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Yahoo acquired micro-blogging service Tumblr this week for a reported $1.1 billion in cash and a promise “not to screw it up.” In good taste, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced the deal on Yahoo’s tumblr and included an appropriate animated gif to commemorate the occasion. Tumblr founder David Karp responded on the Tumblr Staff blog with reassurances that Tumblr will remain autonomous and not be painted purple….
Mark your calendars—Social Media Week is returning to Los Angeles September 23-27, 2013. Led by Drew Baldwin and Joshua Cohen of Tubefilter and the Streamy Awards, SMWLA 2013 will feature another week of free, engaging events featuring keynotes from leaders in social media and communications technology, roundtable discussions, workshops, classes, demos, and more. For those…
Social Media Week Los Angeles (SMWLA), part of Social Media Week Global, a worldwide event exploring the social, cultural and economic impacts of social media, today announced its first annual “Social 25” list of digital media influencers. This year’s luminaries include NFL’s Jeff Berman, Lady Gaga’s business manager Troy Carter, Los Angeles City Councilmember Eric…
When Michele Norris isn’t hosting NPR’s All Things Considered (and giving National Public Radio aficionados internetwide more reasons to make her an object of their affections), she’s collecting race cards. The award-winning journalist and newly-published author started The Race Card Project when she was on the road promoting The Grace of Silence, her “eloquent and…
Marketing and motivational magnate Seth Godin launched a book on July 18 by way of Kickstarter. In the 11 days since, contributors have kicked in almost a quarter of a million dollars (or $244,071 at the time of this post) to see The Icarus Deception come to publication. That amounts to roughly $22,188 worth of…
If you’re iPhone’s out of juice and you’ve already drained your mophie, but you need to make a call and even have the however-much-it-costs-to-use-a-payphone-these-days in change, it’s increasingly hard to find a location where you can reach out and touch someone. The Rotobooth will not help you solve this problem. It will however, let you…
The extraordinarily well-funded San Francisco-based website that gives event organizers all the tools they need to plan, promote, publicize, and sell tickets to events of any shape or size just passed a very impressive threshold. This month, Eventbrite announced its organizers have “collectively earned $1 billion in ticket sales” on the platform. That’s a lot…
Social network game developer Zynga purchased OMGPOP and its smash hit application Draw Something for somewhere in the ballpark of $180 million earlier this year. Now, the company that’s turning Angry Birds into full-length feature film and 52-episode web series is bringing its Pictionary for the Facebook generation to Tinseltown, too. News broke earlier this…
Leading up to Facebook’s IPO on May 18, 2012 (or FailPO?), the professional journalists and amateur economists at National Public Radio’s Planet Money devoted a series of stories to delving deeper into into advertising on the social network that’s scheduled to hit the billion user mark sometime this August. One of the questions Planet Money…