Curated Stories October 5, 2010

In October 1958, a pre-fame Hunter S. Thompson applied for a job at the Vancouver Sun. The Ottowa Citizen recently published the quintessentially-Hunter cover letter, which also appeared in The Proud Highway…

10-POINT PLAN: Assessing and Setting a Benchmark
Finding Out Before You Start

Ever asked someone to change something she’s been doing for years? It’s not the easiest endeavor. Even when we hate what…

How to move your small business to the cloud? [Techworld] offers up what you need to know about cloud computing: what it is, pros and cons, suggested services, and tips for applying it to your business. The art…

First-Mover Advantage is an idea that just won’t die. I hear it from every class of students, and each time I try to put a stake through its heart.
Here’s one more attempt in trying to explain why confusing…

This was a lot more boring than I expected for such a magical food…way fewer rainbows and unicorns than I would have thought. (via devour) Tags: food how to

For the longest time, all I’ve wanted is a solid native Mac client for Gmail that supports starring of messages. Sure, there have been some out there, but they’ve all been lacking. Today, I may have finally…

Hey, maybe Microsoft isn’t screwed when it comes to mobile, after all.
Windows Phone 7, its forthcoming mobile phone platform, just got a rave review from Daring Fireball’s John Gruber, who has extremely high u…

What do a Revolution in Military Affairs and the smart grid have in common? The reason it took 600 years for gunpowder to really change war fighting strategy illustrates the risks inherent in a future smart gr…

I want to introduce you to a UX Week talk called “Data Informed, Not Data Driven” by Adam Mosseri, Product Design Manager at Facebook. While his talk focused on the role of data in design and decision maki…

According to data from StatCounter, Internet Explorer has dipped below the 50%-mark in its global share of the Internet browser market.StatCounter shows IE at 51.34% of the market in August 2010; by the end of…

Checking out new tools is part of what we do to stay current and find ways to be more efficient with Search Engine Optimization and Social Media Marketing. Sometimes a few tools offer interesting features or…

Stay with me, people! Let’s just hop right into this one. Up on stage are Todd Friesen, Kristjan Mar Hauksson, Rebecca Lieb, and Max Thomas. My brain is mush and my fingers are tired so…let’s see ho…

We can’t exactly figure out why Google wants to give away all of Android’s competitive advantages, but hey, we doubt the legions of iOS users are kvetching. Ten months after the first public build of Goggles…

Cash-strapped states target residency programs for cuts

Medical school enrollment has climbed 2% annually during the past five years due to new medical schools and expansion of existing medical schools. But th…

The race to create filters for real-time social media — so that companies in particular can track what is being said about them — continues to heat up. In an attempt to stay ahead of the curve, analytics s…

ABC News Radio and StatusNet, the open-source microblogging service that serves as the foundation for identi.ca, have “unofficially” partnered to unveil a newswire for the radio service.

While the partnership…

There is no shortage of Groupon clones. With literally hundreds of daily deal sites popping up all over the world, it’s a pretty saturated market. Or maybe it’s the next big thing. Either way, AOL (our ne…

Location-sharing service Foursquare was down most of Monday, apparently due to a database issue. No Foursquare website or apps were available. And with the API also down, third party applications were helpless….

Groupon and its many imitators have been facing a rising tide of negative publicity over the past few weeks, the gist of which is that Groupons are terrible for small businesses.
The stories are all pretty much…

The Social Media for Business Leaders Series is supported by The Awareness Social Marketing Hub, an enterprise-grade application for marketers who manage multiple social channels. Learn more here.Businesses use…

Subliminal messages affect the subconscious mind. We’re talking visual messages that can be flashed very quickly in a film or buried within a print image and audio messages that are masked by other sounds, p…

Loyalty programs are designed to give you perks for sticking with a particular airline or store, but because of the way your mind works when making decisions…

Social media may be the biggest agency land grab ever. Interactive agencies, PR agencies, creative agencies, media agencies, direct agencies, and even specialty search, mobile, and obviously social are getting…

I’ve written before on how to discover your personal brand, but in this post I’ll take it a step further by discussing defining your assets and competitive edge – particularly during a jo…

The JavaScript-based tools for Web development are widely used for desktop and laptop browsers. JQuery Mobile will let coders reach mobile phones, too.

AOL plans to launch a Groupon clone called “Wow!”
Groupon is the service that sends its users a coupon in an email everyday. The coupon doesn’t work until enough email recipients agree to use it.
Here’s how AOL…

So I broke down and got one of the new Apple TVs, despite my initial objections. There was a few reasons why I did, some of which I’ve detailed at our sister site TheAppleBlog recently. But the future possibi…

Over the past few hours a massive like-jacking worm has been spreading on Facebook. Similar to previous attacks, this attack is using numerous applications on the Facebook Platform with different names in orde…

Back in the spring, Jacqueline Marino wrote on Nieman Storyboard about her two-year analysis of the writing in the highest-rated multimedia presentations on Interactive Narratives, a Web site sponsored by the O…

Here’s a live blog from jQuery creator John Resig’s talk at FOWA, where he’s giving us an update on the new toys from the jQuery team.

Data Link
jQuery already supports a data API:
PLAIN TEXT
JAVASCRIPT:

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I love the TED conference and everything it stands for. If you haven’t gotten lost down the rabbit hole of the TED talks, you haven’t lived. (TED-heads, share some of your favorites in the comments?).
Their…

Jon Goldman is CEO of the multiuser content-sharing platform Qlipso, which recently acquired the assets of online video site Veoh.com. He lives and works in Los Angeles.The spread of broadband Internet access a…

Direct messages sent through Twitter can be easily exposed thanks to a loophole in Twitter’s API, Gary-Adam Shannon at Search Engine Watch reports.
When a user logs into a site using their Twitter username and…

Have you ever just wanted to point your app at a service and get immediate gratification for the location of a string of text? How about for an entire website? The good news is there is more than one way to g…

The following is a review of Shoeboxed.com, a receipt scanning and business card scanning service.
receipt scanning and business card scanning … organized online … and it’s completely painless … To be…

Online stationary startup Paperspring is bringing QR codes to event invitations today with the launch of Paperlinks. A “Paperlink” is a customized QR barcode that can be scanned with a smartphone to allow i…

Recently, the Boston Globe (owned by The NY Times, so it was hardly a surprise) announced plans for a paywall of sorts. I say “of sorts,” because the paper is actually creating two websites, one of which will…

Good morning, friends! We are back in action today with six meaty sessions to get through. So make sure you stock up on your coffee now. I know I am. Thank goodness there’s a Starbucks hidden in the Javits…

Appolicious – If you’re the type of person who can’t remember what you did yesterday—let alone a year ago—then you might find the new free Twitter-centric app Tweetago to be an interesting find.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Guarding water wells and granaries from enemy raids is as old as war itself. In the Middle Ages, vital resources were hoarded behind castle walls, protected by moats, drawbridges and knig…

Once upon a time, employers would ask prospective employees for references who they could call to find out more about the candidate’s work. Organizations engaging suppliers and service companies would call pa…

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I find something rather amusing about the idea of people at Rackspace printing out this cube grenade, and hanging it up everywhere in their San Antonio office. It would s…

A Guest Post by Amy Parmenter from The ParmFarm.com.

Have you ever wondered how Darren and other A-list bloggers generate so much fabulous content? It just seems to come pouring out: day after day, month afte…

Spotify, the frankly awesome music-streaming service, will be on Windows Phone 7 at launch. It is available now for Windows Mobile 6.x (now confusingly named Windows Phone), and will be in the Windows Marketpl…

Caterina Fake was one of the co-founders of Flickr, an iconic web 2.0 online photo service that was sold to Yahoo. Her latest product is Hunch, a service that started out as a QA service but is now being positi…

Inspired by a talk I gave yesterday at the BOS conference. This is long, feel free to skip!
My first real job was leading a team that created five massive computer games for the Commodore 64. The games were so…

Have you started your blog on WordPress.com, and then thought about moving on to a self-hosted WordPress installation? The move gives you more freedom, but it also hurts your blog’s SEO rankings. Now, however…

In the 2002 film Comedian, Jerry Seinfeld was followed by a documentary crew during a year-long comedy tour. The first shows were not pretty. It reminded me that the polished acts of even the be…

Cross Posted at The Huffington Post
I was at a conference this weekend in Las Vegas — It’s bad enough to fight with the recycled air, the perfumed-at-50-degrees conference rooms, and the endless fried foods…

 Son and father searching for a bicycle “The presence of the original is the prerequisite to the concept of authenticity.” Walter Benjamin Steelworker turned actor, Lamberto…

A few days ago, Amazon announced the feature “Kindle for the Web”: A feature allowing someone to share the Kindle version of the first chapter of a book as embedded content on a website (for an example,…

Imagine taking a picture using your smartphone and immediately having all of your Facebook friends automatically tagged, without even visiting the website, the app, or looking at the picture itself. This is the…

Consider eBay as a Small Business Sales ChannelThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing
Marketing podcast with Lin Shearer (Click to play or right click and “Save As” to download – Subscribe now via iTunes…

If you read blogs and even mass media, you probably have come across at least one headline where something must die. Blogs are dead, PR is dead, marketing is dead, the Web is dead, social media is done and i…

With a well-known brand and a high street presence, BHS has the potential do well online, both in terms of web sales, and in driving sales into stores. After all, other multichannel rivals such as Debenhams and…

My company Zoetica teamed with Network for Good to co-author Cause Marketing through Social Media, a free eGuide. Geoff Livingston was the primary author from our team and Kate Olsen led the effort on the…

New technologies have a profound impact on our behavior. Is our next generation gap, or is it a humanity reset? In the early part of the last century, Harold Innis, a professor at the University of Toronto, stu…

Continuing our trend this week of embracing the notion that even the worst Social Media advice can sound pretty damn smart when you give it a chance: Below are 5 super-duper-awesome bits of advice from some o…

Last week the author Malcolm Gladwell poured cold water on the idea that revolution could be instigated by social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.
He centres his argument around the American civil…

Want to write a better press release? Go to journalism school. If that’s not an option, brush up on the basics of newswriting, such as the five ‘Ws’ and one ‘H’ and the inverted pyra…

When the iPad finally dropped in April it was greeted with the expected fanfare, but opinions were rather divided about whether the thing would be a long-term success — even amongst we humble writers. Six mon…

Citi Cards customers might find this little gadget in their wallets soon. It’s basically a regular credit card except it has tiny buttons which let you choose…

Google CEO Eric Schmidt dropped by the Washington Ideas Forum last week. It was clear from his comments that he and his company remain deeply attached to the search giant’s self-imag…

WordPress may have begun life as a blogging tool, but the open source publishing platform has evolved into something resembling a full-fledged CMS in recent years, especially with the release of WordPress 3….

If you ask that question on Yahoo Answers, you’ll probably get something about how a husband’s Xbox was once used for Netflix, but now it doesn’t work. If you ask that question on WolframAlpha, you’ll…

Richard L. Daft is a professor at the Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University, where he specializes in the study and teaching of leadership. I had the privilege of meeting Dick several years a…

I really don’t see why people are arguing over which platform is better, GoogleTV or AppleTV. I don’t care, I’m getting both. AppleTV costs less than a month of cable service and a Logitech Revue Goo…

A new study finds consumers active on Twitter are three times more likely to impact a brand’s online reputation through syndicated Tweets, blog posts, articles and product reviews than the average consume…

If there’s one thing brands hate, it’s when customers attack using Social Media.

There’s no doubt that using Social Media and publishing your reasons for feeling wronged is not only commonplace, but something…

Brands are increasingly spending real money building up and maintaining their social media presences. From Facebook to Twitter to Foursquare, questions over ROI remain, but many brands have come to the conclusi…

TweetNew research from Sysomos shows that 92.4% of all retweets happen within the first hour after the tweet has been sent.
This demonstrates that Twitter users are not browsing the public stream (or even their…

Anyone working in affiliate marketing will tell you it’s a complex
channel. Typically the day to day grind of an affiliate network is to
try and make sense of this complexity, juggling priorities and
conflict…

Want to find Twitter followers based on their location, or bio information? Want to find and follow social media lists that influencers in the online community have curated? Read on… Listorio…

Choice appears to be a significant factor in cultivating an appetite for reading.