Examiner.com, CBS Local Digital Media Hook Up

Examiner.com, CBS Local Digital Media Hook Up

National content network Examiner.com, a series of sites with verticals in a vast range of markets and regions, is teaming up with CBS Local Digital Media to produce lifestyle content for the latter. Examiner sites are part of Clarity Digital Media, […]

Newspapers Dead in Five Years, USC’s Annenberg Center Predicts

Newspapers Dead in Five Years, USC’s Annenberg Center Predicts

Puppies will have to find something else to urinate on, if a dire print prediction by the USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future pans out. The center believes that in five years time, newspapers will be largely gone from the […]

Yahoo Raises Lobbying Expenses By 15 Percent In Q3 2011

Yahoo Raises Lobbying Expenses By 15 Percent In Q3 2011

Internet search and content firm Yahoo Inc. spent $620,000 in the third quarter of 2011 as they attempted to fight off U.S. lawmakers and regulators, an increase of 15% over the same time last year when they spent $540,000. Spent […]

Call 1-917-408-Fred To Star In An Online Cartoon

Call 1-917-408-Fred To Star In An Online Cartoon

The creators of huge kid and adult based hits The Fairly OddParents, Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! and Johnny Bravo have been creating hits for years and now they want to make one lucky fan into their very own cartoon. Fred Seibert’s […]

The Atlantic Launches New Health Channel to Augment Web Brand

The Atlantic Launches New Health Channel to Augment Web Brand

One and a half century old publication The Atlantic has adapted well to the medium of web-publishing- beating out much younger titles in its transition to digital publishing- and announced earlier this week that it is adding to its web content […]

Glenn Beck’s Web Network to Launch Survivalist Reality Show on GBTV

Glenn Beck’s Web Network to Launch Survivalist Reality Show on GBTV

Fox News pundit turned web TV pioneer Glenn Beck is putting out a reality show for his site GBTV- following a survivalist family as they prepare themselves for the possibility of unrest and self-sufficiency in the event of societal collapse. […]

Guy asks Facebook for his ‘social network’ history and gets 1,222 PDFs

Guy asks Facebook for his ‘social network’ history and gets 1,222 PDFs

For all the whining that goes on about privacy and how Facebook is always messing with the boundaries of what is right to share and what is private we still keep posting a whole lot of crap on places like Facebook, […]

Mark Cuban Backs Site Brotips

Mark Cuban Backs Site Brotips

Although it’s only been around for ten months, popular dude-centric advice site Brotips got backing in the millions yesterday from Dallas Mavericks owner and general billionaire Mark Cuban. Details of the deal were not disclosed, but one of the site’s […]

Louis CK’s ‘Live at Beacon Theater’ Experiment Doing Well, Comic Talks Figures

Louis CK’s ‘Live at Beacon Theater’ Experiment Doing Well, Comic Talks Figures

It’s only a few days in to Louis CK’s DRM-free “Live at Beacon Theater” experiment, during which the comic is circumventing traditional distribution channels like Hulu and iTunes to sell the show directly to fans on a dedicated website. (Disclaimer, […]

Humble Indie Bundle 4 Officially Live

Humble Indie Bundle 4 Officially Live

Humble Indie Bundle 4- the latest installment in the DRM-bucking, multi-platform (PC, Linux and Mac) pay-what-you-want game bundle series- is officially live, running at an average of $5.30 per purchase. (PC users are coming in at about $4.83, while Mac […]

British Gas testing smartphone app to control appliances remotely

British Gas testing smartphone app to control appliances remotely

Home automation has always been kind of a holy grail when it comes to technology, especially any kind of automation that you can perform remotely. The only problem is that up until now this has been pretty difficult to do […]

Leaked AP memo tells employees that they must beat blogs

Leaked AP memo tells employees that they must beat blogs

The Associated Press, otherwise known as AP, have a hate – hate relationship with anything to do with the Internet but with bloggers in particular. It’s not just that the AP is the sole provider of about 95% of the non-local ‘news’ that shows […]

Meet AOL’s New ‘Chief People Officer’ John Reid-Dodick

Meet AOL’s New ‘Chief People Officer’ John Reid-Dodick

On Monday AOL announced the hiring of John Reid-Dodick,the former Global Head of Human Resources for Thomson Reuters Markets. Reid-Dodick will take over as the company’s new “Chief People Officer” within their human resources department. According to the company John […]

Flight Attendants Seek to Ban Alec Baldwin’s ’30 Rock’ From In-Flight Entertainment

Flight Attendants Seek to Ban Alec Baldwin’s ’30 Rock’ From In-Flight Entertainment

Alec Baldwin’s Words With Friends-based drama last week on an American Airlines flight served not only to cast the actor in a slightly negative public light, but has also apparently caused some outrage among flight attendants. Baldwin’s popular NBC sitcom […]