In 1995, in an apartment in Manhattan’s Alphabet City, Jeff Dachis and his partner Craig Kanarick started their first company Razorfish, to pioneer the new media field. Within just a few years, Razorfish acquired several companies and expanded internationally. In April 1999, the company had an IPO that raised $48 million at $16 per share. Now, Razorfish is one of the world’s largest interactive agencies.In 2008, after leaving Razorfish, Dachis founded The Dachis Group, to develop the future of s [...]

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The 2011 MTV Video Music Awards dominated Twitter and YouTube in the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of Aug. 29-Sept. 2, while bloggers focused on a much more serious event in Hurricane Irene.

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The announcement that Steve Jobs was resigning as CEO of Apple was, by far, the subject of the most news links shared via Twitter during the week of Aug. 22-26, according to the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index.

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Google’s deal to acquire Motorola was subject of the most news links shared via Twitter during the week of Aug. 15-19, according to the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index.

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The Aug. 2 agreement to raise the debt ceiling for the United States was the subject of the most shared links via Twitter and blogs, but the Twitterverse took a different approach, focusing on the role that Twitter itself played in the process, according to the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of Aug. 1-5.

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Twitter users rushed to express their displeasure with the deal by the British Broadcasting Corp. and Sky Sports to air Formula 1 auto races, as only one-half of the events will now be on free TV, according to the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of July 25-29.

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The News Corp. News of the World phone hacking scandal marked its third consecutive week atop the list of the most tweeted news articles, according to the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of July 18-22.

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The phone-hacking scandal at and subsequent shuttering of News Corp.-owned British tabloid News of the World dominated news links shared via Twitter for the week of July 4-8, according to the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index, while the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was footage of the July 5 sandstorm in Phoenix, and the most shared news story in the blogosphere was a report that the White House is preparing to keep as m [...]

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Twitter users were fascinated by the launch of another social network, Google+, while the declaration by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) of her candidacy in the 2012 presidential election was the topic of the most news links shared by bloggers, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was footage of an alleged unidentified flying object over London, according to the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of [...]

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