Web Media Daily – Link Edition Monday June 8, 2009

by Gregg on June 8, 2009

Social Media, Marketing, PR

What’s Vodcasting or Video blogging?

…SMS

Howard Greenstein on Social Media for Brands and Businesses

…ReadWriteWeb

Dave Willems column: Social media intensifies need for reputation …

…WebGuild

FTC Changes And Social Media

…WebGuild  If you’re working in the social media space , whether as client or practitioner, this has the potential to impact you in a big way.

Social Media and Personal Privacy

…Ignite

Thesis 1.5 on WordPress 2.8RC

…KingdomGeek  Rick guides you through what you need to know about the coming upgrade.

Thoughts on Twitter #4: Do the folks at Twitter just not get that Trending Topics is seriously broken?

…Rex Hammond

What Green Day Can Teach Us About Social Media

…Social Media Explorer

23 Essential Elements of Sharable Blog Posts

…Chris Brogan

6 Reasons You Shouldn’t Brand Yourself as a Social Media Expert

…Personal Branding Blog  He is so right. One, what is it? It helps to have a definition. Two, get the marketing, branding, sales and business strategies in place then make use of the social media tools.

links for 2009-06-08

…MicroPersuasion 3 great links from Steve Rubel. This one looks good. “Interesting beta from the FT that bases its searches upon relationships and context instead of keywords.”

Something rotten in the state of Twitter Search?

…Richard Stacy Have to agree with him here. If you follow the social media space, this is someone you should keep up with. I talk a fair amount about Gutenberg and personal publishing and he has expanded on those  themes in ways I’m not sure I could.

The Original Social Media Guru

…The Effective CIO

Email and Video: The Peanut Butter Cups of Marketing (Part 2)

…Digital Marketing Blog

Map of Social Network Dominance

…Sound Money Tips  Tweeted and blogged about it a few days ago. Definitely worth a look if you haven’t seen it.

Forrester Report: Here Come the Mobile & Social Media Ads!

…Web Guild

Want A Really Goode Job? Murphy-Goode Wine Hiring Social Media Whore

…Miami New Times  Social media win contest. 10K per month for 6 months. 11 days left to enter.

Five Levels Of Social Media Responses

…Social Media Today

Customer Service is already Social

…Social Media Today

Twitterati Says Email Isn’t Dead Yet – 6 Findings

…Social Media Today  I agree. Maybe Google Wave will reignite the medium?

Social Media isn’t Replacing Marketing Folks…

…Social Media Today  Exactly. Because it isn’t marketing. It’s a marketing tool.

20 Twitter brands behaving badly

…Social Media Today  I’m not totally surprised but it did catch me off guard.

Is time-on-site a useful measure for online communities?

…Social Media Today  What do you think? Most of what I’m reading says no.

79 Days and Coke

…Social Media Today  We were living in Atlanta when this first opened and attended the opening day ceremonies. Go see it if you ever get the chance.

13 Lessons (& Tips) Learned Launching an eBook

…ProBlogger

50% Of Google’s Self-Serve Advertisers Don’t Come Back The Following Year

…Silicon Alley Insider  This is a fascinating look. Did you have any idea?

The State of PR, Marketing, and Communications: You are the Future

…Brian Solis  You’ll want to invest some time in this post. Magnificent piece.

Meet The Latest Twitter App Incubator: 140Labs (And The “I’m Big On Twitter” Project)

…TechCrunch  Looks interesting.

Mashable’s Weekly Social Media Event Guide

…Mashable

Why Walmart Is Getting Serious About Marketing

…Advertising Age

Is social media right for B2B?

…#SocialMedia

Do Email Newsletters Have a Place in Freelancing?

…WebWorkerDaily

Social Media & customer service: Are you scalable?

…SmartBlog on Social Media

Local Tweets: 9 Ways to Find Twitter Users in Your Town

…Mashable

Facebook’s Biggest Competition: Mobile Platforms

…All Facebook

Social Plugin Glue Comes to Internet Explorer

…ReadWriteWeb  I’ve been using it on Firefox for a bit. Wish it would come to Safari.

New York State Embraces Social Media

…Web Guild

Survey: Meeting Planners Use Social Media for Networking

…Web Guild

LinkedIn best among social media, readers say

…Web Guild

Do You Know When to Shut Up?

…Copyblogger

Teaching marketers a little R.E.S.P.E.C.T.

…What’sNext Blog

Hotels: Don’t Charge Us For Internet Use

…Web Strategy

My Dad N’ Me Creates Cool Place in Social Media Space for Dads and …

…Web Guild

What if God Texted? (or, OMG the Ten Commandments)

…Copywriter Underground

Sears Settles With FTC For Putting Spyware On Customers’ Computers

…Techdirt

What Are Your Social Media Goals?

…Search Engine Watch

Foreverism & The New Longevity Of Everything

…Influential Interactive Marketing

Annapolis-Anne Arundel tourism agency using social media to …

…Web Guild   Interesting campaign using social media tools.

AT&T Drives Golf Fans to Social Media and Texting for Chances to …

…Web Guild

How To Create Share-Worthy Content

…SmallBiz Resource

Small Businesses are Being Sold a Bill of Goods

…Small Business SEM

The 100k in 1 Week Summer of Social Good Challenge

…Mashable

Exploring The Long Tail Of Facebook Pages

…All Facebook

Slam-Dunk Networking With Twitter

…Web Worker Daily

Visual Scandal, Story Appeal, and Banner Ads

…Future Now

Apple

…Since it’s WWDC day and all

Poll: Will Steve Jobs Show Up At WWDC?

…Silicon Alley Insider

iPorn Launches New iPhone Friendly Site, Throws a Sexy Post-WWDC Party

…Mashable They’ll be the hit of the after party circuit

WWDC 2009 live blog

…CNet

How To Watch Apple’s WWDC iPhone Keynote Live

…Silicon Alley Insider

It’s another one of those Apple, blah-blah, Apple, blah-blah days

…Rex Hammond

Thank Apple for the Linux ‘desktop’

…CNet

When Did You Buy Your Last App? Survey Says It was Over the Weekend

…ReadWriteWeb  Apple’s App Store just keeps on doing it.

Apple’s Snow Leopard Mac OS Coming June 19?

…Silicon Alley Insider

80% Of Readers Polled Expect Steve Jobs To Appear During WWDC Keynote

…Silicon Alley Insider  We’ll know in just a few minutes.

Apple shipping Snow Leopard in September, $29 upgrade

…Engadget

Apple to release $29 10.6 Snow Leopard Upgrade in September

…The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Safari 4 released today, offering ‘unparalled speed’

…Engadget

AutoStitch iPhone Released – Experience Automated Wide-Angle Photography

…MacMegasite

Safari 4 Available Now, Dubbed “World’s Fastest Browser” [Apple]

…Gizmodo

What business can expect from Mac OS X Snow Leopard (InfoWorld)

…Yahoo News

AT&T Underscores How Badly It Sucks

…Techcrunch  Hard to argue.

Google Chrome Mac Developer Preview Works Like a Charm

…Web Worker Daily

Everything You Need to Know About Snow Leopard

…Gizmodo

Top 6 iPhone 3.0 Apps to Watch

…Mashable

MobileMe: Even it gets some updates

…The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Current AT&T customers and iPhone 3GS (answers to questions)

…iPhone, therefore I blog

What Business Can Expect From Mac OS X Snow Leopard

…OS News

Sixteen Random Questions Prompted by Apple’s WWDC Keynote

…Technologizer

CHART OF THE DAY: Apple’s iPhone Platform Light Years Ahead Of Rivals

…Silicon Alley Insider   Hard to argue with these numbers.

No 3G S Upgrade Pricing for Existing 3G Owners?

…CruchGear   Yipes! Do you get to at least keep the KY?

Video Capture and Upload Coming to iPhone Twitter Apps

…Mashable

iPhone 3GS Complete Feature Guide (Jesus Diaz/Gizmodo)

…Gizmodo

WWDC ’09 keynote stream now available via QuickTime

…The Unofficial Apple Weblog

The New Phone Platform and the Prisoner

…PC Magazine  Gotta’ love Dvorak!

Technology

The Morality And Effectiveness Of Process Journalism

…TechCrunch  Arrington fires back at the NY Times

“Why am I here?”

…Seth Godin

Hulu’s Desktop App: A Wake-Up Call For Cable Operators

…Silicon Alley Insider

Two cool search start-ups: Wowd and Yebol

…CNet

Radio Host To Mike Arrington: “Screw You, Asshole” (CLIP)

…Silicon Alley Insider  Cat fight in tech land.

Palm Only Sold 35,000-60,000 Pres Over Launch Weekend, Fraction Of iPhone

…Silicon Alley Insider  Not bad numbers at all. You have to figure there’s a lot of people on the fence waiting fro today’s news from Apple.

3 Tools to Compare Google and Bing Search Results

…Search Engine Journal

The PPC ROI Calculator: How To Forecast And Optimize Your PPC ROI

…Search Engine Journal  This is a very useful tool.

Netbooks are great XP machines

…Scripting News

You Call 50,000 Palm Pres Sold A Success? Investors Don’t Think So.

…TechCrunch   Down 10+% thus far today. Ouch!

Meet the Smartbook: For Everything Your Smartphone and Netbook Can’t Do

…Fast Company

20 Years Ago Today: Birth of the Dot-Com Era (PC World)

…PC World

Bing!

…Richard Brandt  Some Microsoft Bing love from a long time Google watcher.

DeepTrawl Helps Webmasters Find & Fix Site Errors Quickly, Simply

…ReadWriteWeb  Very neat tool.

California ‘to scrap textbooks’

…BBC News

Isn’t It Time Your Kid’s School Used A Web-Based Calendar?

…TechCrunch

Journalism, Newspapers, Magazines

The Future of Comics

…American Public Media

Journalism Students + Computer Science Majors = Better News Apps for All

…ReadWriteWeb

Media Web Site Pushes Entrepreneurial Model

…The Washington Post

How Social Media is Radically Changing the Newsroom

…Mashable

‘Loyalty through decency’

…BuzzMachine

Business, Finance, Money

7 Things You’re Paying More Money For (Deal of the Day)

…Smart Money

Google searches mirror the economy

…Fortune  Google’s a barometer for all kinds of things it seems.

Unemployment: Worse than you think

…CNN/Money  There are some who say the real numbers are 5-10% higher than the reported numbers.

Morgan Stanley’s Matrix: An App From the Future

…ReadWriteWeb  Very slick app.

Medicine, Health

Poll: Is further reducing resident work hours worth the cost?

…Kevin, M.D.

Nominate a doc-entrepreneur And you thought they were just about stethoscopes.

…Modern Healthcare

Most health citizens search on illness, but Microsoft finds people are open to tech-enabled health coaching

…Health Populi  A great source of information on today’s healthcare issues if you don’t know about them.

Cool Technology of the Week

…The Health Care Blog

The National HIT Organizations – How it All Works

…The Health Care Blog  I’m glad he understands it all, kinda’, sorta’.

Data-Driven Health Care: An Interview with Jerry Reeves, MD

…Med Innovation Blog

Kennedy Releases Healthcare Reform Draft Bill

…Med Page Today

Lifestyle

Welcome to Food Week [Announcements]

…Lifehacker  This one spells trouble for the waistline.

Stephen Colbert Shaves Head in support of Iraq Troops [VIDEO]

…Inquisitor

Kids Score 40 Percent Higher When They Get Paid For Grades

…Slashdot



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