Specific Media on Tuesday announced that they are offering a video version of their popular creative campaign testing technology which utilizes eye-tracking to optimize campaigns. The company’s popular creative program uses a 360-strong panel to test variations of creative campaigns […]
I find inevitably if someone tries Reddit and doesn’t get hooked on it, it’s because they never got the hang of customizing the site with the subreddits most relevant to their interests. For some people. it’s a bit too much […]
News aggregation means big business these days, that fact became apparent when AOL purchased the Huffington Post for $315 million. While HuffPost does offer many excellent original news stories, at the time of sale more than 3,000 bloggers helped aggregate […]
Smartclip, a display advertising company that provides targeted ads for news channels has signed a pan-European agreement with online news broadcaster Livestation. Ads from the Livestation inventory will be included in Smartclip’s ad network, including the company’s ad server for […]
NewsDrink has announced the private beta launch of their publication-centric news discovery and delivery service. Using the service customers can browse and subscribe to their favorite publications while discovering stories from those publications on a growing variety of device. The […]
Aggregator Fark has settled a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Gooseberry Natural Resources LLC in January 2011. The lawsuit alleged that Fark, along with Digg, Reddit, AOL and a range of other sites infringed upon a patent that covered a […]
Google on Wednesday implemented several changes to the Google News website, making it more “tablet-friendly” for iPad and Google Android tablet users. Among the sites new optimized look is a homepage and section pages that feature columns so users can […]
Digital weekly magazine publisher Nomad Editions has announced that David Sleight has joined the company as their new Chief Technology Officer. Sleight comes from an online digital background having served as the deputy creative director of BusinessWeek.com and the founder […]
Let’s be honest for a moment, Digg is a former shell of itself in many ways, however despite all of the site hate lately they did take a major step by attempting, albeit it as a massive failure, to […]
New media narrative creation site Storify has announced a new partnership with Twitter account @BreakingNews and BreakingNews.com which are owned and operated by MSNBC. The Storify system allows users to create news narratives by combining information from Twitter, Facebook status […]
Google on Thursday announced via their official company blog that Google News will now feature unique content hand picked by Google News publishers. According to Google the picks will involve: Long-form investigative features, compelling photo slideshows or interactive maps and […]
New media firm Local.com has reported a $5.4 million GAAP net loss for the second quarter of 2011 compared to a first quarter loss of $1.3 million. The Irvine, California based firm reported that traffic monetization was challenging in the […]
Journalism.co.uk has announced their fifth News:Rewired connected journalism conference, a popular always sold-out UK based event that provides digital journalists with the tools they need to survive in the digital age. The event provides journalists with expert advice on how […]
Earlier this year, it was a bit amusing when it came to light that the Secret Service (the executive branch’s security detail with “secret” right there in the name) had an account on Twitter. Today, another notoriously national security-focused organization […]