Curated Stories Apr. 23, 2010

Since Facebook announced that they were offering the functionality for website oweners to have Like buttons on their non Facebook content, the race has been on to develop a plugin.
Weve found t…

I was fortunate to spend the better part of 36 hours in Coeur D’Alene, ID this week to talk to a roomful of very enthusiastic folks about Social media, and it got me thinking: With all that yapping some of u…

In customer case studies and success stories, specific results impress. But not every product or service is easy to measure.
Coaches, consultants and other service providers, for example, often provide service…

However, social networking can be the detriment to personal contact and interpersonal communication. A new study from the International Center for Media …

By all accounts, Twitter is still one of the hottest Social Media platforms to be connected on, even as its growth begins to slow.

That was the news on Tuesday via eMarketer in their news item, Twitter Stays S…

Got an email from Don Loeb this morning with news that iGoogle now supports pictures in RSS feeds. So I thought I should check it out.
I wanted to add a photo feed. Went looking for a way to just enter the addr…

I’m writing my next book, The Art of Enchantment. I could use some help with finding real-world examples of the principles of enchantment, so I’m going to use this space to make requests.
The first example…

On Wednesday, I made a presentation at Catalyst West on the subject of “Platform: What It Is, Why You Need It, and How to Build It.” When I finished, I opened my presentation for QA. Finally, after about 20…

Forrester Research is recommending developers continue developing rich Internet applications and take long pause before embracing HTML 5. For Forrester, HTML 5 is still many years away from becoming a standard…

How to optimize your linkedin profile – http://bit.ly/b8AZtx (via @hubspot)

Understanding why online ads surpass TV ads in recall – http://bit.ly/dxwDaH (via @mediapost)

There is a lot of action surrounding Foursquare right now. And CEO and co-founder Dennis Crowley has a tough decision to make.
It’s already been widely reported that Yahoo is seriously pursuing a Foursquare a…

With the launch of a universal “Like” button, Facebook seems set to own both our social graph and a map of our interests.In one fell swoop, the company may have wounded the popularity of Twitter’s retwee…

Today is officially one month since we proposed the idea for a new tool for conversation and collaboration (Junto: Discussing Ideas Worth Spreading). Energy has been building over the weeks, and people around…

Over the last few months, there has a massive amount of hype surrounding the geolocation war between Foursquare and Gowalla, two of the biggest players in the space. The intensity reached critical mass during…

Companies are quickly ramping up to integrate social and digital media effectively into their marketing plans. Unfortunately that has been a tricky proposition given the already complex and fluid la…

If you own a restaurant or other type of business location, another important task to do after claiming your locations on Google Local Business is to claim them on Yelp. This is the third post in …

Jim Morrow, a family doctor who plays up his folksy charm, is energetically working the audience in a Durham hotel meeting room to promote what amounts to free computer equipment for doctors….

It’s no secret that the magazine industry has been struggling in recent years. But guess what?
They’re making a comeback!
According to the Magazine Publishers of America, there were 86 different titles that sol…

Change your settings so that email from you has a name, your name, not a blank or some unusual characters, in the from field. (ask a geek or IT person for help if you don’t know how).
Change your settings so…

A friend who was about to send her screenplay off to Hollywood asked me recently if she should copyright it. There’s a simple answer (yes) and a more nuanced answer to the question. But how do I know about th…

In Part Two of The State and Future of Twitter, we reviewed Promoted Tweets and the new advertising platform and metric system that will test and hopefully strengthen the “interest graph” that connects ind…

Measurement is one of the most interesting areas within social media right now. Not only is effective measurement critical to demonstrating results in an emerging space, but sophisticated measu…

Has this ever happened to you?
You discover a website you like but something’s nagging you about it. You finally realize what it is- it’s missing an important feature. Something that woul…

A few weeks ago I wrote a blog post about the differences between the tools in the traditional PR toolkit and the resources we use today in the PR 2.0 toolkit. However, there was one tool that I completely ov…

First Facebook decided to downgrade everyone’s idea of being a fan overnight to the non committal — and extremely self serving — “like” button, then it decided to let people hunt for the ways in which to p…

If you’re an online publisher in the tech space, you probably have reason to envy Gawker Media. After all, one of its properties, popular tech gadget blog Gizmodo, recently broke what Gawker Media owner Nick De…

Barnes Nobles third firmware upgrade for its Nook e-book reader offers new features including wireless streaming of e-books in stores, two basic Android games, and a Web browser.

We have grown accustomed to scientific research producing major medical advances such as those I wrote about in The Future of Medicine — Megatrends in Healthcare. But there are now some very disruptive change…

The social web is now an integral part of any CRM or sales operation. Information from blogs, news sites, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, has become a necessary element to help convert sales leads. Companies li…

Thanks to the success of Foursquare, Booyah / MyTown and Zynga, “game mechanics”, “badges” and “leaderboards” have become cornerstones of any web marketer’s dialect and user-acquisition strategy….

Back in TV school, I was taught that when framing up a shot, it’s really important to look at the background. Even if the framing of a shot is perfect, if something weird is going on in the background, it can…

Jeremy Richardson heads up Business Development at Mixpanel, Inc. a real-time analytics service that helps companies understand how users behave with web applications.Everyone in social media knows that virali…

Yahoo plans on making itself much more social, Joseph Menn at the FT reports.
Executives tell Joseph that in the next few weeks, Yahoo will start telling users when people in their Yahoo address book leave comm…

The knee-jerk reaction has begun. Friend after friend after friend is posting the same chain-letter-like status update with simple directions on how to opt out from Facebook’s new sharing capabilities.

It’s s…

In an interview with TechCrunch, angel investor Ron Conway sees two big trends that will become billion dollar industries. The first trend? Real-time data.
“(Real-time data) is the most valuable information on…

You can believe all the Forrester reports and eMarketer statistics you want, but the truth is when research firms survey people about social media, they normally ask social media people. Citiban…

Worried about Facebook “like” fraud? You should be. Thanks to Facebook’s overly simple implementation of the new Facebook Like Button, anyone can post a “Like This” button on their website pointing to any URL o…

Note: This post was originally published on OPEN Forum.
If you use LinkedIn correctly, it can be a marketing godsend.
You can form relationships with hundreds of potential customers and solidify your brand –…

Chris Messina / FactoryCity:
Understanding the Open Graph Protocol — I attended Facebooks F8 conference yesterday (missed the keynote IRL, but you can catch it online) and came away pondering the Open G…

Need more evidence of the great opportunity that hyperlocal blogging offers? Consider this study by readMedia involving more than 1,000 community newspaper editors and reporters in the U.S. The summary:
Communi…

Foursquare has just created a dashboard for local businesses that want to offer mayor specials and other rewards to people who checkin, Mashable reports.
This is smart and was a while coming, but it is still fa…

Realtime search has come a long way from just a year ago when the only option really was Twitter’s own search engine. Now Google, Bing, and a gaggle of realtime search startups all have products up and runn…

Whispers emanating from Apple developers suggest the company will begin signing devs up to the Mac OS X 10.7 developer program by early autumn 2010. Updates at the end of the tale.There’s a catch, if this re…

No matter what you want to do, someone will force a rule book on you. It doesn’t matter that there are no rules, the experts will beat you with what they say you must do, you can’t do and what you can only…

Since posting about Facebook’s latest privacy rollback, we’ve received emails asking how users can protect themselves, and for clarification about what happened. Here, then, is a quick guide to locking down the…

B2B content marketing has changed, especially with the advent of social media. Last week I talked about the first two of six new rules of thought leadership marketing. These rules are primarily abou…

Yesterday Mashable posted this biased claim about Foursquare winning the geolocation war. While the infographics are very cool looking, I think many people are being blinded by the “media darling” s…

Facebook just shook the tech world by announcing several major initiatives that collectively constitute an aggressive move to weave the social net on top of the existing Web.The rumors were that the leading soc…

Really bad advice is just great advice in reverse.

(To protect the identities of the following well-intentioned bozos and mogul wannabes, names are being withheld.)

Constantly innovate.

I li…

See a photo of Kim, her bio, Part 1 of this QA, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.

QA with Kim Pearson, Question 5:

Q: If you could share just one piece of advice or wisdom about story/storytelling/narrative wit…

We had a chance to sit down with Forrester Research CEO George Colony at this year’s Forrester Marketing Forum to talk about whether or not CEOs should be engaged in social media. His morning keynote talk, �…

CIO.com’s Kristin Burnham offers up a list of five essential Facebook privacy settings you should review now and tweak accordingly to ensure your information remains safe.

Filed under: iPadSeveral weeks ago, we described how Keynote for the iPad suffers from formatting and other issues when sharing presentations with a Mac. No support for custom fonts, disappearing presenter note…

Apple CEO Steve Jobs appears to have sent a new email which has been obtained by Dan Frommer.The latest email shows his human side, with Silicon Alley Insider reader James dropping a line to Jobs having read th…

Grab the popcorn. There is a serious nerd fight brewing.
Following Facebook’s big Open Graph announcements at f8 a couple days ago, many of the leaders of the so-called “open web” are taking exception to…

Forget the endless speculation about whether and how and how much money social media sites like Facebook and Twitter and …

Although mind maps can be very useful for sketching out ideas, visualizing problems and planning, a lot of the mind mapping tools we’ve covered here on WWD are quite complex, which can be intimidating for beg…

Gowalla is suiting up and heading to the Derby. The social geolocation service has partnered with Kentucky’s largest newspaper, the Courier-Journal, to create special tours to help visitors and natives make…

Susan Payton is the Managing Partner of Egg Marketing Public Relations, an Internet marketing firm specializing in blogger outreach, social media, and PR. She is also the blogger behind The Marketing Eggsp…

Brendan Wagner submits: Brett Arrends of the Wall Street Journal has a must-read for anyone owning Apple (APPL) shares, titled Seven Reasons Apple Shareholders Should Be Cautious. It pretty much implies to…

Founder of MetaFilter and friend of Lifehacker Matt Haughey writes in to share how a little research and his cellphone earned him an extra $1,000 when he recen…

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship Conference 2010 in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. There was a great turnout with CSR and PR people from every in…

Alexander Vaughn / App Advice:
Google To Bring Free Turn-By-Turn Navigation To The iPhone — A neat thing about Android (which now also works on the iPhone) is that it comes with a free turn-by-turn GPS…

Brad Stone / Bits:
Amazon Now a Larger Seller of Stuff Other Than Media — Amazon.com is still known by many consumers primarily for selling books, music and DVDs, even though it also offers a ridiculous…

Media analyst Ken Doctor takes a close look at Nielsen Online’s Huffington Post stats and finds several incredible stats about the five year old site’s traffic.

Huffington Post recently landed in the top 10 ne…

“L’État,” Louis XIV famously said, “c’est moi.” I sometimes think that Facebook has a similar attitude about its relationship to the World Wide Web.
At its F8 conference in San Francisco on Tuesday…

Bloggers are super-excited about a new way to drive traffic to their sites through Facebook’s newly announced “like” functionality being available to all websites now.
If you’re a developer, this code…

Today I spoke with a diverse group of new entrepreneurs as part of my ongoing Online Strategy Roundtables. Together, this group illustrates how a business depends on how sharply the target market is defined. On…

HTML5, the budding specification for multimedia in Web applications, will not displace proprietary rich Internet technologies, such as Adobe Flash/Flex or Microsoft Silverlight, anytime soon, an analyst report…

Given Mark Zuckerberg’s announcements at the Facebook F8 conference, one thing is certain: newspapers can no longer ignore Facebook’s impact and reach. Whereas publishers continue to scapegoat Google for many o…