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Yahoo Hires Talking Points Memo Writer for Political Blog

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 23, 2009 - 10:42am.
Los Angeles - Yahoo (NASD: YHOO) has hired former Talking Points Memo deputy publisher Andrew Golis to head up a new political blog, PaidContent reported. Yahoo maintained that it is not launching a new site or vertical, but rather "ramping up" its original content.

tags: Blogs | Moves | Yahoo | Publishing | Politics | Talking Points Memo |

DailyBooth Gets $1 Million for Photo Blog Service

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 19, 2009 - 8:50am.
New York - DailyBooth, a photo-based blogging service with similar features to Twitter, has raised $1 million in venture capital financing, The Wall Street Journal Online reported.
tags: Deals | VC | Blogs | Publishing | Images | Sequoia Capital | Kevin Rose | Betaworks | SV Angel | DailyBooth | Caterina Fake |

Interactive Ad Bureau Decries New FTC Blogger Guidelines

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 16, 2009 - 8:35am.
New York - The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), a consortium of top technology firms and advertisers, called on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) this week to withdraw its new rules regarding disclosure of payments to bloggers for their coverage, arguing that "offline media have engaged [in such practices] for decades." The FTC last week set new guidelines concerning disclosures made in social media and on blogs where compensation has been given for an endorsement or testimonial.
tags: Marketing | Advertising | Law | Policy | Blogs | FTC | IAB | Publishing |

Blog Search Engine Technorati Gets $2 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 16, 2009 - 7:24am.
San Francisco - Technorati, a search engine for blogs, has raised $2 million in new financing from previous backers Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Mobius Venture Capital, TechCrunch reported.
tags: Deals | VC | Blogs | Search | Technorati | Publishing | Draper Fisher Jurvetson | Mobius Venture Capital |

Redlasso Re-launches Web Video News Clipping Service

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 15, 2009 - 11:03am.
Philadelphia - Redlasso, a Web-based video news clipping service for bloggers, on Thursday announced is re-launch, after signing new license agreements with Fox, Meredith Broadcasting, Journal Broadcasting Local Television, Gray Television, and Barrington Broadcasting. The service had gone offline last year after being sued by NBC and Fox News for copyright infringement.

tags: Video | Blogs | Copyright | News | Publishing | Redlasso |

MOG to Debut $5 Streaming Music Service Next Month

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 14, 2009 - 11:36am.
Berkeley, Calif. - MOG, a network of user-created music blogs, announced on Wednesday that it has signed licensing deals with all four major record labels, and plans to launch its own digital music service in North America by the end of November.
tags: Blogs | Music | Universal Music | Warner Music | EMI | Publishing | IODA | MOG | David Hyman | Sony Music | User-Generated |

FTC: Bloggers Must Disclose Payments for Endorsements

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 5, 2009 - 8:30am.
Washington - The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday announced new guidelines governing testimonials and endorsements published by bloggers who are paid for their coverage. "Bloggers who make an endorsement must disclose the material connections they share with the seller of the product or service," the FTC said.
tags: Marketing | Advertising | Law | Policy | Blogs | Publishing |

Report: Time Spent on Social Networks, Blogs Triples in Past Year

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 24, 2009 - 9:25am.
New York - Internet users in August spent 17% of their surfing time on social network and blogging sites, nearly triple the percentage of time spent on such sites a year ago, according to new figures released by Nielsen.
tags: Blogs | Social Networking | Reports | Nielsen | Research |

Ex AOLer Greg Coleman Named President of Huffington Post

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 16, 2009 - 12:18pm.
New York - Greg Coleman, who for two months earlier this year served as the president of AOL's Platform-A ad business, will become the new president and chief revenue officer of popular left-leaning political news site The Huffington Post, AllThingsD reported. Coleman also is the former executive vice president of global sales at Yahoo, as well as the CEO of search and ad targeting start-up NetSeer. Huffington CEO Eric Hippeau has been a member of Yahoo's board for several years. The status of James Smith, Huffington's current chief revenue officer, remains unclear.

tags: Advertising | Blogs | Moves | AOL | Publishing | Huffington Post |

Google Introduces 'Fast Flip' Online News Reader

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 15, 2009 - 10:51am.
Mountain View, Calif. - Google (NASD: GOOG) has launched a new service for reading news articles online, Google Fast Flip, that lets users 'flip' through pages online as quickly as flipping through a magazine.
tags: Blogs | Google | Newspapers | Magazines | Publishing | Google Fast Flip |

Blog Network SBNation Re-launches National Sports Site

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 10, 2009 - 12:02pm.
Washington - SBNation, a network of sports-related blogs that in July raised $8 million in funding, said on Thursday that it has re-launched its core national site. The new SBNation.com site will feature news, commentary and discussion culled by editors from the company's 212 professional sports blogs, as well as from third-party sites and social networks. The company said that the new format will give fans access to the "most relevant developments on the day's biggest sports news."

tags: Sports | Blogs | Publishing | SBNation |

Automattic Buys WordPress Spell-Check Plugin After the Deadline

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 9, 2009 - 12:04pm.
Los Angeles - Automattic, the developer of the WordPress blogging platform, has acquired After the Deadline, the developer of a spell checker plugin for the WordPress platform. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. WordPress is the platform being used to maintain some 7.5 million blogs.

tags: Deals | Blogs | Automattic | WordPress | Acquisitions | Publishing | After the Deadline |

Yardbarker Raises $1.5 Million for Web Sports Community

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 8, 2009 - 9:32am.
Emeryville, Calif. - Yardbarker, an online sports community and branded vertical ad network, has raised just over $1.5 million in new funding, PaidContent reported, citing an SEC filing.
tags: Deals | Sports | VC | Advertising | Blogs | Yardbarker |

MOG Lands $5 Million for User-Generated Music Blog Network

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 28, 2009 - 6:33am.
Berkeley, Calif. - MOG, a network of user-created music blogs, announced on Friday that it has closed a $5 million equity financing round, led by Menlo Ventures.
tags: Deals | VC | Blogs | Music | Publishing | MOG | Menlo Ventures | User-Generated | Simon Equity Partners | Scott Jones |

Outed "Skanks in NYC" Blogger Plans to Sue Google

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 24, 2009 - 11:51am.
New York - An anonymous blogger who was outed by Google through a court order -- demanded by a former model who claimed the "Skanks in NYC" blogger defamed her -- now plans to file a $15 million suit against Google (NASD: GOOG), the New York Daily News reported.
tags: Law | Lawsuits | Blogs | Google | Privacy | Publishing | Skanks in NYC |

Pluck Parent Demand Media Takes Stake in CoveritLive

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 18, 2009 - 8:34am.
Santa Monica, Calif. - Demand Media, a provider of social media tools including Pluck, announced on Tuesday it has made a strategic investment and acquired a minority stake in CoveritLive, a provider of live event blogging tools.
tags: Deals | Blogs | Social Networking | Pluck | Publishing | Investments | Demand Media | CoveritLive |

Facebook Integrates News Blog The Huffington Post

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 17, 2009 - 3:04pm.
Palo Alto, Calif. - Facebook has partnered with liberal blog The Huffington Post to integrate usage of the two sites via Facebook Connect. HuffPost Social News allows Facebook users to see their friends' activity on Huffington Post, and vice versa.

tags: Blogs | Social Networking | Facebook | News | Publishing | Huffington Post |

Gawker Media Suffers Denial-of-Service Attack

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 4, 2009 - 12:33pm.
New York - Blog network Gawker Media experienced a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) hacker attack over the weekend, CNET News.com reported. The attack was apparently launched against Consumerist, a site that Gawker sold to Consumer Reports but is still hosted on the same servers. The motive for the attack remains unclear.

tags: Blogs | Hackers | Publishing | Gawker Media |

Gawker Media: Ad Revenues Up 45% in First Half of '09

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on July 27, 2009 - 11:18am.
New York - Blog network Gawker Media has seen its revenues increase 45% in the first half of 2009, according to post on CEO Nick Denton's blog. Denton has predicted last year that media companies would see a decline of up to 40% in ad revenues, given the state of the publishing industry and the economy. "But I was wrong in one respect: a few premium internet brands, Gawker's among them, have withstood the advertising apocalypse," Denton wrote. In addition to its flagship Gawker.com, the company also runs sites including Jezebel, Gizmodo and Kotaku.

tags: Advertising | Blogs | Publishing | Nick Denton | Gawker Media |

Former Variety Editor Anne Thompson's Blog to Join IndieWire

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on July 17, 2009 - 10:03am.
Los Angeles - Former Variety deputy editor Anne Thompson, also a blogger at ThompsonOnHolywood, has signed a deal to publish her blog with IndieWire, the independent cinema publication, TheWrap.com reported. The deal will see Thompson's blog promoted on the IndieWire network, which will also sell ads on the site.

tags: Blogs | Movies | Publishing | Variety | indieWIRE | Anne Thompson |
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