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Bill Gross’s New Social Network Chime.in Will Pay People to Use It

Liz Gannes in Social on October 17, 2011 at 12:20 pm PT

Serial entrepreneur Bill Gross’s new interest-based social network will to pay people and brands for their contributions.

27,000 Reasons Why Twitter Is Rolling Out Its Own Photo Service

Peter Kafka in Media on June 6, 2011 at 5:35 am PT

This photo of an almost-empty baseball game became a hit overnight on Twitter–and made money for Twitter photo-sharing service TwitPic. What if Twitter sold that ad inventory itself?

Federated Media Snaps Up BigTent

Kara Swisher in News on November 2, 2010 at 9:00 pm PT

Federated Media, the San Francisco-based advertising and publishing network, has acquired BigTent, a platform hosting more than 15,000 communities, mostly made up of parenting groups, especially moms. Terms of the deal with BigTent, also located in San Francisco, were not disclosed. In an interview, FM CEO John Battelle said the move was to further strengthen its tools for both the advertisers and publishers it serves, especially to create better “content conversations.”

Exclusive: Digg Publisher and Chief Revenue Officer Departs for Start-Up

Kara Swisher in News on October 25, 2010 at 9:04 am PT

Chas Edwards, the publisher and chief revenue officer for Digg, the social news discovery service, is leaving the San Francisco company, according to sources. The exec, who came to Digg in May of 2009 from Federated Media, will move to a start-up called Pixazza, a photo-tagging site for advertising, “by enabling consumers to simply mouse over images to learn more and see related products.”

Skype on a Plane? Please Don’t.

Peter Kafka in Media on March 11, 2010 at 1:46 pm PT

More and more airlines are adding wireless, which means you can now turn your seat into a flying videoconference room. But you shouldn’t.

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Live-Blogging the "Whither Journalism" Panel With Google, HuffPo, NYT and WSJ

Shira Ovide, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 21, 2009 at 6:07 pm PT

It’s a face-off between new and traditional media at the Web 2.0 Summit. Representing new media, in a discussion over the future of journalism, are Federated Media’s John Battelle; Marissa Mayer, who leads Google’s search services and consumer products like Chrome; and Huffington Post CEO Eric Hippeau. Arthur Sulzberger Jr., publisher of the New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal’s top editor, Robert Thomson, stand in for the old guard.

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Comcast's Twitter Guru on Comcastcares' Tipping Point

Andrew LaVallee, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on June 2, 2009 at 8:32 am PT

If you’ve read anything about how companies are harnessing Twitter, chances are Frank Eliason, under the name “comcastcares,” has been mentioned. He calls himself as “a simple customer-service guy” (not unlike Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, who goes by “customer-service representative”) and said at yesterday’s Federated Media conference that his team fields several hundred tweets a day.

Weekend Update, 4.04.09

Oliver J. Chiang in News on April 4, 2009 at 12:36 pm PT

Welcome once more to Weekend Update! I’ll be filling in today for your regular host Beth Callaghan, who’s on vacation. And what sane person wouldn’t be, after the slew of Silicon Valley silliness inspired by April Fools Day this past week? Digital pranks were the name of the game, and Google and others heaped so many tepid hoaxes upon us that we wanted to call April Fold so as to quickly end this round of gags.

The NCAA Blows the Whistle on Twitter’s “March Tweetness”

Peter Kafka in Media on April 2, 2009 at 9:59 am PT

Last week, AT&T and Federated Media debuted “March Tweetness,” a Twitter-endorsed page geared around the March Madness college basketball tournament. It was Twitter’s second attempt at what amounted to an advertising play, and I thought it looked modestly promising. And now it’s gone. At least temporarily. The problem? No one checked with the NCAA, which keeps a tight grip on any and all college sports trademarks.