Curated Stories June 7, 2010

Apple CEO Steve Jobs just announced the highly anticipated fourth-generation iPhone at WWDC, and the device is bound to make some people at Cisco pretty nervous: The iPhone 4 features 720p HD video recording at…

We already knew that iPhone 4 would have a front-facing camera, but Steve Jobs waited until the end of his presentation to actually show it off. Using his traditional “one more thing” schtick, Jobs called A…

You’re no marketing guru. That’s OK. It doesn’t mean your brand’s public image has to slump when there’s no budget for advertising, public relations, or marketing. At start-ups, founders often wear many hats, a…

Apple’s new iPhone 4, unveiled moments ago, is easily Apple’s best yet. But it won’t stop Google’s surging Android operating system, and doesn’t address some of Android’s new strengths that are becoming weaknes…

The Android vs iPhone fight is officially on. The EVO 4G fired the first shot last Friday when it launched nationwide on Sprint. The Android nation rallied behind the 4G super phone, which finally gave the Andr…

A few quick takeaways from the WWDC keynote address, in which Steve Jobs asks you to spend more of your money on Apple products.

Image courtesy of Engadget
FaceTime video calls: very slick. The stealth winner…

As expected, the iPhone 4 was announced today during Steve Jobs’ keynote at WWDC. Its flagship features are, of course, the extremely high resolution screen, video chat capability with FaceTime, and the sexy…

As consumer product brands explore digital, connecting real life products to interactive elements online has become increasingly important. One startup in contention to do just that is Stickybits. Stickybits le…

Business-to-business merchants are investing in social media: According to Forrester Research, 77% of B-to-B decision makers are active in social media. …

HD video capture comes to the iPhone 4 along with iMovie for the iPhone, a $4.99 pocket video-editing app. Does that spell doom for Flip Video?

Seems like there are some teething problems on Sprint’s record-breaking HTC EVO 4G. Many users seem to be complaining that theyre getting really bad Wi-Fi reception on the device, which really isnt something y…

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Marketing podcast with Tony Hsieh (Click to play or right click and “Save As” to download – Subscribe now via iTunes
My guest for today�…

John Scully, who went from from Pepsi CEO success to Apple CEO failure, says he really, maybe should have kept that Steve Jobs kid around instead of dealing with the unmanageable tendencies of the company’s c…

How long should an article or a blog post be?
How about a sales letter?
The answer is, of course:
“As long as necessary. And no longer.”
Obvious, right?
Most writers know that brevity is crucial. In writin…

Well, you had to know this was coming. With the release of Nick Carr’s latest book, The Shallows — basically an extended riff on his silly and easily debunked article from The Atlantic a few years ago — Carr…

While Yahoo! has previously announced their intention to release a comprehensive integration with Facebook, few details have been available as to what exactly that means. Yesterday, Techcrunch released screens…

Useful article everyone should read – Characteristics of great researchers – #UX – http://bit.ly/ddfTnI (via @UXmatters)

The latest data point showing that mobile startup Foursquare is growing like a weed: The company just said it did 888,999 “checkins” last Friday.
That’s up 50% from 600,000 just a month ago, and more than doub…

I believe it was through a comment to this blog that I first learned of Steve Krizman. We share common roots in journalism. I’m so pleased to present his QA over the next five days. If you are squeamish and…

When the iPad was announced in January, it was the very first time Apple created something that I immediately wanted. I’ve never been an Apple fanboy, I don’t work on Macs for either my primary workstation…

Following up on Sonia’s report 8 Reasons Why Rich People Hate Their Lives, we’ve got two exceptional interviews with a couple of healthy, wealthy, and wise gentlemen.
You know them as novelist Steven Pres…

The ongoing battle between Adobe and Apple over the lack of support for Flash on the iPhone and iPad has been entertaining to say the least. Adobe has been candid about what they think of Apple’s policy, and…

Seth Goldstein, the chairman and co-founder of Stickybits, described the progression of media on the Internet this morning at the Conversational Marketing Summit in New York City. In 1996, Webpages became med…

Major development this morning: The iPad can finally print! But this breakthrough isn’t being unveiled at Apple’s WWDC keynote. Apple can’t take any credit for it, either–and actually, the news also inv…

More difficult than you think?
Workshop Everyone knows that mobility is pretty important to most businesses today, with needs having moved way beyond simple phone voice connectivity. We have seen a dramatic shi…

Great news, your boss has selected you to create and manage the company’s new social media initiatives. Now like many marketers currently experiencing a …

Over the last five years since I have been blogging, I have dispensed my fair share of blogging advice. Though I never describe myself as a “social media blogger” who solely talks about social media in terms of…

It’s amazing what good public relations can do. And by “good” I mean fair and honest. Fortunately, the power-to-the-people shift brought about by corporate scandals, economic uncertainty a…

CIO.com goes over three steps to follow the next time you’re serious about making a connection on the LinkedIn social networking service.

EDT How many of these new apps are for small business? Your Business presents a dozen of the most useful apps for iPad available now. And one just for fun. is presentation software done right, combining the pow…

Microsoft’s CEO knows the future of personal computing lies with mobile, yet he continues to live in the past.

As the months have gone by, I’ve become more and more committed to the work I’m doing on this blog, and developing these ideas and relationships. It started as just a blog for ideas in October, and now ha…

You Are Not So Smart is a blog about self-delusion. There are recent entries on the Dunning-Krueger effect, fanboyism and brand loyalty, and the misinformation effect.

The Misconception: Memories are played ba…

Not a Focus Group Kid

I’m a teacher. I love teachers. We’re all teachers in some way. So I can tell this story with friendship and compassion. Besides if you read on, you’ll see it’s not about teach…

Sure, you know what those Twitter, Facebook, reddit and Digg icons mean at the bottom of most blog posts these days, but what about all those other funny-looking ones? There’s a pantload of them – so many t…

Dear Business Owners Worldwide,
There’s a reason you’re seeing the word “Twitter” nearly everywhere you look these days.
What other media platform (aside from expensive TV, Radio and pay per click ads)…

It’s been over 6 months now since I started this blog with the aim of sharing a few ideas, developing my own book content and learning about the social web. As a result, I’ve learnt a few things a…

HP has announced a major new initiative and a slew of new devices that enable users to print from any device to a web-enabled printer by simply using email.The idea – which builds off the Google Cloud Print…

There has been an evolution in the practice of link building in the past couple of years.
We used to put in hours of agonizing, probably late night, research for potential link exchanges, standing on our he…

Drawing by Hugh MacLeod
If you’re an artist or creative person of any kind then ‘creating’ is a lot higher on your list of priorities than ’selling’.
One of the great joys of pursuing your creative p…

Six Apart this morning announced the acquisition of NaturalPath Media, which bills itself as an online advertising and media network for “sustainable, healthy, and conscious lifestyles”.
With the acquisitio…

The ability to ask questions effectively is one of the most important skills in business as is the ability to actively listen. Yet as important as these two skills are they really don’t seem to ever be taug…

Yahoo has announced a series of changes set to roll out this week that integrate Facebook’s social networking service into various Yahoo properties, including Yahoo Mail and its homepage. Also included in the a…

The first time Amazon.com tried to buy Zappos, we said no without even thinking.It was the summer of 2005, and Zappos, the start-up into which I’d poured the past five years of my life (and almost all of my mon…

When a magnitude 7.0 earthquake devastated Haiti in January, Americans were asked to pull out their cell phones rather than their wallets. In the first large-scale use of texting to make charitable donations, g…

If there is a single concept that is the driver of much of the Internetrsquo;s growth over the past decade ndash; not to mention nearly all of Googlersquo;s annual revenue of $25 billion ndash; it is the concep…

To those who love their jobs: purpose and passion trump profit as a motivator to produce great work. This is something I’ve been conscious of long before I started working for others. I noted this while i…

If you’re going to put in long hours for your job, do it from home. That’s what a new study of 25,000 IBM employees suggests, as telecommuters averaged 19 more…

What follows is a modified excerpt from Engage!, the complete guide for businesses to build, cultivate, and measure success in the new Web.
Chapter 17
Social Media is reinventing marketing, communications, and…

On Saturday, Jonathan Fields had an interesting post titled, “Is social media killing authenticity?” I found the question intriguing partly because I think the answer is likely yes, at least in the sense Fi…

“Why I Sold Zappos” via Inc.: Tony Hsieh built his online shoe retailer into an e-commerce powerhouse. But with credit tightening and investors eyeing the exits, Hsieh was forced to ask: Was selling Zappos real…

Anything that is posted online can always come back to haunt you in the future. I’m starting to see bloggers who feel that they can become more successful when they taunt and bully others in…

We had to put our golden retriever to sleep this weekend, our friend of fifteen years, our family’s faithful guardian and companion, and one of the kindest, most loyal and giving souls I have ever met. True…

With the introduction of the iPhone, Steve Jobs achieved something that might be unique in the history of business: he single-handedly upended the power structure of a major industry. In the US, before the iP…

As a user, I find community pages supremely annoying. Yes, the push to greater connectivity is pretty cool, but connected doesn’t mean “created out of thin air.” I’m all for connecting me to an existi…

Since we began tracking APIs and mashups almost five years ago, ecommerce has been a very popular category. Last fall we noted 82 shopping APIs, though there are now well over 100. Similarly, today we list 604…

Every day I spend using my cloud-centric MacBook Air and my HTC EVO brings me further and further away from an iTunes-centric digital media life. A once-diehard iTunes user who has no doubt purchased thousands…

At 10 a.m., Apple CEO Steve Jobs will take the stage once again at WWDC, no doubt introducing the next generation iPhone, along with its already previewed iPhone OS 4 software, as part of what will hopefully be…

Continuing in my series of “20 Leadership Questions,” we come to the eighth question that Michael Smith asked when he interviewed me. This question is similar to the last one.

Photo courtesy of ©iStockpho…

In an item on his personal blog, Dan Morrill, the Google program manager who I thought was insufficiently concerned about Android fragmentation, has followed up on his original post. He mentions my take, and wh…

People don’t like deadlines. They mean a decision, shipping and risk. They force us to decide.
Deadlines work. Products that are about to disappear, auctions that are about to end, tickets that are about to…

Small startups rarely have a recruiting professional on their team — or even someone who has enough spare time to imitate a recruiting professional. That’s one reason why it can be hard for small growing c…

I jump between vi, textmate, and IntelliJ when coding. I am a long term IntelliJ IDEA fan (I actually long for IDEA 3 when it peaked for me as a lean editor without millions of plugins) and a lot of people thi…

With social media getting so much attention in the industry, its not surprising that theres been a massive land grab by agencies of all shapes and sizes. Agencies recognize the tranformative nature of social…

Tribes and pork used to be about a feast in an ancient tribal village. In 2010 it is about Facebook , technology tribal channels and software platforms that make connecting to your tribe frictionless, global an…

He has to handle above the line, below the line as well as social media activities to navigate a brand. As a result, today a brand manager is far more …

The very sense of community that binds the individuals who support such financial institutions is also a core element in the success of social media (which …

Yes, nice guys can finish first. This is the overarching theme of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh’s new book Delivering Happiness, a Path to Passion, Profits, and Purpose. Released today (I was given a free, preview co…

UK firms have been increasing their investment in paid search and SEO over the last 12 months, though lack of internal resources is the biggest problem affecting the success of search marketing.
These are some…

Chris Gorell Barnes is CEO of Adjust Your Set, an online video agency which provides branded content channels for companies such as Thomas Pink, MS, Sotheby’s and Royal Opera House.
Chris will be speaking at…

Looks like the Motorola Droid isn’t the only device that is getting unofficial versions of Android 2.2 FroYo running on it, and next up is the iPhone 3G. We already know that folks have managed to get Android…

According to the NY Times, HP will be announcing printers—and Im not joking here—built for the iPhone age. Each printer, ranging from $99 to $400, will hav…

The root, the root, the root is on fire! Well, not quite, but you just got another pretty splendiferous reason to hack your EVO: android-wifi-tether, an app doing exactly what its name suggests, has now been co…

I travel frequently, usually a few times each month. When I travel it’s important that I have the ability to stay connected with co-workers, clients, and friends. As someone who runs a consulting company…

Now that computing power has become dirt cheap and Internet usage ubiquitous, software developers are racing to put cutting-edge business apps into the hands of small firms in ways that could give a lift to the…

Michele McLellan shared some interesting stats a few days ago at the Reynolds Journalism Institute web site. The numbers are from a survey of 66 online news sites that was done in April and May.
Where does your…

I was having fun watching my niece play with dozens of pool inner tubes when another relative shows up. Never one to surprise me, he shows me a fashion statement I’d never seen before. How do you get your…