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Slack Posts New Functionality
Slack is widely acknowledged as the enterprise real-time messaging (work chat) tool with the most traction, having passed the million daily user…
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Social news curation app Nuzzel finds backers in the media world
Though it may be short on manners and healthy discourse, the Internet is almost certainly never short on content. There is so…
Read MoreThe State of Salesforce Community Cloud
It’s the eve of Salesforce.com’s annual Dreamforce event, and I have the company and its customers on my mind. I’ll be attending…
Read MoreFlipboard swims against the tide by launching a website
While most media companies are moving from the web to focus on mobile, Flipboard is doing the opposite -- having built the app on mobile, it is now launching a web version…
Read MoreTaboola gets $117M in funding to build a Google Now for content
Taboola founder and CEO Adam Singolda started the company in 2007 to do video recommendations, and now it is one of the largest content platforms on the web -- and has just raised a $117M financing round so it can expand even further…
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RebelMouse wants to help media companies own their social graph
After leaving the Huffington Post, former CTO Paul Berry built a social-content management platform called RebelMouse to help media make their content more viral -- and now RebelMouse wants to help them build their own niche communities as well…
Read MoreSnapchat hiring journalists to become its own publisher
Not content to rely on major brands for its new media exploration section, Snapchat is also planning on making its own according…
Read MoreWhy your Spotify or Netflix for print content is probably doomed
Services like Magzter and NextIssue promise a digital version of the old-fashioned newsstand, where people can flip through the virtual pages of their favorite magazines -- but that's not the way most people consume content any more…
Read MoreWhen content becomes a virus, the viral scientists ultimately win
Emerson Spartz started creating viral content websites when he was 12, and now he runs a company that specializes in understanding how content spreads, and why -- something more media companies should pay attention to…
Read MoreBuzzFeed says social rules and it is bigger than most TV networks
According to a recent presentation, BuzzFeed reaches more millennial video viewers than most of the major U.S. television networks, and it gets five times as much traffic from social as it does from search…
Read MoreSlashdot founder Rob Malda on Trove and fixing the problem with Twitter
Trove, the content-recommendation platform that the Graham family held onto when they sold the Washington Post, is trying to build something that combines the best qualities of Twitter, Facebook and RSS. But will anyone use it?…
Read MoreDon’t be fooled by Facebook’s latest newsfeed update: It’s still the one in control
Facebook's latest newsfeed features give you the illusion of agency. But the company is just placating you.…
Read MoreSo Facebook controls the way millions of people get their news. What should we do about it?
Facebook exerts a huge amount of control over how millions of people get their news, and media companies are right to be nervous about this state of affairs -- so what should they do about it? One response would be to give readers what Facebook can't…
Read MoreWhy Microsoft is basically stealing Minecraft by buying it for only $2.5 billion
Some might wonder why Microsoft would pay $2.5 billion for a game with low-res graphics and no real plot-line -- but the reality is that Minecraft is far more of an open platform for creativity than it is a simple game, and is likely worth much more than $2.5B…
Read MoreAs the profits roll in, LinkedIn imitates Twitter with a new user follow button
LinkedIn has introduced a Twitter-like feature for all users: A follow button. It brings professional networking platform one step closer to the "media" side of its "social media" mandate.…
Read MoreUK ISPs to alert customers suspected of unlawfully downloading copyrighted material
Suspected "pirates" will get told they've been spotted -- but that's it. This appears to be little more than a consumer awareness campaign, with no threatened disconnections.…
Read MoreFacebook’s product guy is right, the media sucks — but journalists are also right: Facebook has to share the blame
Facebook's director of product Mike Hudack posted a rant about the inadequacies of the media -- including some new-media sites like Vox -- and their focus on click-bait content, but many argued that Facebook itself helps promote that type of content. So who is right?…
Read MoreIf a high-quality site like Metafilter can be crushed by Google, what hope do other sites have?
Metafilter, a pioneering online community, has been forced to lay off almost half of its moderation staff and is on financial life support after its traffic from Google suddenly declined by 40 percent. The reasons for the drop -- as with most things involving Google -- remain a mystery…
Read MoreChartbeat launches paid-content tools to help publishers get better at native advertising
Chartbeat CEO Tony Haile says both publishers and advertisers need help figuring out which pieces of native advertising are actually working, so the analytics company has introduced a new suite of tools to help them…
Read MoreQuartz pushes the experimental news envelope by using Dave Winer’s outliner software
Quartz, the business-news site from Atlantic Media, is experimenting with a new way of navigating the news that is powered by blog pioneer Dave Winer's outlining software called Fargo, which allows readers to expand and collapse individual points…
Read MoreQuantcast: Facebook leads all social media sites in mobile content discovery
Facebook's "content discovery" referrals on mobile make it a bigger third-party browser than Chrome for iOS.…
Read MoreAs the line between platform and publisher continues to blur, who wins and who loses?
The term "platishers" is a terrible one, but Jonathan Glick of Sulia has a point about the increasingly blurred lines between platforms and publishers. The real question is what the duties of those platforms are towards the users who create most of the content…
Read MoreFacebook and the race to make content go viral — meet the new boss, same as the old boss
Two charts show how dominant Facebook is when it comes driving viral traffic to content from publishers like BuzzFeed and Upworthy -- but depending on a platform like Facebook for your livelihood is just as risky as relying on Google was…
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