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Mark Zuckerberg’s 6 Ingredients For Success: Leadership guru Warren Bennis asked whether leaders are born or made. When asked if Wall Street would accept a young Mark Zuckerberg in his

Which Service Has The Best Welcome Message? (Hint: Pin Carefully!): Two days ago, I received an invite to Pinterest. (I know, Im late.) After signing up, I pretty much ignored the welcome message, just

Daily Crunch: Zen: Here are some recent stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: The Zen Table Practices Mindfulness So You Don’t Have To The Wheel: What Is The Foxconn

Facebook Javascript API Goes Down, Taking Down Likes, Comments And Apps With It: I dare you to Facebook Like or even comment on this post. You cant,

Investors Drive $ZNGA Up 26% In Two Days Following Facebook IPO Filing: Those of us who have been following the social gaming industry already know that

I Use Wikipedia More Than Makeup (How To Donate During The Off Season): I just donated $40 to Wikipedia, because I promised myself I would every time

Google Adjusts Political Posture With Sponsorship Of Conservative Conference: In interesting but ultimately not very shocking news, Google has signed on as a major sponsor of the Conservative Political Action Conference, which is

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Top 10 Google Chrome Plugins for Small Businesses: The Google Chrome Web Store has made it easy for anyone to stay organized, and the browser has gotten much faster, as we’ve noticed in th…

Super Bowl 2012: Everything You Need to Know About Watching It Online: This year’s Super Bowl marks a digital first: The game will be the first Super Bowl that you can watch online — legally. NBC, the br…

Stylitics Is an Analytics Dashboard for Your Closet: The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st…

Like Testing New Apps? BetaBait Will Hook You Up: The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st…

4 Ways to Tweet as a Visual Brand: This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media an…

Olapic’s Crowd-Sourced Photo Campaigns Becoming a Sports Trend: Crowd-sourced social photo sharing appears to be the latest community engagement trend among professional sports teams, largely powered by the o…

The Strange and Epic Lifestyle of Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom: If you’re not aware of Kim Dotcom, the man who changed his last name to pay homage to the World Wide Web, we offer you this brief history…

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Jonesing For A Retweet: Twitter Harder To Resist Than Cigarettes And Booze: Sleep, sex and...Twitter?A new study suggests that people are more likely to give into the urge to check email and their Twitter account than they are

Why the "S&%t X Says to Y" Version of This Meme Exploded: The thing about memes is that through repetition, they create a shared language, says Professor Julie Levin Russo, an adjunct assistant professor at Browns Modern Culture & Media Program. If you understand

How Social Media & Social TV Will Change Super Bowl 2012: This years Super Bowl will be more social than ever before. With the rise of social TV and the first-ever 2,800-square-foot social media command center, fans who have trekked down to Indianapolis

Top Tech Video of the Day: My 2 Year Old Discovered Flickr Today: This is old (as in 2007 old). The kid in the video is now seven years old and undoubtably jailbreaks his iPhone and programs Arduino boards. But five years ago he was

It's Time to Ditch StumbleUpon for Pinterest: StumbleUpon is one of those sites weve had on our radar for quite sometime. We covered the companys redesign last year, which re-focused the site on topic features. So when StumbleUpon snuck

What You Missed at Monki Gras: If you didnt make it to London for Monki Gras, the follow on conference to Monktoberfest, you missed out on quite a lot of great content and beer.The conference is organized by

Goldilocks, A Dwarf and NASA's Short Term Future: Space sucks. Literally. The void of space is one perpetual vacuum that would suck the brain out of any exposed human through their ears. In space there is also unfiltered radiation,

Nokia Publishes Policy on Conflict Minerals: Conflict minerals, those mined to support groups conducting armed conflict or engaging in human rights abuses, have been an issue since long before we first wrote about it in July of 2010.

Data Visualization for People Who Don't Visualize Data: CA ERwin 8.2: In enterprises everywhere - including even the largest ones - the transition to cloud-based architectures has brought a new class of managers into the

iTunes Match Bug Censors the Bad Words From Songs: iTunes Match, the cloud music-matching service that Apple launched last year, is a great way to sync ones music library across numerous devices. If your collection happens to contain songs with profane lyrics, however, you may be in

Hogwash: Top Mobile Designers Are Not Pushing Back Against HTML5: Entrepreneur aficionado extraordinaire Robert Scoble posited a question on his Rackspace blog yesterday asking if there is push back against HTML5 by the top mobile designers in San Francisco. He cited new

Is Twitter Ready For Some Football?: Sundays Super Bowl is full of betting possibilities, but one line we couldnt find in Vegas is whether or not Twitter will crash because of heavy

Anonymous Shows How Easy it is to Intercept FBI Conference Calls: Im not sure if were the only two on right now or not, says a voice with an American accent. The voice belongs to a man who identifies himself as Bruce, likely an FBI agent, who had just

Netflix' Daniel Jacobson: Letting APIs Change Everything: What we today call the mobile app could, in a very short period of time, become known as the portable app, or just

What Is Facebook's Best Mobile Monetization Strategy?: You would think that a company with 423 million monthly active mobile users would find a way to squeeze some revenue out of them. Easier said than done. The biggest question to

Facebook's Incredible Growth Story In Charts: Facebooks IPO filing, released this week, is fascinating for many reasons: Weve already covered several angles. Perhaps the most exciting, though, is the wealth of data about the company that is finally

A Friend of a Friend in Real Life But Not on Facebook: Picture this: Youre at a party, and your good friend introduces you to one of their friends. You two hit it off, and boom - a new friend! Youve just become friends

Get Ready For a World of Connected Devices: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it. HAL; 2001: A Space OdysseyEditors note: this is a longer version of ReadWriteWeb Editor-in-chief Richard MacManus article for the

Convergence in Home Entertainment: 2012 is The Year: Convergence. Remember that word from the dot com era? Well, its back and this time it actually has substance. Convergence in the 90s meant combining old media with new

The Ups and Downs of the "America-Proof" Cloud: CloudSigma: If its a feature your customers are asking for, its difficult not to want to provide it. Although one of the benefits of public cloud computing

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Android this week: Galaxy Tab 7.7 tested; Sprint’s nabs $99 tablet; Nexus still Nexus: The new Galaxy Tab 7.7 with dual-core chip tests just as fast, if not faster, than a recent quad-core tablet. Sprint is selling a capable $99 Android slate from ZTE, while Verizons Galaxy Nexus looked like it was losing Googles

7 stories to read this weekend: What a week! Most of the world was obsessing over the mother of all IPOs -- Facebook. So no surprise, I had to include some good writing on the subject. I have already started looking beyond the social internet and

Survey says: Hollywood could make more money without windows: A survey conducted by BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield shows that Hollywood studios would likely make more revenue with the collapse of movie windows. More importantly, those sales would come with better margins since they wouldnt be sharing with exhibitors.

AT&T & Dish fight over spectrum, but will either build a network?: Report after report points to AT&T marrying Dish Network after Ma Bell’s forced break up with T-Mobile, but given the companies’ increasing belligerence, you wouldn’t think that was the case. What we’re witnessing here is some very cynical pre-nuptial gamesmanship.

The NYT needs a lot more than just a paywall: The New York Times has signed up over 300,000 people to its digital subscription plan, but that doesnt even come close to making up for continued declines in ad revenue. A new CEO is going to have to think creatively

Startups pass on Silicon Valley to find their fortunes in New York: In the last couple months, New York has attracted former San Francisco start-up Qwiki, PlaceIQ from Colorado and recent 500 Start-Ups graduate Snapette of Boston, which spent the last half year in Silicon Valley. It shows that New York is

With 100m uniques, Taboola adds live video discovery: Video discovery startup Taboola has been growing fast, adding top publishing partners like The Washington Post, as well as expanding into the live streaming video vertical. Those new partners have helped drive growth for Taboola, which now reaches more than

Your Verizon Galaxy Nexus just lost its Nexus: The Verizon Galaxy Nexus LTE handset is reportedly no longer a Google-supported developer phone, which could have software update implications. Code for the CDMA/LTE Nexus has been archived for reference by Google and it sounds like the issue is Google

HP proxy: Ray Lane’s $10 million comp and other fun facts: While 2011 was a bad year for Hewlett-Packard, it was a good one for chairman Ray Lane, at least financially. Lane logged more than $10 million in total compensation mostly in stock and options -- for the fiscal year, according

How Apple conceived the iPhone: Former iPhone marketing manager Bob Borchers tells students how Steve Jobs originally approached the iPhone team with the challenge of building the iPhone, a device that to date has sold 183 million units in less than five years.

Is Google asking the FCC to allow gigabit Wi-Fi for its gigabit network?: Google’s Fiber organization is asking the FCC for the ability to test a residential gateway that has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. It’s likely Google is asking the FCC for an experimental licence to test upcoming 802.11ac gigabit Wi-Fi technology inside residential

Micron CEO dies in plane crash: Steve Appleton, chairman and CEO of semiconductor company Micron Technology passed away in a plane crash Friday morning. The small plane crashed near Boise, according to a company statement. Appleton, who joined Micron in 1983 and has been CEO since

Doxo wants to take the paperwork out of healthcare: The healthcare industry is one step closer to going paperless. Doxo, the Seattle-based startup that makes digital file cabinet software, has signed up a number of major healthcare providers who will now use the system to send medical bills and

Doxo wants to take the paperwork out of healthcare: The healthcare industry is one step closer to going paperless. Doxo, the Seattle-based startup that makes digital file cabinet software, has signed up a number of major healthcare providers who will now use the system to send medical bills and

Nokia Hello: communicate via NFC with people you hate to speak with: A Nokia research project called Nokia Hello leverages wireless technology with Near Field Communications (NFC) chips to help people speak to each other. I figured it would be a good solution when speaking to someone in a non-native language (it

As CDMA dies in Latin America, 3G drives a data boom: Mobile data is picking up momentum in Latin America as the number of 3G connections in the region doubled in 2011. Operators in Latin and South America are shutting down their CDMA networks, replacing them with UMTS systems, resulting in

Skin Scan wants to fight cancer using iPhones and big data: Romanian startup Skin Scan is selling an iPhone app that lets consumers take pictures of questionable moles and get back information on its threat level. However, the company has much grander goals than helping consumers figure out whether to see

Toys meet tech: augmented reality to play out at Toy Fair: Does your kid want to play with unicorns? You might want to check out the goods at next weeks Toy Fair in New York, where toy makers will show off the latest-and-greatest augmented reality technology that animates once-static games, books,

What is the mystery “entertainment device” Google is testing?: Google is asking the Federal Communications Commission for permission to test a mysterious Wi-Fi and Bluetooth-enabled entertainment device, in employees homes in four U.S. cities. So inquiring minds want to know, what exactly is it and is Google trying to

Poll: The older you are, the more you hate Facebook Timeline: Facebook is in the process of converting all user profiles to the new Timeline design. But according to a new poll, the majority of people arent so keen on the new look. 70% of all respondents disapproved of Timeline, as

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Google+ adds ‘What’s Hot’ stream to web app, lets you see who +1′d your posts: Google has announced a couple of new features for Google+, including a ‘What’s Hot’ stream that allows you to see the ‘most interesting’ content being shared throughout Google+. In addition,...

Late March is reportedly crunch time for the EU’s Google anti-trust probe: It seems that late March is when the European Commission is set to decide if it will move ahead formally with its anti-trust probe into whether Google has abused its...

Google launches its 2012 ‘Doodle 4 Google’ contest, this time each US state has a winner: Google is kick-starting its fifth Doodle 4 Google contest, giving K-12 students in the US the chance to have their artwork seen by millions. In a blog post today, Marissa...

How to get your plants to start tweeting: This morning, San Francisco based blogger Brit Morin caught our attention with this DIY Self-Tweeting Plant Kit. Developed by SparkFun, the Botanicalls Kit connects house plants to Twitter so they can tweet...

Google and Amazon top the UK’s healthiest brands list for the third year running: Internet companies Google and Amazon have ranked as the UK’s healthiest brands for the third year running, standing out of the most recognisable companies and presences in the eyes of...

Rummble Labs’ new Social Predictions can turbo-charge Facebook integration for publishers: Rummble Labs, which specialises in recommendation technology, is rolling out a new product today that promises to offer online publishers a new way to recommend content to users based on...

KDDI set to become Japan’s first operator to introduce NFC: Japanese mobile operator KDDI has revealed plans to introduce Near Field Communication (NFC) services to its customers before the end of this month, making it the first carrier in the country...

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Customer support beyond email: We’re seven members strong now and we’re able to add a lot of things our customers have been seeking. The bigger team also lets each of us work on support projects other than answering emails lightning fast. Since our syops,

PHOTO: Boney Money Brown.: Boney Money Brown.

Developing for old browsers is (almost) a thing of the past: It used to be one of the biggest pains of web development. Juggling different browser versions and wasting endless hours coming up with workarounds and hacks. Thankfully, those troubles are now largely optional for many developers of the web.Chrome ushered

Giving away the secrets of 99.3% email delivery: We send a lot of mail for Basecamp, Highrise, Backpack, and Campfire (and some for Sortfolio, the Jobs Board, Writeboard, and Tadalist). One of the most frequently asked questions we get is about how we handle mail delivery and ensure

Benchmarking Basecamp's uptime against five other web apps: As we announced at the beginning of the month, we’re always on a mission to improve our uptime. Inaccessible apps are the cause of much frustration and users don’t care whether that’s because they’re scheduled or not.While publishing our own

Matt Kent joins 37signals as Sysop: Today Matt Kent started at 37signals as the sixth member of our operations team. Previously Matt worked for 10 years(!) at Bravenet as a System Administrator handling application deployment and scaling tasks. Some of Matt’s managers and coworkers used phrases

Code statistics for Basecamp Next: When I did all the programming for the original version of Basecamp back in 2003, we ended up shipping with just about 2,000 lines of code. A lot has happened in those eight years and we’ve acquired a more delicate

PHOTO: Steve Gadlin, Basecamp customer, received…: Steve Gadlin, Basecamp customer, received $25,000 from Mark Cuban on the television show SharkTank last Friday with his unique business idea: $10 cat drawings. He wants to draw a cat for you. What are

Basecamp Next's caching hardware: From the very start, we wanted Basecamp Next to be fast. Really, really fast. To do so we built a russian-doll architecture of nested caching that I’ll write up in detail soon. But for now I just wanted to share

Three years later, Mr. Moore is still letting us punt on database sharding: Three years ago, I wrote about how improvements in technology keep allowing us to punt on sharding the Basecamp database. This is still true, only more so now.We’ve grown enormously over the last three years but RAM keeps getting cheaper

REWORK passes 200,000 copies sold!: We just got our royalty statement from Crown and are pretty excited about the fact that we’ve sold over 200,000 copies of REWORK now. About three quarters of the sales have been hardcover books with audio and ebook splitting the

Basecamp Next: A peek at early iterations of the Projects screen: We’ve been working on Basecamp Next since March 2011 and we’re getting close to the public release. The private beta is now in full swing.Early iterations on the Projects screenWe thought it might be fun to share some of the

Give me spark: Some of the best decisions and designs at 37signals have emerged from intensely contested debates. Not just between Jason and me, but from anyone in the company. When sparks fly, some truly great ideas come to light.The catch is that

Watching Apple win the world: Apple’s last quarter was the second most profitable quarter of any company ever in US history. Only ExxonMobile topped them slightly in 2008 when oil was at an all-time high. That’s an astounding and awe-inspiring accomplishment.But that’s not why some

Watching Apple win: Apple’s last quarter was the second most profitable quarter of any company ever in US history. Only ExxonMobile topped them slightly in 2008 when oil was at an all-time high. That’s an astounding and awe-inspiring accomplishment.But that’s not why some

LINK: Why we're building a whole new Basecamp: Why were building a whole new BasecampMy latest Inc. article explains why we’re building a whole new version of Basecamp from scratch. Sign up for an invite to the private beta.

INSIGHT: There’s a movement in the art world…: There’s a movement in the art world called Outsider Art. Art that’s produced by people outside of the “mainstream” art world. It rejects common art conventions established by popular artists of the past. It is raw.Web design is at a

Refusing administrative minutiae: When I worked with clients on a time and materials basis, I hated logging hours. I hated having the stop watch’s tick tock over me, being forced to account for every increment of time. Or, as it often happened, trying

Flipping the day: Working US hours from Europe has flipped my day. Mornings are now for leisure and evenings for working. This completely changes what that leisure time is spent on.Most days I work from 1pm to 9pm here in Spain, which translates

Rekindle my love of reading: When the iPad first came out, I somehow convinced myself that the Kindle was dead. Apple had managed to create something where you could not only read books, but also do everything else. Why on earth would anyone still cling

O'Reilly Radar

Strata Newsletter: February 2, 2012: "Bring me my sword." —Dr. Hans Rosling Top–of–the–List Thinking from Edd and Alistair A great link from Alasdair Allan about real-time interaction tracking for iPad apps set me

Tools of Change for Publishing Newsletter: February 1, 2012: With TOC New York just over a week away, we sat down with OReilly online managing editor Mac Slocum to chat about our goals and hopes for the

Top stories: January 30-February 3, 2012: Heres a look at the top stories published across OReilly sites this week.What is Apache Hadoop?Apache Hadoop has been the driving force behind the growth of the big

Publishing News: B&N closes doors on Amazon Publishing: Here are a few of the stories that caught my attention this week in the publishing space.Barnes & Noble puts its foot down on AmazonLast week, Amazon teamed

Visualization of the Week: Mapping Mexico's drug war: Diego Valle-Jones has created a powerful interactive map of the ongoing drug war in Mexico.Click to see the full interactive version of Map of the Drug War

Makers and hackers: The Where Conference is looking for you: The program for Where, our geolocation and mapping conference, is almost complete. Now were looking for makers, hackers, developers, and DIYers to bring awesomeness to

Four short links: 3 February 2012: Page Speed (Google Code) -- an open-source project started at Google to help developers optimize their web pages by applying web performance best practices. Page Speed started as an open-source browser extension, and is now deployed in third-party products such

Developer Week in Review: Brother, can you spare $100 billion?: In the old days, when modems came in wooden boxes and dinosaurs ruled the earth, kids would go door to door selling cookies for Girl Scouts or magazine subscriptions to raise money for a school trip. These days, partially because

Strata Week: The Megaupload seizure and user data: Here are a few of the data stories that caught my attention this week.Megauploads seizure and questions about controlling user dataWhen the file-storage and sharing site Megaupload had its domain name seized, assets frozen and website shut down in mid-January,

Commerce Weekly: The return of iPhone NFC rumors: Here are some things that caught my eye in the news this week.When will Apple mainstream mobile payments?Now that everyones iPhone 4S has a few dings on

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Four short links: 2 February 2012: Beautiful Buttons for Bootstrap -- cute little button creator, with sliders for hue, saturation, and puffiness.CMU iPad Course -- iTunes U has the video lectures for a CMU intro to iPad programming.Inspiring Matter -- the conference aims to bring together

Why Hadoop caught on: Doug Cutting (@cutting) is a founder of the Apache Hadoop project and an architect at Hadoop provider Cloudera. When Cutting expresses surprise at Hadoops growth — as he does below — that carries a lot of weight. In the following

Four short links: 1 February 2012: Cycles of Invention and Commoditisation (Simon Wardley) -- Explosions of industrial creativity rarely follow the invention or discovery of a technology but instead its commoditisation i.e. it wasnt the discovery of electricity but Edisons introduction of utility services for electricity

With GOV.UK, British government redefines the online government platform: The British Government has launched a beta of its GOV.UK platform, testing a single domain for that could be used throughout government. The new single government domain will eventually replace Directgov, the UK government portal which launched back in 2004.

Embracing the chaos of data: A data scientist and a former Apple engineer, Pete Warden (@petewarden) is now the CTO of the new travel photography startup Jetpac. Warden will be a keynote speaker at the upcoming Strata Conference, where hell explain why we should rethink

Four short links: 31 January 2012: The Sky is Rising -- TechDirts Mike Masnick has written (and made available for free download) an excellent report on the entertainment industrys numbers and business models. Must read if you have an opinion on SOPA et al.Tennis Australia Exposes

Four short links: 30 January 2012: Improvisation and Forgiveness (JP Rangaswami) -- what makes us human is not repetitive action. Human occupations should require human intellect, and theres no more human activity than making a judgement call when processes have failed a customer. Kinect Tech in

A discussion with David Farber: bandwidth, cyber security, and the obsolescence of the Internet: David Farber, a veteran of Internet technology and politics, dropped by Cambridge, Mass. today and was gracious enough to grant me some time in between his numerous meetings. On leave from Carnegie Mellon, Dave still intervenes in numerous policy discussions

Moneyball for software engineering, part 2: Brad Pitt was recently nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Oakland As general manager Billy Beane in the movie

Micro Persuasion

The Clip Report - Volume 1 In the early 1990s when I began my...: The Clip Report - Volume 1In the early 1990s when I began my career in PR there were clip reports. These were physical books that contained press clips. It seems downright

It was a sizzling summer for social media. As we move into fall,...: It was a sizzling summer for social media. As we move into fall, here’s a look at some of the major milestones.

¶ Could Mobile Apps Be Wilting in the Heat of Summer?: Image credit: Financial TimesIt’s hard to believe, but mobile marketing didn’t really get going in earnest until Apple launched its App Store in 2008. Three years later there are now marketplaces on all five major device platforms

It was a sizzling summer for social media. As we move into fall,...: It was a sizzling summer for social media. As we move into fall, here’s a look at some of the major milestones.

¶ Could Mobile Apps Be Wilting in the Heat of Summer?: Image credit: Financial TimesIt’s hard to believe, but mobile marketing didn’t really get going in earnest until Apple launched its App Store in 2008. Three years later there are now marketplaces on all five major device platforms

→ Media Tops in Corporate Social Media: → Media Tops in Corporate Social Media: Fire up the PowerPoint. Here’s a fantastic, data-rich report (PDF) from Netprospex on the state of social media adoption in Corporate America. What’s notable is that the media continues

¶ Three Key Things Google Is Doing While We Focus on Google+: The following is also my AdAge column…With all of the attention that’s being paid to Facebook and Twitter it’s easy to forget that no single company impacts media and marketers the way that Google does. Even small changes in Google’s

→ How Journalists Engage Readers on Facebook: → How Journalists Engage Readers on Facebook: Great and very thorough analysis from Facebook on how news organizations are using their platform to engage readers. It looks like the platform is being used more for consumption rather than engagement… “In

Google Deep Shot: Google Deep Shot: Google has a research project underway to help users easily migrate tasks across devices… “Deep Shot remains a research project at Google. With increasing capabilities of mobile phones and fast growing web applications, we hope to explore

The Google+ Census: The Google+ Census: This site is a fantastic resource that you can search to find public profiles on Google+. Don’t miss the stats page. It’s clear from the data that G+ is unabashedly tech-centric right now. It’s heavy with engineering

¶ Twitter, Not Facebook, Should Fear the Google+ Beard: This was cross-posted on Google+A lot of the hoopla over Google+ has been whether it’s a threat to Facebook. However, it’s Twitter who should fear the Google+ beard. Here’s why…Social media networks have typically have one of

How Google+ and Twitter Influence Search: How Google+ and Twitter Influence Search: A fascinating and thorough experiment to see what influence social has on search. Key quote… “The more retweets a link receives, the better it seems to perform in search results and the more visibility

The Top 100 Google+ Users: The Top 100 Google+ Users: It’s not even a week old and already there’s a power list out of Google+ users. You know you’re curious - so go on and click.

A Budget Brand Digital Dashboard: A Budget Brand Digital Dashboard: Fantastic overview from Google on how to create a brand dashboard on the cheap, albeit very limited.

Media Set Up Camp on Google+: A few media companies have started to set up camp inside Google+. They include Mashable (an Edelman client) and The Next Web. Right now most of these are digitally native media companies. Could the big

¶ Consumers Maybe Nonplussed Over Google+: Google yesterday launched The Google+ project - an ambitious new product that aims to take on Facebook. Now that I have had a preview, below is a brief POV of my initial impressions.1 In short, I believe that once it

The Social Media Probook: The Social Media Probook: The gang at Eloqua and JESS3 have compiled an awesome resource that’s definitely worth a read. It was an honor to be a contributor. Free PDF is here.

Google's "What do you Love?": Googles What do you Love?: Great new site from Google that helps you track any topic in one place.

¶ Google Social Network Nears, Aims to Preserve the Searchable Web: ¶ Google Social Network Nears, Aims to Preserve the Searchable Web: Danny Sullivan: “Google’s long expected second shot at taking on Facebook in the social networking space has arrived in the form of the Google Project. It has some interesting

BreakingNews to Curate Local News Tweets: BreakingNews to Curate Local News Tweets: breakingblog:“We’re excited to announce a new feature that allows news organizations to fast-track news tips straight to BreakingNews.com and potentially, @breakingnews on Twitter.Here’s how it works. Once we’ve whitelisted a news organization’s Twitter account,

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Shark Tank Recap – February 3: Below is a recap of the February 3, 2012 episode of the ABC show Shark Tank (episode 301). If you are unfamiliar with Shark Tank, the concept is simple – entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to a panel of investors and

SXSW Releases 2011 Demographics: Another year, another SXSW festival coming up in just a few weeks. What will this year’s event hold? Last year seemed like a big shift for both the event and for attendees. The event was split up into many locations

Web Jobs – January 30: Check out some of the latest web technology and business jobs posted for January 30, 2012 on the CenterNetworks Job Board. Subscribe to the CN Jobs feed and get all of the latest Web industry jobs delivered directly to you.

API Hackday Comes to Austin This February: It seems these days hackdays, hackathons, hack this, hack that events are popular across the world. Some of these developer events have created very successful startups and some of the companies have been acquired. Austin will be holding an API

Newbie PhoneGap Training Coming to Austin: This Saturday, January 28, 2012, the LoneStar PhoneGap group will hold their first meetup. PhoneGap is a mobile platform that helps you easily create mobile applications and more importantly helps you distribute one set of code to all of the

Web Jobs – January 21: Check out some of the latest web technology and business jobs posted for January 21, 2012 on the CenterNetworks Job Board. Subscribe to the CN Jobs feed and get all of the latest Web industry jobs delivered directly to you.

Does Your Startup Have a Disaster Plan?: Last weekend our hosting company moved the physical location of their servers — from San Antonio to Chicago. There were a number of very serious issues that appeared post-migration caused by the hosting company. I will address the issues and

Startup Weekend Coming Back to Austin This March: I’ve covered the worldwide Startup Weekend events over the past couple of years. The concept behind Startup Weekend is to bring the community together in a different city each weekend to create a startup (or multiple startups) during the weekend.

Here’s Why Zazzle Bests Vistaprint: About two months ago I wanted to print some very simple round stickers for CloudContacts. In the past I’ve used Sticker Robot which produced some absolutely awesome vinyl stickers for CN. This time I just wanted something basic – the

Does Twitter Own Facebook and LinkedIn for Status Updates?: Alternative title: Are Facebook and LinkedIn the largest Twitter aggregators? Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter all provide streams of content – the content can either be created on the service or the content can be posted automatically from outside sources –

Is There Consumer Confusion Between Barnes & Noble Nook Color and Tablet?: This year I believe we will see a lot of 7″ “tablets” hitting the market from the top manufacturers (i.e. Apple, Samsung, etc.). Amazon has their Kindle Fire and Barnes and Noble has their Nook Color and Nook Tablet. Over

Web Jobs – January 1 – Free Startup Job Posts This Week!: Happy New Job! Check out some of the latest web technology and business jobs posted for January 2, 2012 on the CenterNetworks Job Board. Subscribe to the CN Jobs feed and get all of the latest Web industry jobs delivered

Did Judge Judy Just Sum Up Social Media?: During one of the cases on Judge Judy, the plaintiff provided a printout of some messages from Facebook. After the judge went over the messages related to the case, she spent the next 30 seconds providing possibly a great overview

Web Jobs – December 27: New Year, New Job? Check out some of the latest web technology and business jobs posted for December 27, 2011 on the CenterNetworks Job Board. Subscribe to the CN Jobs feed and get all of the latest Web industry jobs

Google Offers Millions of Songs for $0.49: Google is currently offering “millions” of music singles for $0.49/track or $4.99/album. Usually this type of music sale is just a bunch of unwanted tracks but so far the selection for this sale is far and wide! The music is

Web Jobs – December 20: Happy Hanukkah! Check out some of the latest web technology and business jobs posted for December 20, 2011 on the CenterNetworks Job Board. Subscribe to the CN Jobs feed and get all of the latest Web industry jobs delivered directly

Today is the Best Day to Buy the Kindle Fire: Last week I was shopping at Staples and I played with the Amazon Kindle Fire. It really is a nice looking device, it’s thin and the 7″ size seems like a good portable tablet compared to the Galaxy Tab 10.1″

Best Prices for the Google Galaxy Nexus Smartphone: Google has apparently released a brand new smartphone called the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. This device has the new Android 4.0 software on it which is codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich. It runs on the Verizon network and has the ability to

The Latest iPod Touch Holiday Deals: The most popular deal request I am asked for help with continues to be the Apple iPod Touch. Even with this year clearly being the year of the tablet, it seems like everyone still wants to get an iPod Touch

Moving to Stripe: Fixing the Biggest Mistake I’ve Made to Date: A month ago, we switched our payments on CloudContacts from Paypal and Google Checkout to the new payments service from Stripe. I’ve been meaning to post about why we switched and since Greg Taylor posted today about his switch to

Webware

Wikipedia losing contributors, to streamline editing: Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales says the user-generated encyclopedia is losing volunteer contributors, and must simplify its editing procedures. Originally posted at News - Digital Media

See what's new in Thunderbird: As Thunderbird joins Mozillas rapid-release program, the e-mail client re-orients itself for a new roadmap. But wheres it going? See what the Outlook alternative offers in this new First Look video. Originally posted at The Download Blog

Twitter revamping mobile site for iPad users: The company is tweaking its mobile twttter.com site using HTML5 to make it more user-friendly for iPad users. Originally posted at News - Digital Media

How to tweet like a man: Sociolinguistics gives us the keys to more masculine or feminine tweeting. Hint, guys: Google my jeep my ni$$@, http it up, bro. 4 sale. need $. Originally posted at Crave

72 people charged in online child porn ring: 52 people have already been arrested as part of an investigation that launched in December 2009. Originally posted at The Digital Home

Yahoo Mail suffers outage; users react: The service has been unavailable for many, and affected users are taking to Twitter to complain. Yahoo says it has fixed the issue. Originally posted at The Digital Home

Gmail voice calling offering lower international rates: Accessible through Gmail, Googles phone call feature is now available in 38 different languages with cheaper rates across more than 150 international regions. Originally posted at News - Digital Media

Yahoo Mail suffering outage; users react: The service is currently unavailable, and users are taking to Twitter to complain about the apparent outage. Originally posted at The Digital Home

Google+ speeds to 25 million users in first month: Growing at around 1 million members per day, Google+ had captured 25 million visitors as of July 24, becoming the fastest site to reach that level, according to ComScore. Originally posted at News - Digital Media

Twitter ready to close the door on old site: Popular microblogging site says it will migrate users still on old home page interface to the redesigned home page this week. Originally posted at News - Digital Media

Start-up ZocDoc announces $50 million funding round: The medical appointment booking service plans to use the DST Global investment to expand its presence to more cities nationwide.

Start-up ZocDoc announces $50M funding round: The medical appointment booking service plans to use the DST Global investment to expand its presence to more cities nationwide.

The major players in mobile payments: A whos-who of the most recent partnerships for the hot, and rapidly growing, mobile payments sector.

Chrome 13 delivers Instant Pages: The latest update to Google Chrome brings the new Instant Pages feature to the stable version of the browser, along with print preview--but not for all. Originally posted at The Download Blog

Facebook buys digital bookmaker Push Pop Press: Terms of the deal remain undisclosed, but the social network makes it clear that it wont be getting into the book-publishing industry. Originally posted at The Digital Home

Facebook acquires digital bookmaker Push Pop Press: The companies did not say how much Facebook acquired the firm for, but the social network made it clear it wont be getting into the digital-book publishing industry. Originally posted at The Digital Home

Airbnb revamps policies in response to vandalism: After a customers home was vandalized by a guest, travel marketplace Airbnb makes a slew of changes to its policies to help guard against future incidents. Originally posted at News - Digital Media

Airbnb revamps its policies in response to vandalism: Responding to the case of a customer whose home was vandalized by a guest, travel marketplace Airbnb has rolled out a slew of changes to its policies to guard against future such incidents. Originally posted at News - Digital Media

Firefox could get even more Chrome style: Preliminary designs for the nightly build of Firefox indicate that future versions of the browser could look even more like its Google competitor. Originally posted at The Download Blog

Square handling $4 million daily in mobile payments: The mobile payments company says that its credit card-reader attachment for mobile devices has raised daily transactions by another million since late May. Originally posted at News - Wireless

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Kickstart: Kickstart(email waitinglist)Members will be able to connect and network with students from a wide variety of business organizations ranging from investment and entrepreneur clubs to national business fraternities. | @kickstartnet |

GuideHop: GuideHopA marketplace for local activities and tours. | Blog | @guidehop | | |

LedgerDocs: LedgerDocsLedgerDocs is a simple, easy to use online document management system built specifically around the accounting and bookkeeping cycle. | Blog | @ledgerdocs | |

gov.uk: gov.ukthe best way to get to government services and informationWith GOV.UK, British government redefines the online government platform | |

UserLadder: UserLadder(email waitinglist)UserLadder.com aligns the interests of bloggers, niche social network participants and anyone who engages in user generated content. | Blog | @userladder | |

ProgrammableWeb

30 APIs Used in 7 Days: LinkedIn, CloudMine and Wikipedia: This past week 19 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 30 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Clicky, CloudMine, Ergast, Idescat,

Today in APIs: Most Retweets Ever, Newt’s API? and 6 New APIs: Twitter is now reporting the real number of retweets in the Twitter API, which means we now know how crazy the retweet counts go on celebrity tweets. And did Newt Gingrich lose in Florida because

Which School Has Better Programmers? UCLA or USC?: UCLA is taking on USC this weekend at the University of Southern California. No, its not football or basketball, its a hackathon. The Trojan Hack is bringing together programmers from both schools,

Best New Mashups: Discovery Mashups using Twitter, Rovi and Last.FM: One of the cool things about the web is discovering new things. Whether its new music, an great web site or interesting people, the possibility exists for something exciting to be a click

Where is the Lanyrd API?: Somewhere in Austin, someone is likely already organizing the lanyards for the thousands of SXSW badges for the techies next month. And somewhere in Brighton, the small team behind Lanyrd is

20 Upcoming Hackathons: USC v UCLA Rivalry, Music and Startup Weekends: Hackathons are a fast growing phenomenom where developers come together, usually in short periods up to 72 hours to submit ideas, form teams and hack together applications, data visualizations and sometimes form

Today in APIs: Google Maps is Too Free, Angelist App and 11 New APIs: The most popular API in our directory, the Google Maps API, has been called anti-competitive in France because its basic version is free. A new app built on the AngelList API lets you slice

Jobseekers Invited to “Apply Via API”: Forget uploading resumes or filling out forms on some job board. Backend-as-a-service company Parse is inviting potential hires to apply via its Parse API. In what initially looks like an added barrier to entry, the

API Terms and Conditions Done Right: One of the questions we are often asked at 3scale (a ProgrammableWeb sponsor) is around legal terms and conditions (T&Cs) – once we have all the technical stuff, what should we

Frequent Google App Engine Releases to Continue in 2012: Google App Engine has had a tough year last year. It had to deal with developer revolt when it announced it’s pricing and has also seen its mindshare in the PaaS landscape

Today in APIs: Facebook, Bloomberg, RESTful Quandaries and 28 New APIs: Sure, Facebook filed for an IPO today, but it also provided developers some great guidance on using real-time features in the Facebook API. And while Bloombergs lead news story is the Facebook IPO, in the

The Last Great Hope for Math PhDs: Kontagent, Wrangler Of Big Data: Have you ever heard of a Chief Science Officer? I recently spoke to Kontagent’s CSO and was excited to learn that Kontagent’s world of big data processing is one of the few places in the

81 News APIs: Digg, FanFeedr and ClearForest: Our API directory now includes 81 news APIs. The newest is the New York Times Events API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the Digg API. We list 69 Digg mashups. Below youll

Social Media Management Tool Adds Its Own API: HootSuite, a social media management tool for web and mobile, uses a lot of APIs. Now, it also provides one, the HootSuite Engagement API, which the company unveiled today. The new platform allows developers

Send and Receive with These Four Email APIs: So you need to send emails. Pretty simple right? Not so fast. It doesn’t matter how easy your language or framework makes sending emails, if you try to do it on your own be prepared

Today in APIs: Amazon S3’s Trillions, Facebook App Pages and 13 New APIs: Amazons simple storage solution, the Amazon S3 API, is growing fast, on . Facebook is getting rid of pages for Facebook apps, which fueled the social networks growth. Plus: find an API developer, try

76 Storage APIs: Box.net, Amazon S3, Dropbox: Our API directory now includes 76 storage APIs. The newest is the Pervasive Data Integrator API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the Amazon S3 API. We list 77 Zillow mashups. Below

What are WebHooks and How Do They Enable a Real-time Web?: Pusher has established itself as a leading service for delivering WebSocket messages to connected clients via its simple, RESTful Pusher API. This especially suits application developers working with languages and platforms that struggle to maintain

Calling European Devs to GOTO Copenhagen: Developers living in and around Copenhagen, mark your calendars. The GOTO Copenhagen conference is now in its second year running after a successful event in 2011. The Conference brings together

64 New APIs: Parse.ly, ImageCollect and Yottaa: This week we had 64 new APIs added to our API directory including a content publishing analytics service, social publishing platform, celebrity photo library, social commerce platform, cost splitting service and website optimization service. Below are

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