What Twitter's ESPN Deal Means

May 14, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Twitter ESPN Deal Shows Social Network Is Getting Serious About Content Twitter is increasingly pressing beyond the confines of the 140 character text messages that defined the social network at its inception. The Twitter timeline of today -- replete with tweets that feature pictures, videos, music and short clips of news articles -- is far from the timeline of truncated status updates that launched the social network seven years ago. Indeed, the company seems intent on challenging nearly every social media competitor, from Instagram to Facebook to YouTube. Continue reading... The Most Unlikely Hero In The Fight Against Cable Do A Google Image Search For Atari Breakout, Let Awesomeness Ensue The Greatest Song The Internet Has Given Us In A Long Time This Instagram Photo Got Two People Arrested An Interactive Map Of Hate Speech On Twitter These Are All Your Favorite Things Gorgeously Disassembled Kim Dotcom Not Into 3D-Printed Guns Thank You, @HuffingtonPost Twitter Followers! An Interactive Map Of Hate Speech On Twitter LOOK: Amazing Interactive Map Shows Every Local Dialect In The U.S. LinkedIn Ends Unsavory Practice LEIGHTON WOODHOUSE Mark Zuckerberg's Flailing New Lobby Group Represents Everything That's Wrong With DC Fwd.us' lobbying approach reflects the worst of DC-style politics: it's cynical, it's transactional, and it's predicated on using critically important social and ecological issues as pawns in a chess game. Worse for Mark Zuckerberg, it's ineffective. Continue reading... CHRISTIAN DUMONTET Bitcoins: A Positive Step Towards Truly Frictionless Commerce Rather than trying to force a one-size-fits-all payment model on widely varying consumer behaviors, let's treat consumers as adults. Give consumers secure, zero-cost tools to spend their own money. Bitcoin fulfills these goals, so we at Foodler decided to give it a try. Continue reading... ROBERTA MICHNICK GOLINKOFF Making Sense (Not Just Cents) From Big Data There is no doubt that assembling all of this data has been a boon for advertisers who can now pinpoint precisely the kinds of clothes the Digital You buys from your favorite online merchant. Big Data surely makes cents. But does it make sense? Continue reading... PATRICK RICHARD Finding Good Hires Means Measuring Social Impact Job candidates who already demonstrate social impact in their field can drive future recruitment, rev up engagement within the company, and act as a driving force in promoting the company brand. Continue reading... ELIOT VAN BUSKIRK How A 17-Year-Old Girl Won a Hackathon -- And What It Means for Women in Tech The question of how to interest more women in technology fields is one of the most important questions facing us today, for many reasons. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003