Curated Stories September 1, 2010

Cellphone carriers better prepare to understand the meaning of “tyranny of free.” Today at Apple’s fall product launch, Steve Jobs announced that iPhone and iPod Touch products can now make calls to other Apple…

Hint: Being Designated As A Patient-Centered Medical Home Is Not One
We hear a lot about patient-centered care these days. In particular, a growing number of physicians across the country are now referring to…

Steve Jobs’ Apple TV announcement today highlighted the huge difference between his company’s efforts in the living room and Google’s forthcoming Google TV.
Specifically, Google wants to turn your TV into a com…

CEO Steve Jobs At Apples annual music event in San Francisco
Apple audaciously seems to think the world actually needs another social network — one that you even need special software to be part of, to boot….

Selecting the right wine for every occasion is a form of art most of us only pretend to understand. That’s why Lion Nathan Wine Group, a wine owner and importer, has put QR codes on wine bottles to help every…

When you see dozens of copywriting formulas promising “the perfect sales page,” how do you know which ones to trust?
After all, each formula seems to have a successful direct sales super…

The World Economic Forum has announced its list of 31 Technology Pioneers for 2011. The Technology Pioneers are its list of up-and-coming startups. Last year’s list included Twitter, Playfish, and Boston Po…

Yesterday we wrote about the huge Facebook Places backlash that’s spreading on Facebook through false status updates. However the information doesn’t appear to be slowing down. In fact, it appears to be s…

I have been really impressed by Facebook Places – which I think has done a terrific job simplifying a rather complex product and making it usable / productive for a massive audience (which in turn complicates…

If you aren’t up to date on the latest Facebook marketing strategies, you could be losing valuable marketing dollars as you spend your money aimlessly on expensive ads that no longer work. We’ve spent the…

You may have already experienced social media meltdown: a rapid derailment of your previously neat and tidy social media marketing efforts. Because social media cannot be “controlled,” the very thought of p…

Gabriella Evelina Britth, who offers expertise in concepts, design, and storytelling, has declared in her Twitter profile that she plans to produce “50 tweets in 5 days. A Storytelling Experiment where I will…

Mobile game company SCVNGR has moved quickly to integrate its service with the Facebook Places platform.

The game, where players check into various places and complete challenges, is now tied fully to Facebook…

As research for Public Parts, I’ve been reading Jay Rosen’s doctoral dissertation about the creation of publics and the press. As in other research, I’m finding so many wonderful parallels between the cha…

Apple announced a massive new service today called Ping. It appears to be a direct replacement of iLike, and it combines many of the technologies developed by Facebook, combined with Last.fm and Twitter. Most…

Six months ago, I put together a workbook that would help Linchpin readers ship.
After testing it out on hundreds of people, it’s now ready for retail sale.
You can find details here, or jump right to the buy…

Back in the mid-90s, when the Internet was still the size of a tadpole and TV was still the Big Kahuna, I was working in a large advertising agency that had many big, blue-chip clients.
We were given an brief…

If you’re one of those people who has yet to figure out exactly how and why to use Facebook Places — and you’re single — MeetMoi might have the answer. This week, the geolocation dating service became t…

Apple’s Location services allow websites to query your location from the browser. So if you ever see a message like this… …the website you’re viewing is asking for permission to get your location from y…

Theodore Gray, author/creator of “The Elements,” shares his thoughts on interactivity in ebooks, why programmers should be treated like authors, and why he believes the print form will continue to exist for qui…

Joshua Benton, on developing the Nieman Journalism Lab’s free iPhone app using TapLynx.

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The internet is an entrepreneur’s dream. Thanks to the web, a greater
number of individuals around the world have been given the opportunity
to start a new business.But while the internet has helped bring entre…

There’s a courting process in business. A mating dance, if you will, that exists between potential client and service provider while both flutter around determining if they’re a match. Traditional logic sa…

Even before Steve Jobs announced the fourth generation of the iPhone, people had confirmed the phone would ship with two cameras: a standard one on the back for taking pictures and a second one on the front for…

A study by Dr. Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick and co-author Matthias Hastall suggests that your grandma’s self-esteem gets a boost when she hears about the stupid things young people do. “Living in a youth centered…

The most surprising nugget Apples including in iOS 4.1 is the ability to take HDR photos. Youve seen plenty of these before—photographs with vibrant, unreal…

From what I can tell there’s not much to do yet except walk around and gawk at the pretty castle, but what a pretty castle it is. Free download from iTunes for iOS devices. [iTunes] More »…

Creating a Boutique BusinessThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing
Marketing podcast with Sarah Petty (Click to play or right click and “Save As” to download – Subscribe now via iTunes
The term boutique i…

Google currently has numerous initiatives aimed at reaching the UK small business owner but many of these conflict with each other and none appear to be achieving much traction.
With at least four projects a…

My new essay is up at PhilanTopic, Everyone Wants to be a Hero.Here’s an excerpt: Everybody wants to be a hero. Smart leaders and organizations know that. You also know it’s natural for people to align themsel…

Sheriffs officials in North Carolina say a woman was shot and killed by her ex-boyfriend after she changed her Facebook status to quot;engaged.quot;

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When Salesforce.com bought crowdsourced business contact database Jigsaw for $142 million earlier this year, the CRM giant said that it would combine its suite of applications with Jigsaw’s model for the auto…

Card.ly, a Web service that allows anyone to create sweet-looking online business cards (see my personal site robinwauters.com for an example) has been acquired by Workface, the company behind digital business…

Brick-and-mortar biggie Target will start selling Facebook Credits gift cards in-stores nationwide September 5, the retail chain announced today.
Facebook Credits are a virtual currency for all those Facebook u…

I’ve heard from two sources close to the Digg CEO search that there were a glut of good candidates. That’s something companies always say, and I frankly found it hard to believe.
I don’t necessarily mean…

Need to know which Web-based project management platform is the best? Looking for CRM software advice? SEO tips? Still deciding whether to start a small business in the first place?

Sure, you could head ove…

The online community of writers is such an important resource for all of us. Writers share a ton of industry information, are supportive when we hit writing or industry snags, and offer tips and friendship thr…

We’re a little too focused on collecting humans like marbles.
Our fans. Followers. Subscribers. Impressions.
Once upon a time, numbers like gross circulation mattered a bit more, because the available channel…

I don’t know if it was Brian Clark over at Copyblogger who first popularized the term, “Content Marketing”, but it’s he I most associate it with.
Content Marketing is exactly what is sounds like- creat…

A few months ago I wrote a post for HBR.org on how businesses that trust their customers deliver better experiences, because they use that trust to offer services that others simply will not match. In the artic…

Rebecca / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Reading, Writing, and RFID Chips: A Scary Back-to-School Future in California — Scary news from Californias Contra Costa County — school officials there have r…

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.. If you would like to have your startup considered for…

There’s a really good reason people love apps, and in particular applications from brands. They are often streamlined and simple versions of a company’s website or serve a specific purpose….

Google Rich Snippet
Oli Studholme has an excellent new article on HTML5 Doctor on the different ways HTML5 can be extended with things like microformats, the link tag, and more. Why would you want to do this?…

Travelers and city adventurers looking for a better way to harness geolocation data for their own amusement, get ready: Gowalla is releasing a brand new beta feature designed to crowdsource the best a city has…

If you didn’t think the check-in was a commodity before Facebook launched their Places feature, you likely do now. But Gowalla has known that for awhile, and that’s why they’ve been moving to extend the…

Many people struggle at work because they want more authority.
It turns out you can get a lot done if you just take more responsibility instead. It’s often offered, rarely taken.
(And you can get even more do…

This guest post by Luke Richards is part of the #JUMPchallenge, a blogging competition designed to raise awareness of how to join up online and offline marketing, launched to support Econsultancy’s JUMP e…

There is a reason why traditional media professionals will have a hard time making the transition to a new media world.

Just the other day I got into a debate with a seasoned traditional journalist about what…

From the vault:
I had a fascinating conversation with a friend a few days ago who is on the verge of quitting his job. He’s always loved working where he is now, is friends with all of his colleagues, likes…

The Windows Phone 7 Developer Training Kit is geared towards beginners who want to get started with developing applications for the latest Windows Phone operating system. Even if you don’t know Silverlight…

guest postToday is Conversation Agent’s fourth birthday. Happy birthday! They grow up so fast… No need to send cake, but feel free to join me in posting a comment or sending Valeria an email letting her k…

Hello everyone. My name is Ahmed Bilal, and I’ll be here every week showing you how to get more traffic for your content (be it your own website or content you’re writing for a client).
As a writer, putting…

While many Android users await the official Flash 10.1 release for their smartphones, tests of the only final version, limited to the Nexus One, suggest the player is still problematic when attempting to load…

AP – China wants people who buy new cell phone numbers to register their personal details, joining many European and Asian countries in curbing the anonymous use of mobile technology.

Over the past year, some of the most powerful marketing lessons I’ve learned haven’t come from a book, a guru or a webinar. They’ve come from Chandra Michaels.
Chandra is an Austin-based entrepreneur and…

More than a few businesses are hoping that mobile will save their bottom line in the coming years. Why is that? For a few reasons. But one factor involves consumer tolerance for ads and charges they reject in t…

It is hard not to enjoy beer marketing. Even if you are not a marketer, this industry always offers creative advertising (particularly on TV) that is fun to watch and spends lots of money doing it. Every year a…

Call me crazy (as many of you have), but I don’t see the separation of “listening tools” and “CRM systems” lasting too much longer. We have actually seen a few acquisitions over the past few months…

Google has said nothing about their rumored social networking offering, but it may be that the company has just revealed their secret weapon to take on Facebook. The new Priority Inbox feature in Gmail hints a…

Tumblr, which has been described as a publishing tool that’s somewhere between Twitter/Facebook and a full-fledged blog, is a fast-rising star in the crowded world of social media. It recently passed the one bi…

TweetThe fastest way to get your company to be on the social media sidelines is to get your company involved in social media. There’s a huge gap between the perception of social media as an instant, free, can…

Google introduced Priority Inbox this week, a new feature designed to solve the problem of overloaded inboxes by prioritising the most important and relevant messages.
This new option, currently in beta, spli…

Search marketing for the B2B sector comes with its own particular challenges. For anyone looking to get on with their first search campaign or want to improve their current process, here are five questions you…

Now that Apple has sold 3 million iPads, the platform is worth looking at for B2B marketers. As I have written before about the iPad, in my initial use of the device, it is not a laptop replacement. It is much…

A serial analysis of the quest to rescue 33 miners trapped 2,300 feet underground in a copper mine outside Copiapo, Chile…
Levels of Meaning

With the eyes of the news media fixed on one very specific locatio…

In Dallas, August 29, 2010, at OpenCamp I presented “Mind Blowing WordPress Plugins.” Here are the WordPress Plugins and more features during my presentation. Let me first define what my qualifications for…

How do you get to know a place through the eyes of the people who live there? How do you discover the nuances that only a resident would know?
Zakary Zide and I have been asking ourselves this question as we pr…

Last week we asked you to share your favorite text recognition tool—more formally known as optical character recognition (OCR)—then we compared them all. N…

Publish and Flourish
The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so.
–Editor William Targ
Publishing faces its share of challenges, but I hope the…

Are you struggling? Is writing your story harder than you thought it would be?
Welcome to a very large club.
Sure it’s hard. But maybe it’s you.
Maybe you need to look at your process differently.
Be…