Curated Stories May 27, 2010

Deborah Hyman, Director of Global Communications at Verizon has a great list of 10 steps to Corporate Transparency:
1 Set and define corporate targets for transparency
2 Engage your stakeholders, employees, co…

Local business listing hijacking is a real situation that can and will have an impact upon a business brand name. If the business is reliant on the local consumer for revenue, local business listings have…

It really doesn’t matter if you consider yourself a sinner or a saint for you to benefit from some lessons I have had to learn the hard way. You see, in my daily work I live in this universe where Google…

A framework for semantic analytic centric content
Regardless of what I’ve said about the whole ‘LSI’ and Google crap in the past, one things worth bearing in mind is that all modern search engines do…

John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Exclusive: Palm Loses Mobile Design Guru Matias Duarte to Google — Looks like Palm is suffering a bit of post-acquisition talent drain. — Mobile user interface mas…

Facebook has taken an interesting model to adding people to the Questions application: having users apply to the beta test. This morning we received an email with a link to this page which appears to be a user…

I’m preparing for a rash of presentations to audiences with limited exposure to the Social Web, so I figured a glossary of terms would be useful to them, and save some time during the presentations.
Anyway, I…

So let’s talk about health for a second.
I think the reason I love doing Triathlons, Marathons, bike races, and the like, is because in my other world, I’m such the anti-healthy guy. I mean, think about it…

Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz has made headlines recently for her unabashed cursing.
But she’s not the first exec to drop the F-bomb in public.
We gathered some of our favorite executive expletive mishaps from the pas…

We recently had a discussion about the legalities of fan fiction, and how some authors were adamantly against the concept (even if their views were on shaky legal grounds). While it is true that certain deriva…

Ask a roomful of copywriters to describe a brochure, sales letter, or web page, and most will give you a pretty good definition.
But ask about a magalog, and you’ll get a lot of blank stares.
In my Direct Mar…

Mastery is an ambiguous word raising the impulse of ownership and recognition, resonating something standing apart while representing a form of wholeness. What is it about mastery and mastery in storytelling th…

By default (but optionally) Twitter sends you an email “notice” of each user who starts following you. Unlike Facebook, for example (where you have a separate page listing all your new contacts for you to…

Apple’s expected future plans for a cloud-based iTunes could grant users the ability to sync media playback, allowing them to pick up where they left off, and tag media from other sources like HD and satellite…

Apple’s market cap yesterday passed Microsoft’s — a big deal which transforms the Steve Jobs led company into the second biggest US corporation, gaining ground on Exxon.For Microsoft this is the continuat…

You’re at a popular location and you really would love a photo of the place without all the people in the way. Looks like you’re out of luck and you should jus…

You can partially switch to Yahoo and take other steps to shield your data from Google, but what happens if Google itself is compromised? One particularly priv…

Google Places is a free marketing tool for local businesses. The benefits of these listings include showing up in web search results and mobile search results. Updating these listings is free and availa…

The Internet offers many a treasure in many a niche. If your thing is listening to great authors in readings and interviews, it’s hard to do better than Wired for Books, a site run by Ohio University’s radi…

Note: This article was originally published on OPEN Forum.
It sounds harsh, but it’s true: it doesn’t take much for journalists to get annoyed at the publicists who pitch them.
And the flacks are the ones who a…

Google’s location history tracking was already pretty neat, if you didn’t mind the potentially creepy data sharing. Its recent Dashboard update makes it a lot…

Yesterday, I, along with a ton of other journalists, met with Facebook and listened to their presentation on the new privacy settings.
Afterward I met one-on-one with Mark Zuckerberg and I told him that Faceboo…

Here’s a quick tip for companies or individuals pitching to bloggers to link to their products, services, events, sites etc:
Make it a Win/Win/Win interaction!
A Quick Story
Yesterday I was pitched to on my p…

Gist — a service that helps you automatically get more information about your email contacts and is a favorite of the WWD team — has just released an Android app.

It joins the existing iPhone app in prov…

If you’ve been waiting to get the Nook experience on your iPad, your wait is over. BarnesNoble just announced the availability of their Nook app, available free from the App Store.

Nook is behind in the race t…

I got an iPad for our home when the wifi version first came out. I used it for a day and then wrote a post about the iPad on the iPad. I was not very enthusiastic about the device. At the end of the review I sa…

Do you feel like something is missing in your life? Are you finally waking up to the fact that you’ve been distracting yourself with the unnecessary?Working a 9-to-5 job just to scrape together a living is no…

A man in white strode across the town towards the coffee shop, and the turtlenecker followed. Well, the turtlenecker didn’t follow so much as walk in the same direction toward the same coffee…

Social technologies are changing the way consumers make decisions. As social tools get more advanced and consumer adoption grows, our attention spans decrease and the focus shifts from talking to…

Google recently introduced a new search tool that leverages the open API from Twitter to allow you to find Tweeps that have similar interests. You type in your @ Twitter handle and it returns a sea…

There are many things a blogger should check before hitting the “Publish” button. One of the greatest mistakes a blogger can make is hitting the publish button too soon. I wish I could say I have…

I am flowing a very interesting discussion on one of my LinkedIn groups which focuses on Social Media. The question raised by one of our members was on “what makes or what qualifications does a soc…

This is another addition to our ongoing series of tutorials and case studies on landing pages that work.
Karen Omerod wants babies to be more comfy and parents less hassled dressing them. She’s designed an…

Lately, I’m a bit burned out on business cards. I think they’re important tools. I don’t think we can manage our identity transfer ONLY online, but I’m just a bit tired of handing them out. The reason?…

When major advertisers and agencies are looking to buy media online,
they typically turn to companies like comScore and Nielsen for audience
measurement data. That makes these companies extremely important to
p…

An important reminder that you are on the right path…
Social Media marketing is not new nor is it widely established or even understood. However in 2010, it will completely transform the way businesses attra…

For many PR and marketing professionals who engage on social media both personally and professionally on a daily basis, using sites such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, reading and writing industry blogs, an…

Many businesses, especially small businesses, are wary of social media and for a variety of reasons. The reasons are legitimate given that owners are wrapped up in the business of actually running their busines…

Startupland continues to throw out some innovative websites and interesting business models, and as such we’ve decided to launch a new feature called ‘Start Me Up’, which will profile new startups.
We kick thin…

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Marketers have u…

Do you buy in bulk?

When most people think of buying in bulk, they think about Costco. They think about saving a handful of shekels by buying a six-litre jug of Italian salad dressing. Either that, or they thi…

By now you’ve all befitted from the experience and generosity of my Twitter #kaizenblog chat co-host Elli St. George Godfrey. If you don’t follow her, make sure you add her handle to your stream @3keyscoa…

This final section of Google Webmaster tools provides some tools that Google calls “experimental”. The tools in this section change frequently so those mentioned here are available at the time of this writi…

After doing some research for a speaking engagement, I ran across this quote by Cory Doctorow from BoingBoing:
“Content isn’t king. If I sent you to a desert island and gave you the choice…

if you feel like going through the process of typing in your PIN every time you unlock your iPhone is worth it thanks to the unconquerable security it implies, you might want to read this report from Bernd Mar…

When you sit down to read a book, you read from left to right, paragraph to paragraph, page one to page two. That’s how I read a book, anyways.

When you read a blog, how do read it? I scroll like I’m lo…

It’s like an API festival here at Gluecon. I tweeted that this afternoon. But it’s not just Gluecon, though – they’re one of the hottest topics in discussions about cloud computing.

In his presentation today a…

There have been plenty of cases where a person or company gets a subpoena to try to identify an anonymous online person — such as in various file sharing cases. It’s also not uncommon for those anonymous inte…

In the month since the well blowout beneath the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, the real-time Web has been leveraged to communicate between concerned parties. At other times it has been notewor…

Groupon, which calls itself a “social commerce site,” is one of many online services that help consumers pool their buying power to get great deals. However, few companies can share Groupon’s experience o…

Amazon pitched its Kindle Dx as a perfect replacement from having to lug around heavy textbooks in college, but it seems that the drawbacks to the technology have students pining for the old textbooks (found vi…

Horace Dediu submits: Vague justifications about under-performance of Windows Mobile or cancelled Courier miss the whole point. The chronic problems with Microsoft’s (MSFT) consumer businesses cited as cause…

Continuing in my series of “20 Leadership Questions,” we come to the fifth question that Michael Smith asked when he interviewed me. This is one is related to the previous question about creativity.

Photo…

Unlike Apple and Amazon, bookselling behemoth Barnes Noble didn’t have an e-reading app available for the iPad on day one. But it’s just released an iPad version of its eReader–please don’t call it No…

Stephen Conroy, the Australian politician who has been pushing hard to massively filter and censor Australia’s internet has been fighting Google for a while now. After the company made comments about why such…

Here’s an app that pays for 12 iPads the very first time you use it. Buy one iPad for every single chair in your meeting room… like the projector and the table, it’s part of the room.I recently sat through a…

I have noticed a lot more traffic coming from mobile platforms lately and it seems that the smartphone (or Internet in your hand) is something that can’t be ignored. The growth in the market share of the iPh…

Imagine not being able to track traffic that was referred to your website. Think the day will never come? Think again.
Last week, Google unveiled a beta of a new SSL-encrypted version of its search engine calle…

Over the past several years, businesses have flocked to social media.
Many have done so because they want to, and many more have done so
because they think they have to.The increasing use of social media amongs…

Social media hates the status quo the way Kobe hates Shaq. The way Donovan McNabb hates T.O. The way Lindsey Lohan hates non-alcoholic beverages.Just when you think you have some modicum of a handle on this ind…

Daniel Stødle: “The idea is to provide a back button that takes you back to the task you were working on, before you opened a file, clicked a link, or similar.”

Clever and interesting. I bet I never would…

Articles about waiting for a great iPad magazine, a Twitter map, fake Apple news and fat start-ups top the reading list.

Continuous client functionality, you say? Sounds like Mozilla might be just what the doctor ordered. The company has announced that its upcoming Firefox Home app is coming soon to the iPhone. The program will…

The Free Software Foundation is up in arms over Apple’s iTunes Store Terms of Service, suggesting that these terms fundamentally conflict with the terms of the GNU Public License. The founda…

John Bell is the Global Managing Director of the 360° Digital Influence team at Ogilvy.
I had been getting emails from clients all week. They were noticing new pages spring up on Facebook under their brand nam…

Thank you, James Kendrick of jkOnTheRun for posting the fix for an annoying problem I’ve had with my iPad when trying to use it with with a recently acquired Sprint Overdrive, a “mobile wifi” device. I…

Today’s is a guest post from Matt Ridings, a friend of mine who has a sharp mind, even sharper wit, and a refreshingly pragmatic and holistic approach to all this social stuff. You can find Matt on Twitter at…

Does small business reputation management matter? I think so. It’s right near the top of my SEO Success Pyramid as one of the last “steps” to earning trust in your business.
The Pew Research Project has…

Today Facebook officially announced the option for allowing users to completely opt-out of the Facebook Platform and prevent applications from gaining access to their information. While many developers are rig…

Following up on yesterday’s discussion with new Foursquare product manager Siobhan Quinn, North Carolina blogger Wayne Sutton (@waynesutton) and I took time this afternoon to talk about how we see businesses be…

Yesterday an employee at a corporate Verizon gym found an unreleased Motorola Droid Shadow. The device’s owner eventually returned to pick it up, but a photo a…