Today’s Stories

Guy English: “How the hell does one App get downloaded two million times in the space of one week? To do so it’d have to catch the eye of people you’ve never heard of — like your brother or your girlfri…

Last week, we previewed Chomp, a new service that aims to offer a better review and recommendation system for iPhone apps. Today, the service, which is an app itself, has gone live, with its app now available i…

Originally published on HCPLive.com
by Mike Hennessy
Some patient advocates, tech-savvy physicians, and other Health 2.0 proponents tout e-mail, online forums, and social media technologies because they can pot…

Be The Media is a book for anyone looking to create, distribute, and engage with digital media. Compiled by David Mathison, the book features articles on how individuals are taking control of their own media pr…

About six months ago I was asked to submit a proposal on a branding project for a multi-national company. I, along with several of my colleagues, put in at least week’s worth of preparation time, sat in on…

I’ve tried to steer clear of the social media guru conversation. I think it’s petty and short-sighted for people to moan and bitch about some up-start blogger or right-out-of-college entrepreneur type claim…

My friend, Beth Kanter* pointed recently to a Forbes.com piece by Laurie Burkitt about Threadless.com, the Chicago-based tee-shirt company. The author says that the dotcom, consumer retailer sprang to life from…

Two newspaper companies hired new chiefs last week. The Star Tribune hired Michael Klingensmith, my former colleague at Entertainment Weekly, and Journal Register hired John Paton, now head of Spanish-language…

No writing tip on this post, but if you are looking to learn how to work with websites and make money online (and many of our readers are), read on. As some of you know I (Daniel, owner of this blog) have an In…

For consumer brands that want to harness – and feel the group hugs from – their community, there’s nothing quite like Facebook.
With hundreds of millions of unique users, Facebook offers a ready-made platform…

From intent to purpose…Good friend Jeremiah Owyang recently wondered whether or not the real-time Web was fast enough to keep pace with our insatiable appetites for information and connectivity. As such, Jere…

Crafting unmissable headlines which resonate with social web users is something which appears deceptively simple. Yet it’s an art form requiring writers, bloggers and marketers to craft thousands of headline…

If you are like me, you have all your major working materials stored online: I organize useful links with Google bookmarks and Delicious, store email and IM conversation with Gmail, have most of my important (c…

Last Monday I shared 12 common problems associated with digital marketing strategy development. Since I’m not one to talk problems and not offer solutions, over the next few weeks I will address these prob…

Every three years or so, advertisers decide to put all their media and marketing into a single agency network. Three years later, once they’ve seen their performance in the different marketing channels eroded…

I was going to write something completely different than what turned up below but somehow this article emerged.
Over the last 12 months I have come up against a lot of reasons and excuses to not use “Socia…

Fifty percent of IT executives say their datacenters are understaffed, and companies are still looking for more ways to cut costs, according to Symantec’s latest “State of the datacenter” report.

Posted by Dennis SellersThis isn’t really technology related, but I felt it was worth pass along to Macsimum readers. Consumers in the US are asked to be cautious about giving information to Census workers. …

BusinessWeek has a nice feature on Google’s vice-president of search products, Marissa Mayer, who holds 70+ (apparently productive) meetings a week. I loathe meetings, to an entirely dysfunctional extent (as th…