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Posted: October 22, 2011 in Uncategorized0
Tumblr, the simple sharing service and blog alternative, continues to attract a record number of visitors each month.
According to comScore, Tumblr scored 13.4 million unique visitors in the U.S. in July — up 218% from the same time last year.
The blog-meets-social-network service has seen its most explosive growth in the past few months, according to comScore’s data, upping its unique visitor count by more than 5 million from April to July.
comScore attributes the pop to Tumblr’s “network effect.”
“The network effect is predicated on the idea that the more users that are part of the system, the more valuable the system becomes to users, which creates a virtuous cycle that pulls more users into the system and gives existing users more incentive to participate,” comScore’s Andrew Lipsman says. “This concept is an important reason why we often see that once social networks achieve critical mass, the network effect takes hold and adoption tends to accelerate.
Founded in 2007, Tumblr surpassed 20 million blogs in June of this year. The blog figure is now fast-approaching 28 million.
It should come as little surprise then that Tumblr is rumored to be soliciting investors to participate in a $75 million to $100 million round of funding that would put its valuation near the $1 billion mark — $800 million, byThe Wall Street Journal’s count.
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In tablets generally and the iPad particularly, consumers have found a device conducive to reading news.
It’s no surprise then that a growing number of newsreading apps have appeared, from individual, branded apps such as the Wall Street Journal for iPad to independent apps such as Flipboard, Editions and Zite, which are designed for consuming content from a variety of sources.
The last of these was acquired by CNN Tuesday. In an emailed statement, CNN’s general manager of digital, KC Estenson, suggested that Zite will continue to work with a wide array of media partners and that its technology will also be leveraged “to help CNN’s websites and apps serve more personalized content, making our current digital services even better.”
Zite would continue to operate as an independent company on a day-to-day basis under existing CEO Mark Johnson, the statement said.
Still, we were left with many questions. Why Zite? Will it truly remain independent? Will the new subsidiary be free to strike partnerships with other media outlets? Will the algorithms be tweaked to feature CNN content more prominently?
These are some of the questions we posed to both Estenson and Johnson in a phone interview Tuesday afternoon, parts of which are transcribed below.
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link: http://mashable.com/2011/08/30/cnn-zite-acquisition-interview/
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In the last couple of years – it seems like forever, really – the tech world has been fixed on finding how much the biggest social network, Facebook, is worth.
Right now, if you trust the valuations at SecondMarket – an online marketplace for trading with otherwise illiquid assets – Facebook is currently worth around 41 billion dollars, Businessweek has learned from a source familiar with the matter.
Back in 2007, Facebook was said to be worth $15 billion; its valuation “dropped” to a “meager” 3.7 billion at recession’s peak, but it rose unstoppably ever since.
In September, the Financial Times said Facebook was worth $33 billion, which meant it was bigger than eBay, a publicly traded company that was then valued at $32 billion. Now, with a $41 billion “valuation” Facebook is once again edging over eBay, which is currently valued at $39.3 billion.
Of course, all these numbers and valuations that are thrown around Facebook have one thing in common – they’re not real. Yes, Facebook is one of the hottest technology companies around, and yes, lately it’s been showing solid business results. But the current “valuation” is less concerned with the business side of things – eBay’s revenue, for example, is expected to top $9 billion this year – and more with expectations, which start somewhere at Facebook further expanding its huge user base and increasing ad sales, and end at over one billion users and world dominance.
Unrealistic? Who knows. Risky? Definitely: one only needs to look back at MySpace and how quickly it fell from a social networking powerhouse to a has-been. You can trust the current Facebook valuations on SecondMarket, and if you’re feeling really bullish about social networking and Facebook’s future, feel free to raise the bar even higher. But have in mind that only after Facebook goes through with an IPO, the market will determine its value. Until then, its valuations are mostly speculation.
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There’s no doubt that plain old YouTube can be tons of fun, but when you get bored of watching clips the traditional way, there are a ton of sites that can help enhance the experience.
Whether you want to view a video with a far-away friend, compare two clips, or find more interesting ways of browsing and sharing, there are plenty of options out there. The web community is known for creating hacks that improve your surfing experience; now we’ve dug into some of those tools and hacks built around YouTube.
Have a look through our 10 choices and let us know of any other YouTube mashups, hacks, or similar sites and services you’ve used. We’d love to hear about them in the comments below.
1. TubeReplay
This site features a super-simple premise. TubeReply will play a YouTube video over and over again, until you stop it or go mad — whichever happens first. Just enter the URL of the clip you want repeated and the site will do the rest.
2. DragonTape
DragonTape allows you to remix YouTube videos into a seamless mixtape. Search for the clips you want, drag and drop to set up the play order and then share the playlist with friends via an auto-generated URL, or embed it with the code provided.
3. YouTube Doubler
This “mashup helper” exists “because you have better things to do than work.” You can use it to compare two videos, or have fun mashing together two patently unsuitable videos. Simply enter the two URLs, decide on your VJ name, and you’re off and away. You can share your video pairing via a generated URL.
4. SynchTube
SynchTube allows you to watch synchronized YouTube videos with up to 50 other people with a chat window along the side so you can IM about what’s happening. Setting up a “room” is easy. Just enter the URL(s) of the videos you want to watch and then share the URL with your group. We can imagine tons of uses for this service, but the sweetest one has got to be setting up some videos to watch “together” with a far-away partner.
5. Infinitube
Enter your choice of keywords into this site and it will create an infinite playlist based on them. Get ready for a seamless viewing experience based on as many keywords as you can imagine.
6. Splicd
You can link to a specific spot in a YouTube video by adding #t=MMmSSs (replace MM with minutes and SS with seconds) to the end of the URL, but Spilcd (and TubeChop below) take this concept a step further. Splicd lets you cut down a YouTube video by entering start time and finish time. You can then share your edited clip with a URL or embed it with the code supplied.
7. TubeChop
TubeChop shares exactly the same principle as Splicd. TubeChop, however, lets you make your edited selection by sliding a bar along a timeline. It’s worth an independent mention as some may prefer TubeChop’s visual editing process.
8. YouCube
This unique little tool lets you create a “YouCube,” an interesting, if slightly offbeat way of sharing YouTube videos. Enter the six YouTube videos you want to appear on each side of the cube and it generates a spinning 3D cube of your videos that you can then name and share via a shortened URL.
9. MixTube
MixTube is a great, simple tool that lets you easily create and share music playlists from YouTube videos just by adding the URLs to a list. This tool is tidy and useful for songs that you can only find on YouTube, such as mashups, live performances, and other user-generated content.
10. YouFlow
YouFlow offers an alternative and more attractive way to browse videos on YouTube. Enter your key words and a selection of results will be displayed in a cover flow-style layout that you can scroll through. You can choose to play multiple videos right from the results, something that is much more difficult to do with YouTube’s queues and playlists.
11. Quietube
If the majority of YouTube comments depress you, then: a) You’re not alone, and b) There’s a solution. This browser bookmarklet offers a plain white or plain black background to view vids on. Simply install and then hit the “quietube” button after you press play on any YouTube video for some peaceful, troll-free viewing.
12. YouTube TestTube
TestTube is YouTube’s “ideas incubator,” akin to Gmail Labs, where YouTube engineers and developers “test out recipes and concoctions that aren’t quite fully baked.” You can play around with a comment search, HTML5, the lite version of YouTube (Feather), a caption editor, music discovery features and more.
If you’re trying to convince colleagues that Twitter is a fantastic real-time information network with huge personal and business value, save your spiel until after the flames of The Great Jonas/Bieber Wars have subsided.
Yes, this week’s most-tweeted topic was a battle over which teen pop titans were more likable. And we’re here to report that The Jonas Brothers have emerged victorious at number one, leaving Justin Bieber to die in a perfume-filled trench way down at number seven.
Entertainment carried the rest of what was a fairly uneventful week in the Twitterverse. The release of the highly anticipated first-person shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops had the entire web buzzing about the impressive console and PC game, and the excitement certainly trickled down to Twitter. CoD came it an number two for the week.
And not to be outdone by some floppy-haired American boy bands, Super Junior, the Korean troop of singing heart throbs, nabbed the bronze as fans tweeted about their five year anniversary. Much like the fall of the Berlin Wall and the moon landing, everyone knows where they were and what they were doing when Super Junior finally became a band all those years ago. Right?
Need more Twitter data? Check out the full list below, aggregated by our friends over at What The Trend. Because this is a topical list, hashtag memes and games have been omitted from the chart.
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Have you ever wondered which smartphone would last the longest when cooked like a hamburger? Us too.This neat little video of an iPhone 4, an Android G2 and a HTC Surround getting seared and charred has been making the viral video rounds. Each of the phones delivers digital smack talk (“How do you like them apples?!”)
before the searing heat puts them out of their misery.The video is apparently designed to promote the EZGrill disposable grill. They got some help though from Seattle-based Banyan Branch. Not bad for the cost of three phones and a grill.In case you were wondering, the Android was the first to go, while the iPhone’s temperature protection feature kicked in right on schedule. That makes the Windows Phone 7 the most fire-resistant of the bunch. Check out the video to see the full BBQ action.
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Now You Can Bump iOS Devices to Share Music
Jennifer Van Grove | Nov 12, 2010
Bump, the application maker known for its mobile device contact and photo exchange technology, has just released an update to its iOS applications — iPhone, iPod touch, iPad — that supports user-to-user music sharing.
In version 2.2, Bump [iTunes link] users can select songs from their iTunes collection to share with friends via the classic Bump gesture. Music recipients can then listen to the full tracks, as streamed from YouTube, or preview and buy them on iTunes.
Co-founder and CEO David Lieb believes music sharing and Bump are perfect companions. “We think Bump is the simplest and easiest way to tell your friends about songs and artists you love,” he says.
Bump is making an educated bet that music sharing will follow in the footsteps of photo sharing, which is now the most popular feature of its applications “with more than a million photos shared every weekend,” according to Lieb.
Bump already supports contact, calendar event and photo exchange, and also enables users to become fast friends on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn simply by bumping phones together. The startup also makes available an API to third-party application developers. PayPal, for instance, recently upgraded its mobile applications to allow for money transfers via Bump.
Image courtesy of Flickr, Yutaka Tsutano
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