Curated Stories Weekend Feb. 13 and 14, 2010

Fred / A VC:
Thoughts On Buzz — Reece asked me in the comments the other day what I thought about Buzz. I told him I hadnt had the time to turn it on and play with it. I did that later in the day an…

Google holds back Android 2.0 update from customers who want to know why.

LONG BEACH, Calif — Online social networks may be new, but social networks themselves, of course, are not. Nicholas Christakis, a professor of medicine and sociology at Harvard University and co-author with…

Are you worried your corporate marketing department and lawyers are going to stop you from creating your personal brand? If you are, this post is for you and for the corporate control freaks fighting a fool’s…

I get asked all the time “if you blog, tweet, slideshare, podcast, can’t someone just TAKE your intellectual property?” My response – you are SAFER if you are open with your content than locking i…

Vancouver, British Columbia – Racing down a ski hill or chasing a hockey puck is demanding enough, but the emergence of social media has created huge …

What we know about how the web will and is creating new behaviors is only scratching the surface.

Michael K. Bergman writes in his white paper: : Searching on the Internet today can be compared…

“I’m not seeing a connection between social media and lead generation today,” said Laura Ramos, VP-principal analyst at Forrester Research. “Social activity like Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and various s…

Here’s the latest entry in my (unintentionally) ongoing series on how to learn and master a story so your oral delivery of it sounds natural.

Heather Summerhayes Cariou, author of the acclaimed memoir about…

Blogging doesn’t come cheap, especially if you want to do it several times a week.
You have to come up with a good idea, create a great headline, write the post, hyperlink the appropriate phrases and words an…

The Worth Ave. Group offers laptop and iPhone insurance.

People tuning out temporarily eventually could spell trouble for networking sites such as Facebook, says Danah Boyd, social media scholar at Microsoft …

As the outcry over Google Buzz’s privacy has shown us, it’s smart to explore settings in Gmail, along with other places you’re sharing data with the search giant. Let’s take a look at 10 privacy, convenience, a…

The WordPress Process is a series of posts at Newsome.Org, documenting my forced march from the comfort of Blogger to the uncharted territories of WordPress. Parts 1 2 are here, Part 3 is here, Part 4 is her…

Practically all of Microsoft’s profits come from selling Windows and Office. Everything else, including Zune, Xbox and all that it does online, either loses money or barely breaks even.

As soon as Buzz was announced — before I could try it — I tried to intuit its goals and I found profound opportunities.
Now that I’ve tried it, reality and opportunity a fer piece apart. It’s awkward….

If you agree with my dead cartoon style theory and you yourself would like to draw with life rather than death, heres a tip: DRAW STORIESWrite a short simple story and draw your characters performing it. Either…

After spending 25 years in the FBI as a special agent in the area of counterintelligence (catching spies), you learn a thing or two about dealing with people. You learn that what motivates people is not your wo…

As part of my weekend trip back to my childhood home, I have been enjoying several stops at my favorite overpriced coffee shop in the world. Is there anything better than waiting in line for a $4 cup of coffee…

As I write this, the Twittersphere is going through its annual love/hate paroxysms about TED. Every year, the conference seems even more an event perfectly calibrated to inflame the bloggerati: Inarguably grea…

Courtesy of CXO and results gained by using GMail password strength meter.

Don’t let the following 10 book publishing myths and misconceptions undermine your confidence and lead you astray when you think about writing a nonfiction book to build your personal brand and expand your ca…

In a recent New York Times article, Zynga CEO Mark Pincus said that all employees need to “be a CEO of something.” Its a terrific mantra and speaks to the importance of ownerships, responsibility and incent…

Note from Josh: This is a guest post by Carlon Haas. Carlon writes about tips and tricks for not screwing up your life and career on his…unique blog Don’t Step In The Poop. Carlon’s talking about one of m…

Webmetricsguru is Marshall Sponder, ed

Been on my mind to share what I’m feeling about Google Buzz, but I wanted to play Buzz a little first, and also see what everyone else is saying about Goo…

I read a rather interesting article in Forbes, where a famous person posted about her problems with maytag on twitter and her blog and as a result got Maytag to fix the washer that they originally w…

I picked up on this diagram about world happiness via Adam Ferrier’s Consumer Psychologist blog.

It was the result of a study done by Adrian White at the University of Leicester last year. No…

I have just a couple of thoughts today that I offer to the reader not for sympathy but, rather, for scientific observation and reflection.
I’ve been dealing with a case of bronchitis that became pneumonia. I…

While
blogger/PR types are just now fumbling around, trying to find
a way to turn a buck on relationships without cheapening what they do, dating sites are
wildly popular. Jut take a look at this link, and…

Does this sound familiar?
You read an AWESOME article online and you promised you’d save it somewhere… but you didn’t. So you go to find it… but you can’t… and eventually you just forgot about it al…

I’ve been in several meetings with marketers recently in which one person at the table will say something like “our digital strategy” and then, in a few moments, someone else at the table will start ta…

Search engines aren’t the only ones looking for keywords. We are too. In a sense, we are search engines as we look for what we’re trying to find or we meander over the web hoping to stumble on something int…

One of my chief issues with Google Buzz is that theres no there. Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc all have destination sites or apps that allow the user to mentally switch contexts from one-to-one/one-to-few…

[NOTE: Here’s another story I wrote for FoxNews.com. This one’s on cool ways to find information that go beyond Google, and mentions Aardvark.I wrote it last Monday and it was was published on Tuesday–an...

For all the excitement about social media, there's a specter hanging over its use by companies. Is all this Tweeting, blogging and Facebooking paying off? ...

[The "Life Is Too Short" print. The image was the first one I sent out on "Hugh's Daily Frickin' Cartoon"...]
1. Figure out what your gift is, and give it to them on a regular basis. 2. Make sure it’s receiv…

I have a rule, formed by many years of experience, that I wait for 20 minutes, then I leave.
Before I had the rule, I’d never know when to leave when someone was late because it’s impossible to know how late t…

High profile movie dude + Twitter + arbitrarily applied and embarrassing policy = PR nightmare for Southwest Airlines.
Portly pepperpot Kevin Smith, genius behind the Clerks films and prolific internet user, d…

Originally published in MedPage Today
by Charles Bankhead
Recently, I learned that members of Congress have their very own medical clinic. I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised. Being a member of Congress i…

My next dog will have a Twitter account. So silly but so cool this iPhone application which is about to be released in Japan: it translates your dog’s barks into “human” language, and it automatically tweets th…

In my role as an educator and an advocate for social media marketing, this is a question I get asked at least once a week. Here are some ideas on how to prepare yourself for a marketing career in the social…

Steve Cunningham is the CEO of Polar Unlimited, a digital marketing agency.In his book — Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? — Seth Godin poses a challenge: Take your gift, whatever it is, and use it to change…

I was in Minneapolis last Friday when I got an email. Or, rather, Seth Godin copied me on an email to Kelly King Anderson from Startupprincess.com.

Me and Seth. Ive never felt less dainty.

It said:
Ke…

I Can Explain… Just Read BelowTwo of the more annoying, yet almost inevitable, results of being active on multiple social media services are entry duplication, and repetitiveness for people who may follow you…

Repeated censorship of foreign-owned social networks like Twitter and Facebook by the Chinese government may be a large part of the reason that local Chinese networks are gaining in popularity among…

GMAIL USERS: We hope you’ll join the discussion over on Mashable’s Google Buzz account.With over 9 million posts and comments in two days, Google Buzz has stormed the web like a swarm of locusts. An array…

For years, the conventional wisdom has been that searchers are typing longer queries into the search boxes on Google, Yahoo, and Bing. The evidence I’ve seen in the analytics for the four hyperlocal blogs tha…

You spend all your time on tweets and Facebook status updates anyway. Why not do it for your President? Filibusters need not apply.

This post is part of the IT Innovation series, sponsored by Sun Intel. Read more at ITInnovation.com.
Of course, the content of this post consists entirely of the thoughts and opinions of the aut…

In his PR Squared blog post”When Clients Want Coverage in Your Blog: Social Media Ethical Dilemmas,”my buddy Todd Defren frames the debate with the following two questions: Should clients be allow…

Yesterday I stopped by Twitter HQ to see Dick Costolo. Dick recently moved to Marin (my home turf) and took Twitters COO job. Id say that taking such a job means Dicks hair is constantly on fire, but if you kno…

If the latest numbers from online ad network Chitika are anything to go by, then we may well be on our way to the world of Idiocracy. According to the study, which compared click through rates to college educat…

“We see local as the big white space.”

That’s America Online (AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong recently explaining to a group of investors how AOL’s “digitizing towns” initiative (to offer one-stop website-management s…

Social media is the most buzzed-about channel in digital marketing right now, but social network ad sales accounted for a mere 5.5 …