Social content site BuzzFeed is the latest company to release a version of its app especially for the Kindle Fire.

As the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Co.-owned About Group continues its turnaround efforts in the face of weak display and cost-per-click ad sales, the flagship guide site is hoping that its placement within the social reader app Flipboard will help bring in new readers and advertisers.

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…

YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) is launching a new politics site today that it hopes will offer a “holistic” view of the candidates on the campaign trial, and also, via its metrics, provide a snapshot of their popularity among voters. But at the first glance, YouTube Politics seems to be falling well…

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…

There is no scrolling on Flipboard—that’s rule number one, said Mike McCue, the social reader’s CEO, in a conversation with paidContentUK’s Robert Andrews at the paidContent Advertising conference.

Users who follow The New Yorker magazine through iPad social reader Flipboard will start noticing advertising as part of the mix. The ads, beginning with a campaign by American Express, are part of a deal with the magazine’s publisher, Condé Nast, which will be working with Flipboard on ads for…

MSNBC.com will get a featured position on the opening page of mobile social reader Pulse, as the news website continues to explore ways of getting its breaking news out in front of younger reader, more tech-savvy readers.

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…

Well, that was quick. About a month after Zite launched its “personalized iPad magazine” a slew of big-name publishers slapped the appmaker with a cease and desist letter. My first thought (and quick rant to our editor Staci D. Kramer): why? It’s not much different from the likes of Flipboard…

“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.

UberMedia, which is behind Twitter clients like Echofon and Twidroyd, has purchased Digg-like news site Mixx. On Mixx, users post interesting stories, photos, or videos and vote and comment on those that others submit; it also lets publishers set up “channels” that aggregate social chatter related to a specific topic…

ClairMail, which helps banks process transactions via SMS, mobile web and apps, said it has raised $13.8 million in an additional round of capital. The round was led by Investor Growth Capital with existing investors, JAFCO Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners and Outlook Ventures, also participating.

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…

BreakingNewsOnline is discontinuing its iPhone app as it looks to concentrate more on B2B services, the company announced. The iPhone app was launched over a year ago as an adjunct to its “@BreakingNews” Twitter account that BNO News managed until December 2009, when it handed over management to MSNBC.

The Huffington Post is launching a “Twitter edition” that is intended to serve as an extension and a distinct entity from the main news and opinion site, the company told paidContent. The primary purpose is to harness the social networking aspects of the site to create a real-time news service…

Nearly two months after Google’s rocky introduction of ‘Buzz,’ the sharing service remains under fire from privacy advocates; eleven congressmen have written a letter to the chairman of the FTC urging the agency to investigate complaints about the service—and, perhaps more ominously for Google (NSDQ: GOOG), also look into the…