Today’s Stories

Recently I wrote about the decline of RSS Readers as a way for people to keep up with news. I noted that while many people still use RSS Readers, usage has decreased due to the emergence of real-time and social…

Recently I got into an interesting discussion with @nhangen and @rockyourday about the new retweet function. While I’d experimented with it, I wanted to see how I could make it work for me. What I discovered…

This morning I read a fascinating post by Patricia Sellers, Editor at Large at Fortune. She writes about her New Year’s Resolution to slow down this year. She declares -
Instead of resolving to do more this…

Heyzeusrollerbladingchrist. Apple has sold one billion apps since the two billion September 28 mark, reaching three billion in 98 days. That’s 30,612,244 apps per day, 1,275,510 per hour, 121,043 per minute, 35…

Google is soliciting the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for the company to be an administrator of a database that would allow devices to access broadband Internet on unlicensed TV signal spectrum,…

They cost too much and they don’t work very well.Most people ignore them, they don’t last very long and they’re undependable.Anil Dash has discovered that having ten times as many Twitter followers generates ap…

The best thing about the SEJ tools is that you can have all aspects of your website promotion campaign and performance tracking under one combined login. Using one tool you can create and publish content, trac…

A little over a year ago, on Dec. 1, 2008, I made this prediction in my column: “Google will buy Yelp” — the social-networking-esque site that provides user-written reviews of businesses in cities across the U…

We announced the “Insert buttons” functionality few months back. With the power of Buttons and VBA Macros in Zoho Sheet, you can do a whole lot of things that weren’t possible earlier. Here are some sample spr…

If you’re “on Twitter”, no doubt you’ve noticed different Tweeple running polls from time to time. We ran our first poll on Twitter over 3 years ago which resulted in the post, “Guide to Twitter as…

Will the world’s best Social Media and P2P case studies of 2009 please stand up? The time to claim your place in the pantheon of business case studies has come.
I hate to call them Social Media case studies…

Yes, people sometimes say consequential things on social media. The Twitter tag #whatTwitterdidforme has lots of sterling examples. …

CoffeeScript (GitHub repo) is a new programming language with a pure Ruby compiler. Creator Jeremy Ashkenas calls it “JavaScript’s less ostentatious kid brother” – mostly because it compiles into JavaScript an…

Charging for news content online may be a tough sell, but for financial publications that have a stable of instiutional subscriptions, it’s a bit easier. That’s one of the reasons that The Financial Times is se…

We were gathered at our bi-monthly Boys’ Lunch at Michael’s last month when one of “the boys,” a very senior media-minded communications executive, looked at me incredulously when I said I actually re…

Happy Birthday to Isaac Newton (sort of… skip to #5 for the scoop on that)! Although he’s been a household name since his time, there’s more to Isaac than meets the apple. Here are 10 facts you may not…

Dan Zarrella has long impressed us with his discourses on the science of retweets, as well as his psychoanalytic apps that scan and parse Twitter streams – one for general analysis and one for dreams.

His late…

Businesses with the best product-development track records stand apart from their less-successful peers in three crucial ways
McKinsey Quarterly, January 1, 2010 — Is your company finding it hard to develo…

Credit card readers are turning the iPhone/iPod touch platform into an e-commerce engine…

Last week we covered the news that Facebook had shut down Seppukoo, a service which enables users to automate the process of deleting their profile. This week Facebook has done it again, by shutting down the W…

It’s fun to scoff at haters who don’t get the power of social media or flaunt the wisdom of the crowd. But what do you do when the crowd turns on itself?
The idea that users will someday get sick of social…

After I first launched the Twitter psychological profiling tool TweetPsych, some of the most common feedback I got was that it was hard to understand the results. So I designed a new reporting mechanism and des…

It’s the end of the year, time to reflect. So I asked myself what have I learned this year about business? Maybe more interesting than that, what have I learned about professional business people? What makes so…

I’m always reading about employees being fired for stuff they say online or how you have to watch what you say if you want to keep your job or find a new one. But until today I’d never realized that i…