Hacking for Laughs at Comedy Hack Day

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Making people laugh is a serious business, and this weekend the folks over at Cultivated Wit put on a unique, but amazing hackathon at Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco to make just that point. … Read more

Visualizing Emotion: The Equality Wall

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Coverage around the Supreme Court hearing started on Tuesday morning, the first of two days of arguments over same-sex marriage rights. As expected, the debate caused both sides to take to social media to voice their opinions. As articles started pouring in, a trend exploded with Facebook users … Read more

Animate your Conversations with Google GIF Search

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One of the most cherished features in Livefyre Comments 3 has to be the ability to embed rich media like GIFs from Imgur into the comment threads of many a discussion across the web. It's something we hear all the time from our great community of publishers like Bloguin, Nice Kicks, Pando Daily and … Read more

Livefyre’s NewsHub is Taking CES by Stream

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Each year, hundreds of thousands of people flock to Las Vegas for the International CES. The enormous trade show showcases the latest and greatest innovations in the consumer electronics industry in every category, from TV's to Electric Toothbrushes. In recent years, the number of attendees have … Read more

6 Social Media Predictions for 2013

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As the year comes to a close, it is time to start looking toward 2013 and the next wave of social media. This year we saw an explosion of social adoption by brand and consumers alike, specifically in the way content is created and consumed. 175 million tweets were sent from Twitter every … Read more