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Discovery Launches Curiosity.com Expert Q&A Site
Sliver Spring, Md. -- Discovery Communications, the media company behind such cable television staples as the Discovery Channel, TLC and Animal Planet, on...
Xfire has 400 million potential new users via joint venture
Xfire, the social platform for PC gamers, has formed a joint venture with China Youth Goyor Technology (Beijing) Co. Ltd. that will make its service available to a market of 400 million gamers.
Oprah learns Twitter lesson the hard way
Oprah Winfrey tweeted herself into controversy during the Grammy Awards, necessitating an apology to the Nielsen, by sending a tweet suggesting followers watch her show.
Canv.as Leaves Beta, No Longer Blank
Canvas, an online community for sharing, remixing and otherwise interacting with images, is now open to the public. This new endeavor is a friendlier and tidier site than founder Christopher Poole’s early creation 4chan, evidence of the $3.6 million investment Canvas has raised.
Transmedia Producers – Conducting Symphonies of Narratives
We hosted the second in a series of exclusive Transmedia workshops last week in Washington D.C. with Starlight Runner’s Jeff Gomez. This time I...
Facebook Declines Congressional Privacy Caucus Invitation
Facebook declined an invitation to explain how it protects the online privacy of children and teens to the Bi-Partisan Congressional Privacy Caucus, and co-chairmen Congressmen Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Joe Barton (R-Texas), have made public their disappointment.
Reports: Facebook Acquires Former Litigant WhoGlue
Two years after suing Facebook for patent infringement, Baltimore-based WhoGlue, a small developer of software for membership organizations, has now been acquired by the social networking giant, according to multiple reports. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Foursquare Checks In to ESPN's API
Foursquare users often get perks or discounts when they check into places, but a new agreement with ESPN will provide relevant trivia, facts and...
Guest Post: The 3 Pillars of Monetizing Digital Content Experiences
We live in the age of contextual experiences, where digital content is expected to be available on smartphones, smart TVs, tablets and phablets seamlessly, leading to new and exciting content monetization models. But being innovative and extending content to new touchpoints stretches the limits of your CMS, ecommerce systems and functional requirements of data.
Closing Remarks from DEW 2016 Chair: Startups, Disney and the...
Perhaps the biggest indication that we are in a truly exciting and transformational time was the final session of the day with Disney’s Chief Strategy Honcho Kevin Mayer, arguably one of the most powerful executives in digital entertainment today. During his tenure, Mayer has overseen Disney’s strategic acquisitions of Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, Club Penguin and Maker Studios and oversees the Disney Accelerator, a program designed to accelerate the growth of startup companies from around the world.
