Former Wired and Industry Standard founder John Battelle has taken some of the ideas behind his Web 2.0 conference and created a new festival-conference hybrid called NewCo, aimed at companies that… Read more »
While everyone is trying to figure out a way to monetize online content via paywalls, John Battelle of Federated Media wonders whether a “group buying” approach would work better by giving… Read more »
I’ve read way too many predictions about how in 2013 social business will reach some new high water mark, or how the term will fall into disuse, or maybe things will… Read more »
Earlier today a Facebook staffer released a browser extension called “Don’t Be Evil,” a not-so-subtle dig at Google’s corporate motto. Unfortunately, both Facebook and Google are two companies who don’t quite… Read more »
Google’s integration of Google+ and profile information into personalized search results is creating quite a stink. Perhaps rather than squabbling, Twitter and Facebook should do some serious negotiating with Google and… Read more »
Count me among the skeptics who marvel how a photo-sharing startup could raise $41 million without customers or a business model. But I’m intrigued. Matthew Ingram wonders if the bet is… Read more »
Federated Media Publishing founder John Battelle is stepping aside as CEO and is promoting COO/president Deanna Brown to the top job at the… Read more »
The Robert Thomson quote machine was in full force during the obligatory Web 2.0 Summit look at the future of journalism. Federated Media’s… Read more »
No, we don’t have a Twitter-post-a-day rule but John Battelle’s Twitter-YouTube latest riff deserves a mention. While others tend to look at… Read more »
As has been widely expected, Federated Media, the online blog advertising network, has announced that it has received a $50 million minority… Read more »