Facebook Needs to Turn Data Trove Into Investor Gold

We shall see.

Not pining for pinning.

A somewhat over-emotional but nonetheless pertinent blog post about Pinterest and copyright. Also worth following the links at the bottom.

For Facebook, Risk and Riches in User Data

Defines the problem for every business in the online sphere.

Pinterest addresses copyright issues with opt-out option

More on the death of copyright. Well, that’s not what they said, but it is what it is.

New Facebook Policy on Made-Up Names Lets Gaga Be Gaga

Celebrity has its privileges as social media companies compete.

The Future of Sharing on Facebook, Twitter and Google

Predictions, but based on some trends.

Facebook’s Mobility Challenge

Can Facebook hold its own in the burgeoning smartphone advertising market?

What Job Seekers Need to Know in Today’s Digital Market

You already know this, right?

Klout Automatically Created Profiles, Including Minors

Worse than I thought. I was already skeptical about algorithmically-derived rankings, and this news ices the cake. I’m not sure it matters how popular you are if you are posting or reading solid information.

Hearsay Is a Social News App That Exposes Everything You Read

This doesn’t work for me if either a.) your friends read the same things you read or b.) your friends all read celebrity news or similar. But this is the latest trend in news consumption — reading what your friends read — whether it’s interesting or inherently limiting.

High-Tech Tools Help Bands Market Directly to Fans

The music business adopts internet tools.

Moods on Twitter Follow Biological Rhythms, Study Finds

A happiness index for posting?

How Tumblr is Changing Journalism

Earlier this week we looked at the remarkable growth of Tumblr, a blogging and curation service that now gets over 12 billion page views per month. Tumblr is mostly used as a consumer curation tool - it’s an easy way for people to re-post articles, images and videos. But Tumblr can also be used to power a news website. That’s exactly what ShortFormBlog does.

Launched in January 2009 by Ernie Smith from Washington D.C., the site publishes about 30 news soundbites a day. ShortFormBlog is still a part-time project for Smith, who also works as a graphic designer at The Washington Post. He’s hoping to turn the site into a full-time business. And I think he’s onto something, certainly in terms of using a tool like Tumblr to change the way news is delivered and consumed. I interviewed Smith to find out more about his Tumblr-powered news service.