For many news sites, Facebook has become one of the biggest sources of referral traffic to its stories, and today the social network revealed some numbers that underscored how it is continuing to build up its cred as a news aggregator: it says it now has “thousands” of journalists using…

Demotix, the user journalism and photography upload service that is part-owned by Corbis, is adding an incremental new revenue stream.

Social content site BuzzFeed is the latest company to release a version of its app especially for the Kindle Fire.

The blog ad network NetShelter, which counts with hundreds of technology blogs and some 4,800 bloggers among the sites for which it sells ads, is today launching a new ad unit called InPowered, an RSS-style box that it hopes will resonate with the information-seekers that visit the sites, and create…

As the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Co.-owned About Group continues its turnaround efforts in the face of weak display and cost-per-click ad sales, the flagship guide site is hoping that its placement within the social reader app Flipboard will help bring in new readers and advertisers.

Trapit, a discovery engine for Web content from the group behind Siri, launches to the public today. The company describes itself as “Pandora (NYSE: P) for everything else,” and believes Google (NSDQ: GOOG) searches and news delivery through social networks fail to offer users content that is actually important to…

CJR assistant editor Erika Fry, whose questions about Poynter Online’s methods of aggregation and attribution ultimately led to the resignation of ur-media blogger Jim Romenesko, has posted her story on the matter. While Fry seems a bit irked that Poynter Online director Julie Moos attempted to beat her to punch…

Jim Romenesko is leaving his post at the Poynter Institute earlier than expected amid controversy over whether or not he provided “incomplete attribution” during his 12 years of aggregating media industry news. The news came after nearly a full day of intense infighting across Twitter and the blogosphere about Romenesko’s…

The Huffington Post is planning a French edition—Le Huffington Post—with two established partners who will share equity: The Le Monde Group and Les Nouvelles Editions Indépendante. It was not clear if the three will own an equal share.

YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) is launching a new politics site today that it hopes will offer a “holistic” view of the candidates on the campaign trial, and also, via its metrics, provide a snapshot of their popularity among voters. But at the first glance, YouTube Politics seems to be falling well…

A federal judge refused late on Friday to grant a temporary restraining order to Timelines.com, a Chicago company that says Facebook’s timeline service may “eliminate” it. The decision noted Facebook’s assurances that it would not proceed with a full launch of “timeline” until the parties meet again in court on…

One of iPad’s flagship apps wants to help publishers sell ads by flipping back to familiar old print rules. “One of the big problems with the web is that it scrolls,” Flipboard CEO Mike McCue told our recent paidContent Advertising conference. » Watch the video of McCue’s Q&A with paidContent UK…

Facebook unveiled a new version of its social-media platform Thursday designed to help media companies and social-application developers encourage Facebook users to share more details about their lives. The new Open Graph and several varieties of Facebook applications were joined by a redesigned version of the Facebook profile called the…

As the 2012 campaign for the White House starts heating up, Twitter says it will start accepting political advertising. Starting today, candidates and their political committees will be able to buy Twitter’s full range of ad products, including Promoted Tweets, Promoted Accounts and Promoted Trends. Separately, in a bid to…

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There is no scrolling on Flipboard—that’s rule number one, said Mike McCue, the social reader’s CEO, in a conversation with paidContentUK’s Robert Andrews at the paidContent Advertising conference.

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Users who follow The New Yorker magazine through iPad social reader Flipboard will start noticing advertising as part of the mix. The ads, beginning with a campaign by American Express, are part of a deal with the magazine’s publisher, Condé Nast, which will be working with Flipboard on ads for…

GetGlue, the media “check-in” app that lets users share what they are watching, listening and reading with their social network, has inked an exclusive partnership with Channel 4 in the UK, its first deal outside of the U.S. (Story below now updated with comments from Alex Iskold, the CEO and…