Looking for more information on other apps for your phone, or looking for more visual content in your Twitter feed? Twitter’s new updates to how third-party developers can create tweets has you potentially covered on both fronts. Read more »
Have you checked out Vine recently? Legendary pop artist Prince has, with his record label filing a copyright notice with Twitter regarding videos on Vine. It seems like the general public might be giving Vine a serious look. Read more »
If you’re successful enough to start companies like Twitter and Blogger and you move on to something new, it’s fair to say people will be watching the new venture. This time, Biz Stone is hinting at his latest project called Jelly. Read more »
Having grown up with a wealth of news and information at our fingertips for free, my generation of 20-somethings is heading into adulthood without much experience paying for that content. The question is, will content providers ever turn us into paying customers? Read more at paidContent »
500 Startups has named a new partner and has opened an office in New York, and has plans to add a San Francisco office in the future. Read more »
Khosla Ventures’ Keith Rabois talked about startups, dealing with the press, and the Series A crunch on Wednesday in Mountain View. Here are five pieces of wisdom from the Silicon Valley investor and entrepreneur. Read more »
Y Combinator’s winter batch launched on Tuesday in Mountain View. Here are the second batch of startups we’d pick out of the day’s line-up that are worth a look. Read more »
With a smaller batch of startups this spring as compared to its demo day last summer, Y Combinator is scaling back in numbers but hopefully scaling up in quality of startups. Here are our picks for the five startups to watch from the morning’s presentations. Read more »
Ning has tried several different iterations in a bid for social success, and now the company is re-vamping as a publishing platform, joining the legions of companies that are aiming at this strategy as well. Read more »
Google+ announced Monday that it’s incorporating some photo editing and filtering features into its iOS app from the team at Snapseed, which Google acquired back in September 2012. At this point the “photo wars” seem to have died down slightly, but Google+ gets into the mix. Read more »
For companies in Silicon Valley who want to prioritize design, the real question is how to do it while also shipping engineering products to market. At Pinterest, the designers and engineers are vocal that you can, in fact, do both. Read more »
For a company like Eventbrite, which manages ticket sales and audiences for events across the world, keeping up with the constant flow of data and information is a challenge. Read more »
Life360 is focusing on locating and communicating with members of your family, and has been gaining traction as a family app despite not looking much like Facebook. The company has launched a premium version this week with additional features. Read more »
Pinterest has acquired Livestar, the social recommendation app that gave users ideas on the best content around them, adding the company’s engineering team to Pinterest’s talent. Read more »
Klout is moving to target a slightly new audience with its latest product: businesses. Klout for Business will allow corporate customers to measure their company’s influence on social media, moving Klout away from just targeting consumers. Read more »
Yahoo has acquired Jybe, the personalized recommendation app that aimed to help consumers get recomendations from friends around them, and then also move toward making purchases through the app. The acquisition shows part of Yahoo’s latest social strategy. Read more »
What does it take to move companies toward a data-driven future? EMC chief strategist and Pivotal Initiative leader Paul Maritz spoke at Strucuture:Data in New York on how to move toward the future through human leadership and strategy. Read more »
Looking for interesting companies coming out of Founder’s Den, the co-working space and entrepreneur network in San Francisco? Here are our top three picks from Tuesday’s demo day. Read more »
What might the future of Twitter as a second screen for social TV look like? A partnership with a startup called SnappyTV and Turner will give consumers access to short video replays from March Madness, and the rest of us a look at Twitter’s business model. Read more »
Twitter has teamed up with Turner Broadcasting and a startup to provide short video highlights from the NCAA March Madness games, showing again how the company is interesting in a variety of multimedia options. Read more at paidContent »
Looking for an easy way to clean up your house? Several tech startups have taken aim at the home cleaning industry, working to streamline both booking and experiences to make things easier for the consumer. Or want to clean yourself? There’s an app for that. Read more »
Twitter is giving the advertisers in its self-service beta program greater tools and flexibility as it works to improve the company’s advertising options. Users might start seeing more ads based on the accounts they follow on Twitter. Read more »
Pinterest is launching its new design to the general public, rolling out a look that it began testing back in January. The updated design features larger photos and a smaller activity feed when viewing the homepage. Read more »
Ready for some #social #disruption? Reports from the Wall Street Journal and AllThingsD indicate that Facebook is considering adopting the hashtag on its platform, which would help users organize content around particular topics and give advertisers more opportunities. Read more »
Inky is betting that changing how we interact with email is an important technology problem worth solving. CEO David Baggett explained why he thinks the company’s approach is notable. Read more »
Mourning the demise of Google Reader? Digg announced Thursday that it’s already planning a revamped reader, and will speed up production in light of Google’s announced spring cleaning. Read more »
Twitter has appointed a new CTO Adam Messinger, his Twitter bio indicates and AllThingsD first reported, showing that the company is moving forward in selecting top leadership. Read more »
Facebook announced some tweaks and updates to its Timeline on Wednesday, simplifying the layout and emphasizing content recommendations only a week after the updated news feed design made similar advances. Read more »
How are U.S. teenagers accessing the internet and using mobile devices? A new report from the Pew Research Center shows that both cell phone adoption, but specifically smartphone adoption, is growing at a rapid pace. Read more »
Users can now see how many people are pinning your photos and how many people are seeing those pins. It’s a logical next step for Pinterest in courting businesses and brands. Read more »
It’s hard to stand out in a crowd of thousands, so some companies went big with their marketing stunts. Here were some of our favorites from the weekend. Read more »
Bit.ly, the company that works to help customers understand who is clicking on their links and measure news in real time, announced Monday that the company’s CEO will be stepping down. Read more »
Stuck without a good idea, or staring at a blank computer screen? Artist Von Glitschka explained at SXSW in Austin on Monday why it’s still crucial for digital designers to pick up pencils and paper. Read more »
Is picking Twitter accounts to follow the same as picking which cable television host to trust? Journalists who’ve reported from the Middle East and relied on Twitter to receive their news say maybe. Read more »
America’s favorite data scientist talks about his new book, as well as tips for flying out of New York, why he moved recently, and how to pick a March Madness bracket. Read more »
I’ve wanted to attend SXSW for years, deeply curious about the confluence of media and technology that descends on Texas each March. In my first trip in person, here’s what I’ve learned so far (and how I’ve come to understand people who grow weary of “Southby”). Read more »
Dalton Caldwell’s SXSW panel title ended in a question mark, and he said that question mark was there for a reason: “Is there an Alternative to Ad-Supported Social Networking?” Caldwell is working with App.net to find out. Read more »
The future of workplace equality and support for people to pursue families and careers obviously matters, Anne-Marie Slaughter said at SXSW. And in many ways that future rests with men? Read more »
Facebook took a step back on Thursday in unveiling the updated News Feed, focusing on the simpler design the company has historically championed and trying to surface more interesting content through changes to the feed. Read more »
Starting at 10am PT, we’ll be live-blogging Facebook’s News Feed announcement from Menlo Park. Stay tuned for updates on how Facebook has rethought one of its most important features. Read more »
