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User Generated Content

Obama's AMA, GIFs and Reddit's Other Top Posts Of 2012

The Huffington Post | Drew Guarini | Posted 01.02.2013 | Technology

User-generated content community Reddit had a banner year in 2012, with approximately 37 billion page views in 2012. But it was an appearance by the l...

How to Create Conversation and Follower Responses

Jay Acunzo | Posted 12.01.2012 | Business
Jay Acunzo

In a social, public world, conversations can connect consumers to each other and spill over into each of their social graphs, thus spreading the brand's message.

Three Rules for Earning Quality User-Generated Content

Jay Acunzo | Posted 11.30.2012 | Technology
Jay Acunzo

Marketers today face an incredible challenge -- cutting through the clutter to capture the attention of the most highly fragmented audience in history.

Destination Escape: Your Peaceful Places

Posted 08.18.2012 | Healthy Living

We all have a place we turn to for solace. Whether it is a physical location, a photo of a place once visited or an imagined space, having a destinati...

(Video) THOUSANDS OF LIVE STREAMS FROM SYRIA: THE EMERGING CORPS OF BAMBUSER USERS

Andy Plesser | Posted 08.19.2012 | Media
Andy Plesser

LONDON - Mainstream news broadcasters are airing user generated content from Bambuser's live video service to bring audiences breaking news from are...

PHOTOS: Secret Ingredients To Put On Everything

Posted 08.31.2012 | Taste

We all have a favorite ingredient -- one that we toss (often inappropriately) into our recipes or that we douse on all of our food. For many it's hot ...

When Are You Happy? Tell Us On Twitter

Posted 04.24.2012 | Healthy Living

We're happy when #ImHappyWhen is trending in the twittersphere. Twitter tells us there is a wide spectrum of what brings us delight ... from spend...

Cooking From Back Of The Package: Twists On Instant Ramen

Kitchen Daily | Posted 08.31.2012 | Taste

We all love the instant ramen out of the packet, sometimes even with the MSG-laden flavor packet (we should know better, right?). Ramen is easily a go...

Our Readers' Biggest Kitchen Disasters

Kitchen Daily | Posted 08.31.2012 | Taste

Everyone has had a disaster happen in the kitchen at one point or another. Your cookies burned, your sauce boiled over, or perhaps you burned down the...

New Look Coming for HuffPost Politics

Posted 11.02.2011 | Politics

Huffington Post Politics is pleased to share the winning design from our reader social media icon competition. Kenneth Thomas of Philadelphia, Pa....

Enter the HuffPost Pol Icon Competition

Posted 10.01.2011 | Politics

This post has been updated below. When Huffington Post Politics launched its Twitter account in July of 2008, George Bush was president, Sarah Pal...

VIDEO: CNN's iReport at Five Years: "Core of How We Tell Big, Breaking Stories"

Andy Plesser | Posted 10.01.2011 | Media
Andy Plesser

2011-08-01-Screenshot20110801at11.12.32AM.jpg On Tuesday, hundreds of citizen reporters around the world will attend Meetups organized by CNN to mark the fifth anniversary of its iReport.

Our Favorite Places To Be Outside In The Summertime: Submit Your Own! (PHOTOS)

Posted 09.17.2011 | Home

While the days may technically be getting shorter, summer is hardly over. If anything, it's only started to kick into full gear. As the temperature ri...

How the AP Vetted a Citizen Video of a Death in Cairo -- And the Arduous Task of Verifying UGC

Andy Plesser | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Andy Plesser

While there is value having citizens reporting out on the streets, verifying the content can be an arduous task.

Thinking "Inside" the Box: How Freeloaders Can Make You a Load of Cash

Tom Grasty | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Tom Grasty

As an internet entrepreneur, the question I'm asked most often is this: "How are you going to make money?" I tell them the plan isn't to charge for our service, and what happens next never fails.

Users Want Tosh(ers)

Alexandra Juhasz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Alexandra Juhasz

I was recently interviewed by Time magazine about the phenomenon of Tosh.0. Once again, my YouTube studies lead me to pop-analysis of cultural phenome...

From Garage Startup to Knight Grant Recipient

Tom Grasty | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Tom Grasty

For many, receiving a grant from the prestigious Knight Foundation is a capstone achievement for a long and distinguished career in journalism. Stroome, the collaborative online video editing community won the Knight 2010 News Challenge.

How Open Salon's User-Generated Content is Changing the World of Writing

Caroline Hagood | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Caroline Hagood

Open Salon is an endlessly fascinating place; like the Internet, its very structure teaches you how to interact with it, but unlike the Internet, that structure is essentially altruistic. It forces its participants to be supportive of one another.

A Social Network Users Bill of Rights: You Decide

Christina Gagnier | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Christina Gagnier

Over the last week, IT specialists, academics, lawyers, journalists, activists, students and others met in San Jose for the annual Computers, Freedom ...

Why I Delete Comments on My Blog

Dave Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Dave Taylor

I regularly delete comments, and even ban commentators from my AskDaveTaylor.com tech support site.

How to Engage Youth in a Post-Obama Presidential Campaign World

HeathCliff Rothman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
HeathCliff Rothman

The What's Your Issue Film Competition is asking young social innovators to make a three-minute video explaining their idea for a project that would address a current national problem.

Crowdsourcing: A Legitimate Marketing Resource

Sarah O'Leary | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Sarah O'Leary

Realizing that fans' creative energy can increase awareness and sales, marketers are giving more control of brands to consumers with campaigns like Mountain Dew's Dewmocracy and Doritos "Crash the Super Bowl" contest.

Is YouTube the Successor to Television -- Or to LIFE Magazine?

Dan Schiller | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Dan Schiller

YouTube's content may render it less like commercial TV than like a prior icon of our common culture, Life Magazine -- which failed as a weekly late in 1972.

Italy's Case Against Google Is a Bad Moon Rising

Leslie Harris | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Leslie Harris

If platforms for expression like YouTube were held responsible for all the content posted by users, then companies would be forced to actively screen all content before it could be posted -- no small feat.

The YouTube Winner Is . . .

Brian Dickie | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Brian Dickie

The winning video in the Chicago Opera Theater's free opera contest.