Curated Stories Mar. 1, 2010

Mark Suster is a Partner at GRP Partners, a Venture Capital firm in Los Angeles. He blogs at Both Sides of the Table and can be found on Twitter at @msuster.I’m often asked by entrepreneurs and business owne…

As soon as the St. Louis Cardinals’ new batting coach Mark McGwire told reporters at spring training that he had used steroids only to stay healthy, not to improve his performance, the statisticians pounced. An…

General-interest networks such as Facebook and Twitter take up so much of our attention that more focused sites sometimes take a back seat. It’s a shame, really, because LinkedIn combines man…

Whenever I talk to other CEOs or other people in industry who have “made it big,” one of the things I always ask is if they’re thought of as a “nice guy” – by their friends, employees, competitors,…

The State of Community Management is our groundbreaking work in aggregating the best practices and lessons learned from our members who have been leading the practice of community management at a vari…

In a show of hands, who among us has not hopped on to an open network when desperate for an internet fix?
Generally, the response if unsuccessful is “oh, bummer, these jerks locked their wireless.” Meet Je…

Every few months or so, there’s some press release and flurry of news stories (often instigated by an online filtering company) about how whatever hot new internet service there is (take your pick: Facebook, My…

We’ve spent some time recently looking at how Facebook has become a bigger driver of traffic to online news than news portals like MyYahoo or Google News, and our initial suspicions were confirmed with some dat…

We’ve been proponents of standing desks and treadputers for some time, but we’ve also met with plenty of reader skepticism on the subject. The New York Times examines why sitting all day is so bad for you, whet…

With the rapid growth of social media, the once stalwart digital marketing channel of email is experiencing growing pains. Consumers are finding email messages less relevant and experiencing email fatigue.
One…

By Bill Duggan A fight broke out at the recent ANA TV Everything Video Forum. The “contestants” were David Cooperstein, Vice President, Research Director at Forrester Research and David Poltrack, Chief Res…

Let’s say you’re a large company in need of innovative ideas. Where would you go?

Dr. Mark Derbacher, Siemens Energy Sector Social media at Siemens has come a long way since a senior executive popped into the communications headquarters in Munich in 2006 and asked for someone to ta…

Finally, your corporate website can be relevant again
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been conducting research to measure how different social networks allow for integration with corporate websites and their as…

New HealthVault Community Connect will allow you to view your own medical records, lab tests, and prescriptions, and preregister for hospital appointments.

The tech giant’s push to offer ultra-high-speed Internet is more about shaking up a dysfunctional business than tapping a new revenue source.

The Wall Street Journal has a story uncovering all the sneaky ways Microsoft is trying to shiv Google.
Basically, Microsoft is tied to a few groups that are challenging Google’s online advertising dominance, as…

Apple may be agreeing to give out subscriber info to get magazines in the iBookstore and on the iPad, a rumor on the latest episode of TWiT suggests. Controversial Mahalo head Jason Calacanis heard from a “maj…

How I used a blog to attract thousands of subscribers my first week.
Why I make six figures and you don’t.
How I quit my day job and now I work all day in my robe and slippers while my wife brings me lattes….

Believe or not, over the last week talking with clients I have been asked this question 4 times now by prospective clients wanting to get into the Social Media/Social Recruiting space. It wasn’t necessarily t…

Okay, I admit that at first light, social media marketing (SMM) may appear like child’s play. After all, what is there to it? Create a bunch of profiles, Digg a little, Stumble a bit and you are set, right…

In the past decade, firms have been praised for ideas. Experts have celebrated the power of brainstorming and idea-generation techniques. Eureka light bulbs have populated the covers of many books. Businessmen…

I love counter-intuitive subjects, games and the like because with some extra study you can put yourself head and shoulders above others.
This is why I make money when I play poker. In the game of poker, the…

In social media marketing, knowing the tools isn’t enough. We need to see the big picture and link everything together. That includes integrating offline …

Logging into Twitter over the last few days, users are being prompted to update their profiles. According to the AP,Twitter is encouraging people to allow their e-mail addresses and mobile phone numbers to be i…

A new study of the world’s 500 largest public corporations by the University of Massachusetts Center for Marketing Research indicates that the level of corporate blogging may have flat-lined while the adopti…

The old saying that nobody ever got fired for buying IBM seems to hold true. Most customers choose you and your brand on the basis of reputation. The alternatives may be dangerous to their wallet — or career,…

“Pew: Internet surpasses newspapers, radio for news” via Washington Post
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Americans are turning to the Internet for their news more than newspapers and the radio, according to a study release…

Original Artwork by @Natasha
The state and future of Twitter is passionately debated as users and industry pundits explore whether or not the platform and the relationships that connect one another are in dang…

Does this sound familiar?
You’re an aspiring blogger looking to make yourself known in a popular niche. All the blogging books and blogs tell you in order to do this you have to network heavily including com…

I wrote an article recently about the use of e-commerce trustmarks and how important it was for sites to display trustmark logos.
Though they may help some sites, trustmarks alone are not the answer, and fact…

Foursquare is an on-the-rise application that blends mobile, location awareness and a clever points system that’s an evolutionary leap for loyalty programs. Think coupons, but with rich data and gaming thrown i…

Who better to trust on the topic of getting social media buy-in from executives than Gary Spangler, the 29-year veteran and corporate e-Manager at DuPont? If Spangler can move the social media…

At the close of last year, B.L. Ochman noted there were more than 16,000 self-proclaimed social media gurus on Twitter alone. Yet, among the snake oil, there is more than just a handful of talented individual…

Filed under: Internet ToolsBookmarklets are one of my favorite things. I have an entire folder of them in my Safari Bookmark Bar for Instapaper and Readability and bit.ly and Pukka and Tumblr and … well, you…

“It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore. Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at th…

From OPEN Forum: To succeed in today’s rapidly changing world you have to focus more on competitors, and less on executing your old success formula.
Read the rest of this story »See Also:100 Things Every Yo…

On today’s Morning Edition on NPR, there are a couple of stories about brain development that are worth reading/listening to (which, by the way, is great — the ability to listen to, or read, content foun…

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — There’s been a lot of talk about whether social media can drive sales, but one thing is clear: Sales are starting to happen in social media — specifically, with Facebook.
As it builds o…

Motoko Rich / New York Times:
Math of Publishing Meets the E-Book — In the emerging world of e-books, many consumers assume it is only logical that publishers are saving vast amounts by not having to pri…

Many economists (and the President) believe that small businesses will be what reignite job growth in the U.S. Today, Intuit is out with a new way to track that theory — a monthly small business employment…

I had the pleasure of speaking with Mac Slocum at O’Reilly’s Tools of Change event in NYC. Here’s what I told publishers and authors to consider:

What do you think?

Fresh off the heels of a distribution agreement that brought many of e-books in its catalog to Scribd, indie book publisher Author Solutions (ASI) has inked a similar deal with bookseller Barnes Noble.
Under…

This seems logical enough
(via Gizmodo)

Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Redrawing the Route to Online Privacy — ON the Internet, things get old fast. One prime candidate for the digital dustbin, it seems, is the current approach to protecting…

What do our online personas do to our physical-world identities? As we invest more time into developing our digital selves, is something taken away from who we are? Or something added? If you’re reading thi…

When Google Buzz launched three weeks ago, the product wasn’t ready. There were basic privacy issues that still needed to be hammered out (and were quickly addressed by Google), but beyond that Google Buzz…

One maxim that my students find helpful is: One thought per sentence. Readers only process one thought at a time. So give them time to digest the first set of facts you want them to know. Then give them the nex…

As the saying goes, if you can’t baffle them with brilliance, then befuddle them with math. Actually, that’s not the way the saying goes, but in this case, the math being “composited” (or should that be…

Erick Schonfeld has three interesting theories as to why Google pushed Google Buzz out the door and into the email client of millions of users, before it was ready for prime time.
I’ve tried Google Buzz, and…

Ever wondered how many of your Twitter followers are web developers? Paging through twenty at a time and looking at bios is too slow to be worth answering that question. Using TweepSearch, you can quickly find…

An admitted oversimplification, I still find it helpful to think of the history of computing use to have three primary waves.
In the 1st Wave, the use was straightforward: Calculation. Whether to figure out tra…

M. Sartre goes to Hollywood. In 1958, John Huston asked Jean-Paul Sartre to write a biopic of Sigmund Freud. “The Huston-Sartre collaboration fell apart in 1959, when Sartre travelled to Huston’s home in Irelan…

My buddies at Free Range Studios created this fantastic viral video that was featured at Bioneers last October. While lambasted in the mainstream media, the Story of Stuff has been a fave of left-…

When the iPad was announced, some media partnerships were announced with it, but it wasn’t hard to guess that, in the period before the device actually comes to the market, we’ll see many more.We already k…