Curated Stories Feb. 2, 2010

Yesterday, browser market share figures came out from Net Applications, and the big news is how Chrome is moving up the ranks at the expense of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and even Firefox, compared to De…

When Apple first released the iPod it wasn’t targeting the tech oriented early adopters. It was targeting the kid next door that wanted to look cool at school while being able to enjoy listening to their MP3…

Tim Trefren is one of the founders of Mixpanel, Inc. a real-time analytics service that helps companies understand how users behave with web applications.When most people think of web analytics, they think abou…

Alright people calm down, I didn’t mean it in that way. Twitter is a great tool to network, build authentic relationships, communicate ideas, and relay powerful messages but what good will that do you if you…

There’s considerable chatter about a seismic shift in search. A lot of it’s overblown, but the central idea is intriguing: Google’s biggest problem — the one that keeps company execs up at night — isn’t Bing…

Brands online and offline struggle to get consumers to spend money at their stores and win them over about products and services. But once they have their customers’ attention, marketers often don’t do enough t…

We are on the cusp of a fundamental change — a worldwide change in the skills everyone needs to succeed, in the nature of organizations, and in how businesses must be led.

The agricultural revolution set up…

The writer known as Sir Bacon is a 42-year old television producer who has been unemployed since the end 2008. He is married, with three kids, and hunting for a new job.
In the meantime, he is writing an exce…

I tweeted a while back that it’s been discovered you can boost creativity with side-to-side eye movement. People who watched a target moving side-to-side for 30 seconds have been tested as producing significa…

I just started using Foursquare. I know, I know. You hate it. Or you love it, and you can’t believe it took me so long to get onto it. Foursquare just became available in Alaska so I’m on a mission to visit…

You can’t know for certain that your tax returns will be audited, but you can be certain that you’re always a candidate. The IRS itself has laid out a few tips on what triggers their audit sensors.Photo by alan…

John M. Mason submits: Perhaps the most profound bit of information appearing in the news this morning concerning the budget proposal of the Obama administration is the citation of Stein’s law by the economis…

Over the past couple years the Facebook Pages and Groups products have moved closer together, forcing marketers to ask themselves: which one should they use? After writing a complete guide to Facebook Pages, w…

Ann Charles is Founder and CEO of BRANDfog, an NYC-based company offering Social Media Branding and Corporate Social Responsibility Strategies for C-Suite Executives.In December, I read a story about social sci…

When Timex sponsored a Twitter party in late 2009, it leaned on the social media expertise of Stefania Pomponi Butler and her partners in Clever Girls Collective to deliver a conversation that would engage wome…

The data-information-knowledge-wisdom hierarchy seemed like a really great idea when it was first proposed. But its rapid acceptance was in fact a sign of how worried we were about the real value of the informa…

If you’re going to succeed on Facebook, you don’t just have to be more interesting than other companies, you have to be more interesting than my friends and relatives. Are you prepared for that?
My friend J…

Great content doesn’t grow on trees, doesn’t work in a vacuum, and doesn’t need to be driven solely by what your readers tell you — you need to have a strategy built around content to grow a site. Glen has w…

When we talk about community or social media people in business roles, we talk about a lot of things.
Their ability to communicate, to interact. To be helpful. To be a diplomat and a conversationalist and a ste…

These days, having computer skills is an important part of a person’s resume. Likewise, it is important for a country’s ability to navigate through economic opportunities of our world. In recent years, count…

If you want to be a great public speaker, your preparation has to be more than just blasting gangsta rap and shadow boxing in front of the mirror. Whether you have to videotape yourself speaking, join a present…

Late last week, I wrote a post about how netbooks running Chrome OS and the iPad were on a collision course. Some people took exception to that, noting the iPad was only a touchscreen device while Chrome OS was…

Keep this video around for when you have a bad day:

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In one of the comments regarding yesterday’s post, my friend, Ron Edmondson, said, “I would love to sit at your dinner table sometime. Great conversations!” As I read that, I thought, We do have great con…

Who will save book publishing?What will save the newspapers?What means ’save’?If by save you mean, “what will keep things just as they are?” then the answer is nothing will. It’s over.If by save you mean, “who…

At the recent DLD Conference (Digital – Life – Design) in Munich, Germany, Esther Dyson moderated a panel on the Internet of Things. The subject of the discussion was giving identity to things, just as people h…

His book was a game changer. Now, David Meerman Scotts updated version of The New Rules of Marketing and PR promises even more.

I had a chance to catch up with David recently and got his quick take…

Wall Street Journal:
Google Plans Store for Online Business Software — Google Inc. is preparing to launch a new store for online business software, according to people briefed by the company, enlisting s…

Dave McClure / Master of 500 Hats:
Subscriptions are the New BLACK. (+ why Facebook, Google, Apple will own your wallet by 2015) — Im on a redeye to NYC, supposed to be working on a presentation im gi…