Curated Stories Feb. 1, 2010

As an entrepreneur, blogger and the investor in charge of the Founders Fund seed investment program, Dave McClure knows the importance of a proven revenue model. In a recent blog post he makes the assertion tha…

The iPad seems to turn its back on the creative classes which populate Apple’s fan base. But this is the next step in a strategy from Apple which seeks to embrace a wide consumer base.I have been watching the u…

John Scalzi:

Leaving aside the moral, philosophical, cultural and financial
implications of this weekend’s Amazon/Macmillan slapfight and
What It All Means for book readers and the future of the
pub…

I put myself squarely in the “Working Mac User” category. My MacBook sees daily use in an Enterprise. I freelance write about the Mac and use mine in school. Outside of web surfing and the occasional game,…

Hoenig: Dennis Kucinich’s plan, ‘Create One Million Permanent Job Opportunities,’ is a terrible one.

Amazon may have created the market for online book sales and fueled the growth of e-books with its Kindle device. But to the publisher Macmillan, Amazon is just another retailer who wants to resell Macmillan�…

by Josh Bernoff That social media project you are working on. Is it worth it?The iPhone app — is it going to pay off, or just drag your job into the toilet?Our new book Groundswell HEROes is about highly empow…

All kidding aside, the new iPad is a step into a new direction for Apple and a game changer for us — a device that bridges phone and laptop, supporting the mobility of its customers. By the way, if you watch…

There are 6.6 Billion people all around the planet forming a gigantic social network. At some point somewhere in this network, an idea is cooked up in the brain of one person, or sometimes a few people – a…

In particular, we should not conflate the fact of Facebook’s and Twitter’s dominance of social media with the reason for their dominance: the emergence of …

Change the Question

In an article in Business Week this weekend, Roger L. Martin and Jennifer Riel explored how approaching new ideas with an eye toward precedent and previous proof could be a killer. Th…

Can we provide good customer support on Twitter?
Many of us has read the story on how Comcast used Twitter to become a front runner of good customer support on Twitter. Frank Eliason which is the manager behind…

Once upon a time, marketers had to choose from print, television and radio. Would it be a full-page ad in the Town Crier or a 30-second spot on the wacky Morning Zoo radio show? Then the Internet came along —…

There are three main areas of practice for social media that your company (or you) should be thinking about: listening, connecting, publishing. From these three areas, you can build out your usage of the tools…

In 2009, Google struck a deal with Twitter, rumored at $15 million, to integrate tweets into keyword related Google searches. And last month, Google also integrated real-time search technology to surface blog p…

Daniel Eran Dilger
Apple’s unveiling of the iPad was guaranteed to do two things: temporarily tank the company’s stock price (just because) and, of course, generate a torrent of feigned outrage and righteou…

Last year we interviewed Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. This year we interviewed her again. Notably, this time I brought a tripod with me and didn’t cut off S…

A month ago, before any of us knew anything for sure about Apple’s tablet, I looked back at the period before any of us knew anything for sure about Apple’s phone. It turned out that about 95% of the specul…

When you’re looking at whether or not “social media” is a blessing or a curse, remember this. It’s just the amplifier. The mechanism for the word, idea, attitude or behavior to spread faster and farther…

I spend zero dollars marketing my business. “Marketing” in its traditional sense includes advertising, baiting media outlets with press releases and, to paraphrase David Meerman Scott, buy, beg and borrow f…

Berkeley, CA, United States (AHN) – Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have found that couples who use plural pronouns like “we,” “our” and “us” more frequently than singular…

This Clay Shirky talk from Web 2.0 Expo NY (“It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure”) challenges the idea that we’ve got information overload problems (we’ve had more books than any human could…

RSS might very well be one of the most overlooked technologies out there. We all use it, to read, to get content on different pages, to promote our content and our influence, but we rarely talk about it, there…

I was walking to the soda fountain when I saw Elle MacPherson looking at me over the aisle. Her eyes followed me across the store. I swallowed hard and felt sweat break out on my forehead. Did she just wi…

Recently, my wife, Gail, and I had dinner with some close, neighborhood friends. As we always do with this group, we soon began discussing the books we were reading. A few minutes into the discussion, Gail aske…

Today’s guest post comes from Jeremy Epstein, founder and chief marketing navigator at Never Stop Marketing, a strategic marketing firm based in Washington, D.C., with clients including Microsoft, Johnson Jo…