Facebook has come under fire from those who say the network is turning down the volume on their posts, but the bottom line is that the network can — and will — do whatever it wants with the algorithms controlling its news feed. Read more »
Brands and publishers are well aware that they need to monitor and manage Twitter and Facebook. VidIQ, which launched today, says they’re overlooking YouTube as a critical social and data platform. Read more »
Transcriptic is a startup that’s trying to let grad students and researchers conduct their experiments over the web. The company offers a lab-as-a-service product and hopes to take some of the economics from the cloud and apply them to scientific research. Read more »
Ganxy, a New York-based startup that helps authors and publishers sell and market ebooks through a set of online tools, has added the option to sell bundles of ebooks online. Users can adjust the bundles’ prices in real time; bundles can also be gifted to others. Read more at paidContent »
Looking to find advice for your startup, but struggling with how to make contacts if you’re not located in Silicon Valley? Clarity, the app that connects individuals to give and receive advice, has raised a $1.6 million seed round to advance the conversation. Read more »
Some prominent users of Facebook such as billionaire sports-team owner Mark Cuban are complaining that the social network wants to charge them to reach their users with marketing messages — but shouldn’t it be fairly obvious that this was part of Facebook’s plan all along? Read more »
New York-based startup Ganxy, which is officially launching today at the Frankfurt Book Fair, gives authors and publishers a straightforward set of tools to let them sell ebooks and control marketing and promotions online. Read more at paidContent »
Friday marks the official launch of former ReadWriteWeb editor Marshall Kirkpatrick’s data-based discovery startup Littlebird (formerly known as Plexus Engine). The company, which aims to automate discovery and vetting of experts and influencers on any given topic, has also raised $1 million in funding. Read more »
Struggling for leverage with cable distributors as the operator of an independent network, Mark Cuban may have found a way forward for one o… Read more at paidContent »
Today independent web video producer Revision3 is claiming the position of the number one over the top network, with viewership increasing 165 percent and, as of Q4 2010, achieving “sustained profitability.” How’d they do it? A wide variety of content, diversified distribution, and maybe Mark Cuban. Read more »
According to recent Nielsen research, cord-cutting may be a “myth” — but are NewTeeVee readers myth-busters? And if they’re not cable-free, to what degree do they watch online content anyways? Those are the questions we’re hoping to answer with this weekend’s poll. Read more »
Editor’s note: Mark Cuban published a post on his blog yesterday titled The Future of TV is……TV in which he proclaimed that consumers don’t want over-the-top video, but instead want to watch cable TV and VOD on their new, shiny HDTVs. Naturally we disagreed, and couldn’t […] Read more »
Mark Cuban is always good for a rant, and one of his favorite pet peeves is Internet video. This week, he’s complaining that all those evangelists of over the top video are ignoring the way average Americans use their TV, which is for cable and VOD, […] Read more »
Billionaire sports-team owner Mark Cuban told a media industry conference in New York Tuesday that Google and other aggregators are “vampires” and that newspapers and magazines should remove themselves from Google’s index because there are no benefits to showing up in a Google search. Read more »
Mark Cuban has a nice read over at Blog Maverick that combines a bunch of different ideas we talk about a lot here at NewTeeVee: live entertainment, social TV and participatory media. It’s well worth checking out if you’re interested in any of those topics. The […] Read more »
