Reddit Calls For GoDaddy Mass Exodus Dec. 29th in SOPA Protest, Cheezburger Network Throws Down

Reddit Calls For GoDaddy Mass Exodus Dec. 29th in SOPA Protest, Cheezburger Network Throws Down

If you’ve never had to use suckiest webhost of all time- GoDaddy- it’s difficult to describe the extent to which the service blows entirely. It seems a far-below-average user experience isn’t turning users off as quickly as GoDaddy would like, […]

Book publishers take a hit this year

Book publishers take a hit this year

It seems that just about every media type industry is being affected to varying degrees by our increased move to a digital world powered by the Web, and it would seem that book publishers are feeling the pinch as well this year. […]

AOL Responds To Starboard Value Shake-Up, Moves Forward With Business As Planned

AOL Responds To Starboard Value Shake-Up, Moves Forward With Business As Planned

Activist investment fund Starboard Value has purchased a 4.5 percent stake in AOL Inc. and have requested a meeting with company CEO Tim Armstrong to discuss what they consider to be strategic failings. In their letter the company calls AOL […]

Yahoo Extends Facebook Stories Sharing, Hopes To Engage Longer With Readers

Yahoo Extends Facebook Stories Sharing, Hopes To Engage Longer With Readers

Yahoo on Wednesday announced the expansion of their Yahoo stories sharing feature via the Facebook social network. Originally launched for the company’s news section the sharing feature will now be included in 26 parts of Yahoo’s site including entertainment news section […]

Super Bowl To Be Streamed Online For The First Time This Year

Super Bowl To Be Streamed Online For The First Time This Year

Although the NFL has been streaming its popular Sunday Night Football property for four seasons, the Super Bowl will live-stream for the first time (legitimately) in 2012. Each year, searches for live streams of the championship American football match increase […]

Study Finds Twitter Content Increasingly Depressed Since Early 2009

Study Finds Twitter Content Increasingly Depressed Since Early 2009

If you’ve felt a bit of a negative vibe on Twitter over the past couple of years, it’s not just in your head. A study out of Vermont finds that an analysis of tweets over the past nearly three-year long […]

AppsSavvy Picks Up $7.1 Million From AOL Ventures

AppsSavvy Picks Up $7.1 Million From AOL Ventures

Social media advertising firm AppsSavvy announced on Tuesday that they have raised a new $7.1 million round of funding from AOL’s AOL Ventures group. News of the funding comes just one week after social ad network MediaBrix managed to secure […]

Spotify Wins Best Music Service [Mashable Awards]

Spotify Wins Best Music Service [Mashable Awards]

Top social media reporting website Mashable has awarded Spotify with their 2011 “Best Music Service or App” award this year, wrapping up a 2011 that saw the service arrive in the United States with huge success along with Facebook integration […]

Cablevision Becomes Last Cable Provider to Offer HBO Go

Cablevision Becomes Last Cable Provider to Offer HBO Go

Just days after New York metro-area Time Warner Cable announced it would be adding HBO Go access to its subscription services, Long Island-based Cablevision relented and also added the service. Cablevision, the fifth-largest cable provider in the US, was the […]

YouTube Rewinds 2011, Tallies Top Videos

YouTube Rewinds 2011, Tallies Top Videos

  YouTube has released its most viewed videos of 2011, and the results will probably not entirely surprise you. One notable announcement pertains to viewing stats- according to YouTube’s blog, more than a trillion videos (1,000,000,000,000) were watched worldwide, which […]

SOPA is making even retired cartoonists come out of retirement to fight it

SOPA is making even retired cartoonists come out of retirement to fight it

SOPA is a disaster waiting to happen should it actually get passed into law by the US government. Every day we are hearing more and more influential people coming out against it, including some of the founding fathers of the […]

Why Were You Deleted on Facebook? [Infographic]

Why Were You Deleted on Facebook? [Infographic]

I have to admit to being a bit unreasonable about being Facebook-defriended- if you delete me on Facebook, I will probably hold it against you for the rest of your life and you are not invited to my celebrity pizza […]

SOPA Would Signal the End of Reddit, GM Says

SOPA Would Signal the End of Reddit, GM Says

The Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) has been a specter looming over the internet as we know it for the past few weeks, as a last-minute reprieve and then expected revival just before the holidays has prompted opponents to cry […]

Reddit Secret Santas Number 37,000 So Far, in 110 Countries

Reddit Secret Santas Number 37,000 So Far, in 110 Countries

An update to the general Reddit blog today indicates that the site is on track to achieve its stated goal of breaking a Guinness record for Largest Online Secret Santa Game, with a massive participation from the Reddit community since […]