Curated Stories June 1, 2010

Is your website experiencing problems with Facebook’s Like buttons? Don’t worry, it’s not just you and Facebook is working on a solution.The problem that seems to be impacting potentially thousands of si…

Dan Klamm is the Outreach Marketing Coordinator at Syracuse University Career Services, where he advises students on using social media for career success. Connect with him on Twitter @DanKlamm. Succeeding…

What kind of neat gadgets will Apple come up with next?
The company is notoriously tight-lipped about its future plans. But sometimes you can get a hint for what’s next by surfing a company’s job listings.
App…

Alfred Kinsey, biologist, pioneering sex researcher and founder of the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University*, once wrote that “a marked quiescence of the total body is the most widely recognized…

On Friday, I broke a tasty story about a woman suing Google, claiming bad directions caused her to get hit by a vehicle. Today, I discover our story is everywhere, often with no attribution. Come along and wa…

Facebook and Google’s Google Maps are two of the hottest apps on smartphones, according to The Nielsen Company’s latest “The State of Mobile Apps” report.

The media market research firm surveyed more…

One of my pet peeves is when graphic designers try to be clever and just end up making the copy look stupid (see “What happens when your designer has more power than your writer” and “Designed to annoy“…

As is the poster, we aren’t sure if this is a feature or bug, but it certainly would be one of those useful “little things” that Apple is so good at.

One of the triumphs of the Industrial Era was our realization that organizations didnt have to be ruled according to capricious traits like power, nepotism, grace, and favor. We could impose a rational order on…

[This article is crossposted from Jorge Jaime's blog, in response to my video post a few weeks back about "The Conversation." I recorded an hour long chat on skype with Scott Lewis (@jazzmann91), broken down...

Few things grate on me more than hearing my fellow SEOs talk about how easy local SEO is. There’s less competition! The competition isn’t SEO savvy! Keyword choices are limited! It’s a piece of cake, they...

The Real Results series is supported by Gist, an online service that helps you build stronger relationships. By connecting your inbox to the web, you get business-critical information about key people and comp...

The post I wrote last week on 13 Truths about Social Media Measurement did well, and I thought it would be interesting to look at some stats around it in detail. As of today, it’s in the top 10 posts on my bl...

One big problem with Steve Ballmer's tenure as CEO of Microsoft, as opposed to Bill Gates, is that Ballmer does not take enough of an interest in the products Microsoft makes.
A former Microsoft employee we spo...

Tim Iacono submits: Today’s must-read housing story in the New York Times by David Strietfeld shows just how quickly cultural norms are being cast aside in favor of doing what makes sense, that is, given t...

While I was taking a prospective customer on a tour of my company's beverage-can plant in Golden, Colorado, some years ago, I suddenly found that I was talking to myself. I turned around and saw the customer st...

Pulse, a new RSS reader for the iPad, isn’t perfect. (It supports a maximum of twenty feeds, and I added a bunch of feeds which then mysteriously disappeared.) But I’m still as excited about it as I am ab...

A Team Needs Power to Work

As you consider and hire the people for your social media team, think through the responsibilities you’ll be handing over. Because if you don’t hand over responsibility, acco...

Groupon recently published a series of charts looking at who uses its service, and the results are striking.
Groupon is one of a vast number of startups offering daily deals on food and services in cities acros...

My recent look at a typical day with the Sprint EVO 4G was well received and I started getting requests for a similar look at a day with the iPad. Not one to ignore good requests, this post covers a typical day...

theodp writes While Google boasts one of its Privacy Principles is making the collection of personal information transparent, even techies are left guessing about whats going on behind the scenes of certain pro...

Over the weekend, Tim Bray asked what I thought to be an important question regarding brands and the way consumers interact with them. In a post entitled Corporations and Emotions, he asked:
Is it meaningful o...

If youre travelling abroad with the iPhone and understandably wish to avoid ATTs ridiculously high data roaming charges when trying to find the train station in a new city, I would highly recommend OffMaps.

Of...

Often one prints mistakenly to the wrong printer, or sends a print job to a printer, but later wants to change which queue it's in. Fortunately, there is a solution.

To migrate print jobs between printers, sim...

There's a lot of talk about what the iPad can be used for. But just as interesting is how and where you can use it, and for what kind of experiences.

[This is a crosspost from Alpha Lo's blog, Open Collaboration. Though he had a much catchier title for the post ("What I Learned From Venessa Miemis" - ha), I thought he did a great job listing some of the att...

A Guest Post by Bradford Shimp from All Business Answers
A few months ago, I started a podcast on my blog. It was a bit of a counter-intuitive move for me, since I am generally the shy guy in the room. It has t...

From Entrepreneur:
Corporate Social Responsibility, or CSR, is a term for describing activities and initiatives that businesses undertake as a means to connect with or give back to the communities in which they...

See a photo of Gregg, his bio, Part 1 of this QA, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, and Part 6

QA with Gregg Morris, Question 7:

Q: You write that your site, What’s Your Story?, is “about st...

There is no secret sauce
If there’s one expression I’ve heard over the years that demonstrates an executive’s lack of understanding about how business works, it’s the idea of secret sauce, the concept t...

This may well be the creepiest research abstract I have ever read. I'm not terribly surprised that people are out there coming up with "better" methods of torture. But I guess I didn't expect them to publish on...

Last week we told you about how Yahoo is getting ready to making a big push into local content.
Alan D. Mutter has a little more on that over at Reflections of a Newsosaur, where he explains the threat of Yahoo...

Realtime data startup Metamarkets has raised $2.5 million in seed funding. The round included an all star team of investors: IA Ventures (who led the round), Village Ventures, True Ventures, Founder Collective,...

Privacy. Its the key word in most Facebook-related headlines these days. But its not the key idea. I believe that whats really being tested here is not the limits of privacy but the notion of agility — the ab...

Android: Where’s My Droid can help you locate your phone whether you lost it in the couch cushions, left it at a coffee shop, or it’s going on a ride across to…

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t recall Leonidas apologizing to the Persian army before battle.
I definitely don’t remember Russell Crowe’s vengeful Maximus sitting down to write a few notes of sin…

Adobe on Tuesday announced its new digital viewer technology, aimed to help publishers convert their magazines to an interactive format viewable on portable devices like Apple’s iPad.

Shift Toward Fewer Young Drivers Could Have Repercussions for All Marketers
Advertising Age, June 1, 2010 — The internet has wreaked havoc on the music industry, airlines and media, but it just may be doin…

This is hardly a scientific test. But when an iPad screen and a Pixel Qi faced off head to head recently at Computex in broad daylight, there was one very cle…

If you’ve ever watched an investigative journalism show that exposes things you didn’t know you had to worry about, there’s a good chance you’ve seen footage of the archaic green-screens in use at airport towe…

I’ve known Ivan Levison for many years. Ivan is a prime example of how you can carve out a niche for yourself and make a nice living by staying focused on what you do best.
In Ivan’s case, this is writing e…

In December of 2004, I was interviewed about business blogging by a reporter from the Mississippi Business Journal. It was the first interview I did after starting my own Internet marketing consultancy.

In t…

Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
HP’s Transition to the Cloud Will Cost 9,000 Jobs — Hewlett-Packard said today that it would cut 9,000 jobs and take a $1 billion restructuring charge, spread out through t…

It’s no surprise that women dominate most social networks and news sites. What might raise a few eyebrows is this finding of the iVillage and SheSpeaks survey Women and the Digital Path to…

Profiting From Other People’s ContentThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing
Don’t be alarmed by that title – I’m not talking about stealing content for gain, I’m talking about adding the filtering and…

The headline is shared mostly in jest, but this topic is one worthy of serious attention. The question at hand is whether or not the general advice shared in popular blogs and books when designed to be snappy…

Although the deals tend to be bigger, in scope and revenue, and because of it, B2B sales tend to have a longer cycle. More decision makers are involved on the side of the prospective customer organization,…

Whether you’re marketing an international trade show, a regional conference or an informal ‘tweet up’, there are a variety of social media tools out there that can help you boost attenda…

“Law and Order,” RIPWe haven’t quite reached the end of Western civilization, but the demise of this venerable TV show makes it feel close. Creator Dick Wolf’s formula favored plot-driven storytelling,…

In today’s Start Me Up we hear from Karl Havard at pownum, a new startup that collects consumer ratings on organisations and brands.
If you run a B2C startup and want a Start Me Up profile then please throw y…

5 VERY simple website way-finding tips every site should be following – http://bit.ly/bMAKmn (via @els_aerts)

After months of work, social trip planner Stay.com is getting ready to unshutter and launch a much more robust Version 2.0.

“Basically, we created 2.0 by filling in all the blanks other sites like Expedia, Tr…

Insightful framework – 10 P’s to create successful web content – http://bit.ly/bl883a (via @jowyang)

Here’s my roundup of the best search/marketing posts I found and read during May. If you’re new to this blog, this is a monthly feature that began way back in 2007. You can find earlier “Best Of”s for e…

If there are enough people like Sergeant Morris around, a global school lunch program can become a reality.

Last Monday, I mentioned that I was starting a self-initated experiment to put my iPhone aside and use the Android-powered HTC EVO, with Sprint voice service, exclusively for at least the full week. Curious if…

It is no simple matter activating a brand in a social space. I don’t mean setting up a Twitter account or a Facebook fan page – I mean bringing the brand to life by tapping into the subtle (and not so subtl…

I can answer the question of how I do my best creative work quickly: I don’t know.
I wrote the above about three hours ago. I’ll return to it at the end of this post.
First, let me describe…

The Harvard Busines Review published a – rather strange, I must admit – article a few days ago: “Brands and the Dark Side of Social Media”. In a nutshell:

“Social media are making life diffi…

Not just my head, but your customer’s head and yes… yours.

Everyone has multiple conversations and priorities going on, competing agendas that come into play every time we make a choice about doing, buying…

By James Cherkoff, Collaborate Marketing.
A couple of years ago, I heard Sir Tim Berners-Lee describe the muddled state of his splendid creation in this way :
‘If your sink is blocked for a few weeks and yo…

Filed under: Steve Jobs, iPad

This is an idea so beautiful in its execution that you wonder why it hasn’t been done before — take Steve Jobs’ rapturous introduction of the iPad, and put it over the footage fr…

The latest iPhone OS 4 beta reportedly enables geotagging functionality in the mobile version of iPhoto Places. The feature builds upon existing capabilities, allowing users to view picture locations without le…

My New iPad guides you through dozens of simple projects that will have you doing useful things with your iPad right away – like surfing the Internet, sending email, listening to music, taking notes, reading eb…

San Francisco, CA – TextExpander touch, the iPhone version of SmileOnMyMac’s customizable typing shortcut tool, is now integrated in 29 iPhone and iPad apps. Users of these apps can expand their TextExpande…

In a recent BBH Labs post (Wind Tunnel Marketing, The Sequel: On the Need for Divergent Insight) that talked about the need for divergent thinking and stimulus in approaching problem solving ( creative ideatio…

If you are like most ecommerce entrepreneurs, you are constantly seeking ways to improve your social media marketing efforts, and the new Google Moderator …

For e-commerce via social media to work, “You’ve got to spend money on advertising to make people aware that [your fan page] exists,” says Larry Chiagouris, …

The Australia Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has advocated more use of social media tools and supply …

The league sent e-mails to its 800 member-cities promoting the video in the hope that people will forward it to friends and post it on social media channels …

I’m a big fan of Facebook and as a matter of fact, I spend more time on Facebook than LinkedIn, Twitter or even GMail. One reason is that fundamentally, Facebook Apps make the social network the dashboard for m…

So you are looking for a new job and you contact a recruitment agency and you apply, the trouble is you are one out of 100, 200 or even 300 people applying.
It is a bit daunting really and doing it that way ca…

My bike ride started me thinking about the importance of building social media momentum.
Here’s what I mean. My wife and I recently completed a lengthy mountain biking adventure. At the end of the trail…

So you’ve done the optimisation and you’re sure you’ve done the right things to your website to ensure that the search engines know exactly which keyphrases you’re targeting, right?
Th…

Digital advertising is the best thing that ever happened to advertising
industry, right? Not so according to Frederic Filloux in a piece that
was published by the Washington Post this weekend.Filloux cites tw…

Two of the first apps released for the iPad since Friday’s release are property search apps for Primelocation.com and Rightmove.
I’ve been comparing the two property search apps… Rightmove
Rightmove alread…

Are you stuck in a rut with your link building programme? I’m in a sharing mood today so I thought I’d lift the lid on a selection of creative link building tactics I’ve been having success with…I’ve yet to…

Google employees have always had a remarkable amount of freedom when it comes to what operating system they wanted to run on company computers – Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, it was all fine. Since the China attack…

Reader awyeah notes a Financial Times report that Google is ditching the use of Windows internally. Some blogs have picked up the FT piece but so far there isn’t any other independent reporting of the claim, wh…

This chart justifies all your fears regarding Yahoo! and AOL users. And then some.
AOL – Access Providers – Yahoo – Humor – Consumer…

Content stored on an iPhone 3GS with passcode protection can be accessed without the passcode simply by attaching the device to a computer running the latest version of Ubuntu or a Windows or OSX system running…

Webinars an effective way to engage prospects
Webinars are increasingly important to the online marketplace who doesn’t have time to attend a conference, peel away from the office, or wants to learn on their…

In a new survey (which is still accepting responses for the rest of today) Citrix is asking its IT customers to characterize their support for iPad in their businesses. Currently, over 80% of respondents expect…

Although by no means a new technology, cloud computing retains the buzz as one of the latest innovative – and potentially transformative – elements of the industry. But there remains quite a bit of confusion ab…

10 free iPad Wallpapers
Got one of the two million new iPads out in the wild? Grab yourself one (or all) of these free wallpapers derived from photos I’ve taken over the years. iPad wallpapers are 1024×1024…