Articles By: James Johnson

Oprah Winfrey Meeting With Industry Leaders, Hoping To Boost Oprah.com Presence

Oprah Winfrey Meeting With Industry Leaders, Hoping To Boost Oprah.com Presence

Here’s something you don’t hear everyday, Oprah Winfrey is asking other business leaders to help her boost her presence. The former queen of Talk plans to meet with various web leaders to figure out how to increase visitor numbers at […]

And Then There Were Three. Hulu Bidders Drop Out, Amazon Still Favored

And Then There Were Three. Hulu Bidders Drop Out, Amazon Still Favored

Amazon, Yahoo and Dish Network are believed to be the only three company’s left in the Hulu bidding war which will hand control of the company over to a new owner. Bids are said to be hovering in the $1.5 […]

Guardian News & Media Closes Three Supplements As ‘Digital First’ Strategy Moves Forward

Guardian News & Media Closes Three Supplements As ‘Digital First’ Strategy Moves Forward

Guardian News & Media on Monday announced that they have chosen to close three print supplements as they move forward with their “digital first” policy. The company closed G3 supplements for Media, Education and Society. The supplements will be pushed […]

Netflix Losing Starz Streaming Contract As Customer Numbers Dwindle

Netflix Losing Starz Streaming Contract As Customer Numbers Dwindle

Netflix can’t seem to get anything right these days, first the company raises the price of their streaming and DVD services, losing a decent part of their user base and now the company’s stock has fallen 9% on news that […]

#Instacane: The Day Instagram Started Mattering For Hyperlocal News

#Instacane: The Day Instagram Started Mattering For Hyperlocal News

I love Instagram, I love the ease at which photos can be uploaded, I love the sleek interface the program offers, I love that sharing and tagging photos is friendly on my iPhone, but I honestly never thought of Instagram […]

Blogger Finally Gets Much Needed Updates, Google Adds Cleaner Editor UI, Analytics Help

Blogger Finally Gets Much Needed Updates, Google Adds Cleaner Editor UI, Analytics Help

Blogger hasn’t had a major update in years and has lost much of it’s ground to the likes of WordPress, Tumblr and arguably even Twitter and now to combat those losses and to bring the program inline with Google’s new […]

Watershed Post Uses Hyperlocal Connections To Coordinate New York Relief Efforts

Watershed Post Uses Hyperlocal Connections To Coordinate New York Relief Efforts

The catskills region of upstate New York was hit hard by Hurricane Irene and in the wake of that regions misfortune hyperlocal news website Watershed Post is helping coordinate relief efforts while trying to connect stranded citizens. Watershed specifically covers the bucolic […]

Taboola’s Video Recommendation Engine Helps Company Raise $9 Million

Taboola’s Video Recommendation Engine Helps Company Raise $9 Million

Taboola has raised $9 million in additional capital investment thanks to the strength of their video recommendation engine, the new round of funding brings the company’s total take to $15 million according to CEO and founder Adam Singolda. The company […]

CNN Buys Personalized iPad News Reader Company Zite

CNN Buys Personalized iPad News Reader Company Zite

  CNN on Tuesday announced that they have purchased Zite, a personalized news reader iPad app that was created by a team of eight employees. In their press release CNN revealed that they would allow Zite to run as a “separate, […]

AOL Looking To Sell, HuffPost Deal Deemed A Failure [Rumor]

AOL Looking To Sell, HuffPost Deal Deemed A Failure [Rumor]

When AOL purchased Huffington Post for $315 million nearly six months ago the deal left many analysts scratching their heads and now it appears that AOL has realized the error of their ways, meeting with law firm Watchell, Lipton, Rozen […]

New York City Sets Up Hyperlocal Weather Reporting Website For Residents

New York City Sets Up Hyperlocal Weather Reporting Website For Residents

Officials in NYC over the weekend setup a hyperlocal website that allows users to submit damage reports from Hurricane Irene, while various not-for-profits also teamed up to offer the same type of hyperlocal effort for other parts of the East […]

Fox News Lies, Says Gawker Traffic Down 75% As Nick Denton Let’s Out Huge Yawn

Fox News Lies, Says Gawker Traffic Down 75% As Nick Denton Let’s Out Huge Yawn

Here’s news that will surprise absolutely no one, Fox News fabricated site numbers this past week, attacking the Nick Denton-owned gossip site Gawker. According to Fox the sites falling apart, losing more than 75% of their visitors over the last […]

New York Times Drops Paywall For Hurricane Irene Content

New York Times Drops Paywall For Hurricane Irene Content

The New York Times has dropped their paywall this weekend but only for stories that cover Hurricane Irene and the devastation it’s bringing to the coast. Speaking about their decision the company tweeted: “As a public service, @nytimes will allow […]

Storify Adds Slideshow View, Gives Users Embed And Share Options

Storify Adds Slideshow View, Gives Users Embed And Share Options

Story curation service Storify has announced a new platform option which allows users to easily create a slideshow by simply adding  “/slideshow” to the end of any URL within their Storify creations. After a slideshow is created users can then […]