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Why do the homepages of so many news sites look the same? Former National Public Radio digital editor Melody Kramer came up with more than 60 different ways to rethink the homepage
Outbrain, which powers the “recommended links” sections that appear at the bottom of many news sites, is reportedly considering an IPO for early next year that could value the company at $1 billion, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal
Facebook has launched a new tech-focused version of its Newswire called FB Techwire, which it says it hopes will become a resource for technology journalists — a shot across the bow of existing aggregators like Techmeme
An interactive map created by Twitter’s head of data science shows the speed with which news about the unrest in Ferguson, Mo. spread across the world via the real-time social network
Social media scheduling tool Buffer shows off its link recommendation capabilities in its free app, Daily.
In the aftermath of multiple killings in California by a violent misogynist, the hashtag #YesAllWomen became a lightning rod for criticism and trolling — but also showed just how powerful the weak ties of social media can be when harnessed for good
The BBC is the latest broadcaster to sign a partnership deal with Twitter that will allow the British media entity to embed video clips — complete with pre-roll ads — in its Twitter stream.
Circa, the mobile app that breaks the news down into bite-sized pieces, has added a new feature to the web version of…
Andrew Miller, the CEO of Guardian News & Media — parent company of The Guardian newspaper — said at a recent social-media…
Ex-Huffington Post execs Ken Lerer and Eric Hippeau are finally out with their social video news app NowThis News. Will younger users find it more captivating than just flipping channels, or picking off videos from a user’s social stream?
Circa, the stealthy mobile news startup from Cheezburger’s Ben Huh and SimpleGeo’s Matt Galligan, is trying to build a news application that is native to smartphone and tablet users. In a video interview, Huh explains what’s wrong with news today and how it needs to change.
Paying for online news is still a minority sport – but participation may be growing thanks to tablet computers.
Growing online subscriptions and still-falling print circulation mean the 227-year-old newspaper nicknamed ‘The Thunderer’ could soon be consumed more in pixels than in ink.
The internet is supposed to be about the end of intermediaries. Then why are middlemen so successful? For years, aggregators have ruled the content space and now a new breed of brokers is using technology to redefine the interaction between readers and publishers.
China’s Communist Party is doing a good impression of a Silicon Valley news startup, as it floats its official newspaper’s web operation to finance catching up commercial services.
A Scottish man has revealed he’s the writer behind a blog detailing the life of a gay Syrian woman. But as the inquest begins into how he fooled the world’s media and thousands of readers, can we really insulate ourselves from fakes and liars?
Google is reportedly testing the integration of Twitter within Google News, which would allow users to login and see news stories shared by people they follow. Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently said the web giant would be adding “a social layer” to all its services.
Google’s latest attempt to get more social is a redesign of Google News that adds a number of features, including the ability to share clusters of stories, and to vote on news sources. But is that what visitors to Google News really want from the service?
Google is experimenting with adding a human element to its News pages, a new feature called “Editor’s Picks.” But is it trying to curry favor with media outlets that have accused it of “stealing” their content? Or is it an admission that algorithms are not perfect?
In one of the first marriages of news content and location-based services, the Canadian arm of the free paper Metro International has announced a content deal with Foursquare, the popular mobile location-based service, that will give users the ability to see local news and reviews.
As Twitter continues to grow, many of us are using our network of friends as a filter for news. In many cases,…
Google CEO Eric Schmidt, in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece this week, set out to argue what has been said a million times before: The Internet isn’t killing news. But while he was stating the obvious, some of his points didn’t exactly help Google’s case.
While all eyes are on the current baseball World Series (go Phils!), professional basketball kicked off a new season earlier this week.…
Big Media companies, get ready for more competition, this time from Yahoo (s YHOO), which is finally embracing its inner media company.…
Pocket-sized HD video cameras are all the rage, and JVC is leveraging years of camcorder experience with its newly released PICSIO. The…
It seems to be new Google (s goog) features discovery week, with new search parameters for searching the web in real time,…
Today it’s the foundation for all modern pre-installed Windows systems. It replaced the aging FAT (File Allocation Table) file system with a…
A report out today from Nielsen shows why Internet Service Providers and telecommunications equipment vendors are increasingly demonizing video. It consumes a…
In November of 2004, a few months after I got my first Mac (a PowerMac G5), I registered theappleblog.com not really having…
