Peter Kafka in Media on March 14 at 10:20 am PT
New media, old business model: Use your existing publishing infrastructure to make stuff for other people.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 26 at 10:47 pm PT
Big TV event + lots of people on Twitter = lots and lots of people Tweeting about the Big TV event. But not
that many people.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 26 at 9:39 am PT
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.
Kara Swisher in Media on February 23 at 4:21 am PT
A really clever side-by-side comparison.
Kara Swisher in Media on February 16 at 1:32 am PT
I certainly wish I did these days, what with these tech-blogger wars!
Peter Kafka in Media on February 13 at 1:31 pm PT
Forty million viewers, up 50 percent from last year. CBS takes a bow, and points to Twitter and Facebook, too.
Lauren Goode in Social on February 6 at 4:19 pm PT
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.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 6 at 11:55 am PT
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.”
Peter Kafka in Dive Into Media on February 6 at 7:30 am PT
“We’re in the media business, but we’re not necessarily a media company.”
Peter Kafka in Media on February 5 at 8:32 pm PT
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.