Tricia Duryee in Commerce on August 12, 2011 at 12:00 pm PT
Zynga is launching a major update later today for its FrontierVille game, which came out a little more than a year ago.
Kara Swisher in News on March 8, 2011 at 12:15 am PT
While BoomTown is usually tired of the overexposed Hollywood actress Jennifer Aniston, she is pretty funny in this online commercial for SmartWater, in which she tries make a video that “turns into a virus” by taking advantage of a number of viral Internet video trends.
If only her movies were this clever.
Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on February 8, 2011 at 2:54 pm PT
Katie looks at Tello, a new website and mobile app that encourages users to chime in on their customer-service experiences, good or bad.
News Byte
Liz Gannes in Social on February 1, 2011 at 4:15 pm PT
Path, the
personal media-sharing app, has
raised $8.65 million from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Index Ventures and Digital Garage Japan. The company said today it had facilitated the sharing of “over 2 million moments,” a.k.a. iPhone photos and short videos. Path is expanding ever so slightly to allow users to email pictures from within its iOS app, which makes sense since many people’s close friends and family don’t all have iPhones.
Liz Gannes in Social on February 1, 2011 at 10:13 am PT
Today Google Latitude will give users the ability to share their location with friends and strangers by “checking in” to a particular establishment.
Liz Gannes in Social on January 25, 2011 at 2:35 pm PT
Facebook is testing a new feature called Buy With Friends to give users social incentives to increase their purchases of virtual goods from games on its platform, according to the company’s product marketing manager for commerce, Deb Liu.
Liz Gannes in Social on December 22, 2010 at 5:00 am PT
Among the early adopter types I know in the tech industry, there’s a sense that casual gaming on Facebook serves an entirely different demographic from their own. The thinking is that games from Zynga and the like replace relatively mindless activities like soap opera watching.
But as someone who has just reorganized her virtual retail shops to be surrounded by virtual trees so as to accumulate more virtual bonus points, I see how social gaming–especially as it gets more social–might appeal to the desire for mindless diversions in all of us.
Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on December 21, 2010 at 3:02 pm PT
Katie reviews the revamped Myspace, with its focus on topics in popular culture, including television, music, movies, celebrities and comedy.
Liz Gannes in Social on December 15, 2010 at 10:18 am PT
The online television guide Clicker today launched its own recommendation system called Clicker Predict, which utilizes “more than 50 explicit and implicit behaviors of individuals, their friends, and even kindred spirits in determining what someone will like to watch.”
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 14, 2010 at 9:55 pm PT
The exclusive provider of classified ads on the Facebook Marketplace is revamping the way it does business to create an even tighter bond with the social network.
