Hyperlinks Are Dumb And...
Editor’s note: Oliver Roup is the founder and CEO of VigLink, a service that makes it easier to use affiliate programs on your blog or website. When an email hits our inbox, we know not only who it’s from but their entire web imprint . LinkedIn can point out the profile of the...
This Won’t End Well: ...
For some inexplicable reason, Nintendo and Toyota have teamed up to turn the Nintendo DS into a navigational remote control, thereby allowing drivers (although I hope passengers do most of the fiddling) to set their routes using their game consoles. The service, called Kuruma de DS lets...
Yer A Wizard, Reader: K...
If you’ve ever wanted to swing a magic wand around and make things happen (besides encouraging the cool kids to give you a swirly, that is), here’s your chance. A new game on Kickstarter called Incantor promises some real-live olde timey majicke fun for your iPhone. Built by...Imgur Now Sees 2 Billio...
Imgur has a little piece of my heart. On long days (or really any day), as news picks up and I’m writing like a work horse or when news screeches to a halt and I’m bored out of my mind, Imgur is there for me. Paired with the imaginations and (sometimes creepy) senses of humor...Zynga Picks Up Mobile G...
Zynga has picked up the team behind Wild Needle, a female-focused casual games company that was backed by Playdom co-founder Rick Thompson . Wild Needle was raising funding back in late 2010 to build casual, mobile games for women and closed a round with Thompson and Shasta Ventures...Qmerce Brings Brand-Cus...
With $450K behind it in funding, Israeli-based Qmerce is helping business large and small add social games to their communities, particularly on Facebook. The premise behind Qmerce’s value proposition isn’t new. That is, branded social games aimed at driving user engagement...
Five Ways Native Moneti...
Editor’s note: Dan Greenberg is the founder & CEO of Sharethrough , the native video advertising company. Dan has been honored as an AdAge “Media Maven” and was recently named to the Forbes “30 under 30″ list. You can find him on Twitter at @dgreenberg ....
Really, Yahoo. What Is ...
When Yahoo hired Scott Thompson as CEO back in January , many at the company were surely hoping that they’d finally found the game-changing leader they’d so sorely needed for years. Now just four months later, Thompson is only serving to highlight the exact deep-rooted...
With 125M Views, These ...
YouTube has announced the next class of creators to go through its YouTube Next program, this time focusing on vloggers . The video site originally announced the initiative about six weeks ago, and today it is announcing the 16 vloggers who will get some cash and advice to take their...