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This City Never Sleeps, And Neither Do The Hackers: Its midnight. The city is alive with Saturday night fever, and Pier 94 is just as awake, and perhaps a bit more drunk. Tequila

Meet The Disrupt NY 2012 Hackathon Hackers: Its been about eight hours since our big Disrupt Hackathon kicked off, and all of our intrepid hackers have been busy letting the code (and the caffeine) fly ever since. I managed to tear a few of them away from

Day After IPO, Mark Zuckerberg Marries Longtime Girlfriend Priscilla Chan: What a week. After eight years, Mark Zuckerberg takes Facebook public at a $104 billion valuation. His longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan gets her medical

The Disrupt NYC Hackathon: We’re 8 Hours In: Theres a strong murmur in the room with random spurts of excitement. Hackers and coders have teamed up and mostly (hopefully) decided on a

The Art Of Expression: T-Shirts Of The Disrupt NYC 2012 Hackathon: Hackers arent necessarily known for their fashion sense. Most of the time, a t-shirt and jeans is as far as it goes. But there

The Four Most Underhyped Trends In Social TV: Last time I took a look at the most over-hyped topics of the Future

China Finally OKs Google’s Acquisition Of Motorola Mobility: Its been just over nine months since Google announced their intentions to acquire hardware manufacturer Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, and now it seems

Mashable

Mark Zuckerberg’s Very Big Week: Mark Zuckerberg may have just wrapped up the biggest week of his life.In the span of just seven days, the Facebook CEO has turned 28, taken his compa…

Mark Zuckerberg Gets Married: In a surprise ceremony, Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg married his longtime girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, in a private wedding at his h…

Mobile Marketing by the Numbers: The number of Americans who own smartphones rocketed past the number who own basic mobile phones this year, and marketers have been expanding their mo…

44 Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed: Friday marked the much-anticipated Facebook IPO, and boy, do we have have a lot of resources for that topic. Whether you have no idea what an I…

Top 10 Tech This Week: The futuristic tech we found this week was so radical, it was getting hard for us to separate fantasy from reality.

China Approves Google’s Motorola Mobility Deal: Authorities in China have cleared Google’s plan to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion.If the deal closes, it will be Google’s f…

Show Us Your Eclipse Photos: On Sunday, May 20, a spectacular astronomical phenomenon will occur when our moon passes between the Earth and the sun. The result for the luck…

Will Facebook Reduce Taxes By Going International?: Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin has been the target of public wrath after announcing he would be renouncing his U.S. citizenship and moving…

Changed Windows 8 Desktop Revealed, Interface Improved: Microsoft has revealed an updated desktop user interface for Windows 8.“In the end, we decided to bring the desktop closer to the Metro aesthe…

6 Ways to Get a Tech Job Without a Tech Degree: Jobs in tech are stronger than ever. In 2011, Amazon hired 22,500 people, bringing its workforce up to 56,200, and Google hired 8,000 people &#…

7 Fun Accessories for Your Geeky Pet: There are cats on Twitter, dogs on Facebook, birds that won’t stop checking in on Foursquare (OK, we haven’t witnessed that last one, but…

On Facebook IPO Day, Twitter Sentiment Correlated With Share Price: Twitter users who participated in a crowdsourced prediction for Facebook’s IPO day closing price collectively missed the mark, but another…

7 Hot Startup Tips for Raising a Killer Seed Round: There are many stories of hot startups raising killer seed rounds, and it can feel like money is flowing everywhere. Times might be good right now,…

9 Top Comments on Mashable This Week: The Mashable community engaged in a variety of articles this week, resulting in solid discussions and debates in the comments.Topics that spar…

SpaceX’s Historic Launch Aborted at Last Second: When the countdown to its launch ended early Saturday morning, Dragon, the first private spacecraft to ever attempt docking with the international sp…

Why Social Learning Benefits Your Business: Classroom training isn’t dead, but it also isn’t the answer for every training need. Social tools are changing the game when it comes to em…

Ebay a Hassle? Check Out This Platform for Secondhand Fashion: 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…

English Premier League: The Social Media Season: The English Premier League is arguably the world’s most popular sports organization, and this season saw explosive growth off the pitch in…

Hey Space Geeks: Help This Guy Build a Real Starship Enterprise: There are those who look up at the stars and decide to become astronomers, while others want to be astronauts. Then there are those who want to build…

Facebook’s IPO: Who Got Rich: OK, so Facebook’s IPO may have seemed like a lot of sound and fury for 23 cents, but there will still doubtlessly be some celebrating in Menlo P…

Read/WriteWeb

Weekly Wrap-up: Google's Knowledge Graph, SlideShark's Presentation App and More: Google unveiled the Knowledge Graph. SlideShark makes giving presentations via your iPad easy peasy. Learn more about these stories and many more in the ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up.After the jump youll find

Oracle Versus Google: The Database Kingpin Gets Desperate: Oracle’s lawsuit against Google over alleged infringement of Java slipped from epic battle to soap opera this week: The relationships between the judge, jury, plaintiff and defendant have become a tangle of legal ambiguity and

Oracle Versus Google: The Database Kingpin Gets Desperate: Oracle’s lawsuit against Google over alleged infringement of Java slipped from epic battle to soap opera this week: The relationships between the judge, jury, plaintiff and defendant have become a tangle of legal ambiguity and

When Words Fail, Text an Animated GIF: Think emojis are fun? Now you can send messages that move. A new iPhone app called MyFaceWhen makes it fast and easy to record and send video in the form of animated GIFs attached to text messages. Weve

Facebook Beefs Up Its Mobile Arsenal With Karma, a Social Gifting App: Facebook became a publicly traded company a few hours ago, but its not wasting any time making new moves. The social networking giant acquired Karma, a mobile app for finding and sending gifts to ones

Will Crowdfunding Crowd Out Venture Capital?: Venture capitalists have been getting a black eye to go with their blue shirts. A recent report from the Kauffman Foundation slammed VCs for “shortchanging” investors, pointing out that public markets deliver better returns. The

How I Bought Facebook Stock and Why I'm Keeping It: What to do with that $500 cash balance burning a hole in my IRA?Buy Facebook. It ended up being so much easier than they said it would be. My initial limit order with a maximum price of

The Fastest Online Payment Processor? It's Google: If you are thinking about changing your online payment provider, you should take a moment to look at an interesting infographic from application performance management company New Relic. Turns out the most popular provider, PayPal, isnt

Are Massive HP Layoffs the Flip Side of the “Facebook Economy”?: If Facebook’s massive IPO represents the wealth created by the rise of social networking, mobile computing and the consumerization of IT, these tectonic shifts hold dramatic challenges to old-line technology companies built on yesterday’s revolutions. So even as Facebook mints

Mobile Marketing Set to Create Havoc and Opportunities: Procter & Gamble should be kicking itself for not developing a mobile operating system when it had the chance: More people worldwide own mobile phones than toothbrushes. Get ready for a tsunami of mobile marketing

Twitter Ups the Privacy Ante Ahead of Facebook's IPO: Twitter fired another salvo in the privacy wars, announcing that it will allow users to block it from recording their wanderings around the Web. Take that, Facebook! Twitter announced plans to support the proposed Do Not

The Only Facebook Number That Matters: $104.2 Billion: Facebook became a $104.2 billion company Friday in much the same way it became the world’s biggest social network and a cultural game-changer: by stubbornly forging ahead despite criticism and calls that it couldn’t be

7 Ways to Motivate Your Startup Team — Without Giving Away Equity: Startup entrepreneurs live, eat and breathe their companies. Catching a quick catnap under your desk counts as a good nights sleep. But how do you get the same level of commitment from mere employees?Typically, the

Read/Write Daily: Drones Over America?: Todays theme is the funny-looking future. Humans have been dreaming of the era of air and space flight for a long time. But now that were here, it turns out the future isnt always as romantic

Facebook's 4 Biggest Risks: Facebook, whose stock is trading on public markets for the first time today, has had an incredible rise - from zero to 900 million users in just over eight years. In the fast-changing technology world, though, todays Facebook can quickly become

How Facebook's Mobile Strategy Might Create Future Revenue Streams: Large companies often have trouble breaking into new revenue-generating vertical markets. As Facebook barrels into its much-anticipated initial public offering today, the question for investors and analysts will be: How does Facebook start making money

After Months Of Waiting, Facebook Surges In Opening Moments As A Public Company: From here on out, Facebook will not be measured by the number of registered users, the number of photos being uploaded every minute or the number of likes and comments left by its more than 900

Mountain Lion on Mac Will Change TV and Delight Cord Cutters: The next iteration of Mac OS X is coming. It doesnt have a launch date yet, but it likely will by the time Apples Worldwide Developers Conference wraps up next month. While most of the updates focus

Everything You Need to Know About the Social Media Bubble: Are we or aren’t we? When it comes to social media bubbles and whether or not we’re in one, there is no shortage of people willing to argue on each side of the debate. It doesn’t

Rise of the Tech Bandits: AllThingsD & Sarah Lacy, the Business Reporters: Editors note: In the Summer 2012 issue of SAY Magazine, Dan Frommer chronicles the history of tech blogging. For the rest of this week, Richard MacManus, who founded ReadWriteWeb in 2003, will be looking back on the early days.When Sarah

GigaOM

After Amazon, how many clouds do we need?: With news that Google and Microsoft plan to take on Amazon Web Services with infrastructure services of their own, you have to ask: How many clouds do we need? Legacy vendors IBM, Microsoft and HP are hoping at least a

China finally gives blessing to Google’s Motorola buy: Google has finally received approval from China to complete its purchase of Motorola Mobility, Google said Saturday. That paves the way for Google to integrate Motorola, though it remains to be seen exactly how it wants to use the phone

The cost of losing a customer’s trust: Preserving consumer trust gets a lot of lip service. But a new report from the World Economic Forum actually attempts to translate its value into dollars and cents.

SpaceX launch scrubbed: Spacex launch aborted at the last possible second after a computer detected a glitch in one of the Dragon rockets nine engines. The next possible launch date is May 23, according to SpaceX.

Android this week: Hot home screens; more Nexus partners; Galaxy S III pre-orders: A new intelligent home screen app for Android tablets appears on Kickstarter and for $5, it looks well worth it. Google is finally taking more control by planning several Nexus device partners and more direct sales, plus Samsungs Galaxy S

Facebook doesn’t want world domination: it needs it: Facebooks rise has come on the back of astonishing international growth -- but it needs to keep expanding everywhere, and in every way, to keep up with investors expectations. Where can it find the silver bullet? And how will it

Facebook’s foreign foes: five countries to conquer for new growth: After growth slowed just in time for its IPO, Facebook must look overseas for a jump-start. Here are the only five remaining countries where Zuckerberg is not top dog - and the rivals that stand in his way.

7 stories to read this weekend: Has Facebook fatigue set in? Are you sick and tired of seeing Mark Zuckerbergs face all the time on blogs, in newspapers and on television? Relax, I have some good reading material for you and it doesnt have anything to

The disruption in media and real-time politics at paidContent 2012: As part of paidContent 2012: At The Crossroads on May 23 in New York, Ill be talking with venture capitalist Fred Wilson about the future of media and with Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo and Vivian Schiller of NBC

A journey through a water cleaning plant in Brazil: About an hour drive outside of the packed streets of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and into the sprawling Sorocaba region, GE has quietly been leading the way on clean water technology.

What you need to know about that $15 billion Facebook privacy case: Lawyers tried to ruin Mark Zuckerbergs big day with a sprawling lawsuit that portrays the Facebook founder as a rogue hacker, and accuses the company of tracking users on their computers and iPhones. We have a plain english Q&A.

Facebook gets a reality check on IPO day: Once protected by the hype bubble, Facebook is getting a hard lesson in the realities of the public markets. Despite the massive build-up to its IPO today, the market response has been more tepid than expected.

A kinder, gentler DRM?: With Pottermore.com now using watermarking instead of heavyweight DRM on all the Harry Potter e-books, anti-DRM arguments are growing louder. Now the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) hopes to create an industry standard for lightweight content protection, occupying a middle

PRO: Flash analysis: Facebook’s post-IPO prospects: Facebook just had the biggest initial public offering in tech history. During the week leading up to it, we tapped into the GigaOM readership to see what they thought of the social network giant’s prospects for the next two to

Facebook buys Karma app: The newly public Facebook says it is buying Karma, a mobile social gifting app. The news was released via Karmas blog. The deal terms were not announced. Facebook plans to keep the service alive. A Facebook spokesperson said this is

The unsexy side of big data: 5 tools to manage your Hadoop cluster: Its neither easy nor glamorous -- data scientists get all the love -- but making sure your Hadoop cluster is properly configured and applications are running optimally is necessary, especially as applications move into production. Here are five tools to

Foursquare gears up to make money with new revenue chief: Foursquare is getting its revenue story in order and announced it has hired Steven Rosenblatt, the former director of advertising sales and strategy at Apples iAd. Rosenblatt will serve as Foursquares chief revenue officer and will lead the companys new

Will security issues hamper ZTE’s phone efforts in the U.S.?: A security hole was found in the ZTE Score, a handset model sold on both by Metro PCS and Cricket in the U.S. The breach appears to be a backdoor put in by ZTE, which is already under U.S. scrutiny

Dish: Sure, we’ll build LTE, just give us four years: Dish Network has taken possession of it’s 4G spectrum and it’s ready to deliver its competitive mobile broadband network – in 2016. In a filing with the FCC, Dish basically asked the FCC for the granddaddy of all extensions for

A $5 app turns Android tablets into a second monitor for Mac or PC: Apple iPad owners have the $10 AirDisplay app to use their tablet as a second monitor for their Mac, but Android owners arent left out in the cold. Mobile app developer Shape offers a similar program for $5 that works

TNW

Is it a font or a typeface?: When it comes to the sophisticated world of typography, some people are purists, while others have a laid-back, do-whatever-looks-good mentality. No matter what side you’re on, it’s important to learn...

The Obama administration calls Twitter’s adoption of Do Not Track “an important step”: In a post shared on the official White House Blog today, the Obama administration expressed its support for Twitter’s move to join the ranks of sites employing the privacy feature,...

Design your own personalized iPhone cover in minutes with CaseApp: While the iPhone ‘sans cover’ feels much better in your hand, it’s not worth getting a few scratches on the back of your sleek phone. Rather than buy a standard...

China finally approves Google’s Motorola Mobility acquisition, deal likely to close next week: Google may have announced its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility last August and gained approval from both EU and US authorities but it’s taken until today for the search...

Boutique Fashion Brokers: An online trade show for boutiques and designers: Every industry has its own form of a trade show. In consumer electronics, it’s CES. In the startup world, there are massive conferences like our very own The Next Web...

Dinosaurs, hipsters and Star Trek: @FakeGrimlock interview with Brad Feld: Brad Feld is an entrepreneur, investor and dinosaur lover. In that spirit, FAKEGRIMLOCK and I banded together to put Brad on the hot seat. While deftly avoiding being eaten by FAKEGRIMLOCK (who consistently mistakes things for bacon), Brad talked to us

Crazy about custom: 5 fashion startups made for you: In the U.S., a standard for men’s clothing sizes was established during the Civil War when the government had to buy uniforms for soldiers in the North. Women’s sizing standards...

37signals

All the oxygen trapped in a bubble: There are many good reasons to be concerned about whether the internet industry is in another bubble. Once shaky, unproven businesses hit the NASDAQ, the chance that granny is going to lose her pension fund goes up big time. That’s

Three quick Rails console tips: I was bouncing around the Rails API documentation yesterday, and I noticed a few rails console tricks I haven’t seen before. There’s been plenty of posts about irb and Rails before, but I’m hoping you’ll learn something new here. The

We're hiring: Help us significantly improve conversion and retention: We’re looking for another teammate. This time we’re looking for someone who is completely focused on improving conversion and retention. You love moving the needle, one small step at a time.Conversion could be financial (get more people to start a

Taking the Pain Out of MySQL Schema Changes: A common obstacle we face when releasing new features is making production schema changes in MySQL. Many new features require additional columns or indexes. Running an “ALTER TABLE” in MySQL to add the needed columns and indexes locks the table,

Basecamp in Antarctica: We have customers around the world doing extraordinary things with our software, but Ben Saunders is taking it to a whole new level.Ben and his team are using Basecamp to organize an expedition to the South Pole and back, unsupported

Sortfolio: Going once, going twice...: A year ago we put Sortfolio up for sale.We entertained a variety of offers, met with a few potential suitors in person, and negotiated numbers. Ultimately nothing came together. Then we shelved the process so we could focus all of

VIDEO: Keynote by David from RailsConf 2012 on progress…: Keynote by David from RailsConf 2012 on progress, curiosity, fear, and the danger of easy-bake ovens.

New in the all new Basecamp: Email-in!: This is going to be a big one. Now you can post messages, to-do lists, files, and text documents to the all new Basecamp just by sending an email.First, some backgroundIn Basecamp Classic, you can post a new message by

A/B Testing: It's not about the results, and it's definitely not about the why: In college, I worked for a couple of years in a lab that tested the effectiveness of surgical treatments for ACL rupture using industrial robotics. Sometimes, the reconstructions didn’t hold. The surgeons involved were sometimes frustrated; it can be hard

"Sign up in seconds" ... and then what?: Today I saw a familiar pattern on a website for an analytics product. The home page pitched the product, and then above the signup form there was a headline: “Sign up in seconds.”I see this all

VIDEO: Fantastic insight from Neil deGrasse Tyson…: Fantastic insight from Neil deGrasse Tyson about how important it is to be sensitive to someone’s current state of mind when you are trying to teach or persuade. You don’t teach with facts alone. You have to understand how those

Basecamp via Chrome Frame: When we were building the new Basecamp, we wanted the foundation to be built on clean, modern underpinnings to take advantage of all the new wonderful features of HTML5. That meant we have

37vegetables: One of the super-cool benefits of working at 37signals is a membership in a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture). We get fresh fruits and veggies at the farmer’s market or delivered to our doors, which encourages us and our families to

The new Basecamp: Perfectly proportioned: It is said that the discovery of The Golden Section in Classical Greece was the result of the quest to identify the ideal proportion and balance in life and art. Throughout history and to this day The Golden Section has

How's the new Basecamp doing so far?: About three weeks ago we launched the all new Basecamp, and it’s been an exciting few weeks.Since I’m a numbers kind of guy, I wanted to share some things I’ve seen in looking at the new Basecamp that are particularly

Design Decisions: Calendar Notifications: One of the joys of building the new Basecamp was using the new Basecamp to quickly iterate on a design problem. Because I’m in Colorado and the rest of the team lives elsewhere, we rely on a combination of tools

The all-new API for the all-new Basecamp: We’re finally ready to unveil the API for the new Basecamp. The documentation lives on Github and we encourage developers to help us improve it with pull requests.The new API covers most of what’s available in the web UI and

What clarity is all about: What if every question you asked your customers was multiple choice? And every question had an “I’m confused” option. How often would your customers choose that option?If your whole business was laid out flat – every product, every promise, every

Exploring ideas in the pursuit of clarity: In my six months as a signal, I’ve worked with Jason F. on numerous design explorations for the new Basecamp. These sessions are always fun, and a few of them helped transform difficult problems into the UI you’re using in

Ten early new Basecamp interface sketches: For those who like the behind-the-scenes stuff, here are 10 early sketches of UI elements/concepts for the new Basecamp.Early concept for the project blank slate (empty project, no content yet).Companies and people, take 1 (discarded).

O'Reilly Radar

Top Stories: May 14-18, 2012: Heres a look at the top stories published across OReilly sites this week.A federal judge learned to codeThe judge presiding over the Oracle/Google case learned Java, and that

Publishing News: No dismissal for Apple, Macmillan and Penguin: This week brought a couple of important updates in the lawsuits against Apple, Macmillan and Penguin. First, the antitrust lawsuit filed by 16 States Attorneys General saw 17

Visualization of the Week: Urban metabolism: This weeks visualization comes from PhD candidates David Quinn and Daniel Wiesmann, whove built an interactive web-mapping tool that lets you explore the urban metabolism of major U.S. cities. The map includes data about cities and neighborhoods energy usage (kilowatt

Why I haven't caught ereader fever: OReilly GM and publisher Joe Wikert (@jwikert) wrote recently about how he cant shake his ereader. I read his story with interest, as I cant seem

Four short links: 18 May 2012: Overlapping S-Curves of Various Products (PNG) -- product adoption speed over time. (via Beta Knowledge)High School Makerspaces Q&A with Dale Dougherty (Radioshack) -- Experimentation is one of the things we’re trying to promote. If you do experiments, a number of

Commerce Weekly: Another mobile wallet is on the way: Here are a few stories from the commerce space that caught my attention this week.Isis prepares its mobile wallet rolloutIsis Mobile Wallet had some big news this week.

Strata Week: Google unveils its Knowledge Graph: Heres what caught my attention in the data space this week.Googles Knowledge GraphGoogle does the semantic Web, says OReillys Edd Dumbill, except they call it

Four short links: 17 May 2012: The Mythology of Big Data (PDF) -- slides from a Strata keynote by Mark R. Madsen. A lovely explanation of the social impediments to the rational use of data. (via Hamish MacEwan)Scamworld -- amazing deconstruction of the online get rich

JavaScript and Dart: Can we do better?: JavaScript keeps advancing by leaps and bounds, but is it powerful enough yet? Is the Web ready to take on all the challenges we throw at it?I talked with Seth Ladd, a web engineer and Chrome Developer Advocate at Google

Velocity Profile: Justin Huff: This is part of the Velocity Profiles series, which highlights the work and knowledge of web ops and performance experts.Justin HuffSoftware Engineer PicMonkey@jjhuffHow did you get

A federal judge learned to code: The last couple of days, theres been a fair amount of blogosphere angst over Coding Horrors Please Dont Learn to Code. Ironically, the best argument for learning to code appeared this morning, when it turned out that Judge William Alsup

How to start a successful business in health care at Health 2.0 conference: Great piles of cash are descending on entrepreneurs who develop health care apps, but that doesnt make it any easier to create a useful one that your audience will adopt. Furthermore, lowered costs and streamlined application development technique let you

The chicken and egg of big data solutions: Before I came to OReilly I was building the big data and disruptive analytics practice at a major systems integrator. It was a blast to spend every week talking to customers in different industries who were waking up to the

Four short links: 16 May 2012: Many Old Periodicals -- Im working my way through the back issues of Thrilling Love. Sample story, Moonmist for Mary by Dorothy Daniels, from Feb 1950. Filing clerk Mary wins the heart of her secret coworker romance AND closes the

Velocity Podcast Series - John Allspaw on DevOps: In this new Velocity Podcast, I had a conversation with John Allspaw (@allspaw), a VP of Operations at Etsy.com. This conversation centers mostly on Development and Operations cooperating in high volume companies. John has some interesting insights into how good

DIY learning: Schoolers, Edupunks, and Makers challenge education as we know it: Create, disassemble, repurpose! DIY-ers relentlessly void warranties and crack manufacturers cases, showing us what is possible when people decide that they, not the vendors, truly own the technology they have purchased. If you cant open it, you dont own it,

Profile of the Data Journalist: The Data News Editor: Around the globe, the bond between data and journalism is growing stronger. In an age of big data, the growing importance of data journalism lies in the ability of its practitioners to provide context, clarity and, perhaps most important, find

Four short links: 15 May 2012: Mobile Money (The Economist) -- Many people know that mobile money—financial transactions on mobile phones—has taken off in Africa. How far it has gone, though, still comes as a bit of a shock. Three-quarters of the countries that use mobile

Why I can't shake my ereader: This post originally appeared on Joe Wikerts Publishing 2020 Blog (B&Ns Nook with GlowLight: Why I Still Use an eInk eReader). This version has been lightly edited.My new E Ink reader, B&Ns Nook with GlowLight, arrived last Thursday. Im winding

Four short links: 14 May 2012: Shiri = Japanese Robotic Ass (YouTube) -- I couldnt watch after 2m30s or so when he starts slapping the robot ass. I never imagined a butt as UI. I eagerly await the hobbyist version, the Arduino Ass Shield. (via Ed

Micro Persuasion

The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of Media In the early...: The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of MediaIn the early 1990s when I began my career in PR there were clip reports. These were physical books that contained press

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

The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of Media In the early...: The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of MediaIn the early 1990s when I began my career in PR there were clip reports. These were physical books that contained press

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

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

Museum of Modern Betas

PicPack: PicPackSelect your Instagram moments. Order them as magnets. | Blog | | |

Mashup: Mashupthe tool will deconstuct the text and reconstruct it aleatorically. | | |

MasterMind.li: MasterMind.liMultiplayer World Domination Game | | |

I Told Y'All: I Told Y’AllTired of telling people «I told you so»? We’ll do it for you! | | |

LG Cloud: LD CloudLG Cloud is the online storage service that users can enjoy video clips, music files or photo files wherever they are.(↬ theverge) | |

WikiPaintings: WikiPaintingsthe encyclopedia of painting | Blog | @wikipaintings | | |

Bracketgeek: BracketgeekBracketgeek.com has set its sights on being the most popular way to vote online and create your own tournament brackets. | |

ProgrammableWeb

19 APIs Used in 7 Days: Bing, Google Analytics and Grooveshark: This past week 10 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 19 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Allogarage, Brown Paper Tickets,

Best New Mashups: Music Search and Discovery Mashups Featuring YouTube, SoundCloud and SpotifyM(...): When it comes to mashups submitted to our directory, those helping users search for and discover new music consistently rank among the most popular. The number and variety of music services including metadata, social and

Lollapalooza 2012 Invites Entries for Official Fan App: Lollapalooza 2012, a major U.S. music festival is only a few months away. With top of the line artists and attendees, the Event can sure do with an application that can provide

Seamless Delivers Food and an API: Seamless is a food ordering and delivery tool that connects buyers with sellers and takes a percentage of the sale. This alone is not a revolutionary idea; using the income that comes from sales commissions

Finding Meaning in the Social Firehose: APIs serve up a lot of valuable data and resources, but the most valuable API currency right now is social data, and specifically public data from Twitter.

72 Medical APIs: Avvo, National Library of Medicine and NHS: Our API directory now includes 72 medical APIs. The newest is the pVerify API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the Avvo API. We list 2 Avvo mashups. Below you’ll find some more stats from the directory, including

Gumroad Aims To Make Selling Items as Simple as Sharing Them: Ever tried to sell something on the Internet and hoped that the process was simpler than what it currently is? What if selling an item on the Internet was as simple as sharing the item

Why REST Keeps Me Up At Night: With respect to Web APIs, the industry has clearly and emphatically landed on REST as the standard way to implement these services. And for good reason... REST, which is generally implemented as a one-size-fits-all solution,

API Strategy Lessons from Factual’s Upgrade of its Mobile/Local APIs: Factual Inc, a company founded by ex-Googler Gil Elbaz that is creating an open data platform, announced extensions to its APIs today that are aimed at improving the ability to target advertising and provide

45 Coupons APIs: Groupon, 8coupons and US Yellow Pages: Our API directory now includes 45 coupons APIs. The newest is the Wishpot Coupon API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the Groupon API. We list 10 Groupon mashups. Below youll find some

Gecko Landmarks is Changing the Face of the Mapping Industry: Gecko Landmarks is working on an easier way of giving directions. The theory behind their madness is that “everyone thinks in landmarks”. They took this idea and ran with it. In fact they have

71 New APIs: Wishpot, Gecko and Optical Character Recognition: This week we had 71 new APIs added to our API directory including a social eCommerce platform, optical character recognition service, location information services, web marketing services and a mobile printing app. In addition we covered

16 APIs Used in 7 Days: Facebook, New York Times and Klout: This past week 9 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 16 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include 500px, Direct Textbook, Google

Best New Mashups: Games Mashups Using Google Maps, Twilio and AMEE: Often we like to highlight mashups that offer useful features such as searching for a new house, planning a vacation or saving on energy costs. Sometimes though, its nice to use a mashup for

48 Monitoring APIs: WatchMouse, Amazon and Google: Our API directory now includes 39 monitoring APIs. The newest is the UptimeFu API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the WatchMouse API. We list 7 WatchMouse mashups. Below youll find some

Philly Startup Weekend 3.0: They say the 3rd times the charm - and it looks like thats just about right for the Philadelphia StartupWeekend. While some weekends end with a bunch of mock-ups, slide decks and just

Cloud API Security Panel at Infosec: Cloud API Security was the topic for a panel discussion at the Infosec conference in London April 26th. After a brief introduction of what APIs are, how companies are becoming platforms and

Wishpot’s New API Framework Creates End-to-End Shopping Experience: With Wishpots original service, users could create a single wish list from multiple sites. The service eliminated the need for a new list for every site in which a shopper was interested. Wishpot has now expanded the wish list experience

Google App Engine Finally Debuts the Search API: The Google App Engine team has been consistently rolling out a new release every month recently. They have become so consistent in doing so, that new releases probably do not make that much

Box V2 API makes Simple Things Simpler: Box, one of the earliest providers of cloud file storage recently announced a brand new version of its API that is a complete rewrite of the API. Based on its extensive research on how V1

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