An update to the general Reddit blog today indicates that the site is on track to achieve its stated goal of breaking a Guinness record for Largest Online Secret Santa Game, with a massive participation from the Reddit community since […]
Flagging soft-porn mag Playboy has seen a bit of a boost after a naked pictorial of troubled star Lindsay Lohan graced the decades-old girlie mag’s cover and pages. There was a lot of lead up to Lindsay’s skin-baring feature in the […]
While it may seem that there are a lot of Facebook status updates coming from iPhone users, Facebook for Android is beating out the somewhat buggy Apple-competition in the category of daily active users (DAU.) Facebook for iPhone is still […]
Hmm… from the files of “not sure if want” comes an innovative new KLM initiative to combine social media and seat selection. On one hand, you won’t find yourself stuck next to a totally boring person who shares none of […]
At the end of the week, Wired reported that Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) had spoken to carriers about the controversy surrounding the scope of information collected by Carrier IQ’s data analytics software. Franken was not satisfied with the answers from […]
Viacom and Ustream have entered into a partnership, giving the live streaming site exclusive rights to broadcast Viacom content on the web. The deal encompasses a few of Viacom’s networks, granting Ustream access to content from MTV, Comedy Central, VH1, […]
Concert promotions and events company Live Nation has make a purchase, snagging boutique media analytics firm BigChampagne. Acquisition of the 26-person BigChampagne has interesting implications for both companies, and CEO of the newly-purchased firm Eric Garland remarked on the possibilities […]
If someone just moved the rock, a lot of the internet is freaking out right now over the proposal of a bill known as the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)- a legislative effort that aims to protect corporate profits on […]
National content network Examiner.com, a series of sites with verticals in a vast range of markets and regions, is teaming up with CBS Local Digital Media to produce lifestyle content for the latter. Examiner sites are part of Clarity Digital Media, […]
Puppies will have to find something else to urinate on, if a dire print prediction by the USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future pans out. The center believes that in five years time, newspapers will be largely gone from the […]
One and a half century old publication The Atlantic has adapted well to the medium of web-publishing- beating out much younger titles in its transition to digital publishing- and announced earlier this week that it is adding to its web content […]
Fox News pundit turned web TV pioneer Glenn Beck is putting out a reality show for his site GBTV- following a survivalist family as they prepare themselves for the possibility of unrest and self-sufficiency in the event of societal collapse. […]
Although it’s only been around for ten months, popular dude-centric advice site Brotips got backing in the millions yesterday from Dallas Mavericks owner and general billionaire Mark Cuban. Details of the deal were not disclosed, but one of the site’s […]
It’s only a few days in to Louis CK’s DRM-free “Live at Beacon Theater” experiment, during which the comic is circumventing traditional distribution channels like Hulu and iTunes to sell the show directly to fans on a dedicated website. (Disclaimer, […]
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