Posts Tagged ‘facebook’

Pinterest is growing rapidly and has quickly become the #5 social network (in terms of driving retail traffic, behind Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Yahoo!, and ahead of Google+. It makes sense considering the site’s large female following and the clever …

What matters most to young people in the 2012 election? (Facebook is calculating this in its new campaign “What Matters Most” where users rank the top three issues that are most important to them and their picture and thoughts can …

Today we bring you another installment of Youth Media Movers and Shakers. We’ve culled through industry publications looking for the recent executive placements we think you should know about. If you have executive news that you want us to highlight in our …

We’ve been eagerly awaiting news of how JCPenney would re-imagine the shopping experience (since we first heard that new CEO Ron Johnson was considering adding Genius Bars, a concept he devised while with Apple. Believing that “the department store …

Here’s a roundup of some of the best ways that brands are using Facebook’s new Open Graph (to encourage their fans to share their brand interactions on the site. We’re big fans of Ticketmaster’s mashup with Spotify’s app to tell …

Lego has built its way into the social media world (with its new fan community, ReBrick, where users can share images of what they construct and see what other Lego users have been busy making. So long to the days …

Apple’s much talked about announcement today puts the tech giant in the book publishing space (with the unveiling of the iBooks author app, which allows authors to self-publish, and iBooks 2, an upgrade of the iBooks app which includes a …

Today was the day the Internet went black (in a movement against the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act — SOPA — and Protect IP Act — PIPA. The bill is designed to end the distribution and streaming of copyrighted content, but includes …

The wait is over! Right now you can download the first episode of NBC’s ‘Smash’ via iTunes (but unlike the previews of a Broadway show, we’re sure they’ve already worked out all the kinks. Why would NBC unveil its show …

We’re excited about Facebook’s new feature, “Listen With,” that — logically — lets users listen to music with friends and experience songs simultaneously (even if they’re not together. Users can become DJs via a chatroom and play music they’re streaming …