Curated Stories June 13, 2010

If you have seen the movie, Up In The Air, you’ll note that there is an art form in business travel.

So much so, that the art of business travel has taken on a life of its own. It’s not just a blockbuster movi…

When Google launched its panoramic photomapping service back in 2007, it was the first time many netizens had the chance to explore a swathe of detailed street-level photos from their armchairs.In the U.S., St…

Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
Thus spake Steve Jobs: The PC isn’t dead yet — Daniel Lyons, the Newsweek tech writer notorious for his Fake Steve Jobs blog, penned an epistolary piece last week (R.I….

Yesterday, I had a change of plans. A simple flight from NYC to Chicago turned into two cancellations and a few hours of waiting that weren’t on the program for how I’d had my day laid out.
I had no cho…

If there is a voice for mobile growth, Mary Meeker is it.
And she has 50+ slides of charts and data to prove her bullishness.
Below is the latest version of her Internet Trends deck (updated June 7 for the CM…

I have faithfully watched the Tony Awards for as long as I can remember. Like most viewers (I’m guessing), my experience with seeing Broadway shows in the flesh is quite limited. My dad, who was living in the…

Driving massive amounts of search engine traffic to your blog can be a lot easier than you think, it really depends on some key factors like the niche you’ve chosen, your marketing and SEO technique…

If you’re looking for a way to get your iPad to stand out from the crowd, then a decal for the device’s undecorated backside just might do the trick.In our humble opinion, anything that adds a little bit o…

Entrepreneurial hope is essential. It gets us over the hump and through the dip. There’s a variety of this hope, though, that’s far more damaging than helpful.This is the hope of the magic lottery ticket.A fled…

This week I downloaded a new Yelp app onto my iPhone. In it Yelp included a copy of Foursquare’s badges, which reward people for checking in frequently.
Sometimes you might get a swarm badge for checking in…

Kat and I went to see the movie The A-Team the other night on opening night. It’s a remake of the TV show of the same name, with a whole new cast playing the main roles (more on that in a bit). As summer movi…

Now we’ve all had a few days to play around with Safari 5, here are some tips for getting the most out of the new features.1. Update pluginsThe first thing you are going to want to do after you install Safari…

The video contains the potential of a story not yet told. We believe it is possible. The more people who will support this idea, the more likely it is to happen. It has not yet been decided who will host th…

You may not even know that, and its still happening . You were taught that you needed to play by certain rules to find a job, or move up on the career ladder. And you now find yourself stuck in Middle Earth e…

I’m trying out the new Reader function in Safari 5.0.
Here’s how it works. Safari determines if you’re viewing a “webpage that contains a text-based article.”
If so, a gray button that says “Reader” app…

The same website that fostered a social movement bringing Betty White to Saturday Night Live is now bringing BP to its knees, as an ongoing battle with bad publicity is exemplified through the…

A debate over what bloggers must disclose when marketers give them gifts.

The Singularity movement sees a time when human beings and machines will merge and overcome illness and perhaps death.

Oh, sure — Mophie’s Juice Pack Air may be quite the effective device when it comes to rejuvenating a dead iPhone, but what it sorely lacks is a dash of the atypical. Essential TPE has done the world one bett…

The original post and comments are here, I’m having a conversation with Gregg Morris and you are invited to join in.

A months long fundraising process for Foursquare is in its last stages, we’ve heard from multiple sources, and Andreessen Horowitz looks to be preparing to check-in to Foursquare to take an investor badge.
Th…

Foursquare will take a round of funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Michael Arrington at TechCrunch reports.
Foursquare had been in negotiations with Facebook and Yahoo about a possible acquisition, but it decide…

Union Square Ventures’ Brad Burnham is on to something: He says that Facebook, the iPhone, Twitter, and other Web ecosystems are like countries with governments.
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If you’re on top of all things Apple, you know that the company’s WWDC, Macworld, and “special announcement” events are famous for including some great psych-up music before and after each keynote add…

Union Square Ventures:
Web Services as Governments — This spring Apple, Facebook, and Twitter, made controversial announcements. Apple announced the terms of service for the iPhone OS 4, that restricte…

The hotly anticipated iPad version of Reeder, the popular iPhone RSS app, landed in the App Store last night, and with a clean look and some thoughtful navigat…

There’s much to like about Apple’s newly unveiled iPhone 4, notably its front-facing camera for video calls, high-resolution Retina Display screen and thin form factor housed in glass and stainless steel. B…

Appolicious – Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) endure daily challenges that stretch the bounds of mobile devices and apps required to satisfy their unique role in the organization.

You may have received emails from a company other than Apple which may appear as though theyre from the iTunes Store. These messages are not from Apple, and often contain malicious attachments or links to non-A…

So, there’s two ways to look at this. One would be to gawk at the fact that ESPN, the worldwide leader in sports broadcasting, is using iPads and Xbox 360 consoles — common devices that are widely available t…

Mobile video has long failed to gain much traction, but carriers are hoping the segment takes a big step forward over the next few weeks as users around tune into World Cup action on their phones. So as I discu…

It’s been just over a year since David Rosenblatt punched his last time card out at Google (which bought DoubleClick for $3.1 billion in 2008).
Now, a sparsely populated site called Group Commerce lists Ro…

Last April, I spoke at the Christian Leadership Alliance’s Annual Conference in San Diego, California. I spoke to the CEOs in attendance on the topic of “Social Media and Your Ministry.”

However, just pr…

NEW forms of media have always caused moral panics: the printing press, newspapers, paperbacks and television were all once denounced as threats to their consumers’ brainpower and moral fiber.
So too with ele…

People have a need… a want… to feel something.

Its incumbent on Marketing to make people feel something because if you dont move them with your messages, they wont make a move to do anything for you, your…

Sorry, Web developers, the promotional experts have made off with another one of your terms. Even if Apple is riding roughshod over you, though, maybe it’s for the best.

Recently, Google started rolling out its new advertising feature for local businesses – Tags. This feature is geared for local businesses throughout the U.S. who wants to beef up their listings on Google.com…

It turns out a few of us at Adaptive Path have both iPads and toddlers. And while toddlers love iPad, and I love that my son loves iPad (it can buy my wife and I up to many minutes to do something else with him…

Twitter has just explained the causes of — and remedies for — its multiple and massive failures over the past week.The high number of errors and generally poor performance were reminiscent of the Great Twi…

Insightful post on consultative selling – must read if developing a consultative selling app – http://bit.ly/ddlFYH (by @jonofarrington)

GREAT post. Is
Android Destined to be the Windows of Smartphones?
Some interesting parallels between the mobile war between Android and
Apple…and how it may be tracking the same battle we saw between Window…

The social web has empowered and changed behavior and in general is having a broad impact on the way people find information, share information, make decisions and interact on both an individual lev…

Andrew Lang, the poet, literary critic and anthropologist, famously said, “He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts – for support rather than for illumination.”

The modern day vers…

When Blythe and her partners started Lula’s Apothecary, the best vegan ice cream stand in this hemisphere, they didn’t have enough money to afford the letters to put “Dairy free” on the sign in their window. Th…

Filed under: Steve JobsWWDC is wrapping up here in San Francisco today, and after a week of having most of the best Apple developers in the world all in one place, we’re hearing some speculation and solutions f…

The Economist:

Software that disables bits of your computer to make you more productive sounds daft, but may help keep distractions at bay.

I’ve never tried any of these things because, yes, they sound…

Google’s future Chrome OS will apparently let users access applications on their Mac or PC remotely — why this claim hints at the pervasive future of the Mac OS at the end of the PC age
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If ever a video deserved to go viral, it’s this hilarious, desperate-sounding snippet that finally gives your television the voice it’s so sorely needed…

Television is a drug. from Beth Fulton on Vimeo….