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More Media on Social Media: Slew of New Apps Hit Facebook’s Timeline

Lauren Goode in News on February 16 at 3:06 pm PT

A few months ago, AllThingsD’s Liz Gannes questioned why it seemed as though all of her friends on Facebook were reading articles from the Washington Post online; turns out she, like many users, was seeing an aggregated list of activity from news apps through Facebook’s “open graph.” Today, Facebook announced that even more media apps were coming to Timeline through the social network’s open graph, including “The Daily Show,” MSNBC.com, Huffington Post, Mashable, MTV News and BuzzFeed.

ATD and Mashable Sitting in a Tree: The Best Merger Memo I’ve Nabbed All Year

Kara Swisher in Media on February 14 at 6:00 am PT

Happy Valentine’s Day, Drake and Stacy! Walt, Handsome Pete and I could not be more happy for you.

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Mashable COO Adam Hirsch Makes a Move to DoSomething

John Murrell in News on January 19 at 12:26 pm PT

DoSomething.org, which helps channel the energies of teens into social causes, said today it had lured Adam Hirsch away from the COO job at Mashable to become its chief digital officer as of Feb. 7. Hirsch will oversee all member engagement including social media, product development, and mobile.

Hey Facebook, Where’s That Timeline and Open Graph You Promised?

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

Two and a half months after Facebook promised that a huge revision of its self-expression and sharing tools were coming soon, users and developers are still waiting.

Mashable Says It Fired Editor-at-Large Ben Parr

John Murrell in News on November 20, 2011 at 5:21 pm PT

Tech news site Mashable and its editor-at-large, Ben Parr, have parted ways under circumstances that apparently were less than amicable.

Federated Media Buys Lijit Networks

Kara Swisher in Media on October 4, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

A medium-sized online advertising company buys a smaller one.

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Early Adopter: Facebook Snags a Journalist, But What Will Vadim Lavrusik Do?

Drake Martinet in Social on April 29, 2011 at 3:05 pm PT

When tech giants hire ex-journalists, it’s usually for the PR shop. But Facebook’s newest media hire, Vadim Lavrusik, will be assigned to…gasp…help journalists. And what does that mean? Well, we got him on video to explain.

LivingSocial Focuses on Deals More in New Series of Commercials

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 25, 2011 at 11:25 am PT

LivingSocial, the second-largest daily deals site, has created two new commercials that will air during the Oscars on Sunday. This time, there’s no cross-dresser.

Google Willing to Start From Scratch to Enter Daily Deals Market

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 21, 2011 at 12:20 am PT

Google appears to be entering the daily deals business on its own after Groupon rejected its jaw-dropping $6 billion buyout offer.

Mac App Store Lacks Social Apps, Save for Twitter

Liz Gannes in Social on January 6, 2011 at 11:43 am PT

Social apps are few and far between for the grand opening today of Apple’s Mac App Store, meant to be a desktop app marketplace equivalent to the highly successful app stores for Apple devices.