Curated Stories June 6, 2010

You don’t need me to tell you that Apple will announce the new iPhone tomorrow – that’s a given. But what we never truly know is when the new iPhone will be available.Historically, Apple has waited a few weeks….

A few months ago I wrote a post about The Five Social Media Myths that called out some of the mis-guided “rules” of the social web:

To be effective in social media, you must give up control of the conve…

This is what happens when I skip a news roundup one weekend: 17 articles are listed below, probably way too many for anyone to bother with in a single setting. My bad. Still leaning toward doing these even more…

An inspiring showcase of unique user experiences – #UX – worth bookmarking – http://alpha.patterntap.com

@markdavidgerson Ah yes… I let the story have itapos;s way with me. Sounds yummy! #writechat

RISMEDIA, June 7, 2010—Social media’s not just for kids anymore. As the medium evolves, …

“Wired Explains: Everything You Need to Know About 4G Wireless” via Wired.com: The title pretty much says it all.

Text substitutions are a relatively new feature that were introduced with Snow Leopard. They allow you to set up certain phrases to get automatically replaced with something else as you type. If you go to the L…

Chichester, UK – Independent developer Chris Mayer today is pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of three complete Xcode projects – Basic Book App for iPhone, Universal Basic Book App…

Chegg may very well be the fastest-growing, most successful, second-generation e-commerce startup that you hardly ever hear about,except maybe for the fact that it’s raised more than $140 million. Chegg i…

As I mentioned last week, I had wanted to write a book about the Apple-Gizmodo incident, and have abandoned it for a variety of reasons. Ultimately, it was not a book about the foibles and travels of a phone fr…

David Markson, author of acclaimed avant garde novels such as Wittgenstein’s Mistress and This is Not a Novel, has died. Markson had a fascinating life and bibliography. David Foster Wallace called Wittgenstei…

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Everyone seems to be against Mark Zuckerberg, founder/CEO of Facebook, lately.
Shel Israel says he should step down.
Market Watch’s Therese Pol…

One of my occasional forays into my own story…

I am extremely uncomfortable — nay, phobic — when it comes to talking on the phone. I dread making phone calls and very rarely answer the phone.

Many peop…

This week’s reading of social media marketing blogs and viewing of YouTube videos provided me with a few creative thoughts and had me thinking, nodding and eventually smiling as I stumbled upon a simple met…

(Editorial) Over the past few months, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has done the unthinkable: he has broken his company’s notorious silence and started responding to customer issues and complaints from his personal e-ma…

Since the beginning, a big question about cloud computing is how the ecosystem will evolve. Will there be only a handful of superpowers (e.g, Amazon, Google and Microsoft) that possess the knowledge and money t…

If you lose your job after June 1, you’ll see more than just your paycheck disappear. You also won’t get for the 65% federal subsidy to cover your COBRA health insurance premium.

How can you convert your personal branding book into consistent monthly cash flow? Unfortunately, many authors fail to address monthly cash flow issues soon enough.
How and when does your perso…

I was watching an interview Texas Tribune Evan Smith did with Arianna Huffington in the beginning of May, and one part of the interview centered around building blog networks on the content-for-exposure vs….

Jason Kelly submits: Geoffrey wrote in a comment on Friday’s article: “I’m not a Microsoft (MSFT) fanboy by any means, but I don’t see them disappearing or losing significant maketshare.” I agree that…

Click on the mind map above in order to be able to see a larger version.
With all of the talk about mind mapping of late, I thought I’d give you an example to help you see how it can work.
T…

But he said use of the new social media is essential to reach a new generation of voters, many of whom were ineligible to cast ballots in his 1994 and 1998 …

I have a hidden talent that I’ve kept secret on this blog. I can recite approximately 24 Teletubbie episodes by heart. No, this isn’t an ability that I’m particularly proud of. I know that parents are…

On Friday, the HTC EVO, powered by Google’s Android operating system, finally went on sale. As you know, I have been using the device, courtesy of Google I/O for the last few weeks. First I started using it exc…

There may be no bigger opportunity online for bootstrappers than finding people who would benefit from being connected and then connecting them.Not so they can waste time sending digital love notes back and for…

SquareTrade announced a new $99 iPhone warranty that, unlike AppleCare, covers drops and spills.The SquareTrade plan is less expensive than the rumored ATT iPhone insurance plan (which will cost $14/month with…

I used to see a black Hummer driving around town, complete with a “Drill, baby drill” bumper sticker.What a fabulous slogan.Slogans are fabulous when they use few words (two! one used twice) to unite, energize…

Look at the upper right hand corner of the Vermont.gov web site; you’ll that the state is giving you a chance to get personal. Follow the not logged in link to set up your own myVermont.gov account.

A myVe…

It’s oftentimes easy for us to get swept up in Android mania and forget that Google’s mobile platform is still in its infancy. Then we get cold hard numbers like these — showing iPhone OS owning 28 percent o…

by Jaan Sidorov, MD
As a former New Yorker, the Disease Management Care Blog has always had an abiding respect for the Big Apple’s taxi drivers.
That increased considerably after it left its wallet in a Manha…

If you are the lucky owner of an Android device, you might struggle from time to time with finding the perfect apps to fit your lifestyle and meet your needs. And often, the Internet at large can be less than…

Nielsen Wire:
iPhone vs. Android — Don Kellogg, Senior Manager, Research and Insights/Telecom Practice, The Nielsen Company — Whether its checking email on the go, connecting with friends through…

RT @AdviceToWriters: I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all. E. B. WHITE #writing #writechat #writegoal

Elias Bizannes is the chairperson and executive director of the DataPortability Project; founder of the Startup Bus; creator of the Silicon Beach community; and manages the finance function at search engine st…

Over at Broadcasting Brain I’ve written a review about Chuck Frey’s Power Tips Strategies for Mind Mapping Software. If want to learn more about mind mapping and have a great resource to r…

Is it ok to change your mind about something you really believe in?

For years I’ve been telling brands that it’s no longer all about how many people you put your marketing messages in front of. What’s importan…

A Wall Street Journal blog post by Dan Finnigan, CEO of Jobvite, last week entitled, “A Resume Is Not Enough: How to Market Yourself Online” makes a really good point in the headline alone:…

Did you hear that? It’s the sound of another week coming to a close. You’re probably thinking to yourself, “How will I ever get to read all of the social media tips, app reviews, and trend analyses…

The Society for New Communications Research, which I mentioned way back in the second year of this blog, is conducting research on how organizations use video storytelling.

Here’s what the organization is l…

Steve Denning published a blog entry last month on an important but often overlooked topic in organizational storytelling — how to create a culture of storytelling within the organization. He offers six steps…

There’s a lot of content out there and a lot of people creating stuff. How do you know who to pay attention to and who’s just mucking around? Remember, even a no friend nellie can drag you…

Tim Sanders flies a lot. Sometimes, he enounters anxious seatmates. Two years ago, he explained in the New York Times that, consistent with Viktor Frankl’s theory of logotherapy, which is based on the idea that…

Have you ever waited in line at a cash register and then had the employee at the register ask if you’re already a member of the store’s loyalty or member program? They usually will ask for your membership car…

The iPad is already a tasty product among gadget lovers, but a North Sydney restaurant…

This column is written by Kimberly Turner from Regator (a great tool that gathers and organizes the world’s best blog posts). – Darren
Each week, we use Regator’s trends algorithm to bring you a list of t…

Despite its mobile prowess, Apple sucks at the internet. But surprisingly its Microsoft—not Google—thats best positioned for Our Future in the Cloud. Heres…

While Apple’s battle with Adobe over Flash gets all the headlines, Flash’s troubles, especially for web developers lie even deeper.
When we at OMGPOP built our website, not just our games, entirely in Flash we…

Don Norman talks for 40 fascinating minutes on the “Research-Product Gap” and shares that Steve Jobs fired teh user research design department and the usability guys. Kept a couple of graphic designers.

OMG hi…

Felix Salmon submits: Andrew Vanacore spins a whole story out of one curious datapoint today: he says that on USA Today’s iPad app, advertisers such as Marriott are paying “about $50 for every thousand t…

Earlier this week, Mark Zuckerberg took the stage of the D8 Conference to discuss privacy, his role as CEO, and the stupid things he did in college. There were many uncomfortable moments in his QA with co-hos…

The term, “real-time,” surfaces as a theme in the enterprise but the context often varies depending on the discussion.

Real-time can refer to microblogs for communicating in the enterprise.

It can also refer…

If you run a site that allows comments, and some of those commenters are incredibly annoying… is the responsibility on you, as the site owner, to deal with those annoying commenters, or can you actually go to…

Creative problem solving @ the heart of #UX – http://bit.ly/d1U6s3 (via @frogdesign)

Great resource to bookmark – review of cross-browser testing tools – http://bit.ly/bc1ikw (via @smashingmag)

Use or like wordpress? Read this: WordPress 3.0 for Web Devs – http://bit.ly/aZfD3x (via @carsonified)

Back in April, I wrote a post about Daniel Pink’s new book, Drive, in which he highlights the rather stunning amount of counterintuitive research that suggests that money can actually make people less motivated…

For the last week I have been toting around two mobile phones: my usual iPhone 3GS workhorse with extended battery a la Mophie and the just-launched-today Sprint HTC EVO 4G on loan from Gregory Miller. This is…

The new iteration of Yelp’s iPhone app isn’t live just yet, but a company blog post gives a window into what’s coming very soon: badges, and a hierarchy of “royalty” that lets you “rule” venues,…

You know that scene in Iron Man 2, where Justin Hammer asks Rhodey which weapons he wants inside War Machine—and Rhodey says all of them?
That’s exactly how the Evo 4G was born. Somebody said “everything.”…

… only at the history of online safety efforts over the past nearly 20 years but also the emerging research that shows how young people use social media. …

The program, called PepsiCo10, is a competition for early-stage startups in four categories: social media and marketing, mobile marketing, place-based and …

Jim Lanzone / Clicker Blog:
How Much Video Can You Actually Stream With ATTs New Data Plans? — OK, were going to tell you the punchline right away. Run, dont walk, to get your iPad 3G before the end o…

John D. Sutter / CNN:
With Foursquare’s founder, life is a virtual game — New York (CNN) — Dennis Crowley was jogging across a New York bridge when he spotted something exciting: a cartoon mushroom, s…

Whenever the Internal Revenue Service starts sniffing around a particular area, it pays to take preventative action. One area the tax agency is poking around these days: How businesses go about classifying work…

Info-Tech Research Group released its evaluation of enterprise collaboration software earlier this year. Microsoft’s Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Open Text’s Open Text Social Media 7 won the highest prais…

Popular online business review site Yelp announced an updated iPhone app today which expands upon its recent addition of check-in capabilities, placing them in direct competition with the likes of Foursquare. P…

We recently had a discussion about the role of money as an incentive and how it often doesn’t work the way people think it should (i.e., money often provides negative incentive — the opposite of what you would…

Most of the writing you find on the Web – including here on ReadWriteWeb – is relatively short. Long-form journalism often doesn’t fit into the 24-hour news cycle and most online readers don’t really have the t…