How much money does Daily Beast media columnist Howard Kurtz make? We don't know! Business Insider editor Henry Blodget doesn't know either, but that's not stopping him from writing about it. Established journalists are raking in plenty of dough now, he posits, because ambitious web outfits like The Daily Beast and The Huffington Post poach print stars at a... MORE»
If you follow techies in the Twittersphere, you know that hundreds of thousands of people on the Internet have met, fallen in love with and married Quora, the hottest startup question-and-answer scene. The Wall Street Journal just discovered Quora, however, and did not fall in love: "I found it uninviting, geeky and poorly explained," Katherine Boehret writes in the course of a lengthy... MORE»
Starting today, visitors to Barnes & Noble can download a special app and, presto, super hottie Brooklyn Decker will pose with them for photos. The app was created by GoldRun, a startup based in New York that uses augmented reality as a marketing tools. It projects an image of Decker into the foreground of the iPhone's... MORE»
Seamless Web hit the Android App Market yesterday just in time for Slushpocalypse, reports Mashable's Jolie O'Dell. The app is now available to Android users in addition to iPhone and BlackBerry users, who no longer need both a phone and a computer in order to cause specific foods to be prepared and seamlessly delivered to their doors.... MORE»
Can Apple thrive without Jobs? [NYT] Well here's a start: Apple's Cook slams new tablets... MORE»
Even though ad revenue is expected to surge for social networking sites, online communities will only represent a small portion of overall advertising spending, according to a report by Deloitte published at... MORE»
Last week National Enquirer publisher David Pecker was making headlines for announcing furlough days while his CFO Christopher Polimeni rolled up in a new Corvette. Today Pecker's so flush he's shopping for new titles, according to... MORE»
Service over at the local blogmonger Tumblr has been sputtering over the past month or so. But the site's error page, an old-fashioned flip board that says "We'll be back shortly," is nowhere near as cute as Twitter's fail whale. Adam Hemphill, a San Francisco developer who works for Wired, created wellbebackshortly.com so people could have something to look at during Tumblr's not-infrequent... MORE»
Rap fans were treated to a bizzare series of messages over the weekend after the Twitter accounts of Lil Wayne was hacked. It started with a diss that could possibly have come from Wayne, directed at rival Soulja Boy. "I sent a donations to your Paypal, check it, I heard you got 13,000 sales lil homie, I feel bad for... MORE»
So what if MySpace has fallen on hard times? Its kitsch value is through the roof. "My No. 1 form of music is listening to vinyl records," Rachel Coleman said at an album release party at Death by Audio in Williamsburg on Friday. "Even though I'm a blogger, I like my antiquated technology. I'm used to it, and I'm comfortable with it, and I want to use MySpace in the same way that I use my record... MORE»
On a Tuesday night some weeks ago, at a jam-packed book party at Sidecar, the handsome upstairs space next to P.J. Clarke's on East 55th Street, Hugo Lindgren was leaning on the bar next to his deputy. The new editor of The New York Times Magazine had been on the job less than a month, and his coming reinvigoration of the once-great Sunday supplement was shaping up as one of the most exciting projects in New York... MORE»
As of a few minutes ago, the Foursquare "moving target" called "Slushpocalypse 2011" was trending, with 166 users "checking in" to a seasonably bad day of weather in New York. The phenomenon appears to piggyback on social media enthusiasts' penchant for hyperbole, as evidenced in recent use of "snowpocalypse," and other insipid formulations designed to conflate mundane occurences with the end of the world and/or... MORE»
Yahoo will allow users to sign in with their Google or Facebook accounts instead of with a Yahoo ID, the company announced today. "This eliminates the proverbial necessity of registering for yet another new ID and remembering yet another password. From Yahoo!'s perspective, any signed-in user engaging with Yahoo! services is a valued user, whether she authenticates using a Yahoo, Facebook, or Google ID," the company said in a blog... MORE»
Four ad startups are banding together to challenge the dominance of Google and Microsoft in search and online advertising, Erick Schonfield at TechCrunch reports. The two megacompanies operate massive networks across millions of sites and can serve up comprehensive data on how users are interacting with ads, so why would an advertiser go with anyone... MORE»
The lefty blog that your neighbor contributes to, The Huffington Post, plans to set up new digs in one of Chelsea's most desirable... MORE»
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