Curated Stories Mar. 17, 2010

This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.Contrary to popular belief, web developers do sometimes leave their desks, and when th…

Earlier this year, we wrote about some Fourth Amendment questions when it came to information stored in the cloud — and a recent legal ruling provides some new troubling views on this matter. Slashdot points…

Valuable list of techniques/ documents used to plan organize site content – http://bit.ly/aQUUg8 (via @smashingmag)

If you were walking through the pouring rain and someone offered you an umbrella, would you accept it or assume it was some sort of weird scam? If you said you would take it and you live in a big city, then yo…

Fair, thorough, enterprising and in context – that’s what we’re looking for in the journalism we read, isn’t it? At a time when shallow ranting takes up so much space in public discourse, a new media evaluatio…

From the time we wake up in the morning to the moment we call it a day, and every moment in between (think bedroom, bathroom and dinner table), we’re checking in on our favorite social media sites.This concl…

I’m listening intently at this GrowCo. session to Tom Searcy, founder of Hunt Big Sales, and co-author of RFPs Suck. I was excited about this one because I too feel the same about RFPs! He’s talking about 5 Sal…

Why yes, as a matter of fact, it is possible to archive your iPhone’s SMS messages.

The time is approaching when businesses will want to capture the eyes and minds of physicians in the social world. Throwaways and mailouts will give way to more current channels of communication. Friends i…

If there’s one area where the US maintains a decisive lead over other countries, it’s in its military.

One of the “secrets” that one of my teachers, Ken Savage of the Winchendon Martial Arts Center, says is that if a technique is not working, something in the previous step went wrong. If a throw isn’t work…

I was recently interviewed by the Wall Street Journal and was asked what the three most important things are for small businesses as they pertain to Social CRM (this applies to large businesses as…

Magazines and newspapers are still trying to figure out how to make money off Apple’s iPad by either charging for applications or rope in high-paying advertisers to appear alongside their content.
In the meanti…

This is very cool. Just watch it. Dont give up on it until after the 1:30 mark (at which point youll be hooked).

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It’s tax season.
Those words usually strike dread into the hearts of everyone who hears them. And after a particularly rough year like 2009, the last thing you want to do is shell out more money.
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color2Moving your iTunes library from one computer to another has always been kind of a drag, but weblog HeyHowTo details how iTunes 9s new Home Sharing featur…

On Monday, I was at South by Southwest in Austin, where I attended a panel in which representatives from Wired magazine and Adobe discussed their prototype of a digital-magazine version of Wired. Then on Tuesda…

I had a fascinating conversation on the first day of SXSW with Ryan McCormack of Sequence, a brand experience strategy and design firm in San Francisco, about social media strategy. My question to him was somet…

I woke up this morning, my first night home after a very successful South by Southwest, to a hungry cat at 5:30am. I was exhausted, and pushed her away. Turns out, she wasn’t so much hungry, as she was trying…

Back in early February, while aboard a red-eye to New York, Dave McClure wrote a long, humorous, rambling, profanity-laden rant of a blog post that focused on startup business models. While it makes for an ente…

If you’ve done your share of case study interviews, you’ve encountered one of the trickiest subjects:
The person who answers each question with as few words as possible.
He parcels out words carefully and s…

I was really impressed with David Chapins work on comparing content marketing to life sciences. So much so, that I asked him to submit a guest post about it. Thanks to David for putting this together.

C…

From there, the high-performance engine of social media took over. Out of genuine concern I’m sure, someone posted the notice that included Steve’s identity …

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.Apple’s iPhone wasn’t original…

In this post Mark Hayward shares some great tips on social media for small business.

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Do you own a small business? How long have you been using social media as a marketing tool and what…

I have a love/hate relationship with TweetDeck. While TweetDeck is a great tool that does so many things so well (the Love), it doesn’t do everything I want and need it to do and it still suffers from some pr…

In spite of all the claims that Blogging is dead, the numbers show Blogs are still a great way to get your message out there and to gain exposure and credibility in your industry.
We’ll get started with s…

It’s hard to imagine a Web sans URL shortening services nowadays but you can rest assured that they’re here to stay – for better or worse. Question is: how do the likes of bit.ly, TinyURL and Goo.gl scor…

Yelp has been hit with another lawsuit, the third in a matter of a few weeks. Similar to the previous complaints, this lawsuit filed by Boris Levitt, the owner of Renaissance Furniture Restoration in San Franci…

The tip is below. Feel to jump to the punch line.

Prior to embarking on a speaking and writing career, I was VP marketing and PR for several public companies. Boy oh boy have I done my share of pitching. So I…

Tim O’Reilly and DeWitt Clinton are both experimenting with Google Buzz as a long form — well, longer form — publishing tool. It’s an interesting adaptation for Buzz, and I think they’re on to something.

He…

SXSWi is one of the most popular tech and conferences in the United States. Many of the tech industry’s movers and shakers make their way to Austin, Texas for the conference every year along with entrepreneurs,…

Seth Godin rightly observes that many web publishers have noticed that many web users have short attention spans and like to click on shiny, flashy things (snackable content, in the industry jargon).
Seth bem…

There are tons people in the social media scene who talk a lot about “community”… and there are a quiet few who work hard at building sustainable online communities. Joshua Dorkin is an independent online…

I found this little animation to be entertaining and instructive and wanted to share with you. I have no connection with the producers of this video, Scholz Friends. They just did a good job and I wanted…

I recently wrote a post about JetBlue and its social media giveaway that saw 1,000 round-trip tickets given away to Twitter-aware Manhattanites. But my post contained something a little bit off: a photo of a So…

This infographic from We Love Datavis reminded me of a dusty post from the first iteration of “Strategic Public Relations” — circa October 2002.After eight years, it still applies. So in honor of St. Patrick’…

Social networks share a common ingredient in design and intent, the connection of people and the facilitation of conversations, sharing, and discovery. What they do not share however, are culture, behavior, an…

This American Infographic. This American Infographic is a web site where the goal is to make an infographic on every This American Life ever made.

Apple’s App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and soon the iPad, is a very hot ecosystem, with over 140,000 apps and over 3 billion downloads, garage millionaires and sky-high valuations for its ad networks….

IBM is pushing the “Internet of Things” as one of its next big businesses.
There’s over 1 billion people on the Internet now. Soon it will be 2 billion. IBM things eventually there’s more things like refrigera…

One of the most inspiring things about the digital landscape is the access and sharing of information. I had a chance to read some of Chris Messina’s thoughts on the new Mozilla Online Identity conc…

The Google Public Policy Blog recently posted a summary of a speech by Chief Economist Hal Varian on newspaper economics. Alongside the we-are-not-your-enemy message that Google is hoping newspapers will somed…

We’ve pointed to numerous studies, at this point, that have all found that, when done right, free ebooks can greatly increase the sales of physical books (and, in some cases, even of ebooks). Here’s another em…

Several months ago, a former executive at our company made a commitment to a third-party via email. It is obvious that he didn’t research the cost of his promise, nor did he get anyone else’s approval. I wa…

IBM’s Smarter Planet team has created a great 5 minute video explaining the emerging trend of Internet of Things, an exciting topic ReadWriteWeb has and will continue to cover frequently and in depth. Internet…

Today Facebook was revealed by Hitwise to be America’s most popular website. And considering how many brands have boosted sales with successful social media, you have to hope that social has gotten past the ba…

Jessica Berlin, Cirque du Soleil’s social media manager, first came onto the social media radar after Chris Brogan sang her praises 18 months ago for her …

As part of your marketing and promotion strategy, you should consider attracting positive media attention. Articles, highlights, and interviews from news outlets provide your business with free marketing. So wh…

The number of home magazines has tripled since 2005, while the move to the Internet has cut the number of sex magazines by a third, according to new data.

Check out the panels or exhibitors at this year’s SXSW and you’ll see how many longstanding social media and web app challenges now have compelling, or at least viable, solutions.

Staying on top of the latest…

PayPal, which made its initial splash in 1999 by letting Palm Pilot owners beam each other money — only to abruptly drop the feature — has returned to its roots. The latest upgrade to the PayPal iPhone app…

IBM is extending its cloud infrastructure to the IBM Cloud and enhancing its offering with commercial- and enterprise-grade test and development services with a broad reach of partners and collaborative approac…

Business Insider’s advertising business is growing fast, both through the good work of our rep firm, Federated Media, and through our growing internal sales team. What’s helped us succeed is coming up with gre…

Larry Dignan (ZDNet) submits: Microsoft’s Mix developer powwow stoked the fires for Windows Phone 7 and a nice new interface, but it appears that the software giant is punting on the enterprise—a move that…

I’ve been going through some of the posts to come out of this year’s SXSW conference that had anything to do with the issue of privacy; especially after Danah Boyd’s great keynote speech. It is reassurin…

I remember that as a child I always thought the expression “don’t let the bed bugs bite” sounded outdated. But in recent years, the pests have come back in plaguish numbers.
Hotels and low-rent apartmen…