Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said in an interview with the Associated Press yesterday that paid apps like those found on the iPhone, Android and iPad could help financially troubled news organizations, but he didn't have anything positive to say about charging for content on the web.On the other hand, he's not optimistic about other micropayment plans wherein publications would charge ...
Craigslist's "Adult Services" section — a digital red light district that has been the subject of many controversies — has been removed in all U.S. markets. The front page link to Adult Services has been replaced with a black bar that reads "censored," an implication that the site's hand was forced by legal authorities. Adult Services has been a ...
If you fired up the ol' Twitter machine on Sunday night, you probably won't be surprised to see Jimmy Fallon's Emmy Awards nab the number one spot on this week's chart. Not only are award shows a boon for tweet riffers to begin with, but this year's Emmys saw a nice marriage of TV and social media, courtesy of the ...
If you needed any more proof that Twitter has transformed how we absorb information and communicate, look no further than Kanye West.Just a few hours ago, the superstar rapper let loose a barrage of 70+ tweets, starting with a declaration of his love for TwitterTwitter and ending with an apology to Taylor Swift. His apology refers to last year's ...
Apple announced just a few hours ago that it’s new music-centered social network Ping has surpassed 1 million users in a mere two days.
While the announcement may seem impressive, if you consider that iTunes has over 160 million accounts tied to credit cards (and certainly a lot more if you include accounts without cards), I’m honestly surprised Apple didn’t hit ...
In less than two days, Apple's Ping music social network has surpassed the 1 million user milestone.Apple introduced Ping as the centerpiece of iTunes 10 at its music event earlier this week. It is a music-centric social network where users can follow updates from both their friends and their favorite music artists. It includes custom song and album ...
Bad buzz over a faulty service can exact a price from an Internet giant. But what’s the real cost?
Google has settled with plaintiffs over the privacy concerns stirred up by its attempt at a Twitter-like social network, Buzz, to the tune of $8.5 million — only $2,500 of which will be paid out to the individual users that filed the ...
The Stratham, N.H.-based retailer is launching the global campaign, with the theme "Nature Needs Heroes," in conjunction with its new Earthkeepers collection. Made with materials like recycled rubber and recycled PET (one and a half plastic bottles are used in each pair of Earthkeepers boots), Earthkeepers product is one of the company's leading and fastest-growing product collections.
This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.Name: Sprout SocialQuick Pitch: Sprout Social delivers comprehensive tools that allow businesses to efficiently and effectively manage and grow their ...
As it adapts to changes on Facebook’s platform, Offerpal Media has named Mihir Shah as its new chief executive.
Shah replaces George Garrick, who served as CEO since last fall. Garrick will become executive chairman.
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Companies: Facebook, Offerpal, RockYou
People: George Garrick, Mihir Shah
Luis Suarez has a dream, and it's one that many of us with our overloaded inboxes could well buy in to -- a world without e-mail.In fact, it could be argued that Suarez is living the dream. In less than three years, he's been able to reduce 90% of his incoming e-mail by communicating through social software, and he ...
In today's world of real-time status updates, search is evolving to account for the social nature of the web. Facebook is pushing forward in this direction with on-site search functionality that now displays search results -- for Facebook and web content -- based on "Likes" and shares.Facebook appears to have quietly rolled out the beefed-up search offering some time over ...
This story encapsulates so many illustrative points about the rise of social media: its effectiveness as a communications platform, the rapid change in privacy expectations and online behaviors, the important role of young people in navigating these implications, the overlap (and conflict) between personal social media use and official responsibilities ... the list goes on. But above all it affirms ...
Twitter CEO Ev Williams posted a blog entry Thursday with an update on the microblogging service’s usage, which continues to grow sharply. More interesting than the numbers, though, was the message written between the lines: Twitter now has 145 million monthly users, and for the marketers who want to reach them, Twitter is the only way to go.
The numbers don’t ...
Mollie Vandor is the Product Manager for Ranker.com and Media Director for Girls in Tech LA. You can find her on Twitter and on her blog, where she writes about the web, the world and what it’s like to be a geek chic chick.Just because the economy is still depressed doesn't mean you have to be. In fact, there are ...
Apple this week launched Ping, a new social network that runs within the iTunes software.Ping takes the "activity stream" format popularized by Twitter and Facebook and applies it to the music your friends are "talking about, listening to, and downloading".In theory, this should take us beyond mainstream hits and further down the so-called "long tail" of lesser known artists. ...