‘Checking in’ to TV shows and other forms of media quickly evolved from the success of location-based services like Foursquare. However, it’s not quite captured the public’s imagination in quite the same way. Now prominent media checkin serviceGetGluehas published somenew statswhich show that perhaps it would be wrong to write off the idea just yet. The startup says that June, July and August this year combined saw a 130% increase in the number of checkins being made by its users, helping it to 800% growth in checkins overall this year so far....

Haymarket Media Group is to introduce digital subscriptions across its marketing and communications publications from this summer. Haymarket will implement what it calls a “metered” pricing model for itsMediaWeek,Marketing,Campaign,PRWeekandBrand Republicwebsites from this summer. This will involve the following three tiers: Haymarket publishes business media in9 countriesacross five continents, including the US, Australia, Germany, India and Hong Kong. But the introduction of this paywall will mainly affect its UK-centric marketing and communications websites....

Mediaqueri.esis a gallery of sites that usemedia queriesfor responsive web design. If you’re looking togive your next web project some flexibility, it’s worth trawling through the listings for inspiration. Media queries are a feature of CSS3 that checks for certain conditions such as the user’s browser window size and screen resolution and gives the designer the ability to adapt the design to those conditions as necessary. For instance, media queries have become a popular way of creating designs for both the desktop and mobile without creating two separate sites, or simply allowing designers to make use of extra screen real estate for those users who have it....

Today,MediaRoost, a social media startup serving clients in the CRM, sales, marketing and PR industries announced its enterprise Twitter platform, TweetRoost, will now support tweets beyond Twitter’s 140 character limit. This feature is essentially turning Twitter into a handy CRM system. “We think it’s a great bonus for companies, especially those dealing with continuous inquiries related to customer service and support issues,” explained Mark Krieger, President of MediaRoost in the press release....

According toReuters, with Nokia moving towardMicrosoft software, Linux-based Meego is starting to see interest from mobile industry rivals such as LG. “It’s opening opportunities for the others to come in. Discussions are taking place. You’ll see things coming out this year, pretty soon,” Valtteri Halla, a member of technical steering group of MeeGo, told a developer conference on Friday. Halla went on to explain that LG Electronics has joined a working group to develop a handset version of the software, alongside companies like ZTE and China Mobile....