Don’t Believe Facebook, Spotify’s The Only Open Graph Music App Winning
Facebook today released some stats trying to show the success of several of the Open Graph music applications launched at f8. Most of the stats were in percentages, though, which…
Twitter Rolling Out Activity Streams That Make The Home Page A Dashboard
Twitter has begun the rollout, or at least a significant spot test, of the Activity and @USERNAME streams it announced in mid-August. The @USERNAME stream replaces the @Mentions and Retweets…
Google+ Pages Age Selector Signals End of 18+ Age Limit
Judging by the option in the new Google+ Pages age selector to limit features to those over the age of 18, users under 18 will eventually be able to join…
Twitter Names Mass Relevance, Crimson Hexagon As Curation Partners
Twitter today announced formal partnerships with Mass Relevance and Crimson Hexagon to allow the two companies to re-syndicate tweets for use on websites, television shows, jumbotrons and more. Mass Relevance…
How Google+ Could One-Up Facebook’s Brand Pages
Google today launched the first iteration of its brand Pages product for Google+. The company has some big choices to make about it will flesh out this skeleton to challenge…
iVerse Media Receives $4 Million Investment to Grow Its Comics+ App
Cross-publisher digital comics distributor iVerse Media today announced a $4 million private equity investment from PS&J Group. The money will go towards expanding marketing and product development for its iOS…
Facebook Tests Home Page Redesign That Moves Ads To The Top
If you check Facebook today for real-time updates in its Ticker feed, you may find yourself staring at ads. Some Facebook users are now seeing a redesigned version of the…
Rap Genius Plans to Explain The Meaning Of Rock, Poetry and The Bible
If rap lyrics like “Real G’s move in silence like lasagna” stump you, check out Rap Genius. The crowdsourced hip-hop lyrics explanation site will inform you that Lil Wayne is…
RootMusic Boosts BandPage Virality By Adding Like Buttons to Songs
RootMusic’s BandPage, Facebook’s most popular music app, just upgraded to HTML5 and now includes a powerful new viral channel. Using the Open Graph capabilities launched at f8, all songs within…
Videoplaza signs first Spanish deal for its video adserver
Swedish video ad server startup Videoplaza has signed a deal with Barcelona-based Grupo Godó. The first sites launching in the deal are La Vanguardia, Barcelona’s highest-circulation daily newspaper based, and…