Facebook and Google have both opened services to the public today that intend to let you easily access any web site using versions of your pre-existing online identity. They both intend to help you find friends on other web sites to interact with, thereby making social interaction much simpler potentially anywhere on the web. Facebook’s service, Connect, is now available for any web developer to access and implement today . So is Google’s service, Friend Connect. Both sites have been perviously been giving access privately over the last weeks and months, after both companies — and a third rival, MySapce...
Lindsay Lohan, the Hollywood actress and drama magnet, is having yet another painful identity crisis — of the Facebook kind. Her Facebook account has been temporarily disabled, and she ironically chose to rant about the traumatizing experience on her MySpace blog. Her stream-of-unconsciousness style post, titled “Upset with Facebook,” claims that her Facebook profile was hacked repeatedly, and complains that Facebook administrators shut down her profile as an impostor account while scads of fake Lindsay Lohans are free to frolic on the site. Tragic. And why would that be? Lohan has the answer, with a lack of capitalization that...
Flip.com, the social network where teen girls can create online “flip books”, is being shut down by parent company Conde Naste, according to a recent Gawker report. Launched well over a year ago during the gilded age of old media building a plethora of social networks for the purpose of gaining traffic and eyeballs, Flip.com seemed doomed from the beginning. A large focus on branded content for teen girls to use in their custom flip book designs coupled with a more-or-less walled garden approach to media sharing were just a couple of the reasons that could be attributed to Flip.com’s...
Political news site The Huffington Post announced today that it has raised $25 million from Oak Investment Partners — significantly higher than the $15 million that was reported by the Times UK in late November. Kara Swisher of All Things Digital says the valuation was slightly less than $100 million. This basically confirms what VentureBeat writer Eric Eldon guessed last month when the funding rumors surfaced: “Like PaidContent said, the funding isn’t closed and the amount isn’t determined.” HuffPo, as it is commonly called, is looking to build on its momentum from the presidential race. You’d expect a lot of...
Gawker is an internet magazine catering to the “urban hater demographic.” Here is an image they posted creatively mapping the the world's douchebags on a subway map. Is it better to be a hater or a douchbag? Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment »...
Gawker is an internet magazine catering to the “urban hater demographic.” Here is an image they posted creatively mapping the the world's douchebags on a subway map. Is it better to be a hater or a douchbag? Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment »...
Internet advertising revenue reached $5.9 billion during the third quarter of 2008. That’s the second-highest number ever, but quarter-to-quarter growth is slowing, according a new report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers. These numbers lend support to the last few months’ speculation that online ad numbers are about to fall off a cliff. Gawker Media owner Nick Denton offered perhaps the most pessimistic take, saying businesses should prepare for a 40 percent drop in advertising spending, but he’s hardly the only one who thinks ad-driven businesses will be hit hard next year. (Denton seems to be taking his...
On the same day that he published a detailed missive about his dire predictions for the online ad market, Gawker Media overlord Nick Denton made public his decision to shut down Valleywag, the blog network's Silicon Valley gossip title. Valleywag was launched early in 2006. Valleywag editor Owen Thomas ......
Owen Thomas, managing editor of Valleywag, has confirmed that the infamous tech gossip blog is being folded into Gawker with Owen switching roles from editor to columnist. Here’s more on the changes at Gawker from Nick Denton. And now for a trip down memory lane, here’s my write-up and photos of the Valleywag launch party back in Feburary 2006 when Nick Denton introduced us to a then unknown Nick Douglas, Valleywag’s first managing editor. photos by Scott Beale This is a blog post from Laughing Squid For more content like this, subscribe to the RSS feed, Twitter & FriendFeed....
In the wake of his apocalyptic predictions for the online-advertising market, Nick Denton, the owner of Valleywag publisher Gawker Media, read my offhand quip about how I would soon be writing Valleywag as a column for Gizmodo or Gawker, whichever will take me" as a brilliant business suggestion, and he's taking me up on the idea. (Gawker, as it happens.) Nick, I was joking, but if you really think I have such keen insight into how to manage your Web properties, why not make me a strategic consultant to Gawker Media instead — and give me a hefty raise while...
