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Flickr, Behance, Vimeo and YouTube Add New Pinterest Attribution Tool

Liz Gannes in Social on May 1 at 11:02 am PT

In a bid to be creator- and copyright-friendly, Pinterest signed up four content hosting sites to use a new automated attribution tool.

Facebook Smacks Back at Yahoo With Patent Claims in Counter-Lawsuit

Kara Swisher in News on April 3 at 11:13 am PT

The other shoe in the Facebook-Yahoo patent fight just dropped.

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Caterina Fake: Fast Growth for a New Social App Is a Very Bad Thing

Liz Gannes in Social on February 24 at 11:00 am PT

If you get her started, Caterina Fake sounds almost like a professor of social networking philosophy.

Start-Up Scribr Wants to Help Your Twitter Feed Survive the Coming Web-pocalypse

Drake Martinet in Social on January 6 at 10:05 am PT

Scribr is trying to keep your Facebook profile from becoming like the lost GeoCities of Atlantis.

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SocialFolders: Like Dropbox for Social Networks — But All on Your Desktop, Not in the Cloud

Liz Gannes in Social on December 15, 2011 at 8:00 am PT

Would a local backup of your cloud-based pictures and documents make you feel more comfortable? That’s how SocialFolders wants to help. Today it launches a Dropbox-like desktop tool that downloads copies of Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, Google Docs and other content. Plus, users can use SocialFolders to sync and upload content as well, so they can, for instance, drag and drop their Flickr albums into Facebook.

Spreecast and LiveLead Tackle Social Video From Different Angles

Liz Gannes in Social on November 10, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

A couple of new start-ups, Spreecast and LiveLead, are focused on the social side of video, working on helping groups of people broadcast themselves or enjoy videos together, respectively.

Yahoo’s Product Runway: Are You In or Out?

Kara Swisher in Media on November 2, 2011 at 10:41 am PT

I am here at Yahoo HQ in Sunnyvale, Calif., to check out “Product Runway,” which is the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s attempt to show that it can still innovate.