Curated Stories Mar. 5, 2010

So last week I wrote about how I was bummed about the possibility that it was time to part with one of my favorite clients. You will be pleased to know that in an 11th hour brainstorm I came up wi…

Ockham Research submits: In an encouraging sign for the US economy, consumer credit availability actually expanded in January. Economists had expected consumer credit to contract yet again by $4.5 billion, but…

Late last year, Ustream and qik launched iPhone applications that let you stream videos from the iPhone to the web and allow others to watch them as they’re being recorded. And now there is an iPhone app cal…

Kara Swisher reports on a study that shows people are ignoring “real time” search results. This matches with my experience.
The reason? It’s impossible to convey much information in 140 characters. So when a s…

Google is set to launch an app store for business next week, Mashable has learned from sources close to the company. It will be focused around creating software for Google Apps and could launch as soon as Tue…

It’s not pornography anymore.
Where porn sadly once claimed the top spot as the favorite activity on the internet, it has now been replaced by social media. That’s right; people are tweeting, befriending, s…

Dear Lifehacker,
In light of all the natural disasters wreaking havoc across the globe, I’ve realized I should take a home inventory to document everything I own for insurance purposes. What’s the best way to d…

Way back in November of 2003, when I was a much younger man and the world had yet to fall head over heels in love with Google, I wrote a post called The Database of Intentions. It was an attempt to explain a on…

Good piece by Slate’s Farhad Manjoo on why Apple’s patent suit against HTC just isn’t a good idea for anyone involved.
Manjoo mentions another patent squabble I’d forgotten about: Creative’s case agai…

The New York Times launched a new, free iPhone app catered to apartment hunters.
The “New York Times Real Estate” app, released March 2, allows users to search for listings and refine results; view detaile…

18 Use Cases That Show Business How To Finally Put Customers First
Social and CRM: How Companies Will Manage Their Social Relationships
Over the last six months, I’ve been working closely with Ray Wang who is…

What follows is the unedited version of my latest post at AllThingsDigital…
The Altimeter Group today released a new report on Social CRM and while analysts release reports all the time, this is different. T…

“Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard each contain features that originated…

I’m still feeling curmudgeonly about the concept of personal branding, and when I read skeptical views about personal branding like one called “I am Not a Brand. I am Me,” by Gareth Jones, my curmudgeonli…

*The following guest post is by Amber Singleton Riviere*
Web design can be challenging. For me, the challenge is in not making things too complex and in keeping things simple and clean, which makes the site…

There’s a new world order emerging around media and publishing. Producing original content is simply too expensive to sustain alone for all but the largest media companies. New models are essential — and emer…

Mat Fogarty is the Founder and CEO of Crowdcast, a leading provider of collective intelligence and prediction market solutions. You can read more of Mat’s posts on the Crowdcast blog or follow @crowdca…

What’s the best way to leverage the most information out of 140 characters? Should you get to learning Mandarin so each character can be a word? Or start forming German-style pseudo-word hashtags to get the poi…

You probably know Ansel Adams as the man who helped promote the National Park Services’ beauty through his magnificent photographs. Here are five things you might not know about the celebrated photographer….

The source code for reMail, the email app for the iPhone recently acquired by Google, is now open source and available on Google Code.
reMail downloads all of your email to your iPhone, and provides a powerful…

It’s been a fascinating week. I’ve been in Washington DC since Saturday, primarily attending the annual conference and international symposium held by the Consortium for School Networking, which goes by the…

Sunday’s Courier-Journal, Louisville’s daily newspaper, is one of the few tactile media publications I still read. I get the paper every day delivered in my RSS feeds, but Sunday mornings w…

Michael David White submits:We have just in the last year had the largest annual fall in real estate prices, hit the highest number of delinquent mortgages measured, witnessed a record 918,000 homes taken in fo…

In the wake of this post on working hard or just working lots, I had a few chats with people that basically asked “so, what is work that matters?” In other words, what does true hard work look like?
This,…

If you like to travel light but have a well stocked toiletries bag upon arriving at your destination, Suite Arrival makes it easy to ship your bathroom favorites ahead.Suite Arrivals business model is based on…

If you follow a lot of people on Twitter, you have probably already faced an information overload problem. When choosing who to follow, you would probably read their recent tweets and decide if the person is in…

Long time readers of this blog know that I try to avoid writing about business transactions — the hirings, firings, buyings, sellings, fundings and closings of or in companies related to the topics I write ab…

If youve heard of people using newspaper to clean windows but youve never tried it—possibly for lack of faith in the cleaning ability of smudge-prone news print—check out this before and after photo and gui…

A Guest Post by Mark Hayward.

What the hell am I supposed to write about, I own a {insert your small business here}?
Really, who cares about your flower shop, bike shop, auto parts store, or coffee house?
Answ…

It is always great to know that your service is sort after, used,
reviewed and recommended by other users, businesses and people. And
when we came across the detailed write-up and recommendation to ‘Take a
look…

Apple managed to get its products placed into 41% of the movies that enjoyed at least one weekend atop the box office, Abe Sauer at The Awl reports in a great piece about Apple’s product placement success.
Rea…

I’m in Bogota, Colombia, visiting with Zemoga, run by DJ Edgerton and Alejandro Gomez, and over 100 talented men and women. I’m here partly because DJ wants to work with me in the future, but that’s pro…

During the 2006 Idaho governor’s race, there was a lesser-known candidate named Dan Adamson who was looking for a way to drum up interest in his campaign. He announced that he was going to tr…

This is a very scientific-looking chart to make this blog look serious and data-driven. In reality, it is completely meaningless. Well keep that our little secret though. Nobody reads these captions any way.

L…

If you listen to the tech set, you might think that real-time is one of
the most important areas search engines should be focusing on. The
search engines themselves do too.

Google, Bing and Yahoo have all do…

From Facebook to Twitter to You Tube, there’s no limit to the number of social networking sites that can be leveraged to interact with customers and prospects, and build positive brand awareness.
LinkedIn, ho…

I remember having this conversation frequently over the years.

People would come up to me and ask me what was my secret to knowing (seemingly) everyone. They noticed that every place I went — networking ev…

A Twitter chat is a scheduled “group chat” on a specific topic, where Twitter users interact and engage with one another at a certain time by adding a trackable hashtag to the end of all their tweets. Twitt…

Let’s face it, the Twitterverse is made up of individuals and brands. While the branded Twitter accounts are staffed by people, the persona of each Twitter account is either an individual or a company or a br…

Show of hands: How many people noticed the typo in the title? My guess is that those who did were ready to jump all over my mistake. It was done intentionally to help prove my point: Visitors notice typos….

We’ve been dying to know more about Microsoft’s Courier tablet / e-book device ever since we first caught wind of it last September, and while our entreaties to Mr. Ballmer went unanswered, we just learned so…

Among congressmen, Republicans far outnumber Democrats on social media site Twitter, according to a recent study. More Republicans use the social media site …

I just took three flights to get to Slovenia.

On each flight and in all the waiting areas, I saw people holding, reading and engaging in print magazines.

Then, I spent the day listening to the state…

Filed under: Apple

After a many-hours outage, the Apple developer site is back — and the changes are profound, at least on the Mac end of things.

On the iPhone side, users are required to update their profi…

John Lounsbury submits:In the previous three articles in this series (click here for part 2) the definitions of recession and depression have been discussed based on the NBER (National Bureau of Economic Analys…

Google’s Android will quickly overtake Apple’s iPhone market share. It may seem like an outlandish prediction, but we’ve seen this movie before and we know how it ends.

Over on The Big Think, 37Signals co-founder Jason Fried has posted an interesting short video about how the modern workplace is designed to provide constant interruptions (phone calls, meetings, colleagues drop…

If you like to write but lack confidence in your skills, Paper Rater is a a free, web-based service that analyzes your writing and offers feedback on your grammar, spelling, and more.Paper Rater couldnt be easi…

When Sigma Partners’ Richard Dale posted a video of a random dancing guy to his Venture Cyclist blog I was skeptical. I’d seen the original video sans narration and dismissed it as a strange sociological phenom…