NBC, a public access channel for the city of Boise, really wants you to watch its new show called The Blacklist. So, they’re going where the kids are, posting what is one of the first-ever television show teaser trailers on Vine. Read More
Ron Johnson, the guy who created Apple’s gleaming retail stores, has now been fired from his job as CEO of J.C. Penney. Turns out doing away with coupons was not a very popular strategy. [Bloomberg Businessweek]
“Why do people watch tightrope walkers? Not to see them get to the other side. It’s because they might fall. Not everything you do is going to be successful, but that’s part of the allure.” A look back at the creation of Wired. [Ad Week]
It was only acquired by Twitter six months ago, but Vine just took the number-one spot on Apple’s leaderboard for free apps. [TechCrunch]
The messaging app WhatsApp denies they’re selling out to Google. [AllThingsD]
“It’s Big Brother, sort of, but with a good intent.” Thank God we all got out of college before the advent of ebooks that can track your progress. [New York Times]
Prince is a legendary for three things: His music; his overall wackiness; and his scorched-earth policy toward digital bootleggers. The man seems to spend more time playing whack-a-mole with concert clips on YouTube than recording new music. Post so much as a video of your kids dancing to one of his songs, and he’ll Read More
Hugh Jackman’s constipation face. Hugh Jackman’s massive pecs. Hugh Jackman’s yelling face. Now look! Hugh Jackman is flying, somehow. Oh, and a hashtag. That’s what you see in (possibly?) the world’s first Vine-based teaser for a movie trailer for The Wolverine, an epic film about a shirtless Mr. Jackman racing to brunch before his reservation window expires. Read More
First came the Vine resume; then the Vine press release, of which Betabeat did not approve. Now, it seems, Vine art has become a thing–a thing that people are willing to drop double Benjamins on. We are so, so sorry. Read More
It’s hard out there for a journalist, but let’s not do anything crazy. Mashable reports that seasoned reporter Dawn Siff decided to capitalize on Twitter’s 6-second video-sharing tool by putting her resume on it. Why is every Internet savvy person’s first reaction to a new platform to turn it into a resume tool? Read More
As a supermodel–and here Betabeat can only conjecture–the product you’re selling, essentially, is you. Your matchstick stems, all the places you go, your cool attitude = you. Therefore, as with most celebrities (and increasingly regular humans) run-of-the-mill personal brand building on social media is directly tied to revenue.
But even if Coco Rocha‘s entire extended Canadian family depended on the number of her Instagram followers, you still have to respect the 24-year-old’s commitment. We discovered as much this afternoon at panel run by Decoded Fashion hosted on the mouth of a runway at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. Read More
You’d think after Hurricane Sandy, nothing short of the actual apocalypse could rattle New Yorkers. And yet, if Twitter is any indication, it seems there’s a fair bit of panicky flailing happening around the city right now. Well, buck up, because we’ve assembled a complete Internet preparedness kit featuring everything you might possibly need.
Maybe also buy some batteries, though? Read More
If you’ve been following the brief history of Twitter’s video-sharing app Vine, you may know that there are those who think the service has a porn problem, those who think it doesn’t and at least one sober soul who sees clearly enough to know that the problem doesn’t belong to Vine, but rather, to humankind. Read More
Former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill once asked Sheryl Sandberg if she was a “pom-pom girl.” If Mr. O’Neill were alive today, the Facebook COO would tell him she’s “a pom-pom girl for feminism,” she writes in her forthcoming book. [WSJ]
Talk about chutzpah. An Indian website plagiarized articles on medical research, then filed a DCMA request with WordPress to pull the originals down. [ArsTech nica]
Hewlett-Packard is planning on “taking full advantage” of Dell’s transition to a private company. [Deal Journal]
Somebody had to go and point out that zip, zero, not a single member of the billion-dollar startup club is based in New York. [Crain's New York Business]
Jon Stewart on Vine: “Every time there’s a human advancement, it is used almost immediately for porn.” [AllThingsD]
