Some might wonder why Microsoft would pay $2.5 billion for a game with low-res graphics and no real plot-line — but the reality is that Minecraft is far more of an… Read more »
LinkedIn has introduced a Twitter-like feature for all users: A follow button. It brings professional networking platform one step closer to the “media” side of its “social media” mandate. Read more »
Suspected “pirates” will get told they’ve been spotted — but that’s it. This appears to be little more than a consumer awareness campaign, with no threatened disconnections. Read more »
Facebook’s director of product Mike Hudack posted a rant about the inadequacies of the media — including some new-media sites like Vox — and their focus on click-bait content, but many… Read more »
Metafilter, a pioneering online community, has been forced to lay off almost half of its moderation staff and is on financial life support after its traffic from Google suddenly declined by… Read more »
Chartbeat CEO Tony Haile says both publishers and advertisers need help figuring out which pieces of native advertising are actually working, so the analytics company has introduced a new suite of… Read more »
Quartz, the business-news site from Atlantic Media, is experimenting with a new way of navigating the news that is powered by blog pioneer Dave Winer’s outlining software called Fargo, which allows… Read more »
The term “platishers” is a terrible one, but Jonathan Glick of Sulia has a point about the increasingly blurred lines between platforms and publishers. The real question is what the duties… Read more »
Two charts show how dominant Facebook is when it comes driving viral traffic to content from publishers like BuzzFeed and Upworthy — but depending on a platform like Facebook for your… Read more »
Assuming that IP traffic has grown continuously over the past few years, the explosion of new applications/usages strongly suggests that this trend will continue in both the short and long term… Read more »