Curated Stories May 11, 2010

All browsers: The folks at Mozilla just updated their previously mentioned Plug-In Check tool to support most popular browsers, giving users a quick, simple wa…

Google and Verizon Wireless are working on an Android-based tablet computer to challenge Apple’s iPad, the WSJ reports.
“We’re looking at all the things Google has in its archives that we could put on a tablet…

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The serie…

Last week we asked you to send us your questions for our interview with wine connoisseur and social-media expert Gary Vaynerchuk. Gary and his consulting company VaynerMedia recently ran an experiment with the…

Facebook is becoming a scary place. It used to be fun place to share photos, links, ideas etc. and connect with long lost friends. Now, as the social networking giant seeks to monetize their platf…

With all the privacy issues surrounding Facebook recently, you may be keeping a closer eye on your account’s activity. Use this built-in Facebook feature to ge…

A former local newspaper reporter, Tanveer is a student at the Medill School of Journalism learning all things digital and entrepreneurial. He also writes about political figures for WhoRunsGov.com and hopes t…

There was a time when the advent of social media brought an air of excitement to the corporate world. Brands fundamentally desired to change, …

This series is supported by The Awareness Social Marketing Hub, a leading enterprise-grade application for marketers struggling with the social media chaos of managing multiple social channels. Click here to l…

It is in the classic words of Gloria Gaynor’s song, “I will survive”, corporations will “learn how to get along…”
A great deal of my community has given up on large organizations, stating that the …

One of the biggest issues business owners have with social media is its propensity to become, what’s the word…oh yes…a time suck! If you’re responsible for answering blog comments, tweets, status update…

For those of you who think that social media is crap, its power and value have been proven once again.

Americans bought more Google Android-based smartphones than Apple iPhones last quarter — the first time that’s ever happened — according to data from NPD Group released yesterday.
In response to getting passe…

Mel alerts us to this story of Korean electronics giant, Samsung, and its decision to sue a freelance writer who penned a satirical Christmas column that poked fun at Samsung’s well-known corruption and bribery…

As we reported over the weekend, Facebook is gearing up to launch a new “Places” tab on (at least) the mobile version of its site. This new area is likely to contain a list of venues close to your current l…

Social Software Is In the “Cambrian Explosion” Era
Last weekend, I visited New York’s Museum of Natural History and Sciences. I’m always fascinated by the dawn of life, and often draw a lot of paralle…

When you’re a freelancer or solo professional, the question is not where to find prospects. It’s how to find the ones that have the highest probability of turning into clients.
One of my fa…

A new type of online marketing system, marketing automation has recently become popular. What is it, how does it work, and—most important—should you adopt it? Not all companies should. But if yours is among…

Ah, the follow-up email. It’s never a straightforward task. Perhaps you’re working to land a guest post on a certain blog, or maybe you’re heading up biz dev for a new start-up. No matter the project, c…

I first encountered Cathryn Wellner last year when she sent me an e-mail critical of my 9-11 blog post; I subsequently published her response as its own entry. We’ve kept in touch and become connected on so…

Shortly after Facebook announced a bevy of new features at its F8 Developer conference last month, the backlash began. Since then, the number of people looking for ways to delete their Facebook account has been…

Sounds like a Brian Solis post, doesn’t it? Actually, on Friday afternoon, I had a chance to preside over one of the last panels of the two-day PRSA Digital Impact Conference (#prsa_di) in NYC. W…

The Department of Homeland Security’s Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) is warning of a recent and serious security flaw in Safari. The specific threat is said to be the browser’s handling of window obj…

A new study from Carnegie Mellon University shows that analyzing data from Twitter yields the same results as conducting a public opinion poll.We’re willing to bet it probably costs less, takes less time and…

Mashable and Bing are releasing a new feature today — the Local Twitter Trends Map.The map displays the top 10 Twitter trending topics in major U.S. cities. Once clicked, each local trend displays a listing…

Online video education is a space that is growing rapidly, and even attracting the attention of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who thinks that web-based learning sites will revolutionize education. Today, Udemy…

I have already said previously that the most awesome feature of SEJ Tools is that they consolidate plenty of SEO tasks and aggregate various SEO options. Today I am going to overview all its link building uti…

It’s good to know that you need useful content on your site. It’s even better to know why you need useful content on your site (If you aren’t sure what I mean, you might want to read: For Google, the On…

We know, we know — you don’t give a damn about celebrities and what they’re tweeting about (neither do we — especially when they’re narcissistically freaking out about a Twitter bug that everyone was…

A few weeks back I wrote the blog post ‘Planning a Content Strategy’ for which I received some great feedback, since then I’ve given some more thought to this subject and spent some time trying to g…

I was invited by Jeff Mascott (of the public affairs agency the Adfero Group) to listen in on his seminar last week on The Art of Creating a Social Media Press Release. Here’s a quick rundown bas…

Less Is More

Recently, after a long introductory phone call, I received an email from a client about how he thought I might help his business. The list included almost every facet of online and offline pres…

B2B content marketing has changed enormously with the advent of social media. In the last installment I talked about the third and fourth new rules of thought leadership marketing. In this final insta…

Facebook has made all kinds of privacy changes lately.
It’s made some users uncomfortable and, thanks to a couple poorly-timed screw-ups, Facebook is getting a lot of heat about the changes from Senators, media…

According to a group of researchers at Korea’s Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Twitter is not a very social network. After analyzing over 41 million user profiles and 1.47 billion follower/followi…

I caught a two-tweet conversation between @orli and @eyalshahar that kind of drove home a point I was making a still-unpublished post I’m working on entitled “Facebook Knows Enough About You To…” (w…..

Foursquare is moving to make the list of “Places” one sees when one loads one’s mobile app of choice more relevant.The company announced this morning that it has recently made changes to improve its algo…

Sam Diaz submits:
Lately, I’ve been thinking about my allegiance to Apple (AAPL). It’s been on my mind for a while, but I think reality kicked in when I plopped down my own cash on the Droid Incredible as…

Blogs are great resources. They let you publish high-quality content quickly, efficiently, and inexpensively.
The problem is, the default functionality of blogging software makes it easy to show what’s new …

After years of speculation, Twitter recently launched an advertising
platform of its own. After nearly two months in the wild, some of the
marketers who jumped on board to use it first are speaking out.What the…

In the mid- to late-90s, many business leaders observed the advent of the Web and asked the wrong question: “What will the Internet do for us?” Instead, they should have been asking, “What will the…

Guest post by Patricia McDonald, Planning Partner, CHI
This is a rare event for us, a guest post from an ex-BBHer, Pats McDonald. Pats has written a fair amount on related topics in the past here and we’re de…

My latest post at PhilanTopic, the Philanthropy News Digest blog, exploring the question, “Should you tell a story differently based on whether your listener is a woman or man?”

5 Creative Ways to Get More ReferralsThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing
The first step to getting more referrals is to be more referable. No matter what you do to motivate your referral sources if they don’t…

In most B2B organizations, marketing is slowly making its way out of the secretarial or admin pool perception. You will still get the order of isolated sponsoring ad and stand alone sell sheet (with fries on…

In Part 1 of this series I introduced Google webmaster tools and walked you through adding websites. Now that you have your site(s) in the system, you’ll need to configure your site so you get the most out of…

Square shipped its iPad app last month, today the company’s free iPhone app makes the App Store, and promises that “soon, Square will be on mobile devices everywhere”. The service lets people take credi…

Garland Pollard submits:The employment picture is a fright, no matter how nicely the people at Bureau of Labor Statistics spin it. In the last year, my adopted home state of Florida lost nearly one million jo…

From MediaMemo: Google isn’t killing newspapers, says The Atlantic’s James Fallows. In fact, it’s trying to save them.
I’m with Fallows on the first point. Not convinced at all about the second one, but…

As if Facebook’s Instant Personalization needed another knock against it, tonight comes news of a security issue that makes the feature even more unnerving. Web security consultant George Deglin discovered…

If you have a Blog, it’s hard not to pay attention to lists that rank Blogs. It’s hard not to look at your own web analytics, and it’s hard not to wonder why it’s not more popular than it is.

Most people who B…

For as long as most marketers can remember, getting a good domain name was a prerequisite to anything you were going to do on the web. Without a good domain name, no one would be able to find your site, or reca…

The one thing you can say about corporate types is that they’re not commitmentphobes.
In fact, it seems that every other company is committed to something – whether it’s quality, excellence, innovation,…

The iPad is selling like hot cakes. Already, Apple has sold more than 1m of the tablet devices.But how does the iPad stack up in terms of usability? According to a
study conducted by Jakob Nielsen and his firm,…

Online lead generation has in the past been described as the “wild west” of online marketing, but with a whole range of new technologies emerging it looks like the cowboys have finally met their match.With th…

One of the key benefits of social media that’s not talked about nearly enough is its ability to mitigate doubt and confusion among fence-sitters.Yes, your prospective customers are confused and uncertain. Aft…

Elena Kagans supporters say they are confident she will join the U.S. Supreme Courts liberal wing—even if she lacks the paper trail to prove their point

Last week I had the pleasure of meeting Laura Click in downtown Nashville. She had an incredible story about how people used the social web to pull together amidst the greatest catastrophe in the city’s histo…

Filed under: MobileMeMacDailyNews reports an unconfirmed rumor that Apple may soon make MobileMe’s services free to all users. MobileMe currently costs US$99 per year for a subscription; it provides cloud stora…

At Yahoo, a picture is worth a thousand searches. After a year of steadily losing market share, Yahoo showed nearly a one-point jump in U.S. search market share, according to comScore’s April search numbers…

A month after the iPad app launched, Square’s iPhone app is now generally available to users in the App Store. You can download the free app here.
Founded by Jack Dorsey, Square was unveiled last December as…

Today, IBM is introducing a new social media monitoring tool, one that it says will measure consumer sentiment from data gathered on Twitter, blogs and other web services and networks.The software, called the…

Everyday objects with their own IP addresses may soon be the norm. This communication of objects with the Web is the latest version of a still-idyllic new vision of technology that claims it will improve our li…

Now before everybody goes and gets their panties in a bunch let me first say that Facebook isn’t going anywhere. This isn’t some OMG Facebook is going tits up type of post so chill out for a few minutes be…

Retail research kingpin the NPD Group is reporting that Android-based phones are now outselling iPhones. Or at least they did last quarter in terms of unit sales in the U.S. according to NPD’s study, which fo…

The Google Nexus One didn’t have a very long shelf life at Sprint (zero days). According to recent reports the CDMA version of Google’s first ever device was canned, in it’s place will be the EVO 4G.

Ma…

In the wake of the release of Lucid Lynx, the latest version of Ubuntu (“Perfect”, “Mactastic”), Canonical have unveiled Unity and Ubuntu Light, a new desktop environment and implementgation of Ubuntu aimed at…

We recently attended TEDxUSC, an event co-produced by our friend Elisa Wiefel Schreiber. It was a day of uniformly brilliant presenters in fields like virtual reality, health care, music, and innovation and…

Last month, Facebook started experimenting with a new payment option for a select handful of game developers: it began supporting Offers as a way to earn its virtual currency, Facebook Credits. Now, the site…

We have confirmed with Twitter that beta testing of its new business features, dubbed the “Twitter Business Center,” has begun.According to the company, “only a handful of accounts have these features pr…

If the advertising industry wants to avoid extensive oversight, then the larger players in the industry, the Lehmans and Goldman Sachs of our world, especially have to play a major role in devising responsib…

This is pretty cool, not to mention very clever. Hopefully I’ll explain it all well enough that it makes sense. Ready?
360SEE is an art/furniture gallery in Chicago. The owner’s dog, Homer, hangs out in the…

With the world of location based services, including Foursquare and Gowalla, getting a lot of discussion of late, especially as news comes that Facebook will soon check in with its own offering, Louis Gray and…

Twitter users big and small were saddened to learn today that their followers had shrunk — to the sum total of zero. Trying to fix a bug where individuals could force any Twitter users to follow them, the com…

Engadget uncovered some old court documents which seem to indicate that Apple and ATT did strike an exclusive five-year deal for the iPhone in 2007. USA Today originally reported the deal but a lot of unconf…

A newly-created index of consumer healthcare confidence has fallen steadily this year, reports The Thomson Reuters Consumer Healthcare Sentiment Index. Consumers report declining confidence in their ability to…

by Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA
A patient apologized to me for asking so many questions. There is no need to apologize, I said to the patient; it’s wonderful that you have so many questions concerning your…

this post is a departure from the usual content of this blog. below is a paper i wrote for a Psychology of Women course as part of my undergraduate work. it’s highly personal, and deals with everything – s…

Meaghan Edelstein has gained national media attention through her blog, I Kicked Cancer’s Ass, which she started to document her battle with end stage cancer. She is an attorney, the founder of the non-profi…