BuzzMachine |
November 23rd, 2008 |
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A friend sent me a link to a Facebook group called, Don't let newspapers die. It's cure: "Help spread the word and encourage people to pick up a newspaper today!" So newspapers have become pathetic charity cases. I'd rather join a group called, Reinvent newspapers. : In the comments, the [...]
PaidContent.org |
November 10th, 2008 |
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Social media studio SpectrumDNA has acquired Revyver, a Seattle-based digital design firm. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Revyver will operate as the studio's subsidiary. SpectrumDNA was founded in 2006 by former Warner Bros. exec Jim Banister, and develops white-label and branded "enginets" (or custom websites, applications and [...]
All Facebook |
November 10th, 2008 |
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This morning, Citizen Sports Inc. announced that they have acquired Sportacular, Sport Interactiva, and FantasyBook. This is the third acquisition that we've reported on in the past week and a half. I'd expect this trend to continue as smaller startups become more strapped for cash. FantasyBook is the development company [...]
All Facebook |
November 8th, 2008 |
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Photo courtesy of Brian Solis There's been a bunch of buzz over the past 24 hours about a statement made by Mark Zuckerberg this week at the Web 2.0 Summit. As Saul Hansell wrote in the New York Times on Thursday, "I would expect that next year, people will share [...]
After a string of high-profile ad exec departures, including the loss of Kevin Johnson, President of Platforms and Services, and Digital Sales GM Lisa Utzschneider, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has made a key hire: former Time Inc. vet Robin Domeniconi. Starting January 1, Domeniconi will serve as VP of U.S. ad [...]
All Facebook |
November 7th, 2008 |
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Yesteday at Web 2.0 Summit, Mark Zuckerberg sat on stage and told John Battelle that the future of Facebook lies in advertising, when responding to the question of how Facebook is going to make money from Connect. In other words, Facebook has a future in advertising outside of their "walled [...]
A few days after announcing its purchase of a Facebook analytics company, behavioral ad targeter Adknowledge says it has bought the ad net business of online marketing services company Lookery. Terms were not disclosed. Like Adonomics, which Kansas City, MO-based Adknowledge acquired earlier this week, Lookery analyzes demographic data on [...]
All Facebook |
November 6th, 2008 |
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Facebook has moved one step closer to becoming the largest U.S. social network according to the latest data from Compete.com. Data from October shows that Facebook grew domestically by almost 4 million while MySpace continued their monthly decline, shedding over 1.58 million users, despite the launch of their highly buzzed [...]
Publishing 2.0 |
November 6th, 2008 |
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Reading Eagle has brought their journalists out from behind the curtain to share with readers what they are reading on the web - often beyond what can be found on Reading's own site. Their new link journalism feature is called, appropriately enough, What We're Reading: Each editor has a profile [...]
All Facebook |
November 4th, 2008 |
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Today is Election Day in the United States and that means that by the end of the evening (if all goes well and doesn't repeat the past few elections) we should know who the next President of the United States will be. It's a historic election and that's why there [...]
GigaOM |
November 4th, 2008 |
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Maybe Larry Ellison was right - maybe cloud computing has been so overhyped that the term now applies to pretty much anything. A perfect example: Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce event. After riding the SasS wave to a market capitalization of $3.7 billion, it seems co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff and his minions [...]
Editor |
November 4th, 2008 |
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The Obama presidential campaign has proved to be not only an example of how to run an effective campaign - but how to run an effective newsroom. Obama's focus on technology is key; by using email, Facebook, YouTube, text messages and a custom iPhone application he manages to stay in [...]
All Facebook |
November 4th, 2008 |
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When looking for the best way to make videos go viral, too many marketers just upload their videos to YouTube and cross their fingers, hoping viewers like the content enough to forward on to their friends. Some try “guerrilla” tactics by repurposing social tools like Digg or Stumbleupon, marshaling a [...]
Adknowledge, a behavioral targeter focusing on social nets, has acquired Facebook analytics firm Adonomics, AllFacebook reported (via Venturebeat). Adonomics' data will be merged into Cubics, an online ad network for social net apps which Adknowledge bought last December. Initially, the company sought to attract investors and developers interested in reselling [...]
—AOL's "Morning Rush" : AOL (NYSE: TWX) is slated to launch a new five-minute video show called "Morning Rush," which pulls highlights from five TV morning shows (including "Good Morning America" and "The Today Show"), Mediapost reports. "Morning Rush" will appear on AOL Living, where users will be able to [...]
GigaOM |
November 3rd, 2008 |
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Wink, a Mountain View, Calif., people search site is merging with Reunion, a Santa Monica, Calif., social networking site. Combining Wink's 700 million individual profiles and web-crawling capabilities and Reunion's membership of about 50 million, the new company thinks it has a head start in the social search market. But [...]
All Facebook |
October 31st, 2008 |
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Thirteen Virgin Atlantic crew members have been fired after insulting passengers on the Facebook fan page for the airline. According to the BBC, the employees were calling passengers "chavs". What is a chav exactly? I had no idea until I looked it up. According to Wikipedia: Chav, or Charv/Charva, is [...]
All Facebook |
October 31st, 2008 |
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Doug Beaver of Facebook posted an article earlier this afternoon explaining the massive amount of storage required to handle the user halloween photos. Each Halloween results in a whopping 20 percent increase of photo usage. What does that mean? Well, last year 124 million photos were uploaded over Halloween. This [...]
All Facebook |
October 30th, 2008 |
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Earlier this week Bono made headlines after photos of him partying with two 19 year old girls in St. Tropez surfaced on Facebook. The photos were taken by Andrea Feick and apparently were published to her profile. Sophos security has concluded that the reason these images surfaced was that Andrea [...]
All Facebook |
October 30th, 2008 |
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It looks like Facebook has entered a gray area when it comes to users' personal videos. According to Techdirt Facebook is issuing DMCA takedown notices to users that have copyrighted music playing in the background of their videos. That Facebook has technology to automatically check for copyrighted material in videos [...]
Glossed Over |
October 30th, 2008 |
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Hey, teens! Have no idea what you’d like to do with your life? So awkward and insecure you’ll attend your ten-year high school reunion with something to prove? Then Marie Claire’s November issue has just the thing for you! In “The Savvy Girl’s Guide to Surviving a Reunion,” the magazine [...]
