The Daily Has an Angry Birds App — And the Start of a Custom Publishing Business

New media, old business model: Use your existing publishing infrastructure to make stuff for other people.
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On Twitter, the Oscars Were Huge — But Not Whitney Houston Huge

Big TV event + lots of people on Twitter = lots and lots of people Tweeting about the Big TV event. But not that many people.
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Oscar Night Means a Torrent of Twittering. Trendrr Gets Ready to Tally It Up.

Like the Super Bowl and the Grammys, tonight’s Academy Awards will generate a flood of social media commentary — and lots of work for the start-ups trying to track all of that.
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Viral Video: Bueller … Bueller (No, Really!)

A really clever side-by-side comparison.
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Viral Video: “The Avengers” Have a Hulk

I certainly wish I did these days, what with these tech-blogger wars!
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Near-Record Ratings for the Grammys. CBS Credits the Web.

Forty million viewers, up 50 percent from last year. CBS takes a bow, and points to Twitter and Facebook, too.
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My So-Called Social Super Bowl

Last night, I took a rare break from social media and opted for a real-time, real-life Super Bowl instead. And somehow … I saw the same game everyone else did.
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Zynga’s First Super Bowl Commercial … Kind Of

Zynga’s popular puzzle game Words With Friends was featured in Best Buy’s Super Bowl commercial yesterday, calling attention to the game’s founders as some of the “greatest mobile innovators.”
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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo: The Full Dive Into Media Interview (Video)

“We’re in the media business, but we’re not necessarily a media company.”
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A Super Social Bowl

You watched the game on the big screen, and you typed and read on a smaller one. Which is exactly what Twitter and Facebook were hoping for.
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Here’s the Worst Super Bowl Ad of 2012