Curated Stories June 24, 2010

Videocalling has been a sci-fi staple for decades. From 2001 to Back to the Future people chatting face-to-face from great distances was a way of saying “Hey,…

After Tumblr acquired Tumblerette and the iPhone app got renamed simply “Tumblr” (catchy, eh?), the hip New Yorkers have updated it to version 1.2, with native…

Windows only: Microsoft just released the beta version of Windows Live Essentials, a suite of free desktop applications including Windows Photo Gallery, Movie…

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.Pundits have been calling for the d…

Adaptive Blue has announced a new iPhone app and a partnership with publishers to allow users of the Glue social network to earn stickers for their favorite books and authors.
Glue is a social network, but not…

When looking into affiliate marketing software, there are so many different websites to advise you, and people looking to jump in and let you know what’s best. The thing is, unless you know exactly what you�…

http://on10.net/blogs/sarahintampa/WordPress-Now-Runs-on-SQL-Server-and-SQL-Azure/

I love polling. Sometimes you take it for what it’s worth… and sometimes it blows you away. Sometimes… you could care less. I stumbled across a post by ReadWriteWeb about a polling comple…

Several times a week, an appeal for funds from a charity (or alma mater) arrives in my mailbox or inbox. The same organizations contact me over and over.
It’s annoying, but if they don’t ask for contrib…

Media companies large and small are desperately struggling to increase revenue and decrease their costs. At the How Do You Make Real Money on Digital Content? panel during DPAC in New York on Thursday, panelis…

I recently wrote about why doctors don’t use LinkedIn. While the post intended to break down why doctors weren’t inclined to use LinkedIn, I never meant to suggest that it can’t be helpful for practicing…

Sometimes when I get an especially meaty comment on this blog, I publish is as a blog entry since comments don’t appear very prominently on A Storied Career. Such is the case with this comment by Paul Stewart…

While Apple fans line up around the world (in a few countries, at least) to get their hands on the new iPhone 4, there is no better time than now to see how the newest Apple phone stacks up to its latest compet…

Today Twitpic released Twitter Places integration following Twitter’s recent launch of the feature. Now geotagged photos will be grouped and Twitpics will be searchable by location. In addition, users can vie…

Filed under: iPhoneWe give ATT a lot of crap for having lousy coverage*, being unable to comprehend where geeks gather** or just plain dropping the ball on big pre-order days, but I have to say that today I was…

The App Store has exposed incumbents in the mobile industry to the same sort of asymmetric competition that has reshaped the media industry over the past decade. Developers are responding in droves to the econo…

This series is supported by Ben Jerry’s Joe, Ben Jerry’s new line-up of Fair Trade and frozen iced coffee drinks. Learn more about it here.On a daily basis, designers are challenged to constantly be inspi…

We’ve been following the rather bizarre and dangerous lawsuit filed by Facebook against Power.com, an online service that tries to let users aggregate various social networking activity into a single service….

Back in March, we wrote about the surprising effort by the North Carolina government to force Amazon to hand over a list of details on every purchase made by anyone in the state. Amazon already provides a ton…

Umberto Milletti is the CEO of InsideView, which brings intelligence gained from social media and traditional sources to enterprise and B2B sales. The company’s SalesView app delivers fresh, complete and rele…

HootSuite, the social media web-based dashboard, released its latest version today with HTML5 support that includes drag-and-drop functionality and enables faster loading.The new version, HootSuite5, also inclu…

I’ve been working on several big projects in recent months, and after the whirlwind started settling down, I realized how important it was to take time away from the demands that can wear us down.

In �…

Tim Iacono submits: It’s hard to believe that, after continuing clear evidence of an extraordinarily weak housing market that only improves temporarily when the government applies cardiac defibrillator pad…

For those who are looking for an effective way to post emoticons within their Facebook status updates, the developers of emoti for iPad and iPhone have developed a great solution. So what other great features…

In the search marketing industry, we like to believe we’ve got hard and fast rules as to what goes into proper SEO. From the way we choose keywords to the length of page titles, to how often and where best…

Your product or service is amazing, your website is gorgeous, your sales copy is solid and for some reason nobody is buying. Does this sound familiar?
If you are looking to make an impact in your market, one e…

Vacuums created from plastic ocean debris could look something like this artists rendering (courtesy of Electrolux).
As marketers increasingly look to brand their companies as “green” to win a larger share…

The easiest way to make noise within a community is to divide the tribe.Modernism, classicism, realism, impressionism–dividing things into schools of thought–or even warring camps–makes it easy to create ten…

See a photo of Caryn, her bio, Part 1 of this QA,Part 2, and Part 3 .

QA with Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, Question 4:

Q: If you could share just one piece of advice or wisdom about story/storytelling/narrativ…

Fred Trotter,
organizer of the annual OSHealthCon summit, has
developed open source software for the health care field for many
years. Most recently, he released a new national provider
identifier search tool…

Earlier this week, Apple made an announcement that produced many headlines: in the 80 days following the debut of the iPad, the company has sold 3m tablets. For those of us who wondered if the iPad would sell,…

When the sender of an email doesn’t sign their name, you have options beyond writing back with “Who is this?” or cursing internet anonymity. The Digital Inspir…

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.Social media is the top emerging ch…

The first batch of iPhone 4s isn’t exactly wooing the world. The phones seem to be plagued with various deal-breaking issues. I’m not sure I would feel comfortable waiting in line for this Jesusphone right now…

What do you call the son of your moms cousin? How about the husband of your mothers uncles daughter? Type how youre related into Wolfram Alphas computation eng…

Yesterday morning I gave a talk on social media to a group of Canadian government employees. The talk was organized by my sister-in-law, Jennifer Jager, who is part of the marketing team at Public Safety Canada…

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For the last year or so, Google Voice (formerly called Grand Central, a name I loved) was available only if someone invited you. Yeah, I know; I never did. It’s now open to everyone in the United States (sto…

Dropbox just made sharing files, pictures, music, and video with your friends, or the public web, as easy as right-clicking a folder. Even better, the page you…

It’s something everyone dreads upon breaking up or having a falling out with a friend: the inevitable run-in. You’re out on the town and then BAM, a night can be ruined by a former friend’s face. Well, no…

You might have heard that Social CRM is all around developing strategies around the “social customer”. But, what exactly is a social customer and what do brands need to know about interacting with her? …

Oderzo, Italy – Redbits today is pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of Group Text! 1.0 for iPhone devices. Group Text! – the easy way. With Group Text! you can send SMS to address bo…

Michael T. Snyder submits: This week headlines across the United States screamed that new home sales in the U.S. had declined to the lowest level since the U.S. government began keeping track in 1963. But in t…

White label social networking startup KickApps has launched a new development suite that aims to simplify the Facebook app development for marketers, brand managers and developers. The KickApps App Studio now a…

HTML5 will spawn richer, more sophisticated Websites while also easing development. Here are nine ways the impact of HTML5 will be felt

We talk a lot about needing to “educate” people about social media. And at recent events and meetings I’ve attended, I can confirm that companies are asking themselves how they educate their teams and col…

Sebastian Anthony / Download Squad:
Internet Explorer 9 destroys Chrome 6 in HTML5 speed test (video) — I think the video speaks for itself! — If you cant watch the video: IE9 is some orders of ma…

President Obama may well have made a major management mistake in dismissing General Stanley McChrystal, the senior commander of US and NATO troops in Afghanistan. Counterinsurgency is a creative act and McChrys…

Usually we save all the sneaky tricks and techniques for the newsletter, but today I’m feeling rambunctious so I decided I’d uncork some of the good stuff.
Don’t read today’s post unless you want to re…

“Curation” is one of those high-falutin’ new media words that have come into vogue in the last couple of years. Put simply – curation is what curators do in art museums. They make selections of interest…

After serving as president for only a couple of months, Barack Obama fired the U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, General David McKiernan. To replace him, Obama selected another general he barely knew, St…

Whether it’s a bad extension that is causing problems or a bug in Safari that can’t handle too many extensions, it is possible for Safari to get into a state where you cannot operate Safari well enough to c…

People who believe that SEO is the devil’s work have a point. Such proclaimers can stand side by side with those who say lawyers are bad, non-christian music is demonic and TV rots the brain. Sure, outlawing…

A Referral Example from Southwest AirlinesThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing
I’m a big Southwest Airlines fan and customer enough to get all of their promotional materials, so I was pleased to see this fi…

Amid Rebounding Economy, Companies Look to Marketers for Growth Strategies
Advertising Age, June 23, 2010 — Career-minded CMOs, take note: You just may land your next gig in financial services. As financia…

I wrote last week on Brands and Social Media that 33% of Facebook users have become fans of brands.
That sort of number begs a follow-up question to be asked. What is the value of a Facebook fan? Well accordin…

A successful blog isn’t built in a day, but it’s well worth the effort it takes. A good blog isn’t just a great chance to build links and include keyword-rich relevant content, it’s also a brilliant way…

It’s happened to you. It’s happened to me. It’s happened to all of us.
We take on a copywriting assignment, ask for some background information, then squeal in horror when a truck pulls up to the door wi…

Geolocation services are not about giving us something to do, as Joe Chernov writes, although I think that’s a pretty good insight. They’re also about giving us something to talk about. That something is stat…

This is a reader video found on Macrumors forums illustrating something weird. When the guy holds the iPhone in his hands, touching the outside antenna band in…

When are you going to start acting like it?The idea that you are a faceless cog in a benevolent system that cares about you and can’t tell particularly whether you are worth a day’s pay or not, is, like it or n…

Will Smit / Google Enterprise Blog:
Introducing multi-domain support in Google Apps — Thousands of organizations deploy Google Apps every day, and a challenge for some large businesses has been migratin…

One morning, novelist Howard Engel went to get the paper and found that the English language suddenly looked like gibberish to him. Letters no longer had meaning—they were just incomprehensible marks on a pag…

With Apple once again breaking the calendar syncing, a workaround was needed.

IPhone – Apple – Google – Smartphones – Handhelds

President Obama’s political campaign, Organizing for America, will be heading to the App Store tonight with an all-new iPad and iPhone app. His administration hopes to connect voters with Congressional repres…

Since Chrome OS is an open source project (well okay, technically, Chromium OS is), it’s fun to take a look at the Google Code page for it from time to time to see what progress is being made. Most of it is t…

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 BizSpark…

Jon Brodkin / Computerworld:
Google Docs creates expectations CIOs can’t meet, Red Hat CEO says — Red Hat CEO says CIOs are “under siege” by user expectations. — As chief executive of Red Hat,…

Here’s a short story that ought to give pause to anyone who thinks that Microsoft’s ownership of the enterprise is a permanent and unyielding fact.
Granted, it’s told by the CEO of Red Hat, an open-source compe…

Application store company GetJar this morning announced it has secured $11 million in a Series B funding round led by previous backer Accel Partners, report PaidContent and others.

The company says it plans…

File sharing and syncing service Dropbox has just released a great new feature: The ability to create a link to any file or folder in your Dropbox account. People following the link will be taken to a specially…

Steve Jobs’s keynotes and Apple’s product pages have a finite amount of space with which to tout what’s new in iOS 4. These are the new features and polish that didn’t make the cut, but may still make someone’s…

The following essay is also my column this month on Forbes.com.

Caption: Safari’s new Reader view could rob publishers of page views especially if it finds its way into iOS devices

Watch Out: Apple May A…

My brother is writing a book with his stepdaughter about their scarily parallel stories as cancer fighters and survivors. At the moment, they’re working on author photos for the book cover. T…

Today, I spoke to Sally Hogshead, who is a speaker, author, and brand innovation consultant. This is a follow-up to my previous interview with Sally back in January 2009. Her latest book is ca…

The recession has culled the weak from the pack but it’s likely that your competition is still fierce. Is there a way to attract and retain B2B customers without lowering your price? And is there a way to…

The Twitter list feature is great, and finding out that you’re on a few lists is a real ego booster – findinoug out which lists is even more interesting at times! But how do you find out wh…

I know, I know. You’re thinking that I’m crazy.But, I’m not.I’ve been in marketing or advertising (online or otherwise) for 20 years. I’ve been thinking lately about why I got involved in social media…

Internet giant upstages iPhone 4 and releases info on Android phone activations. BURLINGAME, Calif. — Google’s Android operating system for mobile phones is giving Apple’s iPhone a run for its money. It turns…

I just shot and edited an HD movie on a smartphone in under 5 minutes. Perspective: my digital camera computer from 10 years ago couldn’t have done this. And h…

While the Google Adwords marketing team did not label it “content marketing” in announcing it, their new advertising industry news aggregation service called “Ad News” is a great example of what conten…

Earlier today, the popular micro-blogging service Twitter attempted to launch a new application on Facebook that would allow users to easily begin following their friends, family and contacts from the massive s…

This afternoon Josh Elman announced a new feature which enables Facebook users to import their friends in order to follow them on Twitter. While it would serve as an amazing feature, Facebook doesn’t appear…