SoundCloud may have been knocked offline by a DDoS Attack last night, but today it’s back and fully integrated into content curation platform, Storify. Storify launched its public beta version in April of this year, and quickly became a popular platform for online content curation… Tweet This Post

Sites across the Web created some amazing tributes to Steve Jobs over the last day. One of our favorites was our friends at Boing Boing, who overhauled the theme of their front page with a touching, nostalgic classic Mac look… Tweet This Post

When Klout announced in mid-September that Blogger and Tumblr would play a role in determining your Klout score, WordPress users immediately asked, “What about us?” Klout responded by quietly adding WordPress to its scoring system, which already factors in 11 other services: Blogger, Facebook, Flickr, Foursquare, Google+, Instagram, Last… Tweet This Post

Shane Snow is co-founder of Contently.com, a marketplace for freelance journalists and brands-turned-publishers. Bounce rates are the bane of a blog’s existence. The higher the number, the less engaged the reader (and the more depressed the blogger)… Tweet This Post

WordPress has revamped the WordPress.com Comments panel in Site Stats to give blog authors better insight into their most responsive readers. In addition to a summary of recent comments, the panel now displays leader boards for top commenters and most commented posts… Tweet This Post

TechCrunch editor and founder Michael Arrington has left the popular tech blog to become a partner in a new venture capital firm called CrunchFund. As the proprietor of TechCrunch, Arrington has long been the blogger-turned-kingmaker in the startup ecosystem… Tweet This Post

The Social Media 101 Series is sponsored by Global Strategic Management Institute. GSMI’s Social Media Strategies Series are the leading educational events for organizations looking to advance their online capabilities… Tweet This Post

James Gross and Noah Brier have talked to a lot of people at a lot of different companies around the world and they say the number one most-asked question by corporate execs about to jump into social media is almost always “but what should I Tweet about?” The blank white box, as Gross and Brier [...]

Micro-blogging service Twitter is in the process of raising $400 million in funding that would value the company at $8 billion, according to a report by the New York Times. The site has more than 300 million registered users who fire off quick messages, called Tweets, that are less than 140 characters long… Tweet This [...]

Shane Snow is co-founder of Contently.com, an “agile publishing” platform for brands-turned-publishers and freelance journalists.Most people quit blogging — and most companies do too, for that matter… Tweet This Post

We all love Tumblr for its ease of use and unique social blogging features. But we really love Tumblr because the right theme can turn your humble cat musings into sophisticated works of web literature… Tweet This Post

Athletes competing at the 2012 Olympic Games in London are free to tweet during the competition, the Olympic Committee said.The athletes are actively encouraged to “take part in social media and to post, blog and tweet their experiences,” the guidelines from the Olympic Committee (AOC) say, as long as it’s not for commercial purposes… Tweet [...]