curated Stories June 15, 2010

“Internet Is Set to Overtake Newspapers in Ad Revenue” via WSJ: The Internet is poised to overtake newspapers as the second-largest U.S. advertising medium by revenue behind television, according to Pricewater…

The Apple iPad had been a hit and it doesn’t seem to be slowing down with the iPad apps climbing past 10,000 in the last few days.
Morgan Stanley figures show that the Apple iPad is the 3rd fastest hardware p…

Yes/No dialogs are always a bad idea — I’ve never seen one that couldn’t be better-written using different, clearer words for the buttons. Writing is a big part of UI design. My rule of thumb: assume the…

Writers love notebooks like squirrels love nuts. Here’s a peek into what writers reveal in these portable studios and workshops.

bookreview – Arts – Organizations – Writers Resources – United States

It’s always good to have a plan for your sales visits that can serve as a quick reminder of the essentials.
You can use this checklist as a review before and after each sales call to make sure you cover all the…

So… whatca doin’ over there on that laptop, denizens of the world? Well, according to a new study from Nielsen showing Internet usage in April 2010, 22% of the time, you’re engaging with social media.Yea…

Late December 2009, I was knocked over by two conditions:

the huge number of social media job descriptions appearing on job sites
a simple statistic predicting that 86% of Companies were planning a Social Me…

Elizabeth Woyke / Forbes:
Foursquare To Open Online Store — The popular social network is building an online store for T-shirts and other branded products. — Its no secret that Foursquare users ar…

Chinese entrepreneurs are renting random white guys to pretend to be visiting businessmen, and to lend an aura of general Being Connected to the West to business meetings, conferences and receptions:

And so…

This post was originally published on the Twitter blog, under the title, “What’s Happening with Twitter?”
From a site stability and service outage perspective, it’s been Twitter’s worst month since last Octobe…

[This is part 4 in a 12 part series. The topics covered so far are Pattern Recognition, Environmental Scanning, and Network Weaving.]
::Foresight::
The ability to develop foresight is a cornerstone for forwar…

John Robb is a globally-recognized author, technologist, and
entrepreneur specializing in the complex systems of insurgency and
asymmetrical warfare. His book, Brave
New War, is an Amazon best-seller and estab…

Foursquare is exploring a new line revenue. It’s getting into the t-shirt business, Forbes reports.
By the end of the summer Foursquare should have its own online store where it sells t-shirts featuring Foursqu…

My friend Jeremiah Owyang just tweeted a short while ago how, as an Altimeter Group partner, he often gets called into companies to settle territorial dispute wars on who owns social media.
I find great irony i…

If you have recently purchased one of Apple’s mobile devices, you most likely have set up an iTunes Store account to easily access music, movies, podcasts, and applications. But are you safe against phishing at…

Direct from the source… Great news, this is one that I’ve been hoping for. C’mon, let him how how badly you want it…

Why start a company when you can start a movement. That was the inspiration for the latest post on my blog The Social Retailer over at Practical Ecommerce. It has to do with a movement known as The Small Bu…

Yesterday, I talked about the 5-year anniversary of Plagiarism Today and what it has meant for me and the site. It’s been a great 5 years to say the least, but it has also been an interesting five years fo…

It might be just about the last thing on your mind, but if you haven’t started planning for next year’s South By Southwest Interactive festival down in Austin, Texas, then now’s the time. Why’s that? The 2011 S…

What is the #1 thing that you want people to do when they arrive on your blog?
Last week at an event about blogging that I attended I asked the above question to 10 bloggers and jotted down their responses:

2…

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

QA with Steve Spalding, Question 2:

Q: The storytelling movement seems to be growing explosively. Why now? What is it about this moment in human histo…

Trader Mark submits:We have come to a truly amazing juncture in the United States. The large scale sacrifice of American savers so that their fellow debtors may prosper has reached a fervor. If you are unfami…

USA Today has partnered with location-based social network Gowalla to bring its travel content to the network’s users.Gowalla users who follow USA Today and check in at major U.S. airports will receive airpo…

A six-story-tall statue of Jesus’ torso known as “Big Butter Jesus” and/or “Touchdown Jesus” — because what is wrong with people? — was struck by lightning and burned to the ground last night. The…

One of the biggest fears for web site owners that have long relied on search traffic for new business is a sudden drop in search engine rankings. Some webmasters are experiencing this very situation as a res…

Over two months ago, I read some findings from a usability study about “scrolling and attention.” The data was very interesting, and I knew I wanted to post about it, but I couldn’t get a handle on what the d…

You have a big idea to share, a message to send out to the world, or you have an amazing offer. You worry that your message or offer will get drowned by the multitude of conversations happening online — you…

As we reported last night, Apple this afternoon confirmed that the SIM-free iPhones the company is selling via its stores in the UK, France and Canada are being sold truly unlocked and can be used with your ch…

Dear Annie: I had a strange experience the other day: I went to a second round of job interviews at a company where I’d really like to work, and a manager there mentioned that he, too, is a fan of a little-know…

Fourteen percent of U.S. Internet users — about 1 in every 7 — read a community/local blog in 2009. That’s one of the many interesting stats shared last week in Pew Research’s Neighbors Online report.
P…

As dumpster diving and extreme anti-consumerism edge their way into the mainstream, more and more renting seems like an easier way to “go green” while cutting costs.While not everything should be rented,…

If you’d like your feed reader to have a little more style and flash to it than you’ve found elsewhere, Good Noows is a polished feed reader with an emphasis o…

Apple’s new iPhone 4 will be its biggest iPhone launch ever. We expect Apple to announce 2 million shipments or more after its opening weekend, including pre-orders.
This would be double the size of the last tw…

Information is beautiful : 30 examples of creative infography

It’s not just e-books: it’s new sites, services and products. It’s a blog or a newsletter or your first training course or that cool app you’ve been wishing someone would build.

We’re often encourage…

“Content is King” — no longer. Today, the world has changed. “Curation Is King.”
Ok, I hear all the content-makers sharpening their knives to take me on.
I’m ready.
First, why content is dead:
Content used to…

Even in a down market, job seekers and employees are not powerless or without recourse.
In fact, they have more control over their career circumstances than they might think. Here are 20 specific strategies an…

Gowalla partners with USA TODAY. “USA TODAY readers who check-in on Gowalla at major airports across the country will receive USA TODAY travel advice.”Join the conversation about this story »

Where are Americans Moving? An interactive map of county-to-county migration within the US in 2008.

In 2000 the Cluetrain Manifesto announced that “Markets wish to talk to companies”. This turned out to be a prophetic statement. Back then they already declared that markets consisted of conversat…

Ads on the iPad get 6X the click-through of Web ads, says AdAge.Join the conversation about this story »

IBM is jumping into the web analytics software space with the acquisition of San Mateo, CA company Coremetrics.

With the purchase, IBM intends to expand its business analytics capabilities with Coremetrics’…

If you’ve been frustrated with DIY stick-on whiteboard material and whiteboard paint, you’ll definitely want to check out how one Lifehacker reader turned his…

If, while using a location-based service, you’re going to laud a venue’s decor, comment on its cute staff or decry the food presentation, it helps to provide photographic evidence along with your tip. Brie…

Google has recently made a slew of changes to its Docs office and productivity suite live for all users and all new documents. From now on, when you create a new spreadsheet, drawing, presentation or text docu…

Twilio, a San Francisco-based startup whose platform and services marry voice to the web world, is launching OpenVBX, an open-source web application that is in essence a roll-your-own Google Voice. With it, y…

BP Marketing will have a blast…
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“Old people” on Facebook: They couldn’t beat it, so they joined it.But why? And how did they hear about social media in the first place? They can’t all be simply stalking their younger relatives, can t…

One side effect of the information firehouse that is the web is that we consume content at lighting speed. We digest very little of it.
Akin to wolfing down a bag of donuts because it’s your diet cheat day wi…

If I didn’t have Becky McCray sharing stories she found interesting via her Google Reader account, and if I weren’t connected to Becky so that I could see her shared items, I’d miss stories about how the…

… is probably the opposite of, “this might work.”"This better work,” is the thinking of safety, of proven, of beyond blame.”This might work,” on the other hand, is the thinking of art, innovation and insight….

Lessons are everywhere — even in something as seemingly unrelated to our lives as the traditional Japanese tearoom — we just need to stretch our imaginations a bit. A few principles from the Japanese tea…

The iPhone 4, Apple’s latest and greatest of the iPhone, can be pre-ordered starting today, June 15.
If you’re thinking about buying an iPhone, we’ve assembled a thorough guide to walk you through the process f…

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, one of the 20 under 40The Anointed Every ten years or so, the editors of the New Yorker draw up their list of the hot new writers – presumably, the Fitzgeralds, Ferbers, Hemingways,…

[Part of the RexBlog "Thoughts on Twitter" series.]
Anyone who knows me “online” knows this: I’m a big fan of Twitter. At Hammock, the service has long-been a part of a standard set of content distributi…

Everyone’s talking about execution these days. Seth’s talking about it over here. Ok, well it’s mostly Seth, but well, we should all be listening to him anyway.
Execution is critical to s…

Startup PBworks, which was formerly known as PBwiki, specializes in helping businesses, non-profits, and educational institutions collaborate via wikis. The startup has steadily added innovative, real-time feat…

You didn’t used to see many guarantees for online services and digital products.
But today’s new generation of bloggers and entrepreneurs have discovered that this age-old offline technique can be one of…

If you saw or read up on the recent iPhone 4 unveiling, you probably noted that eminently qualified speaker Steve Jobs ran into technical problems, just like u…

When Apple revised the terms in its iPhone Developer Agreement to make room for limited analytics by independent third-party advertisers, it also made an adjustment to allow non-Objective-C…

The great thing about the iPhone is that it holds its usable value particularly well — Apple upgrades the iPhone operating system every year to add new features, for example. By offering predictable, featu…

Three Digital Trends for the New Decade

Have you tried mind mapping? I am a mind mapping fanatic. I find that it really helps me think through challenges and develop innovative solutions. Chris Bro…

It is a ritual, either on your way to work or after you have opened the laptop or logged in. It doesn’t matter when but most of us do it. We pop down to the corner coffee shop or cafe and and order our latte,…

Given the current State of the Twitosphere (down, and out, under maintenance – check here for Status) I thought a You know you are addicted to Twitter if post was in order. Perused and collat…

Foursquare, the geolocation social tool, has been a media darling as of late. Not only is it growing, but people innately understand the monetization model, which is not something you can say about every so…

For many companies, the conversation has shifted from “why” or “should” we do social media, to “where” and “how” social media should be done.A major component of answering those questions effect…

iPhone users in the United States have an interesting relationship with
their phones: by in large, most of them love their iPhones (and apps) but they dont particularly care for their carrier – ATT.ATT didnt ga…

While skimming a recent issue of Advertising Age, I ran across an article called If you’re creating ads, odds are you’re talking to yourself.
And it presents yet more evidence that ad writers and other adve…

I’ve always liked Nicholas Carr for his skepticism. Unlike contrarians, who take opposing views for their own sake, Carr as a skeptic asks questions, the kinds that challenge assumptions. Challenging assumpti…

Twitter Places was just unveiled and is designed to provide more context for tweets.The location option has been available since April, but now you can see who else tweeted recently from the same location. It…

Facebook finally updates one of its most business unfriendly controls by giving page admins the ability to remove other admins, regardless of who created the page. This was announced late last week on the Faceb…

Twitter users will now be able to add specific locations to their Twitter posts.

The unfortunate yet necessary business of getting punched in the mouth
You learn a lot about yourself during your first fist fight. Especially when you know for a fact that the other guy is going to mop the de…

Filed under: iPhone I suspect many people were very happy to see that the iPhone 4 was listed as having 802.11n. I know that I was. I have a dual-band network at home which separates 802.11n from 802.11b/g, and…

Othman Laraki / Twitter Blog:
Twitter Places: More Context For Your Tweets — If youre like everyone at the Twitter office, youre going crazy about the World Cup. When turning to Twitter to keep up wit…

Since late last year, Twitter has included location as a key part of its API. Earlier this year, it was rolled out to twitter.com as well. But those locations have been abstract cities or areas. Starting now,…

Twitter has added location to their microblogging service, according to an announcement today on the company’s blog.

“Starting today, you can tag Tweets with specific places, including all World Cup stadiums…

After months of rumors and hinting, Twitter has unveiled its major new foray into the world of geolocation, Twitter Places.This feature will highlight tweets at a given location. Starting now, Twitter.com desk…

Where did you come from? Most people in the U.S. come from somewhere else. This is among the most mobile countries in the world, with people picking up and moving for no other reason, it sometimes seems, than t…

Earlier this year, we pointed to an excellent Danny O’Brien blog post comparing the media’s mad dash for the iPad as a “savior” to the media’s similar mad-dash to CD-ROMs as a savior. I’m reminded of that afte…