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Delicious Red Sea Parted, Users Wander to Other Bookmarking Services

Voices, Associate Editor, All Things Digital in News on January 4, 2011 at 8:35 pm PT

We might have assumed that users would flee Delicious after Yahoo announced it was shuttering the popular bookmarking service. What we didn’t know was how fast the lifeboats were filling. Until now.

Would Facebook + Email = Gmail + Google Me?

Liz Gannes in Social on November 12, 2010 at 8:21 am PT

Facebook this Monday is reportedly set to announce a “full-fledged webmail client” with integration of Microsoft Office Web Apps at a press event the company is holding in San Francisco.

A Newspaper Pay Wall Goes Up–And So Do Visitor Numbers

Peter Kafka in Media on October 19, 2010 at 10:40 am PT

The New York Times is getting ready to roll out a pay wall in January, and plenty of people fret that the paper will see its audience disappear when the gates go up. Here’s a counterargument: The Telegram & Gazette, which happens to be owned by the Times, and which has seen its traffic rise after its wall went up.

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Mark Cuban Invests in Device-Tracking Firm

Julia Angwin, Editor, Digits, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 18, 2010 at 9:02 am PT

Billionaire investor Mark Cuban is among investors who have poured $5 million into startup BlueCava, which aims to develop unique IDs for computers, mobile phones and other devices. BlueCava hopes that its device identification system may eventually replace online tracking tools such as cookies.

Ad Networks Pair Up: Specific Media Buys BBE

Peter Kafka in Media on October 15, 2010 at 3:04 pm PT

We’ll see more of this over time, as the overstuffed ad network industry consolidates, and this one makes some sense on paper: BBE specializes in video ads, and Specific doesn’t have any video business at all.

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Q&A Service ChaCha Raises $20 Million More

Peter Kafka in Media on October 13, 2010 at 5:53 pm PT

Q&A service ChaCha, which has already raised $52 million in funding, has added another $20 million. This round was led by Rho Ventures and VantagePoint, and sources familiar with the transaction insist that the money is for growth and not liquidity for early investors. ChaCha competes in a field chock-full of rivals, from Yahoo and Answers.com down to new entrants like Quora. The company last raised $7 million in an E round in December 2009; the company claims to reach 15 million unique users between its online and mobile platforms.

Fox, Yahoo Sports Vet Brian Grey to Run Sports Start-Up Bleacher Report

Peter Kafka in Media on June 16, 2010 at 12:30 pm PT

Brian Grey used to run big sports sites for really big portals, first at Yahoo, then at Fox Sports. Now he’s going to do the same thing at a start-up: He’s leaving an entrepreneur-in-residence perch at Polaris Venture Partners to run Bleacher Report, a San Francisco-based sports network.

Yahoo Finds More Real Estate to Sell: Ads Come to the Login Page

Peter Kafka in Media on June 14, 2010 at 8:32 am PT

If Google can decorate its famously pristine homepage, then everything else is fair game too: Yahoo has started renting out its third most popular page to marketers.

Your Web Browser Just Told Everyone You Visited a Porn Site

Peter Kafka in Media on May 17, 2010 at 11:47 am PT

Your identity as a dog may still be safe on the Internet. Everything else about you, though, is looking increasingly like an open book. Latest data point: No matter what you do to stay anonymous, there’s a good chance your Web browser is betraying your identity, by leaving a unique fingerprint every time you visit a site.

Google Buzz Makes Gmail Less Socially Awkward

John Paczkowski in Mobile on February 9, 2010 at 10:27 am PT

Can a microblogging twist on Gmail raise Google’s profile in social networking? We’ll soon find out. At an event at company headquarters today, Google announced Google Buzz, a new Twitter-style status update system for the email service that will allow users to share their everyday mundanities and inanities and follow those of selected contacts.

Delicious Red Sea Parted, Users Wander to Other Bookmarking Services

Would Facebook + Email = Gmail + Google Me?

A Newspaper Pay Wall Goes Up–And So Do Visitor Numbers

Mark Cuban Invests in Device-Tracking Firm

Ad Networks Pair Up: Specific Media Buys BBE

Q&A Service ChaCha Raises $20 Million More

Fox, Yahoo Sports Vet Brian Grey to Run Sports Start-Up Bleacher Report

Yahoo Finds More Real Estate to Sell: Ads Come to the Login Page

Your Web Browser Just Told Everyone You Visited a Porn Site

Google Buzz Makes Gmail Less Socially Awkward

As Traffic Booms, Is HuffPo Ready to Make Some Real Dough?

CBS Says No One’s Getting Anything Done at Work: March Madness Web Traffic Up 56 Percent

More Not-Bad News From Time Inc.: People.com Booming

And We Couldn't Have Done It Without Jessica Yellin and the CNN Holodeck …

And We Couldn’t Have Done It Without Jessica Yellin and the CNN Holodeck …

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