Original web series destination site Blip has just closed a $12 million financing round to develop new tools and services for independent producers.

Over the past couple months a brand new meme has taken over YouTube (and the world!)—the hilarious ‘Sh** Girls Say’ web series has spawned a deluge of copycats. In recent weeks the tech savvy have gotten in on the fun with ‘Sh** VCs Say’, ‘Sh** Silicon Valley Says’ and now, ‘Sh** a Social Media Community Manager Says.’

A report from Nadia Han of ABC News in Philadelphia looks into the potential of ‘Cashing in on YouTube.’ Some of the details in the report are surprising, to say the least.

For Facebook, 2012 will be the year of the third party app. News, videos, and songs streaming down your newsfeed are just a “small taste of overall vision,” said Carl Sjogreen, director of product management for Facebook at the Inside Social Apps Conference. The focus for the coming year will be on enhancements to Open Graph, mobile and games.

  Today at the Inside Social Apps Conference 2012 in San Francisco, game developers discussed which platforms hold the most promise in 2012.

It’s been awhile since Antoine Dodson serenaded us with his amazing words, “Hide your kids; hide your wife; and hide your husband.” But the time has come—Dodson is now working on his own album, 2012 AD, and this week his first single is going viral.

Social, once dismissed as a consumer only trend, is starting to make a real dent into business.  Yammer, a social CRM product dedicated to providing a Twitter like stream of discussion for employees, just recently reported recorded revenues.  Now Jive, a public company and competitor to Yammer has reported their fourth quarter revenues have increased [...]

Sunday’s game was the first ever Super Bowl webcast and the online turnout exceeded expectations. In the end, 2,105,441 users came out to watch the game, which NBC says was the most-watched, single game sports event of all time.

When you download an application, you’re giving it a certain level of trust.  We’ve all been in the position where we download an application and within minutes we’v been asked multiple times to “log in with Facebook to invite all your friends.”  We quickly remove the application.  What if the application covertly uploaded everyone one [...]

I had the opportunity to interview YouTube marketing expert Greg Jarboe, who told me why every brand or business should be using online video and offered up some advice on what marketers can do to maximize the success of their online video campaigns.