Those of you who have some history with the blog know that I am not a huge fan of advertising. I skip commercials on my TiVo. I don't click on banner ads online. I switch stations when listening to the radio, assuming I am not listening to my ad-free iTunes library or ad-free Sirius XM radio app. I once said, to some controversy, that most bloggers don't deserve any ad revenue at all, and also took considerable effort to report many Facebook advertisements as being offensive. But despite all this, with official word from Twitter COO Dick Costolo coming that the service will indeed include…
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Embrace Our Twitter Ad Overlords, Assuming Relevancy
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The Chrome OS Release Is Not About Now, It's About Next.
20 Nov 2009 | 12:06 pmYesterday, as most tech outlets noted, Google previewed their much-awaited Chrome Operating System - and in parallel released the code for the operating system to the open source community. By the end of the day, sites like Gdgt had compiled virtual machine capable installs of the early alpha system, and geeks, including me, were tinkering with the system. Unsurprisingly, there were near-immediate reviews, and some calling the news a disappointment. But for me, the news was not so much about Chrome OS being ready to go, but instead Google delivering on a promise, and showing its cards, before… -
Technology, Community, Relevancy: The 3 Social Pillars
20 Nov 2009 | 2:06 amWhy do some social sites thrive while others fail? Why do you find some networks have you dedicating hours every day to participate, while others couldn't get you to raise an eyebrow? And why don't your friends see with you eye to eye on what the best services are, even after you've told them about your favorites time and again? The more I am exposed to new sites and social services, it becomes clear to me that there are three core elements that need to be solved to deliver a killer social service - and falling short in just one can mean rapid closure. Meanwhile, even if all three of these… -
Open Web Foundation Speeds Protocols' Legal Contracts
18 Nov 2009 | 2:00 amOn Tuesday, the Open Web Foundation released an agreement aimed to speed new specifications' ability to be adopted by downstream users, with the intent of spreading open tools throughout the Web. Though occupying the always-complicated intersection of both the legal world and the tech world, the agreement is very interesting. The non-profit organization, featuring leading geeks from many of Silicon Valley's best known and most-respected companies, is hoping to promote data portability and open Web standards, no matter their source. Tuesday's agreement makes it easier for others to implement… -
How Facebook's News Feed Failed Me (And My Family)
17 Nov 2009 | 11:32 pmAs more and more people are turning to social networks to share their information, practically all of us are connecting to an ever-increasing number of people, and for the most part, we are updating more frequently, and sharing content from different sources in multiple places. The resulting increase in velocity, often termed noise, has led to practically all tools to try and assist us to find the "most relevant" data, or the "best" information, based either on activity from others in our social graph, or through our own past activity. Sometimes, this works very well, helping to make signal…
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Living in a browser
21 Nov 2009 | 9:38 amLouis Gray Living in a browser - http://diveintomark.org/archive... 1 hour ago from Google Reader - Comment - Like VAL D. and shâhin liked this -
Why Are Tech Layoffs Rising in a Recovery?
21 Nov 2009 | 9:38 amLouis Gray Why Are Tech Layoffs Rising in a Recovery? - http://gigaom.com/2009... 1 hour ago from Google Reader - Comment - Like Kol Tregaskes, April Russo (app103), Thomas Power and 2 other people liked this because we're saturated with tech LG and people are maxed out on the web with "over-choice" like your "over-sharing" - Thomas Power Remember, things got a little better before they got a lot worse during the great depression. Don't believe it's over just because the media says so. They said it before and were wrong then, why not wrong again? (at the… -
Google Chrome OS is 10 Years From Broad Enterprise Adoption
21 Nov 2009 | 9:36 amLouis Gray Google Chrome OS is 10 Years From Broad Enterprise Adoption - http://www.eweek.com/c... 1 hour ago from Google Reader - Comment - Like shâhin and Thomas Power liked this -
Twitter's Identity Crisis
21 Nov 2009 | 9:36 amLouis Gray Twitter's Identity Crisis - http://www.pcmag.com/article... 1 hour ago from Google Reader - Comment - Like Üstün Üzüm and Thomas Power liked this -
Hey, Twitter, is that a RT or a like?
21 Nov 2009 | 9:36 amLouis Gray Hey, Twitter, is that a RT or a like? - http://exde601e.blogspot.com/2009... 1 hour ago from Google Reader - Comment - Like Kol Tregaskes, PENGUIN: MAJOR CAPS LOCK and Alex Scrivener liked this
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ChromeOS Will Fail, Unless Its Purpose Is Not To Succeed
20 Nov 2009 | 3:33 amGoogle sort of released ChromeOS yesterday. I say “sort of” because they released the source code, but the official release of the OS is supposed to be in a year. Even the Chrome Blog hedged a bit, “Today we released Chromium OS, the open source project behind Google Chrome OS.” So, they released the open source project Chromium OS. As has been stated from the beginning, ChromeOS will be focused on Netbooks and people who mostly just use the web for everything. As with all things Google, the release has been all over the blogosphere, but there has not been the typical… -
YackTrack Server Maintenance
19 Nov 2009 | 3:23 pmYackTrack will be taken offline soon as the servers are being patched by my ISP. I have been told that they will be offline tonight from 12AM GMT-7 until 5AM GMT-7. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. I will update this post when I receive a notice that the servers are available again. UPDATE: The servers are up again and YackTrack is back to normal. Thank you for your patience. -
Yahoo Slowly Slimming Its Services
18 Nov 2009 | 5:39 amYesterday we saw some news that Yahoo is discontinuing Yahoo Go. In case you did not know, Go is a mobile application for mail, news and other assorted Yahoo services. This is a logical move, and Yahoo admitted as much: The reasoning behind shutting down Go is simple, says Yahoo. As Yahoo unrolls individual apps in verticals and boosts its mobile site, Go was becoming obsolete. By itself, this is not big news. However, it was about a year ago that I talked about how Yahoo Needs Focus. This was still during Jerry Yang’s leadership and Yahoo looked like they were floundering. Like many… -
Google Makes A Bid To Control The Internet
15 Nov 2009 | 5:49 amA few weeks ago, I wrote about the possibility of Google going evil. At that time, I was talking mostly about the fact that Google has free or cheap applications in many different areas. However, I did not really talk about standards they were developing. One commenter, Ed Richardson, mentioned this as a reason why they were not evil: The interesting situation is whether they abuse their position in relation to the setting of standards for the industry… At that time, there really was no evidence of this kind of thing except for their development of Google Wave, PubSubHubbub and the new… -
Want Women In Tech, Find The Role Models
12 Nov 2009 | 5:28 amThe Next Web has an interesting set of posts regarding women in technology. The first post by Boris makes the accusation that women are holding themselves back. He even includes this inflammatory idea: The longer I work in our industry the more I’m starting to think that most women never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Thankfully, the next day we see a counterpoint from Sarah Stokely. Disappointingly, she admits that it is tremendously difficult to keep women in tech for various reasons. In many cases, I can summarize the idea as technology tends to be a “good old…
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Weekly Wrapup: Google Chrome OS, Obama's Twitter, Blogging Statistics, And More...
21 Nov 2009 | 5:00 amIn this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we report on President Obama's (non)-use of Twitter, take a look at the past decade in the media industry, review the latest statistics about blogging, question if Oxford Dictionary should've chosen "unfriend" as its word of the year, and more. We also check in on our two main channels: ReadWriteEnterprise (devoted to 'enterprise 2.0' trends and products) and ReadWriteStart (dedicated to profiling startups and entrepreneurs). Sponsor Subscribe to Weekly Wrapup You can subscribe to the… -
3 Great Light Blogging Tools Compared
20 Nov 2009 | 4:35 pmOnce the service for those serious enough to pay for the privilege to post, TypePad recently released a free "Micro" service. The company made the decision to offer a free product realizing the demand for a platform more formal than Twitter and less formal than Wordpress or Typepad's original product. ReadWriteWeb compared TypePad's Micro against 2 other leading light blogging tools. Below are our thoughts: Sponsor TypePad Micro: In addition to being able to blog via email, iPhone app, "Blog It" bookmarklet and the general WYSIWYG dashboard, this tool also allows users to cross post to… -
An iPhone Visualization App That Syncs with the Cloud
20 Nov 2009 | 3:50 pmRoambi announced a pro version of its iPhone application this week that syncs with Salesforce.com and other cloud-based services or on-premsie sales environments. It's a visualization application, providing mobile workers with a pretty cool way to see sales information. Integration is by far one of the most significant trends we are seeing in the enterprise space. It's a wave, really, marked this week by Salesforce.com and its move to turn the Force.com development platform into a service that makes all of its applications social. Sponsor A good example of this trend are small companies like… -
8tracks to Launch Playback API and Developer Program
20 Nov 2009 | 12:00 pmIt appears that the time for freemium music services in the US has passed. Earlier this week streaming music site Imeem sold to MySpace for under $10 million dollars while laying off a large number of staff. For a company with all four major record labels signed, more than 15 million uniques a month and well over 5 million tracks in its catalogue, it came as a sobering blow to the industry. While many companies move to a subscription model, 8tracks continues to forge along in what some describe as a convenient loophole. As of this weekend the company is publicly launching its API for Boston's… -
Memento: Protocol-Based Time Travel for the Web
20 Nov 2009 | 11:45 amThe Web constantly changes and evolves. That, of course, is what makes the Internet so exciting, but it also means that finding older versions of a website is hard. The current push towards the real-time web is making this problem even more apparent. Memento, a project based at Old Dominion University, wants to make it easier to access older versions of a web page without having to go to the Internet Archive. To do this, the project is using a relatively obscure feature of the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP). Sponsor The Memento project wants to give browsers a 'time-travel' mode.
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Twitter COO Costolo: Advertising Coming To Twitter Soon
20 Nov 2009 | 9:40 amTwitter COO Dick Costolo was intererviewed today at the real-time crunchup event and part of the discussion centered around how Twitter will (and does) generate revenue. Clearly they are earning revenue from Twitter’s deals with Bing and Google. More importantly, Costolo noted that Twitter will launch an advertising model “soon”. He went on to say that soon means most likely early next year. He continued, “It (the advertising) will be fascinating, non-traditional, and people will love it.” The final comment from Costolo noted that partners like TweetDeck will… -
Today’s Startup and Entrepreneurial Updates
20 Nov 2009 | 4:49 amTGIF! Here are today’s startup and entrepreneurial updates Kaltura Integrates its Open Source Video Platform with Artivision’s Video Monetization Technology – Kaltura Use Centrl to pick a place to meet a friend – Centrl Dual Launch: I Love Traffic and I Hate Traffic – Armor Games (these two are very addictive) Major Update to Glue for Internet Explorer – AdaptiveBlue Getsatisfaction.tv: New Look, New Content, New Feed – GetSatisfaction CenterNetworks Partner: Check out CloudContacts for your business card transcription and scanning needs. -
What’s Up With Yahoo Mail Delivery?
19 Nov 2009 | 6:53 pmI am a happy Yahoo Mail user. I’ve been a Yahoo Mail user since the early days. I also know that I am a bad tech blogger and early adopter because I don’t use (and make love to) Gmail. I regularly get noogies at tech conferences when others learn about my choice. Lately I’ve noticed issues with email delivery to my Yahoo Mail account. Sometimes emails are delivered on time, but many are delivered late. And the delayed delivery seems to vary – I can’t put my finger on it. Even the exact same email can be delivered in real-time on one test but another test takes… -
When A Competitive Ad Goes Wrong
19 Nov 2009 | 1:23 pmThis morning we included a link in our startup updates to a post on the VerticalResponse blog. The company provides email marketing services for businesses. VerticalResponse CEO Janine Popick noted, “I’m all about getting new business, but we’ve tried to steer clear of going after our competitor’s customers because we think there are enough businesses out there that need email marketing services.” I agree with Janine and that’s why you rarely see a post on CN that says x is dead because of y. Janine’s post notes that one of the company’s… -
Today’s Startup and Entrepreneurial Updates
19 Nov 2009 | 4:02 amHere are today’s startup and entrepreneurial updates: Scanning Coke or Water? Why? - Big In Japan New advanced features give you absolute control in analyzing your cash flow – moneyStrands The Do’s and Don’ts of Presentation Fonts – SlideShare Profiting Across Search Networks: Expanding Your Reach to Microsoft adCenter – Clickable A Friendly Suggestion to Our Competitor (this is an awesome post) – VerticalResponse CenterNetworks Partner: Check out CloudContacts for your business card transcription and scanning needs.
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The Rob Roy (2/5)
21 Nov 2009 | 3:23 amMona Nomura The Rob Roy (2/5) - http://www.yelp.com/biz... 7 hours ago from Yelp - Comment - Like Christopher Harley liked this "You know - I really want to give this joint three+ stars but the Friday bartender is SUCH a hipster D-BAG that I just can't justify more than two stars. Oh, and it doesn't help the cocktail waitress…" - Mona Nomura Mona, makin' friends in Jet City! D-bag wait staff in Belltown? I can't say I'm surprised. - Christopher Harley -
I butt dialed Facebook.
21 Nov 2009 | 3:15 amMona Nomura I butt dialed Facebook. 8 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like PENGUIN: MAJOR CAPS LOCK, rowlikeagirl, Ha3rvey (Free hugs!) and 2 other people liked this Facebook should answer - Rodfather In other words, Facebook kissed your ass? - John (a.k.a. dendroica) So that's why the quality suddenly went up briefly. - Akiva Moskovitz -
You guys? @dacort is RAD. That is all. :) #insertwittyhashtag
21 Nov 2009 | 2:50 amMona Nomura You guys? @dacort is RAD. That is all. :) #insertwittyhashtag 8 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like -
@AlanaJoy *pop lock and drops it* #likeitshot #choochoo
20 Nov 2009 | 10:48 pmMona Nomura @AlanaJoy *pop lock and drops it* #likeitshot #choochoo 12 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like -
OH: Drunks are LOUD. @brucephenry @aviel #LOL
20 Nov 2009 | 10:02 pmMona Nomura OH: Drunks are LOUD. @brucephenry @aviel #LOL 13 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like
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Why Google Chrome OS has already won
20 Nov 2009 | 12:03 pmToday InfoWorld’s Randall Kennedy says that Google’s Chrome OS will fail. What he is missing is he’s looking at the wrong field. Google is playing a different game. Google Chrome OS is NOT about killing Microsoft or Apple. What is it about? Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers. See, what happens if the world goes to Microsoft’s Silverlight, the way that Seesmic did this week? Google is locked out of such a world. Google is in a war over developers with Microsoft. Google wants developers to build for the open web. Microsoft wants developers to… -
Twitter to turn on advertising “you will love” (here’s how: SuperTweet)
20 Nov 2009 | 10:22 amTwitter’s COO, Dick Costolo, today, at the TechCrunch Real Time Crunchup (live video of the conference is live now on building43, there will be lots of news all day long from this event), told the audience that Twitter is, indeed, going to turn on an advertising model. This is a huge shift in what Twitter is saying publicly. But advertising isn’t something many people love. So, how will Twitter make advertising you love? By building a SuperTweet! How can they do that? Well, yesterday, I talked with Likaholix co-founder Bindu Reddy about just that. You can watch our video we… -
In search of the perfect Facebook and Twitter client
17 Nov 2009 | 11:57 pmI use Twitter and Facebook a lot. Probably more than 99.9999% of people in the world. I am in search of the perfect client that will help me use Facebook and, particularly, Twitter (which I use a lot more than Facebook because that is the best place to network with other technology professionals). I am still looking. The perfect client does not exist. First, I use my iPhone (and now my Droid) for Twitter a LOT. My wife, @maryamie, uses Facebook on her iPhone all the time. So, I must have the best possible iPhone client. This week? That’s Tweetie 2.0 for an app and Dabr for a Web page… -
Ray Ozzie is wrong about smartphone apps
17 Nov 2009 | 1:59 pmMicrosoft exec Ray Ozzie, at a lunchtime session with bloggers at its PDC conference told the bloggers that apps won’t be a differentiating factor on smart phones. He is wrong. Totally wrong. Why is Mike Arrington so passionate about his Droid (we argued about it for 39 minutes on the Gillmor Gang last week and then we went to the beach together on Sunday and argued about it some more in private). I’ve talked about this before. Most of what we argue about is apps. Droid is better than iPhone because Droid has Google Voice, Arrington says. iPhone is better than Droid, I say,… -
What is Twitter for? Pimping your blog!
14 Nov 2009 | 1:30 pmAt the Blog World Expo a few weeks ago someone asked what Twitter is for and I answered “pimping your blog.” Hey, it works for TechCrunch and Mashable, why not you? Or me. So, I’ve finally figured out that I was clueless because I didn’t have a Twitter account for my blog. When people say they are unfollowing me because I’m too noisy these feeds are the antidote. scobleblog is for following ONLY my blog. I won’t put anything else on that feed. scoblemedia is for following ONLY when either I post video or am on someone else’s video or audio shows.
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How Guest Blogging Can Change Your Life
20 Nov 2009 | 11:50 amphoto by Mexicanwave There has been lots of talk of blogger alliances and blogger outreach recently. I think this comes from the realization that we can all grow faster together than by going at it alone. I know for a fact that leverage in online marketing can be the difference between hoping for some sales to come in and seeing sales come in. For bloggers looking to use leverage the most important thing you can do is guest post. It may seem crazy in the early days of developing your own site as you may be having trouble coming up with content for your own blog, however reaching out to others… -
Blog Outreach: 8 Compelling Reasons Why You Should Be Doing It Now
17 Nov 2009 | 11:46 amGreat minds think alike. In my last post I wrote about the importance of some bloggers becoming the hub that connects others and today I am sharing these thoughts from Murray Newlands about how he can assist us with Blog Outreach. Murray has a major PR4 Affiliate Martketing Blog and also posts about email marketing and Social Media Marketing. Follow Murray at Twitter Be sure to read my testimonial belowhis comments about what collaborating with Murray has done for me. Blog outreach involves communicating with bloggers to engage their audiences with your message. This could be as simple as… -
How Personal Branding Can Be Made Scalable
15 Nov 2009 | 1:05 pmBe the Hub what Feeds the Spokes Mitch Joel (Mitch Joel) of Twist Image wrote in Six Pixels of Separation that Your Personal Brand is NOT Scalable. Most people are going to find that to be very true; however, there is an obvious solution. Just as some focus on blogging while most focus on performing specific services, some of us who choose to be power Social Media users must serve as connecting hubs for those who choose to focus on what they do – whether that is providing goods or services. This is the same issue, multiplied, that freelancers have always had that causes gaps in their… -
Texas Mexican Restaurants Using Geo-Marketing
14 Nov 2009 | 3:17 pmJoesGoes.com ~ Your Online Source for Mexican Restaurants in Texas Texans who love Mexican restaurants have a new resource for experiencing the best Mexican cuisine in the DFW (Dallas Ft. Worth), Austin, Houston and San Antonio Metros. JoseGoes.com is a great example of how niche sites can offer great value to consumers through geo-targeted marketing while simultaneously creating exceptional opportunities for businesses. While this site focuses on Mexican restaurants in Texas, the concept of geo-marketing through niche sites is applicable to every type of business and every location. -
Adsmarket Fast Lane Publisher Competition
12 Nov 2009 | 10:45 amDid you know about Adsmarket’s latest promotion for Publishers? The international affiliate network is pushing for it everywhere: the Adsmarket website homepage, theirfacebook fan page, and if you ran into an Adsmarketer at Ad:Tech New York, chances are you picked up a flyer. What’s it all about, you ask? The FAST LANE promotion is all about speed, people. If you aren’t yet an Adsmarket Publisher, now is a GREAT time to join and start generating some serious revenue, and fast… Adsmarket is offering one lucky Publisher who registers between November 4th and December…
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All Your OS Are Belong to Google – Why Aren’t We Worried?
19 Nov 2009 | 11:09 pmI’m following the stories of the Google Chrome OS release today and am a bit concerned about some of the claims that are being made. Mashable even goes to the extent of predicting Google is going to “destroy the desktop” with it. Google is banking on the fact that many users use their computers solely for accessing Twitter, Facebook, and E-mail through a browser. They’re right – we’re becoming more and more of a web-reliant society, and the cloud is rendering much of the fluff that happens on the traditional operating system unnecessary. However it… -
Kynetx Kills the Portal, Launches Identity Platform for Developers
18 Nov 2009 | 1:04 pmToday at Kynetx Impact Conference Kynetx is changing the future of Web Identity and privacy as we know it by taking the power away from the server and moving it over to users’ desktops, mobile phones, or other client-based technology. Dr. Phil Windley, company CTO and co-founder in his keynote shared that the web client is the “forgotten edge” when it comes to open software development and identity management. Currently the traditional model in identity has been one of location base, instead of purpose-based, as Dr. Windley has suggested is the future of internet… -
Phil Windley, CTO and Co-Founder, Kynetx
18 Nov 2009 | 12:59 pmPhil Windley, CTO and Co-Founder, Kynetx In this video I interview Phil Windley about his company, Kynetx, and what they're doing to change the focus of the web from the server back to the client. Phil's expertise in identity makes this change even more interesting. From: thesocialgeek Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 04:53 More in Science & Technology -
Earth Misses Meteor by 13 Miles
18 Nov 2009 | 1:47 amOkay, maybe it’s not that cut and dry (the earth hits meteors all the time – they just disintegrate before hitting ground). Tonight about half of all my Utah friends all at one time reported a light, as bright as day, ascend in a blue-green aura from East to West. For some reason I missed it, although I was up during the event. It turns out Utah got to experience one of the closest calls of the Leonid Meteor shower tonight. Some are saying it was only 13 miles high. Stories are surfacing from Utah to Las Vegas of bright lights, “turning the night to day”. One… -
Want to Learn How to Write Facebook Apps? Now’s Your Chance
17 Nov 2009 | 11:48 pmOn Thursday morning I’m doing a free webcast for Safari Books Online (moderated by OReilly’s Laurel Ackerman) in which I’m going to go into further detail than I have before on how to get started building Facebook apps. I’ll take you from start to finish, focusing this time on more hands-on coding, and less introduction and together we’ll build a Facebook app from scratch. I haven’t figured the time yet, but if we have time, I’ll also show you how in just 3 steps you can integrate a simple Facebook login into your own website and apply the same…
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New App Links SkyDrive to Windows Explorer
13 Nov 2009 | 10:02 amThere’s a new application that integrates the Windows Live SkyDrive service into Windows Explorer. Simply called “SkyDrive Explorer,” this software turns your SkyDrive folder into just another location you can access directly from Windows. Once installed, as with local folders, you can drag-and-drop files into your SkyDrive folder or you can copy files hosted in SkyDrive back to your PC. Using SkyDrive Explorer After running the downloadable executable, you have to connect to SkyDrive by clicking on the icon that appears in your Windows Explorer window and signing in with your Windows… -
A Windows 7 Theme Using Bing Background Images
1 Oct 2009 | 11:37 amThe daily background image used on the new search engine Bing.com often features beautiful and stunning images of scenes from around the world. Many people have wanted to use these images as their desktop wallpaper, leading some to go so far as to develop utilities that help you capture the images and save them on your PC. Another popular blogger, Long Zheng of I Started Something, even created an online digital archive which hosts the Bing images from all the localized versions of the Bing.com homepage. Soon thereafter, the MakeUseOf blog provided instructions on how to craft a Windows 7… -
Get Windows 7 for $99.99
30 Sep 2009 | 8:09 amLooking for a deep discount on Windows 7? Popular online retailer Newegg.com (and Bing Cashback participant) is selling copies of Windows 7 starting at just $99.99 The reason they’re able to sell the OS for so little is because they’re selling the OEM version. That means instead of getting a boxed copy in fancy retail packaging, you typically get just a cardboard sleeve with DVD. However, the most important thing to note is that the OEM copy is tied to one machine, specifically the motherboard of one machine. It’s the perfect choice for those who build their own PCs from scratch, a… -
BumpTop’s Multi-Touch Version
27 Sep 2009 | 11:32 amBumpTop, the 3D graphical overlay system designed for Windows computers, recently released a new version of their software which now includes support for multi-touch gestures. The software, which transforms your desktop into something more like a “real” desk complete with stacks of files, sticky notes, and the like, gives you a more personalized computing experience where you can have things like desktop-based photo frames for viewing friends’ image feeds and customizable themes where you can control the walls and background of the interface. Now, with the multi-touch support, such as… -
Like Photosynth for Entire Cities
17 Sep 2009 | 11:30 amThe University of Washington, who, along with Microsoft Live Labs, gave us the 3D photo-browsing technology that is now called Photosynth, has come up with a new algorithm that could expand on Photosynth’s capabilities. In fact, it takes the 3D rending of Photosynth and uses it to model entire cities using tens or hundreds of thousands of photos. To demonstrate what the new algorithm can do, the researchers used the search term “Rome” on the digital photo sharing site Flickr. The results returned more than 2 million photos. In this group, every popular landmark, facade, interior,…
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Tamar Weinberg - Lifehacker and Mashable
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@KarlGechlik thank you for your research - let me know what you find! i look forward to reading it. thanks to @MarkONeill too :)
20 Nov 2009 | 1:10 pmTamar Weinberg @KarlGechlik thank you for your research - let me know what you find! i look forward to reading it. thanks to @MarkONeill too :) 22 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like -
Thanks to Mashable’s Socially Savvy Supporters
20 Nov 2009 | 12:57 pmTamar Weinberg Thanks to Mashable’s Socially Savvy Supporters - http://mashable.com/2009... 22 hours ago from Mashable! - Comment - Like -
The Twitter Proposal
20 Nov 2009 | 8:12 amTamar Weinberg The Twitter Proposal - http://bub.blicio.us/the-twi... yesterday from Google Reader - Comment - Like -
i can't believe i became a mom for the very first time six months ago today. time really does fly.
20 Nov 2009 | 5:58 amTamar Weinberg i can't believe i became a mom for the very first time six months ago today. time really does fly. yesterday from Twitter - Comment - Like Laura - Barry's figment, Jen (SquirrelGirl), Rochelle and 3 other people liked this -
congratulations to pete cashmore - @mashable was named a 2009 game changer by huffpo. http://ow.ly/DQxg
19 Nov 2009 | 11:05 pmTamar Weinberg congratulations to pete cashmore - @mashable was named a 2009 game changer by huffpo. http://mashable.com/2009... yesterday from Twitter - Comment - Like
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How To Eliminate Social Media Distractions And Get Work Done
18 Nov 2009 | 8:01 amSocial media is such a huge distraction sometimes. New followers, new replies, new private messages! Oh look, there goes a new Twitter list. It starts to become easy for us take our eyes off the real ball: our work. We struggle with getting out of the conversations and content to get back to what we’re supposed to be doing. As naturally social creatures, we can’t help ourselves. Well here are a few techniques I use to get back to the money as they say. Make A Work Flow (And Stick To It) Inside of my Google Calendar I have a workflow that I try to stick to everyday no matter what. I set… -
What Everybody Ought To Know About The Future Of Twitter
17 Nov 2009 | 12:00 amIBY #1: This is the first in what will be a series of content written by me, but Inspired By You. I’ll be calling one of my Twitter followers every week to talk to them for 15 minutes over the phone. What will we talk about? Whatever comes to mind. Honestly, I just want to get to know you. If you’re wonder why I won’t keep the conversation on Twitter, keep reading to find out. The point the is I want to show just how much inspiration can be produced from a single conversation. This week’s IBY was made possible through: Peggy Dolane (@FreeRangeMom Make no mistake about it, Twitter is… -
7 Twitter Clients To Watch Rise In 2010
12 Nov 2009 | 12:36 pmWhen I started using Twitter 2 years ago, outside of the site itself, Twhirl and Twitterrific were two of the top Twitter clients available. Twhirl even went as far as incorporating other platforms like FriendFeed and Seesmic Video, making it one of the most popular desktop clients for managing the latest social networks. Fast forward to 2009 and we have leaders like TweetDeck, Twitterific, Hootsuite, Cotweet, and Seesmic dominating desktops, while their mobile counterparts, Tweetie 2, UberTwitter, and Twidroid dominate mobile devices. I have no doubts that they’ll maintain strong holds on… -
Tracking Social Engagements Like A Pro With PostRank Analytics
10 Nov 2009 | 2:50 pmIt never fails: I get tired of visiting post after post to keep track of all my content’s social engagement metrics like retweets and social bookmarks. The process for tracking social engagements has never been a simple one. It always ends with a ton of tabs open and indigestible information. Now I’ve had the pleasure of simplifying this problem through beta testing PostRank Analytics. Admit it, you need an easier way to keep up with all the number of engagement metrics you can track. There’s hundreds of communities out there potentially sharing your idea, your product, and your… -
Twitter Tip of The Day: A Shortcut To Share Your Twitter Lists
10 Nov 2009 | 9:57 amToday’s Twitter Tip was brought to you in part by Josh Bancroft (@jabancroft on Twitter). If you find value in this tip, stop by Josh’s site or leave him a thanks in the comments! The Easy Way To Tweet Your Twitter Lists Tweeting my lists was a bit of a hassle before one of my friends pointed out there’s an easier way. Before I would open my list in a new tap and use Bit.ly to shorten the link. I had the option of sending it from bit.ly or copying the link to share somewhere else. Some of you probably used this same method or something similar. Here’s a much easier way to…
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Charlie Anzman - SEO Coach, Tech Evangelist
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@stoweboyd Good Morning back ... sir.
21 Nov 2009 | 6:55 amCharlie Anzman @stoweboyd Good Morning back ... sir. 4 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like -
Tweet number 3000 - To my wife and my daughter. Couldn't ask for more. I'm a lucky guy ....
21 Nov 2009 | 6:42 amCharlie Anzman Tweet number 3000 - To my wife and my daughter. Couldn't ask for more. I'm a lucky guy .... 4 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like -
Guess I should give some thought to nr 3000 ??
21 Nov 2009 | 5:40 amCharlie Anzman Guess I should give some thought to nr 3000 ?? 5 hours ago - Comment - Like Lu Tao and Roberto Bonini liked this Maybe tomorrow :) - Charlie Anzman 2 more comments Asked my wife ... she said I should tweet how happily married I am (28 years ?!) ... ugh ... and "how great she is" .... - Charlie Anzman hehe - Roberto Bonini -
RT @tweetmeme Online Marketing/Media Firm Quinstreet Files for $250 Million IPO | paidContent http://tinyurl.com/yb2435z
21 Nov 2009 | 5:27 amCharlie Anzman RT @tweetmeme Online Marketing/Media Firm Quinstreet Files for $250 Million IPO | paidContent http://paidcontent.org/article... 5 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like -
Bill Moyers to leave weekly TV (NY Times) http://bit.ly/4sWvXg
20 Nov 2009 | 8:49 pmCharlie Anzman Bill Moyers to leave weekly TV (NY Times) http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009... 14 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like
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Black Web 2.0
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Broadband Internet Access in Schools Should’t be a Luxury
20 Nov 2009 | 1:45 pmImagine the outrage from parents, teachers, and the community if a school announced that some of its students would have access to textbooks, research papers, and literature, but other students would be denied those resources. Some students would be branded as worthy, while others as second class. It baffles me that broadband Internet access in our schools is not seen as such as concern. Visit Black Web 2.0 for the full story.... -
BET’s Web Series “Buppies”: Off to a Rough Start
20 Nov 2009 | 12:00 pmAfter threatened lawsuits between the creators and postponed launch dates, BET.com has finally announced November 24th as the date of their first ever web based video series. The series entitled “Buppies”, which was first announced in October of 2008, is the tale of LA’s young black professional elite, though the eyes of Quinci Adams, [...] Visit Black Web 2.0 for the full story.... -
Black Elected Officials Urge FCC to Keep the Digital Divide in Mind
20 Nov 2009 | 10:35 amIn a letter sent to the FCC last month, the groups asked the agency “ensure that any new rules proposed can clearly be shown to benefit all consumers and not expand the digital divide facing disadvantaged populations.” The FCC is one of the agencies responsible for developing and implementing a national broadband plan. Visit Black Web 2.0 for the full story.... -
SoleSearch Helps You Find Sneaker Boutiques from Your iPhone
20 Nov 2009 | 7:58 amSoleSearch is a new iPhone and iPod touch app geared towards helping travel-prone sneaker aficionados hone in on hundreds of independent sneaker boutiques in U.S. cities and locations across the globe. SoleSearch's most useful feature is a directory with listings on local shoe shops as well as boutiques in Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, and South America. Visit Black Web 2.0 for the full story.... -
Tech Week in Review 11-20-09
20 Nov 2009 | 6:13 amAdobe AIR 2 Overhaul; Running for the Border? There's an App for That; Twitter Goes From "What are you doing?" to "What's Happening?"; "Unfriend" Becomes the Oxford Dictionary Word of the Year. Visit Black Web 2.0 for the full story....
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Technologizer
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What’s Wrong With Android Gaming?
20 Nov 2009 | 6:03 pmThe latest in self-important mobile app developer drama comes from Gameloft, but it’s not the usual iPhone bashing we’ve come to expect. Instead, Gameloft finance director Alexandre de Rochefort declared (via Reuters) that the company’s got beef with Android. “We have significantly cut our investment in Android platform, just like … many others,” he said at an investor conference in Barcelona. He explained that the Android Market is just too weak compared to the iPhone’s App Store, on which Gameloft sells 400 times more games. “Google has not… -
Chrome OS: Move Along, Nothing to See Here (Yet)
20 Nov 2009 | 5:17 pmSo I took the plunge and installed Chrome OS on a virtual machine on my Windows 7 laptop. I used Sun’s free VirtualBox virtualization software and the downloadable version of Chrome OS hosted by Gdgt. Actually, when I used the Gdgt download in the form of a VirtualBox image, I couldn’t get it to boot–so I tried again with the VMWare download (also compatible with VirtualBox) and all went well. Except for one thing: There’s very little reason to check out Chrome OS just now. What you get is a somewhat stale version of the OS that has features that don’t work… -
Flook, a Location-Aware Microphotoblogging App for iPhone
20 Nov 2009 | 3:07 pmI’ve been playing with Flook, a clever new program that’s now available on Apple’s iPhone App Store. Conceptually, it’s very, very simple: You use it to capture images with your phone and attach brief titles and captions to them. Flook then turns the image, title and caption into a full-screen combo it calls a card, uploads them to its servers, geotags them, and lets other Flook users browse through them. The most obvious way to browse through Flook cards is to peruse ones that are near your location, in case they give you an idea of something nearby to see or do. But… -
Twitter’s Ad-Free Nirvana: Going, Going, Gone?
20 Nov 2009 | 12:01 pmI‘m at TechCrunch’s Real-Time CrunchUp, an interesting conference in San Francisco on the booming subject of Web sites and services that move just as fast as the rest of the world does–Twitter, some aspects of Facebook, and lots more. The first session this morning was a conversation between TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington and Twitter’s COO, Dick Costolo. And Costolo said that Twitter is gearing up to add advertising to the service. We will have an advertising strategy. You will see that from us in the future. It will be fascinating, non-traditional, and people will… -
5Words: Wanna Try Out Chrome OS?
20 Nov 2009 | 10:50 amHow to try Chrome OS. Randall Kennedy derides Chrome OS. Better Google News for smartphones. Better Techmeme for smartphones, too. Refinements for Google Search Options. New version of cool PogoPlug. Nook sold out for holidays. Sony building its own iTunes. Apple’s Magic Mouse in Windows. YouTube bans TV box access. ________________________ Like 5Words? Subscribe via RSS. Share/E-Mail
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Twitter Blog
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Nouvelle saveur : Twitter en Français!
19 Nov 2009 | 5:21 pmAvec l'ajout de la version espagnole du site le mois dernier, de nombreuses personnes ont rejoint les conversations sur Twitter. De plus en plus de personnes twittent en dehors des États-Unis et nous sommes à présent en mesure d'accueillir les utilisateurs de près de 30 pays francophones. Il est maintenant possible de changer les paramètres de langue en français grâce à la participation des traducteurs qui ont contribué à transformer Twitter en une plate-forme de communication véritablement mondiale.Les twitteurs français peuvent d'ors et déjà suivre des personnes et des… -
Think Globally, Tweet Locally
19 Nov 2009 | 1:48 pmIn August we announced that we were working on a new API that would provide developers with the ability to geotag tweets. Today, the Geotagging API is officially available.This release is unique in that it's API-only which means you won't see any changes on twitter.com, yet. Instead, Twitter applications like Birdfeed, Seesmic Web, Foursquare, Gowalla, Twidroid, Twittelator Pro and others are already supporting this new functionality (go try them out now!) in interesting ways that include geotagging your tweets and displaying the location from where a tweet was posted. The added information… -
Refreshed Privacy Policy
19 Nov 2009 | 1:46 pmAs part of rolling out geotagging today we've updated our privacy policy to explicitly include geotagging and to describe the public nature of most of what people post to Twitter. We've tried to keep it short and sweet with lots of real life examples so it's simple to read through. We'll also be letting people know about the new policy via email and @twitter.Please give the new policy a read and contact us at privacy@twitter.com if you have comments or suggestions. -
What's Happening?
19 Nov 2009 | 10:47 amTwitter was originally conceived as a mobile status update service—an easy way to keep in touch with people in your life by sending and receiving short, frequent answers to one question, "What are you doing?" However, when we implemented the service, we chose to leave something out. To stay simple, Twitter did not require individuals to confirm relationships. Instead, we left things open.People, organizations, and businesses quickly began leveraging the open nature of the network to share anything they wanted, completely ignoring the original question, seemingly on a quest to both ask and… -
Another First in the UK
16 Nov 2009 | 5:36 pmThe UK has had an outsized cultural impact on the world. From music to sports to literature... and now – MMS with Twitter.Today, not only has Orange UK turned on Twitter SMS, but it has added a first-of-its-kind special enhancement. Orange UK users can also send picture messages (MMS) to 86444 in addition to text messages because of a site that Orange UK has created called Snapshot. The best part is that it is incredibly simple to use:Take a photo on your Orange mobile phoneSelect 'Send via MMS' or 'Send multimedia message'Send it to 86444Twitter does not charge for this service. It's just…
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Robert Scoble
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Why Google Chrome OS has already won
20 Nov 2009 | 12:03 pmToday InfoWorld’s Randall Kennedy says that Google’s Chrome OS will fail. What he is missing is he’s looking at the wrong field. Google is playing a different game. Google Chrome OS is NOT about killing Microsoft or Apple. What is it about? Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers. See, what happens if the world goes to Microsoft’s Silverlight, the way that Seesmic did this week? Google is locked out of such a world. Google is in a war over developers with Microsoft. Google wants developers to build for the open web. Microsoft wants developers to… -
Twitter to turn on advertising “you will love” (here’s how: SuperTweet)
20 Nov 2009 | 10:22 amTwitter’s COO, Dick Costolo, today, at the TechCrunch Real Time Crunchup (live video of the conference is live now on building43, there will be lots of news all day long from this event), told the audience that Twitter is, indeed, going to turn on an advertising model. This is a huge shift in what Twitter is saying publicly. But advertising isn’t something many people love. So, how will Twitter make advertising you love? By building a SuperTweet! How can they do that? Well, yesterday, I talked with Likaholix co-founder Bindu Reddy about just that. You can watch our video we… -
In search of the perfect Facebook and Twitter client
17 Nov 2009 | 11:57 pmI use Twitter and Facebook a lot. Probably more than 99.9999% of people in the world. I am in search of the perfect client that will help me use Facebook and, particularly, Twitter (which I use a lot more than Facebook because that is the best place to network with other technology professionals). I am still looking. The perfect client does not exist. First, I use my iPhone (and now my Droid) for Twitter a LOT. My wife, @maryamie, uses Facebook on her iPhone all the time. So, I must have the best possible iPhone client. This week? That’s Tweetie 2.0 for an app and Dabr for a Web page… -
Ray Ozzie is wrong about smartphone apps
17 Nov 2009 | 1:59 pmMicrosoft exec Ray Ozzie, at a lunchtime session with bloggers at its PDC conference told the bloggers that apps won’t be a differentiating factor on smart phones. He is wrong. Totally wrong. Why is Mike Arrington so passionate about his Droid (we argued about it for 39 minutes on the Gillmor Gang last week and then we went to the beach together on Sunday and argued about it some more in private). I’ve talked about this before. Most of what we argue about is apps. Droid is better than iPhone because Droid has Google Voice, Arrington says. iPhone is better than Droid, I say,… -
What is Twitter for? Pimping your blog!
14 Nov 2009 | 1:30 pmAt the Blog World Expo a few weeks ago someone asked what Twitter is for and I answered “pimping your blog.” Hey, it works for TechCrunch and Mashable, why not you? Or me. So, I’ve finally figured out that I was clueless because I didn’t have a Twitter account for my blog. When people say they are unfollowing me because I’m too noisy these feeds are the antidote. scobleblog is for following ONLY my blog. I won’t put anything else on that feed. scoblemedia is for following ONLY when either I post video or am on someone else’s video or audio shows.
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Kara Swisher
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Hey, Hey, Hey, Twitter! Here's the Real "What's Happening!"
20 Nov 2009 | 2:16 amBoomTown was intrigued when Mind-Your-Own Biz Stone, one of the co-founders of Twitter, penned a blog post yesterday about the microblogging service changing its prompting question. Now, above the little Twitter box, it reads, “What’s Happening?” and not the original tweet query, “What are you doing?” “The fundamentally open model of Twitter created a new kind of information network and it has long outgrown the concept of personal status updates,” wrote Stone. “Twitter helps you share and discover what’s happening now among all the things,… -
AOL Layoff Package: You Stay, You Pay
19 Nov 2009 | 12:25 pmBoomTown has learned that AOL is offering those who “volunteer” to leave the company now a departure package that ranges from three to nine months of pay, compared to one to four months for employees laid off in the first quarter of next year. It’s a depressing rock-and-a-hard-place choice. An AOL spokesperson confirmed the offer, which is part of a massive layoff of 2,500 of its 6,000-person workforce. Earlier today, AOL said it would be letting go a big chunk of its staff, a third of its payroll, in a regulatory filing. As reported by MediaMemo’s Peter Kafka: The… -
MSN Head Greg Nelson Moves to MicroHoo Integration Role (Yahoo Picks Morrissey)
19 Nov 2009 | 11:03 amGreg Nelson (pictured here), who has had the thankless job of running MSN for Microsoft, has left that position and been given the even more thankless task of running the integration of the complex search and online advertising partnership struck by the software giant and Yahoo. Microsoft (MSFT) sent out an internal email to staff about the move for the GM of MSN’s Global Media Group, which has already taken place. MSN U.S. head Scott Moore is now reporting directly to MSN Corporate VP Erik Jorgensen. So will Brett Wayn, who has been working under Nelson on international coordination… -
AOL Also Likely to Eye Sale of MapQuest–Is Microsoft a Possible Buyer?
19 Nov 2009 | 12:23 amYesterday, BoomTown wrote about AOL’s efforts–including hiring investment bankers–to sell its ICQ instant-messaging unit. But that’s probably not going to be the end of the shedding of assets at the online site. In fact, according to sources inside and outside AOL, one of the next candidates for sale could be its MapQuest online map service. Purchasers of the service that provides mapping and directions, sources said, are likely to be other mapping giants, especially Microsoft (MSFT). But it is not clear if the software giant or anyone would fork over a huge sum of… -
Yahoo Hires Amber Allman as New D.C. Director of Public Affairs
18 Nov 2009 | 9:18 pmEarlier today, BoomTown reported that Yahoo was poised to name a few new top execs at its Silicon Valley HQ. But the company has also hired a new director of public affairs in the nation’s capital. After I queried the company, Yahoo (YHOO) confirmed that it has tapped Amber Allman, a vice president at 463 Communications, for the job. She has extensive tech experience. “We are very pleased that she is coming on board,” said Nina Blackwell, senior director of global public affairs, who will be Allman’s boss. “She will be a very valuable member of the team.
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Matt Cutts
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Live-blogging the Google Chrome OS event
19 Nov 2009 | 9:50 amI’m sitting in a room at Google waiting to hear more about Google Chrome OS. You can watch the webcast along with me if you like. For starters, here’s what Google announced about Chrome OS back in July. At that time, Google called out “speed, simplicity and security” as the key ideas behind Chrome OS. Google released Chrome a little over a year ago with a novel idea–a comic book to describe the features and design decisions behind Chrome. Looks like Danny Sullivan is live blogging too. Google OS just noticed that the source code for Chrome OS is available. (Maybe… -
State of the Index, November 2009
17 Nov 2009 | 7:26 pmLast week I was in Las Vegas for PubCon, a conference for publishers, and I wanted to share the slides from my main presentation: When I get a chance, I’ll also re-create the talk on video and share the video with you, but in the mean time Lisa Barone did a nice live write-up and coverage of the Q&A. It’s always nice to see SEOs and webmasters that I’ve gotten to know from search conferences. For example, one night featured the traditional SEO Werewolf game, except with blackhats as the werewolves and whitehats as the villagers. Somehow in the middle of that party, we… -
Expect Caffeine after the holidays
10 Nov 2009 | 7:47 amBack in August we mentioned a developer preview of Caffeine, which is new technology that improves our indexing infrastructure. The feedback on Caffeine has been very positive, so we’re ready to move from the developer preview to the next stage of the roll out: going live with Caffeine at one data center. This means that a small percentage of Google’s users will benefit from the technology behind Caffeine in their regular searches. I know that webmasters can get anxious around this time of year, so I wanted to reassure site owners that the full Caffeine roll out will happen after… -
Gaping hole costume for Halloween 2009
31 Oct 2009 | 3:49 pmThis year for Halloween I tried to do a see-through hole in your body costume: It worked okay, but not great. The biggest problem was that I didn’t have a gadget lying around the house that could output live composite video. Both my normal video camera and my digital camera had exhausted batteries that wouldn’t recharge, which is a gadget fail on my part. And while my Flip video camera is tiny and it can output pre-recorded video through a composite cable, it can’t output live video (?!). Lame. I didn’t care enough to buy a new battery-operated gadget that could send… -
Export your Google Docs data
25 Oct 2009 | 8:56 pmOne of my favorite personal blog posts is about not trapping users’ data. In late 2006, Eric Schmidt declared “We would never trap user data.” Many of the major Google properties (search, Gmail, Calendar) make it trivial to export or download your data. In the past, Google Docs would let you export a single doc at a time, but Google Operating System runs down exactly how to batch export your Google Docs. For each type of document (text document, presentation, spreadsheet, etc.) you can choose what file format to get. I had about 81 personal docs (~13MB) and it only took…
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Valeria Maltoni
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Twitter and Google Reader Aren't at War
20 Nov 2009 | 4:00 amThere have been conversations recently about abandoning RSS readers, and specifically Google Reader in favor of using Twitter as a human filter for information. The idea is that if you follow smart people, they read good material and will pass that along to their network - you. Part of me says, maybe. Somehow I think that if you come across a really good post filled with juicy information that will make you look good when you implement it, you'll probably keep that more to yourself. Maybe use it to build on when you write on your own blog. How far off am I? Others, are in favor of continuing… -
What is Your Purpose for Blogging?
19 Nov 2009 | 4:00 amPersonal Branding In A Wired WorldView more presentations from Valeria Maltoni. That is the first thing you need to think about if you're planning to be strategic about your blog. Then, instead of focusing on success, focus on the path that will keep you on purpose. Why? Because success changes and stays in the future - be honest, you keep upping the ante. While the path, part of which is a process that will help you stay productive, is the here and now - the decisions you need to make tonight, every day and every week. Dan Pink quotes the recently departed Russell Ackoff (emphasis… -
Architects, Meet Collier Ward, Content Creator
18 Nov 2009 | 4:00 amAs an architect, he writes, I believe that, even in the current economy, there are institutions, firms and individuals which could benefit from professional architectural consulting and design services; even if only to be poised for the next construction cycle.Collier Ward is a member of the architecture and author community - and of this community. He shared his thoughts on the About You page and returns with us for a more in depth conversation__________ Why are you online? Collier: Being online maximizes the number of meaningful connections a person can make. I took the opportunity of being… -
Is Social Media a Marketing Thing?
17 Nov 2009 | 4:00 amIn the last couple of weeks, we've been talking about leveraging content to start or continue a conversation with your customers or prospects. Offering something of value in exchange for attention towards a mutually accepted goal or direction goes to the heart of communications. There is still plenty of unrealized opportunity for B2B companies to unlock this value through social media. That's because the greatest value to the organization that gets involved in social media is not the cool promotional glitz. We talk about customer support regularly. What about customer acquisition and real… -
Customer Contributions Build Preference
16 Nov 2009 | 4:00 amDuring our conversation at the Inbound Marketing Summit, we talked about writing engaging content for the next web and the socializing of information. One of the slides in my deck visualized the customer contribution part of content, which we said gives you permission to connect. I stack ranked the ideas in order of complexity - with the simplest being a "like" button.I think many companies are not implementing that on their Web sites because they're somewhat anxious that nobody will like their pages. So why, oh why, is the site still static and displaying the same stale content? What if you…
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MACRUMORS
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More Quad-Core iMac Benchmarks Show Substantial Performance Gains
20 Nov 2009 | 1:28 pmFollowing up on early benchmarking tests that showed Apple's new quad-core Core i5 and Core i7 iMacs boasting significant performance improvements compared to their Core 2 Duo-based counterparts, Macworld has utilized its own Speedmark suite of real-... -
Game Developers Scaling Back Android Efforts as iPhone Continues to Dominate
20 Nov 2009 | 11:49 amReuters reports that prominent iPhone game developer Gameloft is scaling back its efforts to produce content for the Android platform in the face of weaknesses of its application store. Gameloft also notes that it is not the only one making the move... -
Workaround Restores Mac OS X 10.6.2 Compatibility With Intel Atom Processors
20 Nov 2009 | 6:19 amInsanelyMac reports that a member of its forums has created a workaround allowing users who have modified their Intel Atom-based netbooks into "Hackintoshes" in order to run Mac OS X to upgrade to OS X 10.6.2. The 10.6.2 update had specifically disa... -
Google Previews Chrome OS, Scheduled for Release in Late 2010
19 Nov 2009 | 11:49 amGoogle today held a preview event for Chrome OS, the company's forthcoming browser-based operating system scheduled to launch initially on netbooks in late 2010. Among the major announcements was that, like Google's Chrome browser, Chrome OS... -
Apple Researching Methods for 'Pushing' User Interfaces to Accessories from Media Devices
19 Nov 2009 | 8:16 amIn a patent application filed in May 2008 and published today, Apple discloses that it has been researching methods to allow media devices such as the iPod to "push" their graphical user interfaces (GUIs) to accessory devices for the ...
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PR 2.0
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The Social Media (R)evolution: Your Time is Now
20 Nov 2009 | 4:23 amSource: ShutterstockThe Future of the Social Web is here today and we’re learning that engagement is not a matter of if or when, but to what extent, how and what value can we deliver and derive from it. The Social Web is much more than a window into information and interaction, it is a completely transformative medium that is changing how we forge relationships, interact with one another, and distribute and discover information. In many ways, the online social revolution is reminiscent of the Industrial Revolution.Access to free and expansive media platforms and distribution channels has… -
On Twitter, What Are You Doing Was Always The Wrong Question
19 Nov 2009 | 10:18 pmWhat are you doing?Perhaps, Twitter asked the wrong question all along.In all honestly, who cares…it was really never about “what you were doing” that inspired your network to stay connected nor was it the siren for attracting new followers. We chose to follow you because you moved or encouraged us to do so – with every update.For many of the users on Twitter, the question that engendered a response and also also aroused a cultural movement was, “what are you doing?” It was a prompt that, for the most part, was taken quite literally. Its answer served as… -
On Twitter and Social Networks, Brands Benefit from Conversations
19 Nov 2009 | 4:40 amSource: ShutterstockA recent study revealed 20 percent of tweets published are actually invitations for product information, answers or responses from peers or directly by brand representatives. Now we learn that Twitter users are actively paying attention to brands on the popular information network.According to research conducted by Performics and ROI Research, about half of Twitter users who were introduced to a brand on Twitter were compelled to search for additional information.The companies studied the activity of 3,000 users of social networks in the U.S. Of those polled, 70% use… -
The Golden Triangle
18 Nov 2009 | 4:11 amSource: ShutterstockPrior to keynoting the PACA conference in Miami, Maria Kessler, president of the PACA Association, asked me if I had read a recent post by Fred Wilson entitled “The Golden Triangle.” We were deep in conversation as I was seeking an alternate title for my next book that identifies the divide between brands, information, and consumers and how we can, as social architects and engineers, build the bridges between people, contextual relationships, and technology. While “The Golden Triangle” isn’t a contender for the name of the next book, it did get me thinking.In… -
With Klout Comes Influence: How To Find Influencers on Twitter
17 Nov 2009 | 8:20 amThis is the uncut version of my latest post on TechCrunch…Measuring individual influence in Social Media is as coveted as it is elusive. While many tools claim to calculate authority, it is the definition of influence that requires clarification in order to grasp the relevance and differences of existing tools and services.For the sake keeping this discussion on track, let’s define influence. According to Merriam-Webster, influence is having the power or capacity to cause an effect.San Francisco-based Klout is no stranger to measuring influence on the Social Web. The company launched…
