Curated Stories Mar. 16, 2010

As far as we’re concerned, March means Madness of the basketball variety, and keeping up with all aspects of the NCAA tournament is an absolute must. If you feel the same way, then we think you’ll find our…

5 Ways to Use Social Media for Things You Are Already Doing This content from: Duct Tape Marketing
One of the biggest road blocks facing small businesses when addressing social media is the questio…

Moody said Monday that it would consider downgrading its triple-A rating for US Treasury Bonds if Washington continues to pile up record deficits. The move would make it significantly harder for the US to finan…

One of the more interesting things you can do with the iPhone is use it as a remote control for other devices. Since the iPhone App Store launched almost two y…

Marketers are adrift in a sea of data. Do we need a bigger boat? Some of the most common online data pitfalls are easy to identify, but hard to avoid. In Part One of this two-part series, we look at why 72.8% o…

The Real Results series is supported by Gist, an online service that helps you build stronger relationships. By connecting your inbox to the web, you get business-critical information about key people and comp…

The real lesson of the iPhone turned out to have very little to do with the phone at all. The iPhone–and now Android–experience underscores the versatility of business platforms and ecosystems when connect…

A must read: 8 valuable studies showing why easier to understand = more profitable – http://bit.ly/aSBRcZ (via @PsyBlog)

This weekend I experienced a snowcrash; a moment where the seemingly disparate pieces of information floating in my head came together. A synapse fired, a new connection was made, and I was brought to a new le…

A typical situation for many marketers when it comes to social networks is this: Setup LinkedIn profile, check. Corporate LinkedIn page, check. Facebook profile, check. Facebook Fan Page, check. Twitter acc…

Ever since joining The Empire a year and a half ago, I’ve been asking all over within its ranks to anyone who’d listen: “When are we going to put out a better browser? IE8 is a step in the right direction…

From my FM column: Tuesday Signal: Get Ready for a Real Conversation About Privacy, Publicy, and Social Media
I’ve long said that I’m a fan of social networks and media, of course, but I’ve also pointed out tha…

I came across a great article on Brain Pickings.org the other day, featuring the Canadian icon of media thought, Marshall McLuhan. You may know McLuhan best for his famous quote “The medium is the message”….

One thing that is likely to try the nerves of any small business owner who takes the CRM plunge is what to do in the event the project sours. Any implementation can be threatened by unforeseen problems, but the…

In my previous post, I called attention to a story where a bank employee in Switzerland stole information from HSBC’s list of clients and gave (or more probably, sold) it to the French government. The gover…

Doing the Bump at SXSW: A new app is trying to send all those little pieces of paper to the recycling bin.

With the explosion of social media, I am amazed at how many cardiologists I encounter who know little to nothing about blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz and the like. “I’m too busy.” “Who has time f…

PayPal released a new version of its iPhone app yesterday aimed at making it easier for individuals to exchange money with each other.
The free app lets users send or request money from their contacts. It has a…

The Wall Street Journal (NWS) and National Public Radio are prepping for Apple’s new toy next month with custom-built iPad-only websites.
According to Peter Kafka at MediaMemo, users will be able to fire up the…

I recently received an email from a young copywriter who informed me that the word “free” was now dead.
“It’s a cliche. No one uses this anymore and no one pays attention to headlines that say free. Who…

Two success factors: 1) Content Marketing Cannot Be About You and 2) Ship

Although this Inc. article from Joel Spolksy is geared toward entrepreneurs, its worth the read. While I disagree with Joels d…

*The following tip was shared by Eric Gesinski who does Tulsa SEO and web design in Tulsa*
Google AdWords is used often by many internet marketers to help draw targeted traffic to their. There are several elem…

How OpenID could transform the enterprise ecosystem – http://bit.ly/cr2keh (via @rww)

They say that a million dollars in $100 bills is 43 inches high, but a billion dollars in $100 bills is almost three times the height of the Empire State building. A million dollars in $100 bills would weigh 22…

But those text-only chat services are old-school compared with today’s social media, which contain mountains of personal data, photographs, videos and audio …

Social media marketing isn’t always easy to get right, especially when it comes to rapidly developing and changing platforms such as Twitter. However, it is very easy to get wrong, as UK pest control giant Re…

One of the highlights of South By Southwest for me so far was the Customer Support in a 140 Character World panel with Caroline McCarthy (CNET), Frank Eliason (Comcast), Lois Townsend (HP), Tob…

Ironman at Political Calculations submits: February 2010 saw some improvements in employment with surprising demographic beneficiaries for the month: young adults and teens. Compared to January 2010, some 308…

Mitch Joel and I don’t always see eye to eye. He thinks we need mass media and I disagree entirely. He also thinks print is sticking around, something I see having no relevance in tomorrow’s digital socie…

Bug Labs founder Peter Semmelhack
The iPhone is a direct descendant of the Model T Ford — you can get one in any color you want, so long as it’s black (or white).
That’s the viewpoint of Peter Semmelhack,…

The net has spawned two new ways to create and consume culture.The first is the wide-open door for amateurs to create. This is blogging and online art, wikipedia and the maker movement. These guys get a lot of…

With so many different types of websites adopting OpenSocial it has become clear that a “one size fits all” approach isn’t appropriate for the OpenSocial spec. Containers have different types of data they want…

Having now written two books about my failures in work, life and love, I think I’m qualified to say that the only difference between a memoirist and a prostitute is timing.
A prostitute sells sex for money…

Back in 2003, we had written about how Verizon’s CEO, Ivan Seidenberg, was betting big on future technologies. It was in response to a Business Week profile that oddly positioned the idea of installing fiber-t…

A couple of weeks ago, I was feeling overwhelmed with my workload. I always leave the office at 6:00 p.m. in order to have dinner with my family. Then I typically get back on my laptop and catch up on my email….

Standard Poors, the leader in financial market intelligence, today announced the launch of a new free application for iPhone and iPod Touch users designed to facilitate mobile access to the firms perspectives…

Least surprising announcement ever.

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Filed under: Enterprise, Surveys and PollsThe Enterprise Desktop Alliance (an association of several Mac-centric IT vendors) recently surveyed 260 IT administrators in the US to find out which computing environ…

PayPal has just launched an upgraded iPhone application that adds new features and includes a facelift that’s meant to help instill a greater sense of security. And it also brings with it big news for Bump T…

When hundreds of clueless commenters decided mid-February that ReadWriteWeb was the place to log in to Facebook, alerts went off in my personal network like alarms at a fire station. For the past few years I’ve…

In 1994, Republicans killed the health care bill for political gain. In 2010, it’s their game plan again.

Anjuan Simmons and I conducted a CORE Conversation at SxSW Interactive this year called: How Social Media Can Destroy Your Business Model. I will quickly outline the five ideas that we had. The audience had man…

Some key insights on walled v. open content – #socialcrm – http://bit.ly/b6MylQ (via @stevewoods)

Rolfe Winkler, CFA submits: As Felix points out, Michael Lewis has done well in his new book “The Big Short” to describe how the subprime crisis metastasized into the larger financial crisis. And in profili…

What will magazine stands look like when iPad apps replace print editions?
Check out this amazing demo from Cynergy’s Todd Clare at SXW, via eMedia Vitals. We will be able to place a tablet computer on a specia…

Social networking has finally become something valuable for brick-and-mortar businesses. Smartphones and location-based social networks allow users to interact, share, meet up, and recommend places based on th…