Media companies like BuzzFeed, NowThis News and Fusion are increasingly creating content that is designed to live on other apps and services rather than just including links to their websites. This… Read more »
Paul Sweeting runs down the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, but as an old operating systems industry analyst, I have to take a NewNet look as well. It’s intriguing how the big… Read more »
Part of the excitement driving LinkedIn’s IPO last week comes from investors associating social media with network effects. You know, the principle that the value of a network increases dramatically with… Read more »
No single story today, but rather a handful that shows Facebook continuing to play the platform ecosystem game successfully. That is, offering a set of technologies and APIs that developers can… Read more »
Perhaps you heard some noise about a $50 billion valuation for Facebook. Or mumblings about nine-month profit of $775 million? Putting a value on Facebook is beyond many of us, but… Read more »
Social gaming powerhouse Zynga acquired Flock, which makes a “social browser.” The move feels a lot more like an acquisition of talent than of product. Some call Zynga a platform wannabe,… Read more »