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Nailed It (Not): Our First Twitter Post, Circa 2006: I often point to my first post on Twitter, the day it launched in 2006. Why? Mostly because of how wrong I was. Best line: I imagine most users are not going to want

iTunes Ping And Facebook Were Friends Yesterday. And I’m Still Connected.: There seems to be some confusion out there right now about iTunes Ping, Apples new music social network, and Facebook. Some people seem to think it was never a part of iTunes,

Fora.TV Triples Traffic. Wait, That Many People Want Hour-Long Videos on Economics?: Fora.TV has always been playing a dangerous game—trying to sell long-form online video about intellectual ideas. That’s like trying to sell sunblock to the cast of Jersey Shore. Fora calls

Look Out Yammer – Zyb Founder Joins Podio, The Hot New Social Work Startup: When Danish entrepreneur Tommy Ahlers sold his social phonebook ZYB to Vodafone in 2008 for €31 million and joined the company, it didnt seem like he would stay forever at such a slow-moving corporate entity. And

Fwix Shifts From Local News To Places: “We Are Automating Patch”: For the past two years, Fwix has been building a hyperlocal news site for cities and neighborhoods around the country in a very automated fashion. Its homepage for every city has been three columns filled with recent news

HipChat’s Enterprise Communication Platform Adds Video Chat And Guest Access: HipChat, a recently launched private instant messaging service for companies, has added support for voice and video chat as well as guest access. Similar to Campfire, HipChat provides a simple application for communication within businesses. HipChat offers both

Hands-on Video With The Samsung Galaxy Tab (Spoiler: Wow): Well, as promised, here’s a handy video of the Samsung Galaxy Tab in action. Apologies if it’s gets a little hairy at times—juggling two cameras while trying to navigate a GUI touchscreen isn’t exactly the easiest trick to

Yammer 2.0 To Launch As A Powerful, Full-Fledged Social Network For The Enterprise: Since Yammer launched as the Twitter for businesses at TechCrunch 50 in 2008, the startup has continued to improve on its already solid product, releasing mobile apps and new desktop clients, adding threaded conversations, hosted versions and more.

When Geeks Attack, Shanghai Edition (TCTV): For some in Silicon Valley, Asia remains an alluring black box. A promising world with pockets of hyper growth, obscured by a tangled web of unfamiliar languages, customs, regulations and native ecosystems. Although the walls are coming

EverFi Raises $11 Million For Financial Literacy Education Application: Washington D.C.-based startup EverFi has just raised $11 million in Series A funding from New Enterprise Associates (NEA), with participation from TomorrowVentures and independent investors including Michael Chasen, the CEO of Blackboard. EverFi has created a SaaS

LivingSocial Brings Daily Deals To The Hood: One of the challenges of running a social commerce site these days is that there is just too much demand, from both local merchants wanting to give out deals and consumers who want to try them. There are

Dell Withdraws From 3PAR Bidding War: It looks like the bidding war for 3PAR could be over. Dell has just issued a release indicating that it will not increase its most recent $2 billion proposal to acquire 3PAR, and the companys has

On Its Second Birthday, Google Chrome Officially Hits Version 6: Ever since it became stable enough to use on a day-to-day basis on a Mac last year, Google Chrome has been my browser of choice. Other browsers have been adding

After Dell Matches $2B Offer For 3PAR, HP Ups Its Bid To $2.4B: It looks like were back to square one again. Dell has matched HPs $2 billion offer to buy 3PAR, and HP upped the ante today with an offer worth $33 per share or $2.4 billion. 3PAR

Cisco To Acquire Smart Grid Monitoring Tech Company Arch Rock: Cisco this morning announced its intent to acquire privately-held Arch Rock, which specializes in IP-based wireless sensor network technology with a focus on energy and environmental monitoring and Smart Grid applications.Financial terms of the transaction are

AOL And Google Renew Search Deal For 5 Years, Expand Partnership To Mobile, YouTube: AOL CEO Tim Armstrong hinted that this was coming, but this morning Google and AOL announced a five-year renewal of the search deal between the two companies. Google will continue to power search across AOL’s content network

Android Users Can Now Check In To Foursquare By Using Their Voice: Thanks to a partnership with Vlingo, owners of Android 2.0 or higher-equipped phones can now check in to Foursquare and update their status on Facebook and Twitter simply by speaking into their phones.To try it out,

Allmyapps Snags 1 Million Euros for iTunes-for-Apps: The iTunes-for-apps, Allmyapps, has just announced its first round of funding with French VC fund, Elaia Partners - the same firm that has backed French all-stars like Goom Radio, Goojet

Email Overload Means We’re Never Not Working: A new study by email purveyor Xobni confirms what we bloggers know to be true, theres actually no such thing as a day off in the Internet age (Want more visceral proof than an email study?

60% Of Apps In Android Market Are Free (Vs. 30% Or Less In Other App Stores): App store analytics provider Distimo yesterday published its latest report, once again zooming in on the pricing of mobile applications across a variety of platforms.Consistent with its previous findings, Googles Android Market has by far the

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How Social Data Built a Better Health Care App: Alexander B. Howard is the Government 2.0 Washington Correspondent for O’Reilly Media, where he reports on technology, open government and online civics. He’ll be reporting live from the upcoming Gov2.0 Summit in Washington, D.C., on September 7-8.Every year,…

Google Chrome Version 6 Arrives on Browser’s Second Birthday: It’s hard to believe that two years have passed since the Chrome browser first hit the web. In that time, Chrome has come to control more than 7.5% of the worldwide browser market, according to Net Marketshare.…

Ambitious Online Banking Alternative Scores $2.9 Million in Series A: Banksimple has just raised $2.9 million in a Series A round to fund their ambitious alternative online banking startup for full-service, fee-free banking. The round includes investments from First Round Capital, IA Ventures and Village Ventures, a collection of industry…

Check in on Foursquare Using Your Voice: It may not be the most socially acceptable way to check in, but Vlingo has created a way for Android app users to check in on Foursquare with their voices. It’s a speech-to-checkin feature that will save time,…

Announcing MashBash BlogWorld: Win a Free Pass: Mashable is excited to announce MashBash BlogWorld, the opening party for this year’s BlogWorld & New Media Expo in Las Vegas on October 15-16. To kick off the Expo, we’ll be hosting the first night’s official party…

15 Essential Back to School Podcasts: Alexander Hotz is a freelance multimedia journalist and public radio junkie based in New York City. Currently he teaches digital media at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Follow Alex on Twitter at @hotzington.With another long hot…

Google to Power AOL Search for the Next 5 Years: Google and AOL have signed a deal that extends the search and advertising partnership between the two companies for another five years. The agreement also includes mobile search and adds a content sharing partnership with YouTube. In…

10 of the Web’s Most Insightful News Infographics: A picture is worth a thousand words. But if you include an entire database, make it interactive, and add filtering options, the word-to-picture exchange rate is even better.Infographics at their best are more than just pictures — they can…

Gorgeous 21:9 LCD TV from Philips Goes 3D: Think what you will about the ultra-widescreen, 21:9 format Philips is pushing, but you can’t deny that its cinema-proportioned Full HD LCD TV is gorgeous. Now, Philips plans to push it even further, with a 58-inch,…

Morning Brief: iTunes 10 & Ping Now Live, Samsung Unveils Tablet, Twitter’s iPad App: This series is brought to you by HTC EVO 4G, Americas first 4G phone. Only from Sprint. The First to Know series keeps you in the know on whats happening now in the world of social media and technology.

Ping Not Available to You? You’re Not the Only One: When he was introducing Ping, Steve Jobs mentioned that it will immediately reach a user base of 160 million people in 23 countries. Sounds impressive, until you remember that 23 countries actually isn’t that big of a number; and if…

Samsung Officially Unveils Galaxy Tab: Samsung has finally spilled the details about its long-awaited tablet computer, the Galaxy Tab, during a press conference at the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin.Samsung calls its tablet a “smart media device,” and Galaxy Tab…

Competition Responds to Apple TV and Ping: Apple made a lot of announcements today, from the new Apple TV to the Ping social network for music built into iTunes 10.Because Apple is entering some new market segments (or, in the case of Ping,…

Google Responds to Steve Jobs’ Android Activation Jab: As he was boasting that Apple is activating 230,000 iOS devices a day at Apple’s San Francisco event yesterday, Steve Jobs took the opportunity to accuse competitors of boosting their numbers when it comes to device activations.…

A Facebook-Based Online Store Just for Students: This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see…

HOW TO: Get Started with HTML5 Boilerplate: This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.This is not your father’s world wide web. Thanks to soaring smartphone sales, new tablet…

Twitter’s iPad App: All the Bells and Whistles: Twitter has just announced the service’s official iPad app.It’s free and comes with a slew of touch interface bells and whistles built right in. The app is intended to allow for seamless navigation between tweets, photos, web pages,…

iTunes 10 and Ping Are Here, Bringing Mixed First Impressions: iTunes 10 is now live and available for download. It comes bundled with its own killer feature: music-centric social network Ping.Announced just this morning, the new iTunes/Ping one-two combo pack a mighty punch. But can this dynamic duo…

Pay for Starbucks Coffee with Your BlackBerry: Mocha frappuccino and soy latte lovers rejoice: Starbucks is rolling out its Starbucks Card Mobile App for BlackBerry tomorrow, September 2.In September 2009, Starbucks introduced its Starbucks Card Mobile app for iPhone and iPod touch,…

FCC Questions Key Aspects of Google and Verizon’s Net Neutrality Proposal: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is diving deeper into Google and Verizon’s proposed net neutrality framework with a public notice and inquiry into two of net neutrality’s key issues.The FCC’s seven-page public notice tackles…

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Skype Doubles Down with 10-Person Video Chat: Skype announced today that the latest beta version of Skype 5.0 would up the ante in terms of group video chat, as well as introduce a more stable and sleeker experience for its Windows users.When the company first

Sock It To Me With Socat: Weve all been there. You want to isolate an issue with a server running on a port but want something quick and easy to verify if it is a host firewall problem or something

Texting: It's Not Just for Teenagers Anymore: Lately, the discussion about texting has mostly focused on teenagers, who now often send hundreds of text messages per day. While voice calling is still the primary use of cell phones for

Tablet Computers Will Thrive Because They Are Shareable: ...a tablet is, crucially, a more shareable computer. A laptop, with its fragile hinge-ware and space-gobbling keyboard, is just not comfy to share. A tablet is easier to bring to the café, easier to hand across the

5 Plugins for Outlook Users with Gmail Envy: The announcement of Googles Gmail Priority Inbox likely made more than a few enterprise knowledge workers stuck with Microsoft Outlook and drowning in e-mail quite envious of Gmail. That is, if they werent envious already. Marshall also

10 Things You Need to Know about Apple's New Social Network, Ping: Ping, Apples new social network, is the standout feature in iTunes 10, the most recent update to Apples music management application. Within Ping, you can find and follow your favorite bands and your friends as well as recommend

Google and AOL Renew Search Agreement for Another 5 Years: Google and AOL just announced that they have renewed their global search alliance for another five years. Google will continue to power search on all of AOLs properties. For the most part,

Reddit to Mainstream Media: We Ain't "Small": Social news and bookmark site Reddit has been working lately to battle against its stereotyping as the less-significant, red-headed stepchild to Digg. After Digg-founder Kevin Rose revealed Diggs July traffic numbers on his blog, Reddit administrator and programmer

Hack of the Day: Speeding Up WordPress on a VPS: One of the most common suggestions to bloggers who use shared hosting is that they will be much better off with a VPS or a dedicated server. I agree in principle; however, this doesnt

Google Chrome Turns 2 with Version 6 Release: Google is celebrating the second anniversary of its Google Chrome browser with the release of new stable and beta versions, bringing and even cleaner and simpler user interface and increased speed and performance.As the Google Chrome Blog points

Twitter's New iPad App Shines, but Not Perfect: Twitter has just launched its first official iPad application and the reviews so far have been glowing. The new app offers a few notable features: panes for interacting with content within a stream, media which displays inline without

I Really Hope Curated.by Launches Soon: Curated.by is a new Twitter curation tool that makes it easy to gather and share collections of messages on any topic. The service is slowly letting more and more people create accounts, and I really hope it

3 Trends in Idea Management: Idea management software seeks two holy grails of enterprise collaboration technology: 1) innovation and 2) the breaking down of silos. Enterprise idea management has been around for

Hack of the Day: commandlinefu - Linux Command Heaven: Today is a slight departure from the usual Hack of the Day, as we recommend a site thats bursting with Linux goodness. Bumper Link of the Day, if you will.If youre an avid

Twitter Hands Sports Columnist His Ass: Washington Post sports columnist Mike Wise decided to do an experiment. Its analogous to the kind of experiment a kid might do in dropping a glass of milk to see if it will

TechStars Comes to the Big Apple: In whats bound to be a boost for an already thriving tech startup scene, the Boulder-based incubator TechStars announced today that it is opening a program in a new location, New York City. This will be the fourth

Did Steve Jobs Accidentally Confirm Cameras for Next Gen iPads?: There was a flurry of activity today at the YBCA Theater in San Francisco as Apple unveiled a whole slew of new products and services to the public. With all of that information to

Apple Hides Prop 8 Tweets from Lady Gaga Promo Page for Ping (Screenshots): The new iTunes social network Ping will let you connect directly with your favorite artists, but Apples promotional image for the new feature conveniently omits a string of Tweets from Lady Gagas timeline in which she protests

Report Examines Where the Top VC Firms Are Investing: Last week, we looked at one of the latest reports from the investment research firm CB Insights, tracking the top venture capital firms across the U.S. in terms of their deal activity. According to that report, over the

Apple Event Announcements Rundown: iOS 4.1, New iPods, iTunes 10, Ping and Apple TV: It was a busy day at the YBCA Theater in San Francisco today as Apple unveiled a slew of new products and services to its crowd, and to those watching live on the Web.

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HP Will Pay $2.4 Billion for 3PAR: UPDATED: For months at length, Fremont, Calif.-based storage company, 3PAR could barely get above $10 a share. And then a couple of weeks ago, Dell changed that with a $18 a share offer to buy the company. Now, HP is

AOL vs. Yahoo: A Tale of Two Search Deals: As AOL renews its existing search partnership with Google for five years, and expands the terms of the deal to include mobile advertising and a YouTube distribution agreement, Yahoo announces that it has lost a lucrative search-advertising deal with NHN,

Sponsor post: Sponsor post: CrowdConf: 1st Annual Conference on the Future of Distributed Work: CrowdConf: 1st Annual Conference on the Future of Distributed Work Oct. 4, 2010, San Francisco, Calif. at the St. Regis Hotel We bring together researchers, technologists, outsourcing experts, legal scholars, and artists to discuss the rapidly democratizing and flattening of the global

Twitter for iPad Review: Ahead of the Pack: The folks at Twitter took their time releasing an app for the iPad, but it was time well spent. Having used more Twitter apps than I can count on multiple platforms, this iPad version is better than any of them

Android Devs Wait Patiently For Profitable Future: Apples iOS platform has paid out more than a billion dollars to third-party developers through the iTunes App Store, but such success is yet to be found in Googles Android Market. Developers tell Bloomberg they still have high hopes that

Ping, Facebook Break Up: It Happened Last Night: At one time, Apple and Facebook were best friends forever. It was rumored that Facebook would form the underpinning of what is now Ping. No more -- apparently the two companies are not working on Ping together, and consumers are

BuzzFeed Opens Up Access to Its Viral Dashboard: BuzzFeed, which tracks online topics that have gone viral, is offering a version of the analytics dashboard that the site it uses to monitor the spread of these Internet memes to any website, brand or publisher that wants to track

Vlingo Adds Voice Checkins to Foursquare: Vlingo today added voice support to Foursquare on Android handsets, allowing Foursquare users to checkin, find friends and send shouts through speech-to-text. Vlingo users can also update their social status in both Facebook and Twitter by using the Vlingo widget

Twitter Highlights Consumption With First Native App: Twitter is launching the first native app its built from scratch tonight, Twitter for iPad. Aimed at fostering content consumption, the app is designed for new users and power users alike.

Why Ping Is the Future of Social Commerce: Apple today introduced Ping, a music social network that is part of iTunes software. It allows iTunes users to share their favorite tunes, buy music recommended by friends and follow their favorite artists. Ping hints at a new future for

How Your Cloud Dream Is Becoming a Security Nightmare: After extracting a deal from Research In Motion that appears to give state authorities the ability to monitor messages sent over the companys BlackBerry network, India has said it may go after both Google and Skype in an attempt to

NASA App HD for iPad: Bringing Space to You: Space enthusiasts who follow information coming out of NASA with excitment should download the free NASA HD app for the iPad right now. This app aggregates all of the happenings at NASA with a gorgeous interface that is tailored for

More People Are Choosing the Freelance Lifestyle: Freelance work is on the rise, according to a new survey by Elance -- a service that helps freelancers connect with employers -- and more workers are choosing the life of a freelancer, rather than being forced to work part-time

Could Skype Be Cisco’s Gateway Drug?: With 560 million registered users (124 million of which are active), but only 8.1 million paying customers, Skype could use some help. Cisco makes a great deal of sense as a buyer, because it can monetize Skypes user base in

Could Cheap iTunes Rentals Change Television Online?: During todays press event, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that the iTunes store has sold 450 million TV episodes. How will its newly announced 99 cent rental program change the marketplace, especially with Hulu Plus around? It depends on whats

Will We Soon Have Gigantic Wireless Hotspots?: The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is poised to take action on white spaces, by appeasing TV broadcasters interference concerns. Given successful trials, the final hurdle for widespread use of this unlicensed spectrum may be cleared, birthing a entirely new wireless

iTunes 10: Out With the CD, In With the Social Network: After nearly a decade, iTunes is getting a new icon with the release of version 10. Jobs also introduced Ping, a social network Apple created specifically for iTunes. Ping allows users to share activity with their friends, and follow their

Our Full Coverage of the $99 Apple TV, Ping, & More: As expected, Apple today came through with a few major device updates it will be shipping this fall. It revised its entire iPod line, and gave the iPod Touch many features previously only available on the latest iPhone, such as

Apple iPod Touch Makes Play for Gaming Market: Apples iPod touch is now the top-selling game handheld, beating Sony and Nintendo combined, said Steve Jobs today. iOS, the A4 chip and Game Center will only increase that lead as once again as Apple continues to out-game rivals that

Live Blog: Apple’s Digital Media Event: It is packed room — more than 200 people at the Moscone Center. And Steve Jobs has just arrive to a standing ovation 10.00 am: My partner in crime, Steve Wozniak is here. (Ovation.) Talking about the cool stuff. 10.02:

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QUOTE: Sometimes the problem has to mature before…: Sometimes the problem has to mature before the solution can mature.—Kent Beck

A couple of interesting UI techniques at Flickr: 1) Interesting use of unicode characters for the UI on Flickr:That triangle up top is actually two triangle characters side-by-side. Sucks that we still have to resort to such hacks for such a common

Smiley: An app in 24 hours: Late Monday afternoon David, Kiran, and I were discussing how we could begin to measure how our customers felt about our customer service. We’re already measuring things like response time, average tickets per day per person, average tickets in a

QUOTE: If you ask an artist why, the greatest artists…: If you ask an artist why, the greatest artists will tell you, “Well, it was beautiful. It inspired me. It touched me. It reminded me of this or that.”But you ask a designer why and he says, “Well, I’ve got

VIDEO: Oxxford Clothes is the last factory in the…: Oxxford Clothes is the last factory in the U.S. making custom tailored suits by hand. They are based in Chicago. Pitch perfect simple promotional video. One of the best I’ve seen.

VIDEO: Octopus ballet. Nature does it again.: Octopus ballet. Nature does it again.

The first step is to start: Many people ask me, “How can I get started in web design?” or, “What skills do I need to start making web applications?” While it would be easy to recommend stacks of books, and dozens of articles with 55 tips

We're looking for an Office Manager / Executive Assistant: Now that we’re 20 people, it’s time we add someone to our team who is dedicated to making sure our day-to-day administrative tasks are taken care of efficiently, reliably, and properly.Here’s who we’re looking for:You’re the type of person who

This week in Twitter: A few of this week’s 37signals staff posts at Twitter.rjs: “Operating System: There shouldn’t be one.”—Design Principles Behind Smalltalk http://bit.ly/dz7tO2

LINK: Rails 3.0: It's ready: Rails 3.0: Its ready<p>A couple of years in the making, thousands of commits, and hundreds of contributors, Rails 3.0 is finally done. We’re already running a handful of our applications on it and the rest are moving to it shortly.</p>

No more drive-by teaching: Last week at our full-company get together, each person was asked to say two things to the group: 1. What do you want to get better at? 2. What do you want to learn?Unfortunately I was out sick and unable

VIDEO: The amazing John Cleese shares his wisdom…: The amazing John Cleese shares his wisdom on writing, creativity, getting in the zone, and interruptions. It’s great to see advice that we hear all the time reaffirmed from outside the tech industry.

Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: Alien Skin Software: This is a Q&A with Jeff Butterworth (pictured below), Queen Bee (CEO when speaking to suits) of Alien Skin Software. This is part of our “Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud” series which profiles companies that have $1MM+ in revenues, didn’t take

QUOTE: If you can’t draw as well as someone, or u…: If you can’t draw as well as someone, or use the software as well, or if you do not have as much money to buy supplies, or if you do not have access to the tools they have, beat them

TEDx Midwest on October 15: I’ll be speaking at TEDx Midwest on October 15th at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Here’s the full list of speakers.The event is sold out, but they may be opening up some additional slots. If you’re interested in

Signature designer?: A conversation about signatures from our room in Campfire:Jason F.: Don’t you think that would be a really cool niche side job for a designer? Custom designed signatures? The client would have to learn it, but I bet there’d be

QUOTE: Great proportions melt away impurities in…: Great proportions melt away impurities in a design. So if you have buttons and there’s too much space between them, the space between them is another element that you have to comprehend.So if you have two buttons, you now have

Nice post-order communication from Bobybuilding.com: Ian Hall writes in:Just ordered from Bodybuilding.com and got this follow-up and thought it was an interesting way of doing some post-order marketing and outreach to build community. Take a product and talk about it, direct people to more information,

VIDEO: Grant Achatz and Craig Schoettler experiment…: Grant Achatz and Craig Schoettler experiment with the idea of bubble tea. Gin and tonic made with junipero, yellow chartreuse and cucumber alginate encapsulation. (via Chicagoist)

Facebook shows an interesting way to highlight new features: When screen loaded, animation dimmed down and this spotlight showed up.

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Toward a local syzygy: aligning deals, check-ins and places: Three significant trends in the local sector -- deals, check-ins, and place pages -- are on a bender and headed for an exciting convergence. When they meet we will see one of three things: a train wreck of incompatibility, an

Data Week: Becoming a data scientist: Note: Data Week is a new series that collects notable stories and developments from the data world.Data visualization and artArtist and scientist Stephen von Worley announced the launch of a new blog, Data Pointed, showcasing his data visualization research. One

Four short links: 2 Sep 2010: Guardian Science Blogs -- the latest in a series of science blog aggregators. Nobody is too sure what benefits a blog umbrella like Discovery or Nature (or the Guardian) offers bloggers. Regardless of this, the content is fantastic.v2ex: A Community

TOC's Wednesday Devices, and Gadgets and EReaders Update #2: With the IFA Consumer Electronics Unlimited techno-smorgasbord set to open this Friday, theres a lot of buzz going around about upcoming announcements and unveilings. Much of the pre-show buzz is centered around Android-based competition for the Apple iPad.The IFA traditionally

View From the Trenches: Surviving Change: I am a veteran of the format wars. I started as an innocent civilian, caught on the side of Beta while the DVD army pushed the front closer and closer to my home. Later, I joined the motion picture special

What we can learn from data, 3-D and a giant globe: Rows and columns are great for spreadsheet vendors, but end users have to jump through all sorts of cognitive

Four short links: 1 September 2010: R Library for Chernoff Faces -- faces represent the rows of a data matrix by faces. plot.faces plots faces into a scatterplot. Interesting emotional way to visualize data, which was used to good effect (though not with this library) by

Is Your Survey Data Lying to You?: As the book industry continues to change, we are inundatedwith statistics about user behavior:· 49% of e-book readers are bought as gifts· 28% of US adults are avid (5+ hours/week)readers - 64MM avid readers· The heart of the U.S. romance novel readershipis women

A New Take on the Coffee Table Book: In one of my favorite Seinfeld episodes, Kramer comes up with the brilliant idea for a coffee table book with fold-down legs that makes it into

TOC Announcement: The Tools of Change site will be undergoing some reorganizing and streamlining over the next few weeks - the hopeful result of which will be a much better experience for the TOC community.Among the changes - well be shutting down

Amazon's cloud platform still the largest, but others are closing the gap: Tims recent tweet on the growing demand for Google App Engine skills inspired me to compare the popularity of the major cloud computing platforms. Elance is one of many job boards in our data warehouse of U.S. job postings1 ,

Radar is getting a redesign: Radar will get a new look and more functionality when we roll out a redesign later this week.Heres a screenshot of the new edition. Were still putting pieces together so the final version may be slightly different from what you

Points of Control: The Web 2.0 Summit Map: In my blog post State of the Internet Operating System a few months ago (and the followup Handicapping the Internet Platform Wars), I used the analogy of the Great Game played out between England and Russia in the late Victorian

Hacking online advertising: I gloss over the text ads that appear at the top of Gmail, but this one caught my eye:I think its clear Im not the founder of TechCrunch. In that sense the ad failed

Four short links: 31 August 2010: Rules for Revolutionaries -- Carl Malamuds talk to the WWW2010 Conference. Video, slides, and text available.Self-Improving Bayesian Sentiment Analysis for Twitter -- a how-I-did-it for a homegrown project to do sentiment analysis on Twitter.LUXR -- the Lean User Experience Residency

The network neutrality debate: It all depends on what you fear: The debate over network neutrality, which saw a spike in newsreporting two weeks ago over the jointGoogle/Verizon proposal, confuses a lot of laypeople -- and not justlaypeople -- because of all the different levels on which its beingargued and the

The VC-free startup: A couple of items caught my eye in the notes from Paul Grahams Y-Combinator talk on trends for the future (circa 2009):There should be an OReilly book for business. It would be really short. Make something people want, charge them

Four short links: 30 August 2010: Free as in Smokescreen (Mike Shaver) -- H.264, one of the ways video can be delivered in HTML5, is covered by patents. This prevents Mozilla from shipping an H.264 player, which fragments web video. The MPEG LA group who manage

Applying the lessons of Enterprise 2.0 to Gov 2.0: Last year, MIT professor Andrew McAfee published a landmark book on the business use and impact of social software platforms titled Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization’s Toughest Challenges. The book is a collection of McAfees research since

Four short links: 27 August 2010: Working Audio Data Demos -- the new Firefox has a very sweet audio data API and some nifty demos like delay pedals, a beat detector (YouTube) and a JavaScript text-to-speech generator. (via jamesaduncan on Twitter)Estimating the Economic Impact of Mass

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Media Companies Must Divide To Conquer: The following essay is also my Forbes.com column for August.Media Companies Must Divide To ConquerThe media is something that for most, if not all, of our adult lives, we have taken for granted.

Hot or Not: E-mail Marketing vs. Social-Media Marketing: Image credit: Rapportive at The Next Web ConferenceThe following is also my column this week in Advertising Age.Contrary to popular belief, video didnt kill the radio star, YouTube didnt knock off TV and Twitter

Presentation: Six Digital Trends to Watch: One of the best aspects of my job is that I get to learn from incredibly smart people. Working for Edelman is like playing for the Yankees. Richard Edelman has an approach to talent that in some ways resembles the

Tip: Tweetify the Lead of Your Emails: In this age of information abundance, we all get a little too much email. Its highly likely that - thanks to the message preview function - your recipient will make a decision about what to do

It's the End of the Web as We Know It: The following essay is also my AdAge column this week.Wither the web? Its hard to believe but soon, if not already, the web is going to become a lot less interesting to consumers -- and just

Study: 43% of Online Americans Addicted to Social Networking: Experian Simmons is out with a new package of stats that document the incredible growth of social networking in the US. (Experian is an Edelman client.) Here are some of the notable highlights... First, some 66% of online Americans use

Essay: The Apple Threat to Online Advertising: The following essay is also my column this month on Forbes.com.Caption: Safaris new Reader view could rob publishers of page views especially if it finds its way into iOS devicesWatch Out: Apple May Aim To Reshape

The iPad Stimulus Plan: David Rothman Its a lengthy essay, but compelling in that Rothman sees the iPad as a way to help media and education in one fell swoop. It would be great to see tablets become a pivotal way we retrain the

All Your Emails are on the Record, Unless Noted: Lifehackers new editorial policy: If you send us a tip (which you can do any time at tips at lifehacker.com) that you dont want published, remember to explicitly say so in your email. Likewise, let us know if you just

Facebook Seeks Testers for Q&A Product: Facebook: We at Facebook are preparing to launch a brand new product to the world. We think it will be as exciting as Facebook Photos and Facebook Events, but we need your help to make it

Putting $10,000 in Newspaper Ads Over Social Media: Paul Williams writes that given a choice he would rather plow $10,000 into newspaper ads over social media... Social media is a great way to keep the conversation going with your customers outside of your store. A way to listen.

Pop Culture Dominates Facebook: Hubspot says that pop culture - movies, books, TV shows - have attracted the most likes on Facebook. Im not surprised. But it does justify cross-media storytelling.Permalink | Leave a comment »

Obsession + Topic + Voice = Content: Marco Arment captures how John Gruber and Merlin Mann consistently create compelling online content... Gruber says that when he’s writing Daring Fireball, he’s picturing his ideal reader — a copy of himself — and conceptually

Finding the Write Words with Data: 1st Web Designer on finding the right keyword:1. Define the keywords that people use to find your business 2. Find out how many people are actually using the keywords you have selected 3. Define your competition and make sure the

A Social Media Sunset: Read Write Web: Social media is going to rule the Web until at least 2012 - according to a post by Justin Kistner, a Social Evangelist at web analytics company Webtrends. Kistner also claims that Facebook has become the king

Mind Map: Three Digital Trends for the New Decade: Three Digital Trends for the New Decade Have you tried mind mapping? I am a mind mapping fanatic. I find that it really helps me think through challenges and develop innovative solutions. Chris Brogan too is a fan. He uses

Klout to Launch Facebird for Facebook: Later today Klout, an influence tracking tool, is going to launch a new Facebook app called Facebird that helps you understand overlaps in influence between your Twitter and Facebook friends. Facebird will be live later today over on the Klout

The Situationally Aware Business: The following is also my column on Forbes.com As I write this column it’s the morning after the long Memorial Day weekend and the web is brimming with activity. Google searches are spiking for Ted Koppel, who’s 40-year-old son was

What Twitter Must Learn From TechCrunch in Order to Thrive: The following is also my column in this weeks AdvertisingAge. (Photo of Michael Arrington by Thomas Hawk)Next month marks the fifth anniversary of TechCrunch and the ascent of one of the webs first

One-Step URL Shortening from the Address Bar: Recently I had a chance to spend some quality time with the folks at Bitly, getting to know more about their terrific service. Theres a wealth of data there if you dig in. Not all of

CenterNetworks

Amazon Reduces EC2 Pricing: Amazon Web Services keeps reducing pricing on their cloud computing services. This past June they reduced pricing on their cloudfront CDN offering. Today they announced a reduction of up to 19% on High Memory Double Extra Large (m2.2xlarge) and Quadruple

Why Digg Won’t Change and Who Moved My (digg) Cheese?: This will be my last post about the new Digg site. I’ve found watching the new site go live and the reactions from both passionate Digg users and the blogs that have reaped the big cash rewards of a busted

What If Google Priority Inbox Worked Like Digg v4?: Google launched their new Gmail Priority Inbox today. The service helps push the important emails to the top. So I wondered, what if Gmail Priority Inbox worked like the new Digg version 4 currently works?Find more stories about: Digg, gmail,

Tuesday Jobs are Better Than Monday Jobs: The Digg fiasco pushed our jobs post back a day. Check out the latest jobs posted on the CenterNetworks Job Board. Subscribe to the CN Jobs feed and get all of the latest Web industry jobs delivered directly to you.Featured

Digg Becomes Reddit For a Day?: I’ve got two more Digg stories to write — actually I only had one for tonight but then I noticed something worth sharing. It’s certainly been an interesting week for the social news aggregator. They traded oxen for wheels and

Is The New Digg Just a Prettier, Faster Twitter?: Yesterday I posted some of my comments about the new Digg site along with a video from several of the top digg users (aka power diggers). I took some time out of my coding session to take a deeper look

Power Diggers React To New Version of Digg (video): Yesterday the big news wasn’t that Lindsay Lohan is out of rehab. The real news was that the new version of the social news site Digg launched to the public. Alex from Next Web has an overview of the new

No More Auto Ads Please!: When I left NYC last month, I knew I would have to buy a car. Since I am not a big fan of car dealerships (both used and new), I wanted to do all of my research online. Once I

Maximize Your Time With MedWaitTime: If you are a regular reader of CN, you know that I like startups that help save time or help you use your time more effectively. How many times have you gone to the doctor only to find out that

Better Than Ice Cream on a Hot Day – Fresh Web Jobs: Check out the latest jobs posted on the CenterNetworks Job Board. Subscribe to the CN Jobs feed and get all of the latest Web industry jobs delivered directly to you.Featured Jobs:Website Developer at Thought Equity MotionWeb Manager – Non-profit working

Domain Marketplace Flippa Hits New Sales Records: Just over a year ago, Australian-based Sitepoint relaunched their domain marketplace as Flippa. The change upset many of their brokers because along with the name change came pricing changes. Today the company announced a record week of domain name sales.From

Groupon Teaches You Why Coupons Are Better Than Checkins For Deals: By now we all know that the new valley darling is Foursquare. Will Foursquare be the next breakout startup? Only time (and lots of pumping blog posts from a few new reporters) will tell. Before I continue let me state

Zemanta Gains Big Integration Partner in WordPress: Blogging service Zemanta has announced a new integration today with the hosted version of blogging platform WordPress. Zemanta’s blogging tool has been available since the early days of the company for the self-hosted version of WordPress (like we use here

JetBlue Launches All You Can Jet Version 2: Last year JetBlue launched their first “all you can jet” program which allowed people to purchase tickets similar to all you can eat programs. Baby startup Lil’Grams used the JetBlue program to launch a local marketing effort across the U.S.

Better Than BBQ in Texas – Fresh Web Jobs: Check out the latest jobs posted on the CenterNetworks Job Board. Subscribe to the CN Jobs feed and get all of the latest Web industry jobs delivered directly to you.Featured Jobs:Web Manager – Non-profit working with women at Women of

Weekend Startup and Entrepreneurial Updates: Here are some good startup and entrepreneurial posts for this weekend. I will be taking the weekend off to code and to enjoy the 100+ temps down south while I play with the first car I’ve owned in 3+ years.4

The REAL Reason iPhone Users Are Having More Sex: So the big news yesterday was that dating site OkCupid released stats that iPhone users have more sex than users of Android or Blackberry devices. Looking at the stats that OkCupid provided, it also looks like iPhone users sleep around

I Moved But Technology Allows Me To Remain Home: Many of you know that last month I packed myself and my startup up and moved half-way across the country. I didn’t realize that, using technology, I could basically live as if I was still in NYC.Naturally I wanted to

Nationwide Web Jobs: Are you sitting in front of your computer wondering if you find a new job? Want more money and a new set of wheels? Check out the latest jobs posted on the CenterNetworks Job Board. Subscribe to the CN Jobs

Fuelly Helps You Track and Optimize Your Auto Gas Usage: Last month I left NYC and I now live in a location that requires a car. My days of taking public transport and using Zipcar are over for now. Because I drove so little and because Zipcar paid for the

Webware

Survey: E-mail eats up your time off: Outlook add-in maker Xobni finds Americans and Britons are having trouble getting away from the workplace because of the reach e-mail has into their lives. Originally posted at The Digital Home

Google and AOL renew their partnership: The companies say theyll keep their worldwide partnership going for five more years, in an arrangement that now factors in YouTube and mobile search. Originally posted at The Digital Home

Two years on, Chrome reshapes browser market: The influence Googles browser has had on the market is broader than its use. And on Chromes second anniversary, Google releases another update. Originally posted at Deep Tech

Tab tweaks land in Chrome Canary: Google adds a new labs feature to its bleeding-edge version of Chrome to make it easier for users to test features that are still in development, but at least partially ready for users to explore. Originally posted at The Download

Sony announces cloud-based music service: On the same day Apple displays its digital music dominance, an electronics rival says itll offer streaming music over the Net. Originally posted at Deep Tech

Skyfire promises Flash video playback on its iPhone app: Mobile browser-maker Skyfire submits its mobile app for the iPhone, whose big draw will be playing back Flash video thats been transcoded into HTML 5 standards. Originally posted at iPhone Atlas

Target to be first to sell Facebook Credits: The megaretailer plans to sell $15, $25, and $50 Credits cards in its brick-and-mortar stores and on its site, the company announces. Sales will start on Sunday. Originally posted at The Digital Home

IE slips in usage share; Chrome resumes growth: In August, earlier trends reasserted themselves, with IE dipping, Chrome rising, and Firefox flat. Microsoft is happy to see IE6 on its way out. Originally posted at Deep Tech

EA touts Madden social 'experience' on Facebook: Madden NRL Superstars lets players create a fantasy football team and compete against others on Facebook. If you want to win, though, be ready to cough up cash. Originally posted at The Digital Home

Video experiment shows off HTML5 on Chrome: Alongside Arcade Fire song We Used To Wait, lots of pop-up windows and videos incorporating real street scenes from Google Street View are among the highlights of this crafty Chrome demo. Originally posted at Digital Noise: Music and Tech

Samsung tries to woo TV app developers: The consumer electronics giant uses its first developer conference in the United States to recruit app makers for its Web-connected TVs. Should we really hold the Apple comparisons? Originally posted at Circuit Breaker

Jedi Mind changes its name amid Lucas pressure: Jedi Mind decides to change its name to Mind Technologies after LucasFilm sues the company for trademark infringement, and it removes all mention of Jedi from its offerings. Originally posted at The Digital Home

Google finding its voice: Speech technology efforts are top of mind as the company searches for ways to improve the most natural computer input method of all. Originally posted at Relevant Results

Gmail 'Priority Inbox' aims to sort out bologna: New feature sorts mail into three sections: important and unread, starred, and everything else. The latter isnt spam. Its bologna.

NASA brings historical photos to Flickr Commons: NASA and the Internet Archive have agreed to bring historic photos related to the space organization to Flickr Commons. Originally posted at The Digital Home

Is Cisco chatting up Skype?: TechCrunch reports that it has heard a rumor that Cisco Systems has made a bid to buy the companys voice over Internet Protocol service. Originally posted at Signal Strength

Microsoft launches Bing search app for Android: Bing for Android is Microsofts most significant Android contribution yet. While it isnt quite up to par with the iPhone version, its still a smooth operator. Originally posted at Android Atlas

Another day, another social start-up for Google: SocialDeck becomes the latest start-up to join Google, as the search giant works feverishly over the summer months to build out its social-technology portfolio. Originally posted at Relevant Results

Quicken Online goes offline for Mint.com: About a year after Intuits acquisition of Mint.com, it is closing the doors on its competing product. The technological migration has been tough for the company, it acknowledges.

Google, AP reach deal for Google News content: News stories from the AP will once again flood the pages of Google News after the two sides resolved a months-long impasse over licensing. Originally posted at Relevant Results

eHub

Enrolled.in: Enrolled.in is a place for classmates, friends, and professors exclusive to your university.If you don’t have an educational email address from your school, don’t plan on getting in! URL: Enrolled.in

Paper.li: Organizes links shared on Twitter into an easy to read newspaper-style format. Newspapers can be created for any Twitter user, list or #tag. URL: Paper.li

LibriVox: This site provides free audiobooks, volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. URL: LibriVox

Roomorama: An affordable alternative to staying in hotels. A marketplace for short-term rentals, appealing to travelers. Post “shoutouts” so hosts will know where you want to stay, and pick your host based on their reputation score, calculated based on user feedback.

iStopover: Direct short-term rental for three groups: home rentals, office rentals and short-term rentals for groups and events. Renters and hosts deal directly with each other, instead of through a third party. URL: iStopover

Route4Me: Advanced map planner that can search and map multiple routes, and gives you the best overall results. You can export results to Google or to your GPS device. Available as an app for the iPhone. URL: Route4Me

fflick: Movie reviews by you and your friends. URL: fflick

Museum of Modern Betas

Mozilla Skywriter: Mozilla Skywriter(in Mozilla Labs)Mozilla Skywriter is a fast, customizable programmer’s editor, written for modern web browsers. With it, you can enable “coding in the cloud” on your website (using Skywrier Embedded) or on any website (using Skywriter

CCC: CCC (german)Der Chaos Computer Club ist die größte europäische Hackervereinigung und seit über 25 Jahren Vermittler im Spannungsfeld technischer und sozialer Entwicklungen.(an organization of hackers) | Blog |

Gmail Priority Inbox: Gmail Priority InboxPriority Inbox automatically identifies your important email and separates it out from everything else, so you can focus on what really matters.Email overload? Try Priority Inbox | Blog |

Loved.by: Loved.byCollect and share cool products from web shops and get rewarded for your best findsLoved.by monetarisiert Produktempfehlungen im Social Web | Blog | @loved_by |

Cookblast: CookblastCookblast is a search engine for recipe videos and cooking how to guides, currently with over 16,000 videos. Featuring recipes, techniques, tips and tricks from around the web. |

ChatPast: ChatPastSynchronize your chat history from multiple chat clients (Live, Skype, etc.), across multiple computers. Search them, slice them, and get just the data you want. Find everything you’ve ever talked about.

Add-on Builder: Add-on Builder(in Mozilla Labs)Use Add-ons Builder to quickly and easily develop an extension for Firefox using common web technologies. | @mozlabs | |

Kizzle: Kizzle (german)Flirten, Spaß haben und jede Menge Singles in deiner Nähe kennenlernen.(a dating site)Kizzle | | |

NotForSaleNow: NotForSaleNowThe Social Network for Collectors | @Not4SaleListing | | |

Trapit: TrapitNow the web finds you.Consumer Info Overload – Meet the US Navy’s Relevance Technology | | |

analisishosting: analisishosting (spanish)Análisis Hosting es un portal creado con el objetivo hacer un seguimiento riguroso del mercado de dominios y hosting a nivel mundialAnalisisHosting – Estadísticas del mercado de dominios y hosting a nivel mundial

tradelr: tradelrInventory Sharing, Invoicing and Social Store Builder | Blog | | |

Kwwika: KwwikaKwwika keeps the information on your website, Rich Internet Application or desktop application perfectly up to date, all the time. As your content changes, Kwwika streams just the updates instantly to every client.

Leftronic: Leftronic(in private beta)Leftronic develops web-based visualization software optimized for large screen displays.Leftronic Launches the Business Dashboard of the Future | Blog | |

chart.io: chart.io(email waitinglist)Chart.io gives you a simple, universal tool to create charts and dashboards from all of your data.Chart Your Growth With YC-Backed Chart.io | Blog | @chartio |

VenueGen: VenueGenVenueGen is a browser-based 3D immersive internet meeting platform where business colleagues meet, collaborate, share and present information in board rooms, training rooms, and meeting halls.Venuegen, encuentros en salas virtuales en 3D

Apple Stack Exchange: Apple Stack ExchangeApple is a collaboratively edited question and answer site for people who love Apple Hardware and Software.Apple.StackExchange is Live: Expert Q&A for Power Users |

Beacon: BeaconBeacon is a push service for creating real-time web apps using HTML5 WebSockets and Comet. | Blog | @beaconpush | |

phras.in: phras.inproofread text or phrases using search results | | |

Licorize: LicorizeTurn web page bookmarking and status updates into projects, ideas, teams at work with this minimalistic and fast to-do manager. | Blog | |

ProgrammableWeb

Twitter Opens the Floodgates, Slightly: Push is the new pull. And everyones doing it. If youre still pulling, its probably about time you stopped all of that, as Twitter announced on Monday that they are opening up

What Happened to Enterprise Mashups?: Once touted as the future of business intelligence, providing quick and easy access to disparate information in one place, Enterprise Mashups, at least as a term, appear to have fallen out of favor. The topic was once written up in

Finally, Some Fonts to Play With: Web designers are rejoicing. Real fonts have finally come to the web and theyre easier to use than ever before. Gone are the days of Cufon and sIFR, as @font-face is finally beginning to

Face Detection API: Face Detection Made Simple: If you are building an image sharing service or a social network mashup, its likely that you will want to incorporate face-tagging in your images. Maybe youd like to go

Topsy is Twitter Search Without an Expiration: With Twitter reducing its search history to four days, it is a challenge for applications that are dependent on search results, that went not days but even months back. Several applications have taken on the

Putting Rap on the Map. Literally.: Rap enthusiasm site, Rap Genius has gone through the impressive tasks of combing rap and Google Maps. Rap Genius Rap Map is a Google Map-based visual almanac of all things rap. You can scan

OAuth-only Twitter: What it Means for JavaScript Apps: Today could be the last day for some web applications built purely with client-side JavaScript and the Twitter API. According to Twitter, Basic Authentication has been permanently shut off, as promised. While the move should

OAuth-only Twitter: What it Means for JavaScript Apps: Today could be the last day for some web applications built purely with client-side JavaScript and the Twitter API. According to Twitter, Basic Authentication has been permanently shut off, as promised. While the move should

Enterprise-level IP Geolocation Made Available Via API: The Big Data service Infochimps now offers IP geolocation from Digital Elements. Infochimps is best known for making huge datasets available as bulk downloads and through RESTful APIs. Digital Elements has traditionally offered enterprise

Twitter API Adds Retweet Count and More: Twitter recently added more data to each tweet it returns via the API. Now your applications can access the number of retweets, whether you have retweeted a tweet and additional information about the user who

Data Journalism: the View from Europe: The fusion of technology and journalism continues apace. On a Manhattan rooftop next month, an emerging breed of journo-geeks will enjoy a coming-out party of sorts, in the form of

DC Metro Gets a Transit API: As a DC-area resident, Ive been one of many local developers saying that the DC Metro needs some sort of API. If anything, just to be able to build or integrate

Google APIs: A to Z: One fateful summer 5 years ago, I discovered ProgrammableWeb and the joy of APIs. I spent my mornings coding on the Amazon, Flickr, and Google APIs, and spent weekends prepping entries for the

16 New APIs: Movie Reviews, Payments and Weather: This week we had 16 new APIs added to our API directory including a social movie review service, twitter management service, online payment service and weather mapping service. Below is more details on each of these

53 APIs Used in 7 Days: Flickr, Twitter and Foursquare: This past week 43 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 53 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include CyberSource Simple, FatSecret, Google

Mashup Mines Twitter Movie Reviews, Shares Results: The humongous amount of data that Twitter generates daily, is spawning a new breed of company that is analyzing the data and providing value-added services on it. While the data mining and intelligence applications are

Web APIs and Service Mashups Research Workshop: Web APIs and mashups are not only of interest to the developer community. There are also research activities that look at how to improve various aspects of API design as well

Location Stalking Via Your Tweeted Photos: Careful what photos you tweet--and where you were when you snapped the shot. Theres another site designed to warn you against the hazards of over-sharing. This time its not related to active location-sharing, but instead

Trace the Dollars Behind the Story with Poligraft: It seems that news pieces are rarely written from a neutral point of view these days, and political news can be especially prone to bias. But how can the average reader, who probably has no

Yahoo Okays Revenue Streams in its Social Streams: Yahoo has removed the commercial restrictions on Yahoo Updates API, its social streams service that provides real-time user activity data. In addition, Yahoo increased the usage limits to make the platform more viable for

Web2.0 List

Study: Young More Likely to Pay for Web Content: One of the most surprising results of a new, more wide-ranging survey by the marketing and media information firm Nielsen was that some people are actually prepared to pay and theyre probably not from the demographic youd expect.

Massive cyber attack simulated in U.S: Security experts launch a cyber attack war game to test the nations cyber security defenses.

Facebook gripes protected by free speech, ruling says: Miami, Florida (CNN) -- A former Florida high school student who was suspended by her principal after she set up a Facebook page to criticize her teacher is protected constitutionally under the First Amendment, a federal magistrate ruled.

China Alarmed by Threat to Security From Cyberattacks: BEIJING Deep inside a Chinese military engineering institute in September 2008, a researcher took a break from his duties and decided against official policy to check his private e-mail messages. Among the new arrivals was an electronic

Wi-Fi Turns Rowdy Bus Into Rolling Study Hall: The students call it the Internet Bus, and what began as a high-tech experiment has had an old-fashioned and unexpected result. Wi-Fi access has transformed what was often a boisterous bus ride into a rolling study hall, and

Email as Identity: Google Turns on WebFinger: If youve been on the Internet for long enough, you may remember the old UNIX finger command. With finger, you could just type in a command like finger email@readwriteweb.com and the email server would return more information about this person.

Google analyst: U.S. Internet needs to get faster: Mountain View, California (CNN) -- Google long has been an advocate of a single Web, one thats free of government censorship and barriers to information access.Thats not the reality in todays world however.

Is the 'Avatar' concept really possible?: Scientists say we are many decades, even centuries, away from making this kind of sophisticated interaction possible, if it can be done at all. But the fundamentals of components required to create this complicated system of mind-controlled avatars are already

5 Ways Airlines and Hotels Can Drive Revenue with Social Media: 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

If Google Wave Is The Future, Google Buzz Is The Present: Google has a problem. Despite having their hands in just about everything online, theyve never been able to tackle what is a key part of the fabric of the web: social. Yes, they have Orkut and OpenSocial, but no one

IPhone credit card swipe war heats up: What if your iPhone took plastic? Imagine if your business could use it as a mobile credit card processor, a swipe-and-go system for ringing up payments wherever you roam.

Dollars Flow Out as Data Flows In: It used to be that a basic $25-a-month phone bill was your main telecommunications expense. But by 2004, the average American spent $770.95 annually on services like cable television, Internet connectivity and video games, according to data from the Census

Google to Add Social Features to Gmail: MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. Google is trying once again to capture some of the momentum surrounding social networking companies like Facebook and Twitter by adding new features to Gmail, its popular e-mail service.

Sketchpad: Online Paint/Drawing application

Shorty Awards spotlight best of Twitter: The Shorty Awards - the real-time Webs version of the Oscars - has released its list of finalists.Check out the list here. You can vote on your favorites until Friday at noon ET. (More on how to do that).Winners will

House Passes Cybersecurity Bill: The House today overwhelmingly passed a bill aimed at building up the United States cybersecurity army and expertise, amid growing alarm over the countrys vulnerability online.

Google Asks Spy Agency for Help With Inquiry Into Cyberattacks: Google has turned to the National Security Agency for technical assistance to learn more about the computer network attackers who breached the companys cybersecurity defenses last year, a person with direct knowledge of the agreement said Thursday.

Google searches getting more social: (CNN) -- Googles move to include social networking information in its searches has gotten personal.The search-engine giant has announced that, with a few tweaks, people using Google can now see search results related to friends, co-workers and other members of

15 Must-Have Web Apps for Students: Using free web apps is an easy and cost-effective way to increase your academic productivity. A well-designed app can also replace expensive software products and free up space on your computer. Here is a list of 15 web apps that

Survey of Executives Finds a Growing Fear of Cyberattacks: A survey of 600 computing and computer-security executives in 14 countries suggests that attacks on the Internet pose a growing threat to the energy and communication systems that underlie modern society.

The Web 2.0 Show

Episode 74 - Neil Patel of KISSmetrics and Crazy Egg: Episode 74 features Neil Patel (@neilpatel), Co-founder and Director of Marketing at KISSmetrics. Neil talks about metrics-based decision making, user feedback and more.

Episode 73 - Prfessor and Piggy Back / Pitch the Show: Jim Kukral of Prfessor and Avand Amiri of Piggy Back pitch their business to Adam, Jonathan and Jim Rogers of i2E.org

Episode 72 - The Lean Startup / Eric Ries: I had a chance to talk with Eric Ries – Eric is the author of the blog Startup Lessons Learned and the creator of the “Lean Startup” methodology and “The New Entrepreneurship“.

Episode 71 - Capital Factory / Josh Baer: Adam speaks with Josh Baer, a Parallel entrepreneur and the Managing Partner at Capital Factory, an early stage accelerator program for tech startups.Adam rates this show as: MUST LISTEN!

Episode 70 - Flowtown / Ethan Bloch: Adam speaks with Ethan Bloch, Co-Founder & CEO of Flowtown to talk about the wonders of serendipity, following your gut and the ins and outs of product development following Eric Reiss Lean Startup model.

Episode 69 - InfoChimps / Founding Team: I sat down the Founders of InfoChimps.org. Infochimps mission is to increase the worlds access to structured data. We talked about handling large data-sets, Mentorship and the importance of Pitching your business.

Episode 68 - Carsonified / Ryan Carson: I spoke with Ryan Carson, a Co-founder of Carsonified, to talk about building a creative agency, separation of personal and business brands, hiring and retaining great designers, running a World Class conference circuit and more.

Episode 67 - HootSuite / Ryan Holmes: I spoke with Ryan Holmes, the Founder and CEO of HootSuite to talk about their Social Media Dashboard HootSuite, rebranding from Bright Kit, pursuing VC funding and when it makes sense to take it.

Episode 66 - Freshbooks / Mike McDerment: I spoke with Mike McDerment, Co-founder and CEO of Freshbooks. Mike shares lots of great advice on building a business, the importance of choosing the RIGHT business partner and more in this jam packed episode.

Episode 43 - Kathy Sierra: Creating Passionate Users: At FOWA 2008, we caught up with Kathy Sierra to talk about creating passionate users, building web apps, the brain and so much more.

Episode 65 - Venmo: SMS-based Payment Platform: I caught up with the Founders of Venmo, Andrew Kortina and Iqram Magdon-Ismail. They have no titles, they wear all available hats in their ultra lean 2 person startup based in Philadelphia, PA.

Episode 64 - Earth Aid / Ben Bixby: I spoke with Ben Bixby about Earth Aid, the EarthAid.net platform, and what it means to liberate your utility data stream and save money on your energy and earn free cupcakes.

Episode 63 - Twilio: Telephony in the Cloud: I spoke with Twilio Founders: Jeff Lawson - CEO (@jeffiel), Evan Cooke - CTO (@emcooke) and John Wolthuis - Lead Engineer (@thuddwhirr). We talked about Twilio, telephony in the cloud and many other topics about running a startup.

Episode 61 - Grasshopper / David Hauser: I spoke with David Hauser, Co-Founder and CTO of Grasshopper as well as Jonathan Kay, aka the Ambassador of Buzz, to talk about their business and how they are helping entrepreneurs succeed.

Episode 59 - Groupon.com / Andrew Mason: I sat down with Andrew Mason (29), Founder and CEO of Groupon.com to discuss to awesome ways they are helping people have fun in the city they live in and save money using the tremendous power of collective buying.

Episode 58 - Font Squirrel / Ethan Dunham: We sat with Ethan Dunham to discuss all the juicy details of FontSquirrel.com and whats going on in the world of free fonts and @font-face.

Episode 57 - AdaptiveBlue & GetGlue / Alex Iskold: Josh and I had a chance to speak with Alex Iskold, Founder and CEO of AdaptiveBlue and GetGlue.com. Getglue.com is a social recommendation engine, which helps you discover new books, music and movies.

Episode 56 - 99Designs & SitePoint / Matt Mickiewicz: Interview with Matt Mickiewicz about 99designs, a leading crowdsourcing platform for graphic design.

Episode 55 - Capital Factory / Marc Nathan: Josh and Adam talk with Marc Nathan of Capital Factory and the Houston Technology Center to discuss Starting Up.

Episode 62 - Molehill: Tom Rossi & Kevin Finn: I had a chance to sit with Tom Rossi and Kevin Finn, the Founders of Molehill a product focused Web Application Development company out of Jacksonville, FL.

Dion Hinchcliffe

Links for 2010-02-03: Middle Management: The Importance of Being Michael Scott - Andrew McAfee - Harvard Business ReviewWill Enterprise 2.0 displace middle management, asks @amcafee? http://bit.ly/7zcqat

Exploring Why Social Business Will Drive 21st Century Enterprises: Below is an new core visual -- which is itself a work-in-progress -- for thinking about social business models. It's part an ongoing strategic line of thinking that I've been developing lately to do some direction finding on strategic uses

Links for 2010-01-28: Is Social Media Worth Your Time? - The Conversation - Harvard Business ReviewIs Social Media Worth Your Time? | Harvard Business: http://bit.ly/7fB9tD Useful discussion of motivations.

Links for 2010-01-20: http://bit.ly/5tj2hnSix Must-Read New Topics in Enterprise Social Computing: http://bit.ly/5tj2hn http://bit.ly/5w0e6gDeep new exploration and sum up of SOA governance by Software AG's @mikojava: http://bit.ly/5w0e6g

The K-factor Lesson: How Social Ecosystems Grow (Or Not): Recently for some work that I'm doing I had to revisit the techniques for creating successful online social environments. This is a surprisingly deep and nuanced topic that we as Web application architects or enterprise social computing practitioners are just

Links for 2010-01-04: Three Enterprise 2.0 Themes You Should Be Watching in 2010 « I’m Not Actually a GeekThree Enterprise 2.0 Themes You Should Be Watching in 2010: http://bit.ly/61pQ3O The Personal Enterprise | Socialwrite.comRT @leebryant Nice post from @jevon on the personal enterprise:

Links for 2010-01-03: Collaborative Innovation through Social Competition | SocialComputingJournal.comCollaborative Innovation through Social Competition: http://bit.ly/57tUdi 21 Enterprise 2.0 Success Stories - Your-On-The-Job Mentorship System from the bright ideas factory21 Enterprise 2.0 Success Stories: http://bit.ly/5SSIq3 Great list, we really must create a full database

Links for 2010-01-02: Is Social Media Worth Your Time? - The Conversation - Harvard Business ReviewIs Social Media Worth Your Time? | Harvard Business: http://bit.ly/7fB9tD Useful discussion of motivations. The New Enterprise 2.0 Community ManagerThe New Enterprise 2.0 Community Manager: http://bit.ly/6itpyh Nice props

How Social Could Disrupt Search: The inimitable Fred Wilson concluded yesterday in "Why Social Beats Search", that "achines can help us find what is good. But with the help of machines, our friends and trusted sources can and will do that even better." This statement

12 Adoption Strategies for Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 in 2010: The signs are pointing to next year being a banner one when it comes to mainstream adoption of the latest digital business models. With half a decade under the belt of the Web 2.0 phenomenon and almost as long for

A New Approach To Social Computing: Pragmatic Enterprise 2.0: Those who follow my work know that I've been attempting to identifying the success factors for enterprise social computing as well as trying to clearly understand the potential issues. What we've learned as a whole over the last year is

Exploring Social Collaboration and Enterprise Architecture In Oslo, Norway: A Trip Report: I spent the early part of this week in Oslo, Norway, a guest of

URL Shorteners: A Tale Of Online Business Models And The Cloud: The announcement this afternoon that URL shortener tr.im would stop service immediately and eventually get rid of all its data sparked widespread discussion in the blogosphere today, as evidenced by all the stories about it clustered on Techmeme. URL shorteners

50 Essential Strategies For Creating A Successful Web 2.0 Product: I am fortunate enough to spend a lot of time looking at various online products and services in the development stage, mostly of the Web 2.0 variety, meaning they use one or more of the principles in the Web 2.0

How to Survive and Thrive in Business Today with Web 2.0 - Part 1: Two of the big themes clearly evident at this week's Web 2.0 Summit is 1) how to effect change successfully today and 2) how to deliver genuine, meaningful value in today's marketplace. The current economic climate combined with this week's

Ten Aspects of Web 2.0 Strategy That Every CTO and CIO Should Know: Over the last year I've worked with organizations around the world that are attempting to grapple with Web 2.0 and the growing external marketplace pressure being exerted for the change and transformation of their businesses. Along the way, I've been

Building Modern Web Apps? Better Have A Deep Competency in Web 2.0, Open APIs, Widgets, Social (...): The Web has an interesting property that those building Web applications and online businesses usually encounter soon after they first launch: It has its own unique and unforgiving rules for success and failure. Appreciating them requires a certain level of

Web 2.0 Continues As Most Used New Internet Term: While it's no longer quite so fashionable to label your Internet startup a "Web 2.0" company

The Growth of Open APIs: More Evidence That Web Services Drive Network Effects: A few days ago Amazon Web Services evangelist Jeff Barr released a graph (Figure 1 below) showing the growth of the bandwidth used by their global Web sites versus the bandwidth being consumed by their Web services. It's eye opening

Endless Conversation: The Unfolding Saga of Blogs, Twitter, Friendfeed, and Social Sites: It wasn't long ago that to be a credible participant in social

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The Undesirable Middle: James Surowiecki on how companies without a clear focus on either the high end or low end are in trouble. As we move out of mass media (TV) as the primary way people learn about things into a web-driven era,

On the Origins of Avatars: As I sit looking at Tweetdeck this morning, scanning over 40 avatars of people I know and dont know, I wonder how much of my interaction is influenced by what a particular avatar looks like. Am I more willing to

The Most Important Feature of a Multi-Device Web: Syncing: If you sync seamlessly across devices, people will love you for it.

Looking for examples of microcopy: Ive set up a new Flickr group with the express intent of aggregating examples of microcopy, that tiny copy (often shorter than a sentence) that helps clarify, explain, reduce commitment, or otherwise assuage someone performing (or considering) a task. You

Dunning-Kruger Effect: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is Part 1: A fascinating read about the Dunning-Kruger Effect, which to my observation is enjoying somewhat of a heyday in certain circles. I see reference to it everywhere…well here is an interview with David Dunning, the one who originally thought of it.

Are You Fun to Follow on Twitter?: Over at Harvard Business Review, Tammy Erickson observes most tweets are not very interesting: Frankly, most people’s tweets are neither interesting nor fun to read — certainly not on a daily or hourly basis. Many, not at all. I say

Google: Forms & Landing Pages are Key: A fascinating post by Googler Gavin Doolan:If you are considering making changes to your website design, take a moment to consider the potential revenue impact of your redesign. (This graph) shows a theoretical overview of the ROI impact of various

Five User Experience Trends: Since my blog has been broken a lot recently I missed this excellent overview of Five User Experience trends by Gene Smith. I can’t help but agree with all of them: Services as Software – Gene is one of the

Dreamers of Day: I recently posted this quote on the 52weeksofUX site, but I like it so much I’m going to post it here as well: “All men dream; but not equally.Those who dream by night in the dustyrecesses of their mindsAwake to

How (And When) to Motivate Yourself: A great piece by Peter Bregman in the Harvard Business Review about How (And When) to Motivate Yourself: I write at least one post a week. Does that take discipline? Sure. But when I break it down, the hardest part

A good problem to have | Mike Industries: Mike Davidson rightly points out why iPhone/iPad apps are often better than their web counterparts. It also amuses me when people talk about two things in particular with regard to the iPhone and iPad. First, how much better some companies’

Facebook Behaving Badly: The difference between Facebook’s public commentary on new features and the actual privacy implications of such features could not be more stark. Consider this tidbit from the EFF, Facebook Further Reduces Your Control Over Personal Information, about a change that

Strong, Weak, & Temporary Ties: Paul Adams, UX researcher at Google, is studying what sorts of relationships people have online. His latest piece, Designing for Social Interaction: Strong, Weak, & Temporary Ties shows how people mostly use social networks to map their life, not create

Apple Removes Rate on Delete for Apps in iPhone 4 – Mac Rumors: Apple is removing a much-maligned social feature from its iPhone software:Developers will be pleased to learn that Apple has removed a controversial "Rate on Delete" feature from iPhone 4. Starting in iPhone 2.2, when a user deleted an App from

Scott Adams on Curiosity: Curiosity is one of the most underrated phenomena in the world. It’s ironic that people aren’t more curious about curiosity. It’s a powerful thing.For example, if you ever wondered if someone is attracted to you, the answer lies in curiosity.

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