Curated Stories Feb. 11, 2010

Albert Einstein knew an awful lot. And if you pay attention to his work and his most famous statements about it, you might just think he was talking about us, the social media crew.
We might not be looking for…

Yesterday we asked you whether you preferred handwritting or typing your notes, now we’re back with the results and some reader quotes on the topic of notetaking.The poll shook out strongly in favor of handwrit…

If you’ve been on the Internet for long enough, you may remember the old UNIX finger command. With finger, you could just type in a command like finger email@readwriteweb.com and the email server would return m…

Facebook recently surpassed the 400 million active user mark on the eve of its 6th birthday. With such a huge number of users it wont be a surprise to know that more than 50% of the users, who buy goods online…

Dan Schawbel is the bestselling author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success, an award winning blogger at Personal Branding Blog, a national speaker and consultant on branding and a Busine…

From the moment it launched, Google Buzz generated buzz:

OMG another social network to manage
OMG there’s too much noise
OMG this is so redundant

And for the early adopters, it’s exactly that and more. It…

But the humming of social media — and its implications for news media — just keeps getting louder and louder. News people are in the social web, …

The following series is pulled from a presentation I gave to a group of beauty bloggers hosted by L’Oreal in New York. Most of the presentation is geared toward how to make a blog more search engine and user-…

It’s about Me!

When new clients start talking social media, it’s not long before they get to “engagement.” They want to know what moves crowds and individuals to genuine participation. What attracts…

After enjoying one of the coziest relationships in the Valley for years, Apple and Google are increasingly rivals.
The two companies are fighting across all divisions, but the battle is most intense in the mob…

If you’ve been watching Don’s Twitter stream the past couple of weeks or read his recent blog posts, you’ll know that he was in Davos Switzerland at the Annual World Economic Forum. Among the many speakin…

Yesterday, after spending some time with Google’s latest social networking service, Google Buzz, we posted a handful of buzz tips and tricks for those wanting to better manage the buzz, play with its APIs or ba…

Prisoner by dub72 @DeviantArt
Archaeologists suggest that the written word has been around for about 6,000 years. Before that knowledge was disseminated amongst humans through storytelling. If modern humans hav…

The question is being raised more and more: Can Toyota recover its reputation?

Over the last few weeks I’ve had three conversations with readers regarding different sources of traffic.
In each case I had a number of email exchanges with each blogger (all on the same day) and ended up la…

A well-researched business plan can be a waste of time, but it can also show your ability to follow through on an idea.
Here is what legend entrepreneurs – Kevin Ryan, founder of DoubleClick and Gilt Grou…

Mind you, this is coming from a someone who does not profess to understand Google Wave (after several attempts)…
and from someone who believes that Facebook is the bigger than most give it credit for.
Here ar…

I noticed a simple tweet the other day that prompted me to write this post. (Although, this subject has been on my mind for sometime now.) The timing is perfect, when you consider the fact that Yelp is also…

Pete Warden’s plan to release data from more than 215 million Facebook profiles for academic research is critical to the next phase of the Web’s evolution. We’ll never get Web 3.0 without a higher underst…

Tonight on #IMCchat (the Integrated Marketing Communications chat on Twitter) we discussed the definition and focus of sales-oriented and market-oriented companies and the advantages/disadvantages …

Between Facebook and Twitter and visible follower lists on Google Buzz, some people are deciding to step off the grid and get a little privacy back.
Web sites such as Web 2.0 Suicide Machine and Seppukoo h…

The job market is still awful.
Nearly one in ten Americans are unemployed and even more — 16.5% — are under-employed. Job listings are at startling lows relative to the size of the workforce.
Read the…

Just a short note to point out that Apple’s iPad seems set for a future in the enterprise, judging at least from the frenetic level of Tweeting activity greeting a report dating from last week as published by…

But the power of social media to find young voices and gather innovative ideas means that–for the first time–world youth can play an important role in …

If I told you I could change and revolutionize the way your company collaborates internally and builds relationships with its customers via new tools and technologies, would you be interested?
What if I told yo…

News organizations are getting hip to social media. For many of them,
figuring out how to use social media hasn’t been easy, but a growing
number of them have seen the light and realize that social media
platfo…

Who would have thought that nearly 40% of online searchers make a purchase after being influenced by an offline channel? You would expect some influence, yes, but that significant?
That’s exactly what the re…

Earlier this week I published the findings of the ForeSee Results 2010 Social Media Report. Kevin Ertell who is Vice President of Retail Strategy for ForeSee Results and author of the report kindly agreed to an…

This article is part of a 2-part series on social media, specifically targeted towards economists, strategists, and more broadly, investors. …

Guest post by Bob Dennis, freelance Web designer with experience in everything from audio production to social networking.
After two-and-a-half years, iPhone app developers are getting fed up with Apple’s le…

Recently I was invited to give a basics webinar on optimizing news content for search. The intersection of search and PR/communications are obviously something quite familiar and while I’ve done several s…

I’m no Chris Brogan, but if you combine the number of people I have access to via this blog and my Twitter stream, it’s fair to suggest that I reach thousands upon thousands of people — including some of…

This is something we keep hearing about, how people and companies need to add value. Adding value is fast becoming the new bubble. A few years ago, Marshall Goldsmith, the world’s top executive coach, questio…

What goals do you have when it comes to your social media use?
I recently had a fellow blogger, Scot Duke of Mr Business Golf, post a comment in regards to a article I had written regarding trying hard to reac…

Cloud computing has been enthusiastically taken up by criminals for a variety of activities, a security expert says. What better endorsement for the cloud could there be?

InfoWorld – Last summer, it looked like Apple was finally going to make its Macs and iPhones enterprise-capable, giving hope to those who wanted a more stable, less failure-prone option at the office. Soon, it…

Immaturity is underrated; let me tell you why.

George Stephanopoulos. Wolf Blitzer. Ana Marie Cox. Three powerful people that you might want to get in touch with, especially if youre in D.C. One man who has the ear of all three of those powerful people i…

Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman was the first speaker on the main stage at TED 2010. I had been introduced to his ideas by Brandon, who cites the “Peak-End Rule” in our book Subject to Change. In his present…

Brent Schlender / Perspective:
Bill Gates Joins the iPads Army of Critics. Steve Jobs Couldnt Care Less. — With the sudden ridicule of Steve Jobs new do-everything media player, Apple has abruptly bec…

Edward Harrison submits:The Atlantic has an epic piece on employment trends in America in this month’s issue. This is a must-read piece of journalism, not just for the anecdotes and analysis of this particul…

Jason Schwarz submits:Investing is a lot like surfing. You’ve got to paddle out, find your wave, adjust to it, and ride it in. The big wave that weve riding since the March lows ended on January 14th when I…

If I sell you something, we exchange items of value. You give me money, I give you stuff, or a service. The deal is done. We’re even. Even steven, in fact.That’s fine, but it doesn’t explain potlatch or the mys…

Yesterday was a whirlwind of reactions, mostly overreactions, to Google’s latest concoction, Google Buzz. I posted a quick video tour to help people know how to get started before spending the day busy with c…

Whenever I write or speak on the topic of delegation (as I did yesterday), I always get a question from someone who says, “But what if you don’t have a staff? How can you delegate?” This question typicall…

If you’re ready to think of your blog as a business (one of the hot topics over on Third Tribe Marketing), one way to do that is to start thinking of your blog content as the core of a distribution flow. In…

Whether you call it a huge privacy flaw or just an annoyance, Google Buzz can put the contacts you automatically follow—a.k.a. those you most frequently email or chat—on a public profile page. Heres how to…

A couple of days ago, I attended the presentation of Charles Leadbeater’s “Cloud Culture: the future of global cultural relations” at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London and I have to say …

The Presentation Zen Design book has been available from online retailers for about 5-6 weeks now, and the book is just now starting to show up on the shelves of book stores. A big note of gratitude and apprec…

Have you read Kevin Kelly’s book, New Rules for The New Economy? If not, you should. Originally published in 1998, it’s amazing how it has held up over time. Kevin has been re-publishing it bit by bit…

Family history, a strong interest of mine, is a rich source for stories.

I don’t have to go far back in my family tree, for example, to uncover the story of my maternal great-grandfather’s mysterious disap…