Curated Stories July 9, 2010

Earlier this week, we gave you a few staggering factoids on the state of the U.S. newspaper industry.
You know, cheery stuff like how there have been roughly 35,000 newspaper job losses or buyouts since March 2…

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.A new version of the iPhone hit App…

Novelist Nic Brown plays his childhood friend Tripp Phillips (former ATP circuit pro) in tennis. The challenge? To win a single point.

What I can’t do, no matter how hard I try, is win a single point. Not one…

Over the last couple of years a number of fairly prominent bloggers have decided to shut down their blogs and move their communications to subscription only email newsletters. Bloggers such as Jason Calacanis,…

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

QA with Kindra Hall, Question 8:

Q: You tweeted recently about having writer’s block. How do you deal with that and get…

There’s been a lot of fretting lately in the journalism field about the rise of so-called “content farms.” These are operations like Demand Media or Associated Content (recently purchased by Yahoo) or even AOL…

Earlier this year, the Sun Chronicle, a small Massachusetts-based newspaper, closed down comments on its website after discussions in the paper’s comment section got out of hand. Now, in order to “encourage int…

Anne Berkowitch is co-founder and CEO of SelectMinds, the leading provider of networking and referral technologies and of the recently launched TalentVine referral recruiting solution. You can follow SelectMin…

See a photo of Eric his bio, and Part 1 of this QA.

QA with Eric, Question 2:

Q: What inspired you to “cross over” and explore the applied side of storytelling, e.g., your interview with Steve Denning (…

Value Expectations submits: by John Tamny, Toreador Research and Trading (Guest Contributor) In the aftermath of World War II, General Lucius Clay, Governor of the U.S. military zone in Germany, mentioned to W…

“Foursquare gets all the hype.” It’s something I hear just about every day from just about every other location-based startup. And it’s true, though I would argue that it’s warranted — and investors…

A good QA with GE’s HR director – planning for marketing success – Good POV – http://bit.ly/afq4Lj (via @econsultancy)

Microsoft is making two big bets for the new fiscal year: the cloud and the small business market.

So it’s fitting that the company is creating a new division that will be chartered with offering cloud computi…

Sick of circling the city streets in your car, looking for a spot — any spot — that you can squeeze into? Google may have the answer, or at least the very beginnings of one, though it’s going to heavily…

I just read an article and was so thrilled with how great it was that I never even noticed when it was published: three years ago. Don’t let that stop you from reading. It’s still just as relevant today, pe…

Among the announcements at Twitter’s first “Chirp” conference for developers this past April was the launch of a new feature called Annotations. But unlike some of the other features that were launched,…

Fortune magazine has compiled a list of what it believes are the smartest people in the technology industry, and topping the list of CEOs is Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, while designer Jony Ive was named smarte…

Filed under: How-tos, iPhone, iPad

I love my iPad 3G, almost unnecessarily so. I use it as my primary computer for a multitude of tasks. The only thing that I dislike about my iPad is that I have to pay ATT e…

The fine folks at Fortune report that YouTube has announced support for ultra high-quality video. The announcement, which came at todays VidCon 2010 conference, promises video that you typically see on 25 foot…

Filed under: HardwareI bought a one terabyte Time Capsule shortly after it hit the market, along with an external 1.5TB drive. I use the Time Capsule’s internal drive to back up two smaller capacity Macs, while…

Filed under: iPadIve been watching the e-reader competition with great interest lately — after the iPad entered the market with such a splash, Amazon and Barnes Noble have been trying to position their own de…

Each Friday Im introducing a cool tool. Heres the one for this week.
I was recently re-introduced to Business Catalyst, a content management system recently acquired by Adobe. I had seen it some time ago,…

There is a 30 second ad I’d like you watch — but with the sound off. You’ve probably seen the ad before; it has been on TV enough and all over the Internet. Whether you have seen it or not, I’d still as…

After optimizing your site for the search engines and pursuing other marketing-efforts, it’s time to use the “power of the press” to boost sales, awareness and credibility cost-effectively.

But how do…

Are you playing Foursquare? Are you “going out” with Gowalla? Are you looped in with Loopt?
Location-based services are once again changing the face of social networking. Where relationships were once at t…

by Josh BernoffHeres the problem. Influencers — thats reporters, analysts, bloggers, anyone with an audience — are targets. PR people are the ones who want to influence them. The PR folks subscribe to databas…

While I was getting my tan on in Key West, Dave Weigel, the snappy voice behind the Washington Post’s conservative Right Now blog, “resigned”. Dave had been brought in three months ago to mix news and op…

Your Market Is a PersonThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing
Target Market as defined by Wikipedia: A ‘target market or target Audience is the market segment which a particular product is marketed to.
The co…

How To Add Your Business To Twitter PlacesThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing
Twitter has been wrestling with the location game for some time with a couple fits and starts landing most recently on something…

For those of you that haven’t read the Guide to Understanding Social CRM, it’s a whitepaper that Chess Media Group put out in collaboration with Mitch Lieberman. The purpose of the document is to help org…

Steve Jobs might have thought he was lightly playing down reports that the Apple / Google rivalry had dramatically changed when he said “they decided to compete with us — we didn’t go into the search business”…

According to comScore’s latest analysis of the U.S. mobile market, Android has grown significantly in the period from February to May 2010, while all other major operating systems experienced a drop in their…

About ten months ago, my pastor asked me to chair the Evangelism Committee at my church. He also appointed several committee members to serve with me. We started by asking what was the single most important thi…

Google has rolled out rich text signature support to Gmail so you can have a fancy signature without any Greasemonkey scripts or Macgyver-like cobbling togethe…

A new role-playing game called EpicWin hopes to help people turn mundane to-do lists into an incentive to collect virtual goods.

More than a billion mobile phone connections have been added in 18 months, surpassing five billion, says Wireless Intelligence.

In theory, a handheld gaming device with 3G connectivity seems like a great idea, which is probably why Japanese wireless carrier NTT DoCoMo is pitching the concept to console makers. In practice, it’s a stre…

Wow. Jeremy Schoemaker took the best photo of the Purple Cow print I’ve seen so far…

My good friend Steve Blank does a great job of describing the metamorphosis a scalable startup needs to undergo to become a big company. During that metamorphosis, many startups hire executives from big compan…

When I introduced our venture firm on this blog in July, I wrote extensively about the types of entrepreneurs and companies we want to fund: technical founders, brilliant and motivated entrepreneurs, product-f…

Every job in a startup is (usually) hard: building a new product is hard, marketing a new product is hard, selling a new product is hard. But no job is harder than the job of a CEO. Also, no job is murkier: wh…

This evening Facebook announced that they will officially kill the company’s gift shop on August 1st of this year. Currently generating tens of millions of dollars for the company a year, one has to wonder w…

(This is a guest post from Jason Thompson, one of the great Analysis Exchange mentors that have been working to help us create an entirely new way to train web analysts while also providing free analytics to n…

You may have seen this. It’s gone viral, and the star of this piece is already being limoed around New York to all the national morning talk shows after being nominated for an Emmy.
And Emmy for what, prec…

I saw this Jane McGonigal video on TED the other day for the second time, and have been thinking about it ever since: can games make the world better? Forget the rest of my blog post and just watch this. Ask yo…

A few insights on generating more word-of-mouth with #socialmedia – http://bit.ly/aXaEAw (via @hubspot)

On July 2, I poked around Nielsen’s website trying to find a simple piece of information. Since I could not find it, I decided these Nielsen people were probably smart and had a website form f…

If you’ve been in the PR field for a few days, you have heard at least one journalist complaining about bad press releases saying nothing and being sent to them in an attempt to get their att…

Proving once again that writers are never above peeking into the next stall, Writer/BoingBoing co-editor Cory Doctorow recently published a geeky introspective about the software/hardware tools he uses, and I h…

Image via WikipediaAs someone who works full time at the agency founded by David Ogilvy, there are plenty of reminders of his wisdom on the walls. Even online, at least once a day I see a tweet come through wit…

What do B2B services really need to concentrate on if they want to
have a viable social media presence? Let’s examine the value of social media from a B2B point of view.While social media has all the engagemen…

The international fuss caused by Google accidentally recording our data has been put behind it, with the planet-aggregating search giant now restarting Street…

The former Net analyst, who left the industry in disgrace, bets what’s left of his reputation on a business website that chases clicks

Apple is about to get a lot more serious about its “hobby” with the next release of its Apple TV set-top box, as sources say that the software company will look to push a new streaming rental service that w…

Having opened a Twitter account just before making his big decision, LeBron James experiences just what real-time bile feels like.

A flap over the iPhone 4′s alleged reception problems may have more to do with resentment over Apple’s ever-growing popularity than a critical product flaw, writes columnist Rich Jaroslovsky

There’s a cartoon showing two Native Americans standing on a mountain looking at another mountain from which clouds of smoke are rising. One says to the other: “Makes you wonder how we ever lived without it…

Skout, an iPhone app for geolocational dating, hit a million users and became profitable, according to a statement from the company.

According to founder Christian Wiklund, 200,000 of that million have downlo…

Foursquare is growing quickly, gaining momentum from mainstream deals, and now they have the money in the bank to keep it up. But the big question remains: can they keep it up in the face of major competition?…

Foursquare competitor Gowalla has announced fresh new partnerships with LIVESTRONG and online T-shirt shop Threadless.The LIVESTRONG partnership is centered around inspiration and the ongoing Tour de France, wh…

Despite claims that the age of privacy is over, many Internet users continue to have privacy concerns, particularly as more and more of our personal data is stored and shared online.

Having a privacy policy fo…

Ro Choy is the CEO of PeerPong, a site that identifies the best people on the Web to answer any question, using their fast growing PeerRank Index.Since the beginning of the year, there has been a lot of activit…

It is not uncommon for brand managers and marketing directors to think only of Facebook when discussing social media. Sure, Facebook continues to grow (and maintain) it’s dominance on the web, but there are a…

http://railsmagazine.com/issues/6 (or on Ruby Inside)
Rails Magazine is a well designed magazine dedicated to fine articles on Ruby Rails and the recently released issue #6 is special in being nearly entirely…

Over at Music Think Tank there’s a blog post provocatively titled: Why Music Should Never Be Given Away For “Free”, which brings up a point I’ve heard multiple times from various music industry marketers (many…

A whole bunch of you have been submitting the following story from a Dutch developer who is being threatened by Landmark Digital, a BMI subsidiary which owns the patents on Shazam’s music recognition technology…

Mark Twain:

No one likes to be interviewed, and yet no one likes to say no; for interviewers are courteous and gentle-mannered, even when they come to destroy.

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Today, Fring announced a major new update to their iPhone application. The new update supports iPhone 4′s front facing video camera for two way video chats as well as multitasking for iOS 4. The neat thing abou…

Every freelance writer should have a website, and building a website using WordPress.org is perfect for making your life easy, boosting search engine optimization efforts, and looking great.
Wh…

Gary Vaynerchuk may be one of social media’s runaway success stories, but he’s got more than a few haters out there. This week at Fast Company, he documents the issue of people thinking he’s a douchebag online….

In MyFord-equipped cars, a “Do Not Disturb” button lets you block incoming calls and texts while driving. And since so many states are banning texting and call…

Due to longstanding and elaborate liquor laws, it is not particularly easy to buy booze in Pennsylvania. But now the states trying to make it a little bit easi…

Let’s face it, we’re getting worse and worse about being civil to one another and business meetings are a prime place where manners are disappearing.

In Marketing, we always discuss the value of the first impr…

Strategy and design are two crucial elements when it comes to site design and development. In my work at Adaptive Path, I’ve worked on a number of projects that focus on these two key elements. We’ll end th…