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Can This E-Commerce Site Charm Gen-Y?
inc.com 1 day, 8 hours agoLot18's founders are hoping to strike gold again. This time, they're targeting young pop-music fanatics with Popdust. Forget FM radio. Forget cable TV. Young pop-music fans are all online, all the time, and one new website,a hybrid media company and online retail site,is vying for their attention. Created early in 2011 by Philip James and Kevin Fortuna, the founders of Lot18, a flash-sale site for wine and food, along with former Billboard editor-in-chief Craig Marks, Popdust is on its surface a new-media c
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Business Insider’s Henry Blodget Defends Linkbait, Slideshows, And Aggregation
techcrunch.com 1 week, 1 day agoIf you are so inclined, it’s pretty easy to criticize Business Insider , the all caps headlines , the slideshows, and content that has been “aggregated” from other sites. (And yes, BI has some mean things to say about us too. ) But in the course of of the Disrupt panel on new media, BI CEO and editor in chief Henry Blodget offered several unapologetic explanations of why he and his writers do what they do. One idea that Blodget returned to a couple of times during the panel was that of “native storytelling
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