Curated Stories June 29, 2010

Weve heard that iWork for iPhone will come with Pages and Numbers as a universal binary for all iOS Devices.
Here’s a complete screenshot walkthrough of Pages for iPhone:

Several more after the break:…

Diptic, by Peak Systems, lets you combine two or three of your photos to create a new image, making it possible to create photographic series, before-and-after sequences, or other narratives right from your iPh…

The White House has announced a new initiative aimed at bringing the federal government into the online identity space in a major way. Via a post on the White House blog, the administration…

The long dalliance between investors and Foursquare appears to almost be consummated. According to a Tweet by Foursquare board member Bryce Roberts of O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, about an hour ago he was �…

No one is going to argue that an agency is only as good as the last piece of creative work they have done.

Everyone within the agency – but few who have never been on that side of the Marketing and Communicati…

‘An integral part of iPhone 4 mania, of course, is the new operating system — iOS 4,’ Bob Cringely writes for I, Cringely. ‘Remember how important it once was for Apple to claim that the iPhone was running OS…

Verizon Wireless will reportedly offer Apple’s iPhone in January of 2011, after ATT’s exclusivity deal ends, writes Bloomberg, which cites two unnamed people familiar with the plans. Verizon has so far been…

The conference as we used to know it was very stiff, structured and didactic.

It’s been the same since Cicero—the speaker spoke and the audience listened. Maybe the audience had a chance to ask questions a…

As you may have noticed, Twitter has been having a rough month. Due in part to traffic from the World Cup, Twitter has had its worst month in terms of uptime in a year. The Fail Whale has been out in full force…

Time Warner Cable’s Untangled blog has a terrific infographic up showing the journey data takes as it travels from one wireless device to another.
Specifically, the chart recreates the transmission of a photogr…

Hi all! In the past few months, there has been a lot of excitement and momentum building around the Junto concept, which has been great, and expanded all of our views of where it could go. I just wanted to tak…

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An iPhone for Verizon Wireless, the no. 1 U.S. carrier, will be introduced next January, according to a Bloomberg report citing “two people familiar with the plans.”
If true, this is good news for Verizon and A…

Some very insightful thoughts concerning fidelity design in #UX – http://bit.ly/b2epo4 (via @uxbooth)

Mike Davidson:

This weekend, msnbc.com launched a sweeping redesign of the most
important part of their site: the story page. The result is
something unlike anything any other major news site is offerin…

If George Lucas taught us anything with his re-tinkering of the original Star Wars trilogy it’s that there is no such thing as “perfect.” When it comes to your website’s content, the same holds true. Bu…

The world’s largest search engine is branching out. Google has spent the last year building up its display advertising products. Considering how thoroughly Google dominates search advertising, its recent obsess…

DVD Jon, the reverse engineer who decrypted DVDs for the masses and liberated iTunes with DoubleTwist, is worried about the Android Market. There’s too much j…

This really got me thinking.
I was telling an acquaintance of mine who wanted to lose weight about how a bunch of us had made a lifestyle change, eating paleo and working out using Crossfit and MovNat principl…

Here’s how to become a better writer: 1) write 2) read 3) listen They seem obvious, at least to me. Especially the first one. How does anyone improve a skill except by practice? Whether they’re athletes, ar…

Last year we wrote an in-depth feature on Pivot, a Microsoft Live Labs technology that helps make sense of interconnectedness between objects on the web. The underlying premise of Pivot is to view relationships…

Foursquare has gotten some pretty big publicity before — like in Vegas. But a new Verizon commercial appears to be completely predicated around the service. Well, provided you know what Foursquare is.
As you…

Barnes Noble may have reported losses and been compelled to slash e-reader prices recently, but all is not lost, thanks to the company’s decision to enter the e-book market this year.While sales at its physi…

Last weekend the news was conjecture about Facebook doing web search, today, the news is conjecture about Google doing social networks. All of this has been sparked by two well known Valley guys opining on sa…

Earlier this year, Twitter rolled out a new feature called hovercards, which offer a preview of a user’s information when you “hover” your mouse pointer over their username. Today, Facebook is getting its own v…

Multimedia presentation company Brainshark just launched a new feature that lets the company’s users to stream their multimedia presentations to mobile devices, including Blackberry, iOS devices, Android phones…

In light of Google’s presumed move to take on Facebook in a head to head social battle the pundits are out in full force (I had my say yesterday) and the common consensus is that the reason for the upcoming…

The iPhone 4 isn’t a revolution. But damn, it’s interesting…

Psst! We told you earlier how much Microsoft looks up to Apple (albeit in secret), now it looks like a little bit more of Redmond could one day nestle snugly inside Apple’s iOS….According to Tipb, there’s…

My new article explores the use of new tools for articulating values, vision, and mission.Imagine using the Dialoogle and Picture Your Legacy cards with colleagues, helping to commence group discussions, and to…

Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, like many consumer packaged goods companies, has no direct online sales channel—but it finds that email-newsletter subscriptions boost purchases on average 1.5 times annually. Perh…

As noted earlier, “Social Media Monitoring” is the ONE THING every company ought to be doing in Social Media. “Setting a Social Media Policy” is #2. What’s the next biggest priority?
Blogging.
Th…

I can see the potential with Foursquare, dont get me wrong—but I do think at the moment its missing a few vital ingredients. One of them being, err, fun—bu…

At Velocity 2010, John Rauser presented four funny and powerful examples of cultural change, from a campaign at his office to get people to fill the coffee pot after taking the last cup, to an award winning adv…

Macworld.com – The release of Nova Media’s Traffic2Net brings relief to those Mac users who need to monitor just how much bandwidth they use while on a 3G connection. Traffic2Net watches the data flowing…

littlekorea writes “US intellectual property law expert Jonathan Band has warned that Silicon Valley’s search engines, hosting companies, and e-commerce giants have much to fear from the Anti-Counterfeiting Tra…

Rhomobile announced today the new version of its enterprise-focused smartphone app development framework: Rhodes 2.0. Developers can use the now free Rhodes 2.0 to build native yet cross-platform apps for the…

I write this just after returning from an energizing meeting in San Francisco with Bridgespan’s board. We wrestled with important strategic issues about, among other things, how (and how fast) to expand our glo…

Those of you who know or read me, know that I am not much of a measurement kind of guy. I have been stating for several years that the tools of social media measurement are still primitive. Besides, we have not…

This post is part of the Entrepreneurship series – sponsored by AcceptPay from American Express, a new online solution that lets you electronically invoice customers and accept online payments-all in one place…

The past twelve months have been critical and tumultuous for the news world. Even as the “drought of 2009″ in advertising spending has begun to lift, changes in consumer behavior have left content makers and co…

Many entrepreneurs think that risk is just an “occupational hazard” that can be minimized or eliminated by a smart businessman. That way of thinking is simplistic and wrong. In reality, some risks are good…

A simple but clever Google search worth remembering: sunrise cityname or sunset cityname will give you the next time that event occurs in the specified city. T…

Pogoplug, the popular device that makes the content of your external USB drive available on the Internet, just announced a major new feature. Later this summer, Pogoplug users will be able to plug any modern HP…

Apple’s stepped up with Safari 5, Firefox has brought forth a more crash-proof 3.6, and Opera’s continuing to push forward in betas. Let’s break out the timer…

People naturally tend to surround themselves with others of like interests, backgrounds and ideology. We build our networks online and in real life by seeking out similar and complementary people. These networ…

fergus07 writes “Researchers have detected oral cancer cells using a fiber-optic cable and an off-the-shelf Olympus E-330 camera worth $400. The work by Rice University biomedical engineers and researchers from…

A source in Apple’s engineering recently told us that they have big fights with the industrial design team. We know they lost the iPhone 4 battle, but Macintos…

About five years ago, I wrote a piece for the now-defunct Business 2.0 about storage technologies and how we’d have terabytes on our iPods. Well, our iPods are not that fat but our drives are getting fatter f…

Today marks history for the fledgling electric car industry with the public market debut of high-profile startup Tesla Motors. The IPO for Tesla, which is backed by intrepid entrepreneur and PayPal founder Elon…

Last week, Footfeed, an iPhone app that lets you check-in to location-based services Foursquare, Gowalla, and Brightkite simultaneously, launched in the App Store.
This is at least the third check-in aggregator…

This post is brought to you by Dos Equis. For more information on sponsored posts read here.While returning from a routine circumnavigation of the globe to collect numerous and invaluable artifacts, the Most In…

We knew that Samsung had a winner on their hands with the Samsung Galaxy S, and we knew that a US version would probably be popular, but we didn’t think we’d end up with 5 versions across 5 US carriers.
If…

Laptops, cellphones, game systems, computers—theyve all got different screws or bolts, and require different screwdrivers for each. Unless youve got this scr…

On Sunday I preached a sermon at my local church. I used to do this weekly when I worked as a minister years ago – but it’s been a while since I had to do it (funnily enough I find it a lot more nerve wrac…

Rebecca Zook is an online female math tutor who has been helping students get math into their brains for seven years. She blogs about learning at Triangle Suitcase.We’ve sorted the contenders from the pretend…

MapQuest, the one-time leader in online mapping, has been completely revamped as of today with a fresh new look and added functionality. The updated website is available now, in beta format, at new.mapquest.com…

Henry Charles Bukowski, Jr. was arguably the greatest American fiction writer of the last half of the 20th century.
Fortunately for his book sales, most think of him as the archetypal drunk, misanthropic male…

Groupon may be the 800 pound gorilla in the super-hot group buying space, but its prominent success story, coupled with low barriers to entry, has led to a significant amount of competition, both in Groupon’s h…

This is the third in a weekly series of excerpts from my book, The Digital Handshake. It deals with the topic of niche marketing. — Paul Chaney

In times when marketing budgets are tight, finding ways to 1) im…

At the beginning of a new project, it’s easy for the freelance remote worker to leave the decision-making about the project to the client. Often, I find myself thinking, “Well, they know what they want; I�…

Writing press releases that grab the attention of editors and get published is a skill. Here are a handful of tips that will help your press releases gain the attention they deserve:

Start with a killer head…

You’ve been there before: you’re searching on Craigslist for a used, two door Volkswagon Rabbit or a three bedroom apartment in Astoria, Queens, and each time you click, you wonder what the website could be thi…

So Barnes Noble just let loose its financial results for the last year (ending May 1), and things are looking pretty rosy, at least if you take their view of them. The main point is that the e-book store is g…

Reading between the lines of his latest interview, Google CEO Eric Schmidt suggests just why Google is going up against Apple in the mobile space, saying smartphones are “the future for Google and the world.�…

Will Location Checkins Change Social Networking?This content from: Duct Tape Marketing
This post isn’t so much a declaration as an observation.
With the success of location aware tools like Foursquare and Gow…

If youre in the market for a current generation smartphone all the new features and specs can be confusing at best. This extensive—but easy to read!—chart…

Strangely lost in last week’s iPhone 4 hype was Facebook’s announcement of their “Open Graph Search Engine”. It is very young and therefore inelegant – but it is significant move that Google likely is…

If you want to lead others, you need to get comfortable with the concept of power. In my experience, emerging leaders sometimes stumble over the use of power for one of two reasons. Either they are too comforta…

Joseph Dal Molin, one of founders of the WorldVistA project and a speaker
in the health care track at the upcoming
OSCON convention, recently spoke with me about the Department of Veterans Affairs’ historic Vi…

This is artist David Kassan finger-painting on an iPad using the iPad Brushes app.As the video shows, he manages to capture an extremely impressive image of a his live model in a project which takes him three…

Artist Yiting Cheng’s “Secret Stash” is a series of everyday objects modified to include clever little hiding places.

secret stash 2010

(via Super Punch)

Secret play room uses armoire as hidden doorway
H…

Apple’s mobile video editing app iMovie, officially supported only by iPhone 4, can be hacked to run on an iPhone 3GS.The hack requires a jailbroken iPhone 3GS and a couple of simple edits to Apple’s .ipa f…

Over 1 million of users have purchased and downloaded the MobiTV iPhone app, propelling it to number two on Apple’s Top Grossing apps list.
The application (iTunes link), which was released in April 2010 and…

Feds flush flame-haired femme fatale
The FBI’s case against an alleged deep cover Russian spy ring relies heavily on surveillance of their use of ad hoc Wi-Fi networks, bespoke software, encryption and the web….

RARE are those moments when learning the word for something brings a whole new category into your understanding of the world around you. I had one of those moments recently when I learned the word “snowclone”….

Consumer Reports talked to a few triple-stacking, manufacturers-rebate-hunting coupon gurus—the kind that feed their family for $10 a week—so that us mere…

Today’s post comes from Pongrob Saisuwan of TwitBlend. He’s showing us how to use the service. You can follow Pongrob at @twitblend.
There’s so many auto-generated list of tweets out there but the results…

I’ve shared why the concept of social media addiction makes little sense in the past, but it continues to be a popular, if inaccurate label. I expect that sort of post from Mashable or Social Media Examiner…

Beginning today, Yelp will provide business owners using the service with free mobile metrics that includes data on mobile checkins.The additional metrics will now be included in the weekly newsletter — Your…

Location based social network Foursquare is the darling of the media’s eye these days and appears to be growing very fast. Rumors are growing louder that Netscape co-founder Marc Andreesen’s venture capital fu…

Back in May, Google showcased the next version of Android, codenamed Froyo. Chuck full of new features like Flash support, the ability to turn your phone into a Wifi hotspot, and huge speed gains, Android users…

Say hello to the new MapQuest: it’s faster, cleaner, and completely redesigned and rebuilt from the ground-up.MapQuest, acquired by AOL in 2000, has long been a staple of the web, bringing online mapping and…

Yesterday, Digg CEO Kevin Rose tweeted that he’d heard a “huge rumor” that Google was planning to launch a Facebook competitor called “Google Me”, sparking off a wave of speculative reports (Rose has…

Inside a Literary Journal For years the little magazines, a.k.a. literary journals, have been the feeder system for the U.S. publishing industry. What happens when an economic downturn tightens the subsidy for…

Cloudera, which is backed by an impressive list of investors and advisors and run by a team of experienced technology veterans, commercially distributes and services Hadoop. The startup is announcing its first…

Some good tips to create a successful agency blog – http://bit.ly/d0Tybf (via @michaelgass)

Small companies clone big companies all the time. And by clone I don’t just mean steal a basic idea. I mean clone almost literally – they just plain rip off every single feature and hope for the best. It ce…

If you don’t actually talk on your cellphone that much, a prepaid phone can be a real savings. If you want to save even more by shopping around for the best pe…

Anyone who’s written professionally probably has a well-worn copy of the AP Stylebook on their bookshelf, the original tome is widely respected and used by most working journalists and one point or another.Th…

My TIVO hates Clay Shirky. In his piercing new book Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age Shirky asserts that the technological revolution has enabled us to work together to conquer ch…

There has been plenty of talk about the benefits of coupons for online retailers, but a recent study underlines the benefits of coupons for offline and multichannel retailers.
The Compete survey finds that only…

What do you do when you have a good product and a loyal audience? You give them a simple, straightforward offer. That’s what Spring Hill Nurseries did with this big 6” x 11.5” envelope package.
Ferns are…

It is hard for any marketer to
ignore the hype that surrounds social media. Facebook, Twitter, performance
display and ad exchanges are bringing opportunities for retailers to generate
demand within these massi…

What’s the most important thing you need to know to develop effective content?

I was thinking about the various statements we hear and make these days about how engagement is king, content is…

Web Analytics are a key indicator to the health and performance of any website, but online marketers often get lost in the complexities and details, forgetting how important analytics actually are and why.
Anal…

Yesterday, something happened on Mashable which illustrates one of the biggest threats to the social web, to business, and maybe even democracy. I’m really interested to see what you have to say about this…

With the Froyo release arriving this week, Nexus One phones will get faster, turn into Wi-Fi hot spots, work better with Exchange, and support Flash.

When Digg founder Kevin Rose tweeted about the existence of “Google Me,” Google’s supposed “Facebook killer” social-networking site, I’d love to know whether h…

In 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple with veteran engineer Ron Wayne. Ten days later, Wayne signed away his 10% of the company in exchange for $…

For what America are our troops fighting for? For the New America of HOA-land or the America of our fore-fathers?

Iraq – United States – Middle East – Warfare and Conflict – Iraq War

I have been working with content management systems for longer than I care to admit. I have built my own, rudimentary systems using PHP and I have selected and implemented large scale systems that powered busin…

My fascination with influence started to incubate in my early teens. I spent the better part of the 7th grade trying to figure out what made some kids popular and others bag lunches for bullies. By the 8th grad…

The U.S. government is finally catching on to the growing trend that – surprise, surprise – people like to use their mobile devices to access the Internet. The only problem is, of course that America’s mobile i…

On the 5th floor of 36 Cooper Square, the Foursquare team works alongside Curbed and Hard Candy Shell. There are no offices in the cramped room, just rows of…