Like other 15-year-olds aiming to please credulous adults looking for signs of precociousness in children, Venus Palermo has her favorite school subjects ready to recite on cue. “I love math, technology, and biology,” she tells me without a moment’s hesitation. Venus is homeschooled, a consequence of her and her mother’s relatively recent move from a [...]

Michael Lustig is a bit of a maverick. “I love the Internet. I think it’s awesome mostly because you don’t have to ask for permission,” Lustig tells me at the start of our interview. “You can just do things and get started quickly.” Lustig is the founder of TheLip.tv, which is home to a variety [...]

Not to be outdone by Facebook’s IPO news, Twitter announced yesterday that they will be experimenting with a new feature that offers users a tailored list of whom to follow. On second thought, they were outdone by Facebook’s IPO news. Notice how when you first signed up to Twitter, they recommended that you follow Justin [...]

Here’s a question for the day: Which news channel recently reached the 100,000 subscriber mark on YouTube? Is it CNN? Nope. Fox News? Not even close. It’s RT America, a relatively new 24-hour news channel in comparison to the major, established bigwigs like Fox News and CNN. As of today, the Russian government-funded television channel [...]

Have a fan or brand page on Facebook but not getting the engagement you were wishing for? Well, tough luck because your brand probably sucks, is what an unhelpful jerk would say, but luckily for you I’m not totally unhelpful. Read on for insightful advice from the folks at Facebook (sorta), and then Wildfire Interactive [...]

If you’re a new media artist on YouTube trying to make some money selling merchandise, the company has just opened its Merch Store to all partners today. Initially, only independent musicians could take advantage of selling their wares to the Merch Store in partnership with iTunes, Amazon, Songkick and many others. Now with online customized [...]