17 posts and columns on curation

In Your Hands, Just What You Want to Read

in The Digital Solution on December 6, 2011 at 9:05 pm PT

Until now, personalized-reading apps have been mostly found on tablets like the iPad, but Wednesday, the first of those apps moves to the smartphone for reading on the go.
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Exclusive: Lot18 Closes Third Round in a Year, This Time for $30 Million

in Commerce on November 4, 2011 at 4:45 am PT

Accel Partners has led a $30 million round of capital in Lot18, an invitation-only site that started selling wine online just a year ago. The round is the company’s third in the past 12 months.
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Delicious Relaunches: Exclusive Q&A With CEO Chad Hurley

in Social on September 26, 2011 at 11:58 pm PT

The new Delicious is ready for its relaunch, with redone infrastructure and a new playlist feature inspired by YouTube. We get Chad Hurley to explain.
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FindTheBest’s Kevin O’Connor Talks About Comparison Engine, Now Running Hot on $6M in Funding (Video)

in Commerce on July 28, 2011 at 9:15 am PT

How do you FindTheBest? Well, starting out with $6 million in venture funding won’t hurt.

Is There a Myspace Mafia, Too? Because Leaving Seems to Have Paid Off for Many Ex-Execs.

in Social on June 13, 2011 at 11:28 am PT

When the selling of Myspace winds down in the next week or so, it’ll probably attract a spate of comments about what a failure the whole social networking enterprise turned out to be. That is, unless you think of the mob of former execs who have worked at the company over time, many of whom have moved on to some more golden opportunities after leaving Myspace.
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Liveblogging Demand Media's Q1 Earnings: Perky Perfecting!

in Media on May 5, 2011 at 2:13 pm PT

Today, after Demand Media beat Wall Street expectations, its cheerful execs got on the horn with investors to explain how it plans to beat the Panda. That would be the beastly name for Google’s rejiggering of its search algorithm, in order to rid search results of poor quality content. BoomTown liveblogged the event, of course.

You've Got Arianna: AOL Buys Huffington Post for $315 Million in Cash and Stock, Appoints Huffington Editor in Chief

in News on February 6, 2011 at 9:01 pm PT

In a bold and definitive move, AOL is paying $315 million, mostly in cash, to buy the Huffington Post, one of the Web’s most prominent news and opinion sites. As part of the deal, Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington–who was derided by some when she co-founded the left-leaning site in 2005 with investor and well-known communications exec Kenneth Lerer–will become editor in chief of a new unit that has purview over all of AOL content properties. The deal was signed just this afternoon.

AngelPad, an Incubator for Entrepreneurs With Credentials

in Social on November 11, 2010 at 11:12 am PT

AngelPad, the new incubator from former Googlers, held its first end-of-session Demo Day last night at its offices on a dead-end alley in San Francisco’s SOMA district. It was a familiar format for those who have been to Y Combinator and TechStars Demo Days, and indeed just about every one of the hundred or so investors in the room is a frequent presence at those events.

Here's AOL's Now-Live New Homepage (And Welcome Back to the Adorkable Lindsay Campbell)

in News on October 29, 2010 at 12:44 pm PT

Today, BoomTown interviewed AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, along with NPR CEO Vivian Schiller, at the Online News Association Conference in Washington, D.C., about the future of journalism on the Web. Afterward, I talked to him about the future of content on AOL, most particularly its new homepage revamp that focuses intently on editorial “curation,” rather than the more social direction being taken by rival Yahoo. After the jump is a screenshot of the new homepage, which is rolling out right now.