Charlie Warzel

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Mental Floss Finds a Home on YouTube

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A number of big print publishers have ventured onto YouTube, with mixed success.

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Forget Finding Your Friends. SXSW Shifts to Outer Space

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This year, like the one before it, nobody "won" South By Southwest Interactive. This is not news, nor is it a surprise for a festival that's been in the middle [...]

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New York Times Introduces Prototype Site Redesign

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This morning, The New York Times announced it will begin rolling out a prototype version of its newly designed website for employees inside the company firewall with plans to expand [...]

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Mashable Unveils New Native ‘Social Lift’ Ad Unit

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Today, at Mashable's SXSW MashShow event, CEO and founder Pete Cashmore presented the company's newest native ad unit to the Austin, Texas, crowd. 

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Elon Musk: ‘My Life Is Insane’

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At a packed keynote panel that left many SXSW attendees watching from overflow rooms, SpaceX, Tesla and PayPal founder Elon Musk gave convention goers a glimpse of his "insane" life.

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Is ESPN Ready to Embrace Big Data?

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Nerd convention. Dorkapalooza. Geek heaven. Just a few names that were bandied about last weekend to describe the annual gathering of sports' intellectual cabal at MIT's Sloan Sports Analytics Conference.

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Industry Effort to Improve Web Ad Metrics Goes Nowhere

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Is the viewable impression going nowhere fast?

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Federated Media CEO Deanna Brown to Depart

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In a shakeup at Federated Media Publishing, CEO Deanna Brown announced today that she'll be departing the company, leaving current executive chairman and former CEO John Battelle to return to [...]

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IAB Post Mortem: Deep Industry Divide on Native Ads

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Despite all the hype and enthusiasm surrounding native advertising, there's a rift in the digital ad business and it's deeper than you might think.

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Susan Lyne Becomes CEO of AOL’s Brand Group

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AOL board member and Gilt vice chairman Susan Lyne has been appointed CEO of AOL's brand group, the company said this morning.