Stories September 20, 2011

With over 200,000 pre-launch signups and 40,000 users in their beta program, it’s very likely that you saw a vizualize.me resume link show up in a friend’s Facebook status update last week when the site sof…

Klout, a startup that measures influence on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Foursquare, is now integrating Google+.
For background, Klout evaluates users’ behavior with complex ranking algorithms a…

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One of Facebook’s most important products is getting much smarter — and a little easier to use.
Less than 48 hours before its f8 developer conference, Facebook is rolling out an updated version of News Feed…

Instagram got a pretty major update Tuesday with version 2.0. Aside from a slightly modified, prettier icon, the update also adds new features, filters and general speed improvements that make the whole experie…

A screenshot of the updated News Feed (click to enlarge.)
Everyone’s favorite social network Facebook is now getting even more personal, announcing that starting late Tuesday it will begin calibrating how it…

After introducing the “subscribe” button that makes Facebook more like Twitter or Google+, the world’s largest social network takes things one step further by introducing two new features today.
1/Top Sto…

Google Plus got a bunch of new features today, many of them involving Hangouts, the video chat feature. This is not the only social network with video chat in town, but Hangouts always had some stand-out featur…

Dear Lifehacker,I read that passwords in Mac OS X Lion can be easily hacked. Is this a big issue or has it been blown out of proportion? Is there anything I…

On Thursday, Facebook is expected to announce a new family of news apps that let users read and share news stories from sources like CNN, without ever leaving Facebook.
But it looks like one publisher jumped…

Rick Perry’s wife loves nothing more than to get the hell away from Rick Perry and the whole foul state of Texas, which is why she is constantly jetting off to Amsterdam, Madrid and New York. And that costs T…

From the Department of Terrible Ideas: The Washington Post has a must-read story up reporting on research that promises to someday make military drones fully automated. Yes, that’s right, drones that kill base…

Graham Cluley / Naked Security:
Google Wallet – why you shouldn’t throw away your wallet just yet — Google has announced, to some fanfare, what it hopes will be a revolution in the way we pay for things…

Location based app Foursquare has just one billion checkins, it just announced on its blog. The app has gone from 100 million checkins in July, 2010 to 200 million in Oct 2010 to 750 million checkins in June 20…

Location-based social app Foursquare reached a new milestone last week when it logged its 1 billionth check-in. The service, which reached 10 million users in June, first launched two years ago and has since be…

Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Facebook ‘Credits’ Revenue Now Growing Faster Than its Ads — EMarketer: Facebooks Advertising Expansion Slowing While Credits Program Accelerates — Facebook ad reven…

Considering Google+ is meant to be the place for sharing links and pictures, why arent very many top Googlers posting anything?
The Google execs we’ve found were posting frequently up until recently. One exp…

Courtesy of Adage this shows the media consumption of different generations, hour by hour. very cool. Hat tip to the Digital Marketing Platform Group at Microsoft… Looks like Grandpa keeps falling asleep wit…

This is the third in a series of posts on how a mid size medical association is implementing emergent collaboration strategies and technologies within its organization. Part 1 on Business Drivers, can be foun…

With 200,000,000 registered twitter accounts and almost 450,000 new accounts being created daily, some of you are bound to run into a sociopath, a bully a troll, even a complete cyberstalking psychopath on Twi…

Imagine you have a web-based weather tracking service with hundreds of paying customers. Now imagine you realized those customers weren’t the ones you wanted for the long term, so you cut them off and then re…

HipGeo, a location based social network that I wrote about in February, started and invested in by a group of Yahoo veterans and advised by a team of corporate data rockstars, has launched its iPhone app and it…

Updated. The society as we know it is going through a radical makeover, thanks to constant connectivity everywhere. This is creating a need for a digital makeover of everything – from retail to our postal sys…

Sometimes it seems that law enforcement is a lot more interested in enforcing the letter of the law than the spirit of the law. Via Radley Balko, we learn that police in Pasadena California showed up at the in…

By Daryl Montgomery: Yesterday’s news was about a potential Greek default and it caused a global market sell-off. Today, hopes of preventing a Greek default are causing markets to rally. This alternating new…

The Wall Street Journal is bringing its content into the Facebook platform with its launch of the WSJ Social app, available free of charge during its first month thanks to exclusive launch advertiser Dell.
WSJ…

By Duncan Geere, Wired UK
A group of psychologists working at HP’s Social Computing Research Group has found that humans are more likely to change their minds when fewer, rather than more, people disagree…

Google added a number of key features to its Google+ Hangouts live video chat Tuesday morning: Select users can now broadcast their Hangouts, which turns the intimate chat sessions into a live stream that can b…

In September 2010, West Coast Productions—maker of such films as Teen Anal Nightmare 2 and Juicy White Anal Booty 4—paired up with West Virginia lawyer Ken Ford to file a set o…

A couple days ago, Facebook hid the legendary, endearing, yet awkward “Poke” button inside a menu on a Facebook profile.
Until now, the Poke button has adorned each Facebook profile in a very visible way, rig…

It was exactly one year ago today that I wrote up my initial lengthy preview of Instagram. I had a feeling that when it launched, it was going to be big. I underestimated it.
Fast forward to today. Instagram…

Piracy has been the bane of software companies since the first CD was bought and underhandedly passed along to friends. Certainly peer-to-peer file sharing is alive and well, albeit usually done across the ‘Net…

You can view sessions from the BUILD conference online on Channel 9.
On the Visual Studio blog, Weston Hutchins points out some of the important Visual Studio sessions:

What’s new in Visual Studio 11 – Jas…

The Internet is coming to small town America in a big way.
And that’s not always a good thing.
Topix, a site that allows users to comment anonymously on their fellow residents, is causing problems in towns ac…

Grocery shopping app Ziplist has launched new features for discovering and sharing dishes that expand its capabilities as a recipe box.
Because the 2-year-old startup launched with a focus on shopping lists,…

Despite being touted as “free” and “open source,” Android is anything but, writes Richard Stallman, prominent hacker, programmer, and software activist, in The Guardian.
It’s a dense piece of writing, but her…

New paper on the real costs of patent trolls:
The Private and Social Costs of Patent Trolls

Abstract:
In the past, non-practicing entities (NPEs) — firms that license patents without producing goods — ha…

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The comic book industry teaches us many lessons about New Media and the new consumer.

Are you familiar with the comic book, Superman – Red Son? It was released in 2003 to critical acclaim and became a nominati…

With more than 750m users, Facebook is one of the most populous online
hubs through which consumers can be reached.
That, not surprisingly, has
made it a platform of significance to brands which thrive only…

We were at SMX East last week to catch up with old friends, have dinner with Lady Gaga and liveblog the hell out of another search conference. And we did all of that and had a great time. One thing I noticed wh…

It’s interesting to watch the response to Reed Hastings’ announcement that Netflix is splitting its DVD unit to a new business called Qwikster.
As we know, on the internet everyone is an expert and no one i…

Want to know how your email packets from Rhode Island make it over to South Africa? Or what about your VoIP call from Hong Kong to Honolulu? Now there’s a map for that, thanks to the folks at Telegeography w…

Monday night, Twitter was abuzz with comments on both the first episode of Two and a Half Men with its new star Ashton Kutcher as well as Comedy Central’s Roast of Charlie Sheen.
Judging from early tweet coun…

Century Media press release:
While everyone at the label group believes in the ever changing possibilities of new technology and new ways of bringing music to the fans, Century Media is also of the opinion tha…

Obama has introduced the concept of the “Buffett tax,” a few percent increase in tax rate on millionaires.
The Republicans are gearing up to convince the country that this will discourage society’s most pro…

Spanish artist Arturo Castro may’ve just invented the next big (and scary) thing.
He created an app that, while unfinished and imperfect, pastes another person’s face onto your own. He demonstrates the techno…

See a photo of Jane, her bio, and Part 1 of this QA.

QA with Jane Freese, Question 2:

Q: How did you initially become involved with story/storytelling/narrative? What attracted you to this field? What do…

It seems every month or so another mobile video sharing service pops up, promising to make it easier for users to share experiences they’ve shot on their phones with friends. The latest, called Klip, aims to…

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Google officially rolled out its Google Wallet mobile payment system Monday. We’ve been using a Sprint Nexus S 4G with Google Wallet for the past six weeks. Google Wallet is still in its infancy, but the s…

There are a few different theories on how people react to finding out that they’re in the minority on some particular viewpoint. One theory suggests that, when confronted with people disagreeing with our viewp…

While people shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, they do. This is why it is so critical that you spend the time and money to get the packaging on your product right. It doesn’t matter if it’s a b…

Acquiring and processing user feedback is a choice.
There are good reasons to hide from it:

You might believe that inviting disgruntled customers to call or write to someone who will actually take action wi…

It’s tough to be a startup in the daily deals space these days. To quantify some of this, CB Insights has released a report covering valuation multiples for both MA and venture financing for daily deal startu…

By Seth Mason:Many respected financial pundits refer to this period of economic history as a “jobless recovery”. Many more refer to unemployment as a “lagging indicator”. While it is true that the US ec…

My usual journalistic role is to expose wrongdoing, point with alarm, and distill complicated information into clear explanations of what’s really going on in the world. I rarely offer specific solutions, becau…

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I recently watched the final of the US Open women’s tennis and it was inspiring to see the endeavour, effort and expertise of each of the contestants. They slugged it out on center cour…

Over the past year or so, we have produced a range of white papers and guides for HP and now they’re available free on Scribd. I think they’re pretty good, useful and interesting so I wanted to share them…

Earlier this year, rumors swirled about whether Twitter had actually moved into a new Utah data center, or if it was forced to move its operations to a different data center in Sacramento. That confusion still…

A yearly study that ranks the satisfaction level of personal computer owners is about to be released and the results are, well, kind of boring. “Boring” in the sense that the same company that’s led the r…

McClellan tipped rivals off to Hewlett-Packard’s cloud-storage initiative in his profile on the social network

Imagine being 8-years-old again and on a long car trip. Instead of whining “Are we there, yet?”, you pick up a controller and play with your holographic animal…

Largest newspaper by circulation in U.S. is launching an app that will draw from Journal content to create a socially oriented news publication housed on Facebook, according to a report.

Now that Google Wallet has officially launched, turning smartphones into digital wallets, keep these rules of the road in mind

Over 40% of a brand’s Facebook page fans “unlike” the page as soon as a campaign ends, suggesting that a lot of follower activity on the social network is driven by agency interaction, not a real loyalty to the…

Location based social network Foursquare has quietly released a new feature that allows places user categorize as their homes to be included in the system but not expose their exact addresses. Venues categoriz…

If you did not hear the news, a few weeks ago Google purchased Zagat, one of the largest and most respected media companies devoted to restaurant reviews (see the company announcement here). Most reviews of t…

I just received a Groupon for dental services. I have seen Groupon’s in the past for medical services and I can’t figure out how selling medical services via a social coupon (the generic name for Groupon…

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Jamie Beckland is a digital and social media strategist at Janrain, where he helps Fortune 1000 compani…