Aug 06, 2009

Carrie Underwood Central - a Carrie fansite The New York Times recently published an article about the changing face of country music, saying that it’s “young and blonde,” referring to Taylor Swift and of course, Carrie Underwood, and how they’ve influenced the next generation of crossover country music artists like Veronica Ballestrini and Jessie James (who isn’t bl (Read More)

Jan 12, 2009

Submitted by Jasongoldberg: socialmedian's Founder, Jason Goldberg (me!) moved to Hamburg, Germany today from New York as part of Xing's acquisition of socialmedian.Jason will be working with the Xing team to integrate socialmedian and other user-engaging features and applications into Xing as part of his new role as VP Applications Platform at Xing.G (Read More)

Dec 19, 2008

ReadWriteWeb Socialmedian, a social news site designed to allow users to group around news networks, has been acquired by the German social network XING, a major international player with more than 6 million business users. Clearly, this is a big win for Socialmedian, which only recently came out of private beta:Sponsor"This is great ne (Read More)

Dec 05, 2008

Delicious/wolkanca Burger King travels over 20,000 miles to find people who have never heard of the WHOPPER and perform the world's purest taste test. (Read More)

Dec 03, 2008

Submitted by Davechung: It's Rivalry Week in Los Angeles! With USC and UCLA playing this weekend, here's a fun little look into both schools. (Read More)

Oct 28, 2008

social|median I wanted to provide you with a first look at http://election.socialmedian.com, a site we are launching with the Washington Post and other partners like The Guardian to help people track and participate in election 2008 coverage. We will formally announce the new site tomorrow (Wednesday)...you can use it now but it is still (Read More)

Oct 17, 2008

Submitted by Davechung: We're taking you where no paparazzi lens ever could with pics, vids and news from Britney herself. (Read More)

Oct 15, 2008

Silicon Alley Insider We apologize to the poor pr person who just pitched us yet another memo from either an investor or an entrepreneur about how to survive the meltdown. We told them we were burnt out on this stuff, but here we are publishing another one. It's not the Onion, but what is? Don't be discouraged by the bad pun at the start: This o (Read More)

Sep 26, 2008

Submitted by Davechung: When they're not out on the town, becoming fodder for New York's real-life gossip rags, most of the "Gossip Girl" castmembers have been honing their acting chops in movies. But stars Leighton Meester and Ed Westwick — a.k.a. on-again, off-again item Blair Waldorf and Chuck Bass — are taking a stab at music careers. It's a r (Read More)

Sep 24, 2008

VentureBeat Until about a year ago, you were in an unenviable position if you wanted to build a web site that used or created semantic data: You pretty much had to build all your tools from scratch. Calais, a semantic web service being developed by information giant Thomson Reuters, is offering to help change that with a service itR (Read More)

Sep 16, 2008

Submitted by Michaelfidler: The latest numbers are in, and Twitter is apparently growing at a torrid pace. According to stats just released from Nielsen Online, Twitter recorded 2.3 million unique visitors in August (US-only), an increase of 422% from the same period last year. (Read More)

Aug 28, 2008

Submitted by Marchino: The Bloomberg financial newswire decided to update its 17-page Steve Jobs obituary today — and inadvertently published it in the process. (Read More)

Aug 28, 2008

Submitted by Davechung: TheWB.com is alive! Full episode streaming of Friends, Veronica Mars, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The OC, a la Hulu. (Read More)

Aug 26, 2008

Submitted by Onlinetreason: Ladies and gentlemen, I’m about to call you an idiot if you are not commenting on other blogs. So if you are not commenting on other blogs, then start doing it you idiot! I keep getting e-mails that people are just not seeing any traffic from commenting on a “couple of blogs”. Well hello! Commenting just on a couple of blog (Read More)

Aug 26, 2008

Submitted by Sunil: In July, after Hasbro and Electronic Arts launched the official version of Scrabble on Facebook, they asked Facebook to take down Scrabulous, the competing app that started it all (and borrowed heavily from the trademarked game). Facebook complied, but left Scrabulous up in other parts of the world, where the international (Read More)

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