »

Fab CEO to entrepreneurs: learn to break up with a bad idea

By Ki Mae Heussner May. 3, 2012, 3:36pm No Comments

Less than a year after its relaunch, Fab.com is nearing 4 million members. Co-founder and CEO Jason Goldberg talks about the once-social network’s reinvention, saying it’s not just an e-commerce site — it’s a movement. Read More »

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Burberry faces lawsuit for using Bogart image on Facebook timeline
By May. 2, 2012, 5:44pm No Comments

Luxury brand Burberry is in legal trouble for using an iconic image from the film Casablanca in a social media campaign to promote its trenchcoats. Read More »

The hype around video and why Facebook rules — 5 questions for Jonah Peretti
By May. 1, 2012, 12:27pm No Comments

Media people don’t like combining hard-nosed political reporting with lots of kitties. Excerpt for Jonah Peretti. Read More »

No UGC, please – but will the Olympics’ social media strategy work?
By Apr. 30, 2012, 10:53am No Comments

Organisers want to stop athletes and spectators from publishing photos, video and audio from this summer’s London Olympics, in an effort to protect Big Media rights outlay – but that doesn’t mean the Olympics doesn’t have a social media strategy… Read More »

Forget recipes, Food52 wants to crowdsource cooking itself
By Apr. 28, 2012, 4:00pm No Comments

Since its launch in 2009, Food52 has become a premier destination for community-vetted recipes online, but its founders Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs have grown even more ambitious. They want to build a crowdsourced clearinghouse of culinary knowledge that cooks can access anywhere on the Web. Read More »

Nielsen: Women more likely to visit a social networking site while watching TV
By Apr. 27, 2012, 6:04pm No Comments

The latest data from Nielsen’s State of Media: Advertising and Audiences report. Read More »

Snapguide is the first mobile app with Pinterest integration
By Apr. 25, 2012, 12:54pm No Comments

Snapguide, the three-week-old iPhone and web app that lets users create “how-to” guides with pictures and videos, is now the first mobile app to integrate with Pinterest for “seamless sharing.” Read More »

OWS protestor doesn’t own his tweets, judge rules
By Apr. 24, 2012, 9:51am 9 Comments

In a candid ruling, a New York judge said a protester can’t stop prosecutors from searching his Twitter account because he doesn’t own the tweets in the first place. Read More »

Is the Internet making us more lonely or less lonely? Yes.
By Apr. 23, 2012, 5:33pm No Comments

Some critics have raised the question of whether Facebook and Twitter are making us more lonely and disconnected from one another. But the Web and social media are just tools: They can be used to create connections or to create distance, just like any other technology. Read More »

Tech bubbles, ad revenue and Twitter — five questions with Nick Denton
By Apr. 23, 2012, 12:22pm No Comments

Gawker Media founder Nick Denton talks about whether we are in another technology bubble, what the decline of Facebook and Twitter as conversational media say about social networks, the death of advertising and whether he has any interest in selling his digital empire. Read More »

Survey: social media evidence soaring in court cases
By Apr. 19, 2012, 10:52am No Comments

Every week the media seems to offer a new account of some dumb crook who is off to the slammer because he posted about his caper on Facebook. It turns out this phenomenon may be even more widespread than we think. Read More »

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