CBS Offers March Madness Cubicle Contest
CBSSports.com is encouraging cubicle dwellers to turn their lair into a basketball temple and post photos on Facebook for a March Madness co… Read more at paidContent »
How Al Jazeera wants to bring Twitter to the world
Al Jazeera has just launched a multi-lingual educational campaign about social media, with YouTube videos explaining how to use Twitter, Facebook and other online platforms. The goal is to make people more media-savvy and, in the long run, raise a new generation of citizen journalists. Read more »
Tracky wants to be your one-stop collaboration shop
If you’ve ever found yourself frustrated over the need to constantly switch between collaboration apps, Tracky wants to be your savior. The Las Vegas-based company, which just raised $1 million in angel funding, is opening its platform to the public later this month. Read more »
Yahoo's Next Strategy: There's Gold In That There E-Commerce
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New Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Scott Thompson’s upcoming turnaround may centre on mining Yahoo’s green plains for different prospects, including… Read more at paidContent »
Asian Video Games Could Sink Social Gaming Patent
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A new patent troll last week fired a shot at Facebook, Zynga and others with a lawsuit that claims rights to in-game payments — the process… Read more at paidContent »
Epix, ABC Family Launch on iOS; So What About Their Hulu, Netflix Deals?
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Say this about TV Everywhere — it’s not making the complicated world of TV video streaming any easier to figure out. On Tuesday, cable netw… Read more at paidContent »
Why Klout is making its bed with Hadoop and … Microsoft
Look under the covers of almost any data-focused web application — including Klout — and you’ll find Hadoop. It helps Klout accurately measure and score its users’ social media influence. But Klout also has another important, and very not-open-source, weapon in its arsenal — Microsoft SQL Server. Read more »
The Missed Opportunity In Cable VOD
U.S. consumers are increasing the amount of time they spend on internet video-on-demand services like Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), and cable compan… Read more at paidContent »
Time Magazine, Foursquare Partner For Political Conventions
Time Magazine is offering some special content to Foursquare users who check in at the Republican National Convention in Tampa in August or… Read more at paidContent »
Facebook TV Vote Slip-Up Earns Warning For Channel 5
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The UK’s media regulator will consider the reliability of social networks as premium-rate TV interaction mechanisms, after Britain’s first e… Read more at paidContent »
The data science is in: Romney a lock on Super Tuesday
On Super Tuesday, when 10 states hold their presidential primaries and 419 delegates are up for grabs, the election trackers at Yahoo and Fizziology have Mitt Romney as the favorite to win the day. The day might not go as well for Rick Santorum. Read more »
Pearson Cooks Up More Content Giveaways Through API Payments
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Pearson (NYSE: PSO) plans to let developers re-use more of its varied content, after its latest effort repackaged 2,500 recipes from its coo… Read more at paidContent »
Five Companies Steer All News
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Prior to the digital age, there were three companies that, acting like undersea currents, steered all news. Namely, I am referring to the bi… Read more at paidContent »
How startups can hack the PR machine
With big data and a little bit of knowhow, it could be possible for any smart startup get a truckload of national press. Read more »
Hulu Joins Trademark Battle Against Dish's 'TV Everywhere' Claim
Hulu has joined Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) Inc. and the nation’s five biggest cable service providers in a fight to stop Dish Network (NSDQ: DI… Read more at paidContent »
Twitter & Facebook share a problem: Proving social ads work
Twitter and Facebook are both trying hard to show that they are powerful advertising vehicles, in part to justify their multibillion-dollar market valuations. But while each company has shown some growth, there is still skepticism among advertisers about the ultimate value of social advertising. Read more »
Yahoo's Latest Brush With Big-Name Producer Talent: Ben Stiller
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) continues on its push for original video content and A-list talent, with a deal for a new comedy series with Ben Stiller’… Read more at paidContent »
How Andrew Breitbart Changed Digital Media
Much of the talk about Andrew Breitbart today, in the wake of his death, has focused on his politics, which people either tend to love or ha… Read more at paidContent »
Mail.ru Yanks Domestic Ads From ICQ
Mail.ru’s DST may have spent $187.5 million taking ICQ off AOL’s hands, but it’s in no rush to make a direct return on the veteran IM servic… Read more at paidContent »
Can News.me become the Instagram for news?
With its newly launched iPhone app, News.me wants to become a “purpose-built” social network for sharing — and discussing — the news. One of the big hurdles for the New York-based startup is that this is pretty much what Twitter wants to be as well. Read more »
Nielsen: Women Are Heavier DVR Users Than Men
Sure, most of us have seen statistics showing that digital video recorders are now in more than 40 percent of American homes. But how much a… Read more at paidContent »
Why Redbox Might Have To Agree To 56-Day Windows, Too
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The last year has been pretty good to Redbox. The rental kiosk chain is about to embark on a new streaming venture with Verizon, and has bee… Read more at paidContent »
Can A Fashion Blogger Make It Pay? Frockwriter Is About To Find Out
Fashion blogging has grown from a few wannabe writers looking from outside in at the industry to an influential new media category that desi… Read more at paidContent »
Karma lets you send gifts by phone to Facebook friends
A new app from the founders of Tapjoy is emerging to combine mobile and social commerce on iOS and Android devices. The app, called Karma, makes gifting to friends a breeze, by integrating with a user’s social graph on Facebook and suggesting gifts for them. Read more »
Netflix Stock Spirals As Company Enters Tricky Stretch
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After last fall’s shareholder revolt, Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) recovered somewhat in December and January. But that momentum has slowed this mon… Read more at paidContent »
Facebook Ads Firm Brighter Option Acquired By Buddy Media
With Facebook’s advertising fortunes taking off, one cog in that machine has become an M&A target. Social marketing platform operator Buddy… Read more at paidContent »
Social TV Startup Zeebox Seeks Impact With TV Campaign
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One of the nascent social TV space’s most interesting new second-screen software services will this week court mainstream users with a natio… Read more at paidContent »
Facebook: Social trumps searching for mobile apps
Finding what you want in a sea of mobile applications can be a frustrating and exhausting process. Facebook wants to remind mobile developers that it has a lot of users and that discovering new things is a huge part of the Facebook experience. Read more »
Is the honeymoon over for Facebook gaming?
By the end of 2010, about 50 percent of all Facebook monthly active users were gamers. But that fell to about 25 percent in 2011, as Facebook aggressively added new users. The result is that game makers need to work harder to find and retain users. Read more »
The Plan By Yahoo, Hulu, Other Big Video Firms To Grab Upfront TV Ad Money
Madison Avenue’s upfront ad markets are the place where TV broadcasters and cable companies sell the bulk of their billions of dollars in co… Read more at paidContent »
Say Goodbye To Blockbuster Stores
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The Blockbuster brand emerged from the ashes of bankruptcy to have an impact on the bottom line of its new owner, Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH).… Read more at paidContent »
People don’t care about scoops, they care about trust
A new survey funded by Craigslist founder Craig Newmark looked at public attitudes toward the news media and found that only a tiny fraction of those surveyed care whether a news source is the first to report something. The most important quality by far was trustworthiness. Read more »
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Facebook store flops demand a shift in emphasis
Last week, a negative Bloomberg story about Facebook storefronts described how GameStop, Gap, J.C. Penney and Nordstrom had closed their Facebook stores. That doesn’t mean retailers should give up. Instead, they should put their Facebook stores in the hands of their marketing and promotions staff and ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
The Pinfluence Of Pinterest: Magazines And More Delight In Découpage
If Pinterest is attracting heat for copying publishers’ content, perhaps it’s only fair that publishers give the same treatment to the buddi… Read more at paidContent »
Rapportive officially bought by LinkedIn
Contacts startup Rapportive has officially been acquired by LinkedIn, the company announced on its blog Wednesday. The deal follows weeks of speculation after rumors surfaced earlier this month. Rapportive will continue to support its popular Gmail plugin, but its acquisition could lead to greater integration with LinkedIn. Read more »
ThingLink targets advertisers with new Facebook embeds
Finnish startup ThingLink has been trying to find ways to encourage users to get excited about its “rich pictures.” Now it’s hoping it may hit the mother lode by helping advertisers and marketers build interactive images inside Facebook pages. Read more »
Why is Facebook addictive but enterprise social adoption a challenge?
Harvard Business Review’s Tammy Erickson ponders a puzzling question for forward-thinking businesses – while most workers have trouble turning off the likes of Facebook in their personal lives, getting the same folks on board with enterprise social is a challenge. Why is that? Read more »
Industry Moves: ooVoo; Sharethrough; Adchemy; Yahoo
Some of the latest hirings and exits in brief from the world of digital media business…
– ooVoo: The social video chat service has named… Read more at paidContent »
Glassmap is like Find My Friends but better
The latest social-local-mobile app to enter the market is Glassmap, which is like a cross-platform Find My Friends, but with more features and better battery management. The app, created by a YCombinator-backed startup, also provides better privacy, messaging and notifications than the competition. Read more »
Engagio wants to be your one-stop social inbox
Engagio, which launched on Wednesday backed by seed funding from Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures and other angel investors, pulls in comments and replies from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Tumblr and a number of other social services and sites to create a one-stop social dashboard. Read more »
