Q&A: How digital anthropologist Brian Solis is reaching ‘Generation Connected’

VentureBeat caught up with blogger and social media analyst Brian Solis a few weeks after the release of his latest book.

App.net, the pay-to-access social network, adds a free membership tier in ‘curated growth’ experiment

Earlier this month, founder Dalton Caldwell told me that people won't adopt a new social network just because it's good for them -- it needed to be "truly better." That's probably true -- but free is also good.

How the new Digg digs up its top stories — without your help, thank you very much

Discarded for pennies on the dollar, Digg has a new lease on life, but the rebuilt service is almost unrecognizable to those who loved it before. The new Digg is a single, compelling voice speaking for the Internet at large. But whose voice is it?

Remaking MySpace: How Tim and Chris Vanderhook are turning around the web’s biggest joke

MySpace might be a joke to many. But it is no laughing matter for Tim and Chris Vanderhook, brothers not grim about the social network's chances at a full-fledged comeback.

Is yesterday’s pay-per-click tomorrow’s pay-per-Facebook-like?

This article is part of a series of posts about DEMO alumni and news of their progress. Integrate launched at DEMO in Fall 2010. Check out more at DEMO.

You’ve heard of pay-per-click, where an advertiser pays a content site …