Curated Stories October 7, 2010

Mobile apps on iPhones, Android phones and BlackBerries are now standard issue in most companies as employees are now generally expected to be available far beyond regular working hours. As more business commun…

There’s no shortage of location-based search apps. One of my favorites is Around Me, but there are plenty of others. Smith Micro has come up with its own search app that has some nice additions, and misses a fe…

Facebook announced a number of features yesterday, not the least of which being the ability for its users to download their information – their wall posts, photos, status updates and other content all in one ne…

Antony Mayfield is iCrossing’s Senior Vice President, Social Media, leading the company’s services and innovation efforts related to the social web. You can find him on iCrossing’s blog or on Twitter. T…

I’m hooked on Groupon. In the past year, I have purchased dozens of deals for restaurants, cruises, a dentist, and all sorts of random stuff. The discounts are incredible.
There are two main components to the…

PayPal added check deposit capabilities to its iPhone app on Wednesday, and hey, I just got a check in the mail. Let’s see how PayPal handles the job.
Before you start, PayPal hits you with a bunch of disclai…

In the first of what will be an ongoing series of bi-monthly surveys, research firm Wedbush asked 2,500 consumers 18 and older about their social media habits.
A full download of the data is available upon re…

When the iPhone 4 free bumper program finished a week ago, Antennagate ended. But Ryan Block reports that the iPhone engineering team has discovered another ma…

Whether you want to expand your horizons a bit, or just don’t have the time to pick out articles to read every week, Send Me a Story helps out by sending one p…

The Google Open Source Program is announcing a new outreach effort, aimed at 13- to 18-year-old students around the world. Google Code-in will operate in a similar fashion to Google’s Summer of Code, giving st…

Twitter founder Evan Williams says Twitter is open enough to be interoperable with decentralized social networks built by other people, but that none have overcome the trade-off in user experience innovation th…

When Automattic launched VaultPress, a subscription-based protection, security and backup service for WordPress blogs and sites in March, the company was flooded with requests for the new service. Still in priv…

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Microsoft and Adobe held high level meetings to talk about how to slow Apple’s momentum in the mobile market, Nick Bilton at the New York Times reports.
One option for the companies, according to Bilton: Micros…

Two scary words: Microsoft Flash.

(image) I’m fascinated by the tracks we leave online, and their implications both in real time (better search results, real time advertising ecosystems, new forms of social behavior etc) and in the long view….

Facebook rarely fails to be true to its company culture, which is…well, let’s see: Facebook is like a bull that’s constantly breaking things in its own china shop, then repairing the damage after customer…

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google News Testing Twitter Integration With “Friends” — Google is apparently testing a new feature that lets you connect your Twitter account to Google News. …

According to a recent international survey of 2,200 mothers, 81% of children under the age of two currently have some form of online presence — ranging from a single photo uploaded and shared by their parents…

Facebook’s two least favorite words in the English language: “opt in.”
Yesterday’s announcement of a new groups feature should have been a home run. We still expect this will be a big deal for the company. But…

Yesterday, Facebook rolled out an update to its “Groups” feature, revealing a completely revamped experience that now offers collaboration capabilities, email subscriptions, group chat and more. You can create…

I call upon the gurus who evangelized storytelling long before I did — people like Annette Simmons and Steve Denning and others, early pioneers who wrote books that have become the foundation for current…

You can’t see it, but I’m tapping out over here. Why? Because for the life of me I cannot understand the hype surrounding Google TV (and by extension, the Logitech Revue and other, similar items). It’s no…

Creating the Mindset for Global Marketing SuccessThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing

This article is part of a sponsored series by UPS covering topics of interest to the small business including logistics,…

I’ve been working with several teams of economists lately and it’s got me wondering where they learn to write like that. If you’re lucky enough to have encountered anything penned by an economist, you’l…

While other employees might envy your role, as it offers a lot
of visibility, the social media Center of Excellence is frankly a lousy deal. Not controlling what you need to succeed never bodes well. Legal,…

New Facebook Groups Could Be Big for BusinessThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing
Facebook rolled out a few unpredicted changes this week with an eye of getting users to communicate with friends in new ways….

Social networking comes with a price — and that price is control of your online reputation. Make bad decisions, and it could affect your ability to get a job, a promotion, a bank loan or even a favorable divor…

This guest post is by Sarah Von from Yes and Yes.
If you’ve just started a blog you are, no doubt, using your best Google-fu to hunt down every last post giving advice to novice bloggers. There’s heaps of g…

Earlier this week, Facebook was granted a broad patent on mobile location-based social networks. It seems to cover everything from members of a social network sharing their location with each other through th…

If you didn’t pay attention in your high school typing class, you might be regretting it now. Hovering hesitantly over the keys with two fingers and poking away is a waste of time — not to mention it doesn�…

Twitter announced some improvements to its search feature yesterday, but it still has a major limitation: you can’t find old tweets.
Twitter told Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan it has no plans to change th…

As a digital branding and marketing agency, our company has encouraged, coached, and cajoled clients over the years on the importance of blogging for building traffic, buzz, and organic search.
We watched som…

When Facebook released the revamped groups product yesterday, many people immediately decided to jump in head first. Unfortunately things haven’t been completely smooth sailing.
Facebook Group Membership Is…

Facebook announced some great changes yesterday – users finally have a way to download all their information and photos, there’s a dashboard to handle applications and privacy settings, and even a nifty new way…

Have you seen people at library book sales going over all the books with a barcode scanner? One of these folks reveals his methods and discusses his feelings about what he does.

Yesterday xkcd published a pretty entertaining map depicting all the social networks as they’d fit into a world map. It’s a pretty clever image. Rather than explaining it though, I’ll let you view it yo…

Jonah Peretti and Paul Berry are masters of getting content to catch on. So its no wonder the startup they helped launch, Huffington Post, gets so much traffic.
At the Hard Candy Shell conference, Berry, Huff…

Keyword research is the crucial step in website development and SEO process.
There are some basic points to stick to while doing keyword research for your SEO campaign.
Research Your Target Market
The produ…

As the chairman and CEO of America Online, Steve Case helped connect mainstream America to the Internet for the first time. He orchestrated AOL’s $165 billion acquisition of Time Warner in 2001, which remains…

Occasionally a random freelance assignment drops into my lap, such as the recent client who wanted his LinkedIn profile to tell a better story. I took the assignment and immediately encountered two dilemmas:…

According to Wikipedia, the odds of being struck by lightning over the course of a lifetime are about 1 in 3,000.
Assuming that lightning strikes are independent events, the chances of getting struck by lightni…

Even if you’re good at getting things on track to stay productive and focused, that doesn’t keep distractions from sneaking their way into your days and wreaking havoc on your plans and intentions. Here are…

Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Yahoo Rolling Out New “Accordion” Search Other Features — Yahoo is launching a number of search enhancements this evening that start to deliver on the UI innovat…

John IrvingAs you may have noticed, we got a little carried away with Banned Books Week here at 317am, so much so that I vowed no more posting on banned books till next year. But then a Facebook friend passed a…

A few months ago, Aneel Bhusri offered to introduce me to one his favorite entrepreneurs. Since Aneel is, for my money, the best enterprise venture capitalist in the world, I immediately agreed and Aneel did n…

The new version of Facebook Groups has made its debut. The driving force behind it and two other new features the company launched today is Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s philosophy of personal data ownershi…

The Web Development Series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.If you’re new to programming (or new to programming in a particular la…

The primacy effect, when applied to presentations, suggests that we remember more strongly what happens at the beginning of a presentation. In order to establish a connection with an audience, we must grab t…

Forrester Research’s latest enterprise mobility report is “Mobile Applications Will Empower Enterprise Business Processes” by Paul D. Hamerman. It’s geared towards business process professionals, but gives a g…

The Verizon iPhone rumor is as old as the iPhone itself. So whenever anyone trots it out, you take it with a grain of salt. It’s like The Beatles coming to iTunes. It will happen eventually, but who knows wh…

We think the person/social media strategist behind Bajillionhits.biz might have a slight crush on us, or at least our boss. In any case the second, “How Do You Pitch To An Angel” episode in Alex Blagg’s…

As social media grows and matures, it seems pretty clear that there are a few aspects of this integrated discipline that are becoming increasingly important, yet are undeveloped skills in most s…

Free isn’t always generous. Free can be a legitimate marketing strategy, an ultimately selfish way to increase sales. Once you spread your ideas (and free is the best way to do that), there are all sorts of way…

Felix Salmon submits: Back in June, it was very puzzling why Tom Matzzie, the former Washington director of MoveOn.org, would be waging a campaign against Steve Eisman and other people who are exposing the a…

by Patty Azzarello

Selling Your Ideas
Are you ever frustrated that no one listens to your ideas?
If your opinions are not appreciated, or your proposals get dismissed, you need to do a better job…

Google now offers a security checklist for Gmail users, a five-part process with multiple steps in each designed to reclaim the feeling that nobody can get int…

While plenty of retailers have released mobile commerce apps, and some of them are excellent, I think the future lies with creating mobile websites, and this should be the first step into mobile commerce.
Thi…

Many times, blocking social media at B2B companies is a decision that comes from IT or human resources – not from marketers. Regardless, B2B marketers must be equipped to either deal with these policies or of…

During our conversation at the New York Times Small Business Summit last week, we talked about this concept of building a moat around your business. Say for example you are in the design business. We just saw…

Weve just added a new budgeting line item in our marketing plan: Content Marketing Research Development (RD).
Whats the idea?
Lets start with the content marketing strategy. Of course, we have:

Customer P…

Welcome to the new Facebook. No, I dont mean Facebook the social network, although todays changes do represent some exciting new capabilities for Facebook users. Instead, I mean Facebook the company. The orga…

TweetForrester Research recently released a 2010 update to its Social Technographics® data that analyzes the social behaviors of global Internet users.
For the first time, the percentage of U.S. consumers eng…

I’m not a great believer in the ‘if you follow me, I’ll follow you’ mentality that some like on Twitter. It’s not that I’m rude, but I am well aware that a lot of people out there f…

I had a chance to talk with Union Square Ventures partner Fred Wilson today, both during and after a meeting he had with half a dozen startups at the offices of Extreme Venture Partners, a fund and incubator b…

A lifetime ago, back in 2004, I became a book publisher: co-founder of The Friday Project, a publishing house that promised to adapt the web’s creative talent into awesome books. This wasn’t print on demand…

We just noted that Twitter quietly rolled out an entirely new search backend over the past few weeks, and nobody seemed to notice. That’s actually great news, because it means nothing went terribly wrong in…

While everyone was busy trying out New Twitter or tweeting about how they want New Twitter, Twitter itself was doing something secret behind the scenes. The startup quietly flipped the switch on an entirely new…

Although the emphasis of much location-based technology has been on its mobile implementation – the ability to stay updated on whereabouts when you’re out-and-about – there’s still a place for desktop uses….

Facebook just unveiled a new feature called Groups.
It basically lets you start a mini-section of Facebook with a specified group of people, including a wall to post on; the ability to share links, photos, docs…

Mark Suster is one of those unique venture capitalists in that he has experience as an entrepreneur prior to joining the VC world (or the “dark side” as he calls it). Twice, in fact. That’s why he calls his blo…

Not previously known as a leading designer, Twitter has been on a roll with their latest iPhone app, iPad app, and New Twitter. Here is a good example of why – but with some learnings / advice on how to desig…

Facebook has a new legal weapon in its war with Foursquare.
Facebook has been granted a wide range of patents related to the social networking and location, Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch reports.
Considering Fo…