Articles By: Kim LaCapria

Reddit’s Open Call to The Community For Support in Killing SOPA

Reddit’s Open Call to The Community For Support in Killing SOPA

Today in Reddit news, the site’s official blog has been updated with an open call to its powerful community for help in defeating SOPA. Reddit has in the past affected some major action- arguably pulling off a massive march on […]

WB Hops Into Photo Sharing Game With Out My Window

WB Hops Into Photo Sharing Game With Out My Window

It looks like Warner Bros. is entering the realm of twee, ephemeral photo sharing sites like Flickr and Instagram, as Fusible has observed a pending project from the company called Out My Window. Little is known about Out My Window, […]

Ladies’ Home Journal Plans to Crowdsource Content, Mag Announces

Ladies’ Home Journal Plans to Crowdsource Content, Mag Announces

Remember Ladies’ Home Journal, the Redbook-like magazine that is generally spotted in gynecologists’ offices and other female-friendly waiting rooms? The mag has announced plans to get in on the whole crowdsourcing trend, grabbing content from message boards on the affiliated […]

US House Invites Tech Experts to Speak to Congress About SOPA Risks

US House Invites Tech Experts to Speak to Congress About SOPA Risks

One of the overwhelmingly terrifying things about the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act legislation, better known as SOPA, is that the people who seem to be backing it on a legislative level don’t really seem to understand a lot about […]

BuzzFeed Grabs $15M in Aggressive Round of Funding

BuzzFeed Grabs $15M in Aggressive Round of Funding

BuzzFeed- a viral news and content site that aggregates an impressive amount of mixed content from around the web- has raised $15 million in a round of Series C funding, poising the site for a wider reach and an even […]

Facebook Could Shill Insurance, Trend Predicting Company Forecasts

Facebook Could Shill Insurance, Trend Predicting Company Forecasts

  Well, this just sounds like a privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Could you imagine your health insurance premiums fluctuating based on how often you change your relationship status? Or perhaps your renter’s insurance or homeowner’s insurance going up after […]

Is Pinterest Signaling a Curation Trend in Social Media?

Is Pinterest Signaling a Curation Trend in Social Media?

Are you using Pinterest yet? It’s only the best thing in the history of internet everything. That could be a bit of hyperbole, but as an early user of the less-hyped and pretty much now dead Wists, and later adopter […]

Gawker’s Seth Abramovitch Fired After Kanye N-Word Post

Gawker’s Seth Abramovitch Fired After Kanye N-Word Post

After a stunningly offensive post- even for Gawker- writer Seth Abramovitch is no longer working for the blog. Earlier this week, Abramovitch was chronicling a series of late-night tweets by Kanye West, regarding the rapper’s new project, called DONDA. If you are […]

Google Manually Demoting Chrome in Its Own Rankings After Violating Its Own Rules

Google Manually Demoting Chrome in Its Own Rankings After Violating Its Own Rules

After a detailed and embarrassing expose by Search Engine Land revealing that Google ostensibly violated its own practices regarding paid links and weak content, the search engine is flagellating itself to atone for the mistakes. In an emailed statement addressing […]

SOPA’s Web Killing Powers Explained By Lawyer

SOPA’s Web Killing Powers Explained By Lawyer

The holidays put a bit of a damper on the web outrage surrounding the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act, more commonly known as SOPA, and its ugly sister PIPA, short for the Protect Intellectual Property Act. The two bits of […]

Gawker Media Loses Kotaku Editor, Shuffles Staff

Gawker Media Loses Kotaku Editor, Shuffles Staff

The new year brought in some changes at blogging empire Gawker Media, as one of the company’s most tenured editors left the site to join Vox Media, parent company of The Verge. Business Insider confirmed that Chris Grant, formerly of […]

Facebook 2012: Ron Paul Winning ‘Web Caucus’

Facebook 2012: Ron Paul Winning ‘Web Caucus’

It’s probably not news if you’ve got a substantial number of Facebook friends who dig on Ron Paul, but the engagement surrounding the GOP c-c-c-combo breaker is insanely high compared to other people and things. Something about Ron Paul gets […]

Canadian Man Shows Passport on iPad, Gets Into the US

Canadian Man Shows Passport on iPad, Gets Into the US

Flying cars, people! Okay, it’s not flying cars, but one of the greater looming catastrophes of modern life remains the threat of leaving your passport at home ahead of an international trip. (Or worse, in a hotel when trying to […]

Spotify’s Top 100 in 2011, Country by Country

Spotify’s Top 100 in 2011, Country by Country

I have to admit, I’m kind of in love with Spotify. At first, I was like, “okay, so it’s Grooveshark, but I have to open a separate app. Lame.” And then I was like, “well, it might be okay, but […]