- 11 Recommendations for the Entrepreneur’s Bookshelf
Published: January 25, 2011Source: Mashable!“Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune,” entrepreneur and motivational speaker Jim Rohn once said. But where is one to start? Amazon returns 12,146 book results for…
- So Why Should You Care About NFC?
Published: January 25, 2011Source: TechCrunchIf you asked most folks what NFC means they’d probably mumble something about the Giants and wave you off. However, Near Field Communication is here to stay and if Google and Apple’s current and potential i…
- HOW TO: Port Your Phone Number To Google Voice (GOOG)
Published: January 25, 2011Source: SAI: Silicon Alley InsiderGoogle announced today that you can finally port your phone number to Google Voice.
This means you’ll be canceling your current number and adding it to Google Voice.
Porting only works with mobile numbers right… - Farminess Guide
Published: January 25, 2011Source: GameChangersNothing ever goes away. The essential nature of a thing does not disappear. It changes. Evolves. That’s how nature rolls. It is through change that a thing makes itself timeless. It is through c…
- The Best Ways to Tweak Your Search When Google Doesn’t Give You What You Want [Google]
Published: January 25, 2011Source: LifehackerIdeally, a simple Google search will give you exactly the results you need. When it doesn’t, here are the best ways to tweak your web searches to help you get…
- Google’s Groupon Killer May Not Actually Work Like Groupon At All* (GOOG)
Published: January 25, 2011Source: SAI: Silicon Alley InsiderUPDATE: One commenter is (and several at TechCrunch are) suggesting this isn’t actually a sneak peek at Google Offers, as TechCrunch had claimed, but an old coupon feature for Google Places.
We’ve reached out t… - Army Captain Builds iPhone App for Soldiers in Afghanistan
(PC Magazine)Published: January 25, 2011Source: Yahoo! News: Apple NewsPC Magazine – As Army Capt. Johnathan Springer geared up for a deployment to Afghanistan with the 101st Airborne, he scoured the Internet for a smartphone app that would help him in the field. There wasn’t one,… - Why iPads Aren’t Ready For Classrooms… Yet [Opinion]
Published: January 25, 2011Source: GizmodoA tony prep school in Knoxville, Tennessee has made it mandatory for every student between grades 4 and 12 to own an iPad. That might be a good idea, someday!…
- Everything You Need to Know About the Verizon iPhone and Making the Switch [Explainer]
Published: January 25, 2011Source: GizmodoIt seems like the phone-owning world was holding their breath for this moment. Now that Verizons own iPhone is almost here, you might be thinking of switching…
- Could Amazon’s bulk-email service spawn spam and malware?
Published: January 25, 2011Source: InfoWorld NewsAmazon Web Services (AWS) has been a boon for developers and organizations that need large-scale code-crunching power but can’t or won’t shell out for the server racks.
- The History of Content, From Cave Paintings to Flipboard [INFOGRAPHIC]
Published: January 25, 2011Source: Mashable!Remember when newspapers were king? How about the golden years of radio? Or when carrier pigeons ruled the roost? These content vessels often seem like bygone relics of a simpler time.
In a charmingly illust… - Research Finds Text-Messaging Improves Children’s Spelling Skills
Published: January 25, 2011Source: ReadWriteWebTeens’ text-messaging habits are legion. They send thousands upon thousands of texts per month, and every once in a while, some unfortunate parents make the headlines when they get a bill in the mail for thous…
- Mobile Is Facebook’s Top Priority In 2011
Published: January 25, 2011Source: SAI: Silicon Alley InsiderFacebook Chief Technical Officer Bret Taylor says that mobile is the company’s top priority in 2011.
Speaking at the Inside Social Apps conference in San Francisco, Taylor said that mobile usage is the fastest… - Google Boost: Now Appearing On Mobile Phones
Published: January 25, 2011Source: Google Small Business(Cross-posted from LatLong)Back in October we announced Google Boost, a new advertising solution to help local businesses connect with potential customers in their area. Today we are excited to announce that B…
- iWallet: 4 Things NFC Payments Need to Take Off
(PC World)Published: January 25, 2011Source: Yahoo! News: Apple NewsPC World – Apple’s next iPhone and iPad may be poised to include a near field communication payment system, but the payment option will still face some big challenges ahead. - What Groupon and LivingSocial Cannot Offer
Published: January 25, 2011Source: The ConversationLast month, Amazon invested $175 million in the number two online coupon site LivingSocial. True to form, Amazon is already using the platform to create enormous buzz: last week, they announced a coupon: $10 f…
- Storying Social Change
Published: January 24, 2011Source: A Storied CareerA book by Linde Zingaro, Speaking Out: Storytelling for Social Change, provides a framework for how storytelling is employed in social-change efforts:
For some, the disclosure of their own stories of marginal…
- The Staggering Size of the Internet [INFOGRAPHIC]
Published: January 25, 2011Source: Mashable!The Internet is a big place. How big? Try gigantic. The infographic above, from the folks at Focus, attempts to visually represent some of the mind-boggling numbers that defined the Internet circa 2010…
- Facebook Acquires Hyperlocal Mobile Advertising Service
Published: January 25, 2011Source: Mashable!Facebook has acquired hyperlocal mobile advertising service Rel8tion, a nine month-old stealth startup based in Seattle.
Facebook confirmed the acquisition in an e-mail to Mashable Tuesday afternooon. “We… - Startup Uses Tweets to Predict Purchases [EXCLUSIVE]
Published: January 25, 2011Source: Mashable!A social analytics startup claims it can isolate tweets that are potential sales leads.
Launching in beta on Tuesday, Viralheat‘s Human Intent simplifies lead generation by helping businesses pinpoint soc… - Paying with your iPhone at Starbucks: hands-on
Published: January 25, 2011Source: TUAWLast week, Starbucks updated its Starbucks Card app to handle payments through your iPhone and iPod touch at most Starbucks locations throughout the country. It was originally part of a pilot program when the…
- A Devaluation of “Friends” May Be Driving Trust in Thought Leaders
Published: January 25, 2011Source: The Steve Rubel StreamKey points in this post..
There’s been a decline in trust in “a person like myself” and regular employees, arguably because of “over-friending”
Trust in credentialed experts (70%) and company technical spec… - Got a Web Checklist Like This?
Published: January 25, 2011Source: Business BlogsYou have your new Website up and running, and are ready to start bringing in sales.
Perhaps, you spent hours writing the copy yourself?
Or maybe you hired a big, Web company to design a site with all the bells… - How To Attract 55 Million Eyes In Just 4 Hours [pictures]
Published: January 25, 2011Source: Outspoken MediaPerhaps the one thing that unites SEOs, content marketers and anyone with a Web site is that we all want our content to go viral. And we all sometimes struggle with getting it to do so. While there are tons o…
- Content Curation – The Cure for What Ails Pharma Social Media?
Published: January 25, 2011Hi gang – Sorry for the light posting schedule. Truth is, I haven’t been at my desk for more than 2 days straight since the beginning of 2011, which puts a crimp in my creativity. I’ve got PLENTY of i…
- New geolocation app connects citizen first responders to heart attack victims
Published: January 25, 2011Today the San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District (SRVFPD) in California is launching an iPhone app that will dispatch trained citizens to help others in cardiac emergencies. The new app, available at firede…
- Clean Your Toilet with Kool-Aid [MacGyver Tip]
Published: January 25, 2011Source: GizmodoWe’ve noted that you can clean your dishwasher with Kool-Aid before, but home-centric blog Apartment Therapy notes that you can also use it to get stains out o…
- Is Groupon Stores Dead On Arrival?
Published: January 25, 2011Source: SAI: Silicon Alley InsiderAt the beginning of December, Groupon announced two radical new features: Groupon Stores and the Deal Feed, the former a self-serve deal platform for merchants, the latter a Facebook-like experience for Groupo…
- Adobe: Why So Serious?
Published: January 25, 2011Source: The Future BuzzAdobe is best known for…you guessed it, Photoshop. As we can see below it’s not just anecdotal: there’s almost as most interest in the world for their Photoshop product as the brand itself:
And who is m…
- Why The Verizon iPhone Is Going To Be Huge: Only 26% Of Verizon Subscribers Have Smartphones (AAPL, VZ, GOOG)
Published: January 25, 2011Source: SAI: Silicon Alley InsiderApple probably would have been better off if it had started selling the iPhone at Verizon a year ago, as it probably would have stifled Google Android from becoming such a strong competitor. (Verizon is respons…
- How to Build an Effective Footer
Published: January 25, 2011Source: Graywolf's SEO BlogFooters are one of the most often underused, misused and abused areas of a website. In this post, I’ll be taking a look at footers and passing on some tips to help you get more out of them.
Link Brothel
Hav… - Apple to Add NFC Functionality to iPhone and iPad [REPORT]
Published: January 25, 2011Source: Mashable!Apple will add NFC (near-field communication) capabilities to its next generation iPhone and iPad, claims Richard Doherty, director of the consulting firm Envisioneering Group.
NFC is a form of wireless dat… - Why 3D Doesn’t Work and Never Will
Published: January 25, 2011Source: Daring FireballWalter Murch, in a letter to Roger Ebert:
The biggest problem with 3D, though, is the “convergence/focus” issue. A couple of the other issues — darkness and “smallness” — are at least theoretica…
- How to create a brilliant online press centre
Published: January 25, 2011Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blogWe recently noticed that our online press centre is in need of some serious love and attention, as a number of basic features are missing. With this in mind I thought I’d compile a post that we can use inter…
- Healthier living through mobile location data
Published: January 25, 2011RunKeeper is a location-aware app that helps runners monitor and manage their exercise regimens. The overarching goal is to aggregate the world’s fitness data and use it to power a platform that drives healthie…
- Vid.ly offers answer to HTML5 video standards war
Published: January 25, 2011Source: InfoWorld NewsA site called Vid.ly this week is debuting its answer to the emerging battle between Google, Microsoft, and others over the future of HTML5 video standards.
- Lessons from the Twitter Love Guru
Published: January 25, 2011Source: Social Media ExplorerWhen I discuss social media marketing I sometimes call it digital word-of-mouth. It’s apt. Digital word-of-mouth could someday become as powerful at growing brands as its off-line namesake. Bu…
- Introducing the Amazon Simple Email Service
Published: January 25, 2011Source: Amazon Web Services BlogLike most technical endeavors, sending email is a lot harder than it looks! The simple solutions that are entirely adequate when you have to send a couple of dozen daily emails simply dont work when you need to…
- What Is Quora’s Biggest Challenge?
Published: January 24, 2011Source: TechCrunchEditor’s note: Guest author Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, the consumer Internet, and social networks. This is the third and final in a series of articles on Quora (here are the f…
- The New New Media: Apple’s Subscription Model
Published: January 24, 2011Source: ReadWriteWebEvery Monday evening we’ll be looking at the latest in new media trends. The series is named after the title of one of my favorite books, The New New Thing by Michael Lewis. In that book, published in 1999, Lew…
- In Defense of Qwiki – The Machine That Reads to You
Published: January 24, 2011Source: ReadWriteWebVideo artist Ze Frank used to say that it would take him all day long to produce each of his five to ten minute long pieces. That’s not unusual: creation of multi-media content is incredibly time and resource…
- how rackspace needs to talk to people at sxsw
Published: January 24, 2011Source: gapingvoid[Download the printable version here etc.]
“”South-By” is almost upon us, and so here I am thinking up new SXSW Interactive ideas for my client, Rackspace, who will have a presence there.
We have a basic… - Report: Amazon plans to expand grocery delivery service (John Cook/TechFlash)
Published: January 25, 2011Source: TechmemeJohn Cook / TechFlash:
Report: Amazon plans to expand grocery delivery service — Amazon.com is looking to expand its home delivery service, with The Financial Times reporting (subscription required) tha… - API of the Week: Snapr API – Add Geolocation Info to Your Mobile Photo App
Published: January 25, 2011Source: ReadWriteWebSnapr is a mobile application for sharing geo-tagged images. Its goal is to create a “live map of the world’s photos.” It also has an API that enables developers to add location information and Instagram-like…
- Facebook Turns Friend Activity Into New Ad Format
Published: January 25, 2011Source: Mashable!Facebook is rolling out Sponsored Stories, a new ad format that turns your friends’ actions into promoted content.
Sponsored Stories is “a way for marketers to sponsor activities that happen throughout t… - QuoraTop Ranks the Most Followed Quora Accounts
Published: January 25, 2011Source: louisgray.comThe second-most popular activity on the Internet (ego stroking) just got yet another site. Silicon Valley’s latest flame, Quora, the increasingly popular question and answer site founded by a team of former Fac…
- The map of profanity on Twitter, across America.
Published: January 25, 2011Source: SAI: Silicon Alley InsiderThe map of profanity on Twitter, across America.Join the conversation about this story »
- Eight Lessons from the life and work of Jack LaLanne
Published: January 25, 2011Source: Seth's BlogHe bootstrapped himself. A scrawny little kid at 15, he decided to change who he was and how he was perceived, and then he did. The deciding was as important as the doing.
He went to the edges. He didn’t mer… - Mahalo 4.0 = Howcast + Quora + About.com
Published: January 25, 2011Source: SAI: Silicon Alley InsiderJason Calacanis started Mahalo four years ago as a “human powered search engine,” but the latest version of the site moves completely away from the original idea, and much deeper into web video and “how to” con…
- How the iPhone Mail App Decides When to Show You New Mail Messages
Published: January 24, 2011Source: Daring FireballDetails matter.
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- Death Cab For Bobby
Published: January 25, 2011Source: The Ad Contrarian
- Trust Transformed: Results of the 2011 Edelman Trust Barometer
Published: January 25, 2011Source: Richard Edelman – 6 A.M.Tomorrow morning, I will be on stage at the Belvedere Hotel in Davos, releasing the results of our latest 23-country Edelman Trust Barometer study. The lead of the story must be that trust is transformed. In th…
- Hype vs. Value and Why Everyone Wants Buzz
Published: January 25, 2011Source: Conversation AgentYour content can educate, inform, entertain, and even inspire. There are more than 50 ways to create genuine buzz — connecting with people by making their lives easier or by evoking strong emotions in them,…
- This Is What Really Hides In Taco Bell's "Beef" [Food]
Published: January 24, 2011Source: GizmodoTaco Bell “beef” pseudo-Mexican delicacies are really made of a gross mixture called “Taco Meat Filling” as shown on their big container’s labels, like the one…
- One Guy Designed His Own Heart Implant and Now 23 Other People Are Using It [Medicine]
Published: January 25, 2011Source: GizmodoIt’s fantastic enough that a british engineer designed his own heart textile implant in 2004 when he realized it was better than an aortic valve replacement. B…
- Tim Cook: Apple’s Steve Ballmer? (AAPL, MSFT)
Published: January 24, 2011Source: SAI: Silicon Alley InsiderA visionary founder steps down after leading his company to unprecedented success, and hands the reins to his most trusted lieutenant. That’s what happened last week with Steve Jobs and Tim Cook.
It also happen… - Quick Way to Find Interesting & Influential Twitter Users
Published: January 24, 2011Source: Small Business Search MarketingOne of the tenets of marketing on Twitter is to find and connect with the most influential users in your industry. There are several sites and directories that claim to offer an easy way to find those users. Bu…
- Google creates real-time weather web app for iPhone, Android
Published: January 24, 2011Google today gave both Android and iPhone users a second bonus today with a real-time, web-based weather app. A search for weather in the mobile browser will show the current weather, including based on the us…
- LinkedIn Plots Your Professional Network with InMaps
Published: January 24, 2011Source: ReadWriteWebLinkedIn, the career-minded social network, unveiled a new feature today that helps users to visualize and interact with their professional network. Called “InMaps”, the feature provides an interactive visual r…
- U.S. Internal Revenue Service debuts IRS2Go App for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad on Apple’s App Store
Published: January 24, 2011Source: MacDailyNewsThe U.S. Internal Revenue Service today unveiled IRS2Go, its first iPhone app… Android users can visit the Android Marketplace to download the free IRS2Go app.




















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