- 15 Most Engaged Pages On Facebook
Published: March 16, 2011Source: All FacebookHow do you measure engagement on Facebook? New York startup Fangager has formed a whole business based on that particular metric.
Fangager supplied Wired News with a preview of the 15 most engaging pages on Fa…
- “The gap between low and middle is collapsing.”
Published: March 16, 2011Source: MetaFilterPublic Job as Only Route to Middle Class. ‘While that might not seem like much, jobs’ ‘with benefits and higher-than-minimum wages, are considered plum in’ the town of Gallipolis a ‘depressed corner of southern…
- Facebook & Groupon Raise Stakes in Turf War
Published: March 16, 2011Source: Mashable!Facebook and Groupon ratcheted up a turf battle Wednesday as the former expanded Facebook Deals, the social network’s new location-based discounts program, and the latter prepared an ad blitz on Facebook.F…
- Facebook Places Pages Suggest Others Nearby
Published: March 16, 2011Source: All FacebookFacebook Places pages are suggesting others located nearby, with pictures of friends who checked in there and like buttons.
This development comes just in time for Facebook’s expansion of the Deals service,…
- JavaScript Quirks Got You Down? Check out JavaScript Garden
Published: March 16, 2011Source: ReadWriteWeb“JavaScript Garden is a growing collection of documentation about the most quirky parts of the JavaScript programming language,” reads the introduction of the JavaScript Garden website. “It gives advice to avo…
- Making Location Awareness Simple
Published: March 16, 2011Source: Inc.comLast year’s South By Southwest (SXSW) festival was a tipping point for location-based check-in services. I wrote about companies like FourSquare and GoWalla and the idea of “check-ins” in the article “Mobile…
- The Going to Bed Book: An interactive book for toddlers
Published: March 16, 2011Source: TUAWLoudcrow Interactive Inc. is taking a new direction in their interactive children’s books with The Going to Bed Book by Sandra Boynton (US $2.99 for the iPad Version or $1.99 for the iPhone). Instead of their…
- Microsoft Is More Ethical Than Google, Apple, Or Facebook (MSFT, AAPL)
Published: March 16, 2011Source: SAI: Silicon Alley InsiderGoogle’s motto may be “do no evil,” but that hasn’t fooled an organization that rates the most ethical companies in the world.
This year, the Ethisphere Institute named Microsoft to its list of its 110 most eth… - Group Messaging: Why Now?
Published: March 16, 2011Source: ReadWriteWebIf 2010 was the year of location-based services, then 2011 is certainly the year of group messaging. With a slew of new group messaging apps dominating this year’s SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, the big ques…
- Disrupting the Banking System
Published: March 16, 2011Source: SeekingAlpha.com: Home PageFelix Salmon submits: I enjoyed moderating my SXSW panel yesterday on whether and how Internet startups are disrupting the banking system. There was a good range of small, tech-savvy panelists, and they’re…
- The Day Web and TV Collided
Published: March 16, 2011Source: Adaptive PathIt was reported yesterday that Netflix bid on and is close to acquiring its first original television series. Netflix is bidding for a TV series titled House of Cards starring Kevin Spacey, reportedly competing…
- Teen Rescues Mom By Posting On Facebook
Published: March 16, 2011Source: All FacebookA teen in St. Paul, Minnesota used Facebook in an unusual way: to get help from the police. He posted a message for someone to call 911 as his mother was being attacked by her boyfriend, 31-year-old Reggie LeA…
- Building Permits For New Housing Drop To 51-Year-Low
Published: March 16, 2011Source: WonketteThe last time so few new permits were issued for housing construction, it was 1961 — when American economists first began keeping records of the numbers of housing permits as an economic indicator.
There are… - 15 Questions That Will Change The Way You Think About SEO Forever (Q’s 11-15)
Published: March 16, 2011Source: (EMP) E-Marketing PerformanceAs much as the title is vastly overstated, these questions will at the very least help you ponder SEO in a way you hadn’t pondered before. At least that’s my theory.
Question 11. How much time should I spe…
- Are APIs the New Black?
Published: March 16, 2011Source: GigaOMAs we build technology into everything, creating entertainment, recommendation services and other applications that can deliver whatever we need at the moment we ask for it, a new breed of application is being…
- A Beginner’s Guide to Optimizing WordPress Websites
Published: March 16, 2011Source: The Thesis StatementBy default, WordPress websites are a lot like young athletes—skillful and full of promise, yet highly unrefined.
In order to help your site reach its potential, you must provide coaching and assistance in ce… - How Social Media Will Push Earth Hour Beyond the Blackout
Published: March 16, 2011Source: Mashable!For one hour on March 26, millions of people will turn off their lights and sit in relative darkness. It may seem like a random way to support environmentally sustainable action, but Earth Hour — a global…
- With Facebook Deals, Facebook Focuses on Friends
Published: March 16, 2011Source: RyanSpoon.comLast night, TechCrunch reported that Facebook announced the forthcoming launch of Facebook Deals. Facebook’s clear push is around finding activities and local businesses that can be enjoyed among friends… w…
- David Brooks TED Talk: The Social Animal
Published: March 16, 2011Source: Boing Boing[Video Link] I wasn’t expecting David Brooks’ talk at TED2011, about the failures of politicians to make good policy decisions, to be as funny and insightful as it was. After all, as one commenter at TED.com…
- A new feature of RSS
Published: March 16, 2011Source: Scripting NewsWhat’s that — a new feature? But I thought RSS was frozen.
Yeah it’s frozen, but a new feature is still always only a namespace away.
I wrote about the microblog namespace in Twitter Posts Don’t Have T… - Fred Wilson: “Here’s the story of how we missed Airbnb, one of the best startups to come our way in the past few yea…
Published: March 16, 2011Source: SAI: Silicon Alley InsiderFred Wilson: “Here’s the story of how we missed Airbnb, one of the best startups to come our way in the past few years.”Join the conversation about this story »
- How Brands Are Using Mobile Photo Sharing
Published: March 16, 2011Source: Mashable!This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.The instant popularity of Instag…
- What is the Biggest Threat to Facebook?
Published: March 16, 2011Source: emergent by designAs part of The Future of Facebook Project, we’ve been tapping the wisdom of crowds to explore the opportunities and pitfalls for this company and its userbase. We asked the experts 15 questions, and have p…
- Hot New Trend: Working Actual Professional Jobs For Free, As ‘Interns’
Published: March 16, 2011Source: WonketteAs America and the Entire Industrialized World dips into the second act of our 21st Century Greatest Depression, workers and employers are developing new skills to cope with the complete lack of money. In the L…
- Ready For Zero – Bringing Transparency to Online Debt Management
Published: March 16, 2011Source: ReadWriteWebAs of June of 2010, the total U.S. consumer debt was $2.40 trillion. As much as 98% of the revolving debt in the U.S. is credit card debt, and the average household carries about $8000 in credit card debt. As…
- Lessons Learned From The Old Spice Campaign & Its Imitators
Published: March 16, 2011Source: Mashable!The Behind the Social Media Campaign Series is supported by Oneupweb, an award-winning agency specializing in search marketing, social media and design for mid-to-enterprise level brands. Download Oneupweb…
- Why I'm Switching Back To An AT&T iPhone (T, VZ, AAPL)
Published: March 16, 2011Source: SAI: Silicon Alley InsiderLook, I have been dreaming about a Verizon iPhone since the original announcement was made in 2007. I’ve always admired Verizon’s insanely solid and reliable wireless network, even before it was Verizon (…
- 11 Ways To Completely Reinvent Yourself
Published: March 16, 2011Source: SAI: Silicon Alley InsiderNew startups are popping up daily. With so much competition, older companies are struggling to stay relevant.
Bill Taylor, the cofounder of Fast Company and author of Practically Radical, studied businesses tha… - New Facebook Patent: the Huge Implications of Curated Search (Erik Sherman/Wired In Blog| BNET)
Published: March 16, 2011Source: TechmemeErik Sherman / Wired In Blog| BNET:
New Facebook Patent: the Huge Implications of Curated Search — For some time, Facebook has been interested in semantic search — using its social graph and immense a… - Apple introduces iAds to the iPad
Published: March 16, 2011Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blogWhen Apple launched iAds, Steve Jobs said that the foray into advertising was about more than just exploiting an obvious opportunity. “We want to
change the quality of the advertising,” he said.
But while Appl… - Google Docs Gets a Real-Time Upgrade
Published: March 16, 2011Source: GigaOMIn a bid to make Google Docs more appealing to workers and consumers, Google is rolling out a new feature that lets users of its productivity service discuss shared documents in real-time. The upgrade is a…
- How to Ditch Slow Wireless Speeds and Go Completely Wired in Your Home (and Why You Should) [Video]
Published: March 16, 2011Source: GizmodoWi-Fi provides a convenient way to connect the computers in your home without dealing with the hassle of wires, but Wi-Fi is also slow and unreliable compared…
- Facebook Enables Enter Key For Comments Posting
Published: March 16, 2011Source: All FacebookFacebook appears to have removed the blue button for posting comments on items in the news feed and elsewhere on the site, prompting people to hit the enter key instead.
Now, if you click on the linked word co…
- Google Docs Makes Commenting More Collaborative With Structured Discussions
Published: March 16, 2011Source: TechCrunchGoogle Docs has always been an easy way to collaborate over a documents because many users can access the documents at the same time. But today, Google is stepping up the collaboration factor with more structu…
- What is the Breakfast of Startup Champions?
Published: March 16, 2011Source: Rex Hammock's RexBlog.comFor the the vast majority of people who read these blog posts (especially those who read them on Facebook or LinkedIn) who aren’t obsessed with tech startups, let me start by saying that Fred Wilson, who I…
- AP’s new curveball: Wire service will tell baseball stories two ways to help cost-cutting clients for road games
Published: March 16, 2011Source: Nieman Journalism LabAs the old saying goes in newsrooms, every night is election night on the sports desk. The late-night deadline stress is enormous — especially when you’re trying to cover 162 baseball games in a six-month…
- Is Cloud Computing Right for You?
Published: March 15, 2011Source: ReadWriteWebLook at the evolution of the enterprise and a pattern emerges. On-premise systems evolved to meet business demands. Today, there is the option to move services off the enterprise into the cloud.
This execut…
- Is Twitter Dividing the Happy From the Unhappy?
Published: March 15, 2011Source: Mashable!Anyone who thought that social media was going to usher in a utopian era of communication without borders is going to have their faith badly shaken by a new study from Cornell University. On Twitter, it see…
- Q&A with a Story Guru: Brendan Nolan: Storytelling … No Batteries Required
Published: March 16, 2011Source: A Storied CareerSee a photo of Brendan, his bio, Part 1 of this QA, and Part 2.
QA with Brendan Nolan, Question 3:
Q: The storytelling movement seems to be growing explosively. Why now? What is it about this moment in hu…
- Show Don’t Tell
Published: March 16, 2011Source: chrisbrogan.comRemember that ditty from english class or writing lessons? Show don’t tell. Show the action. Don’t tell people that someone has done something. That’s what struck me when I saw Jessica Levin’s great pie…
- eBay Uses PayPal To Spy On Its Sellers (EBAY)
Published: March 16, 2011Source: SAI: Silicon Alley InsidereBay monitors the PayPal accounts of its biggest sellers to see how much off-eBay business they’re doing and thereby reward or punish them on their platform. That’s at least the allegation made by Daniel Leffel…
- For All The Promises Of Transparency, Obama Administration Responding To Fewer FOIA Requests
Published: March 16, 2011Source: TechdirtOne of the first moves that President Obama made upon taking office was to tell federal agencies to default to “allow” when it came to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, and only deny in specific situa…
- Marketing White Belt: The Marketing Funnel
Published: March 16, 2011This post is part of the Marketing White Belt series.The 4 Ps of MarketingThe SWOT AnalysisMarketing Funnels
If there’s a more time-honored concept in marketing than the funnel, I don’t know what it is. The… - How to Add Long Emails and Newsletters to Read Later Apps [Reading]
Published: March 16, 2011Source: LifehackerIf you read any email newsletters (like the one we send out every day), you may have realized they’re difficult to send to services like Instapaper or Read it…
- 4 Easy Ways To Improve Your Customer Marketing Game
Published: March 16, 2011Source: Mashable!This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.Whether we’re choosing a train…
- Special sales (the key word being special)
Published: March 16, 2011Source: The Domino ProjectEvery large publisher has a Special Sales department. This is a group charged with selling books in volume to groups and corporations.
Stories of successful special sales are legendary. One personal finance aut… - Visa Unveils Personal Payments Service in the U.S.
Published: March 16, 2011Source: Mashable!Visa announced Wednesday a personal payments service that will allow U.S. customers to send and receive funds to any eligible Visa credit, debit or prepaid account anywhere in the world.To be able to offer t…
- James Joyce Estate Sends Takedown For Joyce Quote In DNA
Published: March 16, 2011Source: TechdirtCraig Venter, who is no stranger to advocating stronger and stronger IP laws — especially in the area of “synthetic life” — apparently learned recently how those laws can reach ridiculous levels. In a recen…
- INSIDE SECRETS OF THE TV BUSINESS: It’s All About The Weatherman
Published: March 16, 2011Source: SAI: Silicon Alley InsiderWe had breakfast with the head of a major TV company recently.
He shared some inside secrets of the local TV business.
Among other fun facts, for example, he said the following:
In the local TV news business, i… - Overtweeting: Are We Becoming Socially Antisocial?
Published: March 15, 2011Source: Influential MarketingThere was a time when there were only two types of thoughts: those that you shared and those that you kept to yourself. Call it discretion, or social etiquette … but learning to interact in any culture mostly…
- The Next Big Thing is…
Published: March 16, 2011Source: Experience: The BlogI just returned from South by Southwest (sxsw) Interactive. It seemed everyone wanted to know the next big thing–what new site, app or technology would rise above the din of startups in Austin and get launch…
- Security Is Always An Illusion
Published: March 16, 2011Source: The Ad Contrarian
- The Most Important Question to Ask Executives on Social Media Investment
Published: March 16, 2011I ask this question at every client and prospect meeting and at every conference I speak at. The answer from the audience never changes. It’s a two-part question:
“If I told you that many of your custom… - Why Social Media Blogging is Corrupt
Published: March 16, 2011I met a young blogger the other day who reported to me that one of his posts had been used in the promotional newsletter of one of the A-List bloggers, in fact probably the most famous blogger around. He was t…
- Is what you’re tweeting what they’re hearing?
Published: March 16, 2011Source: Internet Marketing Tips & HelpA few days ago I posted a blog titled Are You Getting The Right Message Across? talking about how what we Tweet, Blog and Facebook may not always come across how we think, and prompting you to…
- Relationship capital: the new currency in customer services
Published: March 16, 2011Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blogRelationship capital is what’s generated when you put down your jargon filled customer service manual and talk to your customers like they are people. You talk the talk and walk the walk.
Companies are valued… - 5 Ways to Benefit from Real Time Data
Published: March 16, 20115 Ways to Benefit from Real Time DataThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing
Every businessperson knows that good data makes you smarter. Well, a truer statement might be that an accurate analysis of the right d… - The Death (and life) of Salvador Dali
Published: March 15, 2011Source: MetaFilterThe Death Of Salvador Dali [18m23s] is a 2005 short film surrealistically depicting an imaginary visit to Sigmund Freud by the legendary artist. (Alternate Yahoo Video link) But what about the real Dali? You…
- Google’s Revamped iPhone App Now Worth Using; Could Be Better Still
Published: March 15, 2011Source: TechCrunchGoogle’s flagship native app for the iPhone has always been a little odd. First of all, it was called “Google Mobile App”, which seemed a bit redundant. More importantly, it just wasn’t really worth usi…




















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