Curated Stories May 23, 2010

In the rapid-fire world of the social web, blogging will surely evolve. What might the future hold for our beloved blogs and how should companies prepare for inevitable change?
Will blogging die? It was trendy…

theodp writes “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t let your engine idle. The USPTO has just published IBM’s patent application for a ‘System and Method for Controlling Vehicle Engine Running State at Busy Inters…

Online PR News – 23-May-2010 – SEO Social Media Marketing firm compares Facebook verse Twitter to determine their Social Media Marketing strategies, …

Table of contents for Marketing PlanningBuilding Your Marketing Plan: Who’s Your Ideal Client? Part I in a Series: Marketing Planning
My husband collects baseball caps and at one time had at least 50 in hi…

In hindsight, it’s like he’d already seen last week’s Android keynote at Google I/O.

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One of the cooler, subtle things that Google showed off at Google I/O was its new Android Cloud to Device Messaging service that’s a part of Android 2.2. The “don’t call it Push Notifications” service a…

Dallas Lawrence is Managing Director of Burson-Marsteller’s Proof Integrated Communications. He is a Mashable contributor on emerging media trends, online reputation management and digital issue advocacy. Yo…

While we were thrilled with Google’s many announcements at Google I/O, particularly the announcements that went against the grain of Apple’s one-man-one-device ethos, we have to take the company’s claims…

I’ve been reading through danah boyd’s recent posts, Facebook is a utility; utilities get regulated and Facebook and “radical transparency” (a rant) and all the other posts out there about Facebook a…

“Google TV: everything you ever wanted to know” via Engadget: Google made some waves yesterday when it announced the new Google TV platform, backed by major players like Sony, Logitech, Intel, Dish Network, an…

In my career as a journalist, social media has become a vital tool for reporting and publicizing my work. I use Twitter to connect with bloggers, …

A guest post by Larry Brooks of Storyfix.com
Pardon the cryptic title. Not trying to sound hip or flip. Just going straight at it.
Today’s title is literal. Rather than the traditional try for a killer…

Google is fighting battles on almost every front: social networking, mobile operating systems, web browsers, office apps, and so on.
Much of this makes sense, inasmuch as it is strategic for them to dominate…

Okay, I get it. LinkedIn wanted to link Twitter into LinkedIn so that we’d see a glimpse into a human’s day to day life. The mindset would be, “We know that Chris runs New Marketing Labs, and we read his…

Yesterday I sent out a tweet: “how do you see the world? as a battlefield, or as a playground? something else?” and I received the largest response to any tweet I’ve made ever.
I’ve noticed over the pa…

The Twitter account Sh*tmydadsays is the first to make the jump to TV — it was picked up by CBS, with William Shatner is the starring role. Now clips of the pilot episode have been released, as shown in a…

My friend Jan asked me yesterday to elaborate a little more on Twitter—mostly how to make connections to share her blog posts with a wider audience of readers. So let’s say you’re on Twitter. You have…

Two articles from the Harvard Business Review caught my attention because they were back to back in my RSS feed: What the U.S. Can Learn From Europe About Gender Equality in the Workplace, and also Can She Lead…

This guest post was written by Daniel Ruby, Research Director for Online Insights at ad network Chitika.
Microsoft is and has always been a bastion of persistence. When they set their mind to dominating someth…

Until now, nearly all the folks who have expressed an opinion about the weighty matter of Apple’s refusal to allow Adobe’s Flash onto the iPhone (including me) have had one thing in common: They’ve never…

The people who work the hardest to get referrals, it seems to me, are the people who least deserve them.If you make average stuff for average people, why exactly will someone refer you? If you are busy selling…

In the 1990s, Gary Reback, a Silicon Valley lawyer, almost single-handedly brought the antitrust weight of the federal government down on that era’s high-tech heavyweight, Microsoft. Now Mr. Reback conten…

by A Country Doctor, MD
Health care in the United States is struggling to redefine itself. We have been spending twice what other countries spend on health care, yet our citizens are less healthy. We now have l…

The movement towards social media being the central nervous system for everything is well underway. The social media movement may be in its infancy, but like all growing trends, there will be t…

Why do we have to deal with computer crashes anymore? Why do we still have to deal with data being lost or corrupted?

In getting uncomfortable, I’m beginning to realize that as great as technology is, we not o…

“Seesmic and Evernote bring social memory to your iPhone (and Android, too)” via Evernote: Maybe I’ll give Evernote a try again.

“Mobile Done Right? How National Public Radio Embraces the Mobile Web and Apps” via MobileActive.org: Branching out into the mobile space can have big rewards for media organizations that take the time to do it…

Marketing is about telling great stories. Living a happy and successful life is about the stories we tell ourselves.

Sometimes, we forget how important a story can be. Sometimes we don’t think hard enough abou…

Regulars of this blog know that I often talk about context building as a marketing strategy. Granted, many of the parts in the marketing mix are coming together and blending these days, a good thing when the…

Writing a book to build your personal brand is much easier when you select a book title that helps you to plan and write.
The sooner you select a title that provides a easy-to-write approach, o…

To play videos on an iPod, iPod touch or iPhone, you need to ensure the file is of the correct type. The video needs to be encoded using a codec that your device understands, and the picture has to be the corre…

WebKit has gained astounding traction in the world of the mobile web. The open-source layout engine is at the heart of browsers used in Android, iPhone OS, Symbian and webOS — and most recently, BlackBerry. T…

Google’s next version of Android, 2.2 “Froyo”, is obviously a huge step, and we’ve done what we can to explain what’s so great about it. But enough reading, wh…

The movement towards social media being the central nervous system for everything is well underway. The social media movement may be in its infancy, but like all growing trends, there will be those …

As I sat in the audience at Google’s I|O conference yesterday morning, I watched Google VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra and others unveil Android 2.2 “Froyo,” an ambitious upgrade to the company’s mobile…

It’s official: A Facebook spokesperson says the company will “shortly” roll out some new features designed to simplify management of the service’s famously complex privacy options.
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In much the same way that Dunkin’ Donuts and Mountain Dew are tapping their online fans to create new products, Papa John’s is using Facebook to find their next speciality pizza.The Papa’s Specialty Pizz…

Think about the following platforms and when the first traditional media activity/participation occurred in that platform’s history: Friendster, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare, Chatroulette. It…

Sometimes there are advantages to staying up really late at night. I had just laid down in my bed to try and get some sleep before an early flight to New York tomorrow when I remembered I hadn’t charged my N…

I don’t do a lot of leisure reading, but I blazed through Walter John Williams’ This Is Not a Game (amazon affiliate link), a book with an adventurous plot woven around alternate reality gaming and social n…

About twenty five years ago, Howard Gardner taught us his theory of multiple intelligences. He described the fact that there’s not just one kind of intelligence, in fact there are at least seven (1 Bodily-kines…

There’s a new template for scripting.com stories.
The goal of the template is to produce a page that looks good on a smartphone web browser, in a desktop web browser, and on an iPad.
Not totally sure what I’m…

I was already fed up with my lousy ATT service, and was seriously considering switching to the HTC Incredible, an Android-powered phone that runs on the Verizon network. But then, after seeing Googles new mobil…

Just removed from the 8th grade social studies curriculum in Texas: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” – Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter From a Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963.And that’s ju…

Erosion No. 2 – Mother Earth Laid Bare, 1936
Just had this thought that storytelling is a living feminine entity. Think about it. What triggered this thought was working around issues of the feminine and observ…

‘Apple now is chasing Google’
Steve Jobs — no, not the one in Cupertino, the one who blogs — is ditching his iPhone, going Googly, and venting his spleen.…

Sometimes it’s good to be the chosen child, the special one, and in the eyes of Google the Nexus One is that special phone — at least for the moment. As such it seems to have been given a special treat: acce…

Elliott Kosmicki is the founder of Good Plum, an online business blog focused on marketing and productivity. Elliott also quips with interesting people on Twitter.Three summers ago, people lined up around the…

IBM Hands Out Malware-Infected USB Drives At Security Conference.Join the conversation about this story »

Kara Swisher:

Two at its rival was probably appropriate. Three, welllll, okay,
if you insist.

Unfortunately, the continued verbal jousts by many Google execs —
including from CEO Eric Schmidt —…

Today’s guest post is from Lisa de Nikolits, author of the book, The Hungry Mirror. She shares how to promote your work online by creating a book reading using a home video camera and YouTube. Me, on You…