Curated Stories June 27, 2010

Social media is a cyber place where where you can enter to play or work and just disappear. There is so much noise and distraction that we can log on and just forget what we were doing.
Social media marketing c…

News, like art, requires provenance.
I tweeted that today, joining in a conversation between Dan Gillmor and Jay Rosen as they tried to understand how the Washington Post could quote only unnamed complainers i…

It’s not hard to turn an extra USB stick lying around that’s collecting dust into extra memory for your computer, allowing it to run speedier and manage more applications better. More »…

Despite the bungled launch and short hiatus, Twitter Places is back in action. The feature has huge implications for the geo-location space and the location-sharing movement.Places is a big improvement on Twitt…

Whether you own a Droid, sport a Nexus One or do the Backflip, there’s one thing you have in common with more than eight million other people — you operate on Google’s mobile phone OS, Android.To celebrat…

“…once upon a time…” can you hear it even if no one speaks a word? Can you imagine those words’ effect like a tiny inner innocent shine joined by a sense of horror? I just love it. If I could live on…

The Daily Mail reported this morning than an iPhone 4 recall is underway, but don’t believe it; the UK publication’s source was a tweet from a fake Steve Jobs Twitter account. Apple hasn’t announced any p…

A communication industry site, ragan.com, picked up my recent post about why it’s “ridiculous to argue about ghost blogging.” This was cool because it opened the topic to a new set of commenters and pe…

I’ve posted about Google Search Stories here and here, so I don’t want to belabor the subject (especially since the “story” quality is questionable with this fun tool).

But the wonderful site Women’s…

Chances are you’ve been waiting in line all week for the iPhone 4, which means you haven’t been keeping up on your social media resources. Tsk-tsk.Put said device to good use, and scroll on down for your w…

If you’re waiting for a boss or an editor or a college to tell you that you do good work, you’re handing over too much power to someone who doesn’t care nearly as much as you do.We spend a lot of time organizin…

My last post argued that social media is now at the end of a period of great disruption and is now entering a longer, quieter period of normalization. I need to emphasize that we are talking about the world’s o…

One area that needs to be revisited every so often, is the “welcome” to new members. The early days when someone first joins are when habits, tone and value of the community culture, loyalt…

If you run a search for anything, somewhere in the top results of the search will be a Wikipedia page. So even before Facebook decided that your company or business Wikipedia entry would make good support f…

Like most of you, I too LIKE Facebook, and ever since my last TechCrunch post (How to Build Engaging One-of-Kind Facebook Fan Pages), I’ve been exploring and trying to find new ways to improve the creation p…

GPS based real estate search technology company, BrilliantGPS takes the road less traveled by developing the first non-cell phone based real estate GPS search system, HomeFinderGPS, which uses the popular Garmi…

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.Gathering friends, followers and �…

Photo by Fibonacci Blue
Nearly everyone has something to say about BP’s oil spill, and from a public relations perspective, the company is floundering. Both its stock price and brand value have taken a deep…

I was reading this post by Julien Smith and it struck me that I’d had a similar thought on the same day he wrote it. I left the seed of this post in his comments when I said, “I want now not new. Here’s…

Does society owe the news and the newspaper industry anything?

Jeff Jarvis (Buzzmachine and the author of the best-selling business book, What Would Google Do?) points us to this fascinating panel conversation…

Glenn Fisher recently posted on software that disables bits of the computer to make us more productive and to minimize distractions. Programs like Freedom, Isolator, RescueTime, LeechBlock, Turn Off the Lights…

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Two seemingly unrelated pieces of news help me…

Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see?

Yesterday, I had lunch with Alistair Croll (BitCurrent, Rednod, GigaOM, Human 2.0, the aut…

Several readers have reported that the iPhone 4 does make good on its promise of increased upload speeds over 3G. ZDNet posted some comparisons between the iPhone 3G and iPhone 4 using Speedtest.I started no…

The problem in the cases of ousted Gen. Stanley McChrystal and ousted Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel is not that they had opinions. Of course, they had opinions. Indeed, we should damned well want them to…

A good set of guidelines for evaluating your #socialmedia plan – http://bit.ly/cTURP9 (via @mashable)

This column is written by Kimberly Turner from Regator (a great tool that gathers and organizes the world’s best blog posts). – Darren
Thanks, as always, for stopping in for our weekly list of the ten most…

Social CRM Needed To Make Sense of Consumer Data.
Social data is overwhelming. More customers, buyers, and consumers are creating content everywhere they go. Companies cannot scale to match this in a 1:1 b…

I’m not talking about the ability to be heard… we solved that problem a few years ago. It used to be logistically impossible to make it easy for the masses to speak up and to sort and respond to the feedback….

Foursquare poised to get new VC funding, after being “one inch” from sale to FacebookJoin the conversation about this story »

You probably saw the news this week that we’ve sold 150 million Windows 7 licenses in 8 months. Thats more than 600,000 per day. And, perhaps fittingly for a product called Windows 7, it adds up to 7 copies e…

When President Obama chose to replace General Stanley A. McChrystal following the fallout from the general’s controversial comments in a recent Rolling Stone article, the media was in a frenzy. Because McChryst…

It seems to me that social media is at the very end of it’s beginning phase. This period goes back at least a decade, but when it comes to business, the action really started in late 2005.
It has been a messy,…

Great read on avoiding the biggest #seo mistakes – http://bit.ly/9bgQhM (via @hubspot)

Google indexes the web’s billions of web pages at lightning speed using Googlebot, a web crawler that collects links and documents from webpages and turns them into the searchable content you find on Google S…

Stephen Hawking is undoubtedly the world’s most recognizable theoretical physicist, but let’s take a look at five things you might not know about the longtime Cambridge professor:
1. He Puts His Money Where…

Initial reactions to the iPhone 4 have been pretty spectacular, with an estimated 1.5 million units sold during the first day and lines that lasted hours, but what was reception like on Twitter? While we know t…

Ever since the new version of Digg was announced three months ago, it has undergone a lot of revisions and caused a lot of turmoil. In that time, Kevin Rose replaced Jay Adelson as CEO, reportedly unhappy with…

For just about any topic or choice, there comes pressure to take a side, to align yourself with a group who can reinforce that your choice was the right one, and any alternative choice is somehow wr…