Today, Mark S. Luckie — the founder of 10,000 Words, and now full-time social media guy at WaPo – invited readers to subscribe to its staff on Facebook. He wrote: Looking to connect with Washington Post reporters and writers on F ... Continue reading at 'Editor & Publisher'
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook's video ad business just got a lot bigger.Months after rolling out the first video-specific ad product on the social network, Facebook has agreed to acquire LiveRail, one of the biggest video ad sellers. A Facebook spokesman declined to comment on the deal's price.LiveRail automates the... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2014-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook’s most recently published study is not unique. This is a call to action. We should work together to demand that companies promise not to make us involuntary accomplices in corporate activities that compromise other people’s autonomy and trust. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Predictions that the e-reader is done seem to be everywhere. What do those forecasts really mean for the publishing industry? Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A Facebook researcher apologized after conducting an experiment that temporarily influenced what almost 700,000 readers saw on their news feeds, reviving some customers' concerns about privacy issues.The number of positive and negative comments that users saw on their feeds of articles and... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2014-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Protests over secret study involving 689,000 users in which friends' postings were moved to influence moodsIt already knows whether you are single or dating, the first school you went to and whether you like or loathe Justin Bieber. But now Facebook, the world's biggest social networking site,... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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If you use Facebook and found yourself momentarily feeling either better or worse in early 2012, an algorithm may have caused your shift in mood. And that's what has some social media users upset today. A controversial research study published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2014-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook and two outside social scientists recently published a scientific paper in which they revealed that they had manipulated users’ news feeds to tweak their emotions. Since then, there has been a growing debate over the ethics and practice of Facebook experimenting on its users, as... Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2014-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Digital chief on rethinking the rules of journalism, shaking off the magazine group tag, and developing innovationM Scott Havens, senior vice president of digital at newly independent Time Inc is not a man to pussyfoot around journalistic conventions. We have to rethink the old church and state... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook has gotten plenty of flack for its privacy practices, but here’s a new way to distrust the social media service: It may be playing with your emotions. As reported by The A.V. Club, in January 2012, Facebook adjusted its newsfeed algorithm for several hundred thousand users to see how... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2014-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Readers Digest is a multi-brand and multi-platform media and direct marketing company that reaches 145 million customers worldwide through a combination of print, digital and DRTV products. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Oculus VR has accused game publisher ZeniMax Media of attempting to cash in on Facebook’s pending acquisition of the wearable virtual reality technology company.In a court filing challenging ZeniMax’s ownership claims in its virtual reality technology, Oculus also cited mail from a former... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2014-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At least one local newspaper publisher piloting a digital content-sharing program with The Washington Post has seen a deluge of interest from subscribers after less than a week. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that 7,000 of its subscribers sig ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2014-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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On April 24, during an all-hands meeting at Gawker Media's SoHo headquarters, founder and publisher Nick Denton was extolling the virtues of Kinja, his proprietary publishing platform that allows readers to participate in the company's editor ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2014-06-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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British spies are authorized to spy on British citizens’ Internet communications transiting through servers outside the U.K., a civil rights group has discovered.Privacy International uncovered the information as part of a lawsuit it filed against the U.K. government over its alleged involvement... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2014-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Now that Facebook will include users’ Web behavior to fine-tune targeting, it’s only a matter of time before it expands its ad network to outside publishers, according to marketing experts. Facebook has said that it will gather Web surfing data on users to help advertisers understand... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2014-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook comes under fire for all manner of things -- it's just part and parcel of being a social network. When users are not up in arms at the site's privacy policies, they are found voicing their disapproval at the types of content they're not allowed to publish on their timelines. There are... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2014-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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LinkedIn Corp. will face a lawsuit from members suing it for allegedly violating their privacy by tapping into their external email accounts and downloading their contacts' addresses to recruit more users. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh ruled that the class-action lawsuit may proceed, which means... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2014-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The digital publishing boom of the last few years has changed the book business for ever, or has it? As a three-day conference begins to debate 'literary values in a digital age', we'll be reporting, live from 9.40am on Friday June 12, the views of editors, activists, writers, doubters and... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Through its ubiquitous "like" buttons on publisher sites across the web, Facebook has long been able to watch the web surfing behavior of its 1.28 billion monthly users.Soon it will begin to use that information for ad targeting on Facebook.Facebook already enables retargeting to users who've... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2014-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PayPal president David Marcus has left to steer mobile messaging at Facebook. Facebook claims that its standalone messaging app, called Messenger, is now used by more than 200 million people monthly. And the company's blog post today suggested that Marcus would lead that specific part of the... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2014-06-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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