blog posts

The Apologies of Zuckerberg: A Retrospective

Liz Gannes in Social on November 29, 2011 at 2:29 pm PT

Of the 25 posts CEO Mark Zuckerberg has published on Facebook’s corporate blog in the past five years — including today’s acknowledging a long-term privacy settlement with the FTC — I count 10 that were written to address complaints.

App Watch: The Official White House App Debuts

Lauren Goode, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 8, 2010 at 6:52 am PT

Calling all political news junkies who want to watch President Obama’s speeches live on their iPhones: now there’s an app for that. On Jan. 20, the White House recently launched its first official iTunes app, which brings key features of WhiteHouse.gov to mobile platforms.

Hearst Launches Aggregator Site LMK

Shira Ovide, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 9, 2009 at 12:16 pm PT

Hearst today launched LMK.com, a low-cost Web roundup on topics from college football to reality television. (For the youth-challenged, “LMK” is the texting shorthand for “let me know.”) LMK joins a crowded field of aggregation sites, which cull news and information from across the Web and organize them by topic or in other user-friendly ways. Other aggregators include Topix, Newser and Daylife, and sites like the Daily Beast that combine aggregation with their own content.

SB Nation Launches Real-Time Updates

Andrew LaVallee, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 10, 2009 at 7:08 am PT

SB Nation, the network of sporting sites owned by Sportsblogs Inc., is getting a makeover focused on real-time updates, a bid to increase traffic between its Web properties. The redesign went into effect late Wednesday and includes a “storystream,” similar to Facebook’s news feed, that wraps up articles, blog posts, videos and other content about hot topics like Melanie Oudin’s U.S. Open advance and Brady Quinn’s starting for the Browns on Sunday. Editors monitor news outlets, Twitter feeds and SB Nation’s sites for each storystream and keep them frequently updated, said Jim Bankoff, the company’s chief executive.

Hackers Target Basketball Fans With March Madness Malware

Marisa Taylor, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 20, 2009 at 8:39 am PT

Basketball fans, beware. Hackers are taking advantage of bracket-related Web surfing and initiating some madness of their own, with tactics as sneaky as spreading malicious software through March Madness blog posts. Online security company Websense discovered two March Madness-related malware scams earlier this week, one in the form of URLs posted in blog comments that took users to a phony antivirus scanning site, and another as a search-engine-optimization scam that infected basketball-related terms and pushed them to the top in Google.