Curated Stories June 16, 2010

This is not a review.
This is (mostly) an appreciation.
John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison’s new book, The Power of Pull–How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion, describe…

According to statistics from Nielsen, a market research firm, people are now spending 22 percent of their online time on social Web sites or blogs.

At first blush, a complaining customer is not something we have on our wish list of awesome things in the world.

But this type of customer contact provides a great opportunity to do something remarkable that…

Filed under: iPhoneRemember the original iPhone and its wicked-fast EDGE connection? Turns out being an early adopter has some value after all.

Original iPhone users have been paying $20/month for unlimited 2G…

I’ve only had a few of these…I am clearly not exercising my sandwich muscles enough these days. (Although the Brazilian sandwich at Project Sandwich has been treating me well lately.) Tags: best of food …

Everywhere you turn, there’s more competition.
No matter what type of store or business you operate, there are bound to be others clamoring for your customers and your piece of the market.
Plus, with consumers…

Even with the best air travel tips, sleeping well on a long flight isn’t easy. Lifehacker Australia editor Angus Kidman discusses his well-traveled tactics for…

What makes TechCrunch a property that attracts some 10 million unique users a month is diversity. We cover tech single-mindedly but from a lot of different perspectives. So it’s from that stance that I’m wr…

Mashable’s Spark of Genius series highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, see details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpar…

Last week we featured interview with Scott Hendison of SEO Automatic and it prompted me to go ahead and try their free SEO tools. The Instant SEO Review was my first choice because I like comparing various on-…

If you are relatively new to PPC marketing, it’s a good idea to consider taking an online course. There are quite a few of these courses being offered, and unlike your typical blog entry or news article, th…

You know the saying, you have to have thick skin, don’t you? Is that true? Must we all have thick skin?

When Blogging first became popular, it was not uncommon for many of the leading Blogs and Bloggers to be…

Measurement and analysis of social media can mean many things. All of them are useful, and not all of them are about that widely-misunderstood ROI.
And as we’ve talked about before, there are some things you…

If there’s one area that Yahoo has been strong in over the past several years, it’s partnerships in mobile around the world. The company’s deals with OEMs (like the most recent one with Nokia), ensure the…

Mobile search could grow from 9 percent of all queries this year to 20 percent by 2012, estimates RBC analyst Ross Sandler in a new report issued today. There is still a huge gap between mobile’s share of o…

Business travel can be a headache.
Fortunately, the iPhone is a great travel companion.
We’ve rounded up some awesome apps that will keep you organized, help you out once you get to your destination, and hopefu…

The Internet is poised to overtake newspapers as the second-largest U.S. advertising medium by revenue behind television, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Global Entertainment and Media Outlook for 2010 t…

YouTube has just released a new video editor that lets you create video mashups and edit down clips from your library of existing video uploads. The feature should be rolled out to all YouTube users by the end…

See a photo of Steve, his bio, Part 1 of this QA, and Part 2.

QA with Steve Spalding, Question 3:

Q: The culture is abuzz about Web 2.0 and social media. To what extent do you participate in social media…

It’s been over six years that I’ve been writing on Technosailor.com. It has gone through many evolutions of themes, plugin uses, writing styles, writers, etc. The latest, if you haven’t noticed, was a mov…

The age-old battle between Microsoft and Apple is about to begin anew in the palm of your hand. Both companies are launching new gaming platforms — the awkwardly named Windows Phone 7 and Apple iOS 4 with Ga…

YouTube is offering a video editor for users of their site.
Basically, you can take your uploaded videos and cut them down, combine them together, and/or add a new audio track from YouTube’s ‘Audio Swap’ librar…

This Twitter Trends Series is supported by Bing.™ Check out the Bing Local Twitter Trends Map on Mashable.Want to know what’s happening anywhere in the world right now? Twitter is where it’s at. Want t…

No, it’s not one of those ‘Try this e-course and get rich’ blog posts. There aren’t any magic answers or selling systems on the way.

Just a few nuggets of advice for those looking to…

There’s a lot going on here at PimyMySafari. Here’s the scoop about the change in ownership and where it’s going.

Posted by Dennis SellersAccording to new research by Research and Markets, mobile applications (apps), both free and paid, have experienced exponential growth in recent years.

We recently embarked on a Forrester-wide research project to benchmark the use of social technologies across enterprise organizations. Why is this important? Well as you may know, we cover social technologies…

Do you know what I do all day? I do what you hate. I write content. I write content for Outspoken, I write it for Outspoken clients, and sometimes, when I’m really lucky, I get to write it for myself. And al…

Bartenders make $500 a night in tips. Baristas make $20.
Their drinks are equally complex. They serve similar numbers of clients. They perform the same job, but during different hours and in different setting…

megahurt writes “Location-based services are becoming more common, and the features they add to mobile devices can be useful and even fun. But the downside is that everyone who reads the posting will know the u…

Tax software maker TurboTax has a unique problem. Their customers find them incredibly useful. But for a very short period every year. The company has gotten used to the seasonal nature of its business, but thi…

@Yelp: “Wow! Yelp iPhone downloads and check-ins are both up 40% since LAST WEEK! Can’t wait to see what y’all do when we update Android!”Join the conversation about this story »

This is a guest post by Pete Wilson, author of the recently published Plan B: What Do You Do When God Doesn’t Show Up the Way You Thought He Would? Pete is one of the pastors of Cross Point Church, an active…

I’m a sucker for iPhone apps. The near-ubiquitous access to collaborative communities, social networks and communications tools that these apps provide is actually improving my ability to network more frequen…

Android: If you’re looking for a good reason to root your Android phone, ShootMe is the easiest Android creenshot and screencasting software available. All you…

I’ve long stated that I prefer full feeds over partial feeds. Now that I’ve spent the past few weeks using an iPad, I feel even more strongly that full feeds are the way to go and that offering partial fee…

Sometimes I call myself a social media story teller. I often get advised that this is a weak position, that I should organize my presentation like big time analysts do it with lots of numbers and graphs or lik…

Entrepreneurs quickly become masters of multi-tasking, but some tasks are more important than others.
In a recent post for the Harvard Business Review, Anthony Tjan, CEO and founder of VC firm Cue Ball, highlig…

Launches have been on my mind a lot lately. Not just because of Jeff Walker and his PLF3 release, but because I have been on a crazy launch kick myself with several back to back. I have learned a fair bit abou…

Kindle ebook readers save you the hassle of lugging books around, but pen and paper is still a favorite note-taking tool. Moleskine, maker of the oft-hacked no…

Portland, Oregon – Infinity Softworks, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of its powerOne(R) Calculator Lite Edition for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch is now available for free on the App Store. powerOne c…

Since January, the high-technology industry has witnessed a dizzying spate of dueling vendor product announcements. So what else is new? It’s standard operating procedure for vendors to regularly issue hype…

The newly released Postbox Express offers a lightweight version of premium e-mail app Postbox for free.

Using LinkedIn Answers is probably one of the most effective, yet under-used ways to build credibility and generate qualified leads using social media. I’m even guilty of focusing my efforts o…

Office 2010 hit the shelves yesterday, and Office remains a not-cheap money maker for Microsoft. Heres a reminder of how you can try out any version of Office…

Last week, I presented at Search Engine Strategies Toronto on the intersection of PR, marketing and social media. After my session, a woman from the audience came up to introduce herself: she was a writer…

Twitter keeps going down. Users are getting annoyed, so the company put out a blog post explaining itself:

What’s Happening with Twitter?
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From a site stability and se…

Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) is a system used by Google and other major search engines (Update: read here, thanks for the Tweets, guys) The contents of a webpage are crawled by a search engine and the most co…

Nintendo will NEVER make a game for the iPhone or iPad, the company tells Gizmodo. Heres why we think thats a mistake →Join the conversation about this story »

We all need to do our civic duty to support the justice system, but some jury summons arrive at the worst possible time. One financial blogger has tips for get…

54 Billion.
That’s what Forrester Research predicts for US B2B Social Media Marketing spending by 2014.
As a living example of a B2B company that fully leverages blogging and social media in our online market…

I got a call from a friend telling me that when she visited my site her computer downloaded malware. Then another call, this time from the folks at MarketingProfs telling me that they had the same experience…

It’s a small — and connected — world. I was researching Gen Y attitudes for a work-related project and came across the book Upstarts!: How GenY Entrepreneurs are Rocking the World of Business and 8 Ways Yo…

Heres something Ive been wanting to get off my chest for a while. Not sure its that popular, but that doesnt stop it being fundamentally right. Amid all the confusion of the last year or so you cant have m…

I’ve come across a few stats on mobile internet usage this week, so I’ve decided to gather them together in one handy post.
I’ve also added a selection of mobile statistics from our most recent Internet Stati…

Social networks and blogs are changing how consumers find places and services, how and where they share their experiences, and eventually, where they will spend their time and money. Without an understanding o…

BaseKit, which lets designers build websites from a Photoshop concept without the need to write code, has secured a $2.6m Series A round from Eden Ventures and NESTA (the UK’s National Endowment for Science,…

A Dave Coverly cartoon in Parade showed an editor holding a manuscript, sitting across a desk from a writer and saying: “We love all the words in your manuscript, but we were wondering if you could maybe put…

Mashable’s Spark of Genius series highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, see details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpar…

A while back, I wrote 50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Business. It still gets plenty of attention, as it’s listed as an official resource on the Twitter business resources page (thanks, @ed!). But you know, I…

As I’ve said a time or two before, I believe there are things we simply cannot understand until we’ve lived them. Parenthood is one; aging, another. For a man—particularly a man with children—still ano…

Google’s Android team has been pushing new versions of the operating system at a furious pace since the first Android device hit the market in 2008. Lots of features have been added over the last couple of y…

Factories used to be arranged in a straight line. That’s because there was one steam engine, and it turned a shaft. All the machines were set up along the shaft, with a belt giving each of them power. The offic…

Whether or not it created the most buzz during Internet Week New York is up for debate. But Stickybits holds major potential for any consumer packaged goods brand.
According to Techcrunch, Seth Goldstein cons…

Episode #206 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to.

Do you question the value of Twitter? Do you still wonder if all Twitter does is help you know wh…

CB Whittemore wrote a fantastic post last week for the Content Marketing Institute about how to think like a content marketer.

Graham Kilshaw, president of ITEM publications, wrote a response to CBs pos…

Guest post by Jeff Molander, professor of digital marketing at Loyola University’s School of Business, public speaker and author of a forthcoming book aimed at improving digital marketing results. Find him a…

In an ideal world most, if not all, retailers would like their new customers to register when they place their first order, thus opening up the potential of a building a more meaningful long-term relationship w…

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This is a guest post from education writer Karen Schweitzer. Karen is the About.com Guide to Business School. She also writes about online school for OnlineSchool.net. Enjoy!
The most pro…

So, is ATT really that stupid? From the moment iPhone 4 presales began this morning it was fairly obvious something was badly awry. Pre-orders through the Apple website were failing when it tried to connect t…

Software engineer Antonio Cangiano discovers some strange activity on his Gmail account and does some detective work, the new Google Docs goes live for everybo…