Curated Stories Apr. 19, 2010

Here is video of my TEDxNYED lecture about lectures as an outmoded form of education and news, in which I tweak TED.

Here are my notes (which won’t match my talk exactly). All the videos are now up at the…

So I’m thinking I might have to launch a separate blog entirely devoted to “solutions”. Thanks to the reader who forwarded me this hilariously vague job advert, which I hereby add to my ever-growing pile…

To prove a point about how few people actually read the “terms and conditions” when making a purchase online, British game retailer GameStation decided to play an April fools joke on its customers, tricking man…

There has been a lot of great conversations inn just the past week about the importance of aligning marketing and sales – but the majority of those conversations have focused on attracting, engaging and conve…

The most common clash I see between the social network user and the hosting company is that users want functionality and free connectivity, while companies are looking to pleasure investors by…

I’ve been thinking about how entering the content marketing space is not for the faint of heart. It can be a signifcant undertaking both in terms of resources and a change in an organization’s approach to m…

When I read the news about the Ning community platform cutting not just staff, but also its free service, I had the same reaction Shel Holtz had — this is a betrayal of the company core promise and shatters cu…

The State and Future of Twitter was revealed to the world at the Chirp Conference. Developers, futurists, reporters, investors, stakeholders, and businesses convened at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco…

Just over two months ago Dunkin Donuts launched the Create Dunkin’s Next Donut contest to get diehard fans to submit their own ideas for the brand’s next new donut. Ninety thousand entries later, Dunkin Do…

The following is a sponsored post.
When I announced I was doing sponsored posts/reviews again, one of the first people to contact me was Jim Boykin of WeBuildPages. He let me know he was interested in gettin…

Facebook has recently been refusing police organizations and children protection agencies who demand a Facebook safety ‘alert button’ for children, and is now offering free advertising to the groups to rais…

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.In business, your network is your…

Think a tweet is just 140 characters of text? Think again. To developers building tools on top of the Twitter platform, they know tweets contain far more information than just whatever brief, passing thought yo…

You Can’t Do What I Do

I’ve never been good about worrying about the competition. Sometimes I forget to even look at what they’re up to. I don’t want to be them.
I’ve finally learned that the b…

My cousin Jennifer introduced fellow Washingtonian Kim Pearson to me. I am fascinated my Kim’s primary profession as a ghostwriter because I used to do something similar; one of my favorite jobs was as a sp…

Preface: Kevin Pho, MD, America’s most prolific and most-widely read blogger, today reprinted a previous blog of mine, written on March 22. Since I wrote the blog, several things have happened: 1) President…

New Massachusetts Institute of Technology research finds that using Twitter, Facebook and other “social media” to market products can actually hurt sales more than it helps.
Boston Herald, April 19, 2010…

The iPad is no Apple Newton. It truly is a revolutionary device. The whimsical blog of “Fake Steve Jobs” calls the iPad a “life-changing, mind-altering product”. Although that may be an overstatement…

Transcript:
So Twitter’s got a big – whoo-pished! – backlash after announcing they will be launching promoted tweets. I’m seeing Twitter users saying that it will turn Twitter into a male enhancement a…

Today, personal finance web app Mint is announcing that the number of financial institutions it works with — and the number of consumers it’s prepared to serve — will grow by leaps and bounds.Last fall,…

Rolling Stone is making headlines today for relauching its website with complete access to its 43 year magazine archive — for a price. The music magazine has added all sorts of features online and plans to ch…

Sending hundreds of millions of messages and search queries through Twitter adds up to real energy consumption, though it’s less than a Google search, says Twitter.

The open source SproutCore framework–which Apple invested in to create its suite of MobileMe apps–has been cross-pollinating with HTML5 features to develop in new directions, including a new interface builder…

Andy Ihnatko’s spot-on take:

Gizmodo has a lot of explaining to do.

For what it’s worth, Nick Denton says the backstory on how they got it is coming.

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The Retail Advertising and Marketing Association (RAMA) compared habits of those who use online social media with the “average” adult in the US and found …

The battle over who owns your interests on the Web intensified today as Facebook started rolling out a set of new features designed to connect people more closely to the topics they care about. Millions of ne…

The news that Hewlett-Packard is the target of a German-Russian bribery investigation spotlights a seldom mentioned reason for the US government’s recently stepped-up enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practice…

Last week, Rachel Kay tweeted that she felt every PR professional should be on Twitter and LinkedIn. I found this statement to be bold and assumptive that social media is the Holy Grail for the PR p…

By now, everyone agrees there’s great value to be drawn from the social-media dataset. But how do we define and categorize that value? This chart places marketing and PR activities along two axes: f…

Valuable insightful post on adapting a paper form for optimal #UX online – http://bit.ly/aP2QjF (via @uxmatters)

Twitter and Facebook have become important platforms for politicians and public figures to connect with their constituents and fans. Today Microsoft is unveiling TownHall, a social media platform designed to f…

Today, Facebook is announcing the first in a string of product launches that we’ll be seeing this week. We just reported that the site is about to revamp its Interests section. And today it’s also launchin…

The biggest cloud network in the world is owned by the mob.

While you may think that Google, Amazon and Microsoft are the world’s largest cloud providers it’s really the Conficker worm that has helped crimina…

Today, alongside Community Pages and a revamped Interests section, Facebook is also making some changes to its privacy controls. Facebook and confusing privacy settings have long gone hand in hand, which real…

I purchased an iPad on day one (roughly minute 3), without much assurance as to how or why I’d use it, or even if it would be a “keeper” in my digital lifestyle. Here’s a recap of my…

Salesforce.com has a real problem and it’s not one of the usual suspects (Oracle, SAP or Microsoft).
Google’s Marketplace announcement a few weeks back just confirmed if there is one company that is likely to b…

My seven-year-old son recently attended a science party at a friend’s house where one of the experiments involved dropping Mentos into a two-liter bottle of Diet Coke. Unless you’ve been on another planet for…

The outrage over the Upper Branch Mine Disaster in West Virginia is profound even almost two weeks after the horrific event. One of the first instincts driven by outrage is to clamp down more tightly — more r…

Ken Auletta / New Yorker:
PUBLISH OR PERISH — Can the iPad topple the Kindle, and save the book business? — On the morning of January 27th—an aeon ago, in tech time—Steve Jobs was to appear at…

“Media reports teem with stories of young people posting salacious photos online, writing about alcohol-fueled misdeeds on social networking sites, …

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I don’t often write about stuff that’s coming, choosing to stick mostly with stuff that’s here and practical now, but a service i…

This is a first for me, the book review in two parts. I found so much useful information in the book Groundswell by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff that I thought it would be best to break the review in two. …

Public relations (PR) has taken an alleged bashing in the past year and a half or so due to the rise of social media. But social media is actually a new …

Last week I spoke at PubCon South on the Analytics Strategy panel on the topic of social media. This is something I’m very passionate about and during my preparation for the presentation I uncovered some sc…

Stanley Feld, MD, FACP, MACP
Fourteen states are suing the U.S. Government in order to block the healthcare reform bill. The participating plaintiff states are Florida, South Carolina, Nebraska, Texas, Utah, Lo…

Since announcing the new plans for Stack Exchange, there’s been a lot of discussion about what kind of new QA sites will work best on this platform.
So far there are 32 informal proposals on meta.stackexchan…

You’ve heard of search engine optimization on sites like Google, Bing, and now even Twitter; the question is, what’s next? Marketers in the digital age need data and content, and there are l…

I left the 2010 United States Census form out on the kitchen table last night—one of those things that takes a minute to fill out but two weeks to get around to. The questions are pretty simple—“How many…

Say good-bye to the black and amber look of Bloomberg.com.
The financial news and data company completely redesigned the site, scrapping its black background for a traditional black text on a white screen look….

Steve Cohen makes more than a million dollars a year doing magic tricks.I will now tell you the secrets of this magic:
He sells to a very specific group of people, people who are both willing to hear what he h…

iPhone OS 4.0 will be arriving for iPhone owners this summer, and for iPad owners in the fall. The question is, what tangible benefits will it bring to your web working routine, if any? Luckily, I’ve had a ch…

Are you yearning for greater Facebook integration with your iPhone? Your prayers might be answered when iPhone OS 4.0 arrives on end users’ devices this summer.Gunning for Safety discovered that Apple might…

In this post Mark Hayward shares some ‘must do’ tips for small business owners who are getting ready to launch a blog.
Are you getting ready to launch your baby? You know, your small business blog.
Blogging…

With the arrival of Spring, the quest for a resume-burnishing internship moves into high gear for many college students. A high proportion of those interns will work for free.

Obviously that’s not ideal for…

Twitter and MySpace each announced programs last week intended to make money by giving advertisers access to their users. The approaches couldn’t be more different, and I think they raise more quest…

New media, especially social media, is a growing practice area for IT lawyers as businesses grapple with new case law and professional rules of conduct. …

Going into Chirp, Twitters first-ever developers conference, the natives were restless. A string of announcements–from the release of Twitters own Blackberry app to the acquisition of development firm Ateb…

SOKULE.com, a new social media network, offers small businesses a forum that allows them to save time while marketing their brands using the popularity of …

Together, we’re creating better results from emerging digital tools by changing our expectation and practice of Web marketing itself.
I’m back with more details on improving sales, tomorrow, in three easy step…

I am always a bit shocked when I see the prices big companies pay for bespoke sites – hundreds of thousands of dollars usually. Millions in some cases. I’ve seen quotes to my client from a…

But social media also can be a huge blessing. “When we try to put technology away we realize how connected to it we are,” said Moscinski, …

New post outlining 5 models for #socialmedia integration – http://bit.ly/ao8ua0 (w/ editable AI file)

Interesting question ’ Is it possible to know your customers too well?’ – http://bit.ly/9BEPps (via @adage)

The new Facebook like button that was rumored to be launched at this year’s f8 will power a new enhanced behavioral ad network (see update below) according to the Financial Times. As FT states, “data from…

As announced a few weeks ago, Google has now included the iPad as one of the devices that you can target specifically with your AdWords ad campaigns as Google has added it to the list of mobile devices that sup…

This column is written by Kimberly Turner from Regator (a great tool that gathers and organizes the world’s best blog posts). – Darren
Every week, we’re using the trending topics from Regator to show you…

It’s been a few days since Chirp, and I’ve had some time to digest all the news that broke last week. Certainly we’ll have another meal this Weds. with Facebook’s F8, where it’s already rumored that Facebook wi…

Facebook will host its F8 developer conference this Wednesday, outlining its plans to further its influence across the web.Those plans include a web-wide “Like” button and a social toolbar for your website…

For those of you who follow the @lgstream Twitter account, fueled by my shares from Google Reader, in addition to Delicious bookmarks and blog posts, the flood slowed to a mere drip over the last week, as the s…

This is a guest post by Joel J. Miller. He is the author of the fascinating new book, The Revolutionary Paul Revere. At the end of the post, I’ll tell you how to get an autographed copy FREE. Joel is also one…

Reuters – A new publishing company is betting that readers will bypass electronic readers such as Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s Reader in favor of reading bite-sized stories on mobile devices they already own.

Recently, Tempe, Arizona, restaurant, Café Boa, sparked worldwide controversy when they announced the highlight of their Easter menu; rabbit. This shocking revelation led to over 200 stories in the med…

Success in Social Media can come from anyone and anywhere. Just take a look at what happened today…

During our recent co-book tour (Bring Trust Agents And Six Pixels Of Separation To Your Community), I was w…

Are you thinking about the use of Twitter in your small business? How can this micro-blogging service help me promote my business? Why is it important?
My views on the overall importance of Twitt…

Before WebKit can render a web page, it needs to load the page and all of its subresources from the network. There are many layers involved in loading resources from the web. In this post, I’ll focus on exp…

The ever interesting Will Richardson got me thinking again today. He talks about how to credentialize learning in a post titled An Open Mind (In Higher Ed at Least) from open course ware such as the MIT OpenCou…

I often wonder why podcast content marketing isn’t more popular than it is. I admit I’m biased since I’m a podcaster. But, I’m also an avid podcast consumer. I was a consumer of podcast content long bef…