Investors open gates for ‘online but off-cloud’ storage device

The Transporter started as a Kickstarter campaign and is now backed by $6 million in venture capital.

How Jonah Peretti built BuzzFeed into a content-sharing powerhouse

The founder of Buzzfeed found success by ignoring Google search results and focusing obsessively on getting people to share content.

Buffer relaunches today as a sharing platform — a conduit, not a destination — with benefits

Social engagement tool Buffer is relaunching today as a sharing platform ... with big benefits. And analytics, and a great user experience, and some cool new features that HootSuite should start getting worried about.

Pinterest to Amazon: no pinning for you on Black Friday!

Traffic is generally a good thing for websites. But perhaps Pinterest, which has been called the third most popular social network after Facebook and Twitter, has enough.

Twitter introduces new ‘tweemail’ feature (no, this has nothing to do with ‘Survivor’)

So you want to share that tweet, but don't want to retweet. And you don't want to copy, paste, and email, or take a screenshot and send it. Twitter will soon have a solution for you.

Israel’s new gamified war blog: Here are the badges you can earn for sharing death

The Israeli Defense Force has, in the most egregious display of death-worshipping idiocy I've ever seen, gamified its war blog, giving visitors badges and points for tweeting, sharing, and otherwise spreading the word about Israel's war on terror.

Dropbox integrates with Facebook groups for super-simple social file sharing

Dropbox just announced a new integration today, and it's a doozy: Facebook. Starting today, Facebook users can share files, pictures, and folders to their friends and contacts in Facebook Groups.

Evernote Food captures your memorable meals, comes to Android

My phone is full of pictures of the dishes I try at new restaurants, and now these tasty shots have a place to go beyond my SD card. Previously available on the iPhone, Evernote Food launches Thursday for Android devices. …

ShareThis helps publishers figure out their social weaknesses

If you’re a publisher looking to reach as many consumers as possible, web sharing platform ShareThis may have just the answer. The company, which has made a name for itself by making it easy for readers to share online content …

Fancy beats Pinterest to social commerce, but did it sell its soul for cash?

Elegant discovery and sharing tool Fancy released a new iPhone and iPad app today, adding some simple social commerce to the mix that might just change the whole experience.

If you haven’t heard of Fancy, think of it this way: …

Viddy, the Instagram for video, raising $30M at a $300M+ valuation

If Instagram is worth an eye-popping one billion dollars, who’s to say the fast growing Viddy, which lets users easily record videos, apply filters and share with friends, isn’t on the same rocket ship trajectory.

The company, founded in April …

Now you can share your Dropbox folders with your Facebook friends

Dropbox announced Monday morning on Twitter that you can now share your Dropbox folders with friends on Facebook.

The integration isn’t huge, but it’s perhaps a sign of what Dropbox has been working on since acquiring business-collaboration company Cove and …

HootSuite adds support for Digg, Trendspottr, and InboxQ

Popular social networking management service HootSuite announced Wednesday it has added support for more social apps and opened its Engagement API.

Digg, Trendspottr, and InboxQ have joined the HootSuite App Directory; a collection of apps and social media sites that …

Click.to wants to make copy and paste obsolete

Copy and paste is so 2011. Or so says Click.to, a new app for Mac and Windows that lets you copy content and send it exactly where you want it to go with one click — no pasting required.

With …

Create a more personal social network with Ourspot

Want to share memories with your significant other without sharing to your entire social network? Or maybe show videos and photos to your best friend and no one else? Meet Ourspot, a new website that creates a space to share …