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Facebook’s Birth Certificate

by Alexis Madrigal on Jan 31, 2012 • No Comments

Facebook is widely expected to go public in the very near future with a valuation north of $75 billion. It’s a moment that tech watchers have been anticipating for half a decade and will make millionaires out of many, many early Facebook employees.

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The Latest Complaint About Google Plus: It’s ‘Breaking Search’

by Alexis Madrigal on Jan 4, 2012 • No Comments

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is a great search company. They defined how we enter the great brickyard of knowledge for most of this decade because they provided fast and clean to fresh information. But that stopped being enough when Facebook became large enough to threaten the search giant’s core advertising business. Google launched a...

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Public Media: A Wish List for 2012

by MediaShift on Dec 27, 2011 • No Comments

What's the No. 1 innovation that's needed in public media in 2012?I posed that question to the public media group on Facebook, as well as to some additional colleagues via email. The responses ranged from a focus on cultivating a culture...

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Publishers’ Social Site aNobii Relaunches To Put The ‘Book’ In ‘Facebook’

by Robert Andrews on Dec 13, 2011 • No Comments

Book-readers’ social commerce site aNobii has got the relaunch for which three book publishers invested in it back in March.

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Is There A Business Model To Support Some Of The Great New Curation Tools?

by Frederic Filloux on Dec 12, 2011 • No Comments

I love talking about the things I enjoy using. The emerging ecosystem in which a bunch of smart people curate long form journalism is definitely one of those things. The companies are called Instapaper, Longreads, Longform. I love the material they find for me and I’m in the debt of developers who...

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NBC Shuffles Prime Time Lineups; Community Takes A Break, Rock Center Moves To Wednesdays

by Nando Di Fino on Nov 15, 2011 • No Comments

If you've read Mediaite the past few days, you might have noticed a large ad for Rock Center With Brian Williams briefly darkening and then taking over your computer screen. Well, if the time and date of its airing somehow planted itself into your subconscious, it's time to shake it out. NBC announced today that,...

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@ pcE11: Where Do You Build Your Brand?

by Amanda Natividad on Nov 4, 2011 • No Comments

When it comes to marketing, some things are obvious: Twitter is important. Facebook is more important (at least so far). Holding onto those “follows” and “likes” are important. And authentic consumer relationships? Those are important too. But once you establish these generally accepted ideals, how do you use them to build your marketing strategy? Panelists...

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Some Marketers Are Blowing It With Facebook And Twitter

by Brian Solis on Nov 1, 2011 • No Comments

Companies blitzing consumers with messages on Facebook and Twitter in a frantic attempt at engagement are about to learn a tough lesson: It’s a lot easier to get people to Like and Follow you the first time than to win them back after they’ve un-Liked and un-Followed you.

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Three lessons news sites can take from the launch of The Verge

by Joshua Benton on Nov 1, 2011 • No Comments

The launch of gadget site The Verge today is one of the most anticipated in the online news space in some time. The chance to build a new platform from the ground up, with talented editorial and tech teams attached, combined with the months of buildup at the placeholder site This Is My Next, meant...

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WBUR Helps Listeners Find Better Health Care Options

by MediaShift on Oct 13, 2011 • No Comments

Martha Bebinger, a longtime reporter for WBUR in Boston, had been reporting on efforts to control health care spending in Massachusetts for years, but over the past year and a half to two years, interest in the subject intensified among li...

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Zynga Aims For ‘Hypergrowth’ As IPO Nears

by Josh Halliday on Oct 12, 2011 • No Comments

Pushing regulatory rules has become de rigeur when American internet firms prepare to go public. The infamous Playboy interview with Larry Page and Sergey Brin published during the “quiet period” before Google’s 2004 flotation, and more recently Groupon’s leaked memo spring to mind.It should be no surprise,...

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Public Media: A Wish List for 2012

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WBUR Helps Listeners Find Better Health Care Options

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