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

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…

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.

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…

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…

You can file this one under, “When it rains, it pours.” A UK resident who wanted to stop her subscription to BSkyB’s pay-TV service got into an altercation with the customer rep who tried to talk her out of cancelling. The exchange became a little, well, heated, when the reason…

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has launched yet another project geared at making its search engine a more social beast. The awkwardly titled Google+ went live as an invitation-only “field test” Tuesday with the goal of allowing users to share information within self-determined groups of connections called “circles,” and is aimed squarely…

Three months after introducing its Facebook Like rival on its U.S.-facing google.com, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is now introducing its +1 button to the rest of its sites around the world

Facebook won’t try to offer music, movie or book services - but CEO Mark Zuckerberg has grand pronouncements for those sectors nevertheless. “Is Facebook going to do those? No way,” he said on stage during an awkward one-on-one with Publicis CEO Maurice Levy at the eG8 forum in Paris on…

“18hrs in. 1st exp needs tutorial. finding people must get easier. UI too minimal. long road. grt people. lots of capital. #wecandobetter” That was the tweet made by Bill Nguyen, one of the founders of the app Color on its first day on the Android and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) app…

Readability, a browser plugin that strips away web clutter to make focused reading easier, is growing and changing tack, by introducing a subscription fee to support publishers of read articles.

I spent a little time on a trip to Beverly Hills interviewing a stand-up comic, a human Magic 8 Ball and a guy with one of the hottest—and hardest—jobs around. All in one person. That would be Dick Costolo, COO of Twitter, who sat down with me after his keynote…

By now, there’s no need to repeat the backstory of Breaking News Online to the news junkies among us, especially those of us on Twitter and iPhone. If you do need the background, here’s the story. I was never a follower on Twitter, but I have been using its iPhone…

Updated: Facebook has purchased social sharing service FriendFeed—in a deal that should give it both additional technology and engineers to beef up its product. Financial terms of the deal were not released, although the WSJ puts the price at nearly $50 million, including $15 million in cash, with the remainder…