Tumblr: 108M blogs and 51 billion posts are worth more than $1.1B

May 18, 2013 9:59 AM John Koetsier

Tumblr, which famously hates advertising and only started trying to make money after five years in existence, is in a bit of a pickle, as its $125 million in funding is running out, giving the service only a few-month window in which to raise a new round or find a sugar daddy.

Nevahold rallies angry customers on social media to make their voices heard (exclusive)

May 17, 2013 2:59 PM Rebecca Grant

Rebecca Grant

Nevahold is a platform where people can 'crowd source' their social media accounts put more weight behind their customer service complaints.

A year after IPO, Facebook still down 30% (but the future is bright)

May 17, 2013 9:25 AM John Koetsier

John Koetsier

A year ago today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg "rang the bell" to open trading in one of the most hotly-anticipated initial public offerings in history as Facebook hit the stock market. And promptly went splat.

Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey is terrible at Vine

May 16, 2013 2:59 PM Sean Ludwig

Sean Ludwig

You'd think Twitter cofounder and Square CEO Jack Dorsey would be a whiz at social media. But his posts to Twitter's young video-sharing service Vine are a mix of weirdly creepy and just-plain-boring clips.

Yahoo newsfeed’s latest ingredient: Embedded tweets

May 16, 2013 2:15 PM Tom Cheredar

Tom Cheredar

For the second time in the last month, Yahoo is making some changes to its newsfeed that will presumably attempt to boost interest and improve the overall experience of reading the news.

Big media is helping social curation startup Mass Relevance grow like gangbusters

May 16, 2013 6:32 AM Tom Cheredar

Tom Cheredar

Editor's Pick Over the last few years media companies and brands have turned to Mass Relevance's social curating platform for plenty of projects, and now the startup said it's hitting some big milestones.

SimulTV launches a single-screen ‘second screen’ experience

May 15, 2013 8:21 PM John Koetsier

John Koetsier

Who needs a second screen when you can use one screen to watch, share, and see what others are saying about life television entertainment? Today SimulTV launched a new online TV-viewing app that integrates social, eliminating the need for two screens.

Major design overhaul makes Google+ look a whole lot like Pinterest

May 15, 2013 10:55 AM Ricardo Bilton

Ricardo Bilton

The new Google+ looks a lot nicer than the old Google+, but will that get you to use it?

Hangouts, the best part of Google+, gets standalone iOS, Android, & Chrome apps

May 15, 2013 10:53 AM Sean Ludwig

Sean Ludwig

Hangouts, the free multiperson video chat and messaging service inside Google+, has been broken out into its own standalone apps for iOS, Android, and Chrome.

Watch the Google I/O 2013 livestream here

May 15, 2013 8:00 AM Devindra Hardawar

Devindra Hardawar

Today's stream will start at 9 a.m. Pacific, starting with the keynote.

Reddit’s new multireddit feature brings a massive change to its front page

May 14, 2013 3:15 PM Tom Cheredar

Tom Cheredar

It's been years since community news sharing site Reddit has made a major change to how things appear on its coveted front page of popular content, but today the company announced a new feature called multireddits that could do just that.

Google’s Larry Page ‘a better CEO’ for having paralyzed vocal cords

May 14, 2013 3:12 PM John Koetsier

John Koetsier

Google CEO Larry Page shared today on his Google+ page that he has funded a research project for the Voice Health Institute, mostly due to the journey he's undergone over the last 14 years in losing first one, and then a second vocal cord to paralysis.

Twitter ‘Hate Map’ shows where racist, homophobic, and offensive tweets originate

May 14, 2013 2:25 PM John Koetsier

John Koetsier

Students at Humboldt State University in California individually reviewed 150,000 geocoded tweets containing racist, homophobic, or otherwise offensive terms to build a "hate map" indicating where people in the U.S. are most bigoted.

Collegefeed rolls out career marketplace nationwide to help students find jobs

May 14, 2013 11:37 AM Rebecca Grant

Rebecca Grant

Founded by Google's former Head of Products, Collegefeed is a social network that brings together students and employers to improve the hiring process.

Facebook’s coming video ads run the risk of ‘MySpacing’ the world’s most popular social network

May 14, 2013 9:48 AM John Koetsier

John Koetsier

Facebook's coming video ads will be disruptive, interrupt people, and run the risk of Facebook becoming the very social network it supplanted, according to at least one online advertising executive.

7 apps to help you replace Google Alerts

May 13, 2013 3:42 PM Yoav Dembak

Guest Post Many fear that, given Google Alerts’ recent issues, it will soon join Reader in the graveyard. Here are seven apps to fill the void -- and better than Google did it.