Curated Stories June 20, 2010

Twitter announced a series of new features at its Chirp conference in April, including Twitter Places and an advertising program called Promoted Tweets. But the one that has the most potential to change the w…

Net Promoter Score has served the industry very well as the standard in satisfaction intention, and can now be enhanced by adding explicit customer satisfaction data, influence and customer reviews already on t…

I didn’t like Twitter at first. I thought it was random, and stupid, and a waste of time, and so right after I first signed up I deleted my account.
But after a while I kept hearing the testimonials from pe…

Good news: Apple’s new FaceTime video calls won’t use up your allotment of carrier minutes, even if they’re initiated from within a voice call, an Apple rep tells us.
The voice call ends as soon as the FaceTime…

Twitter Annotations are coming and Google can’t get their act together to compete so they try to spoil the party.
Look Twitter is a small company that struggles. They’re trying to ship an ambitious, potent…

Version 3.0 of WordPress, the open-source content management system and blog platform, was released a few days ago.

I upgraded this blog yesterday to the latest version, a process that was…

Today’s educated readers want information from a credible, trusted source, says researcher and writer Michael Low. When you convince them you are that source, they will believe and read what you have to say….

Tim O’Reilly poses a question every entrepreneur and investor should consider: are you creating more value for others than you capture for yourself? Google makes billions of dollars in annual profits, but ge…

John Naughton’s feature in today’s Observer, “The internet: Everything you ever need to know,” is a fantastic read and a marvel of economy, managing to pack nine very big ideas into 15 minutes’ reading. This is…

The major social media channels I participate in are Blogs, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn and I do have some presence on some other social media sites such as Flickr, Slideshare, Digg, Stumbleupon, Re…

Filed under: OSOut of some behind-the-scenes frustration on the TUAW team email list, we seem to have discovered a quirk in Mac OS X 10.6.4. Using the built-in screenshot tools, you can copy a screenshot to the…

What are you, what do you want to be? When you’re being your best self at your job, what are you doing? Here’s a partial list:Farmer–repeatedly and patiently optimizing the production of goods for sale, worryi…

Remember the Monster’s Inc. move at Domino’s? In the post, I quoted a character from the movie. CDA Agent says:
“We
can neither confirm nor deny the presence of a human child here
tonight.” Do we stipula…

Zack’s story, is a recent ad campaign from Tampax that is accompanied by a website, blog and Twitterfeed in the voice of 16-year-old-Zack, who supposedly wakes up with a vagina one day.

The campaign has rec…

We all know that the iPhone 4 launches this coming Thursday. But on Monday, current iPhone users get an early treat in the form of iOS 4, the new iPhone operating system (formerly known as iPhone OS 4). It come…

“Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one.” So began the “letter from the founders” penned by Sergey Brin and Larry Page in the company’s securities registration form in 2…

Insightful presentation post on the value of mobile prototyping – #UX – http://bit.ly/aQjLpn by @Hinman (via @diego_s)

This ia a guest post by Justin Davies, founder of NinetyTen, a UK-based consultancy providing mobile community and location aware solutions to companies. Davies also founded the now defunct BuddyPing, an early…

At WWDC, Apple treated its Mac OS X and iOS programmers to a preview of its entirely revised Xcode 4 integrated development environment. Here’s a look at what’s new and how it matters for end users.

While figuring out a Digital Marketing strategy (or method to the madness) is all well and good, let’s also not forget that we can try everything now.

If you wanted to test the waters and do some advertising (…

With more people working out of their home and telecommuting, conference calls have become a regular occurrence. I have at least one or two such calls a week, so finding an affordable audio conferencing provid…

‘I love you, Google,’ scream text interface obsessives
Google has introduced a command line utility for accessing various Chocolate Factory services, including YouTube, Blogger, Google Docs, Calender, and Conta…

An anonymous reader writes Googles latest Chrome 6 Developer Update comes with a few subtle GUI changes, but there is also a major update under the hood. As its ties with Adobe quite apparently grow stronger, t…

If you’ve been shirking your social media reading responsibilities this week, here’s your chance to make it right.See below for a week’s worth of guides, lists, and analysis you need to stay on your soci…

Facebook for iPhone 3.1.3 has just been released in the App Store, bringing a series of new features including the ability to play Facebook videos on your phone.Other additions in this update include the abili…

You could call it the perfect storm.
Over the last few months, user engagement on Scribd has surged, according to CEO Trip Adler, thanks to its transition to H…

At the grocery store, a husband and wife were arguing over a $3 bag of crackers while I tried to vanish in plain sight.
Husband: Look, there’s the crackers we want. And they’re on sale, 10% off.
Wife: I ha…

There’s a new version of cloud-based note-taking tool Evernote for the iPhone and iPod touch, and it supports the multitasking features added by Apple’s iOS 4 software.Evernote has three million users to r…

On Friday, I dropped by Foursquare HQ in New York City. They showed me some stickers, and I got to sit down for a few minutes with CEO Dennis Crowley. In the…

I’ve been fully engulfed in the world of branding lately through work on one of my accounts. Throughout the branding process I’ve observed a fascinating dynamic between how corporate brands…

The dawn of a new marketplace has arrived that has changed the best practices of just about anything you can think of. We are sitting at the largest inflection point since the industrial revolu…

“App Creep and the Case for the Mobile Browser” via GigaOM : I was just talking to my boss about this earlier in the week. I got an iPad on Wednesday and loaded it up with a ton of apps. By Thursday night I had…

Apple’s move to ban Adobe Flash from its iOS has opened a huge window for any technology that can deliver a top-notch multimedia experience on the iPad and other Apple gadgets. And as I discuss in my weekly…

Square, the super-cool payment system that lets you collect peoples’ credit card dollars on your smart phone, is delayed indefinitely while the company tighte…

With my addiction to sugar, I know all the good sweet spots in my city! There is a really great frozen yogurt shop near my home called Red Mango. I was in there recently, getting my fix, and I noticed a sign…

Every few days, someone I follow on Twitter complains that everything on Twitter is the “same old, same old…” as my friend CC Chapman put it this morning.
What CC and others tend to forget about Twitter is th…

Before you howl, just pause and take a deep breath.
The most dangerous time in the markets is when everyone agrees about something. And right now, everyone agrees that Apple (AAPL) is a juggernaut that will kee…

Whether you buy into the hype or not, it’s plain fact that 3D is everywhere these days. From movies and games to laptops and handhelds, pretty much every screen in the house is going to be 3D-capable in a ye…

NYT Columnist David Pogue: “I Could Not Name You An Under-25 Year Old Who Subscribes To A Print Newspaper.”
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by Jill of All Trades, MD
Difficulty with sleep is one of the most common patient complaints presenting to the primary care office.
Chances are, you will suffer from difficulty with insomnia at…

Hitting the road, or actually the canal. Or a canal, somewhere east of Paris, in France. For a week.
The plan was to have some kind of data connectivity either through our new Android Nexus One or our new iPad…

Staffordshire, UK – Theme Park Nerd Ltd. today is pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of Universal Guide, an application for the iPhone and iPod touch which helps users to make the most…

There’s no question that Twitter’s web experience has been improving pretty rapidly over the past several months. However, one area that’s still lacking is a good way to view conversations. Clicking on th…

As of today, real-time results from millions of users’ Facebook posts will now appear in search results on OneRiot, one of the world’s leading real-time search engines.These Facebook posts will also be acc…

Google has launched a simple but very useful app for computer nerds everywhere: GoogleCL, a command-line tool that allows users to do everything from upload folders to Picasa to adding appointments to a Google…

Social gaming has already become a multi-billion dollar industry. Its biggest player, FarmVille creator Zynga, is already worth over $4 billion, and recent estimates say that social gaming will generate over…

Interesting process to get CEO approval for online marketing – http://bit.ly/cjfqxX (via @hubspot)

I’m surprised that very many people aren’t using Google Wave for their collaboration efforts. I think it’s a really simple, decent, powerful tool to capture conversational elements and to collaborate. I�…

I’ve been stepping in a lot of do lately. I’m executing more and more. I’m looking at execution as the deciding factor in what makes one successful. Sure we can plan, but if we don’t do, we’re just t…

Sometimes, you have a little something to share, but because your “little something” is a snippet of code or a slice of design, the traditional tools for sharing don’t quite fit the bill.That, and not al…

What’s a gift?I met a big-shot former Fortune 500 company CEO who explained to me that he used to have three secretaries. One for his calendar, one for his usual work, and one who did nothing but send people gi…

Twitter has gotten the blame for killing a few movies at the box office this year. But Disney’s Pixar is hoping the microblogging service can help their latest release, Toy Story 3, win fans.
Disney’s latest f…

Toy Story 3 isn’t just hitting movie theaters today, it’s also hitting the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, with Disney/Pixar releasing apps for the iOS platforms based around Woody, Buzz Lightyear and all of…

A few days ago, I wrote about the emerging enterprise battles between departments over who should control social media. I talked about the irony of how a few years ago, most enterprise social media programs and…

How can Foursquare get more people to check into places as they go about town? One way is stickers. Next month you will start to see stickers in storefront w…

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One of the highlighted new features of the upcoming iPhone 4 is the gyroscope. With it, developers will be able to build all new kinds of games that take your body’s movement into account. Apple CEO Steve Job…

Common advice given to new freelancers dictates they should never do work for free. Designer Paul Scriven offers a smart counterpoint, suggesting that freelanc…

When Jack Dorsey’s new startup, Square, was first unveiled in December, there was a lot of excitement about it. And rightly so. It looked like it could revolutionize the way individuals accept payments for t…