Articles By: Kim LaCapria

Tavi Gevinson’s Much-Awaited Fashion Blog Rookie Hits

Tavi Gevinson’s Much-Awaited Fashion Blog Rookie Hits

Oh wow- if you were a dedicated Sassy Magazine fan when the mag was in production and didn’t get a bit teary-eyed perusing Tavi Gevinson’s hotly-anticipated site Rookie, your heart is totally black and not even in a cool, sort of […]

MediaTakeOut to Launch Reality Dating Web Series

MediaTakeOut to Launch Reality Dating Web Series

MediaTakeOut, the gossip site that Wikipedia describes as an entity “catering to people that are interested in drama,” has been a frequently prominent face on the gossip blogging scene for a few years now- featuring often salacious stories the site’s […]

Reddit Inc.: Popular Aggregator Spins Off From Condé Nast, to a Degree

Reddit Inc.: Popular Aggregator Spins Off From Condé Nast, to a Degree

Lots of big stuff going on at reddit lately, with announcements from the aggregator coming fast and furious in the past week or so. First it was announced the tiny team was taking on the two mods responsible for the […]

Netflix Launches in Latin American Market, Will Roll Out to 43 Countries

Netflix Launches in Latin American Market, Will Roll Out to 43 Countries

The rollout of Netflix’s popular streaming video service in several Latin American countries has begun, the company announced this week in a post on their company blog. The market expansion has been public knowledge since July, and the company inked […]

Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich Does Reddit AMA

Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich Does Reddit AMA

Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich seems to be on a bit of a social media tear lately. Not too long after starring in a viral clip humorously describing the credit crisis, Reich graced the “Ask Me Anything” subreddit, answering […]

Tumblr Growth Intensifies, Platform Nears 10 Billionth Post

Tumblr Growth Intensifies, Platform Nears 10 Billionth Post

Social blogging platform Tumblr may get less attention than more singularly-focused entities- the microblogging site Twitter, for instance, the social network Facebook, or the blogging and CMS platform WordPress- but the company’s explosive growth over the past year is likely […]

Reddit Reports Explosive Growth in Just Over a Year

Reddit Reports Explosive Growth in Just Over a Year

The admins at reddit have updated their official blog, describing to readers just how massive the site has become in the past 15 months. It may seem that reddit is everywhere- high-profile AMAs with lawmakers, possibly inspiring a massive rally […]

Oprah to Sit Down For Facebook Live-Stream

Oprah to Sit Down For Facebook Live-Stream

Media mogul Oprah Winfrey, now helming the newbie network OWN, will appear in a live-streamed video with Facebook late next week. In addition to the interview- which will take place at Facebook’s headquarters- the big O will be sitting down […]

Google, Fox News Team Up to Host Presidential Debate

Google, Fox News Team Up to Host Presidential Debate

Right here would be the place for a cheap “don’t be evil” joke, but I’ll let you fill in the blank. Google, via YouTube, is teaming up with… newschannel… Fox News to host a presidential debate for GOP candidates later […]

YouTube Launches Movie Rentals in Canada

YouTube Launches Movie Rentals in Canada

The internet’s largest video site has a movie rental service, you know- a service which is now available in Canada. (As well as the US, YouTube reminds us in a blog post.) The service expanded its library of titles in […]

‘Martha Stewart Living’ Introduces iPad Subscriptions

‘Martha Stewart Living’ Introduces iPad Subscriptions

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia- the media empire of ruler of all things domestic, Martha Stewart- is the latest print mag to hook readers in digital formats with an attractively priced subscription option for iPad users. Two of the publishers’ titles- […]

Facebook Set to Join Streaming Fray?

Facebook Set to Join Streaming Fray?

In what probably feels like the final slap in the face to basically dead social network MySpace, a report over on Mashable indicates that the dominant social network may have set its sights on joining the well populated streaming music […]

Spotify API Released For iOS, Apps Expected to Follow

Spotify API Released For iOS, Apps Expected to Follow

  In a blog post yesterday, Spotify announced that the company was making its code available to developers in order to enable the creation of an entire category of apps for Apple devices. The release of Spotify Embedded Player libspotify […]

Flickme.com Launches Streaming Service With Social Spin, Sony and Warner Bros. Content

Flickme.com Launches Streaming Service With Social Spin, Sony and Warner Bros. Content

It’s not news that the streaming market is a bit heavily populated at the moment, with companies like Netflix, Amazon, Vudu and Hulu all vying for a piece of the rapidly expanding streaming video pie. While the services boast some […]