Curated Stories May 31, 2010

Over the past few months, the debate over privacy and its role in the continued evolution of information technology has been reinvigorated. To some extent, the controversy isn’t new, nor is it surprising. Whe…

We love a good top ten post here at NP, and as weve recently found a fab social media t-shirt for Baby O (see if you can guess which one it is!) were inspired to bring you:
10 Facebook, Twitter…

Here is another chess puzzle, white to move and mate in 2!

Last week at the social CRM summit in Georgia those in attendance were tasked with an interesting exercise around understanding advocacy. We were to…

See a photo of Gregg, his bio, Part 1 of this QA, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5.

QA with Gregg Morris, Question 6:

Q: If you could share just one piece of advice or wisdom about story/sto…

Location-based applications are all the rage right now, but anyone who uses them knows that current GPS technology only allows for a certain amount of accuracy. If you pull up Foursquare, Gowalla or any other s…

Augmented reality (AR) developers Mobilizy, makers of the Wikitude World Browser, are close to releasing their latest creation, Wikitude Drive, an app that combines AR technology with turn-by-turn driving direc…

Now you’ve gone and done it. You’ve come across a list so enormous, so useful, and so awesome, our futile attempts to describe it have been lost in the tubes of cyberspace.We’ll just say this: No matte…

I’ve written previously about gleaning insight into consumer habits by looking at log files, and profiled the so-called “bot mediated reality” of security consultant turned fiction author Daniel Suarez. S…

Lawyers say that a growing number of businesses are suing individuals for posting critical comments online.

Earlier in the week I wrote some advice for those wanting to pitch bloggers by making your pitch a win/win/win one. Not only do you need to get something out of it but so should the readers of the blog and the…

There is a wonderful quote from Robert McKee in reference to stories. It is this: “Story is about principles, not rules.”
He explains the difference by saying a rule tells you what to; a principle simply sa…

If youve spoken to me recently about giving out information in an easy to read format youll know that Im hooked on infographics at the moment – and this one really is fab!
Produced by CMOS at…

One of the things that I love about teleworking is the ability to work independently. I can perform my tasks in my own time, using my own process. This also means that I don’t have to spend a lot of time deal…

With the web and cloud computing generating new data sources and consumption patterns, a fresh crop of software solutions and companies have emerged to tackle big data. And while there’s been rapid adoptio…

Pickens writes USNWR is reporting that the needle pricks involved in acupuncture may help relieve pain by triggering the natural painkilling chemical adenosine. There are also indications that acupunctures effe…

Here is a list of forty personal branding quotes that I’ve come up with over the past three years. Feel free to use them on your website, as long as you link back to this post and cite my nam…

Yesterday, while reading the Inquirer, a story caught my eye in the travel section — hotels want to know you, mister angry@hostelry. Getting to know your customers is a good thing, that was the main reason…

It took less than a month for Apple to sell one million units of its iPad device — less than half the time it took for the iPhone to reach that mark. And from most reports they’re finding it hard to keep up w…

I was recently interviewed for an article in Call Center Magazine and they liked my blog post on The Top 5 Reasons Why “The Customer is Always Right” is Wrong so much that they’ve turned it into a wall c…

Akshay Kothari and Ankit Gupta, two Stanford grads who signed up for the Launch Pad class at the University’s Institute of Design (aka d.school), could have hardly chosen a better path to try their hands at…

Few will dispute Amazon’s role as current king of the e-commerce space, but this week’s TechCrunch Disrupt conference raised an interesting question: Did Amazon miss the boat on social commerce?
At the conf…

Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
Ballmer just opened the Second Envelope — You know the business lore joke. The departing CEO meets his successor and hands him three envelopes to be opened in the pre…

No position in a company is more important than the CEO and, as a result, no job gets more scrutiny. Sadly, little of this analysis benefits CEOs as most of the discussions happen behind their backs. This…

When Google Maps‘ walking directions instructed Lauren Rosenberg to walk along a very busy highway with no pedestrian walkway, she followed the directions exactly. Unfortunately, she was hit by a car in the…

Frederic Filloux / Washington Post:
Why is digital advertising so lousy? Industry is too smug to innovate. — Is advertising the next casualty of the ongoing digital tsunami? For now, advertising look…

The state legislature in the U.S. state of Louisiana has passed a law adding extra time for committing a crime with an online map. Senate Bill 151 adds at least one year to the sentence of any criminal found g…

Sometimes a design isn’t working because you think you can’t change the one element that needs to be changed.

Understanding how the social web can enable scalable intimacy – http://bit.ly/bHP6kc (via @johnnyholland)

New post outlining group constructs group dynamics in #socialmedia – http://bit.ly/8ZMNzA

Klout is turning Twitter into a game. As you tweet and connect with other Twitter users, you earn badges for notable achievements. For example, when you’re mentioned by 100 unique users, or have a message ret…

1. The Literary Offenses of James Fenimore Cooper by Mark Twain
Mark Twain is nearly always funny, but never more so, in my opinion, than when he’s talking about writing he doesn’t like. Co…

When it comes to map mashups, there’s no doubt that Google Maps leads the way. On ProgrammableWeb we list 1,971 Google Maps mashups, almost four times as many as any other API. This popularity makes utilities…

Is meaningful or useful to have emotional reactions to business
organizations? Right now there’s a lot of that going around;
the atmosphere swirling around my employer and That Fruit Company a
short commute…

For the last two months, I’ve been openly discussing my experimentation with Foursquare, logging my location at all sorts of places throughout my travels, and – gasp – even discussing the fact I cheat, while no…

Trefis submits:
Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system competes with Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone OS in the smartphone market. The market research firm NPD recently released data indicating that A…

According to a new research report from Sweden-based wireless analyst Berg Insight, mobile location-based service revenues in Europe are forecasted to grow from €220 million in 2009 to €420 million in 2015….

Every 18 months for the last decade, the world has doubled the data it pushes to you.Twice as much email, twice as many friend requests, twice as many sites to check, twice as many devices.When does your mind l…

One of the key aspects of the emerging Internet of Things – where real-world objects are connected to the Internet – is the massive amount of new data on the Web that will result. As more and more “things” in t…

I’ve been exploring conversational marketing lately, both for some of the talks I give and to advise clients on appropriate and effective ways to not just engage our audiences in conversation,…

Gordon Brander has a fun demo implementing
the “Stacks” dock concept from Leopard using CSS3 only, including the following:

:target pseudo-class

transform

transition

border-radius

border-image

CSS gradie…

Last week, with Apple overtaking Microsoft in market capitalization â and with the floating of a crazy rumor that Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer would talk up iPhone and Visual Studio 2010 at the keynote of next…

As might be expected for a series working toward its recent much-promoted finale, “Lost” generated the most engagement through social media …

Social media marketing has emerged as a powerful new tool in recent years that continues to be integrated into companies marketing communications plans.
As social media marketing is relatively new there is stil…

The explosive growth and morphing applications of social media such as Facebook and Twitter create new opportunities and challenges for individual users, …

(Social Media Today) –What’s your goal? What’s your aim when it comes to social media? Or defining who you are? Or building your brand (personal or …

Social media – complete with Facebook-like status updates, profile pages and networks of social connections – is coming to your office cubicle. …

Every now and then, I’m asked to answer questions for other blogs and media outlets – more so lately due in part to the recent release of Engage!
The conversations that always ensue trigger new insights, i…

The U.S. Department of Justice is talking to industry figures about Apple’s decision not to support Adobe Flash on the iPad, The New York Post reports. An anonymous “Hollywood” source told the Post that…

This post is not for the politically correct soul and not for those who insist on wearing earplugs or pink sunglasses. This is about the people who are so concerned about their own pleasures that they are willi…

Hugh Pickens writes “‘Sticky,’ in the social sciences and particularly economics, describes a situation in which a variable is resistant to change. For websites or products it usually means that visitors or cus…

Posted by Dennis SellersThe Dept. of Justice’s probe into Apple is expanding to include how the iPhone and iPad maker does business with media outfits in areas beyond music, according to The New York Post, qu…

Quick, Smart Fridge! What can I whip up that contains half a jar of pickles, beer from Christmastime, light cream and lime juice?* More »

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The Search Engine wars continue to rage on.

We all know that Google dominates and that Bing (Microsoft’s search engine), Yahoo! and Ask.com continue to hold their own. What many people fail to realize is that…

A month ago, with the market charging ever higher, climbing the wall of worry, most bearish voices had been silenced. Now theyre back with a vengeance.
(Why? Because, as we saw clearly at the depths of the ma…

By now, just about everyone on the planet has heard the term “Apple Fanboy.” If you’ve ever said anything good about an Apple product, you’ve likely been called one. But a new class of fanboy has emerge…

See a photo of Gregg, his bio, Part 1 of this QA, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 3, and Part 4.

QA with Gregg Morris, Question 5:

Q: If you could identify a person or organization who desperately needs to tell…

Yes, I know you’re a master of the web, that you’ve visited every website written in English, that you’ve been going to SXSW for ten years, that you were one of the first bloggers, you used Foursquare before it…

Android users rejoice! With an ever-growing number of devices, a wide array of mobile carriers, and more free apps than you can shake a USB cable at, Google’s mobile OS has shaped up to be quite the versati…

On May 10th, 2010 ExxonMobile had an oil spill in Nigeria Delta. It is somewhere around the 16th worst oil spill in [wikipedia reported] world history, at 95,000 tonnes (696,350 barrels or 214,475,800 gallons)….

Ray Kurzweil: That Singularity Guy In the year 2050, if Ray Kurzweil is right, nanoscopic robots will be zooming throughout our capillaries, transforming us into nonbiological humans.

Ray Answers the followin…

In 2000, the Library of Congress started a pilot web archiving project focused on the presidential election. After the Sept. 11, terrorist attacks in 2001, the pilot project expanded and eventually became a pe…

Almost every sunscreen on the market accelerates cancer, the public learned last week. What, you didn’t know?
Guess what? Saturated fat is also not the culprit for heart-disease. Yet every article we see abou…

One of the best ways to stay up-to-date and informed is to ensure that the content you must see is always front and center.

In April 2009, I asked, what is your homepage?, and in thinking about how Sunday tend…

Even though the HTC EVO 4G has not been officially released to the public just yet, the exhaustively covered Android 2.2 “Froyo” OS has already been ported to…

When I wrote last week about Facebook privacy flap, I was speaking out of the frustration that many technologists with a sense of perspective feel when we see uninformed media hysteria about the impact of new t…

Ponca City, We love you writes In 2009, $60 billion worth of items were sold on eBay, meaning extra money for many sellers, whose activities may provide them with taxable income. Now the Washington Post reports…

Every author should be involved with the front and back covers of their books. This is true whether you self-publish your book, or you’re working with a trade publisher.
Authors who fail to b…

It has been another week of change in social media cyberspace with nothing standing still.
Facebook is still creating a lot of free press for all the wrong reasons as well as making its security simpler. Fours…

I’ve tried a few content apps on the iPad, including the much discussed Wired app. But I don’t like reading content via apps on the iPad and I gravitate to the Safari browser.
There are a bunch of reasons I fee…

Other than Macs, which are too over-priced to be taken seriously, I have become pretty reliant on Apple technology. In fact, I have become a card carrying, windshield decal rolling Apple evangelist to my real…

Back in January, I wrote a post entitled An iPhone Lover’s Take On The Nexus One. At the time, the Nexus One was soon to be released as the latest and greatest Android phone, and a number of iPhone users wer…

The iPad has finally made its international debut, meaning that thousands and thousands of new users will be enjoying Apple’s latest device over the coming weeks.With the launch of the iPad comes the interna…

I read a post on Social Media Today written by Alan Maites expressing some frustration with the lack of good information about measuring social media. He was bemoaning a piece Brian Solis had written …

Since gaining the HTC EVO at Google I/O last week, I have been using it exclusively, as promised, leaving my iPhone 3G aside in an effort to remove the Apple fanboy shackles and find what it is I may be mis…

Study reveals the most effective Social Media Marketing Strategies employed little known optimization techniques to refine and increase results. …

Does baptism into cyberspace via twittering and texting enhance real-life social skills of interpersonal engagement? Or, as author Andrew Keen claims in his …

I recently read a fabulous article about social media marketing for dentists by Dr. Jason Lipscomb.
The article states that dentists have been very slow in adopting social media as a tool for marketing their p…

snydeq writes “Gripe Line’s Christina Tynan-Wood offers good news for those harboring grievances about faulty software or unfair licensing practices: it is in fact possible to take a big vendor to small claims…

Advances in video technology and a need to reduce medical costs have made interactive telemedicine a growing business.

Plenty of other VoIP apps have managed to work in this functionality since Apple / ATT started allowing it last year, but the official Skype app has been a notable holdout. Now, two months after Skype started…

I’ve been meaning to write this for some time, and for all the time I delayed the more poignant the point I wanted to make started to become as new news came out further solidifying my angle. When I begun writi…

It has been an absurdly long time coming, but today Skype released Skype 2.0 for the iPhone with the capability to make calls over 3G networks. Theyve also put in some CD quality audio enhancements which seem…

In addition, media plays an important role. Exposure to violence via video games, social media and reality TV makes the students insensitive to the pain of …

We often reference the 3 stages of the buying process on this blog. As FutureNow’s founders defined them over 5 years ago in Call to Action, they are:

Early Stage Buyer: In Early Stage, people have made the…

David Carothers, Marketing 2.0 Maven
David Carothers is a risk management advisor at Praxiom, a two year old risk management consulting firm. In this podcast interview, David shares how he deve…

Montreal is the capital of the North American telemarketing industry.
As the second-largest French-speaking city in the world, with a cheap labour force and low cost of living, Montreal is the ideal place for…

Ancestral wisdom for a modern world.

Aztec – Arts – Social Sciences – Archaeology – Mesoamerican

If you consider where Android was when it started versus how far it’s advanced in 18 months with Android 2.2, you might get brain freeze.
Android 2.2 — aka Froyo — is the most usable, polished iteration o…

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After speaking on a panel Wednesday at TechCrunch Disrupt with Facebook’s Chris Cox and Google’s Vic Gundotra, Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley sat dow…

See a photo of Gregg, his bio, Part 1 of this QA, Part 2, and Part 3.

QA with Gregg Morris, Question 4:

Q: What people or entities have been most influential to you in your story work and why?

A: I had b…

Filed under: Hardware, iPad
A strange realization dawned on me today: I have already made mental plans to eventually replace two Mac devices I already own with two totally different devices that I don’t yet own…

Google may make another attempt at a native port of Latitude now that iPhone 4.0 is about to be released, senior product manager Steve Lee said today. He mentioned that Google was “evaluating” Latitude for the…

When the iPhone appeared, ATT excluded it from its standard phone hardware insurance plan. Now it appears the company is ready to launch a plan specifically for the iPhone, at a rather steep $13.99 per month, s…

We often forget that everything we do is Marketing.

Even if we don’t like the term “marketing.” Even if it doesn’t have the word “marketing” on your business card or in your job description… you’re in marke…

A recent post highlighted strategies for creating an informal social media team within your organization to help carry out social media …

Employers and clients are looking for ways in which you are different from everyone else – your unique selling proposition (USP). And if you don’t know your USP, there’s no way you’re g…

Mike Schaffner — Privacy issues, the Internet and social media in particular have been getting a lot of attention lately. Facebook has become the poster …

The right sales tools can go a long way toward bolstering the bottom line, particularly in a tough business climate. Here are four new applications that can help you set prices, make pitches, and chase down lea…

A bunch of folks have sent over variations on the story that video gaming company Blizzard has said that DRM is a losing battle. While that part is catchy, even more impressive is the overall reasoning, which…

Starting June 6th, iPhone purchasers will be able to insure their precious devices through ATT for just $13.99 a month, according to documents leaked to Boy Genius Report today. The insurance, which is purchase…

There’s good news and bad news for future HTC EVO 4G owners: Skype should come to the smartphone before the end of the year, as will mobile video app Qik — but you’re going to have to shell out $5 per mo…

In the spirit of Memorial Day, this anthology, written for and by people who have served our country, is a letter-perfect reminder of the value of patriotism.

Memorial Day – Country music – Holidays – Arts…

PostRank Analytics, a service that captures social engagement and traditional metrics in one dashboard, in launching a new beta feature called PostRank Activity Streams. PostRank describes Activity Streams as…

The first TechCrunch Disrupt conference kicked off with a bang this week in New York, with Charlie Rose interviewing renown venture capitalists John Doerr, and Yuri Milner. Highlights of the conference included…

[See Update below] Microsoft Bing will replace Google in the next version of the iPhone operating system to be released in June, we’ve heard from mulitple sources, including a high level source who claims to…

Already moonlighting on Chatroulette, the beloved Travelocity Roaming Gnome has decided to participate in the location-sharing movement as well, and will be updating followers about his exotic whereabouts on F…

Technologist Tim O’Reilly likes to say that the software of the future will be cloud-delivered data, augmenting mobile reality, based on real-world sensor feedback, in real time. Peter Batty (left), VP of geosp…

Foursquare and Farmville are among the world’s worst inventions, at least according to TIME.com’s list of “The 50 Worst Inventions.”The list of “the world’s bright ideas that just didn’t work out…

Cross reference a person’s Twitter friendships with their Foursquare favorites with their Hunch.com articulated “taste graph” and what do you get? Interesting personalized restaurant recommendations, for one t…

The National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) recently released its report on “Teachers’ Use of Educational Technology in U.S. Public Schools: 2009.” While 97% of those teachers surveyed said they had a…

Michael Scott points us to one of the best summaries I’ve seen of the state of the music business today — published in the ABA Journal. It’s an incredibly balanced piece, that really does carefully present bo…

Cool infographic from OnlineMBA.com:

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Washington, D.C. CTO Bryan Sivak is creating the infrastructure for a city that makes everyone a map maker in the cloud. His plan? Give citizens easy tools to create their own mapping applications that can be a…

Geoff Livingston co-founded Zoetica to focus on cause-related work, and released an award-winning book on new media Now is Gone in 2007.Open data is the big trend these days when people talk about “Governmen…

The video above, which we believe will be shown to publishers to promote the new Digg, gives a never before seen look at the new version of Digg, version 4, that the company has been working on for over a yea…