UniTube – The Art of Storytelling

Powerful Storytelling At Its Finest | Social Media Snippets

Borrowed Time, Borrowed World: Redemptive Theology and Storytelling

Do-Gooders Doing Better with Social Media

YouTube – Teaching Storytelling in the Classroom

tompeters! Strategy: The Story is More Powerful than the Brand

Cybraryman Digital Storytelling Resources

What do I do with my hands: gestures in storytelling – The Storytellers Cafe’

Deanna Lee (New York Public Library) – Keynote: Communications 2.0: social media, storytelling, and standing out on Vimeo

Reasons why storytelling helps businesses develop strong brand awareness – by Leigh Goessl – Helium

Applied Improv Principles: Storytelling is Collaboration | Improv Notebook

Technology Review: Transmedia Storytelling

Storytelling …. | Blog

Find the Story Not the Fireworks « Tippingpoint Labs

Could This Be The Future Of Storytelling? – PSFK

Digital Storytelling: A Practical Classroom Management Strategy

BBC – Wales – Digital Storytelling

Invisible Families – The Homeless You Don’t See

Transmedia Talk Podcast – Episode 2 « Culture Hacker

Abstract | Storytelling as a communication tool for health consumers: development of an intervention for parents of children with croup

Business cards for fictional characters – Holy Kaw!

The Power of Story in Presentations by Nancy Duarte – Presentation Advisors Blog

On Storytelling. « Soliloquy.

mental_floss Blog » How to Write Movie Scenes

Analyzing Our Storied Lives – A Storied Career

Lobbying For Followers On Twitter: A Love Story – storify.com

Storytelling as a communication tool for health consumers: development of an intervention for parents of children with croup

Ishmael’s Corner » Storytelling As A Platform For Building Trust

Go Into The Story: NPR & Storytelling, Part 4: Fresh Air

Storytelling In Modern Marketing « Live Your Lifework!

HOW TO USE STORYTELLING FOR BUSINESS AND WHY IT MATTERS | Market Yourself as a Speaker

Beth Fish Reads: Guest Post: Pam Ripling on Setting and Storytelling

Transmedia film campaign planning | The Wall Blog

Storytelling and Anecdotes | Market Sentinel

Go Into The Story: NPR & Storytelling: The Moth Radio Hour

Adobe: The Art of Storytelling

• Phases of App Maturity: Roadmapping Your Startup’s Mobile Strategy
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  Back in August, after the release of the company’s Android app, I spoke with GetGlue CEO Alex Iskold about how his startup prepared itself for making the move to mobile. The app first launched on the Web, and t…
• How Apple Just Disrupted the Cable Guys
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Epicenter
  People in Silicon Valley have focused on the set-top box as the lever to attack the cable industry. Cable boxes blow, but that’s a losing battle.
  So why is Apple TV different? Because Steve Jobs has not just…
• How Social Data Built a Better Health Care App
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  Alexander B. Howard is the Government 2.0 Washington Correspondent for O’Reilly Media, where he reports on technology, open government and online civics. He’ll be reporting live from the upcoming Gov2.0 Sum…
• One Big Traffic Secret
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: chrisbrogan.com
  I’ll tell you one thing I know: the more you post, the more traffic you get.
  It’s helpful if the stuff you post is worth something. I try hard to make that always the case. Others don’t try as hard, an…
• HUGE: Facebook Testing New “Subscribe To” User Feature
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: All Facebook
  Facebook is in the process of testing a new feature which lets you subscribe to all the actions of a specific user. In other words, you can receive notifications anytime a specific user takes an action on Face…
• Connecting With Fans Is About More Than Getting People To Pay Attention To You
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Techdirt
  When I first start talking about this whole CwF+RtB thing, I tended to focus more on the “RtB — Reason to Buy” part of it, because I naturally assumed that was the big problem. After all, the big thing we kep…
• Facebook Testing “Subscribe”, Their Version Of Follow — Well Sort Of, Maybe
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  I feel like all I’ve written about the past few weeks is Facebook’s need for a new social dynamic. Specifically, I want Facebook to break their social graph into two: those people who you are friends with,…
• 9 Ways To Use Facebook To Annoy Your Kids
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Jeffbullas's Blog
  I don’t know if you remember the time when social media channels such as instant messaging and MySpace were for teenagers. The evolution of social media is now producing a demographic spread of users that p…
• Skype Doubles Down with 10-Person Video Chat
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  Skype announced today that the latest beta version of Skype 5.0 would up the ante in terms of group video chat, as well as introduce a more stable and sleeker experience for its Windows users.

  When the company…

• How Insiders Game User-Generated News for Money
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Silicon Alley Insider
  The Web. Open, democratic, leveling, freeing information from closed networks. The wisdom of the crowds. Or so it seems.
  I originally came from the enterprise software world (for 10 years) and before that I…
• Surprising Facts About Death On Facebook [Infographic]
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: All Facebook
  We’ve compiled some stats on death on Facebook and thought we’d share them with you in our first of many infographics. While we typically try not to be morbid, there are some interesting findings, especial…
• Facebook Places and Your Brand
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Personal Branding Blog – Dan Schawbel
  Now that Facebook has decided to one-up Foursquare and other location-based platforms I thought it might be useful to think about what Facebook Places means for a brand. By now any social media…
• Texting: It’s Not Just for Teenagers Anymore
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  Lately, the discussion about texting has mostly focused on teenagers, who now often send hundreds of text messages per day. While voice calling is still the primary use of cell phones for adults, almost three q…
• Analyzing Our Storied Lives
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: A Storied Career
  This week NPR presented a two-part piece on “Our Storied Lives.” The text of the story (part 1 and part 2), written by Jon Hamilton, engagingly juxtaposes a preview of an upcoming book by Antonio Damasio wi…
• How to Write Movie Scenes
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: mental_floss Blog
  Ever wondered how screenwriters do their thing? Lots of people have, and there’s a whole genre of books out there devoted to helping up-and-comers understand the arcane art of movie-writing. Despite all the…
• Hire Great Guessers
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: The Conversation
  Analytics are now king. And they should be. (If you’re not already convinced, read Competing on Analytics, one of the best HBR articles I’ve ever read). It’s so much easier to collect and digest numbers on yo…
• Ping Not Available to You? You’re Not the Only One
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  While introducing Ping, Apple’s new music-centric social network, CEOSteve Jobs mentioned that it would immediately reach a userbase of 160 million people in 23 countries. Sounds impressive, until you remembe…
• How To Be The Jack Bauer Of Your Company
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: The Future Buzz
  The fictional character Jack Bauer of 24 was indispensable as an agent for the Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU). He ignored orders. He went off protocol. That didn’t matter, he was critical to the success…
• 5 Ways to Motivate Virtual Teams
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Liz Strauss at Successful Blog
  by Patty Azzarello

  How do you motivate people you can’t spend time with in person?
  1. Virtual Team Building (literally)
  I always did team building exercises when I had my team in a room together. But someho…

• Notes for Later Creates Personalized "Email Yourself" Bookmarklets [Bookmarklets]
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Lifehacker
  For all the to-do apps and reminder services out there, some people, at some times, just want to email things to themselves. To make that lo-fi reminder possib…
• The Four P’s of (Search) Marketing
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Search Engine Journal
  Search Marketing isn’t all that different than traditional marketing. And, just like the physical market, you have a plethora of vehicles from which to choose. Optimizing your efforts can get a little co…
• How to Easily Install Twitter Testimonials on Your Blog
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Search Engine Journal
  A couple of weeks ago I took a look at some examples of how brands collect and leverage Tweeted feedback – which has a positive effect:

  This creates favorable social media context around the brand (and thus…

• Why Small Advertisers Can’t Use Adwords Anymore!
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Search Engine Journal
  Remember back in 2001, during the good old days (of the internet) when you could actually use Google Adwords as a means to drive quality traffic to your website, at an extremely low investment to the advertiser…
• PlacePop Serves Up Data From Facebook Places
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: All Facebook
  Developers are wasting no time building applications on top of the newly released API for Facebook Places. Earlier this week mobile game SCVNGR announced its integration and today it’s PlacePop.

  The stated p…

• How To Silo Your Website:The Sidebar
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Michael Gray – Graywolf's SEO Blog
  The following post is part of a series on How to Silo Your Website. You should review, How to Silo Your Website the Masthead, How to Silo Your Website the Breadcrumb, How to Silo Your Website the Content. For…
• 15 Essential Back to School Podcasts
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  Alexander Hotz is a freelance multimedia journalist and public radio junkie based in New York City. Currently he teaches digital media at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Follow Alex on Tw…
• Apple Ditches The Geeks And Early Adopters
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Silicon Alley Insider
  With a low $99 price point and syncing capabilities with Netflix, ABC, and Fox, Steve Jobs’ newly overhauled Apple TV is primed for parents, not geeks. Brian Ries on how the company is abandoning its early ad…
• 10 Reasons Apple Ping Won’t Beat Facebook Anytime Soon
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: All Facebook
  Yesterday Apple announced Ping, a network which many have suggested will replace MySpace and present a new competitor to Facebook. However Apple’s first shot at building a social network has many flaws. As…
• Check in on Foursquare Using Your Voice [APPS]
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  It may not be the most socially acceptable way to check in, but Vlingo has created a way for Android app users to check in on Foursquare with their voices. It’s a speech-to-checkin feature that will save time…
• Ping: It’s even worse than it appeared
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Scripting News
  Further examination of Apple’s new social network reveals more problems.
  To review from last night’s post:
  1. It’s awkward, at least, that it runs in iTunes and not a web browser. There’s no Back button…
• Apple’s Ping Social Network Is Actually Good, And It Has Huge Potential (AAPL)
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Silicon Alley Insider
  We’ve just taken our first tour through Apple’s social network, Ping, and we must admit we’re impressed.
  When we first heard about Ping we were skeptical. Who needs ANOTHER social network in their life? But aft…
• 10 Things You Need to Know About Apple’s New Social Network, Ping
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  Ping, Apple’s new social network, is the standout feature in iTunes 10, the most recent update to Apple’s music management application. Within Ping, you can find and follow your favorite bands and your friends…
• Are These the Economy's Good Old Days?
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: The Conversation
  Five years from now, will we look back on the dismal unemployment that we’re suffering on Labor Day 2010 and see this year as the good old days?

  Within today’s official unemployment statistics hides the true c…

• For a Better Career Outlook, Look Inward
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: The Conversation
  Heres an idea for your next performance review: Do what the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies do for their annual evaluation by the board of directors — write a self-assessment that helps guide the conversation….
• Facebook’s virtual money
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Business and financial news – CNNMoney.com
  Facebook, which neither makes nor sells anything physical, takes a big step towards creating a unified online currency by selling gift cards in Target that work for Zynga, PopCap and other 3rd party games.
• Review: Elements a must-have app for iPad-using writers
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Macsimum News
  Posted by Dennis SellersSecond Gear Software’s Elements 1.0 is a great idevice app for writers, especially considering the kludgey workaround you need to sync iWork docs between an iPad and a Mac.

• Why the New Apple TV Isn’t Something I’ll Be Watching
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: TheAppleBlog
  So is Apple TV still only a hobby for Jobs and company? Because if it isn’t, then I’m missing something from yesterday’s presentation when the new iteration of Apple’s set-top device was unveiled. The n…
• How to tell if your Company is Advanced: 10 Criteria Of Social Business Maturity
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Web Strategy by Jeremiah
  Excited about your new Facebook page but don’t know what’s next? What does a truly advanced company look like in social business? They can say yes to seven or more of these ten criteria.
  We’ve been in…
• WiseStamp Brings Your Email Signature to Life
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing
  WiseStamp Brings Your Email Signature to LifeThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing
  On the spectrum of really big marketing tactics, the email signature isn’t terribly sexy, but this little touch can say a lo…
• 5 Facebook Tools to Help Online Retailers Sell More
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: StartupNation Blog
  Just about every online retailer out there is looking for ways to utilize Facebook as a channel to enhance their online shopping experience and acquire more customers. Below are 5 useful tools that help retaile…
• A No-Cost Teleclass for Case Study Writers
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Stories That Sell » Blog
  Copywriters: Want to make more money with case studies?
  Then your stories HAVE to SELL.
  Join me on Wednesday, September 8 at 9 PDT/12 EDT for a no-cost, one-hour teleclass:
  For Case Study Copywriters: 8 Secre…
• Is Social Useless?
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: GameChangers
  A response to Spencer Fry of Carbonmade, who recently posted a blog entry entitled: “Down With Social–Social is Immeasurable and a Waste of Time.”
  Spencer, I agree to this extent: The phrase ‘Social M…
• Customer and Company Value, You Must Define Both
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Social Media Globetrotter
  In my presentations I oftentimes reference a quote from Gartner which says the following:
  “By 2010 more than half of companies that have established an online community will fail to manage it as an agent of c…
• The Difference Between Flacks & Spin Doctors
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: PR-Squared – Social Media Marketing and Public Relations
  I honestly hadn’t heard much hubbub about the August 21 New York Times feature on the year’s biggest PR fiascoes (“In Case of Emergency: What Not to Do”), until I read last week’s editorial in PRWeek,…
• Is Windows still relevant in the virtualization era?
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Infoworld News
  Virtualization has not stripped Windows of its relevance, a Microsoft official said in response to VMware CEO Paul Maritz’s argument that operating systems are no longer the center of innovation in the IT world…
• Stephen Hawking: "Big Bangs Happen" [Blockquote]
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Gizmodo
  Hawking’s covered the end of the world, now hes examining the beginning—writing It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the u…
• Facebook Posting Juror Gets Fined, Removed, Homework
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Slashdot
  eldavojohn writes “A Michigan judge removed a juror after a Facebook comment and also fined her $250 and required her to write a five page paper about the constitutional right to a fair trial. The juror was ‘ve…
• Ping, Facebook Break Up: It Happened Last Night
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: GigaOM
  This morning when I woke-up, I found a huge brouhaha around Ping and Facebook. Apparently, these two aren’t BFFs anymore. There was some talk earlier that Facebook and Apple were working closely on a version…
• Better than nothing (is harder than you think)
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Seth's Blog
  Most of the time, particulary in b2b and luxury sales, the competition is nothing.
  “I will buy this treat or I will buy nothing, because I don’t really need anything.”
  “I will buy your consulting services, or…
• Ping: First Look at the iTunes Social Network
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  Part of the new iTunes 10 software, announced and launched yesterday, is a significant new social networking feature for iTunes called Ping. It allows you to comment on music, ‘like’ it a la Facebook, or rate i…
• Ras's Web Gems: The Polyglot Project
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: 3:17 a.m.
  Are you the sort who likes to dabble in languages? Who practices the learn-by-doing technique? Who believes that “la pluma es lengua del alma”?If so, you’ll enjoy hours of neuron-growing fun at the Polygl…
• An advocate for patients might save your life in the hospital
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: KevinMD.com
  by Dennis GraceSo, you have to go to the hospital. You’ve had an accident and the doctor wants to keep an eye on you for a few days. Maybe you need major surgery. Whatever the reason for the stay, a lot a…
• 10 Best Books For Back To School Business Reading
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Six Pixels of Separation – Marketing and Communications Insights – By Mitch Joel at Twist Image
  It’s back-to-school week… what are you planning on learning this year?

  The other morning, I watched the pitter-patter of feet drag their way back to school. The brand-new schoolbags scratched by the pavement…

• See How They did it: 104 Social Media Case Studies
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Conversation Agent
  Is your boss still skeptical about social media? Are you looking for creative ideas for social media executions? Do you have a sense of what you’re looking to achieve? This post is for you. Last week we talked…
• Everything I Know About Marketing I Learned from Google
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Online Marketing Blog
  Aaron Goldman is an accomplished digital marketer that I know through MediaPost’s Search Insider Summit conference. He reached out to me while writing his new book, “Everything I Know About Marketing I Lea…
• Samsung, Toshiba take on Apple with ‘iPad killers’
  (AFP)
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News
  AFP – Competition to Apple’s highly successful iPad hotted up on Thursday as Samsung and Toshiba unveiled rival tablet PCs that they hope will steal some of the Californian giant’s thunder.
• If You Have To Tweet About Me Before I Give You Content, Will You Still Respect Me In The Morning?
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Techdirt
  A couple months back, we discussed the growing trend of some content creators to require some sort of promotion in exchange for “free” content — such as “tweet about our album and you can download a song.” Ap…
• The iTunes Ping Social Question: Follow, Friend, Or Lurk?
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  Right now, many of you are likely downloading iTunes 10, the latest version of Apple’s media software. The most notable feature in this new version is Ping, Apple’s first stab at building a music social ne…
• Writing About People We Know
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Mystery Writing is Murder
  It’s always really interesting talking with readers about writing. Their questions are always really different from writers’ questions. In the past I’ve never noticed much similarity in the questions I…
• Twitter Just Killed Something Else: Their Own Website. Twitter For iPad Is That Good.
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  Are you addicted to Twitter? Do you have an iPad? Even if the answer to both is “no” right now, after you see Twitter for iPad, those answers are going to change — quickly.
  Yes, the wait is over. Launchin…
• Ping: “Facebook and Twitter meet iTunes” Except…
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: John Battelle's Searchblog
  …as far as I can tell, they in fact don’t ever meet. You can’t leverage your networks on Facebook and Twitter in Ping. It’s another closed Apple system, another Apple universe in a gilded gift box.
  It’s not…
• Twitter Launches Official iPad App
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  Twitter has just announced the service’s official iPad app.It’s free and comes with a slew of touch interface bells and whistles built right in. The app is intended to allow for seamless navigation between…
• HOW TO: Get Started with HTML5 Boilerplate
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.This is not your father’s world wide web. Thanks to soaring smartphone sales, new tab…
• Dubious: Apple thinks iPod touch is “#1 portable game player”
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: The Inquisitr
  Apple CEO Steve Jobs has called the iPhone and iPod touch platforms “the number one portable game players” on the market, boasting that “the iPod touch outsells Nintendo and Sony’s portable game player…
• A Facebook-Based Online Store Just for Students
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  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…
• When Will People Learn: Websites Are Not Liable For What People Write In The Comments
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Techdirt
  It still amazes me when lawsuits actually get filed against sites for things that people write in the comments. Section 230 case law is really well established on this, and you would think lawyers would know b…
• How to Grow Traffic to Your Blog
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: chrisbrogan.com
  Of all topics, this is one of the perennials. People want more traffic, more attention, more awareness to their blog. It’s fair. We work hard on our blogs. We want more attention and traffic. If your busine…
• Adventures in Life Streaming, Archiving Tweets and Facebook Status Updates
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: cre8d design
  Last year, I started a blog on social archiving – about creating physical archives of digital memories. I’m still fascinated by that, but also wanted to revise again how I could archive in one spot (if po…
• Twitter Reaches Out Too Late To Users Over Broken Apps; URL Shortener Coming Soon
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Silicon Alley Insider
  Twitter sent out a very strange email to all of its users over night about a few important changes the company is making, including the switch to OAuth that broke many users’ third party Twitter apps yesterday….
• Competition Responds to Apple TV and Ping
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  Apple made a lot of announcements today, from the new Apple TV to the Ping social network for music built into iTunes 10.Because Apple is entering some new market segments (or, in the case of Ping, some new mar…
• Agency Flash Mobs vs Social Flash Mobs
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Social Network by Laurel Papworth
  While traditional media spends most of their time dissing social media (it is a competitor after all), traditional agencies find social media a rich source for client campaigns. This post takes…
• The Eco-Marketing Scam
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: The Ad Contrarian
• Twitter: iPad app review
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blog
  Twitter has just released a new official version of its app for the iPad (iTunes link), and it looks like a strong competitor for Tweetdeck.
  I’ve been trying out the new app which, according to the Twitter b…
• What Type of Twitter User Are You?
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Personal Branding Blog – Dan Schawbel
  After reading Chris Brogan’s 50 Power Twitter Tips I started really thinking about how people are using Twitter. The tips are insightful and should be read by everyone who using, thinking a…
• 11 Whys I’m a Social Media Addict
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting
  TweetConnectivitySocial media brings me closer to people with whom I ordinarily would seldom interact. Family, friends, colleagues. As my co-author Amber Naslund put it once “with social media, my relationshi…
• The importance of knowing how to use web analytics tools
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blog
  Web analytics is still a missing art in many businesses, not just retail. Analytics is the last station on the investment train ride and is often compromised to pump more money into direct revenue generating…
• Ping Fosters Music Discovery, Not Friend Discovery
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: NYT > Technology
  Apple’s social network for music, Ping, is like an amalgam of Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. But the point is to sell more music.
• Advertising: Scholastic Books Revamps Its Marketing
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: NYT > Technology
  The company said it wanted to keep better track of teachers who were new or who had departed and use more methods of communication.
• 4 Must-Attend Small Biz Tech Conferences in September
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  Remember when you couldn’t figure out where July went? Well, now it’s September.

  Summer is indeed coming to a close, but to help soften the blow, ReadWriteWeb has compiled a list of four essential technolog…

• Why Ping Is a Stepping Stone to Social Commerce
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: chrisbrogan.com
  I am a huge fan of Om Malik. I just read his post on Apple’s Ping service, and have a difference of opinion. Om points out that it’s great that Apple is finally adding a social layer to their iTunes store….
• 11 Ways To Lose Your Job On Facebook
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Jeffbullas's Blog
  Facebook has become the social media channel everyone loves and loves to hate. It is a powerful platform to share your content as well as being a soapbox to post your feelings and thoughts whether they are appr…
• Study: Display ad market nearly doubled in 2010, amidst a slow economy
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blog
  That online display advertising growth so many digital marketers have been anticipating may be arriving a little early. According to a new report from Rubicon Project, digital ad spending grew 47% during the fi…
• Google Testing Full-Featured Google Apps
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Epicenter
  Google Apps users got a step closer to full Google-personhood this week, as the company sent invitations to select users to test out a version of Google Apps that includes all the features regular Google users…
• Yelp’s First Daily Deal In San Francisco Gives Groupon A Beating
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Silicon Alley Insider
  Yesterday, Yelp ran its first daily deal in San Fancisco, and it killed.
  Yelp’s first deal was for a massage in San Francisco, which are relatively common in the daily deal space — a $110 massage for $49 f…
• Apple’s morals strike their new social music network by muting Lady Gaga tweets
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: The Inquisitr
  Apple is well known for applying their corporate (of Steve Jobs’) morality upon anything that happens within their sphere of influence. We have seen this happen more than a few time when it comes to apps but…
• Why the Apple A4 is the iPod Touch’s Killer Feature
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  As expected, a massive upgrade to the iPod touch was announced earlier today at Apple’s special event. Although the most outwardly impressive revisions come by way of front and rear facing cameras and the ret…
• Email Notes to Yourself With Notes for Later
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: GigaOM
  Some people use their email for everything — storing files, emailing notes to themselves, etc. If you fit that description, you should check out Notes for Later. It’s a simple free service that’s useful f…

• Apple is about to teach telecoms to fear free with FaceTime on iPod Touch
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blog
  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…
• Is Your Physician Patient-Centered? Five Ways To Tell
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Better Health
  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…
• Here’s The Difference Between Apple TV And Google TV (AAPL, GOOG)
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Silicon Alley Insider
  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…
• Apple’s ‘Ping’ Social Network Is Already Too Big To Fail
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Epicenter
  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….
• QR Codes Help Consumers Shop for Wine
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  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…
• The 10 Essential Ingredients of Successful Sales Pages
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Copyblogger
  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…
• Foursquare, Scribd, And Spotify To Be Dubbed 2011 Technology Pioneers At Davos
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  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…
• Again, Facebook Places Does Not Automatically Track You!
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: All Facebook
  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…
• Facebook Places + Photos Makes Sense
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: RyanSpoon.com
  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…
• The Only Facebook Marketing Resource You Ever Need
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: All Facebook
  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…
• 6 Ways to Avoid a Social Media Meltdown
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: GigaOMCollaboration
  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…
• Tweeting a Storied Resume Over 5 Days
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: A Storied Career
  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…
• SCVNGR Announces Facebook Places Integration
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: All Facebook
  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…

• Press as Facebook & Foursquare
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: BuzzMachine
  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 Has Become Facebook’s Biggest Threat With Ping
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: All Facebook
  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…
• Launching the ShipIt Workbook
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Seth's Blog
  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…
• all big ideas start life out as small ideas
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: gapingvoid
  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…
• Facebook Places Gets a Romantic Twist with MeetMoi Integration
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  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…
• FindMe Extension Tells You What Location Your Browser Gives Out via Apple’s Location Services
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Pimp My Safari
  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…
• What publishers can and should learn from "The Elements"
  Published: August 12, 2010
  Source: O'Reilly Media: Mac and iPhone
  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…
• An iPhone App Developer’s Diary
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Daring Fireball
  Joshua Benton, on developing the Nieman Journalism Lab’s free iPhone app using TapLynx.

  ★

• Can you start a new business in ten steps with $2,000?
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blog
  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…
• 6 Ways to Know He’s “The One”: Client Edition
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Outspoken Media
  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…
• Why Apple’s FaceTime Is a Huge Opportunity
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: GigaOMGigaOM
  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…
• Old People Enjoy Reading Negative Stories About Young
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Slashdot: Science
  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…
• What Are HDR Photos? [HDR]
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Gizmodo
  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…
• That Gorgeous Epic Citadel iPhone Demo? You Can Download It Now [Apple0910]
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Gizmodo
  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 Business
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing
  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 needs to decide how it is going to crack the SME market
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blog
  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…
• Everyone wants to be a Hero
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: NeuroCooking
  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…
• N.C. woman shot, killed over Facebook status change
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: News
  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;

  http://www.jdnews.com…

• Salesforce Completes The Puzzle With Jigsaw For CRM
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  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…
• Workface Acquires My Favorite Online Business Card Creation Service, Card.ly
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  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…
• Ex-Googlers At Facebook Working Hard To Avoid Google’s Fate (GOOG)
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Silicon Alley Insider
  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…
• CEOs For Sale! Come and Get Your CEOs!
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  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…
• Get Quick Answers to Your Small Biz Questions on Focus.com
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  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…

• Resources for Bloggers
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Mystery Writing is Murder
  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…
• Going Beyond Social Media Reach
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Brass Tack Thinking
  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…
• “content marketing” or, it’s much easier to get paid work out of people if they’re already your fanboy
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: gapingvoid
  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…
• Examining trust as a key to great experiences
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Adaptive Path
  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…
• Reading, Writing, and RFID Chips: A Scary Back-to-School Future in California (Rebecca/Electronic Frontier Foundation)
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Techmeme
  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…
• Social Network Unites Writers and Fans of Short Fiction [INVITES]
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  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…
• How Mobile Apps Can Inspire Website Design
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Social Media Explorer
  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….
• Extending HTML5
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Ajaxian » Front Page
  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?…
• Gowalla Feature Defines Place Popularity by Experience, Not Checkins
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  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…
• Gowalla Continues The March Beyond The Check-In With Highlights — A Social Atlas
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  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…
• Responsibility and authority
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Seth's Blog
  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…
• Why data is important three times over in our multichannel world: a #JUMPchallenge post
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blog
  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…
• The Truth, The Whole Truth And Nothing But The Truth
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Six Pixels of Separation – Marketing and Communications Insights – By Mitch Joel at Twist Image
  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…

• Happy employees = Good business
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: The BrandBuilder Blog
  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…
• Developing apps for Windows Phone 7? You need to see this…
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: MSDN Blogs
  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…
• Why Blog? Why Bother? Why Care?
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Conversation Agent
  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…
• Traffic Secrets For Writers
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Freelance Writing Jobs | A Freelance Writing Community and Freelance Writing Jobs Resource
  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…
• Flash on Android is “shockingly bad”
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: MacNN | The Macintosh News Network
  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…
• China requires ID to buy mobile phone numbers
  (AP)
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News
  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.
• Small business? THIS is how to work the social web!
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: {grow}
  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…
• Study: Be prepared for the smartphone takeover
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blog
  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…
• 5 Ideas From A Global Journey Through Beer Marketing
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Influential Marketing
  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…
• Will CRM Sytems and Listening Tools Become One and the Same?
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Social Media Globetrotter
  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 vs. Facebook and How Marketers Win (or Lose) in 2011
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Interactive Marketing
  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…
• Is Tumblr important, or just a distraction?
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blog
  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…
• Do You Have the Guts to Expect Social Media Failure
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting
  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…
• Gmail Priority Inbox: implications for email marketers
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blog
  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…
• Five questions for B2B paid-search marketers
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blog
  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…
• The Best Free iPad Apps for B2B Marketers
  Published: September 1, 2010
  Source: Social Media B2B
  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…
• Los Mineros, Part Two
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: GameChangers
  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…

• Mind Blowing WordPress Plugins
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Lorelle on WordPress
  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…
• Mapping The Emotional Geography of Portland
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Adaptive Path
  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…
• Best Text Recognition Tool: ABBYY FineReader [Hive Five Followup]
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Lifehacker
  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…
• 13 Wonderful Truths About Publishing
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Michael Larsen's Blog
  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…
• Adding the Magic to your Story
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: storyfix.com
  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…

YouTube – Corporate Storytelling Sampler

Storytelling is Playtime – Even for Adults!

It’s a memory thing – Tales of Things

Tapping Six Seasons of Weeds in the Edit | Studio Daily

Adding the Magic to your Story

You don’t just tell your story, you sell it – Lifestyle – DNA

Storytelling for Children: 3 Places You Don’t Need Storybooks.

Next Exit – Digital Storytelling Performance

cinelogic: New Media and the Transformation of Storytelling

Go Into The Story: NPR & Storytelling, Part 2: The Story

YouTube – JimWalshCD

Spot On – Locative Media and Storytelling – Possible Uses of Location Data for Journalism And Storytelling. Seminar organized by YLE New Media Future Lab and Aalto University Media Factory

Six Word Story Every Day

Writing Basics: Short Story « Blog Archive « Art of Storytelling: On Writing

Green marketing – 7 sustainable storytelling tricks for green marketers | ParkHowell.com

Become an Instigator – She Writes

What’s the Deal With Storytelling? | Permission To Suck

Our Storied Lives: Narrating, Navigating Adversity : NPR

Even Proto-Storytelling Can Lure Employees – A Storied Career

On Getting Your Name Out There, Part 2: The Story That Sells the Story « Koreanish

Storytelling Versus Storylistening « Changing Behaviors

Why do stories matter? | Graphic Mind

zoetica-training – Storytelling 2.0 Digital Storytelling for Outreach, Education and Advocacy

Brand Asset Guru: Business, Branding and the Art of Storytelling, by Jonathan Fields

Making Narrative Language more Concrete « Communication Therapy Blog

Observations on film art : No coincidence, no story

The Storytelling Life | Ditchwalk

Children’s Book Authors and Illustrators Read to You on Storytime in the Reading Room | Jackson Fish Market

The Power of Love and Good Storytelling!

Storyteller: The Little Red Hen – Scholastic Education PLUS

34th & Now — I’ve previously stated—here—my belief that black and white photography enhances the storytelling aspect of a photograph

Watch ‘Danny & Annie,’ an Outstanding Animated Love Story — Vulture

A Tale of Two Extremes: The Gap that American Apparel Forgot to Close | ThoughtLead

Beyond Paper – stories live in your imagination, not inside a book

IM VIDEO JOURNALISM: How Star Trek boldly takes storytelling and journalism where its never been before.. Journailism Trek

Stories are Life. Marketers are Failing. | Kyle Lacy, Social Media – Indianapolis

• Wiki life
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: BuzzMachine
  “Everyone brings their crumbs of knowledge to the task and if they don’t, we’re the lesser for it.” I love that line about encouraging more people to bring more knowledge to Wikipedia, from a conversati…
• AutoDesk announces AutoCAD for Mac and iPhone/iPad app
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Macsimum News
  Posted by Dennis SellersAutodesk has announced an upcoming version of AutoCAD, software for professional design and engineering, that runs natively on Mac OS X (10.5.8 or later). The company also announced the…
• The 10 Best Social Media Campaigns That Didn’t Make The Cut
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Jeffbullas's Blog
  Social media campaigns can catch the public’s imagination and you only have to watch the Old Spice campaign or Roller Babies online video to realize the genius.
  There are other social media campaigns that are…
• Home Prices
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: BusinessWeek.com — Finance
  Aug. 31 — Karl Case, an economics professor at Wellesley College and co-creator of the SP/Case-Shiller home-price index, discusses the U.S. housing market
• The importance of being competent
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Wikinomics
  Yesterday, I read a piece by Scott Griffith, CEO of Zipcar, on how technology makes the company both successful and profitable.
  I took away something else from this piece: how important being technologically co…
• Foursquare Is Still More Popular Than Facebook Places – At Yankee Stadium, At Least
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Silicon Alley Insider
  This morning, VC David Pakman tweeted out a stat suggesting Facebook Places had already soared past Foursquare in usage.
  He wrote, Last night at Yankee stadium: Facebook checkins – 740, Foursquare checkins –…
• Use Foursquare to get an STD… badge…
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: The Inquisitr
  On the great grand list of things we’re not yet ready for, I think you might find location-aware game badges celebrating STD testing.
  STD testing is a clever, responsible thing to do if you’re regular tapp…
• Huge Facebook Places Backlash Spreads Through Status Updates
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: All Facebook
  Facebook Places launched earlier this month amid great fanfare, but right now it’s looking like fear and confusion over privacy concerns could derail the takeoff of the service.

  I don’t know about you but…

• 10 Useful iPhone Shortcuts, Tips and Tricks
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  Here at Mashable, we’ve been putting the iPhone 4 through its paces, and have come up with some handy tips and tricks that can help you get more out of your Apple-flavored mobile.We’ve covered all kinds of…
• The Most Popular Payment Solutions for Freelancers (Charts)
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  What’s the best way to do one-time or recurring billing for your online business? That’s an important question for the growing legion of independent service providers transitioning countless business transacti…
• One Alternative to Freemium
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: chrisbrogan.com
  Some people do freemium as a publisher quite well. I really love how GigaOm does it, for instance. Lots of their posts are very informative, but then you can get even more information if you subscribe to GigaOm…
• Just launched: Linchpin on the Vook on the iPad
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Seth's Blog
  The details are right here. Created by Vook, based on the hardcover.
  Includes new video and interviews with some interesting folks…
  The long tail challenge of the iPad store is getting more and more obvious…
• Fred Wilson Reveals The Fourth Essential For Startup CEOs
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Silicon Alley Insider
  Union Square Ventures partner Fred Wilson recently published a list of three essential skills for CEOs. He quoted a mentor who once said:
  A CEO does only three things. Sets the overall vision and strategy of t…
• 5 Resources for Migrating to the Cloud Securely
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  A recent poll found that most enterprises that have already become infrastructure-as-a-service customers worry much less about cloud security than companies that are only thinking about making the leap. But fo…
• Two cool maps
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Wikinomics
  This is going to be short and (I hope) sweet enough to check out the maps.
  Map 1: The (interactive) Web 2.0 Summit Points of Control Map, showing the current locations and control regions of both incumbents and…
• Google Docs Gets a Taste of Wave with Collaborative Highlighting
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  Google may have killed Wave (prematurely by some accounts), but it has added a little bit of real-time collaboration to one of its flagship offerings, Google Docs, with the addition of collaborative highlight…
• Historical cell phone location data is a privacy intrusion, rules NY judge
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Boing Boing
  Judge James Orenstein in the Eastern District of New York ruled last Friday that historical cell phone location data is just as intrusive to privacy as GPS tracking. (ACLU)

• If Founders Are Going To Screw You, Then You Made A Bad Bet On People
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Silicon Alley Insider
  There has been a debate going on the past few days over whether seed deals should be funded using equity or convertible notes (converts).
  Paul Graham kicked it off by noting that all the financings in the recen…
• The 10 Point Plan to Build an Internal Community of Brand Loyal Fans
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Liz Strauss at Successful Blog
  Community Starts at Home

  During my years in publishing, I was a serial community builder. It seems that every job I took included “rebuild the department, refocus the vision” in the role. I’m fairly…

• Your Wandering, Viral Eye Is Making You Fat
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Outspoken Media
  mmm, viral

  Writing for AdAge, Jim Louderback says we should screw viral videos. As marketers and content producers, we’ve developed an unhealthy fascination with viral and it’s making us fat as we foc…

• In-source or Outsource Content Marketing?
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Junta42 Content Marketing blog
  The answer is…Yes.
  According to a soon-to-be-released research report from MarketingProfs/Junta42, 55% of b-to-b marketers outsource some portion of their content marketing. Larger companies (1,000 employee…
• Six Reasons Print Belongs in Your Media Mix (or Why Digital Popularity Brings Print Opportunity)
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: MarketingProfs How-To Articles
  Just because marketers are jumping on the interactive-marketing bandwagon doesn’t mean things on the interactive side are all rosy. The decreasing numbers for print don’t necessarily mean a particularly high RO…
• Blogging: It’s not so simple when it’s for a business
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Quick Sprout
  No matter what kind of business you have, or how small or large your business might be, having a blog for your business helps you stay in touch with your customers.
  A Blog will draw your prospects closer beca…
• Social media and the era of customer advocacy
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Social Media Blog by Michael Brito
  Move over influencers; advocates are more valuable to brands. It’s a fact. And I won’t try to make the case with research on how consumers want to engage with brands on the social web because we all kno…
• Points of Control: The Web 2.0 Summit Map
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: O'Reilly Radar – Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies.
  In my blog post State of the Internet Operating System a few months ago (and the followup Handicapping the Internet Platform Wars), I used the analogy of “the Great Game” played out between England and Russia i…
• On Getting Your Name Out There, Part 2: The Story That Sells the Story
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Koreanish
  For the first part of this series on authors, author sites and author blogging, go here first.
  When approaching an author site, what I find least interesting is a sort of bland, safe, risk-free aesthetic, a hea…
• Even Proto-Storytelling Can Lure Employees
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: A Storied Career
  A few weeks ago, Gregg Morris shared with me a Twitter recruiting video. The blogger who initially posted it, Michael Batistich, had called it a “great piece of storytelling… [that] makes me want to work th…
• Google’s $4 Million Revenge on a Merchant (GOOG)
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Silicon Alley Insider
  What happens when a small business owner gets on Google’s bad side? In Ryan Abood’s case, the answer is, “your business gets crushed and you spend a year and a half in internet Siberia.” Do not trifle with Th…
• CSS Tip: Class or ID?
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is used for styling your site. It gives a wide variety of options, allowing you to change the size and style of fonts, colors, images and the positioning of elements on the page.

  I…

• How To Make Your Homepage More Dynamic
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Michael Gray – Graywolf's SEO Blog
  One of the problems I encounter on large client websites–or with clients who constantly add or update existing content–is getting this content into the index as quickly as possible. One of the tactics I re…
• Digital Coupon Clipping Comes to the iPad via CardStar
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  Today, a Verizon-backed startup is releasing its iPad application and introducing a new functionality — digital coupon clipping.CardStar makes mobile applications to digitally manage retailer club and members…
• Ras: Matching Bookshelves
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: 3:17 a.m.
  “Is it important to date someone with a similar bookshelf to yours?” My kneejerk: yes, of course. How could one possibly spend an entire evening with someone who was enthusiastic about a new Dan Brown novel…
• ‘Checking in’ Boosts Retail ETFs
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  Tom Lydon submits:

  Rumor has it that retail ETFs have been ailing as consumers cut back on spending. But smartphone-based incentives for those who are shopping may help them pick up the slack.The trend of per…

• The Great American Migration
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: mental_floss Blog
  For those unaware, Manifest Destiny is in vogue again. According to an interactive map from Forbes called Where Americans Are Moving, it’s clear that the West Coast (particularly the Pacific Northwest) is th…
• Baby Boomers LOVE Social Media Marketing
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Silicon Alley Insider
  Facebook is not just for kids anymore, nor is LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube or the many other popular social media platforms and services.
  As today’s Pew Research Center study entitled “Older Adults and Social Med…
• A Four-Step Guide to Generating Sales Leads from Your Blog
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Copyblogger
  Dean: Did you know you can use your blog to make money offline?
  Blogger: Offline? What is this “offline” you speak of?
  Dean: It’s the opposite of “online.”
  Blogger: (confused silenc…
• Shopkick CEO: Here’s What Sets Us Apart From Foursquare
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Silicon Alley Insider
  Shopkick co-founder and CEO Cyriac Roeding thinks there are three different groups of location-based apps:

  Social (ie: Foursquare, Gowalla)
  Games (ie: MyTown)
  Shopping

  “I think that location-based shopping…

• Loopt Checkins Can Get You Two-for-One Tickets to Mexico on Virgin America
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  Social-media savvy airline Virgin America, which used Twitter to announce its expansion to Toronto, is making use of location-based rewards network Loopt Star to draw attention to its next international expans…
• Creativity In The Age of Web Analytics
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Six Pixels of Separation – Marketing and Communications Insights – By Mitch Joel at Twist Image
  Is Mad Men a true representation of how great creative happens in Marketing?

  In a typical Mad Men episode, research comes back saying something plain about the insights surrounding a brand. But the creatives,…

• Can an API replace business development?
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blog
  If you list some of the most popular and important companies on the
  internet today, you’ll notice that most have one thing in common: they
  offer an API. And, in most cases, for good reason. APIs can be a
  valuab…
• Social Media SEO Success with Blogging
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Online Marketing Blog
  Army Golden Knights: SFC Dave Herwig (@gkdave), SGM Steve Young (@gksteve), LTC Joe Martin (gkjoe)
  My presentation on how to leverage Social Media SEO to improve the reach and effectiveness of blog content for…
• Five things to consider before starting an SEO campaign
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blog
  If your company is new to search engine optimisation (SEO)
  then you need to remain in control of the work that’s being done, whether
  you’re using an agency or you’ve hired someone in house.
  Of course, n…
• 34 Reasons to Start a Blog
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Conversation Agent
  We discussed how social media is like sharecropping — you help build a network with your content and it may decide to delete your account if it changes rules or there is a glitch. Both Flickr and Faceboo…
• 10 Ways to Get More Sales From Existing Customers
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Inc.com
  Every business needs new customers, but don’t ever forget that your easiest and most predictable source of new revenue is right under your nose: It comes from the loyal customers who already know your company….
• The corporate conscience
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Seth's Blog
  There isn’t one.
  Corporations don’t have a conscience, people do.
  That means that every time you say, “It’s just my job,” or “My department has a policy,” or “All I do is work here,” what you’ve done is abdic…
• Can the Apple iTV Bridge Family Room & Web? I’ll Bet So.
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: RyanSpoon.com
  Fascinating chart on AlleyInsider this week noting that, for the first time ever, pay TV has lost subscribers. A little earlier in the week, the NYTimes argued that TV is changing (web, applications, on-demand)…
• Twitter API Adds Retweet Count and More
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: ProgrammableWeb
  Twitter recently added more data to each tweet it returns via the API. Now your applications can access the number of retweets, whether you have retweeted a tweet and additional information about the user who w…
• Prldr: RSS Meets Design and Everybody Wins
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  Ever skip a headline in your RSS reader because you don’t feel like investigating whether it’s worth your time? It sounds lazy, but time is scarce and the proliferation of content on the Web means that vaguely…
• Google Wave Still Dead, But Funeral Won’t Be Until 2011. And Data Export Coming.
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  Yes, Google Wave is dead — but it won’t fully flatline until some time in 2011, Google confirmed in a post today. Well actually, their words were that wave.google.com (the front-end product) “will be avai…
• It’s Time To Disqus Our Community
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  Perhaps you’ve noticed that a couple days ago we flipped the switch to enable the shiny new commenting system here on TechCrunch powered by Disqus. So far, the feedback has been very, very positive — and we…
• Hell Freezes Over: AutoCAD Returns to Mac
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  After an 18-year absence, AutoCAD is finally coming back to Mac OS X. Autodesk, the company that makes the CAD program that has become he defacto industry standard, last released a native Mac version of its fla…
• If You’ve Got Social Media Fatigue, UR DOIN IT WRONG
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  Just as I was reading Paul Carr’s latest column about quitting social media, my husband looked at his phone and broke into a huge smile. He is a graphic designer and has long been a fan of Chank Fonts. Earlie…
• The Rise of the Anti-Facebooks
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  Facebook is dominating social media in almost every country where it hasn’t been banned, and the six-year old site shows no signs of slowing down. It’s creeping across generations, replacing things like the pho…
• Hallelujah! Gmail Saves E-Mail With ‘Priority’ Message Filtering
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Epicenter
  Gmail users can now choose to let Google sort their inbox by the most pressing messages, thanks to a new feature called Priority Inbox — think of it as a sort of reverse spam filter which bubbles messages to…
• UpNext On The iPad Introduces Fluid Labels For 3D Maps
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  Navigating maps on computers and mobile devices can still be a clunky experience, especially when you try to search for places on a map. Typically, on Google Maps or Bing Maps, you get a bunch of virtual push…
• Children’s Book Authors and Illustrators Read to You on Storytime in the Reading Room
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Jackson Fish Market
  Ever gone to an author reading at the local library or children’s bookstore? Now you can see authors and illustrators reading their own creations 24 hours a day on StoryTime in the Reading Room from A Story B…
• You Leave a Big Chunk of the Work to be Done
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Home
  You leave a big chunk of the work to be done. It’s like a lot of jigsaw pieces, and the reader has got some of them and you’ve got some of them.

  WILLIAM TREVOR

• Hyperlocal: Not for the Faint of Heart
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: HyperlocalBlogger
  American Journalism Review has an article out that is far from earth-shattering, but I think it does a fair job of summarizing the state of local news sites/blogs at the moment. In a phrase: “not for the fain…
• The Five Stages of Filtering, Relevance and Curation
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: louisgray.com
  Tonight’s news of Gmail taking on information overload directly, using a combination of intelligent algorithms and your own feedback to build in box personalization is yet another hallmark move to taking on the…
• Academic Journals Seeing Benefits In More Open Peer Review
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Techdirt
  We recently discussed the idea of much more open, online-based peer review processes. In the ensuing discussion some claimed that such things might work for subject areas like math, where concepts could be rev…
• My Daily Reading List: An Update
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Michael Hyatt’s Blog
  I read a lot. In fact, much of my day is spent reading: news, blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and—my favorite—books. All in all, I probably invest two hours a day reading. My theory (not original) is that “lead…
• iPad Newspapers: Ripe For Innovation
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  Just as the iPad has proven to be a boon to magazine publishers, newspapers have flocked to the device too. All of the major western newspapers have an iPad app now: the New York Times, Wall St Journal, Guardia…
• Plex now available for download on iOS and Mac
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: 9 to 5 Mac
  As was demonstrated earlier, Plex is now available for iOS devices and the Mac.

• Facebook Crisis Management 101: How to make sure your Facebook page doesn’t become a PR trojan horse
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: The BrandBuilder Blog
  Back in March, Greenpeace and Nestle had a little disagreement over Kit Kat bars, palm oil, and orangutans. The anti-Nestle campaign spilled onto Nestle’s Facebook page, overwhelming the company’s Social M…
• Advertising’s Final Solution
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: The Ad Contrarian
• Is Social Conversation a Myth?
  Published: August 31, 2010
  Source: Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting
  TweetMitch Joel, whose blog and work I greatly admire, wrote a very interesting blog post recently that bemoaned the lack of conversation in social media. As coined by Joseph Jaffe (another good guy who was inc…
• UNC tweaks Twitter, Facebook policies
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: News
  Friends and fans are not the only ones this season following what North Carolina athletes post on their Facebook pages and Twitter accounts. Now, their coaches are required to, as well….
• Data Journalism: the View from Europe
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: ProgrammableWeb
  This guest post comes from Eric Ulken, an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the former editor for interactive technology at the Los Angeles Times. He blog…
• Facebook Goes Back to School with New Universities Page
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  As millions of students are trudging back to the classrooms this August, Facebook is returning to its roots: colleges and universities.Just in time for the back-to-school season, the company has partnered with…
• Reinvigorate.net Offers Powerful Real-Time Analytics, HeatMaps, And A Touch Of Creepy
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  If you’re running a website — be it a world-famous news portal or a personal blog — there’s a good chance you spend a lot of time poring over your stats. There are of course plenty of services avail…
• How Facebook Scales with Open Source
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  When it comes to having to scale your service to handle ever-increasing data demands, there may be no better example to look at than Facebook. The social networking giant has grown from a service for Harvard st…
• MindMeister updated with faster tools, better sync
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Macworld
  MindMeister, MeisterLabs’s mind mapping iPad app, has been updated with new features that include support for notes and links, map themes, and stability and synchronization enhancements.

• 3-Stage Goals
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Brass Tack Thinking
  How many times have you set a goal…and just missed it?
  For a lot of us, “just missing it” is tantamount to failure. For recovering perfectionists like myself, it’s all too easy to see success in terms o…
• The Complete Guide to Including Ads in Your Thesis WordPress Theme
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Thesis WordPress Theme
  If you run a website, you likely want to include ads of some kind in your template.
  The problem is, where do you place your ads and how do you get them there?
  In this article, I’ll show you the most popular p…
• the future of advertising?
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: gapingvoid
  For those of you in the biz still trying to figure out “The Future of Advertising”, I thought this little nugget I twittered earlier today might give you something to chew on. Bon appetit.
• “Also in Paul Allen’s patent pile: Stuff like Twitter and Foursquare,” TechFlash’s Todd Bishop reports.
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Silicon Alley Insider
  “Also in Paul Allen’s patent pile: Stuff like Twitter and Foursquare,” TechFlash’s Todd Bishop reports.Join the conversation about this story »

• 6 Tips to Ease You Back into Your Writing Routine
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Write It Sideways
  If you’re anything like me, it only takes a few days away from your regular writing routine to throw everything in your life out of whack.
  I’ve been in Canada visiting family for the last six weeks. That…
• Twitter Moves to OAuth: The OAuthcalypse Is Nigh
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Epicenter
  Twitter is killing support for basic user authentication in third-party apps on Tuesday morning, the company says. Instead, Twitter will now require all third-party app developers to use OAuth for user authent…
• The 10 Best Social Media Campaigns
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Jeffbullas's Blog
  Since social media has become an integral part of our lives, marketers have used their creative talents to develop social media campaigns with various degrees of success which can be measured in a variety of wa…
• How an App Store Could Revolutionize the TV Industry
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: TheAppleBlog
  This week’s media event could finally confirm (or scuttle) rumors of a new Apple TV device. If it’s based on iOS 4, like many pundits believe, there’s strong potential for this device to feature its own A…

• Which can go wrong in storytelling and love-making
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Limor's Storytelling Agora
  I love finding story texts about storytelling and just today I found a delightful little piece while serching through the Decameron:
  Whereupon the gentleman, who perhaps was no better master of his weapon than…
• In Search of Time
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Wired: Science
  Ever since Einstein, physicists have been telling us that time – this steady tick-tock of the universe – is much weirder than we think. It doesn’t flow in a single, linear direction, or beat like a stead…
• The Accidental Socialists
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: The Health Care Blog
  By DAVID DRANOVE Over the next few years, the U.S. healthcare system will be in the hands of academics from Cambridge, Massachusetts. New CMS Czar Donald Berwick was a member of the Harvard Medical School facul…
• Comic Book Writer Mark Waid Defends Copying, Points To The Value Of The Public Domain
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Techdirt
  Jaime points us to the news that famed comic writer Mark Waid gave a keynote talk at the comics’ Harvey Awards event over the weekend, where he apparently gave a stirring defense of unauthorized downloading, co…
• Rate Limits Continue To Die: Twitter Opens Site Streams Beta
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  Twitter has just announced that it’s opening the Site Streams feature of its API up to developers. This is big news, as it allows mobile push services and web apps like Brizzly and Seesmic Web to immediately…
• JetBlue Scene
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: GameChangers
  Jeremy Redleaf, one of the new physicists of the narrative form and the creator of this brilliant siteinitated the scene when he sent me this email
  about this JetBlue ad
  which is anchored by copy that saysIn my…
• How CEOs Will Use Social Media in the Future
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  This series is supported by Gist. Gist provides a full view of the contacts in your professional network by creating a rich business profile for each one that includes the most news, status updates, and work d…
• Local News Rivals Will Kill Newspaper Pay Walls
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Silicon Alley Insider
  The local news sites being developed by Yahoo, AOL, Huffington Post and a growing number of other online players will dash the hopes of most newspaper publishers of charging for access to their online content…
• Watchful waiting pays off for a torn ACL
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: KevinMD.com
  by Merrill Goozner“Why golf,” my friends often ask. They, like too many Americans, assume it is a sport for the country club set, and have a hard time fathoming why someone like me — liberal, somewhat…
• Here’s the best way to value your startup
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Moreover Technologies – Entrepreneur news – 30 of 3614 returned
  (Editor’s note: Scott Edward Walker is the founder and CEO of Walker Corporate Law Group, PLLC, a law firm specializing in the representation of entrepreneurs. He submitted this column to VentureBeat.) A read…
• Turn Your Head & Swipe: Doctors Love the iPad (Infographic)
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  The iPad meets many of the needs doctors say that have for a lightweight mobile computer and many are very interested in the device. An infographic below, from Mobile Health News, articulates various things do…
• Why Your Facebook Fans Could Be Worthless
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: All Facebook
  So after reading lots of our Facebook Pages articles you’ve become dead set on skyrocketing your fan base. After investing in advertising and growing a user base, you suddenly realize that you’ve extracted…
• Do You Share Your Location? [Reader Poll]
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Lifehacker
  A couple of weeks back, Facebook rolled out their new Places feature; we promptly disabled it, mostly due to a feature that allowed others to post your locatio…
• Facebook “Like Farms” Are Spamming Up Your News Feed
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Silicon Alley Insider
  One of the bigger announcements to come out of Facebook’s controversial keynote at its developer conference last spring was the introduction of “Like buttons” that can be placed anywhere on the web, allowing pe…
• OAuthpocalypse Tomorrow: Twitter Ending Basic Auth Support At 8 AM PT
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  A couple weeks ago, we noted the start of the “OAuthpocalypse” — that is, Twitter’s move to make all developers use OAuth rather than basic authentication for their third-party apps. Twitter expected so…
• What Should I Do to My Work Laptop Before I Leave My Job? [Ask Lifehacker]
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Lifehacker
  Dear Lifehacker, I’ll be leaving my job soon and will have to turn in my work laptop. How can I get my laptop sparkling clean so I can preserve my privacy and…
• 5 Ways to Make a Database For Your Customers
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing
  5 Ways to Make a Database For Your CustomersThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing
  Standard marketing CRM type practice suggests that you should create and supplement a database of customers and prospects with…
• How to Train Your Content to Get Your Audience’s Attention
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: (EMP) E-Marketing Performance
  In my last post, I talked about training your text to “engage”, “inform”, “speak” (call to action), and “convert”. The first step is to make sure the content doesn’t overstay it’s welcome. I…
• Apple Isn’t ‘Fighting’ Jailbreaking
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Daring Fireball
  Colin Gibbs, in a piece headlined “Why Apple Should End Its Fight Against iPhone Jailbreaking:

  The Register reported last week that Apple is looking to fire back
  at iPhone jailbreakers with an applicati…

• Nearby Friends: New Cyber-Stalking App for Tracking Facebook Places Check-Ins
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  Nearby Friends is a new Facebook application which taps into the recently launched Facebook Places check-in service to locate all your Facebook friends plotted on a Google Maps interface. The app, a simple tool…
• What Lower Customer Traffic Could Mean for Starbucks
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  Trefis submits:
  Starbucks’s (NASDAQ:SBUX) stock is quite sensitive to the Number of Daily Customers per Starbucks Store, which is impacted by the competition that Starbucks faces from players like McDonald�…
• Cover(s) Story
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Technologizer
  I don’t think that Wired and Scientific American coordinated their issue planning this month–they’re competitors, at least sort of–but the two covers sure make for a cool matched set.
  From the magazine…
• On the outskirts: Edgar Allan Poe’s many houses
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Maud Newton
  “This old white motherfucker and his wife rolls up. He’s like, ‘Young man, do you know where the Poe house is?’” The Wire and A.N. Devers on Edgar Allan Poe’s Baltimore house.
• Google and Associated Press Make Content Licensing Deal
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  Google has inked a deal with the Associated Press to keep the news organization’s content on Google News, an issue that was very much in doubt for a time earlier this year when the news aggregator stopped pos…
• Digg users angry about the site’s new redesign have filled the top news page with entries from rival Reddit.
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Silicon Alley Insider
  Digg users angry about the site’s new redesign have filled the top news page with entries from rival Reddit.Join the conversation about this story »

• RubyDoc.info: Good Looking, Up-To-Date Ruby Documentation
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Ruby Inside
  RubyDoc.info is a new, automatically updated Ruby documentation site by Loren Segal and Nick Plante that builds upon their earlier success with rdoc.info (which we posted about in 2009). It’s powered by YARD,…
• Donating Professional Services in a Crisis
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: GigaOMCollaboration
  Technology workers are often called on to donate our services, which most of us are happy to do. And we have skills that allow us to respond quickly to natural disasters or other crises.
  For example, five years…
• Tomorrow We Triple the Price on Copywriting Scorecard for Bloggers Grab a Copy Today for just $9.97
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: ProBlogger Blog Tips
  Almost two weeks ago we launched the brand new ProBlogger eBook – the Copywriting Scorecard for Bloggers.
  Written by SEO specialist copywriter Glenn Murray it’s an eBook designed to help bloggers get their…
• HOW TO: Respond when Social Media Attacks Your Brand
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.For all the praise that brand adver…
• A Broader Spectrum of Business Novels
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: A Storied Career
  I recently recapped the “business novels” I’ve covered here on A Storied Career and then received an e-mail from Omar Adams with a link to 50 All-Time Best Business Novels.

  I thus realized that perhaps…

• How Founders Should Decide When It’s Time To Sell
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Silicon Alley Insider
  I’ve been thinking lately about how founders should decide when it is time to sell their startups and how to put aside the different incentives that often drive these decisions.
  Large VC funds have a stron…
• Sorry Diaspora, Facebook Is Too Big To Fail
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: All Facebook
  The new startup Diaspora, which is being called the “Facebook replacement” by many in the press, is going to fail at displacing Facebook. While the company appeared to be a proper solution back in May when…
• Free Empowered Webinar September 10 — how HEROes will transform your business
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Empowered
  Wed like to come to where you work and talk to you about Empowered. All of you. All on the same day, Friday September 10, at 12:00 eastern time. Feel free to bring your lunch.
  We want you to embrace the innova…
• 10 Reasons Why YOU Should Care About Personal Branding
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Personal Branding Blog – Dan Schawbel
  The demand for personal branding is increasing faster than I can type this post. Many of the reasons why you should build your personal brand have been discussed on this blog, including global…
• 3 Key Strategies and 3 Crucial Insights to Growing Business on the Social Web
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Liz Strauss at Successful Blog
  What to Keep and What It Means Now

  At the Social Media Masters Summit, I spoke about three crucial business growth strategies.

  Make an irresistible offer. Remove things that customers don’t want. Enh…

• Modern Marketing And PR Pro Fluency Matrix
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: The Future Buzz
  Recently, Eric Friedman published an EarlyStager approval matrix I found quite interesting. Taking inspiration from that I decided to create a modern marketing and PR professional fluency matrix. See below…
• Get Company Intelligence from Workstreamer
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: GigaOMCollaboration
  We’re all being inundated with information. Tools that help us filter that mass of data can be useful, and those that filter well can become indispensable. Workstreamer, an app currently in public beta, is a…
• Is Your Headline Good or Bad? Give it the Breath Test
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Copyblogger
  Bloggers have been asking the question “Do long or short headlines work better?” for a long time.
  But the answer to the riddle of how to create a headline that pulls in readers doesn’t…
• Live TV Is For Old People: Time Shifting And Online Make Up Nearly Half Of All Viewing
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  Between online video, DVRs, and on-demand cable the amount of time people spend watching live TV (you know, with all of those commercials that advertisers spend $70 billion a year on) is shrinking fast. Only…
• You, too, can be an ebook publisher
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com
  Like the New York-centric consumer magazine industry, commercial book publishers and, frankly, most everyone, thinks of books found in bookstores and libraries when they consider what book publishing is. Perh…
• Are you using Facebook Places? Are your friends?
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Silicon Alley Insider
  Are you using Facebook Places? Are your friends?Join the conversation about this story »

• How Facebook Places Boosted Foursquare Past The 3 Million User Mark
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Silicon Alley Insider
  Just a few weeks ago, location-based social network Foursquare announced that it had 2.6 million users, putting it on pace to hit an even 3 million a week or so into September.
  Instead, the service saw its 3 mi…
• What A CEO Does
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Silicon Alley Insider
  I am posting this as a MBA Mondays post. But I did not learn this little lesson at business school. I learned it from a very experienced venture capitalist early in my post-MBA career.
  I was working on a CEO se…
• Beyond caveat emptor
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Doc Searls Weblog
  First, three posts by JP Rangaswami:

  Does the Web make experts dumb?
  Does the Web make esperts dumb, Part 2: who is the teacher?
  Does the Web make experts dumb, Part 3: the issues

  His bottom line in the last…

• Does Your Brand Truly Care? Truly?
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: The Ad Contrarian
• Convincing the gatekeeper: writing copy for the real decision maker
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Pro Copy Tips
  Copywriting is a tougher job than most people realize, especially when you’re writing for what pros call the “complex sale.”
  One type of complex sale is when you have to convince one person they need the…
• Which Social Media Marketing Agencies Will Thrive In 5 Years?
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: PR-Squared – Social Media Marketing and Public Relations
  From WIRED Magazine’s controversial article, “The Web is Dead, Long Live the Internet” came this set of factoids:
  The story of industrial revolutions, after all, is a story of battles over control. A tech…
• REPORT: Facebook and the New Age of Privacy
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Brian Solis
  It’s said that opposites attract. However, in social media, it’s quite the opposite. The idea of privacy and publicity are in fact at odds with one another. And at the heart of the matter, one social netwo…
• Brian Clark Interview: Copyblogger on Content Marketing with Blogs
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Online Marketing Blog
  OpenCamp’s Sunday schedule included presentations on blogging that included Chris Pirillo, Brian Clark and myself. I caught up with Brian before he gave his presentation to give us a little preview. John P. e…
• The truth will set you free from your job
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Collateral Damage
  From ProPublica

• The Gentle Art Of The Retweet
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Six Pixels of Separation – Marketing and Communications Insights – By Mitch Joel at Twist Image
  As Twitter evolves and grows, the etiquette and rules change, morph and evolve along with it.

  Recently, a very influential person on Twitter sent me a direct message saying that they were insulted because I ha…

• CMO Matrix: How Social Technology Must Integrate with Traditional Marketing, a Horizontal Approach
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Web Strategy by Jeremiah
  CMOs must approach social technologies in an integration fashion
  Although social technologies have been capturing marketers time for over four+ years in corporate, they’ve often been operated in a silo as exp…
• Five Guaranteed Ways to Get Your Story Placed
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: The Home Of Peter Shankman
  Running HARO for the past three years, I’ve seen, hands down, the best ways to get your story placed, front page, EVERY TIME.
  Assuming you want ALL THAT COVERAGE, as your boss has told you that you do, these…
• The Right Kind of Ambition
  Published: August 29, 2010
  Source: ben's blog
  In my last post, I mentioned that you should strive to hire people with the right kind of ambition. Surprisingly to me, I received a large number of responses from readers questioning whether or not this was g…
• NSFW: A Modest Proposal For Authors Who Abandon Their Publishers — Give Me A Break
  Published: August 29, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  “Publishers are all cohorts of the devil.
  There must be a special hell for them somewhere.”
  - Goethe
  If I were a commissioning editor in a major publishing house, I’d be feeling a little unloved right no…
• 7 Services That Will Suggest Things You Like
  Published: August 29, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  “Unlimited choice” can “produce genuine suffering,” argues Barry Schwartz in The Paradox of Choice. His research basically sums up what your mother has been telling you for years: You don’t even know…
• Addressing A Few Misconceptions, Misnomers and Items of Miscellaneous Mischief
  Published: August 29, 2010
  Source: storyfix.com
  Three-Act Structure vs. Four-Part Structure
  In response to a recent post about writing in different genres – my point being that emphasis, rather than license, is the only real separation between them – I h…
• You Can't Learn to Write in College
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Home
  You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but w…
• Hyperlocal News Roundup
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: HyperlocalBlogger
  Lots and lots of links this week. You may recall us trying to define “hyperlocal” previously here on HLB, and also linking out to others (Lost Remote) as they had similar discussions. One of the links below…
• Google APIs: A to Z
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: ProgrammableWeb
  This guest post comes from Pamela Fox, a developer advocate at Google. Pamela has supported the Google Maps and Wave API communities, in addition to helping developers get started with other Google APIs.
  One fa…
• How to Put Your Small Business On the Web
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: chrisbrogan.com
  If you’re a business of one like a consultant, or a smaller business looking to grow your presence, there are some basic steps you might take towards getting yourself into place on the web. In this example,…
• The Kindle, Nook, iPad, and Reader Compared
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Michael Hyatt’s Blog
  Because I am in the publishing industry, and because I have written extensively on the topic of digital publishing, I get asked several times a week, what e-reader I recommend. Frankly, I’m probably not the b…
• Creative technique – make the villain the hero
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Thoughtwrestling
  TweetReversals are a great creative challenge. They can also help you solve problems. Taking a key piece of information and reversing it early in a process (or a story) can yield unexpected insights and pow…
• iPad Magazines: The Pros & Cons
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  When the iPad was launched earlier this year, one of the big talking points was that the iPad might be the savior of magazines. By now many magazines are available on the iPad, either in their own standalone ap…
• The Golden Age of IBM Advertising
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Technologizer
  Back in the 1950s, IBM was just getting into the computer business, many companies still needed to be convinced that electric typewriters weren’t a technological boondoggle, and slide rules were still essenti…
• View Source Tutorial: Content Site Using HTML5 Canvas + CSS3
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Ajaxian » Front Page
  Via Phil Franks comes an interesting HTML5/CSS3 site for There Studio, which is a kind of coworking space in London:

  The site itself has a number of circles with information bouncing on the screen that respond…

• Chatroulette Is Back, But It Doesn’t Look Good
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  After being down for an entire week, popular random video chat service Chatroulette is back with a new version.The transition to version two wasn’t exactly graceful; Chatroulette was supposed to be down for o…
• Exclusive Hands-On With Plex/Nine For Mac OS X & Plex App For iOS Devices
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  Plex, the Mac OS X media center, has just made all of its competitors obsolete. A new version, dubbed Plex/Nine, will be released today at midnight EDT, and it introduces a number of new features that make it t…
• The Fun Of Strategic Thinking And Planning
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Social Media Explorer
  There’s a 96-inch long white board in my office. It is where I collect my thoughts for specific projects as I’m writing, planning or producing them. It is currently full of lists and reminde…
• Professionals, amateurs and the great unwashed
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Seth's Blog
  If you want something done, perhaps you would ask a professional to do it. Someone who costs a lot but is worth more than they charge. Someone who shows up even when she doesn’t feel like it. Someone who stands…
• Use Day of the Week Folders to Organize Your RSS Inbox [Feeds]
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Lifehacker
  If you’re reading all your RSS feeds in one big pile at Google Reader or another RSS reader, you’re probably feeling more overwhelmed than informed. One blogge…
• How to Sell an Idea to Your Boss
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: The Conversation
  My problem is not how to be innovative. My team often comes up with interesting ideas. But when we introduce them to top executives, they always turn them down. How can I convince my boss to invest in our ideas…
• 7 skills every IT manager needs to survive the 2010s
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Infoworld News
  As companies emerge from the recession, IT managers need to rethink their careers, especially as businesses recast IT’s role more as growing the business than running the operations. The old approaches to car…
• The Full-On Assault On Cable Is Underway
  Published: August 29, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  Google, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, Amazon — when you hear these names, you usually think about how these tech giants all compete with one another. But what if they all teamed up for one cause? They’d be uns…
• Rails 3.0 Released (And 22 Free Videos To Bring You Up To Speed)
  Published: August 29, 2010
  Source: Ruby Inside
  David Heinemeier Hansson
  DHH rings the bell and announces that Rails 3.0 (final) has been released after two years of determined effort by the Rails core team (and, significantly, Merb team members, since Rails…
• The End of America: Last Glance At Glenn Beck’s Horror Picnic
  Published: August 29, 2010
  Source: Wonkette
  GlennBeckPalooza is finally over, as you can probably tell from the smoking ruins of America left in the wake of the Martians’ attack. “Okay we have HAD IT with you idiots,” the Martians said, before bom…
• The Spirituality of Social Media
  Published: August 29, 2010
  Source: {grow}
  Sure the social web is filled with rants and quacks, but I’ve also been thinking about how the science and technology of this channel lifts people up, and perhaps even makes us better in a deeper, spiritual…
• 10 Rules for Radicals: Lessons from rogue archivist Carl Malamud
  Published: August 29, 2010
  Source: Boing Boing
  Rogue archivist Carl Malamud’s 10 Rules for Radicals is the transcript of his keynote at the 19th World Wide Web Consortium conference in 2010. It’s a thrilling and often hilarious account of his adventures i…

In all the time I’ve been curating these, I’ve never seen a post get the overall coverage across search channels and social media channels as this first one did.

Blogosphere Trends + Storytelling

Brand Asset Guru: Business, Branding and the Art of Storytelling, by Jonathan Fields

YouTube – Brand You: Tell Stories

Sorrows of modern storytelling « Inkleaf’s Blog

informationfluency – Digital Storytelling and Reforming PowerPoint

Inside-Out Storytelling: Penguins and Elephants

A Broader Spectrum of Business Novels – A Storied Career

P&G 2010 Annual Report

Foursquare Badges Tell Stories – Which One Is Another Story – Dahle Communication

True Stories, Honest Lies: Telling Topics – Tall Tales

YouTube – Creating a loved brand by telling a story: Tether

Youthink! Storytelling Contest | Youthink!

» Oscar Nicholson: The Evolution of Story telling – A Digital Perspective

Maremel Musings: Abundant Data Visualization and Storytelling Tools

Video: Larry Lawfer Explains Storytelling Marketing

Excerpts from Yves Lavandier’s WRITING DRAMA

Creative technique – make the villain the hero | Thoughtwrestling

Presentation Zen: A long time ago, before death by PowerPoint

Our Storied Lives: The Quest For ‘Something More’ : NPR

Branded-Entertainment: Mitchum Sees Sales Lift From Contest – Advertising Age – Madison+Vine: Digital Entertainment

Does Your Language Shape How You Think? – NYTimes.com

Sometimes storytellers need to step aside! | Audience-Centric Storytelling

Web-based Digital Storytelling Tools and Online Interactive Resources | Danny Maas, Emerging Technologies AISI Consultant

Diximus: A Storytelling Game – sbenthall.net

The Art of Storytelling – Choosing and Preparing your Story | HOME SWEET HOME

The Cadence Of Good Storytelling – Beginning

Business Success through Storytelling

Chief Ayar Randes « Mitchell’s Travel and Photography Blog

Schedule & Sessions | meshmarketing

Sarah Palin is not your mother – the power of storytelling and archetypes « The sound of my own voice

Transmedia Storytelling and Multi-Modal Brands | all about everyone

Transmedia Talk Podcast – Episode 1 « Culture Hacker

Unstressed Syllables › On Visual Storytelling: How to Write a Visual Scene

• Content Marketing and the Junta 42
  Published: August 29, 2010
  Source: Servant of Chaos
  Back in 2008, Joe Pulizzi started looking in-depth at blogs that focused on content marketing. He found 81 blogs – and the Junta 42 were the viewed as the leaders in what was then an emerging field. Two years…
• Let a Thousand Personalized Newspapers Bloom
  Published: August 29, 2010
  Source: GigaOMGigaOM
  I wrote recently about Paper.li, a service from a Swiss company called Small Rivers, which pulls in your Twitter stream and extracts any links that have been shared by those you follow, and then displays those…
• The Truth Behind “Conversation” In Social Media With Joseph Jaffe
  Published: August 29, 2010
  Source: Six Pixels of Separation – Marketing and Communications Insights – By Mitch Joel at Twist Image
  Episode #217 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to. This is also Across The Sound episode #8.20.

  Joseph Jaffe is widely regarded as one of the top Mar…

• Social Media Proves Ignorance Is Bliss
  Published: August 29, 2010
  Source: All articles at Blogcritics
  With the rise in popularity of social media comes an equal elevation in ignorance.

  Social media – Business – Marketing and Advertising – Internet Marketing – Social network

• Honda Takes Social Gaming for a Test Drive
  Published: August 29, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  It’s not unusual for a large car company like Honda to advertise its newest release on a billboard — unless, of course, that billboard exists in a virtual gaming community on Facebook.To promote the U.S. la…
• Case Studies in Good and Bad Tech Support
  Published: August 29, 2010
  Source: Newsome.Org
  As I’ve said before, the best way a company, any company, can take advantage of so-called social media is not to ask people over and over to “Like” their fan page on Facebook, but to increase accessibilit…
• 5 Ways Tech Startups Can Disrupt the Education System
  Published: August 29, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  “Revolutionary.” “Disruptive.” These terms are used with such frequency that they may have lost much of their meaning. That’s not to say that there aren’t plenty of products and services that are innovative,…
• Founder Institute: How To Launch In 10 Steps With Less Than $2,000
  Published: August 29, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  For any entrepreneur, the challenge of taking an idea to launch can be a daunting and expensive journey. Fortunately, Adeo Ressi, founder of TheFunded and startup accelerator, Founder Institute, h…
• A Passion for Writing? Time Management and Purposeful Living
  Published: August 29, 2010
  Source: A Storied Career
  I recently read of someone’s passion for writing, and it gave me pause. Writing is integral to my existence, but do I have a passion for it? When people ask me what I do, I tell them I’m a writer. I have wa…
• Foursquare Surpasses 3 Million User Registrations
  Published: August 29, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  Foursquare now has more than 3 million users, if the site’s public user registration numbers are correct.The 3 millionth member appears to be Brian S. from St. Louis, Missouri, who has yet to check in to any…
• Facebook Places Promotion on Facebook Touch
  Published: August 29, 2010
  Source: RyanSpoon.com
  When Facebook launched Facebook Places, I wrote about how they boldly and centrally promoted their new feature.

  Here is a similar example from Facebook’s mobile web experience – Facebook Touch. Like the Yo…

• Multiple “Froms” Using Gmail on iPad & iPhone
  Published: August 29, 2010
  Source: Connecting the Dots
  One thing I’ve learned over the last several years is this: virtually every technical problem I’ve encountered has likely been experienced by someone else and they’ve asked about it or discussed it online…
• Facebook Marketing Misses the Mark
  (PC World)
  Published: August 29, 2010
  Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News
  PC World – [Author's Note: This article has been updated to reflect that it is possible to market to older users by selecting 64 to "Any" as the age range to target, while still maintaining that Facebook shoul...
• Should You be Pitching me?
  Published: August 29, 2010
  Source: Conversation Agent
  You give me way too much credit if you think your potential customers read my blog. You misunderstand and misapply influence and you're giving away your inexperience with new media. Let's be clear, I still...
• Mistake No. 25: Not reading
  Published: August 29, 2010
  Source: Mistakes Writers Make (And How to Put Them Right)
  If one more new writer tells me he has twenty hours a week to spare to write but “I don’t have the time to read!” I may ask to be shut away somewhere dark for a bit to wail until rescued. Any naughty midd...
• Older Adults Nearly Double Social Media Presence [STATS]
  Published: August 28, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  A new study from Pew Internet found that between April 2009 and May 2010, social networking site usage grew 88% among Internet users aged 55-64, and the 65 and older group’s social networking presence grew 10…
• Too Few Women In Tech? Stop Blaming The Men.
  Published: August 29, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  Success in Silicon Valley, most would agree, is more merit driven than almost any other place in the world. It doesn’t matter how old you are, what sex you are, what politics you support or what color you are…
• Developing Your Business By Marketing Your API
  Published: August 28, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  Last week, Alex Williams posted a list in ReadWriteWeb’s Cloud Computing channel of the “!0 Common Mistakes Made by API Providers.” Alex’s post points to some of the problems that occur in both the technical an…
• Foursquare Takes Over Times Square With A Massive Display Ad
  Published: August 28, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  In terms of brand recognition, it’s hard to top a huge live display billboard in Las Vegas. But Foursquare has managed to do it. As you can see above, they now have a massive, multi-level and multi-angle dis…
• Confessions Of A Narcissist
  Published: August 28, 2010
  Source: Six Pixels of Separation – Marketing and Communications Insights – By Mitch Joel at Twist Image
  How did we all become so self-involved and to what end?

  Have you ever been in a place where you wind up disgusting yourself (just a little bit)? While floating through the Intertubes today, it struck me how na…

• Foursquare Takes Over Times Square [PIC]
  Published: August 28, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  A massive array of shimmering advertisements for Foursquare has been erected in New York City’s Times Square. This picture just appeared on Flickr; it’s pretty impressive. The ad towers over American Eagle�…
• USA Today gets makeover for mobile world
  Published: August 28, 2010
  Source: CNET News.com
  In a major restructuring, the news-gathering organization will break up its news room and de-emphasize print to focus on tablets, smartphones, and other digital platforms.
• Competing rallies in Washington highlight nation's divisions
  Published: August 28, 2010
  Source: Politics
  Standing on the hallowed ground of the nations civil rights icons, the leading conservative luminaries of the tea party movement on Saturday called on tens of thousands of people gathered on the National Mall…
• Gorgeous, mysterious, EVO-ish HTC device headed for Verizon (Boy Genius Report)
  Published: August 28, 2010
  Source: Techmeme
  Boy Genius Report:
  Gorgeous, mysterious, EVO-ish HTC device headed for Verizon — Remember that Verizon Wireless roadmap we leaked? Well, its all coming together pretty nicely. We have just got our h…
• The Fragmented Future Of Mobile Ad Networks
  Published: August 28, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  It’s no secret that Google, Apple and even RIM want a piece of the $1 billion-and-growing mobile advertising market. The fight over share of ad dollars is even resulting in possible anti-competitive practic…
• Use a Dab of Vaseline to Take Vintage-Style Photos [Camera Hacks]
  Published: August 28, 2010
  Source: Lifehacker
  The low-quality lenses and loose tolerances of vintage consumer cameras often gave photos a slightly distorted and dream-like quality. Capture that vintage-fee…
• Coming to a bar menu near you – Fried Beer – Wait! What?!?
  Published: August 28, 2010
  Source: The Inquisitr
  Yes you read that right – Fried Beer.
  Sounds impossible right?
  Never mind asking why you would even want to eat fried beer how the hell do you fry a bubbly liquid?
  Well apparently it is something that creato…
• Check (In) Yo’ Self Before You Wreck Yo’ Self: Why Foursquare Users Check In “Off The Grid”
  Published: August 28, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  This is a guest post by Hunter Walk (@hunterwalk) who conducted a survey of 500 Foursquare users to better understand their check in behaviors and motivations. His obsession with Foursquare is unrelated to his…
• Glenn Beck’s “I Am A Nightmare” Speech
  Published: August 28, 2010
  Source: All articles at Blogcritics
  Let’s restore honor to our great white nation by invoking the name of Dr King and calling Obama a racist.

  Glenn Beck – Racism – Barack Obama – United States – Martin Luther King

• What they say about age is true
  Published: August 28, 2010
  Source: Scripting News
  I read this piece on TechCrunch about ageism in tech and nodded my head all the way through.
  Facing facts, I’ve been sidelined in tech for quite a number of years. No one offers me a place in new startups….
• Top 10 Most Important Features for Enterprise Smartphone Management Solutions
  Published: August 28, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  A new report from Forrester confirms a trend we’ve been reporting: enterprises are turning away from “one size fits all” organization-owned smart phone phone strategies in favor of multi-device, employee owned…
• How gun silencers really work [Mad Physics]
  Published: August 28, 2010
  Source: Gizmodo
  When it comes to undesired noises, silencing guns is the same thing as silencing incessant yammerers. It all comes down to dealing with hot gas. More »…
• Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention
  Published: August 28, 2010
  Source: Six Pixels of Separation – Marketing and Communications Insights – By Mitch Joel at Twist Image
  Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see?

  My friends: Alistair Croll (BitCurrent, Rednod, GigaOM, Human 2.0, the author of Complete…

• Blogosphere Trends + Storytelling
  Published: August 28, 2010
  Source: ProBlogger Blog Tips
  This column is written by Kimberly Turner from Regator (a great tool that gathers and organizes the world’s best blog posts) – Darren
  I went tandem skydiving for my birthday in June. As the small plane pack…
• How to Use Affiliate Marketing
  Published: August 28, 2010
  Source: chrisbrogan.com
  First, a teaser. I’m working with someone to deliver a great ebook on affiliate marketing. Watch for that. In the interim, I wanted to just tell you a bit about how I use affiliate marketing as part of what…
• Phone Numbers Are Dead, They Just Don’t Know It Yet
  Published: August 28, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  Editor’s note: The following guest post is by Nikhyl Singhal, the co-founder and CEO of voice-application startup SayNow.
  Is it conceivable that one of our greatest inventions, the phone number, is about to…
• Branded Content – a Controversial PR Direction
  Published: August 28, 2010
  Source: Social Media Strategy | Online PR | Proactive Report | Sally Falkow
  The Independent, A UK newspaper, recently highlighted the PR trend of publishing content. Instead of relying on the media to tell their stories, as they have for the last 100 years, companies…
• Yet Another Story Formula for Job-Hunting and More (Plus: Transferable Skills Stories)
  Published: August 28, 2010
  Source: A Storied Career
  Every time I come across someone’s suggested story formula, I ask myself whether the structure could be applied in job-search stories. Most of the time, they can, and I’ve written about many of them.

  Here…

• Bit.ly Clickabit, Now. Bit.ly Now, Later?
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  Today on their blog, URL shortening service Bit.ly unveiled a cute new feature: Clickabit. It’s a Twitter account that surfaces some of the “surprising and bizarre” links being shortened and shared across…
• Foursquare Beats Facebook Places in Reader Vote
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  Facebook has made its grand entrance into the geolocation space with Facebook Places. Will users embrace it and ditch Foursquare?That’s the question we posed in this week’s Web Faceoff, our ongoing series…
• “Photo Memories” Coming to Facebook Places?
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  While checking into a Facebook Places location recently, one Mashable reader noticed a new tab: Photo Memories.We’ve been unable to duplicate the same tab ourselves, which means Facebook may be testing this f…
• Zuckerberg: Facebook Photos Used 5 Or 6 Times More Than Competitors — Combined
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  Yesterday, Facebook held a developer’s garage event at their headquarters in Palo Alto. To kick things off, CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage to talk a bit about the history of Facebook. Notably, he focused…
• Wow. If You Think Quitting Booze Freaks People Out, Wait ‘Til You Quit Twitter
  Published: August 28, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  I promise this is my last word on the subject.
  I had already promised myself, actually, that I wouldn’t write any more about my decision to quit Facebook, Linkedin, Foursquare, Blippy, Yammer, Dopplr and ever…
• The Emmy Awards Get Social
  Published: August 28, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  The 2010 Emmy Awards are this Sunday, and NBC is using the ceremony to embrace social media in a big way.NBC is using services such as Twitter, yfrog and Ustream to bring a more real-time experience to the even…
• Survey Says Facebook Feeds Narcissism [STUDY]
  Published: August 28, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  In a rather small survey conducted by a young psychologist, Facebook was shown to have some interesting correlations with self-esteem and narcissism in young adults.In a survey of 100 college students, young pe…
• A Few Observations About Gmail’s New Phone Feature
  Published: August 28, 2010
  Source: Technologizer
  I’ve been using Gmail’s new free voice calling feature over the past couple of days. For a while, I thought that the Google Buzz blowup proved it was a bad idea to introduce non-e-mail features into Gmail,…
• Ex-Googler and Ex-Facebooker Start Invite-Only Workspace Sunfire Offices
  Published: August 28, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  A unique spin on the concept of co-working space, Sunfire Offices was started three months ago by ex- Google engineering manager Niniane Wang and and ex-Facebook engineering manager Yishan Wong. While there ar…
• Square: The Perfect Solution For Tricky Drug And Prostitution Transactions?
  Published: August 28, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  One of the big problems with drug and prostitution transactions is that they tend to involve a lot of cash, and cash is hard to launder. Taking credit card payments has never been easier via Square, which lets…
• A little out of sync
  Published: August 28, 2010
  Source: Seth's Blog
  All those devices in your bag make it easier than ever to stay in sync.You can reap what you sow in Farmville, keep up with your email, know what’s going on on every important blog, be in the right room at the…
• What’s Your Specialty?
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: Mystery Writing is Murder
  A few times this summer, we’ve gone out to eat with our son and he’s been dissatisfied with his meal. He was really excited about the food when he ordered it, but when he got the steak from the seafood re…
• The Online Video Debate: Size Versus Quality
  Published: August 28, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  Editor’s note: The following guest post is by Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, the CEO of WatchMojo, a producer and distributor of premium video content. Follow him on Twitter @ashkan or @WatchMojo
  Last week, Erick…
• Facebook Places: Another Place to Waste Money?
  Published: August 28, 2010
  Source: pat mcgraw: marketing optimization
  Walking down the street, my phone beeps and when I look at the screen, I see an offer to stop in a nearby store and save 20%.
  Trouble is, I don’t have an immediate need so I ignore the offer.
  So how’s this…
• Introducing the concept of “Places”
  Published: August 28, 2010
  Source: MSDN Blogs
  TechEd Australia is all wrapped up, and I wanted to let everyone else know about one of the new concepts we’re introducing around application structure. As we’ve previously discussed, Windows Phone 7 applic…
• Just Say Yes And
  Published: August 28, 2010
  Source: GameChangers
  Our friend, Jeremy Redleaf, founder and star of the brilliant website, OddJobNation, sent us a photo he took on what looks like a New York City subway train, with the question, “Has Jet Blue been GameChanged?…
• Apple’s App Store Dominated By Pay Apps, Google’s By Free Apps [Data]
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: Gizmodo
  Are iPhone owners more willing to pay for applications than Android owners? Or are Android developers just more interested in giving away their apps? More …
• RTP foundation preparing new master plan
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: Business

  The foundation that runs Research Triangle Park, which celebrated its 50th anniversary last year, is preparing a new strategy to ensure the park remains competitive.

I just finished reading Pat McGraw’s latest blog post Facebook Places: Another Place to Waste Money?, and it reminded me of a tweet I once made saying that Twitter and Social Media were the new Wild Wild West. If that was once the case, they have now been displaced by Location Based Servives and the world that is spinning around geolocation.

Pat writes one of my favorite marketing blogs and I was going to leave a comment on Pat’s blog but this is a bit long for that.

He starts out with a geo-fencing example (you walk into an area and are presented with an offer) and wonders, since the offer may have no relevance to him at the moment, how that experience is any better than direct mail or print ads. I would answer that by saying it isn’t, given his example. He’s not interested in the offer plain and simple. But, what if he was? Then it might be darned convenient because that offer may have saved him a lot of time and trouble. Geo-fencing, whether integrated with Foursquare or Facebook or another location based service like TriOut, will likely have a place moving forward in the Wild West of location.

Pat raises the issue of social media being about ‘conversations’ and he wonders how a business will be able to carry on a conversation with him via location based services. If a business can carry on a conversation with its customers via Twitter, Facebook and other social media channels, it can certainly do so via location based services. Apps like TriOut already enable users to talk with each other via messages (ala Twitter) so taking that a step further and enabling conversation between customers and business is not at all far fetched.

It’s the next point that Pat raises where things get interesting and where I think, as marketers, we all need to think forward a bit. Here’s what he says,”In order to be effective, to deliver relevant offers, they are going to need to manage a lot of data. Otherwise I am going to receive offers for something I just bought (can you say ‘refund or return’?) or they are going to send me offers that are the wrong message at the wrong time just because I happen to be nearby.”

Exactly! But I don’t think they’ll be using geo-fencing or “nearby”. What will likely happen in terms of all of that data is that the businesses will engage with us not in the “fenced area” but once we enter their location. (We’ll leave the marketing issue of how they get us in the door for another time.) Once we cross the threshold of the business, and if we’ve opted in, their app will enage us on our smartphone. “Hi Pat. Welcome back. How’s your day going? How are those shoes that you bought three weeks ago working out? You might be interested in the new line of socks we’ve just started carrying. Why don’t you stop by that department, it’s just on your left over there, and pick up a pair to try out? Free of charge and on the house since you’ve been such a great customer. And if you like them, when you come back to buy more, we’d like to offer you the opportunity to buy two and get another one free.”

Now, Pat’s exactly correct. There’s a lot of data that needs to be managed for the scenario I just painted to happen. But that data and all of the technology to enable what I just described is already available isn’t it? What isn’t in place yet is the app that will drive the experience and the engagement. And, if you’d like to go a bit further into the scenario with me, imagine that the sales or customer service people in the business also have smartphones and that once you enter, they are alerted to that event, they look up and smile a warm welcome that lets you know that they’re happy to help whenever you need them. They’ll have access to all of the data they need to do so. And, if something you want isn’t in stock, no problem, they check and see it’s at the location across town and they’ll be happy to deliver it this afternoon if you like since you’re one of their ‘loyalty’ customers. Or, it’s available online as well and we can ship it free of charge and since it wasn’t in stock, you’ll get it for 30% off to show how much we appreciate you stopping in to our location first.

How long until we see something like this? I’m betting it’s just around the corner…

• Why Cloud Equals Better Outsourcing
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  Business Week published an article recently that talked about changes in outsourcing. They got the cloud part right – massive disruptions and changes in the IT infrastructure stack both in technology and compan…
• If this doesn’t get an Apple fanboy’s heart racing well, they’re probably dead
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: The Inquisitr
  Take two iconic brands and mash them together and what do you get?
  An Apple fanboy’s driving wet dream. Seriously.
  The way it works is this. Take a Mercedes-Benz S Class and hand it over to the German tuning…
• Old Spice's viral video success is no match for free product giveaways
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blog
  Old Spices popular viral videos have been winning the company accolades all summer — including an Emmy nod this week. Now it looks as if something a little more powerful contributed to the company’s strong sa…
• Living Self-Employed Online: The Manual They Forgot to Give You [Self-employed]
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: Lifehacker
  February 1st, 2009, was a very memorable day for me. It was the day I arrived back at my family home in Newcastle, England, to start working for myself full-ti…
• A single answer storytelling survey
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: Limor's Storytelling Agora
  I’ve been using a single question storytelling survey for a while. After receiving various interesting answers I’ve realized the question is too wide. So I’ve decided to try the other way round: asking a…
• Paul Allen Files Patent Lawsuits Against Entire Web … Except Microsoft
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: Epicenter
  Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has filed far-reaching patent lawsuits against Google, Apple, Yahoo, Netflix, Facebook, AOL and eBay, among others, alleging the companies violated patents owned by his now-defun…
• 35+ Social Lending Platforms Around the World
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: emergent by design
  I’ll be giving a presentation on ‘the future of money’ in a few months, and am trying to wrap my head around all the emerging disruptive tools and services that are shaking up the financial industry. I p…
• Google Acquires More Social Networking Talent, Buys Angstro (GOOG)
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: Silicon Alley Insider
  Google has made another acquisition to build out its social network, buying Angstro and its founder Rohit Khare, the LA Times reports.
  Angstro was a news aggregation startup that focused on news from specific n…
• Microsoft Cofounder Paul Allen Sues Apple, Yahoo, And Google Over Patents (AAPL, YHOO, GOOG, MSFT)
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: Silicon Alley Insider
  Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen is suing Apple, Yahoo, Google and a bunch of other companies over patent infringement.
  The suit is pretty ridiculous. Allen basically claims he invented some of the most basic asp…
• Google’s Latest Acquisition Is All About Facebook
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  Google has acquired Ångströ, a service for delivering intelligent search results about a person’s professional network. It has also hired its founder, likely in an effort to build a legitimate competitor to…
• Google Beat is the “Best Week Ever” for Web Search Trends
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  If you haven’t discovered Google Trends yet, you’re missing out on some of the Web’s most interesting data and information. At any point you can see what searches are trending on Google and can use this data to…
• Online Video Can Kill Your Credibility
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: Six Pixels of Separation – Marketing and Communications Insights – By Mitch Joel at Twist Image
  The majority of independent online video content being created is mostly unwatchable.

  I’m usually not that critical of online video (and, I’m the first to admit that I am guilty of creating some of this unwatc…

• Join the eBook Revolution – Everything You HAVE to Know
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: Freelance Writing Jobs | A Freelance Writing Community and Freelance Writing Jobs Resource
  As technology advances, art always finds new ways of taking advantage of it.
  For Music, vinyl records were the first major format to catch on, until cassette tapes came along. Years later, we ditched out casset…
• Please vote for me!
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: NeuroCooking
  I’m delighted to let you know that I’m in the running to moderate a panel at the upcoming South by Southwest (SXSW) conference – and that YOUR vote helps to decide if our session is chosen! The panel is c…
• Little Tricks to Get More Customers Smiling
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: Quick Sprout
  It always surprises me to hear about how few businesspeople implement strategies of doing what they can to make their customers feel good. I know that trying to keep customers happy is a generally unspoken rul…
• Apple promises to pay iPhone developers sooner, regularly
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: Macworld
  Apple has posted a note for iPhone developers promising to pay developers sooner and more frequently in future.

• How to Network to Increase Sales
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: Inc.com
  If you routinely return from a networking event with a pocketful of business cards that aren’t useful to you, you need to rethink your strategy. While it’s good to make friends, it’s better to make money. And m…
• How to Get Customer Referrals
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: Inc.com
  Customer referrals are one of the most powerful selling and marketing tools available. In fact, the best source of new business is a referral from a satisfied customer. According to Forrester Research, 71 perce…
• Florida tourism saved by — social media. Really.
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: Business news and Fortune 500 – FORTUNE Magazine
• If You're the Boss, Start Killing More Good Ideas
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: The Conversation
  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 ninth belief: “Innovation is crucial to every team and organization. So…
• Mayor Wars: A Battle For Foursquare Supremacy [VIDEO]
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  This November, Americans will head to the polls and choose from a multitude of candidates vying to become the next senator, governor or mayor.But one particular race won’t be determined by popular vote, nor w…
• A Day in the Life of a Community Manager
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: GigaOMCollaboration
  Online community management careers are particularly well-suited to web working, since it’s possible to manage an online community from an office, at home, in a coffee shop or any other location with a stab…
• Are you hiring a social media strategist?
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: Christopher S. Penn's Awaken Your Superhero
  Are you looking to hire a social media strategist? Take your social media strategist job description and replace the words social media with military.

  Think about that for a second.
  How silly would it look for…

• A Story Before Bed Video Newsletter – August 26, 2010
  Published: August 26, 2010
  Source: Jackson Fish Market
  Not interested in reading our brilliant prose? How about a video version introducing all our new books. Let us know what you think!
• NC State Senator Admits Broadband Companies Wrote His Bill & Says He 'Carries Water' For Companies
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: Techdirt
  Ah, North Carolina. A year and a half ago, we wrote about an attempt by the North Carolina state legislature to pass an anti-municipal broadband bill in the state. These bills have become somewhat common. Ba…
• Killer Feature of Windows Phone 7? Hint: Not the Phone
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: GigaOMGigaOM
  In a bid to reverse declining market share and relevance in the smartphone space, Microsoft is prepping Windows Phone 7, expected to launch this fall. The new platform has taken shape like a puzzle, piece by pi…
• Why Apple’s iTV Needs FaceTime
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: GigaOMGigaOM
  While there’s excitement over the supposed 99-cent TV show rentals on the new iTV, my belief is that won’t be enough to make iTV a success. As I write in my weekly analysis over at GigaOM Pro, there are a…
• Dell Not Going To Be A Windows Phone 7 Launch Partner? Bad News For Microsoft Mobile* (DELL, MSFT, HPQ)
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: Silicon Alley Insider
  Microsoft is finding it harder to convince its traditional PC partners to join it in the mobile world.
  Kim-Mai Cutler at TechCrunch says Microsoft originally had a $20 million contract with HP to cover the c…
• Facebook Places: Google-backed SCVNGR Says It Will Win
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  SCVNGR, a Google Ventures backed mobile location startup, will become one of the first few trusted partners to be allowed to write updates to Facebook through the Places API today. The company says it has alre…
• No more drive-by teaching
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: Signal vs. Noise
  Last week at our full-company get together, each person was asked to say two things to the group: 1. What do you want to get better at? 2. What do you want to learn?

  Unfortunately I was out sick and unable t…

• SCVNGR Brings Location Game to Facebook Places
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  Taking an if-you-can’t-beat-them, join-them-and-beat-them attitude, SCVNGR is today unveiling its integration plans for Facebook Places and launching new features to take of advantage of both Facebook Places�…
• Remember the Milk for iPhone now free — with a catch
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
  Remember the Milk (RTM) is a popular Web-based to-do list manager with an equally popular iOS app (here’s our review). This week, the app’s developers have announced that it’s now free for the iPhone… with a…
• Whoa: Who Knew Etsy’s Business Was Up 72%?
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: Silicon Alley Insider
  Etsy, the arts-and-crafts eBay, just received a $20 million investment, valuing the company at $300 million, TechCrunch reports.
  Last time Etsy received investment was in January 2008, and then it was valued at…
• How to Get More Retweet Action on Twitter
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: TwiTip
  I’m sure you’d love to receive more retweets that you currently do. In fact, we all do, I’m the first to admit it. Why? Because more RTs means more traffic to your blog, to your videos and to whatever it…
• Location Stalking Via Your Tweeted Photos
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: ProgrammableWeb
  Careful what photos you tweet–and where you were when you snapped the shot. There’s another site designed to warn you against the hazards of over-sharing. This time it’s not related to active location-sh…
• Is group buying a good fit for Yelp?
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blog
  If there’s a sexy space on the consumer internet right now, group buying is it. Although there are arguments about whether or not market leader Groupon’s first national deal with Gap was really as successful as…
• Ras: The Myth of the Late Bloomer
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: 3:17 a.m.
  When my daughter was young, I enjoyed reading a children’s book aloud to her each night. One of our favorites was Leo the Late Bloomer by Robert Kraus, with wonderful illustrations by Jose Aruego.Quick plot s…
• The blizzard of noise (and the good news)
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: Seth's Blog
  As the amount of inputs go up, as the number of people and ideas that clamor for attention continue to increase, we do what people always do: we rely on the familiar, the trusted and the personal.
  The experien…
• MySpace: A place for… what, again?
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: Business news and Fortune 500 – FORTUNE Magazine
  With declining ad sales, a stagnant user base, and a creaky interface, the once-mighty social network has a redesign on deck, but is it enough to save the site?
• Why Believing is the Most Important Thing You can Do
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: Conversation Agent
  Last night we all headed to the Roger Smith Hotel to celebrate Greg Verdino’s book launch, microMARKETING. It was great to be in the same room with my colleagues and many long time friends. It made me realize…
• FourSquare and security: I know where you live…
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blog
  As individuals become more and more accustomed to sharing
  personal information with social networking sites, it’s easy to see how this free
  and easy exchange of information can be abused.
  FourSquare, though e…
• Have a good blog? You need a good archive.
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: in over your head
  Your archive page is probably the least considered of your blog’s design.
  Look at any WordPress blog out there, and you’ll see basically the same thing– a sidebar with links, kind of confusing, not much e…
• Find Info On Webkit Spec Extensions
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: Ajaxian » Front Page
  I stumbled across http://webkit.org/specs recently, which is basically a nifty listing of all custom extensions Apple/Webkit has made to web specs, written up as specs themselves so that other browsers can imp…
• Get Social Insights From Email Contacts With Flowtown
  Published: August 26, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  Since it launched late last year, social email marketing tool Flowtown has gained over 15,000 customers, most of which are small businesses, with its unique combination of email and social analytics.

  The sta…

• TweetDeck’s Underground Project: Allowing TweetDecks To Talk To Nearby TweetDecks (TCTV)
  Published: August 26, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  Now that TweetDeck’s Android app is out in beta mode, with its multiple streams (notably Facebook, Foursquare, Twitter, Google Buzz) and blended options, many users want to know when TweetDeck will overhaul…
• Has Microsoft Extinguished Silverlight?
  Published: August 26, 2010
  Source: Techdirt
  Remember Silverlight? That was Microsoft’s attempt to take on Adobe Flash. There was plenty of attention paid to it when it launched, but it faded off the map pretty quickly, and that slow fade has only conti…
• Formspring Ramps Up Social Features As It Passes 16 Million Members
  Published: August 26, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  Formspring, the QA service that lets users invite their friends to “ask them anything”, has had a wild year: since officially launching last November, the service has skyrocketed to over 16 million register…
• Facebook’s “Platmobile” Team Working On Eliminating Mobile Password Entry
  Published: August 26, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  Earlier this evening, Facebook held a developer’s garage event at their headquarters — sort of like a State of the Union for third-party developers. Notably, they announced a new partnership with Y Combinat…
• Zuckerberg: “Guess What? Nobody Wants To Make Lists.”
  Published: August 26, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  A couple days ago, I wrote a post wondering if it wasn’t time to change Facebook’s social graph dynamic? Specifically, I called for a simplified system that had two layers: your friends and your followers….
• Marketing vs. Creativity
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: Mystery Writing is Murder
  I’ve basically trained myself to be creative on demand—and leave my muse out of the equation all together. Inspiration is too unpredictable—I seem to get better results from just old fashioned perseveran…
• No Parents Allowed: College-Exclusive Social Network Launches
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  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…
• Facebook Places a Week Later: Using It?
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: Small Business Search Marketing
  It’s been a week … well, nine days to be exact … since the launch of Facebook Places.
  Are you using it? Do you know anyone who is?
  In many cases, the survival of a new product, tool, web site, or whateve…
• It’s Gmail: The Game!
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: Ajaxian » Front Page
  TechCrunch reports on a Googler, Paul Truong, who created an HTML5-based game for Gmail called Galactic Inbox using his 20% time:
  When you start it up, a little Gmail logo envelope guy pops out of a “20% Pro…
• YouTube Debuts New Movies Section With 400 Free, Full-Length Films (Updated)
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  YouTube has launched a fresh Movies category on its website, gathering about 400 full-length films for your on-demand viewing pleasure, all free of charge.
  The renewed section, which is actually more like the…
• The Trapped Chilean Miner Game
  Published: August 26, 2010
  Source: GameChangers
  Several years ago, in a Level One improv class at I.O. West, I did a scene with Parvesh Cheena where he and I were given the situation of being trapped together in an elevator. I immediately began McGuyveri…
• Dominos: iPhone app review
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blog
  Dominos launched an iPhone ordering app in the UK this month. It had launched an app last year, but this was actually a smartphone optimised site.
  As Meghan Keane pointed out last week, mobile can be very eff…
• Why Facebook Can’t Compete With Television
  Published: August 27, 2010
  Source: Jeffbullas's Blog
  So you think mass media is dying… think again! Americans spend over 50% of their free time either parked in front of their television or watching it while engaged in other incidental activities around the hom…
• The iPhone Economy Enables Intuit’s Mobile Payments
  Published: August 26, 2010
  Source: TheAppleBlog
  Intuit today announced it has partnered with mophie, a long-time iPhone accessory maker, to turn Apple’s handset into a mobile credit card terminal. The hardware, available today, reads the magnetic strip o…
• What Does Your “About Us” Page Say About Your Startup?
  Published: August 26, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  I visit a lot of startup websites. A lot. And as a journalist, I am perhaps more prone than others to click on a company’s “About Us” page. Of course, my motivations for doing so typically involve finding perti…
• Diaspora Three Weeks Away From Unveiling Open-Source Facebook Alternative
  Published: August 26, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  Remember Diaspora? You’ll be forgiven if you don’t. Since they received a lot of hype as the open-source “Facebook Alternative” this past May, they’ve been quiet. In fact, they hadn’t given any upda…
• Facebook Places vs. Foursquare at YCombinator Demo Day
  Published: August 26, 2010
  Source: RyanSpoon.com
  I had the pleasure of spending yesterday at YCombinator’s Demo Day. 36 companies presented and launched – three of which were Dogpatch Labs residents: Fanvibe, Rapportive, and an off-the-record company.

  Wh…

• Hulu's freemium model is missing the premium part
  Published: August 26, 2010
  Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blog
  Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp is frantically trying to monetize its digital properties. As part of that plan, popular video site Hulu recently added a premium version that costs $9.99 a month. For consumers lookin…
• An Open Letter to CRM and Social Media People
  Published: August 26, 2010
  Source: Social Media Globetrotter
  Over the past few months (and perhaps more so over the past few weeks) I’ve noticed a growing tension between the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and the social media folks. In some instances this ha…
• HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Your Business Facebook Page
  Published: August 26, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  Susan Payton is the President of Egg Marketing Public Relations, an Internet marketing firm. She blogs at The Marketing Eggspert Blog. Follow her on Twitter @eggmarketing.So you paid attention to what everyo…
• How to Search Twitter List Archives
  Published: August 26, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  Twitter lists are a beautiful thing, a great way to gather together expert opinion on any topic. If you thought Twitter’s own search was bad at retrieving archival conversations, though, is archival search of…
• Foursquare Starts Emphasizing “Days” Rather Than “Check-Ins” With Mayor Countdowns
  Published: August 26, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  Back in June, we noted a couple of websites that existed for the sole purpose of revving up mayor battles on Foursquare: When Will I Be Mayor? and Be The Mayor. Today, Foursquare itself has just rolled out a s…
• Thoughts on Twitter #10: Why we all view Twitter differently
  Published: August 26, 2010
  Source: Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com
  [Part of the RexBlog "Thoughts on Twitter" series.]
  (Note: This is adapted from a segment of a recent project that included an explanation of how Twitter is not just what one sees on the Twitter.com website. F…
• Marketing Multipliers: Connecting With the Connectors
  Published: August 26, 2010
  Source: All articles at Blogcritics
  Online marketing that targets marketing multipliers.

  Business – Marketing and Advertising – Internet Marketing – Marketing – Marketing Services

• Deltacloud: Is This the Cloud API Standard We’ve Been Looking For?
  Published: August 26, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  Despite Amazon’s leadership and market share in cloud computing, many in the industry have been reluctant to crown Amazon S3′s API as the standard, arguing it’s too early and too vendor-specific.

  And while t…

• Facebook Alternative Diaspora Launches September 15
  Published: August 26, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  Diaspora, the much-hyped open source alternative to Facebook, will release its code to the world on September 15, but promises that its creators are just getting started.Earlier this year, Facebook was embroile…
• Foursuqare Now Lets You Know How Close You Are to Mayorships
  Published: August 26, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  If you are an avid user of Foursquare, you’ve probably found yourself in this situation: you go to a location over and over and over in an attempt to become the mayor, but to no avail. Perhaps you even gave up…
• Google Realtime Search Gets Home Page, Conversation View, Alerts & Geosearch (Danny Sullivan/Search Engine Land)
  Published: August 26, 2010
  Source: Techmeme
  Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
  Google Realtime Search Gets Home Page, Conversation View, Alerts Geosearch — Google Realtime Search has finally gained its own home page, as well as some new tools…
• Groupon and The Gap: Local coupon sites could be a bad fit for national chains
  Published: August 26, 2010
  Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blog
  Groupon is one of the e-commerce success stories of the last year. The group buying site’s revenues are skyrocketing, and its half price deal with Gap sold 441,000 units last week. That translates to $11 millio…
• 3 Collaboration Tools Startups Pick for Short-term Projects
  Published: August 26, 2010
  Source: GigaOMCollaboration
  Every organization has its own needs when it comes to picking out collaboration tools. Startups, in particular, need tools that don’t get in the way of the big project the team may be focused on. They often h…
• 5 Myths About Philadelphia’s ‘Blogging Tax’
  Published: August 26, 2010
  Source: Epicenter
  Philadelphia: Proclaim LIBERTY throughout the land, by Tony the Misfit/flickr. Used gratefully via a Creative Commons license
  The city of Philadelphia has been under fire on the web for what’s been called a …