Curated Stories May, 2, 2010

You might have noticed a trend in more and more marketing, where large brands are featuring real people and actual employees in their ads. The end of the new Intel ads feature employees singing the …

A Google search has become the most important way to find information whether that be for work, play and even finding shopping bargains online.
This was highlighted in a rather quirky and fun way recently when…

Growing, changing and adapting to anything new is not easy. It’s actually a very counter-human activity, which is why we need to push ourselves. Constantly.

It’s easy to say, this isnt for me, or I simply cant…

Warning — if you’re the type of person who doesn’t watch movie trailers and you haven’t seen Big Fish, skip this section. On the other hand, I promise not to reveal anything about the movie that isn’t in the t…

It’s been quite some time when we last talked about a few useful apps for a killer Facebook experience. Thanks to reports on the f8, the Like and the Instant personalization blab that kept us occu…

Ian Capstick posted an excellent piece about news releases and online newsrooms in the PR column of the PBS MediaShift blog yesterday.
News Releases

Looking back at the history of the press r…

At WordCamp SF yesterday, we got to talk to WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg. He’s the man behind the Automattic empire, a collection of blogging software and complementary services, such as PollDaddy and th…

Are you one of the many who use lack of time as a reason to put-off building a personal brand by writing provocative thought leadership articles, books, starting a podcast, frequently updating…

When computers–evolutive machines which may be reprogrammed at will–became widely available, it generated a well-deserved buzz. Some (scientists, banks, insurance companies) felt like they were dreaming, othe…

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.Despite living in the age of e-mai…

From the real time search service’s blog post:
Until today, we’ve been indexing the links shared on Twitter, MySpace, Digg, Delicious and by our own OneRiot panel to help determine our search results. Now, wi…

Tired of just collecting brownie points then this is right up your alley. You sweetheart will probably forgive for just about anything when presented with one of these chocolaty iPhones.

And yes they are real…

Why Twitter Ads Might Actually Work

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The iPad 3G is the iPad Ive been waiting for. Its got two things the regular iPad doesnt: 3G internet from ATT and assisted GPS. The results we got from testing might surprise you, I think.

The real story with…

An obvious requirement for a successful startup is that they make more money from a customer than they spend for a customer Article Rating: Reads: 227 There is no question that success for the entrepreneur star…

Twenty years ago, only big companies and TV stars worried about media channels.Oprah was on TV, then she added radio. Two channels. Then a magazine.Pepsi set out to dominate TV with their message, and billboard…

When I visited Italy, I drank Italian coffee. A little warm milk in the cappuccinos, a small spoonful of sugar was acceptable in the espressos. But it was still, undeniably, coffee….

A while back, I remember someone posting a question to a Linked-In discussion group along the lines of, ‘I just got my client a hit in USA Today. How much is that worth?’. More recently, ADWEEK ran an…

He uses Twitter, a social networking site, to stay connected. His wife, Kim, understands, but that doesn’t mean she wants Harrison’s eyes glued to work on …

The dark side of social media, Postman said, exists in online activities where ethical and unethical behavior and legal and illegal behavior cross over. …

If you work in technology, like I do, you may be familiar with the Gartner Hype Cycle. If not, this is what it is — industry research firm Gartner Group
use a graph to try and make sense of the maturity…

Experts are examining whether technology alters the nature of children’s friendships.

When growing your social network (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn) community numbers, is it about the quantity or the quality?

This conversation was started by John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing…

So just what is the point of Twitter? In my seminars, consulting and mentoring I often find many business leaders still wondering if Twitter is of value to their online marketing.

One metric …

theodp recommends a somewhat long and rambling article by Wired’s Gary Wolf, writing in the NY Times Magazine, on recording and mining data about your personal life. “In the cozy confines of personal life, we r…

If you market to governments and governmental agencies, a new social media directory may be extremely useful to your efforts.
Microsoft just launched a site called Gov2Social, a directory that aims to list sta…

Charlene Li, on Wednesday Apr. 28, 2010, in San Francisco, Calif., is the founder of social media consulting firm Altimeter Group and author of a new book …

When running blogs for community, and business interests, the important question of of “who” has visited has been a big challenge. This problem was one of the inspirations for the creation of OpenID and other…

Ian Capstick posted an excellent piece about news releases and online newsrooms in the PR column of the PBS MediaShift blog yesterday. (And of course we were delighted that he chose a release about the Social M…

Editor’s Note: The following guest post was written by Cyan Banister, the founder and CEO of Zivity, a venture-funded adult content site that invites users to interact with models and photographers. Banister…

So people learned from the angels of God how to build bridges, and therefore, after fountains, the greatest blessing is to build a bridge and the greatest sin to interfere with one. – Ivo Andric
Our first t…

Twitter’s donation of its archives to the Library of Congress offers vast potential — and challenges — to historians.

What makes people feel truly satisfied? To write Well-Being: The Five Essential Elements, Gallup researchers Tom Rath and Jim Harter combed through research on worker engagement and productivity. Their key insi…

(Here’s another story I wrote for FoxNews.com.)
If you think the whole Web is suddenly looking more like Facebook, you’re not imagining things. At its developer conference last week, the 800-pound gorilla o…

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Hard Labor: Adobe Rebuilds Its Wired Magazine App to Fit Apple’s Flash-Free Agenda — Condé Nast and Adobe spent months creating a version of Wired magazine for the iPad — on…

And you think you work hard eh. Well let me tell you that you daily grind is nothing compared to what some people have to do to bring you those daily things of enjoyment. Oh alright so it’s only an advertisi…

Everyone’s read stories about outrageous cell phone bills, and you might even know someone who’s racked one up themselves. But the Boston Globe has an interest…

Trying to control, or even manage, your online reputation is becoming increasingly difficult. And much like the fight by big labels against the illegal sharing of music, it will soon become pointles…

“That is the sound of inevitability…“
I’m reminded of this quote from The Matrix as I read headline after headline around the blogosphere about how Facebook and Apple and their (at least relatively) clo…

How to Create a Killer Local Partner Team ProgramThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing
This article originally appeared on AMEX OPENForum
Everybody needs a little help from their friends. Businesses large and…

Filed under: SoftwareHere’s an interesting take from Searchblog’s John Battelle about the Siri purchase by Apple yesterday: he believes that it’s the first step towards the eventual Apple goal of conquering sea…

Earlier this week, Steve Jobs kicked the debate about the need for Flash into high gear, especially for Web video. As he explained, Apple products like the iPhone and iPad don’t support Flash because althou…

The week gone by was loaded with essential reading, especially in the tech department. We know you’re busy, and digging through that RSS reader for all the good stuff you missed is a chore.That’s why we�…

Facebook has launched a new version of Facebook Events, simplifying the process of creating an event to one step.The most noticeable change is the newly-added ability to create events right from your home page…

I’ve long been an advocate of the power of blogging, but when you’re posting three times a week – or even trying to muster up something original once a week – it can be hard to consistently create c…

Can’t decide which are the odds, and which are the ends:Right now, go buy this hard drive and do a bootable backup of every computer you care about. $60. If you spend six minutes a month (set it up before you g…

A couple of weeks ago, when Twitter announced that it would soon release an official Twitter app for Android phones, I fantasized that the company was going to port Loren Brichter’s miraculous Tweetie Twitter…

Bad behavior and irrational decisions are almost always caused by fear. If you want to change the behavior, address the fear.And yet we don’t.Instead, we impose an embargo or throw someone in prison. We put a l…

A new, top secret, “people-powered” search engine named Slangwho — being built in New York — appears to finally be launching in a few weeks.
We’ve been hearing buzz about Slangwho for months. Yet no one seems…

A number of friends and relatives have recently started blogging and in every case, I noticed they created their blog with Blogger. Being immersed in the world of WordPress, I found myself a little surprised t…

By now, you’ve probably heard the hype about WordPress 3.0. You may have even seen the WordPress 3.0 preview webinar I did not too long ago.
This is somewhat of an odd release as I can’t point to 10 individ…

When I go to your website (or blog, or twitter page, or facebook page), what do you want me to do? What do you REALLY want me to do? Don’t answer that right away or glibly. What do you want me to do on your s…

As one might expect, a recent report on Apple’s U.S. market penetration shows its top 10 markets in Apple’s home town, in major metro areas and surprisingly in Las Vegas. However, a look at the bottom 10 re…

I’ve been a fan of Christina Katz since I read Writer Mama: How to Raise a Writing Career Alongside Your Kids. If you’re a mom starting out on your freelance writing journey, it’s a must read If you’re…

If you thought the conversation around Journalism and the future of Publishing has become stale… you are sadly mistaken.

For some daily doses of insights on the passionate people trying to better dissect and…

Here is the next perspective in the series: by Paul Hobcraft I am not alone I am sure but I suffer from Social Media Return Dilemma. There I’ve said it, …

I wrote yesterday’s piece about Twitter very quickly, too quickly — because I came up with a shitty title that didn’t reflect how I was thinking about it.
We’re in the phase of the tech loop where what matters…

With Twitter having made its way to the mainstream, one early tweeting convention has brought a nerdy flavor along for the ride. It can be a bit jarring to come across Heidi Montag tweeting about her “#superf…

This is far lower than the reciprocal rates of typical social media sites, such as Flickr (68 percent) and the popular Koran service Cyworld (77 percent). …

“We rarely have meetings. I hate them. They’re a huge waste of time, and they’re costly,” says Jason Fried, co-founder of 37 Signals, a collaboration-software company in Chicago. “They chop your day into small…

Twitter has a two-pronged approach to give media companies the ability to create dynamic interfaces that filter and curate tweets in new ways. One is to showcase great examples of Twitter implementations on it…

I guess it is to be expected but I for one am getting really sick and tired of all these studies that pop up around Twitter spouting off who it is popular with this group of people, stupid to another group, or…

Microsoft has published a web page devoted to humor. While hard to take seriously, the software giant attempts to break down the various levels of proficiency at being funny, and what each level entails. The hu…

Filed under: iPadHaving made most of my living in the news business, I’m pretty much a news junkie. As a result, I’ve loaded my iPad up with a lot of news applications so I can keep up throughout the day.

I’d…

Last week, Facebook unveiled its universal “like” button, furthering its goal of world domination in the process. Thus, it was inevitable that someone, somewhere would develop the universal “dislike” b…

I teach the way that I wish I was taught.
—Sal Khan, Khan Academy

The online advertising industry saw growth accelerate in the first quarter, with the combined advertising revenues of the four largest players (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and AOL) jumping almost 15 percent to $…