YouTube launches pilot program for paid subscriptions, channels start at $0.99 per month

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We’ve had a pretty clear indication that it was coming, and YouTube has now gotten official with one of the biggest changes to the way it does business to date. It’s today kicking off a pilot program for paid subscriptions, which initially consists of a small group of partners offering channels that start at $0.99 [...]

Rewind.me is ‘Klout for the real world

  SAN FRANCISCO — Rewind.me hopes to do for social media what the DVR did for TV viewing. The permission-based app collects data from Foursquare, Facebook, Instagram and others and organizes it to illustrate a consumer’s personal timeline, down to the minute. Version 1.3 went live on iPhone last week. In short, it is a [...]

Grockit Lands $20M From Discovery, Benchmark & Others To Bring Its New “Pinterest For Education” To The Masses

Social learning company Grockit announced today that it has raised a new round of strategic investment from Discovery Communications, the media giant best known for its television properties, like the Discovery Channel, TLC, and Animal Planet, among others. The investment also includes participation from Summit Group (investors in Uber and Scribd) as well as previous [...]

IBM Study: How to Make Social Work

  IBM has been on a roll lately with interesting information you can use to grow your business. Today, I want to talk about their “The Business of Social Business” report. We sometimes come down hard on social media, declaring that it’s not the golden goose it’s often made out to be. But the truth [...]

Five Facebook Fizzles You Can Fix

  What’s a “Facebook Fizzle” and why should you want to fix it? So, you’ve got a great business, enthusiasm that rocks the planet, and you make the decision to jump onto social media. Facebook is your most frequented hangout, because you’re already there hanging out with your friends. You make your page. Put up [...]

Miso launches Quips, the best way to talk about TV!

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Miso launches Quips, the best way to talk about TV! Over the last few months we at Miso have been hard at work to create our newest and best product yet: Quips! Quips is the best way to talk about TV. It incorporates the social activity you love with incredibly beautiful images from the very [...]

Katharine McPhee by Justin Hollar

Do you remember Katharine McPhee from American Idol. This bombshell brunette was a sensation and now you can see her stunning photgraphs by Justin Hollar here. See on www.pphotography.net

Building the search engine of the future, one baby step at a time

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Be sure to watch the short video to see how Google is now starting to supply collections of result’s at the very top of their search page. Collections based on the knowledge graph. So now it appears by grouping the very best information together into lists, such as curators do, these lists are more likely [...]

A Curated Video Site Focusing Only on Educating Entrepreneurs: CoFounder TV

See on Scoop.it – internetbillboards Robin Good: Here is a good example of video curation at work. CoFounder.tv is a video web site curating only the best and most inspiring entrepreneurship video clips. From startuppers, to investors and VCs, the growing collection strives to bring together a variety of viewpoints from those who have been [...]

New Xbox Music Service Announced.

See on Scoop.it – Musicbiz We heard that Microsoft was planning to unveil its “Woodstock” Xbox Music service at E3 this week, and the company has revealed details on its plans today. Yusuf Mehdi says Microsoft will release… See on www.theverge.com

glitter Pictures [p. 1 of 250] | Blingee.com

See on Scoop.it – Photos4Share glitter pictures to create glitter ecards, custom profiles, blogs, wall posts, and glitter scrapbooks, page 1 of 250. glitter pics are great to personalize your world, share with friends and have fun. See on blingee.com

Four Examples of How Content Curation Is Used by Luxury Brands

See on Scoop.it – Content Curation World Robin Good: If you are looking for some real-world examples of big brands using content curation to increase the effectiveness of their marketing and visibility campaigns, you may find it helpful to look at this four big brands examples:   1) Gilt Group blog   2) BMW TV [...]