storyful
The Guardian catches Storyful tracking what videos journalists are watching
Storyful has been running an internal feed of all the videos clients using its Chrome extension watch. Is this malice or incompetence?
acquisitions
MySpace: strangled by the corporate cord
Corporate bureaucracy kills the network [http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/06/myspace-what-went-wrong-sean-percival-spotify?utm_source=Stay+In+Touch&utm_campaign=2a23cf2a14-Newsletter21_19March15&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b8bd4077e5-2a23cf2a14-161471409] , says former MySpace VP, Sean Percival: > “The analogy I use is like you were the half-time
acquisitions
Social Media Verification is journalism's new frontier
I missed this last week [http://newscorp.com/2013/12/20/news-corp-acquires-social-news-agency-storyful/] : > Accelerating News Corp’s digital transformation and video strategy, the company has acquired Storyful, the world’s first social news agency. Storyful, of course, are a brilliant lot, who have made the skill of verifying stories and