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Brian Moylan, an editor at Gawker Media (and self-proclaimed “Gawker shit talker” on Twitter), remembers a recent spate of 20 minutes that seemed like the longest ever. He couldn’t click the refresh button on enough browsers fast enough. Having just spotted a Tweet on Billy Crystal’s feed announcing the nine-time Oscars host would be emceeing [...]

Brian Moylan, an editor at Gawker Media (and self-proclaimed “Gawker shit talker” on Twitter), remembers a recent spate of 20 minutes that seemed like the longest ever. He couldn’t click the refresh button on enough browsers fast enough. Having just spotted a Tweet on Billy Crystal’s feed announcing the nine-time Oscars host would be emceeing [...]

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.

SoundTracking is becoming more and more popular and, of course, that means that it’s becoming more and more attractive to investors — to the point that it has just received some $4.75 million in venture capital.

This year, editor in chief of Black Enterprise, Derek Dingle, started Tweeting. It wasn’t during a press conference. It was during a boxing match. He was watching Bernard Hopkins, who was about to become the oldest heavyweight champion ever, cheering him on through the social network. Readers joined his playful oldies-take-on-young-bloods banter. “Yeah,” one of [...]

It may seem like the web has coughed up more than enough social networks by now but, if the internet has taught me anything over the years it’s that no digital niche will ever go unfilled. Meet Agent155, the recently announced site that plans to launch a network aimed at the entertainment industry.

Buying and selling used DVDs, CDs and other physical media has been around for as long as the media itself. Doing the same with used digital media is a bit trickier though and, until now, setting up a legal marketplace has seemed all but impossible. This is set to change with tomorrow’s launch of ReDigi’s [...]

Who would’ve thought, all those years ago, that Napster would go on to change hands more than a well-worn penny over the years. Well, maybe a lot of people with astounding foresight into the music industry’s future would have  . . . but that’s besides the point. The latest news regarding Shawn Fanning’s baby is [...]

Pandora has just launched a comprehensive redesign that makes the streaming radio/music discovery service, like a backward-time-traveling grandparent, both prettier and more functional than before. The new look (which provides a bit more context for the company’s rising IPO this past summer) is available to all Pandora users and adds improvements like streamlined cross platform [...]

The social media site started by three entrepreneurial moms and geared toward kids younger than 13 years of age, Everloop.com, announced a new partnership today with two globally recognized kids’ brands, National Geographic’s Animal Jam and Mattel’s Monster High.

The data-hungry among you may have noticed that Google Correlate, the research tool released by the Google team for experimentation in May 2011, has just graduated from Google Labs and can now be found on Google Trends. The newfangled research tool finds search patterns, ready for analysis, that correspond with real-world trends (think Bird Flu). [...]

Ah, to think back on all those jokes. “Do I Twitter?” went the classic question-in-response-to-a-question, often asked with a look of befuddlement, or boredom, or busier-than-thou disgust, and always followed by the “who cares what so-and-so ate for breakfast?” Well, a few fans of MC Hammer cared what he was up to (to date @MCHammer [...]