Curated Stories June 4, 2010

Brandweek, June 1, 2010 — When it comes to hiring a chief marketing officer, the majority of companies are eager to fill the role. In fact, CMOs are viewed as strategic partners and are increasingly joini…

I used to do a lot of development, data warehouse and business intelligence work for a pharmaceuticals giant. During this time I learned a great deal about clinical trials, supply chain, HIPA, good development…

“That’s it!”

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On Tuesday, I’ll be taking the stage at Mashable Media Summit to interview Dennis Crowley, CEO of Foursquare. We’ll have a lot to talk about, including his company’s rapid growth, its slew of recent med…

There are many things that make me a crappy entrepreneur. Just naming a few: I second guess myself, I spend too much time on projects, and the act of speaking to people in real life makes me want to throw up. N…

These examples are simple, but they prove a point.
Uses of social media have to be timely or they lose their value. The stuff below works, and impresses me, right now, but it’ll become common later. Use them…

I have never said this so early in a year before but … the worst marketing of the year competition has been decided. BP’s ongoing attempts to clean up its reputation as it fails to clean up the Gulf are so…

With many routers now transmitting Wi-Fi signals using the 802.11n standard (including all of Apple’s current router offerings), some users may find that they are unable to take advantage of the increased speed…

David Heinemeier Hansson on Steve Ballmer:

Jobs is lucid and reasoned. Ballmer is… Hell, I don’t even
know how to describe it. He’s all over the place. No clear
definitions, just randomly running…

Rework, by 37signals’ Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, has been floating around the top of the New York Times’ best-selling business books list ever since it came out.
After hearing so much praise for…

ATT killed all-you-can-eat wireless data. Which sadly was inevitable and, for the time being anyway, may not matter.
But if I’m paying for bytes like I do for minutes, why don’t I get rollover data, t…

Matt Mastracci / grack.com:
HTC EVO 4G: Nice Hardware, Horrible Sprint Software — UPDATE: Sprints OTA release last night fixes the serious vulnerability we reported to them. Kudos to them for moving s…

When Steve Jobs kicks off Apple’s big developer conference on Monday, he will be introducing a new iPhone.
Unlike at other events, Steve won’t be able to surprise the audience. Thanks to the leaked photos and v…

Easy-to-use blogging platform Posterous has just launched a key new feature: Pages. No, the feature doesn’t sound sexy in the slightest — it allows you to create static webpages in addition to your main…

Back in April, we got a tip from someone that a lawyer who had worked for the Las Vegas Journal Review newspaper had set up shop as a company, called Righthaven, to sue websites that post copies of LVJR stories…

Bloggers, on the whole, are young — but not too young, according to a report from research company Sysomos. That’s right, the voice of the Internet, for the most part, is aged 21-35.This information isn’…

I wanted to close this week by referencing a post written by uber-marketer Seth Godin titled “The distraction, the tail and the dog” in which he outlines the core of what makes a business run, “maki…

I suck at writing headlines. It takes me forever to summarize my posts in a few words. The headlines I usually come up with have little or no SEO value. My only redeeming factor is that the tit…

Hayden Black is the writer, producer, and star of the huge online hits “Goodnight Burbank,” “Abigail’s Teen Diary,” and “The Occulterers.” He’s racked up multiple awards and nominations, and s…

I’m not going to lie. I was never a Microsoft fan. Not even when I was using Windows (that I begrudgingly moved to after the Amiga). But at least you used to have some awe and respect for the gorilla that was…

Want to have your Facebook privacy settings automatically configured for you? ReputationDefender, a company which helps individual protect their online identity, has released a new Facebook application called…

The debate between native mobile apps and HTML5 mobile web apps is probably not very important in the minds of most consumers – but it’s big for developers. Starting today the venture funded iPhone app recomme…

When it comes to getting a new startup off the ground, it’s important to get the word out. Whether by email, Twitter, social networking, launch events or any other number of methods, you’ll want to let people k…

If you only read one book about creativity, I tell my clients, make it The War of Art by Steven Pressfield.
It contains the distilled wisdom of a bestselling novelist and Hollywood screenwriter, who has both t…

Back in December of 2009, Google launched Goggles – a mobile image recognition beta application for the Android Operating System. In a presentation Thursday at the Augmented Reality Event in Santa Clara, Califo…

Thomas has a great post today on how he took the lovely Every Time Zone HTML5 app for the iPad and went deep to make it perform smoothly to match its beauty.
He has documented what he did:

Canvas optimization…

My friends…
What an adventure Altitude Branding has been.
When I started this blog a little more than two years ago, I had absolutely no idea whatsoever what would happen. I was starting a fledgling business,…

One of the recent podcast interviews in Michael Margolis’s The New Storytellers series featured the wonderful Christina Baldwin, author of one of the seminal books in the current storytelling movement, Storyc…

‘Don’t eat me’
Dolphins eat fish, kill porpoises for fun, and try, not always successfully, to hide from Japanese fisherman.…

If you publish a business blog, you probably know about and read the blogs of Chris Garrett (ChrisG.com) and Darren Rowse (Problogger.net). They are two of the most popular bloggers on the Web. In 2008 they c…

Thoughts on what luxury brands are doing online – http://bit.ly/aTCQiH (via @thenextweb)

If you use Gmail as your email backend but prefer a good old-fashioned desktop email client for handling your day-to-day email, youre probably aware that many…

“Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.” John BarthA friend who is working on a family history writes about the unforeseen complexities of the project:“I am very aware that not only is ev…

Friday is a great day for link posts, as opposed to Monday when you likely don’t have time to dig into them. I haven’t been doing this weekly, but plan to more often share notable conversations, posts an…

Taesik Yoon submits:
Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) announced earlier this week that the company will invest $1 billion to significantly upgrade its Enterprise Services business. HPQ expects the productivity gains…

Jason Calacanis / VentureBeat:
Five things Facebook can do to rebuild trust — [Editors note: The following is an excerpt from an email sent by entrepreneur Jason Calacanis to his personal mailing list f...

This post is another personal development experience, detailing a healing session I had yesterday with a local practitioner in my area, Eileen O’Hare. If you’d prefer to just read about technology and the...

Continuing in my series of “20 Leadership Questions,” we come to the seventh question that Michael Smith asked when he interviewed me. This is basically a follow-up on the previous question.

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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings continues his pioneering management style and posts Netflixs current business plan online.
Its a great presentation, with implications far beyond Netflix--including the future of cab...

If you have some furniture with dings or scuffs you’d like to disguise on on the cheap coffee grounds are a cheap and easy way to touch up the imperfections….

Tony Hsieh is the CEO of Zappos.com, Inc. During the past 10 years, the company has grown from almost no sales to more than $1 billion in annual gross merchandise sales, driven primarily by repeat customers and…

You’re in a meeting. You and your team identify a great new business opportunity. If you can launch in 60 days, a rich new market segment will be open for your product or service. The action plan is developed….

There seems to be more and more affiliate marketing software popping up there on the market, and it’s pretty tough to pick one out of the bunch. Personally, I like anything that uses a ‘nude linking’ syst…

Future, we are here. With today’s launch of the Sprint HTC EVO 4G, the hotly anticipated smartphone running Google’s Android OS, video chatting moves off the desktop and into the palm of your hand.

Using the…

More subscribers. More traffic. More followers.
It’s easy to get caught up in the race for more. More is better, right?
We all want our businesses and blogs to grow. But not all growth is ideal or even benef…

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.A new “group buying” trend is…

Daryl Montgomery submits: According to the May monthly employment report, 431,000 jobs were created last month. Unfortunately, almost all of these jobs were temporary Census positions. Private sector hiring was…

Were building a list of the best business pundits in the world. Heres a quick start below (in no particular order). Please help by telling us who were missing…
(This is a list of pundits, as opposed to r…

State Senator Jake Knotts of South Carolina has become America’s least popular meme after calling Indian-American gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley a “raghead” on some Internet radio show for “pub pol…

Back in 2007, I wrote a quick little article for Copyblogger about Yogi Berra. It was so successful, Brian Clark asked me to send more articles. I’ve been writing guest posts ever since.
But I figured my rea…

Does SEO really work? Well, former software developer Chris D’Agnese saw an opportunity to build a promotional products business solely off of online sales, based on the ideas that consumers like to research…

Having a Facebook page can be an enormous business asset. By simply applying 4 key strategies to your Facebook page, you can set yourself apart from the “Me too!” marketers.

Big companies have started turning…

As my business continues to grow, Im taking a close look at the types of services I offer. Currently, the focus is on Internet marketing consulting with a particular emphasis on social media (me and about 1,000…

In life we expect outgoing people to be better at tasks like networking or sales. We use terms like “extrovert” and “Type-A personality” to describe what many of us believe to be true about many of the peopl…

If you read our review of HTC’s awe-inspiring Evo 4G , you might have noticed that we recommended ditching the paltry stock 8GB microSD card and living large by throwing in a 32GB model. We were being a wee bit…

It involves finagling some uncooked frozen fries from a local McDonald’s under the ruse of a scavenger hunt. Kenji Lopez-Alt explains.

I’ve been literally giddy with the quality of the fries that have been com…

Steve Jobs dabbled in a bit of revisionist history onstage at the AllThingsD conference Tuesday, saying that Apple had fixed its iPhone store ban on political cartooning before political cartoonist Mark Fiore w…

Macworld’s Jason Snell has the solution to the whole iPhone openness flap that makes the most sense: Let each iPhone owner choose for himself or herself whether to live inside Apple’s garden.
Share/E-Mail…

Jason Snell / Macworld:
Time for Apple to open up the iPhone — The company can blunt its competitors biggest advantage in one stroke — Ever since Apple introduced the App Store, someone or other ha…

If you’ve ever wished you had a quick-access scratchpad in your OS X menubar, there’s a quick and easy way to get one with free site-specific browser applicat…

4 uses for Twitter – for those who think Twitters useless – http://bit.ly/b4ZrSM (via @makeuseof)

TLC has used information from its stars and fans alike to run a summer-themed Foursquare promotion that will include new badges and tons of tips for summer fun.TLC’s Foursquare integration will help users fi…

Although few of them would describe it this way, many of the people agitating for change to Facebook are really asking for changes to the user experience, not to Facebook’s policies or even functionality. Th…

Link: Boston.com

I predict this AP photo by Charlie Riedel will win a Pulitzer. It is one of those images you will remember forever — it is that searing.
Despite me being a teenager at the time, I can s…

The HTC Scorpion has been rumored for a while now and we’ve come to learn that Verizon may soon feature the device as their next flagship phone, while Canadian wireless carrier Bell might also show up with…

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The serie…

Yelp, hot off the news of their Open Table integration, also has some interesting user information that they say they’ll officially announce tomorrow. We’ve got the details.
Yelp says their website had over…

We were recently talking about some of the strawmen complaints that some (though, certainly not all) journalists put up in protesting the idea of “citizen” journalism (which should, more accurately, be called p…

When it comes to slideshow presentations, few do them as well as Netflix. Last year, they released one that was sent around internally about their culture. If you read it, you probably wished you worked for Ne…

The New York Times has just unveiled its latest foray into digital media: a free iPhone app for residents of or visitors to New York City and Brooklyn dubbed “The Scoop” [iTunes link].The app is, according…

Looks like Foursquare is experiencing the questionable honor of getting the attention of the Chinese government. Authorities appear to have blocked the service, at least in mainland China, according to many a…

I don’t play many games on my iPhone, but occasionally come across one that proves compelling. A game called Toy Physics is my latest fixation. It drew me in, and is a great example of a multi-touch platform…

Apple has a new microsite touting HTML5 standards, yet when you hit the site in a browser other than Safari and try to run a sample you get:

Erm. Hmm. Faruk has it right:

The point isn’t that all of the examp…

Mark, the Broadcasting Brain, has simple needs: he does his best work at the kitchen table with papers spread out around him.
I do too.
Bill finds there’s an astonishing lot of physical mo…

And this is the problem with just about every lame speech, every overlooked memo, every worthless bit of boilerplate foisted on the world: you write and write and talk and talk and bullet and bullet but no, yo…

One of my favorite riffs is: Ebooks are the hip and stylish younger sister of the nerdy white paper.

When I deliver the line to B2B marketing or technology audiences, it gets a lot of laughs.

But there are…

Brian Polino submits:Presently, proposals by Congress to create a government-appointed committee [probably within the SEC] to assign credit rating agencies, or CRAs, for structured finance deals are being recon…

This app — featuring an electronic version of the best-selling SAS Survival Guide Handbook — is packed with information and features that will interest even the most urban of couch-dwellers.

Eric Meyer:

But let’s assume that you’re personally invested in the
iPhone/iPad ecosystem and can’t for some reason avoid or leave
it. In that case, you’re stuck with that one single store, the…

Filed under: iPadWhile the iPad version of Keynote represents a slight twist on Apple’s flagship presentation app and serves as a gateway into multitouch computing on a large display, it has a few shortcomings…

New section of Apple’s website devoted to cutting edge HTML5 techniques and examples:

Standards aren’t add-ons to the web. They are the web.

Customers of the iPad VGA Adapter may be confused with its actual capabilities. Unlike a MacBook or a Mac desktop machine, the iPad with a VGA Adapter won’t let the iPad mirror its screen to an external displ…

If we could push a button, blink an eye, click a mouse (swipe an iPad) and return to a world of managed media (or at least a clear demarcation between proper news and citizen scribbling) would…

Your Blog is your business, unless it’s not your business.

If you Blog as a hobbyist, that’s fine, but if you’re Blogging to grow your personal profile, build your business, create some semblance of thought le…

Would you let your child buy a virtual sofa for their room in Habbo Hotel?

Lets forget about the fact that most young people dont even care about Habbo Hotel anymore (or do they?), but the thought of spending…

As you might have noticed I am a firm believer in the power of social media, maybe even verging on evangelical. It’s existence has been brief in the universal timeframe, so there have been no instructions h…

Two days ago I created a blog post entitled, Leadership And Self-Deception And Social Media. In it, I suggested that the thing that separates success from mediocrity isn’t how we do what we do, but who we…

There are some truly great and thought provoking Social CRM posts out there that I believe to an excellent job of helping move the SCRM space and the discussions around it forward. I wanted to take this oppor…

In this post I’m looking at the world of real multichannel advertising, and how brands can extend the impact of a TV
advertising campaign well beyond its airtime.
Earlier this month (May 2010), Bain Company an…

These days it may seem like just about every company on the web is
building its own development platform. Enticed by the success of
platforms like those offered by Apple, Facebook, Twitter and
Salesforce, more…

The recent Business Marketing Association conference in Chicago was focused on engagement. The leading marketers from around the world came together to talk about it…and how engagement is the key to su…

Plunging into social media for the first time can be a bit daunting for individuals or businesses. There is a learning curve when it comes to becoming more social online, and it can take a while to learn what w…

Today’s #kaizenbog chat on Twitter will be about knowing your core competencies to develop a clear business message. Think about core competencies as strengths — what are you really good at? What are you…

I’ve gathered together some of the latest stats on iPhone and iPad usage in one handy post. I’ve also added a selection of mobile stats from our most recent Internet Statistics Compendium…Worldwide distri…

This is Part Two of Two in a series exploring the promise and potential of Social CRM and SRM. In Part One, we reviewed the importance of sCRM as well as introduced the concepts of Social Relationships Managem…

Yelp users will be able to make reservations directly from within a Yelp.com page through OpenTable — and win OpenTable rewards.

CAMPBELL, Calif., June 3 /PRNewswire/ — Next generation publisher, FastPencil, today expanded sales opportunities for authors by announcing iBookstore distribution. FastPencil makes the proc…

Wouldn’t it be embarrassing if you activated your new EVO 4G in the store tomorrow morning and you didn’t immediately know how to fire up a Qik video call? You’d be the butt of the joke — just imagine the hear…

About the size of a cell phone, the newly improved CarMD provides technical service bulletins and diagnoses what’s ailing your vehicle

Jim Joyce is the umpire whose wrong call cost pitcher Armando Galarraga a perfect game. Everyone feels bad for Galarraga. But ya gotta give Joyce credit for manning up and giving a full-on apology.

Cynthia Rowley has partnered with location-based mobile app Foursquare to draw attention to the unveiling of the brand’s new line of bridesmaids dresses.The promotion is the first collaboration between a des…

We’ve never understood JK Rowling’s stance against ebooks. Five years ago, we wrote about how she refused to allow ebooks of her books because she was afraid they would get “pirated.” Of course, that made no…

5by5’s Dan Benjamin interviewed Twitter’s former lead developer Alex Payne and the two discussed Payne’s views on the company and its business model.Payne joined Twitter as its 8th employee, but he recen…

It’s part Foursquare, part Fanpulse and part ESPN / vintage InGameNow:
Foursquare has teamed up with the NBA to award Celtics and Lakers badges to fans who ‘check in’ tonight and shout either “Go Lakers…

MG and I came at our EVO 4G reviews from different backgrounds. Even though I’m married to a BlackBerry with a little Droid action on the side and he’s a self-proclaimed iPhone fanboy, we both came to the s…