27,000 Reasons Why Twitter Is Rolling Out Its Own Photo Service

This photo of an almost-empty baseball game became a hit overnight on Twitter–and made money for Twitter photo-sharing service TwitPic. What if Twitter sold that ad inventory itself?
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SAY Media Wolfs Down Dogster

SAY Media today announced it had acquired the pet community start-up Dogster.

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VideoEgg + Six Apart = SAY Media

So much for Six Apart CEO Chris Alden’s flat denials of a looming deal with ad network Video Egg. The deal is on, and when it’s announced tomorrow, Six Apart, the company that once ruled the blogging software market with its Movable Type software and TypePad-hosted blog service, will be no more. It will merge with VideoEgg to create a new company called SAY Media, “a media company designed for the social age.” End of an era.

Death to the Preroll? One Can Dream.

Well, it is about time, I’d say. That would be that ads will start to be put into YouTube videos rather than nearby on the site. Called InVideo ads, they will be semi-see-through “overlays” that will go over part of professionally made content (and in some user-generated videos). There will, of course, be ad-revenue sharing [...]