Curated Stories September 8, 2010

Today Google unveiled a new product called Google Instant, which predicts users search queries and delivers results as theyre typing. The news immediately got people talking. While it will make search faster, n…

Television’s top humorists are always looking for new cultural elements to satirize, and two of the most popular subjects over the past year have been gadgets or social media — or both, as they’re increas…

I noticed something interesting while watching the Bob Dylan Google Instant video during Google’s search even today: some new text next to the drop down search suggestions. Guess what it is? The “I’m Fee…

My bulldog already emits enough nocturnal pleasure spackle when sleeping on a normal dog bed. I can only imagine what he’d do with a bed made from tennis balls…

The power of the Internet is undeniable.

When thinking about U.S. President Barack Obama’s election in 2008, many people link that historic victory to the power of the Internet. Leveraging Social Media and man…

Categories and Tags are for your visitors, not just search engines. Think of your visitors’ needs first. Categories and Tags are about navigation and sorting, grouping your content to help visitors find relat…

Are you addicted to Facebook? If you truly want to feed your addiction, you might want to subscribe to General Motors’ OnStar in-car communication service. If you’re trying to break it, maybe not.

From thi…

Understanding your market is a crucial part of planning your startup. But traditional market research can be both expensive and time-consuming, taking weeks or even months to develop, execute and analyze and e…

To coincide with Wednesday’s iOS 4.1 update, Apple also updated iPhone Configuration Utility, its device management software for businesses and the enterprise, with some key new features.

Unfair though it may be to kick a week-old service, kick I shall and suggest that Apple’s Ping social networking service is, in its infant form, unfulfilling. Here’s what I’d change.

Google is attempting to help small businesses convert shoppers browsing online into in-store buyers with its “Local Shopping” feature.The feature lets shoppers search for goods online then see who locally has t…

We’re actually kind of excited about the new Google Instant, but if you don’t like the distraction of as-you-type, predictive search results and filtering, it…

Google really did just change the game in search today with the introduction of Google Instant. While Google execs at today’s event emphasized how much faster it makes search, Google Instant is really about…

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Sergey Brin wants Google to become the “third half of your brain.”
That’s what he said at today’s big search event, where Google released Google Instant, its fast, streaming search results.
We’re not exactly ce…

One thing we talk about a lot inside the Third Tribe site is the value of guest posting (writing posts for other people’s blogs) for your site traffic and growth. I don’t offer it for my site, but I do at…

Here at the Google Search Event in San Francisco, Google engineer Ben Gomes brought up the fact that the search engine serves up billions of queries every day, the average query length being 20 characters and…

Author: Calle Sjoenell, Executive Creative Director, BBH New York
(Follow Calle here: @callesjonell)

After reading Chris Anderson’s piece in Wired about the web being dead, long live the Internet, I got a…

It’s a global trend: Consumers want to buy from, employees want to work for, and other businesses want supplies from, socially responsible enterprises. Small-business owners can use the corporate social respons…

Eric Yaverbaum and Marc DiMassimo (two savvy marketers) have launched a campaign to turn September 18 a national day of offlining – a digital sabbath:

Try making an Offlining Resolution. Have an Offline F…

Google today launched an ambitious effort to speed up searching. But what they really did is kill SEO.
Google says:
“Google Instant is a new search enhancement that shows results as you type. We are pushing…

Today at their Search event, Google showed of a huge update: Google Instant. As you can probably guess, this is a way to search in realtime simply by typing. While this new feature is rolling out on Google for…

The world of internet marketing is a complex and diverse one. There are several ways to go about it and each way necessitates more than a brief introduction. One useful way to market websites is to participat…

A black man who worked for a Tyson chicken plant in Alabama sued his employer for discrimination, after being passed up for promotion in favor of white workers from another plant—and after being referred to r…

by Josh Bernoff

(Reprinted from Ad Age DigitalNext.)
This is a big week for me. Our book Empowered, with advice about how to manage your company in the age of empowered customers, is about to hit the shelves….

Nicko from the Sunlight Foundation sez,

Today the Sunlight Foundation launched analysis that reveals more than $1.3 trillion in federal reporting data from 2009 is broken. These data inaccuracies account fo…

Here’s the million dollar question:
Why would anyone “like” your company on Facebook or follow you on Twitter?
I’m one of countless marketing consultants that helps clients use social media to connect w…

I recently chatted with a student working on his thesis. He was interested in the effects of the social Web and how these new tools were changing things for business owners. One of the big topics we touched on…

Some recent posts at the 37signals Product Blog:

Basecamp
New in Basecamp: Move between projects
We just launched a new feature in Basecamp that allows you to move messages, to-do lists, milestones and fil…

The Internet is filled with blogs and websites that contain information about everything under the sun. You will likely be able to find what you are looking for no matter what your hobbies or interests are. Whi…

One of the best books I read while in Paris was The Gift of Fear.
It was recommended to me by Chris Penn a long time ago, and basically talks about how women can deal with creepy guys and/or stalkers. Chris sai…

In a blog entry back in the spring, Tony Hirst suggested some interesting story prompts that spring from data.

For example, map-based journey: “Given a trail, what can you tell about the journey that was tak…

From the daily discussion about HTML5 to last week’s news that mobile game franchise Angry Birds might be headed to Hollywood, the world of mobile content is perhaps one of the most vibrant and fast-moving i…

Twitter presence…CHECK
Facebook Brand Page…CHECK
YouTube Channel…CHECK
Socialized Business Strategy…TBD
While showing up to the party represents a noteworthy effort, a bona fide social media strategy t…

The platforms offered by companies like Facebook, Twitter and Apple
offer entrepreneurs some very compelling features. They often bring to
the table built-in audiences, and, in some cases, established busines…

This is a guest post from Articulate intern, Laura Connell.
This week’s theme: “It doesn’t matter how good your marketing is if …”
‘Good marketing’ based on in depth research can generate leads an…

Earlier today, ReadWriteWeb editor Richard MacManus examined the future of social objects – that is, the future of the Internet of Things. This slow-growing trend encompasses how real-world objects are connecte…

Most of the research one does nowadays, be it of any kind and in any area, requires that significant time be spent browsing online and scouring through all kinds of websites and encyclopedias. After all, the in…

Suddenly, everybody wants to be an early-stage startup investor – an angel.
People you may have heard of doing it include Chris Dixon, the Hunch cofounder, Zach Klein, the Vimeo creator, Shana Fisher, the IAC…

It’s safe to say we’ve reached the pinnacle of humanity with this next bit of news: you’ll soon be able to update your Facebook status using OnStar. It’s the first “entertainment-y” option to be off…

From NPR, a list of 5 common parental worries that are extremely unlikely, and the top five risks for kids: the gap between the two is the source of much anguish, bad policy, and danger:

Based on surveys…

Google Analytics (GA) is a decent service for tracking activity on your site, however, there are times when it may be necessary to log some statistics yourself.

By its nature, GA does not include any informati…

I’m really liking Google’s design lately. Even though people would say, “It’s ugly and stripped down or whatever.” The decisions they’re making I think are really wise. Everything’s based on speed…

A Guest Post by Glen Allsopp from ViperChill.
In 2006, at 17, I started a blog about marketing which was very successful from launch. In fact, the first blog post I published was linked to by 4 of the Technorat…

Anyone using Facebook probably has a hard time keeping track of all the changes and updates to the service. Even those of us who use Facebook for business are hard-pressed to keep up. In the last few weeks, I�…

“I’ve got this HUGE idea. I just need to find a technical co-founder.” Ugh. I’ve heard that too many times over the last few years and it almost always ends badly.
I was in this situation and we barely…

Want to become Facebook’s largest advertiser? After reading the recent data on Google’s top advertisers, I figured it would be a good time to take a look at Facebook’s top advertisers. While we don’t…

What do you get when you connect your customers to each other? If the customers like your product (and I’d say 10 billions songs sold shows definite positive bias) you get more sales. This echo chamber is wh…

Salesforce.com, the customer relationship management software company, today said it will release a mobile client for Chatter, its enterprise social networking service some time this fall. Chatter Mobile users…

Despite the continued growth and popularity of Facebook, a number of alternate social networking sites are cropping up in order to the needs of groups in ways that Facebook can’t. One such group is scientists…

As news consumption shifts to the personalized social news stream, the platforms we use to consume the news are also changing.With its media-friendly design, the iPad is the first mobile device to create an env…

Gawker Media’s blog network brought in more uniques in July than every major newspaper except The New York Times, according to Nick Denton’s latest traffic memo, which The Awl’s Choire Sicha got a hold of.
Ditt…

Much of Microsofts woe over the past decade has been the result of the market moving away from the company.
In the past 15 years, personal computing has gone from being all about the desktop to being all abou…

Numbers mined from iTunes by Asymco are pointing towards a startling new fact: that very soon the number of app downloads will surpass music downloads, in just…

From now on, instead of using the usual two dozen baboons to randomly write Gizmodo’s articles, I am going to use Google Scribe, a new Google Labs application…

How many times have you tried to translate a sentence and have come up with embarrassingly incorrect results via a translation site? Or have you used Google Translate to translate a website from another languag…

It went by largely unnoticed, but directory services provider WhitePages launched a social buying website called DealPop last July, entering a field played by many notable up-and-comers such as Groupon, Living…

Warming up fries and other fried food in the microwave is better than eating them cold but microwaving tends to make fried food limp and soggy. Use your broile…

Recently, I posted a list of 12 Things Good Bosses Believe. Now I’m following up by delving into each one of them. This post is about the tenth belief: “Bad is stronger than good. It is more important to elimin…

Reader Stan alerted us to a recent report out of Cleveland, where the city will apparently be placing RFID chips in recycling bins to monitor whether or not you’ve been a good little earth saver lately. The wa…

Over the last 4 years, I’ve launched several companies from this simple blog of mine. The idea that building an audience with content and letting the revenue-generating ideas, products, and…

Last week I was watching an episode of Mad Men, the one that includes the flashback of the young Don Draper selling fur coats in Manhattan. This touched a chord in me, since back in those days I was a little bo…

How often do you think about the future of Marketing?

It’s an interesting question to think about. To ponder. To speculate. In the past, I’ve made note that I do not consider myself a Futurist (as some have ca…

Did you have a summer reading list when you went to school? Mine was ginormous and it got me into the habit of being quite bookish growing up.Admittedly, I don’t read as much as I used to — 120 books a yea…

A New Career of Caring, Started in Death on 9/11. Brooke Jackman was a 23 year-old assistant bond trader who was one of 658 Cantor Fitzgerald employees to die on the morning of 9/11/2001. In her memory, her fa…

As much fun as I might make of the strange and weird things we humans invent there are time when something comes along that could truly transform parts of our society. This brain-controlled wheelchair from som…

Melissa Petro / The Huffington Post:
Thoughts From a Former Craigslist Sex Worker — People — not just prostitutes — have sex for many reasons. Sometimes, for some of us, one reason is money. From…

Scientists use science to scientifically determine what makes a good dancer. With bonus computer-generated dancing!

Monday afternoon seemed specially engineered to make me crazy. It started early in the afternoon. And we’ll substitute “snap” for all the bad words that I thought during those six hours. I was in the…

Google rolled out a new inbox last week that, in theory, separates your important emails from your unimportant emails and lets you speed through work faster.

Most of the initial reaction reflected users’ conc…

Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do—not why it works when it’s good, not why it doesn’t when it’…

The most interesting thing about Campus Dibs, a recently launched Groupon clone, is its choice of vertical i.e. college campuses. If you don’t think this is notable enough to merit another (albeit brief) Grou…

Apple has jumped into the social media game with Ping, its social network for music. Does it spell trouble for MySpace’s established grip in the music space?Last week, Apple launched Ping as the core new fea…

On the subway ride to the airport today in NY there was an ad for a new construction project at Fulton St. It had a Twitter account for status updates, but no Facebook account. Not sure why, but if you had aske…

As Salesforce’s foray into social collaboration, Salesforce Chatter, gains traction amongst enterprise users, it makes sense for the company to launch complimentary mobile apps to the platform. And as the enter…