Casey Newton is a contributing editor who has been writing about tech for over 10 years. He founded Platformer, a newsletter about Big Tech and democracy. The project that would become Selfie began ...

We’ve been waiting for months for Selfie.com to go live, and yesterday it did. Till now, its landing page has been something like the opening to a horror movie: silent, monochromatic videos of people.

Selfie.com. It exists … shrouded in mystery and excitement. In a world where photo-sharing reigns supreme, where Instagram and its mighty legion of copycats, wannabes and tweaked iterations lead a ...

A year ago, “selfie” had just been added to the Oxford Dictionaries Online. At the same time, we were just discovering Selfie.com, a mysterious landing page for a “Selfie” service. All we knew at the ...

CHICAGO — OxfordDictionaries.com recently announced that ‘selfie’ is their new Word of the Year, moving it beyond sanctified slang in the Urban Dictionary. Defining it as a “photograph that one has ...