In the wake of Barry Diller’s decision to drop Tina Brown, the IACI chairman is reportedly ready to unload Brown’s brainchild, the Daily Beast. Yet, “the company hasn’t made any formal moves to shop around the business,” Bloomberg reports, citing a source. Brown, meanwhile, is planning to start a new venture, Tina Brown Live Media, which is expected to expand on her Women in the World conferences. 

During a broad one-on-one with Michael Arrington this week, Mark Zuckerberg took aim at the federal government for its assault on civil liberties. "Frankly, I think that the government blew it," Facebook’s founder told attendees of TechCrunch Disrupt. As The Verge notes, however, “Facebook was implicated earlier this summer when documents leaked by former National Security Administration contractor Edward Snowden suggested it was among the companies that participate in PRISM.” 

In the wake of deep cuts at Patch, Jim Romenesko follows up on AOL’s local news network. Apparently, to placate their parent company, “Patch editors will be working harder, not smarter.” Indeed, “during a conference call last week, all Patch editors were told that each site should have 11 posts per day, per site,” a tipster tells Romenesko. “Since most editors are now responsible for two or three sites, this would add up to either 16 or 24 stories per day, an obviously impossible edict to follow given the oft-slow news cycle of small towns.” 

In June, Vevo recorded 4 billion music video streams -- up from 4 billion year-over-year, Music Ally reports. “In that year, Vevo also saw its unique monthly viewers worldwide grow by 27% to 526m in June 2013.” Worldwide, Vevo says it attracted 1.6 billoin viewer during the second quarter of 2013. “Vevo singles out Miley Cyrus’ ‘We Can’t Stop’ video as one of its biggest hits of recent months, as it reached 10.7m views in its first 24 hours, and then became the quickest Vevo video ever to reach 100m views, in 37 days.” 

Apple is almost certainly unveiling new software for Apple TV, next week, sources tell AllThingsD. “The one new feature I’m aware of is a tweak to Apple’s AirPlay system,” AllThingsD’s Peter Kafka writes. “The new software will allow people who have purchased content from Apple’s iTunes store to play that stuff on other people’s TVs, via its AirPlay system.” 

TechCrunch retells the history of Facebook’s boldest effort yet to give publisher and brand partners unprecedented access to users’ behavioral data. “It all started with Facebook Lexicon,” according to TechCrunch’s Josh Constine. “Build by one of Facebook’s early data scientists Roddy Lindsay, Lexicon launched to little fanfare back in 2008 and let you see the relative frequency of how often different keywords appeared in wall posts.” With the launch of the Public Feed API and Keyword Insights API, this week, Facebook is giving partners far more insight into user behavior. 

Will New York City’s political and media elite pay $1,000 a year for the inside dope on their powerful peers? Politico publisher Robert Allbritton is betting on it. Yes, having just acquired Capital New York, Allbritton plans to charge subscription fees of about $1,000 a year for a high-end version of the media and politics blog. “The plan is to take what they already do and put it on steroids,” Jim VandeHei, Capital’s newly named president, tells Bloomberg. 

Google is rolling out some new Google+ features, this week, including the ability for users to embed their posts anywhere on the Web. “The new feature provides its users with the code needed to embed posts, including a JavaScript snippet and the actual embed code,” TechCrunch reports. “With this move, Google+ joins Twitter, which has long made embeds easy, as well as Facebook, which only recently launched a similar feature.” 

Long-term, LinkedIn hopes to have a profile for every one of the world’s 3 billion working people (or however many people are working if and when the company reaches critical mass). What’s more “Our longer-term vision is … to build the world’s first economic graph … to visualize every economic opportunity in the world, every skill required to obtain those opportunities,” Weiner said this week, as reported by Venture Beat. 

Vimeo is adding several new features to its direct distribution platform, Vimeo On Demand, including rent and own pricing options, preorder availability with a new checkout service, a promo code generator and better statistics. “First and foremost, the new pricing options mean creators can offer viewers the ability to rent (stream) or buy (stream and download) content at separate prices,” The Next Web reports.