The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday announced the launch of ‘WSJ Live’ a new offering that brings an increased amount of daily streaming news to the network. The application allows WSJ users to access free video-based content via their iPad, […]
Hey everyone, 30% of Reddit has a girlfriend! Well, maybe a boyfriend. Rapidly-growing social aggregator reddit has surveyed 30,000 of the users of the popular aggregator, releasing some of the collected demographic data in a handy CSV file. In a […]
I love optimism. Really I do, but with every press release from spanking new start-up promising all kinds of innovation I look no further than my last months bills for internet access and wireless mobile service to see how laughable […]
Video ad provider Tremor Video has taken $37 million in funding in a round led by New York-based W Capital Partners. Also included in the round were Keating Capital, Canaan, Draper Fisher Jurvetson Growth, General Catalyst, Meritech, Singapore’s EDBI, Time […]
Charging for content these days can be a hard sell unless you’re the New York Times or another equally large or respected company (Wired, WSJ) but that doesn’t mean you can’t build a paid subscriber base, you just have to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
CollegeHumor, a site mostly known for their crass but funny videos and images, has teamed up with the slightly more serious Citelighter in a joint effort to cross-promote their services. While CollegeHumor is an entertainment destination on the web, Citelighter […]
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 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, […]
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 […]
One of the things that makes Reddit so well-loved in its space on the social web is its unusually strong, trusting and closely-knit community- maybe a bit like the message boards that used to reign the web before social media […]
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