It’s easy to become caught up in tweets or Facebook posts alleging a story is true when there is very little to back it up. Recent events like the Boston Marathon bombing and fertilizer plant explosion in Texas incite a …
Google has taught us all a valuable lesson: Don't trust in web services too much. Everything changes, and what you're relying on today could be gone tomorrow.
Hyperlocal news business EveryBlock, an early pioneer in data-driven news aggregation, has been shut down by parent NBC News, it announced today.
SyFy leader didn't want a bunch of gamers with guns running through his TV show's town and shooting it up.
I happen to spell golf f-l-o-g, but I understand that some people like this game of maneuvering small white balls into small white cups. Even more than beer pong, apparently.
The real world and the digital world are merging.
Several NBC websites were briefly hacked today by a hacker trying to make a very original Guy Fawkes Day reference.
Finally, someone at a major television network gets it: unreasonably restricting access to great content drives piracy.
Unfortunately, the major television network is in Australia.
Amazon and NBC have been getting down to business, and the fruits of their labors are more instant video offerings for Amazon Prime customers.
While the 2012 Olympics closing ceremony concluded last week, YouTube is just now revealing the event's impressive viewership and streaming data.
Editor's Pick NBC had a huge opportunity to cash in on the rising wave of Internet media with its Olympics coverage, and it blew it.
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Nerdy America, are you starved for Olympics coverage? We’ve got your back: Here’s a step-by-step tutorial on how you can watch the Olympics online from the U.S. for free or for cheap, zero technical skills required.
It’s easier than you’d …
Twitter has taken the extraordinary step of kinda sorta partially apologizing on its blog for taking down UK journalist Guy Adams’ Twitter account. Even more significantly, the company’s top lawyer wrote the blog post — not the communications staff.
First …
Wow, that was quick.
Guy Adams, the UK journalist whose unhappy tweets about NBC’s Olympics coverage in the U.S. got him banned from Twitter, is back.
The account suspension unleashed a tsunami of condemnation for the social news network, especially …
Yesterday Twitter suspended UK journalist Guy Adam’s account for tweeting negatively about NBC’s coverage of the Olympics, including tweeting an email address of the NBC executive in charge. Today we’ve learned that it was not NBC that initiated a complaint, …
Guest Post
NBC has been getting a lot of flak on social networks lately for its handling of the Olympics. Because of the time difference between the United States and London, most of the high-profile events are shown with a delay of …
What’s private, and what is public? That’s the question that will determine whether you agree with Twitter’s decision to suspend Guy Adams’ account.
Guy Adams is a writer for the UK news agency The Independent. He’s the paper’s L.A. correspondent, …
If you’re reading from down under, relax. Ditto to those swathed in red, white, and blue. No Olympic gold medals have been handed out yet. At least, not for long jump, shotput, or table tennis.
But when it comes to …
Microsoft and NBC have broken off their web news partnership. The MSNBC.com web site will now become NBCNews.com while Microsoft will create its own site.
Early next year, MSNBC.com will relaunch as a stand-alone site for the cable channel MSNBC. …
Recognizing that Facebook has become the people’s broadcast network, NBC Olympics, the official broadcast partner of the IOC, has today partnered with Facebook to provide consumers with London 2012 Olympics news and other coverage on Facebook, create social media segments …
