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My So-Called Social Super Bowl

Kitteh Culture

As the world has realigned from being about portals and then search and now social, how do you build a media company for a social world? And a big part of that is scoops and exclusives and original content, and it’s also about cute kittens in an entertaining cultural context.

Jonah Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, in conversation with David Carr of the New York Times

News Byte

Proust Will Live On, Separate From IAC

Proust, a social-journaling service owned by IAC, was slated to shut down today, after just a six-month run. But Proust isn’t shutting down, after all: The service sent an email to users saying that it will remain active due to an outpouring of support from the Proust community. The service is now independent of IAC, and is being run by anonymous investors and entrepreneurs operating under Proust Interactive LLC.

If Only Search and Social Could Just Get Along

Would it be so hard to give people a way to search across all their social networks?
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Google Embeds Social Directly Into Search (But by Social, It Means Google+)

Last year, Google CEO Larry Page promised to “bake identity and sharing into all of our products.” Now for the biggest Google product of all: Search.
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TripAdvisor CEO Says Wall Street Underestimates Its Value Now That It’s Flying Solo

TripAdvisor’s co-founder and CEO Stephen Kaufer talks to AllThingsD about the media company’s prospects for growth now that it has broken off from Expedia and is an independently traded company.
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Foursquare’s Crowley Declares Bygones! — And Maybe More? — With Google

Foursquare is still the cool kid at the check-in party, especially as more competitors are checking out. But is the party dying down?
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Jetpac Transports Friends’ Photos to the iPad for a Truly Personal Travel Magazine (Video)

Jetpac is building an iPad app that’s part travel magazine, part photo-sharing platform. It’s either very creepy, or it’s the bright future of personalized media apps.
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News Byte

Photo-Filter Hounds, Rejoice! Instagram Is Coming to Android.

Instagram, the popular mobile photo-sharing app that has racked up around 14 million followers in the year since it launched, has always been an iPhone-only app — until now. CNET, The Verge and other outlets report that Instagram co-founder and CEO Kevin Systrom confirmed yesterday, at the LeWeb conference in Paris, that he has dedicated staff working on an app for the Google Android mobile platform. He didn’t say exactly when the app would hit the Android Market, but said that he’s “excited to see our numbers today nearly double” when it does.

SoundTracking for Android Adds Spotify, Rdio Streaming

Social music app SoundTracking is launching an Android music app — one that definitely flirts with Spotify and Rdio, but still doesn’t seal the deal.
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StumbleUpon Gets a Face-Lift and Some Boldfaced Names

StumbleUpon, the social discovery engine that was famously acquired by eBay, only to take itself private again two years later, is reinventing itself again.
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Four-Month-Old Google+ Has 40M Users

Hello, Marc, Welcome to the Social Party