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Twitter begins promoting...

Twitter just published a great blog post promoting #longreads, a hash tag that provides more in-depth context and content than 140 characters can ever provide. By searching #longreads, you’ll find tweeted suggestions…

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Most Interesting People in The Room

Today, a new site called “Most Interesting People in the Room” launches as a new, incentivized way for highly intellectual and curious people to communicate, forum style on the Internet….

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Gary V joins The Daily as video host

According to Business Insider, notable social media pundit and businessman, Gary Vaynerchuk, better known as “Gary V” will be joining Rupert Murdoch’s The Daily, hosting a weekly video show called “The…

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BlogDash to mend PR / Press Disconnect

If you’re a blogger, you’ve likely received a banal email from a nondescript “hack” that has aggressively (and therefore irritatingly) tried to grab your attention. And if you work in public relations, you’ve…

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Say hello to Gawker Media's new design

In case you haven’t been paying attention to the musings of Nick Denton, the king of the Gawker Media castle, Gawker has been gearing up for a site re-design for…

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How Did Oatmeal Score on Digg?

A key to the mystery lies at the bottom of this post. The top-level categories on Digg are now My News, Top News, Upcoming, and Oatmeal. Leaving us wondering, how…

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Techmeme and Mediagazer add Tweets

Techmeme founder Gabe Rivera and Mediagazer founder Megan McCarthy announced today, on Twitter, that they both news aggregation sites will be including Tweets as headlines going forward. In July of…

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The Future Of Real-time News Sharing?

It was only last week that we looked at the sad demise of Readness, a promising service that allowed users to share the news articles they were reading in real-time….

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New Analytics for AddThis Platform

We recently wrote about Clearspring, an online content sharing network, as one of the “10 D.C. Start-Ups You Need to Know About.” Clearspring’s meal ticket, the “AddThis” button that you’ve undoubtedly…

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Apps on your TV: The Possibilities

2011 looks set to be the year that Internet-connected TVs become truly mainstream. There’s a lot more potential here than just downloading movies and watching Hulu on a big screen,…