NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Occasionally the disconnect between conversation on the web and, well, real conversation, becomes abundantly clear.
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AdAge: Digital
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Just How Popular Was Google's Super Bowl Ad, Anyway?
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To Regain Luster, Oscars Get a Social-Media Makeover
8 Feb 2010 | 8:32 amLOS ANGELES (AdAge.com) -- Like all things Hollywood, Oscar is getting some work done to keep up a more youthful appearance. Along with the ballyhoo surrounding the Best Picture category, now with 10 nominees instead of five for this year's 82nd annual telecast, airing March 7 on ABC, the ceremony is getting its first social-media push to attract younger viewers. -
Use Your Scale to Cut a Path to Potential Consumers' Attention
7 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pmThe single biggest challenge marketers face in the next 10 years is attention scarcity. Bank on it. -
In Age of Friending, Consumers Trust Their Friends Less
7 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pmNEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- According to Edelman's latest Trust Barometer, the number of people who view their friends and peers as credible sources of information about a company dropped by almost half, from 45% to 25%, since 2008. -
Online Video One Step Closer to TV-Sized Ad Loads
7 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pmNEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- In the short history of online TV-watching, one standard has largely held fast: Shows that run online have significantly fewer ads than shows that run on the boob tube. But that could soon change.
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Daring Fireball
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What’s New in Aperture 3
9 Feb 2010 | 7:59 amFaces, places, and brushes. ★ -
ComScore Reports December 2009 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share
9 Feb 2010 | 7:52 amPalm, RIM, Microsoft losing market share; Apple and Google gaining. (RIM has the most to lose, of course.) ★ -
BashFlash
9 Feb 2010 | 6:52 amNice complement to ClickToFlash — BashFlash monitors Snow Leopard’s Flash Player process and lets you kill it when it starts using excessive CPU time. ★ -
LESS CSS App for Mac OS X
8 Feb 2010 | 8:51 pmCSS nerds: have you checked out LESS? If so and you dig it, you might be interested in this. ★ -
Panelfly
8 Feb 2010 | 8:49 pmGee, I wonder if e-comic-book distributors are excited about the iPad? ★
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Houston Chronicle: TechBlog
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Windows 7 and batteries: Shooting the messenger
9 Feb 2010 | 6:09 amWindows 7 is a pretty cool operating system - I think it's the best version of Windows that Microsoft has released. But some notebook PC owners would beg to differ. Last week, reports arose that Microsoft was looking into... -
Linkpost | 2.9.2010
9 Feb 2010 | 4:35 am• Data and Games Flow In, and Dollars Flow Out - Americans are expected to spend an average $1,000 this year on digital connectivity and entertainment. • Google Could Unveil Gmail's Social Features Tomorrow - Google's reportedly working on Twitter-like... -
Verizon blocking 4chan: Someone's doing it wrong [Updated]
8 Feb 2010 | 5:53 amIf you're at all aware of Internet culture, then you're under the influence of the Web image board 4chan, even if you've never been to the site. It's one of the sources of such popular memes as LOLcats and... -
Linkpost | 2.8.2010
8 Feb 2010 | 4:35 am• Apple iPad Hoopla Fails to Convince Buyers - Apple's iPad launch hasn't convinced potential owners that this is a must-have device. Only 9 percent of responders said they'd like to buy one. • White House Makes Full Copyright Claim... -
Linkpost | 2.7.2010
7 Feb 2010 | 7:46 am• Google Nexus One 3G Issues Still Lurking - Kevin C. Tofel discovers the update to the Nexus One may not have helped some users who were having problems getting and keeping a 3G data connection through T-Mobile. • Windows...
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Mashable!
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5 Ways Airlines and Hotels Can Drive Revenue with Social Media
9 Feb 2010 | 12:18 pmShashank Nigam is the CEO of SimpliFlying.com, an award-winning blog on airline branding. He tweets at @simpliflying.Social media is no longer the “new” thing, especially for airlines. JetBlue has over one an a half million followers on Twitter. Lufthansa allows passengers to update their Twitter or Facebook status about where they are in the sky. AirAsia drives buzz about its new destinations through custom micro-sites. However, most airlines (and airports and hotels) are still struggling to earn direct revenue from their social media efforts.Yet if Dell can make $6.5 million from… -
Google Buzz: The Official Demo [VIDEO]
9 Feb 2010 | 11:08 amGoogle has just unveiled its latest attempt to become more relevant in the social media space: Google Buzz. The product is integrated within Gmail and will be rolled out gradually to all of the webmail service’s users over the next few days.We’re still digesting all of the implications of Buzz (and will have more coverage throughout the day), but in the meantime, here’s the two-minute demo of the product in action both on the Web and via mobile that Google showed off during today’s press conference:This video from Google looks specifically at the mobile features of Buzz:What are your… -
BREAKING: Google Goes Social with Google Buzz
9 Feb 2010 | 10:21 amIt’s official: Google has just announced Google Buzz, its newest push into the social media foray. This confirms earlier reports of Gmail integrating a social status feature.On stage revealing the new product was Bradley Horowitz, Google’s vice president for product management. While introducing the product, Mr. Horowitz focused on the human penchant for sharing experiences and the social media phenomenon of wanting to share it in real time. These two key themes were core philosophies behind Google Buzz.“It’s becoming harder and harder to find signal in the… -
Facebook Kills Lexicon, Focuses on Analytics for Page Admins
9 Feb 2010 | 10:20 amFacebook has removed its Lexicon analytics app, blogger Steve Rubel noticed last night.Don’t know what Lexicon was? That’s OK, a lot of people didn’t; it was announced very quietly, but it was a neat tool. You could use Lexicon to see how frequently, and when, certain terms were trending in status updates, just like you can use Google Trends to do the same with search terms.For example, our own Stan Schroeder was a bit perplexed a couple years back when the word “sex” had a massive spike in usage on May 30, 2008. It was the launch day of the Sex and the City… -
7 Ways to Promote Your Offline Event Using Social Media
9 Feb 2010 | 10:10 amSusan Payton is the President of Egg Marketing & Public Relations, an internet marketing firm. She blogs at The Marketing Eggspert Blog, and teaches marketing courses at Marketing EggSchool. Follow her on Twitter @eggmarketing.We all know about Tweetups and online events, but what about events that you didn’t specifically invite the Twitterati to attend? Conferences, meetings and parties are all events that might not have started online, but which can definitely benefit from online promotion and mention.Leverage your offline event with some smart social media marketing. Here are…
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GigaOM
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Google Launches a Serious Case of Facebook Envy
9 Feb 2010 | 12:10 pmGoogle Buzz and the services it supports at launch I was totally on board with Google Buzz, the company’s late entry into the modern-day social web launching today, until it became dramatically evident how freaked out Google is by Facebook. Despite multiple questions from journalists at today’s press briefing at Google’s HQ in Mountain View, Calif., today about the elephant in the room, the buzz product team and executives couldn’t manage a single utterance of the word “Facebook.” Such silence has two implications: One, it speaks to defensive and reactive… -
Startup Nasuni Targets Primary Storage in the Cloud
9 Feb 2010 | 11:15 amCloud storage startup Nasuni entered public beta today, bringing with it a new, but familiar, approach to storing primary data. Instead of competing in the already overpopulated cloud storage-provider market — where offerings generally target backup operations and simple file storage — the Natick, Mass.-based startup sells software that looks and acts like a traditional file system but stores data in cloud offerings from Amazon, Rackspace, Nirvanix and Iron Mountain. For $250 a month plus capacity fees (Nasuni covers data transfer costs), customers can use Nasuni to house their… -
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Location
9 Feb 2010 | 10:38 amIt’s clear that location is an opportunity ready for its time, but making technology smarter by knowing where we are needs to happen as part of a platform, not be an end unto itself. That’s why I found — and I think many entrepreneurs, developers and investors will find — Phil Hendrix’s new report for GigaOM Pro (sub. req’d) particularly useful. There’s a lot going on here and it’s helpful to get all the pieces in one place. “Location: The Epicenter of Mobile Innovation in 2010” is immr founder Hendrix’ 56-page primer on the… -
TweepML Shows Risks of a Twitter-based Startup
9 Feb 2010 | 10:01 amIt sounded like a great idea when TweepML launched last September: an easy way to manage lists of Twitter users, including sharing them with others, allowing anyone to follow all the users on the list with a single click. Unfortunately, it was such a good idea that Twitter launched something almost identical a month or so later, and TweepML founder Marcelo Calbucci has now put the company up for sale on the Flippa auction site. You can put in a bid for the company, or you can buy it right now for $79,000 and get all the code, accumulated data and any associated domains. Calbucci, who started… -
10 Questions for Greentech Investor David Gelbaum
9 Feb 2010 | 9:22 amThe famously private investor David Gelbaum, founder of The Quercus Trust, and who by his own estimates has between 40 and 50 cleantech investments, as a rule hasn’t done interviews for years. According to the last comprehensive story on him, published in the LA Times in 2004, the former math whiz, hedge fund manager and philanthropist, is so anonymous he’s sometimes mistaken for his gardener. But this afternoon, on the heels of Gelbaum accepting the role of CEO of one of his portfolio companies Entech Solar (the first time he’s taken over as CEO), Gelbaum got on the phone…
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Unclutterer
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Discover your style to keep clutter out of your closet
9 Feb 2010 | 8:56 amOn page 23 of Unclutter Your Life in One Week, I promote the idea of discovering your style to help you keep clutter out of your closets. If your closet is limited to clothes that fit, clothes you want to wear, and clothes that project your desired image, you’re less likely to find yourself overbuying or with a mess you can’t control: You may not know exactly what you want your clothes to say about you, but you probably have a good idea what you don’t want them to say. When I was in my twenties and leading a forum on school uniform policies, a group of high school students… -
What clutter affects an unclutterer?
9 Feb 2010 | 4:30 amWhen I talk about struggles with clutter, I tend to speak in generalities — messy closets, disorganized desks, etc. My assumption is that the specific ways I fight with clutter in my life are different than other folks, and using generalities can make the advice applicable to more people. However, I know there is value in concrete examples, and I believe our Friday Ask Unclutterer column is a great way to explore specific problems readers face. I received an e-mail from a reader recently, though, asking if I would talk about actual problems I face in my daily life. She wanted to know… -
Why we hold on to sentimental clutter
8 Feb 2010 | 10:30 amSentimental clutter plagues our attics, basements, closets, garages, and desks. These sentimental trinkets can keep us from moving forward with our lives physically and emotionally. If there is so much of the past taking up space in the present, there isn’t room to grow. The article “What is nostalgia good for?” from BBC News discusses a recent report from the financial services firm Standard Life, the book Get It Together by Damian Barr, and research conducted by psychologist Clay Routledge at North Dakota State University that may provide insight into why we accumulate so… -
A year ago on Unclutterer
8 Feb 2010 | 7:30 am2009 Storing specialty hangers?How do you keep the non-standard hangers organized when they aren’t in use? Unitasker Wednesday: The snowman kitSnowman kits include everything except the snow! Flipside walletI wanted to add the Flipside Wallet to the list of wallet alternatives due to the ease of use and cool design. ROO: Return on OrganizationA recent article in USA Today explores organization and how it can help keep expenses low in these tough economic times. Workspace of the Week: Crafts containedThis week’s workspace of the week is Ali’s craft office. Ask Unclutterer:… -
Moveable mudroom
8 Feb 2010 | 6:08 amSmall spaces often lack utilitarian areas where people can hang hats and gloves, process mail, and store purses, backpacks, briefcases, and keys near their main entrances. It’s easy for mail and travel items to clutter up the inside of your home when there isn’t somewhere convenient to place these things when you immediately come indoors. I don’t have a mudroom or even a simple coat closet in my home, so I’m always on the lookout for storage solutions to replace these conveniences. Late last week, my husband forwarded me a link to a beautiful storage solution from…
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jkOnTheRun
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All About the Nokia N900 — a Roundtable Podcast
9 Feb 2010 | 11:45 amAlthough I’ve focused on my Google Nexus One for the past month, I have been swapping my SIM card into the evaluation Nokia N900 handset time and again. The device shows off a solid smartphone foundation for Nokia and I’m excited to see what Maemo 6 will bring in the second half of 2010. The browsing experience is outstanding, regardless of whether I use the native MicroB browser or the new Firefox Mobile client. I tend to stick with the native browser mainly because I see better performance and I can live without the extensibility of Firefox. Nokia also offers stellar contact… -
BlackBerry Buzz: Spyware Alert
9 Feb 2010 | 10:15 amIt’s Tuesday and that can only mean it’s time for our weekly feature, the BlackBerry Buzz. While RIM marketshare has dropped, and LinkedIn has come to the BlackBerry, there is other news about the ‘Berry to share. Security specialist Tyler Shields wants BlackBerry owners to know that the platform is not safe from spyware. Shields demonstrated to CNET how he wrote a spyware app using standard mobile provider APIs that lets him take control of a phone by simply sending a text message. His spyware allows someone with malicious intent to capture the contact list on the phone, get copies… -
Will Notion Ink’s Adam Be the iPad for Geeks?
9 Feb 2010 | 8:45 amApple may have widespread interest with its iPad, but the Notion Ink Adam has geek juices flowing, too. We got our own hands-on demo with a prototype at last month’s Consumer Electronics Show, but if that wasn’t enough for you, check out the detailed video that SlashGear has put together. In it, you get a far better idea of how the innovative display works quite well in various use cases without any backlighting. In that situation, the display component only uses 0.2 watts of juice. Less watts required means longer battery life and for mobile devices, that’s a key attribute. -
Smartphone Share — Google Grows While RIM Slows, Palm Reverses
9 Feb 2010 | 7:30 amThere’s no lack of smartphone market share numbers and usage statistics available for analysis. It feels like I’m reading a new set of quarterly numbers every few weeks, which sounds counter-intuitive, but it’s true. The latest data comes courtesy of comScore’s MobiLens product and the numbers show a continuing trend of new platforms eating away at the old guard. In the final quarter of 2009, Google and Apple continued their smartphone momentum, while Microsoft, Palm and Research In Motion all stumbled slightly. The reported data looks at subscribed smartphone… -
WorldMate Teams Up with LinkedIn
9 Feb 2010 | 6:00 amThe WorldMate travel service has been a long-time companion to 5 million frequent travelers. The web service that makes keeping on top of travel arrangements a breeze is paired with smartphone apps to bring all its benefits into the palm of traveler’s hands. There are WorldMate apps for BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, iPhone and Nokia/ Symbian phones. BlackBerry users will especially benefit from a new partnership that WorldMate announced today, integrating the travel service with LinkedIn. Not only does this bring helpful new features to the WorldMate BlackBerry app it also means WorldMate…
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NYT: Technology
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Google Offers Phone Help for Nexus One Owners
9 Feb 2010 | 12:21 pmAfter mounting complaints about the lack of customer support for the Nexus One, Google is offering a phone hotline. -
Square Feet: New Jersey, Home of the Servers
9 Feb 2010 | 12:18 pmCommercial real estate is experiencing a boom in data center construction, especially in New Jersey, thanks to its proximity to New York’s financial companies. -
Google Gets More Social With Buzz
9 Feb 2010 | 12:13 pmGoogle's Buzz service, which ties into Gmail, is another way for people to tell others what they're doing, thinking and feeling. -
App of the Week: Weather for Everyone
9 Feb 2010 | 12:08 pmThe Weather Underground mobile Web site works on most any Web-enabled phone, and on a smartphone you can set it up to work like an app. -
Mobile Data Traffic Expected to Surge
9 Feb 2010 | 11:43 amMobile data traffic is expected to increase 39-fold in the next five years, according to a new report from Cisco Systems.
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ReadWriteWeb
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Can Google Buzz Succeed Where FriendFeed Couldn't?
9 Feb 2010 | 12:20 pmGoogle just launched Google Buzz, the company's new social networking service which will be tightly integrated with Gmail. There can be little doubt that Google Buzz looks a lot like FriendFeed, the social aggregation service that was acquired by Facebook in August 2009. Today, FriendFeed's developers are Facebook employees and aren't likely to continue to improve the service in any meaningful way, while the active user community on FriendFeed continues to shrink rapidly. Given the similarities between the two services, we can't help but wonder if Google Buzz will be able to succeed where… -
How Google Buzz is Disruptive: Open Data Standards
9 Feb 2010 | 11:31 amGoogle rolled out a social stream service today called Buzz. It looks on the surface like Facebook, FriendFeed and other stream reading and writing services. It will compete with Facebook and Twitter. Under the covers, though, this major product was built by a team of people taking a radical new approach to online publishing: Buzz is all about open, standardized user data. Google Buzz data can be syndicated out to other services using the standard data formats called Atom, Activity Streams, MediaRSS and PubSubHubbub. That couldn't be more different from Facebook. Google has taken open data… -
Mobile Health: Will Network Applications Help Us Get Healthy?
9 Feb 2010 | 11:30 amLast week, we were at the mHealth initiative conference in Washington D.C. The keynotes were all about the impact mobile health applications are having in shaping the future of the health care system. Nothing demonstrates that more than the iPhone. In the 18 months since it was released, it has been perhaps the biggest thing to happen to health care electronic records, which has seen billions of dollars worth of investment in past decades. Mobile and wireless health applications directly impact the individual's health and have the promise of ensuring that when a patient leaves a doctor visit,… -
Foursquare Partners with Zagat, New York Times
9 Feb 2010 | 11:17 amFoursquare has come out strong in recent weeks with partnership deals that look to put it at the top of the location-based app game. Last week, it announced a partnership with Bravo, the style and fashion-centric television network, and today it has come out with a partnership with Zagat, the restaurant guide, and the New York Times. As we wrote last week, Foursquare is competing in an increasingly crowded space. These partnerships may help it attract a whole new audience and remain competitive against other services like Yelp that are just joining in the location-based arena. Sponsor… -
Live Blogging from Google: Launch of Google Buzz
9 Feb 2010 | 11:11 amThis morning, Google is announcing some exciting new features for two of its most popular applications. Team Red, as we affectionately call ourselves, is present at the Googleplex in Mountain View, and we'll be live blogging the event, giving you, dear reader, a fascinating play-by-play. Stay tuned for updates! The event will begin at 10 a.m. Pacific (UTC -8). Just refresh this post to see new content as events unfold. Additional on-the-fly research and images from RWW journalist Frederic Lardinois. Sponsor 11:11: The event is over! Time to chase people down and ask some more pointed…
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Dave Winer
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Is Manhattan exempt from snowstorms?
9 Feb 2010 | 7:28 amOkay this time they say there really is a snowstorm headed for NYC. And I'm nestled in my West Village apartment, with almost no food in the fridge, thinking -- "What does this mean to me?" Last time I was caught in a snowstorm was in Cambridge, MA. I was staying at the luxurious Charles Hotel, after participating in a conference about the future of news put on by Shorenstein Center. I didn't worry about food, I assumed the hotel would take care of it, and I wasn't disappointed. A group of delayed conference-goers ventured into the snow, across the street to the now-defunct Bombay Club… -
Twitter-killing follow-up
9 Feb 2010 | 6:42 amYesterday's piece started quite a discussion, and for the most part people agree that it's time for some new stuff in TwitterLand. That tells you that it's not only time, it's past time. In the past, there would have been a lot of comments about how the limits of Twitter are what make it so perfect. If you still believe that, watch this NSFW puppet "interview" with "Walt Mossberg" and "Steve Jobs." It's hilarious, and shows how the tech industry falls for what puppet Steve calls "an obvious crock of shit." Anyway... There's more to producing a Twitter-killer than just adding features that… -
Must-have features for Twitter-killing
8 Feb 2010 | 5:03 pmIn October 2009, after 2.5 years of using Twitter every day, I wrote a piece that explained the limits of Twitter that we'll have to look past Twitter to see solved, because Twitter doesn't seem to be trying to solve them. Tomorrow, we hear, Google will announce a product that aims to take on Twitter. If so, here's a list of features to look for. Any of these features would give Google a serious edge over Twitter. Maybe they thought of some things I don't have on my list. It's always nice to put your stake in the ground. I did it with the iPad with some hilarious results. So here's the list… -
Who dat just won the whole thing!
7 Feb 2010 | 11:39 pmA brief note of congratulations to the City that Care Forgot. It's so wonderful that the Saints won the Super Bowl! This will go down as one of the big moments of sports history, imho. As the 1969 Mets undid the betrayal of NY fans by the Dodgers, the Saints give hope to a city that was betrayed in so many ways. From what I know of New Orleans, this victory will be the stuff of legend for a long time to come. It's a city with a great sense of history, and destiny. And humor. Until 2005 its destiny was to be devastated by a monster hurricane and the failure of the rest of the country to come… -
My first full day in NYC
7 Feb 2010 | 5:37 pmI spent my first full day living in NYC since 1977. Lots of observations, but I only have time to share one. In other cities, the places you drive to are places you walk to in Manhattan. There's every kind of restaurant within a block of my apartment. In Palo Alto, you can get it all (but the pizza isn't as good) but you have to drive everywhere unless you live off University Avenue. Same in Berkeley. And the walking in Manhattan is amazing. It's huge and has so much variety. And everywhere you go the buildings reach the sky. In every other city I've lived in, they might have had a few…
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Jeremiah Owyang
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Quicktake: What Google Buzz Means
9 Feb 2010 | 11:26 amGoogle launches status update features Google launches Buzz, which is similar to Friendfeed, which is now part of Facebook. Content will be aggregated, and then prioritized based upon the people you already email with, Harry McCracken and I call this a social graph based on history, “Historical social graph” or HSG. Secondly, this Google Buzz feature will rate and rank content based on activity and interaction within your social group. Users can choose to publish the Buzz in public, which will display on the Google Profile page. They also announced the ability to input this data… -
Register For Webinar: Developing a Social Strategy by Objectives
8 Feb 2010 | 10:11 amLeft: There are four main categories of social strategy, yet with over 20 subset objectives, which we’ll discuss at a high level. Organizations that focus on social technologies suffer from the symptom of ‘Fondling The Hammer‘ . True social strategy stems from business objectives –not the latest technologies. So often, companies develop social tactics based on the latest tool that’s sprung forth. Yet, so far and few in between to organizations develop an actionable plan based on business goals. This second in our no-cost webinar series is coming up on the… -
People on the Move in the Social Media Industry: Feb 4, 2010
4 Feb 2010 | 8:31 pmThe submissions are defintly picking up, I’m seeing more submissions than before. Why? I attribute this to the start of the new year when many folks change up jobs, and the slight uptick we’re starting to see in the economy. In an effort to recognize the changes in the social media space, I’ve started this post series (see archives) to both track and congratulate folks who get promoted, move, or accept new exciting positions. Please help me congratulate the following folks: Congrats to Jeannette Gibson (Twttier) who has moved to corporate marketing to run social media at… -
Matrix: Companies Should Factor ‘Social Influence’ Into Total Customer Value
3 Feb 2010 | 6:00 amCase Study: An Influential Mom Blogger Caused Mainstream Crises Popular blogger, Heather Armstrong (@dooce) was dissatisfied with her non-working Maytag appliance. Following protocol, she called their support number, yet her issue was not solved. Stonewalled, she argued/warned the support staff that she was on Twitter, yet didn’t receive special assistance. Escalating further, she then flexed a muscle and told them she had over 1,000,000 Twitter followers –yet the support rep did not budge. Finally, she blogged and Tweeted against Maytag, initiating a boycott by her… -
List of Corporate Social Media Strategists, Corporate Community Managers in 2010
30 Jan 2010 | 9:36 amAs an industry watcher, I look at trends, data, spending, technologies, yet what’s really important is watching the trend of professionals as they grow into these roles managing disruptive technologies. Update: Brian Hayashi has created a spreadsheet of this with additional info –like Twitter handles. We’re staying coordinated so the data is matched, follow Brian on Twitter. [Connecting with customers using social technologies is deceptively challenging, as most outsiders don't recognize the leadership to change internal cultural. Now, in public, let's recognize those who…
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Webware.com
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Google's social side hopes to catch some Buzz
9 Feb 2010 | 11:00 amFacebook and Twitter are the darlings of the social-media world, not Google--which hopes to change that with Buzz, betting it can organize your online social life. Originally posted at Relevant Results -
Google Gmail press conference (live blog)
9 Feb 2010 | 7:41 amWe're heading to the Googleplex to find out what's happening to Gmail. Earlier reports have pointed to Google taking on Twitter. Tune in to find out if that's true. Originally posted at Web Crawler -
Mozilla plans to drop Mac OS X 10.4 support
9 Feb 2010 | 3:34 amDropping support for Tiger means Firefox could be better optimized for newer Mac OS X versions, but Mozilla is meeting some resistance. Originally posted at Deep Tech -
TweetDeck gets a few tweaks
8 Feb 2010 | 2:50 pmThe latest version of TweetDeck is out, and although it's a minor update it also introduces some useful changes worth noting. Originally posted at The Download Blog -
Adobe promises faster Flash on Macs
8 Feb 2010 | 12:43 pmThe Mac version of the widely used browser plug-in should catch up to the Windows version soon. Also: an apology for mishandling a bug. Originally posted at Deep Tech
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Google Operating System
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Google's Super Bowl Ad
8 Feb 2010 | 5:13 amGoogle's search engine didn't become popular because of advertising. Many people liked that it returned relevant results, it was fast and had a simple interface, so they told their friends to try it.Google rarely used traditional advertising to promote its products, but that started to change in 2007, when Google used billboards to promote GOOG-411. Last year, Google aggressively promoted Chrome using flashy ads.Despite the noticeable cultural shift, it's still surprising to see that Google decided to promote its search engine at the Super Bowl."If you watched the Super Bowl this evening… -
Google Chrome Safe Mode
8 Feb 2010 | 4:40 amFirefox has an option that lets you temporarily disable themes and extensions, so you can still use your browser even if one of your add-ons is buggy. It's called safe mode and it's "a special Firefox execution mode that can be used to troubleshoot issues in Firefox. In Safe Mode, you can reset some settings or disable add-ons that might be the source of the issue. By comparing Firefox behavior in normal mode to its behavior in Safe Mode with various items disabled, you may be able to diagnose issues."Google Chrome doesn't have this feature, but you can open an incognito window to temporarily… -
Chrome OS Tablet Mockups
3 Feb 2010 | 3:38 amHot on the heels of the Apple iPad announcement, Google released some mockups for Chrome OS tablets."On tablets, the UI would be adjusted to handle larger touch targets. Initial explorations have maintained the same basic chrome layout, but enlarged the controls. Icons could be placed above tabs to provide larger, square targets. Panels would be placed along the bottom edge and could be opened with upward dragging motions," explains Google.Even if Chrome OS was initially designed for netbooks, Google hopes to create an operating system that works on tablets, laptops and desktop computers. -
Better Google Search Integration in Gmail
3 Feb 2010 | 2:43 amOne of the few great Hotmail features is the web search integration. When you compose a message, Hotmail lets you add maps, movie listings, local search results, images from the web without opening a new page.Google's AJAX Search API lets you add similar features to any application, so it was surprising to see that Gmail didn't include a gadget that integrates with Google search. Last year, Gmail Labs added a Google Search gadget, but it only displayed web search results.The Gmail Labs feature has been improved and you can now find images, maps, news articles, simple facts, weather… -
Star Google News Stories
1 Feb 2010 | 3:36 pmGoogle News added a new feature that lets you star news stories. If you click on a star next to a Google News cluster, you'll add it to the Starred section and Google will notify you when it finds related articles."When you star a story in Google News, it's one way to let us know that you're interested in that subject. When there are significant updates, we will alert you by putting the headline in bold so you can get more information," mentions Google News blog.For some reason, Google doesn't add the starred news stories to Google Bookmarks and there's no option to star a news cluster after…
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The Official Google Blog
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Introducing Google Buzz
9 Feb 2010 | 11:06 amWe've blogged before about our thoughts on the social web, steps we've taken to add social features to our products, and efforts like OpenSocial that propose common tools for building social apps. With more and more communication happening online, the social web has exploded as the primary way to share interesting stuff, tell the world what you're up to in real-time and stay more connected to more people. In today's world of status messages, tweets and update streams, it's increasingly tough to sort through it all, much less engage in meaningful conversations.Our belief is that organizing the… -
Vancouver forecast: light winds, unlimited visibility
9 Feb 2010 | 10:00 amThe view from Whistler Mountain is something everyone should see: a range of rugged mountains, trails of snow, fir trees and placid lakes below. It's changed since I lived there some years back — there are many more houses, and far better chairlifts — but what remains is the rare feeling of being free, in nature, about to tear into peak snow.In time for the Games in Vancouver and Whistler, we're thrilled to be bringing this view to the world through Street View on Google Maps. How were we able to gather imagery at 7,000 feet (2,000 meters)? The Street View team's constant experimenting… -
Our approach to maximizing advertising revenue for online publishers
9 Feb 2010 | 5:30 amAll website owners need to pay for the costs of creating content and making it available online. Whether delivering entertainment, products, news, services, social networking or opinions, they need to pay their way by selling advertising or charging their users.Website owners, or "online publishers," span the range from individual bloggers to multinational companies. If they sell advertising, they can do this directly themselves, via their own sales force. Alternatively, they can use an ad network to place ads on the pages of their website. Many publishers use a combination of these methods… -
2010 Super Bowl: Some search touchdowns
8 Feb 2010 | 11:29 amWhile 106 American football players sought yardage in the 2010 Super Bowl, millions of people sought information related to the big game from Google search. We looked at some game-day search trends and data* to see what football fans were searching for this year.Most searched-for teamTo the victor of this year's big game went the search spoils: The New Orleans Saints captured both the NFL championship and the lion's share of Super Bowl team searches in 2010.Most searched-for playerFor leading the New Orleans Saints to their 31–17 win over the Indianapolis Colts — with 288 yards, two… -
Love and the Super Bowl
7 Feb 2010 | 5:51 pmIf you watched the Super Bowl this evening you'll have seen a video from Google called "Parisian Love". In fact you might have watched it before, because it's been on YouTube for over three months. We didn't set out to do a Super Bowl ad, or even a TV ad for search. Our goal was simply to create a series of short online videos about our products and our users, and how they interact. But we liked this video so much, and it's had such a positive reaction on YouTube, that we decided to share it with a wider audience. If you like it too, we hope you'll watch the others. Enjoy. Posted by Eric…
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How To: Apple MacBook Pro RAID 0 Array with 2 Intel X25-M SSDs
26 Jan 2010 | 4:07 pmIn late 2008 I wrote about my experience using the first generation 80GB Intel X25-M SSD — my first SSD. I had to pay the early adopter tax for that SSD, so it cost me around $700. The speed boost alone justified the price to me. Fast-forward about a year and that SSD stopped working. I’m not quite sure what died — the controller or something else — but I RMA’d it with Intel and they sent me a new, second generation X25-M that week. The second generation (G2) X25-M is based on 34nm fabrication compared to the 50nm first generation. The G2 is also substantially… -
How To/Review: Surf Securely with VyprVPN
14 Jan 2010 | 6:13 pmKnowing how to keep your web traffic data safe while browsing the web on unknown networks is a vital skill that not enough savvy Internet surfers take part in. I have previously discussed a few ways of solving this issue through the use of SSH tunnels (manually-created and application managed). I have also discussed things like “anonymous” web browsing through the Janus Privacy Adapter as well as with public Tor nodes. (Side note: Anonymous in quotes because truly anon browsing requires encrypted, signed traffic over private Tor networks — not public, published ones everyone… -
Review: Blippy (“What are your friends buying?”)
4 Jan 2010 | 1:41 pmBlippy is my pick for startup to watch this year (with Square being close by). Blippy enables people to automatically share their purchases done through a variety of services, such as Amazon, iTunes, Netflix and better yet their credit/debit cards, with their followers. At first glance many will be shocked and wonder why they would ever want to use such a service but that only brings up memories of people saying the same thing about Twitter just a few years ago. The concept behind Blippy is crazy enough that I believe it will take off rather quickly. In fact, they recently announced they are… -
Review: Kodak Zi8 HD Pocket Video Camera
28 Dec 2009 | 2:47 amI was recently in the market for an affordable, HD-capable pocket video camera. I knew Pure Digital’s Flip line of pocket camcorders like the Mino HD and Ultra HD were very popular in this space and as such I was just about ready to buy one. However, I decided to look around first and that’s when I discovered the $180 Kodak Zi8 HD pocket video camera. After having the Zi8 on hand for a few weeks, I believe it to be the best high-definition pocket video camera near the ~$200 price point on the market now. I’ll attempt to explain why in this review but if you’re looking… -
Skribit Exits Beta, Gets TechCrunched
17 Dec 2009 | 9:03 amI always found it a bit ironic that I had less time to blog here as I started working full-time on a blogging startup. Well, my time spent on Skribit is starting to pay off. Today, Skribit finally goes out of what we’ve internally been considering our public beta — so it’s our official launch day. We have been laying low on the marketing and press front, except for my ramblings here, and now we are ready to tell more people about it. That being said, TechCrunch just wrote about Skribit (thanks Daniel!). This is the first step on our so-called “Customer Acquisition…
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If Google Wave Is The Future, Google Buzz Is The Present (MG Siegler/TechCrunch)
9 Feb 2010 | 11:40 amMG Siegler / TechCrunch: If Google Wave Is The Future, Google Buzz Is The Present — See our live notes from today's Google Buzz event here. — Google has a problem. Despite having their hands in just about everything online, they've never been able to tackle what is a key part of the fabric of the web: social. -
Introducing Google Buzz (Todd Jackson/The Official Google Blog)
9 Feb 2010 | 11:20 amTodd Jackson / The Official Google Blog: Introducing Google Buzz — We've blogged before about our thoughts on the social web, steps we've taken to add social features to our products, and efforts like OpenSocial that propose common tools for building social apps. With more and more communication happening online … -
Google Officially Announces Google Buzz - A Google Approach To Sharing (Alex Wilhelm/The Next Web)
9 Feb 2010 | 11:05 amAlex Wilhelm / The Next Web: Google Officially Announces Google Buzz - A Google Approach To Sharing — Buzz will begin to roll out in the next 9 - 10 minutes. Full roll out over the next few days. - We are updating, bear with us. — As we expected after yesterday's breaking news, Google has officially announced … -
Google Buzz in Gmail (Gmail Blog)
9 Feb 2010 | 11:05 amGmail Blog: Google Buzz in Gmail — Posted by Edward Ho, Tech Lead, Google Buzz — Five years ago, Gmail was just email. Later we added chat and then video chat, both built right in, so people had choices about how to communicate from a single browser window. Today, communication on the web … -
Google Buzz Launches (Andrew LaVallee/Digits)
9 Feb 2010 | 10:20 amAndrew LaVallee / Digits: Google Buzz Launches — Google shared more details Tuesday on Google Buzz. … Buzz, which adds status updates to Gmail, could step up the search giant's competition with social hubs Facebook and Twitter. — Could Buzz be a Twitter-killer? A recap of Google's press conference …
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A Sober and Reflective Davos
3 Feb 2010 | 1:49 pmI attended my twelfth World Economic Forum meeting in Davos this past week. In previous years, there were exuberant “dot-com” savants (1999), self-assured US diplomats just before the invasion of Iraq (2003), impressive sovereign wealth funds (2007) and confident private equity barons (2008). In turn, each has been humbled within eighteen to twenty four months. Last year in Davos, the world stood at the precipice, with insolvent financial institutions looking to government as lender of last resort and global trade plummeting as recession gripped the economy. Economic collapse has been… -
Edelman Trust Barometer 2010 - A New Mandate for Business
25 Jan 2010 | 9:39 amI have just arrived in Davos, ready to present the findings of our tenth annual Edelman Trust Barometer at a breakfast panel co-hosted by the Financial Times tomorrow morning. Here are a few of the important conclusions from this year's 22-country study of opinion formers, who are "media attentive," have more than $75,000 annual income and at least a college degree: Trust in business has stabilized and is trending upward, with a substantial jump of 18 points in the US (from an all-time low of 36% in 2009 to 54% in 2010). Trust in business falls into three categories (High-Brazil, China,… -
Breaking Media -- The Vertical Play
19 Jan 2010 | 6:44 amI had lunch with my old friend, Jonah Bloom, until recently the editor of Advertising Age and now the CEO of Breaking Media, a collection of vertical professional sites launched over the past four years. Jonah helped expand Advertising Age’s-- a must-read for us-- focus on the broader communications industry, and report the most compelling ground breaking work as well as the big campaigns and brands. The media brands under the Breaking Media umbrella include Fashionista (fashion), Dealbreaker (M&A), Above the Law (legal) and Going Concern (accounting). Here are the highlights from our… -
Without Boundaries
12 Jan 2010 | 1:40 pmI went to a luncheon at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City yesterday in honor of the late Eunice Johnson, who died last week at age 93. Eunice and her husband John were co-founders of Johnson Publishing Company, which owns Ebony (1.2 million circulation) and Jet (900,000 circulation) magazines, trailblazers in Black media and still among the leading media for the African-American community. The Johnsons were close friends of my parents in Chicago; here are my observations about this unique success story from 35 years of acquaintance. The Johnsons operated as partners, with John… -
Losing the News
8 Jan 2010 | 2:44 pmAlex Jones, who runs the Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy at the JFK School of Government at Harvard, has written a book called, Losing the News. In it he chronicles the shrinking of the “iron core” of authority news. He contends that 85% of authoritative content is published in newspapers, while local TV, radio and bloggers are generally “piggy-backing” onto the investigative or accountability news. He acknowledges that “part of the news crisis is finding a solution that will pay the significant costs of generating accountability news that is essential to our…
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13 geeky Valentine’s Day gifts
9 Feb 2010 | 12:33 pmLooking for a way to knock the argyle socks off your geeky lover this Valentine’s Day? Skip the computer programmer-themed porn and try gifting your nerdy loved one some HTTPanties or “Tweet Me” Sweethearts candy. The Huffington Post tracked down thirteen geeky gifts that scream “I love you, nerd face.” Full geeky gift list at Huffington Post. Get your geek on. Permalink | Leave a comment » -
Google Buzz's official demo [video]
9 Feb 2010 | 11:25 amGoogle has just unveiled its latest attempt to become more relevant in the social media space—Google Buzz. The product is integrated within Gmail and will be rolled out gradually to all of the webmail service’s users over the next few days. While this development is still unfolding, you can check out Google Buzz’s two-minute demo of Buzz in action both online and via mobile. What are your initial reactions? Another soon-to-be-forgotten Google product like Wave, or a Facebook/Twitter killer? Full story at Mashable. Total Google coverage. Permalink | Leave a… -
Darth Vader’s original wimpy voice [video]
9 Feb 2010 | 11:15 amImagine a galaxy far, far away where Darth Vader sounded like any other British bloke strolling down the corridors of the Death Star. Before James Earl Jones provided the menacing voice of the Dark Lord of the Sith, English actor and bodybuilder David Prowse delivered the lines from inside the Darth costume. While George Lucas never intended for Prowse’s voice to make the flick’s final cut, it’s weird to imagine how different Star Wars would have been with a different Vader voice. Full story at Huffington Post. Tons of Star Wars tidbits. Permalink | Leave a… -
7 things you didn’t know about condoms
9 Feb 2010 | 10:14 amRubbers. Raincoats. Inconvenient. Whatever you call 'em, condoms remain a must-have in the safe sex tool box. Long before the days of Durex and Trojans, men used animal intestines to protect their willies (that sounds lovely, eh ladies?) and still to this day use lambskin condoms for latex allergies and supposed extra sensitivity. Want to learn even more fun facts about condoms that will surely impress your friends and potential lovers? Check out Asylum's seven things you probably didn't know about condoms that includes tantalizing tidbits like: Vaseline + condoms = Disintegrated rubber and… -
Horror flick mirror scare mash-up [video]
9 Feb 2010 | 9:25 amHorror movies love to rely on cliches to scare the bejeezus out of us, but does it really surprise anyone that the axe murderer is going to pop in the reflection of a mirror? Ok, yes, it still totally sparks a few pee-in-pants moments. Check out this mash-up of mirror scare moments (fair warning: don’t watch alone in a big, dark, scary house): Full story at Four Four. Boo! Tons of scary and not so scary movie news. Permalink | Leave a comment »
