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PostRelease’s content marketing network delivers sponsored posts

TechCrunch :: “Content marketing” is a phrase I hear more and more these days, as brands increasingly create their videos, blog posts, and other forms of content to promote themselves, rather than just relying on traditional advertising. Now a startup called PostRelease has built what is, essentially, an ad network for content marketing, so that advertisers can ensure that their content gets distribution, while publishers can make some revenue.

A review by Anthony Ha, techcrunch.com

Diaspora's next act: Social remixing site Makr.io

Another tool to waste time.

AllThingsD :: “So many people are worried that technology is mediating us, but I think it’s just giving us a new way to hang out with our friends,” says Salzberg, co-creator of Makr.io, a “collaborative Web remixing tool” where users try to one-up each other by posting funny captions on pictures, a la lolcats.

A report by Liz Gannes, allthingsd.com

'Botanicus Interactus': How to make any plant into a multitouch sensor

The Next Web :: Disneyland is going to get a touch more awesome if new research coming out of Disney’s Pittsburgh research lab gets its day. The project, called Botanicus Interacticus, turns plants into multi-touch sensors.

A report by Matthew Panzarino, thenextweb.com

Visit the Research Labs here Disney, disneyresearch.com

HT: Andreas Floemer, t3n

rt.ly: Stories about food being clicked statistically disproportionately in Brooklyn?

bit.ly's realtime engine and lab experiment is making nice progress. Latest feature improvements: city level searches and pagination.

Bit.ly (via email) :: We added a few improvements to rt.ly (bit.ly's real-time service) in the last week. For example, you can now do high-resolution location queries down to the city level, like “show me all of the stories about food that are being clicked statistically disproportionately in Brooklyn?” We also added pagination, so you can see the full set of results that match a particular query.

Try this realtime search: stories about food that are being clicked statistically disproportionately in Brooklyn

Google Ventures invests $8.2m in electronic signature tech company DocuSign

The Next Web :: Electronic signature technology company DocuSign recently announced that it had raised $47.5 million in funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Accel Partners, Comcast Ventures, SAP Ventures and an unnamed “large, global institutional investor”. Well-known KPCB partner Mary Meeker also joined the company’s board.

A report by Robin Wauters, thenextweb.com

Korea's SK Telecom claims world first with HD voice over LTE service

The Next Web :: Fresh from launching the world’s first multi-carrier mobile service last month, Korea’s SK Telecom has claimed another new landmark as the first operator to introduce an all-IP based HD voice over LTE service.

A report by Jon Russell, thenextweb.com

An URL with ".book" costs $185,000 and you might have to wait a year

ReadWriteWeb :: The plan to create and sell new generic top-level domains, or gTLD, should have been a boon for the Internet and a gold mine for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). It’s not turning out that way. At nearly every turn, the process has been hamstrung by mistakes and a lack of foresight.

[Brian Proffitt:] ICANN sells these new domains - the letters that go after the dot in a ULR, like .com or .org - for $185,000 a pop - so you’d think that the agency would be motivated to get the process right.

A report by Brian Proffitt, www.readwriteweb.com

Stipple it: Your image can now travel the web, and you still know where it will be published

AdAge :: Every time someone pins, clips, grabs or post your images, disseminating them around the internet, it should be a good thing for the brands whose products are finding more eyeballs. One problem: Once the image is shared, the data associated with the image such as price and availability are gone.

Stipple-it offers a solution to this problem:

A review by David Teicher, adage.com

Rethink @Digg: 'We want to hear from you'

rethinkdigg :: As betaworks and Digg both announced on their blogs, we are taking over Digg and turning it back into a startup. What they didn’t mention is that we’re rebuilding it from scratch. In six weeks.

Rebuilding Digg - Continue to read here Jake, Mike, and Justin, rethinkdigg.com

Copyright Alerts System 'six strikes' plan delayed

Daily Dot :: Shortly, a new system will allow your Internet service provider (ISP) to give you gradually sterner warnings and possible punishment if you download copyrighted material. The Copyright Alerts System (CAS)—more commonly known as the “six strikes” policy, after the number of warnings users receive—is coming. Soon. Any minute now. Really. - But it’s not here yet, and it won’t be for at least a few more months.

A report by Kevin Collier, www.dailydot.com