Officials in NYC over the weekend setup a hyperlocal website that allows users to submit damage reports from Hurricane Irene, while various not-for-profits also teamed up to offer the same type of hyperlocal effort for other parts of the East […]
Here’s news that will surprise absolutely no one, Fox News fabricated site numbers this past week, attacking the Nick Denton-owned gossip site Gawker. According to Fox the sites falling apart, losing more than 75% of their visitors over the last […]
The New York Times has dropped their paywall this weekend but only for stories that cover Hurricane Irene and the devastation it’s bringing to the coast. Speaking about their decision the company tweeted: “As a public service, @nytimes will allow […]
Music identification service SoundHound has paired up with Spotify in Europe, gaining access to the music streaming service’s 15 million tracks, it was announced Thursday. Analogous to the iPhone app Shazam, SoundHound allows users to ID music by “listening” to […]
Content curation app for the iPad Flipboard has some ambitious expansion goals, in addition to preparations to jump to iPhone and iPod Touch in the near future. Flipboard is currently a newsreader app, but CEO Mike McCue confirms that the […]
Last week, buzz began circulating about a new, unconfirmed music streaming service for BlackBerry Messenger, which was believed to be an initiative to grab some of the currently white-hot mobile music streaming market. On the heels of Spotify’s impressive US […]
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 […]
The Writers Guild of America, West, has signed a contract- the first ever of its kind- covering a group of CBS web writers. The ratification was announced this week, but the contract between the trade organization and CBS writer-producers for […]
Politics and culture site Slate is laying off four writers in a round of layoffs that came after the site dropped 13% in ad revenues in the second quarter. Slate currently maintains a staff of about 50, and among the […]
Sports news site Bleacher Report has gotten a fresh infusion of cash, with an additional $22 million in funding from Oak Investment Partners made available to grow the site. The newest round of funding brings Bleacher Report’s total available cash […]
Zombie MySpace is coming back, says a new marketing director for the reforming and mostly dead social network, but this time around, the site isn’t aiming at futilely grabbing market share from Facebook. In a move the A.V. Club calls […]
When I think of New Media and new media news organizations one of the very last organizations that comes to mind in news reporting service Al Jazeera, yet they have made a decidedly big move to focus more of their […]
Facebook users in America, Europe, Australia, Canada and New Zealand will soon be able to use Facebook credits to purchase episodes of the massively popular automotive show Top Gear for streaming through the social network, it has been revealed. BBC Worldwide […]
Chalk it up to the long tail end of summer and a lot of bored people at understaffed offices on Hump Day- but one of the bigger stories relating to YouTube this afternoon and evening had to do with a […]
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