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Google starts highlighting fact-checks in News
Today Google added a new “fact-check” tag to its popular Google News service. The site aggregates popular timely news from multiple sources and has traditionally grouped them with tags like “opinion,” “local source” and “highly cited.” Now readers can see highlighted fact-checks right next to trending stories. The company cites the growing… Read More
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It’s junior year in the elongated, two-hundred-year long college education of American media and things are getting weird. The nerds are still playing pinochle and hanging out in the library but they’re getting antsy. The cool kids are trying new things while the liberal arts majors are getting MBAs. The prankster lacrosse players are being sent to the dean. And then there are… Read More
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Study: Free Stuff Won’t Convince Bloggers To Write About Your Startup
Once upon a time a startup sent me a full gasoline can full of coffee beans. These beans, once infused by the malodorous fumes of the plastic container, were useless. The can, which was fairly small, was never used and eventually recycled. In the end, a PR company probably charged a startup $10,000 to send me and about 200 other bloggers trash. The pitch was memorable in itself but I cannot… Read More
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Refinery29 Raises $20 Million From Stripes To Build Out Mobile, Branded Content
Refinery29 had a good year in 2012, becoming one of the fastest growing media companies in America and doing $16.6 in revenue in its mission to capture the attention of the millennial woman. The women’s lifestyle website has now raised $20 million in Series C funding led by Stripes Group. Read More
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Automattic Acquires File-Sharing Service Cloudup To Build A Faster Media Library And Enable Co-Editing
Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, has acquired file-sharing service Cloudup, which launched in beta in June. The acquisition will help Automattic improve two features of WordPress.com in particular: the media library used for uploading visual content and post editing to give multiple users the ability to edit at one time. Cloudup is an offshoot of ed-tech company LearnBoost… Read More
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Into the Gloss, An Editorial Beauty Site, Raises $2M To Build Its Team
Into The Gloss, an editorial beauty website based out of New York, has raised $2 million in venture capital funding led by Forerunner and Lerer Ventures, along with several angel investors. Since it was founded in September of 2010, the site has been making waves in the style space for its insider access-type interviews with editors, designers, writers, models, and other creatives about… Read More
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JustMigrate Launches To Move Posterous Blogs To Tumblr Just As Posterous Announces Imminent End
Just in time for Posterous’ closure on April 30th, a service has launched to bring Posterous blogs over to rival service, Tumblr. JustMigrate was announced the same day that Posterous unceremoniously called it quits via its blog. The service requires you to punch in your posterous URL, authorize it with Tumblr, and you’re all set. For those with multiple Tumblr blogs, granting… Read More
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After Going Dark For The Second Time In Two Weeks, Tumblr Is Gradually Coming Back Online
We reported earlier this evening that popular blogging engine, Tumblr, was suffering from another outage, as users across the country were reporting slow loading, intermittent errors on pages and total Tumblr darkness. The company almost immediately confirmed the issue, reporting via Twitter that it had “taken the site down in order to resolve a network issue.” While Tumblr… Read More
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Checkthis Updates Its Social Posters: Share Visually Compelling Content Without Setting Up A Blog
Checkthis received a major update today, making it more than ever a visual complement to the text-only updates on social networks. The service enables users to create compelling posters and share them with their friends. But users now get realtime reactions, a web profile with all of their posters, and notifications. With the new features, it is even closer to a hybrid between Instagram… Read More
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GoodBlogs Allows Companies To Effortlessly Maintain A Blog About Their Industry To Drive Traffic
When it comes to maintaining a corporate blog, you may consider writing general thoughts on your industry and talking about more subjects rather than using it solely for your company’s announcements. It will drive traffic, and potential customers, to your website. That is what GoodBlogs is all about — except that you don’t have to hire a blogger. Read More
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Tumblr Runs Into “Networking Issue” That Affects Subset Of Custom Domain Blogs (UPDATED)
If you use Tumblr to host a blog with a custom domain name, you might notice that it’s not functioning properly. That’s apparently the case for companies like Airtime, Pinterest and Path, as I’ve come to find. I reached out to Tumblr and received the following response. Read More
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New spongy material instantly hardens on exposure to magnetism
A new kind of material (of which currently no actual picture exists anywhere) with the consistency of pudding that hardens instantly when exposed to magnetism has been developed by a team of researchers at Japan’s Yamagata University. And once the substance, a mix between high polymer and iron oxide granules, hardens, it can become up to 500 times stiffer than plastic. Read More
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Kimengi takes on Zemanta with its content recommendation engine
Kimengi is a new Dutch startup providing ”related-content” to bloggers and publishers via a recommendation widget called “f>>dforward” (feed forward). Once installed, the widget automatically provides related articles from multiple sites based on a combination of tag matches and collaborative filtering techniques (“Users similar to you liked…”). Read More
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Meet Midori-san, the world's first blogging plant
The Japanese are perhaps the most active people in the world when it comes to blogging and reading blogs so it’s not really surprising to see the world’s first blogging plant (a Sweetheart Hoya, to be exact) coming from this country. Midori-san (“Ms. Green), as the 40-cm pot plant is called, is the customer magnet in an Internet cafe in Kamakura (a small town west of Tokyo). Read More
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Sony Starts Official Playstation Blog, World Keeps Spinning
“We’ve been waiting” No, we haven’t. Sony just started a Playstation blog which is managed and written by executives at SCEA. This new website will apparently give insight into the minds of Sony execs which was never before possible. Of course, there are absolutely no other websites devoted to the Playstation or Sony. This leaves us wondering whether the people at… Read More
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