Curated Stories June 25, 2010

This is a guest post from Andrew, one of my two summer interns this year.
Over the past three weeks, I have had the pleasure of working as a summer intern with Articulate Marketing. The work has been varied and…

Filed under: iPad

Apple touted iBooks 1.1 as a major upgrade which allows users to sync and view PDFs from their computer to the iPad. While Apple has delivered the ability to sync and view PDFs in iBooks 1.1,…

Cash crunches happen from time to time, but if they are chronic at your company, then you may have to re-think the way you do business. Though cash-flow squeezes often seem mystifying, there are only a few expl…

Many start-ups use their Social Network contacts to find additional workers. Why not? Someone’s friend of a friend is probably that chef, programmer or administrative assistant you need, and they’re looking…

Hey everyone. Hope you’ve all had a nice week.
The last two notes have rivaled a PhD thesis in terms of length so I’m going to keep it short and sweet for everyone this week. As promised, A-Z at the Earth…

I thought it would be useful to post one more update regarding Facebook’s supposed “War Declaration” against Google with their Open Graph search functionality. In multiple instances Facebook has downplay…

Entrepreneurs gearing up for their first meeting with potential investors are sure to have a million different things on their mind that are stressing them out. Is the pitch the right length? Is it filled with…

Major League Baseball’s awesome iPhone app now supports background audio (live radio broadcasts) for iPhone 4 and iOS 4.Join the conversation about this story »

Twitter can be used for many things. It’s being referred to as more of a news platform than a social network. Ogilvy 360 has a very good slidedeck about Twitter strategies that lays out…

Last month I produced a video in which I walked readers through the split of my income over the month of April to show what different income streams brought in different percentages of my income.
In the video I…

Chad Burgess is the Marketing Manager at SeatGeek, a forecasting and search web application that helps fans save money on sports and concert tickets. You can find more from Chad on the SeatGeek Blog or follow h…

On May 20th, SAI hosted Startup 2010, searching for one startup company worthy of a $100,000 prize and VC funding. The one-day event also featured QAs with leading entrepreneurs and lively debates on the mobil…

Coca-Cola sees “phenomenal” results from Twitter ads: 86 million impressions, 6% “engagement” rate, versus 0.02% click-through-rate on normal Internet ads, the FT reports.Join the conversation about this story…

You’ve probably heard that you can pour water over your wrists or neck to cool off quickly, but we’ve got the lowdown on all the body’s best cooling spots, as…

For quite a few years now, iRobot has all but owned the personal robot sector with its successful line of Roomba cleaning robots. However as the price of manufacture of these types of device comes down and dema…

Today the partnership between Facebook and PayPal on Facebook Credits and ads has been expanded from a small segment of Facebook advertisers to cover all advertisers on the social network. Now, any advertiser c…

With a domain like map.pr, you’d think this would be another link shortener. Instead, it uses the Foursquare API to give you a great way to visualize popular places on FourSquare. And, if you’re following t…

Mrinal Desai / AdAge:
Apple Tries to Break Online Advertising in Order to Save It — Owning the Product Stack Is a Winning Formula for Apples Devices. Can Iit Apply to Advertising? — Apple recent…

Sometimes referred to as the “cuddle” chemical, oxytocin — a hormone produced in the brain — stimulates feelings of trust and security, reduces anxiety levels and may even produce positive sexual side e…

By now, many of you have your new iPhone 4s. And even more of you have an iPhone equipped with the latest iOS 4 software. So you want to find the apps tailored to run on it, right? Well, now Apple has a sectio…

Meaghan Edelstein has gained national media attention through her blog, I Kicked Cancer’s Ass, which she started to document her battle with end stage cancer. She is an attorney, the founder of the non-profit…

Even on a beautiful, sunny day the ground can be surprisingly wet. Pack a shower curtain liner in your basket for a dry time at your picnic, concert in the pa…

WordPress developer Automattic has acquired Plinky from Thing Labs, the creators of social media application Brizzly. Plinky essentially aims to inspire content creators. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
P…

Gmail now supports the ability to view Microsoft Word documents in your browser with a single click. The Google Docs viewer that handles the new duties already provides one-click viewing of PDF, Powerpoint and…

Geoff Livingston co-founded Zoetica to focus on cause-related work, and released an award-winning book on new media Now is Gone in 2007.The continuing evolution of location-based social networking has yielded c…

How does the iPhone’s new HD video camera compare to the Flip Mino HD? Good enough that we don’t think any iPhone 4 owner would ever need to buy a Flip.
The image is better on the Flip, but not so much better t…

Anyone in marketing should read – 7 Ways to Become A Leading-Edge Marketer – http://bit.ly/aYQumg (via @hubspot)

Important information to understand – When do exaggerations cross the line – http://bit.ly/cgQLGA (via @knowledgwharton)

Good post: how to take your blogging to the next level using WordPress 3.0 – http://bit.ly/bNIkVG (via @makeuseof)

Smart article – Fusing Content Strategy w/ Design – #UX #Strategy – http://bit.ly/aUz2Gm (via @UXMag)

A must read presentation on brand usefulness – http://bit.ly/bZyIyb (via @reasonapplied)

Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, has acquired inspiration tool Plinky from Thing Labs, who are also creators of the Brizzly Twitter app. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.Plinky provides a…

Taylor Buley / Velocity:
Google Isn’t Just Reading Your Links, It’s Now Running Your Code — Its long been observed that Googles search indexer can read JavaScript code, the lingua franca of dynamic Web a…

Foursquare is “growing like a weed,” co-founder Dennis Crowley tells us. So fast, in fact, that they’ve had to expand their office space. Foursquare will soon take over the upstairs floor of the office th…

Reader BWJones, who is a retinal scientist, sends in this detailed analysis of the iPhone 4′s “retinal display,” which includes photomicrographs of the display pixels of earlier generations of iPhone as well as…

There’s nothing subtle about the iPhone 4…

When I first started using my iPhone 4 yesterday in its default factory-fresh state, FaceTime worked just fine. But then after restoring from a backup of my old iPhone 3GS, FaceTime was no longer available. No…

Looks like Apple realized quickly that the limited scope of FaceTime means that not everyone can test it out on their new iPhone 4.Enter 1-888-FACETIME. Apple created the phone number so you can call and chat w…

Another reason that it pays for developers to adopt new APIs quickly — do a good job and Apple may lend a promotional hand.

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This guide will help you familiarize yourself with the look and feel of Safari 4, as well as a few customizations that help you personalize your browsing experience.

With Apple’s new support for Safari Extensions, people will now be able to install small widgets to enhance their Safari experience, very much like Dashboard can bring tools, games, and other enhancements to th…

With all the ups and downs of the economy, I’ve tracked down a technology company that has remained successful since 1983. To find out the success secrets of Apricorn, www.apricorn.com, I spoke to Michelle Fi…

Well… that’s it people. I think it’s pretty much case closed now.
Economists, academics, thought leaders, bestselling authors… it seems just about everyone has weighed in on the topic…

Experian Simmons is out with a new package of stats that document the incredible growth of social networking in the US. (Experian is an Edelman client.) Here are some of the notable highlights… First, some…

[Originally published on Ted Schadler’s Blog for Information Knowledge Management Professionals.]
by Ted Schadler
Groundswell technology comes to consumers first. At home, we get social, mobile, video, and…

ComScore says some 33.5 million people tapped into their phones to get maps and directions during the three months ended April, a 44 percent jump from last year.

As a community manager, I spend a fair amount of time thinking about metrics. I measure activity across the community to watch our progress in various areas that are important to the health of the community. Re…

Hoo boy. This is a tough one, isn’t it? In our years at Engadget, we’ve rarely seen such deafening debate and adulation for a pair of devices. In one corner we have the iPhone 4, coming off a few relatively ea…

This research from Get Response tracks with my own experience: “A distinct minority of small-to-mid-sized-business (SMB) marketers use social media links or icons in their promotional emails.” And I�…

Every day you meet people in real life and on the web and you tell them what your B2B company does. I recently heard a study that Americans are more likely than people from other countries to define themselves…

While we might think of universities and the academic world as a conservative space they’re streets ahead of business when it comes to social media adoption.
Ninety-five percent of colleges…

Cooking instructor and author of Planet Barbecue Steven Raichlen knows a thing or two about grilling a steak, and today he’s debunking a few grilling myths tha…

Donna Farrugia, Executive Director at The Creative Group (a staffing agency) wrote a post over at iMedia Connection this week on finding social media talent. Some of what she wrote makes sense, however there…

Few things in life are guaranteed. This is especially true if you are a writer.
But this one rule — The Rule of 24 — is guaranteed. Iron clad.
Doesn’t matter who you are, what you write, how you write,…

EVERY morning as I reach for breakfast I am cruelly mocked by my fridge. “You are an enormous nude strawberry,” it tells me, in Spanish. “Your delicious food is in the fire with a cow.”When we moved to…

Recently, I wrote that it is time to consider the notion that Twitter (the service, not the company) has become “too big to fail.”
Here’s a quote from that post:
“Twitter has become the electricity pow…

Here’s our business tip of the day, from Tony Hsieh of Zappos:
We believe the telephone is one of the best branding devices out there.
We have the customer’s undivided attention for 5-10 minutes—compare th…

Recently a slide show/article with the irresistible title “Ten Best Wrestlemania Entrances” by the nicely named Jamal Dincuff caught my eye. Jamal is onto something. Entrances, first meetings, and introduct…

FordOnline is a website that allows users to browse online and purchase vehicles via email or telephone. I reviewed the site earlier this week.
I’ve been asking FordOnline MD Steve Hood about the new website…

Fragments of Terboyo: The Mighty One..
This story was translated for me to read by Arif, the owner of corat coret blog which usually writes in Bahasa Indonesia. The differences between languages teaches me abou…

If you want to get a glimpse of the economic future, focus on the emerging trends driven by those defining the evolution of the social Web.
Social media is not only democratizing influence and upsetting the tr…

I haven’t done a top ten list in a while, and this one was inspired. You know, when you get pitches because you have a blog, you start developing a sense about who pitches you. Some are using the content as…

This is the pricing question of our time.First, from the buyer’s point of view: when I buy this car/boiler/phone, how much are the services that come with it going to cost me every month, forever? We stand at t…

I am a big fan of both Andrew Dupont, and custom events.
In his presentation he goes through some very nice use cases. Some are cross cutting (e.g. the fact that you can unit test, or debug, or … so much eas…

I was going through my archives the other day, sifting out stuff that I didn’t need to hold onto any more, and found some pretty amazing content collecting dust. I have hours and hours of video, text, and all…

A lot of iPhone 3G owners—myself included—have discovered that upgrading to iOS 4 has slowed their devices to a crawl. If you decide the new features and s…

Just because the new iPhone arrived in stores today doesn’t mean the rest of the technology world shut down. In fact, today in San Francisco the 2010 Semantic Technology Conference continued its week-long serie…

At WWDC, Apple formally announced FaceTime, its take on video calling and a feature that really highlights to dual-cameras on the iPhone 4. The big surprise with FaceTime is that it only works over Wi-Fi (for n…

Many decades ago William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White told us to:
Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjective hasn’t been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate…

During a recent visit to my parent’s house in Denver, I opened a chest that contained a whole bunch of my elementary school work, a lot of little league trophies, and some drawings of pigs we…

With so much data being created online from so many different sources, human curators are becoming increasingly important – separating high quality content from low quality content, and becoming trusted sources…

General health practitioners recommend that adults get at least seven hours of sleep each night for optimal functioning of mind, body and spirit. Countless studies have proven the direct links between sleep qua…

The iPhone 4 launch day has been dominated by two storylines: unprecedented demand for Apple’s newest smartphone and critical issues that even Steve Jobs has addressed.While the yellow discoloration has been…

Maybe you’ve got a Google Adsense account and have some of their ads smattered around your posts (I use it at the bottom of all RSS subscriptions to this blog). Maybe you’ve started looking for direct adve…

One thing Silicon Valley doesn’t have enough of are solid product visionaries. The problem is the really good ones tend of start their own companies. Or whoever they work for locks them up so tight that no on…

Gerry True serves as Minister of Communication Arts at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas, where Max Lucado is the Minister of Preaching. He has also served as a Student Minister, Men’s Minister and Minis…

Last March, Adobe and Google jointly announced that Flash Player would soon come built in to the latter’s Chrome browser, eliminating the need for users to download, install and update it separately.
On Thur…

When Alex Karp needed funding for a young start up named Palantir in 2005, dozens of investors said “No.”
He was trying to sell them on the idea of a high-…

Many companies are excited about the revenue possibilities in mobile these days. But auctions powerhouse Ebay has adapted quickly to new mobile devices and features, increasing its bottom line while experimenti…

One media channel always accuses another media channel when either popularity or advertising within the channel begins to wane. Before pointing fingers at others, it may be better to look at what is happening w…

There is a company called Brand Affinity Technologies (BAT) that is profiled in last month’s issue of Wired magazine which is worth a look for anyone who is interested in how advertising and endorsements in…

OK, I know all the marketing speak about a picture being worth a thousand words and a picture breaking up the text to make it more readable. I’ve listened to the experts tell me which side of…

As noted earlier, “Social Media Monitoring” is the ONE THING every company ought to be doing in Social Media.
What’s the next biggest priority?
Setting a Social Media Policy.
When I first set out to write…

Earlier we reported on the widely experienced phenomenon of the iPhone 4 dropping 3G signal when gripped in the left hand. The problem is caused when the skin bridges the left and bottom ant…

Salesforce.com Inc. filed a patent- infringement lawsuit today against Microsoft Corp., escalating a fight between the two companies over the growing market for cloud-computing software.