Although watching a trainwreck usually doesn’t feel good, you could be forgiven for getting a little bit of pleasure from the mass exodus from GoDaddy after the company initially threw its support behind the internet-killing Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) […]
The Huffington Post has publicly- and passive-aggressively- ceded the name for its new parenting channel, announcing to readers that it never really wanted the “Parentlode” moniker for its new vertical in the people-with-kids arena. In case you missed it, HuffPo […]
After a short fling, microblogging site Twitter and public relations firm Edelman have parted ways. AdAge reports that the official reason behind the short dalliance is management shakeups at Twitter, and a source at Edelman seems to confirm the break-up cause […]
An announcement earlier this month that the Chicago Sun-Times is joining the ever-growing number of major regional papers employing the New York Times paywall structure has been followed up by an announcement that the broadsheet is building out its web presence […]
Via Gawker comes this Christmas miracle manifested by Reddit. A Redditor turned to the site with a heart-rending request- asking the site to find his birth family for him. And- as seems to frequently be the case with the site- […]
So, Louis CK’s experiment– self-producing, distributing and selling a successful comedy special without the use of services like iTunes- seems to be a rollicking success. The latest update on the comic’s figures (and very humbly astonished reaction to such) comes […]
Veterans on Facebook may find information about their benefits easier to access as the organization expands its social media presence, most notably featuring 152 Facebook pages- one for every center in the US. A press release detailing the Department of […]
If you’ve never had to use suckiest webhost of all time- GoDaddy- it’s difficult to describe the extent to which the service blows entirely. It seems a far-below-average user experience isn’t turning users off as quickly as GoDaddy would like, […]
Although the NFL has been streaming its popular Sunday Night Football property for four seasons, the Super Bowl will live-stream for the first time (legitimately) in 2012. Each year, searches for live streams of the championship American football match increase […]
If you’ve felt a bit of a negative vibe on Twitter over the past couple of years, it’s not just in your head. A study out of Vermont finds that an analysis of tweets over the past nearly three-year long […]
Just days after New York metro-area Time Warner Cable announced it would be adding HBO Go access to its subscription services, Long Island-based Cablevision relented and also added the service. Cablevision, the fifth-largest cable provider in the US, was the […]
YouTube has released its most viewed videos of 2011, and the results will probably not entirely surprise you. One notable announcement pertains to viewing stats- according to YouTube’s blog, more than a trillion videos (1,000,000,000,000) were watched worldwide, which […]
I have to admit to being a bit unreasonable about being Facebook-defriended- if you delete me on Facebook, I will probably hold it against you for the rest of your life and you are not invited to my celebrity pizza […]
The Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) has been a specter looming over the internet as we know it for the past few weeks, as a last-minute reprieve and then expected revival just before the holidays has prompted opponents to cry […]