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‘Birchbox For Children’s Clothes’ Wittlebee Wants To Automate Your Kid’s Wardrobe: Because I am going to be an awesome and Mom, I will totally keep my ears open to the best possible options for my

Apple Beats Out Google, Amazon For Highest Corporate Reputation Score: Apple took the top spot from Google for the highest corporate reputation score, according to the 2012 Harris Poll Reputation Quotient, a survey which

Report: LinkedIn Leads In Social Job Recruiting Followed By Twitter And Facebook: Bullhorn, which develops a recruitment software and applicant tracking system, is releasing a new Social Recruiting Activity Report, which examines the usage of social

Pops Raises $1.5M From Mangrove To Sexify Mobile Notifications: Pops, maker of an application that adds another dimension to the mobile notifications people receive on their Android smartphones, has raised $1.5 million from

Perfect For A Lonely Valentine’s Day: Behold The Pinterest Porn Clones (NSFW): I was debating with myself whether this should be a post or not, and then decided I should just ask out loud on Twitter

Gadgets Week in Review: Show Floor: Here are some stories from the past week on TechCrunch Gadgets: Tesla Unveils The Model X, An Electric CUV With Futuristic Gullwing-like Doors Microsoft

StopTheHacker Helps Website Owners Combat Malware, Raises $1.1 Million: StopTheHacker, an aptly named provider of SaaS-based website security services, has secured $1.1 million in first-round funding from public and private investors, including Runa

Mashable

Mashable Weekend Recap: 30 Stories You Might Have Missed: The weekend seemed to be rolling along nicely here at Mashable until tragic news struck late Saturday and changed the entire mood, taking us acr…

YouTube for Google TV Gets Faster, Easier to Navigate: Google has updated its YouTube app for Google TV with smoother navigation and several new features. YouTube for Google TV now has new channel p…

Grammys 2012 Live Blog: Join Our Discussion: The 54th Grammy Awards airs tonight, and we’re capturing all the action for you on scene in Los Angeles and remotely from New York City. Join us…

Can Pinterest Help Your Job Search?: Just when you thought you had mastered the job search on all social media platforms, along came Pinterest.You’ve optimized your Facebook and…

10 Kinetic Typography Music Videos: If you’re a music lover and a font fan, then a kinetic typography video beats the more traditional genres hands-down. While you’ve no doub…

The Social Media Salary Guide: Social Media Week is upon us, so we thought it would be appropriate to delve into the social media industry and see how its salaries stack up. Social…

10 Apps for Finding Apps: With the bounty of apps available for mobile devices, it would take a full-time job to customize the best apps to suit our needs and populate our devi…

Read/WriteWeb

Four Free Tools For Better Tweeting: Just because youre not ready to shell out $99 per month to figure out the best times to tweet and post Facebook status updates doesnt mean you cant take better control of understanding your social media output.Indeed, paid

Most Don't Feel Comfortable Sharing Credit Card Info On Social Networks: Most of us still dont like giving our credit card information on social networking sites, according to a poll of 2,630 adults by Harris Interactive for

How Big Data From Connected Machines Gets Used: Big Data is a hot topic these days, but there hasnt been a lot of discussion about the specifics of what will most likely be one of the biggest sources of data: newly web-connected devices in the home

GE and the Internet of Turbines: The next time you have to get an MRI or CT scan you might not know it but if the equipment is made by GE it is phoning home. No, the actual scan data is still between you

Cartoon: Siri, Get Me a Cepacol: Todays cartoon may well be an exercise in envy. Im using an iPhone 3GS, and itll be another 14 months (or 424 days - not that Im counting) before Ill be eligible

Weekly Wrap-up: Not on Facebook, Google Drive and Path's Privacy Issues: Alicia Eler explores the Not On Facebook movement. Jon Mitchell explains why Google Drive wont be a Dropbox clone. Path uploads your entire address book to their servers without permission. All of this and

Your Facebook Friends Influence How You Feel: A cute baby dolphin for your weekend-viewing pleasure a Facebook friend of mine writes. Under the text, I see a link to an imgur-hosted image of that amazingly adorable marine mammal. Suddenly,

This App Tells You All About Your Facebook Friends, But Will It Make You Smarter?: In the two weeks I have been using Wisdom, an iPad and iPhone app that gives you detailed demographic data about your Facebook friends, the number

Daniel Jacobson of Netflix on the API with an Audience: Alexia Tsotsis, who writes for TechCrunch, had this advice on Twitter earlier today: Good tech blogger rule of thumb: Avoid using API in headlines

Zuck Voting for Mitt? How Facebook "Like" Makes Things Ambiguous: Sometimes the Like button is not as clear cut as it seems. Even Zuck would agree.ZDNet reports that a Facebook design flaw has accidentally convinced some readers that Zuckerberg is endorsing Republican

iPads and iPhones Make Up More Web Traffic Than Mac Desktops: The tablet revolution. The post-PC era. The smartphone explosion. Whatever label you want to apply to it, personal computing is changing. People are spending more time with smaller devices like tablets and smartphones and less time on desktops

A Proposal to Fix Online Identity: Facebooks social graph of you isnt you. Its an approximation and an extrapolation based on little clues youve left lying around the Web. Using your Facebook or Google identity gives those services

Brian Stevens on Red Hat's Involvement with OpenStack: Red Hat has been involved with OpenStack development for some time. Unlike the bulk of companies involved, however, Red Hat has gone about its work quietly and without officially joining the effort.

Artist's Time-Lapse Map of the World's 2053 Nuclear Explosions: For those of us that came of age during the 1980s and after, the threat of nuclear oblivion has never seemed to be a real threat. The dangers of AIDS, economic failure,

When Facebook Defriending Ends in Murder: Reuters reports that a Tennessee couple who defended Jenelle Potter on Facebook were murdered by her father and another man. This is just senseless, said Johnson County Sheriff Mike Reece told Reuters.

How Yahoo's Homepage Delivers Personalized News to 700 Million People (Visualization): With all the attention focused on sites like Facebook and Googles properties, its sometimes easy to forget how many people visit Yahoo on a typical day. The site has over 700 million users and gets a massive amount

Microsoft Sides with Apple in FRAND Licensing Fracas: The term reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing or RAND (which may or may not include the F for fair, depending on ones whim) was

How We Used 15 Minutes To Save $600 On Airfare: My girlfriend and I are renting an apartment in Paris for a week this summer, which is the first real vacation I have taken since 2006,

Are the iPad 3 Rumors Underwhelming?: One more thing ... what will it be this time around? Apples so-called iPad 3 is said to be announced in the first week of March and the rumor mill thinks it

Iran Blocks HTTPS, Cutting Off Gmail, Yahoo and Other Major Sites: The Iranian government isnt exactly known as a champion of free speech and access to information. Thus, its never shocking to hear about Internet censorship in the country, the state of which appears to be getting worse all

GigaOM

Crazy Frog 2.0? Pops scores $1.5m for custom alerts: Remember Crazy Frog? The bike-riding amphibian and his irritating, ubiquitous song symbolized the premium ringtone market a few years ago, before — thankfully — fading into obscurity as smartphones and apps helped crush the popularity of expensive over-the-air mobile tunes.

TV Anytime now lets you take DVDs on the go with your iPad: Have a DVD that you want to watch while traveling or otherwise away from home? The latest version of the TV Anytime app will let its users rip and transfer DVDs from their desktops to mobile devices for on-the-go viewing.

A big lesson from climate science for entrepreneurs: Jonathan Koomeys first essay in a series of four this week that highlights, and excerpts from, his upcoming book, Cold Cash, Cool Climate, which discusses how entrepreneurs and investors can profit from tackling climate change, one of this century’s greatest

Boxee may launch a DVR subscription service: Boxees Live TV tuner has been lacking the capability to record any TV programming, but the startup may be working on its very own subscription service to bring DVR functionality to the Boxee Box. A survey sent out this weekend

Why monitoring sucks — for now: Its become almost cliche to bemoan the state of infrastructure monitoring and management tools. Cliff Moon, the CTO of Boundary, cuts through the litany of complaints and explains why it’s time for us to think of monitoring in a new

What’s Trending launching new season, new verticals and more event coverage: There are many shows which claim to be talk shows for the Internet, but theres only one weekly hour-long celebration of whats popular online. And Whats Trending is determined to continue covering web culture while also attempting to grow into

What to make of AT&T’s vanishing spectrum crisis: Is AT&T failing to keep its story straight about the need for more spectrum, or is it just that the popping of the spectrum bubble has taken them by surprise as well? The nations second largest operator now sees a

Which is less expensive: Amazon or self-hosted?: Charlie Oppenheimer may be a fan of Amazon Web Services. But, as he explains here, hes long felt that the economics of the choice between self-hosted and cloud provider had more texture to it than the patently attractive sounding “10

Android this week: Chrome browser arrives; Transformer Prime reviewed; Android 4.0 updates planned: After two weeks of using the Asus Transformer Prime, Im convinced that its best large Android tablet available today for several reasons. Android 4.0 devices all got a better browser this week, thanks to the Chrome beta. Meanwhile HTC announced

5 stories to read this weekend: Dont get mad at me for not finding seven stories for you to read. I have been distracted and as a result I have not been able to spend as much time reading as I normally do. Regardless, here is

Kleiner Perkins said to eye “cloud” fund: VC power player Kleiner Perkins is reportedly considering a new fund that will be dedicated to cloud computing companies. Whether or not it follows through, KPCB has already backed big-time cloud plays including Zynga and brought a former Twitter exec

Amazon hiring creative execs for original programming: Add Amazon Studios to the list of online video providers that could soon release some new original programming. The company is looking to hire creative executives to develop and produce original comedies and kids shows for online and traditional distribution.

Review: Transformer Prime; best Android tablet yet: The Asus Transformer Prime has several firsts for 2012. Its the first tablet to use Googles Android 4.0 software. And its the first tablet to run on Nvidias Tegra 3 quad-core chip. So does first equal best? In this case,

Bits meet bite: Check out the connected toothbrush: Want to really embrace the quantitative self? Forget tracking your sleep and start tracking your dental hygiene. Beam Technologies, a year-old startup is set to introduce a Bluetooth-enabled toothbrush and app that will launch next month and retail for around

Apple brings its German battle with Moto home to CA: In yet more legal news on the Apple front, on Friday the company filed another lawsuit against Motorola. Its asking a district court to prevent Motorola from suing Apple in European courts over technology in mobile devices Apple says its

Don’t look now but Microsoft Azure is a kick-butt cloud: Microsofts ambitious Windows Azure cloud is many things -- its a full-fledged PaaS for developers. But beneath that, it is also a huge pool of foundational storage infrastructure for rent. And in that arena, it could be the only real

Foursquare and NFC: how the two can help each other: Foursquare has updated its Android app to include support for tap-and-go check-ins and P2P sharing using NFC. The app will now be able to read NFC tags at a location and immediately take a user to a venue page, where

Happy Birthday Flickr!: Today happens to be the 8th birthday of Flickr, a ground breaking photo sharing service that introduced to the world the founding principles of a social web: community, sharing, openness and social connections. Flickr today languishes in the shadow of

How social media is making polling obsolete: Companies are hot on social media for a number of reasons, but perhaps chief among them should be that social platforms can create focus groups at a scale never before possible. Given the right big data tools and techniques, the

Wall Street gains an edge by trading over microwaves: McKay Brothers, a firm that sells high capacity links to trading firms, is connecting the financial districts of New York and Chicago with a network that aims to execute the fastest trades in the country. Instead of using fiber, though,

TNW

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

37signals

99 problems but money ain't one: When the Series A check clears, most startups send out a bragging press release, the equivalent of flashing your grill. The VC backing is supposed to mean that the company has experienced hands in its corner. That it’s financially solid.

All or something: One of the most pervasive myths of startup life is that it has to be all consuming. That unless you can give your business all your thoughts and hours, you don’t deserve success. You are unworthy of the startup call.This

Behind the scenes: Reinventing our Default Profile Pictures: Mister DefaultHere he is: our default profile picture. You may know him as “Generic Avatar”. He’s the picture you get when you create a new account and profile on Basecamp, Highrise, Backpack, and

What's your answer?: “If a customer asked you why, how would you answer?” This is a question I’ve been asking a lot lately. Why could be “why does it work this way?” or “why can’t I do that?” or some variation on that

No framework needed: It goes without saying that we use Rails a lot here at 37signals. Often times, when we look at a problem, we turn to Rails or something similar, because when you have a high-performance precision screwdriver, everything starts to look

SaaS: Change starts easy and then gets really hard: Basecamp just turned 8 years old. Here’s the launch announcement right here on this blog back on February 5, 2004. That’s a long time ago.We’ve learned a ton since then. One of the most interesting lessons has been the increasing

Lessons from Moneyball: don't get left behind: I recently read and watched “Moneyball”, and enjoyed both greatly. It’s a great story in and of itself, but I also found it to be an interesting parallel to the state of the “web software” industry today.Moneyball starts in the

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

PHOTO: Boney Money Brown.: Boney Money Brown.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

O'Reilly Radar

There's Plan A, and then there's the plan that will become your business: We need a word that captures the specific sort of pain entrepreneurs feel when their carefully developed startup ideas are met with blank indifference. All that time. All that effort. And it adds up to ... this?Running Lean author Ash

Four short links: 13 February 2012: Rise of the Independents (Bryce Roberts) -- companies that dont take VC money and instead choose to grow organically: indies. +1 for having a word for this.The Performance Golden Rule (Steve Souders) -- 80-90% of the end-user response time is

Preview of HIMSS 2012: I am very happy to be attending the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference this year. We are at a pivotal moment in the history of healthcare in this country and health IT is playing a very prominent

O'Reilly Radar Show 2/10/12: The 5 trends that will shape the data world: Below youll find the script and associated links from the February 10, 2012 episode of OReilly Radar. An archive of past shows is available through OReilly Medias YouTube channel and you can subscribe to episodes of OReilly Radar via iTunes.IntroductionThere

Top stories: February 6-10, 2012: Heres a look at the top stories published across OReilly sites this week.The NoSQL movementA relational database is no longer the default choice. Mike Loukides charts the rise

Developer Week in Review: A pause to consider patents: This week, as I do occasionally, I want to focus in on one specific topic. For regular readers, the topic of technology innovation and patents is nothing new; its a problem that is frequently covered in this space. But this

Publishing News: B&N boycott becomes booksellers' cold war against Amazon: Here are a few stories from the publishing space that caught my eye this week.The booksellers cold war rages onTwo weeks ago, Amazon made a move that might

Visualization of the Week: Chasing storm chasers: Hundreds of storm chasers and scientists are active during the spring and summer, the months when tornadoes are most likely to form over the Great Plains.Tim Dye at Data Tech Art has created the following visualization that tracks the storm

Commerce Weekly: Facebook finds a mobile commerce partner: Here are a few items that caught my eye this week.How will Facebook cash in on mobile?With Facebooks public filings ahead of its imminent IPO, we

Four short links: 10 February 2012: Monki Gras 2012 (Stephen Walli) -- nice roundup of highlights of the Redmonk conference in London. Sample talk: Why Most UX is Shite.Frozen -- flow-based programming, intent is to build the toolbox of small pieces loosely joined by ZeroMQ for

Jury to Eolas: Nobody owns the interactive web: As Joe Mullin reported at Wired earlier tonight, a Texas jury has struck down a companys claim to own the interactive web. The decision in this case comes after more than a decade of legal wrangling that has drawn in

O'Reilly ebooks now optimized for Kindle Fire: Earlier this week, we at OReilly regenerated all of our ebook-bundle Mobi files, upgrading them to meet the specifications for Amazons latest ebook format, KF8.These files are now available for download in your account on oreilly.com. If your ebook bundle

Strata Week: Your personal automated data scientist: Here are a few of the data stories that caught my attention this week:Wolfram|Alpha Pro: An on-call data scientistThe computational knowledge engine Wolfram|Alpha unveiled a pro version this week. For $4.99 per month ($2.99 for students), Wolfram|Alpha Pro offers access

It's time for a unified ebook format and the end of DRM: This post originally appeared on Publishers Weekly.Imagine buying a car that locks you into one brand of fuel. A new BMW, for example, that only runs on

Now available: Best of TOC 2012 anthology: We just released Best of TOC 2012, a free anthology that brings together key interviews and analysis from Radars publishing area. The material in

Four short links: 9 February 2012: Weave -- web-based visualization platform designed to enable visualization of any available data by anyone for any purpose. GPL and MPL-licensed. (via Flowing Data)Flotr2 -- MIT-licensed Javascript library for drawing HTML5 charts and graphs. It is a branch of flotr

Tip for B&N: Don't just follow Amazon: This post is part of the TOC podcast series. You can also subscribe to the free TOC podcast through iTunes.I follow dozens of publishing blogs and tweet streams, but theres one that always rises above the rest for me. Any

The NoSQL movement: In a conversation last year, Justin Sheehy, CTO of Basho, described NoSQL as a movement,rather than a technology. This description immediately felt right;Ive never been comfortable talking about NoSQL, which when takenliterally, extends from the minimalist Berkeley DB (commercializedas Sleepycat,now

Four short links: 8 February 2012: Mavuno -- an open source, modular, scalable text mining toolkit built upon Hadoop. (Apache-licensed)Cow Clicker -- Wired profile of Cowclicker creator Ian Bogost. I was impressed by Cow Clickers have turned what was intended to be a vapid experience into

Unstructured data is worth the effort when you've got the right tools: Its dawning on companies that data analysis can yield insights and inform business decisions. As data-driven benefits grow, so do our demands about what more data can tell us and what other types we can mine.During her PhD studies, Alyona

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CenterNetworks

Web Jobs – February 12: Check out some of the latest web technology and business jobs posted for February 12, 2012 on the CenterNetworks Job Board. Subscribe to the CN Jobs feed and get all of the latest Web industry jobs delivered directly to you.

Shark Tank Recap – February 10 “The Snuggie is Dead”: Below is a recap of the February 10, 2012 episode of the ABC show Shark Tank (episode 302). If you are unfamiliar with Shark Tank, the concept is simple – entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to a panel of investors and

Why I Am Selling CenterNetworks: Several friends and colleagues have noticed the HelloBar on CN noting that I am looking to sell the site and they have asked me why. It’s simple…I am focused on my startup now and just don’t have the time to

NYC Tech Incubator Showcase (video): The New York Technology Council held an incubator showcase for several NYC-based incubators last summer. Joly MacFie from WWWhatsup NYC posted a video of the event – you can watch the 90 minute event below. Here’s the presenter list: Bruce

Deal Site Smackdown: The Valentine’s Day Edition: Next Tuesday is the annual holiday known as Valentine’s Day. The day is named after St. Valentine and over 150 million cards are exchanged – here’s the full history of this very special day. This year the new deal sites

Top 10 Russian Web Startups of 2011: Yakov Sadchikov, President & CEO of visual search engine Quintura, has put together the following list of the top 10 Russian web startups for 2011. In September 2011, Russia became the largest Internet market in Europe with 51 million online

NCR Sells Blockbuster Express Kiosks To RedBox: Somehow I thought this year would be the end for the Blockbuster Express kiosk machines. Back in November they changed their pricing model and it seemed like it just became a lot more expensive to rent from Blockbuster Express versus

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NFL Huddle: NFL Huddlecomment on the game, trash talk with fans, and see what the buzz is. | | |

bguided: bguided(email waitinglsit)Find the in-places for your next citytrip and be there where the locals hang out | @bguided | |

AgreeDo: AgreeDoCreate structured meeting minutes and share them easily with your team. Take minutes quickly and easily. | Blog | |

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

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

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

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

ProgrammableWeb

The Object Network: Making Mashups Easy: You may have seen the statistics and chart on this site showing that the number of APIs is taking off like crazy. There is clearly an enormous and increasing demand for data.

68 New APIs: Msgme, Searchify and Snapjoy: This week we had 68 new APIs added to our API directory including a messaging and mobile marketing platform, blog traffic analytics service, hosted full-text search service, San Francisco real-time parking information, photo sharing and storage

31 APIs Used in 7 Days: Zillow, Sendgrid and Yahoo Answers: This past week 17 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 31 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Amazon SES, Google Directions,

Today in APIs: Twitter’s X-Warning, TaskRabbit’s API and 6 New APIs: If your OAuth token is funky, Twitter has a way to let you know without completely making your app crash. The errand outsourcing service TaskRabbit is in nine cities and now has its own API.

“Don’t Use Our Private API,” They Said Snark.ly: Sniffing for API calls from mobile applications has become the hip new way to open platforms that arent yet ready for outside developers. Usually broadly-written terms and conditions essentially forbid this sort

How to Get Help From a Google Developer Advocate: No other company has more APIs listed in our directory than Googles 96 APIs. The company also employs multiple people for each of those APIs to assist developers. Mano Marks is one of those

Google Trends API: Developers Want It, Says Google Insights: Google has two similar projects that show search trends over time: Google Trends for comparing keywords and Google Insights, which explores sub-searches within a trend. It can be difficult to determine the difference between

Best New Mashups: The Latest Flickr Mashups: This weeks look at the newest and best mashups will focus on one of the most popular APIs, Flickr. With nearly 600 mashups, Flickr is the fourth most used API in our directory. Each of

“Apply Via API” Company Slammed With Applicants: I felt like every mobile developer in the valley was probably talking about Parse that night, said James Yu, one of the companys founders. It was Yus idea to invite potential technical employees to apply

Kickstarter Twitter App Turns Retweets Into Sweets: Weve seen SMS garage door openers that connect APIs to physical objects. A new app and hardware combo built on the Twitter API looks to give you a physical treat for retweets.

Infographic: Mobile Backend-as-a-Service Ecosystem: There are now a number of backend-as-a-service companies focused on mobile developers. We list 6 backend APIs that help with common mobile tasks, including the Cocoafish API, which was today acquired by Appcelerator. But its

Today in APIs: Facebook Credits, LinkedIn Acquisition and 7 New APIs: Many game developers arent seeing the increase in conversions or revenue they hoped for from the Facebook Credits API. LinkedIn has acquired API-happy Rapportive. Plus: financial data challenges, API vs. RSS and 7 new APIs.

Pinterest API: Coming Soon or Already Here?: Move over, Instagram API, theres a new hotness. In a similar way that developers sought out Instagram, photo tagging site Pinterest has its share of API sniffers and unofficial wrappers. That

The EveryScape API Can Show You The Way: There is a restaurant near my house that I go to often, it’s hard to find and I have trouble explaining to my friends how to get there. I can’t help but wonder how much

Today in APIs: Flickr Competition, the “Real” Google Plus API and 15 New APIs: A competitor created an export tool for Flickr ex-patriots, so the photo sharing site shut down the Flickr API developer key. The Google Plus developer page makes some wonder if the real Google Plus API

81 Analytics APIs: Google Analytics, SendGrid and Awe.sm: Our API directory now includes 82 analytics APIs. The newest is the Clarabridge API. The most popular by far, in terms of mashups, is the Google Analytics API. We list 49 Google Analytics mashups

Like YQL? Try it with the ProgrammableWeb API: APIs are inherently difficult to learn for developers. The ProgrammableWeb API is no exception to this rule either. In this article we will show some examples of how

Today in APIs: Private Path API, Wolfram’s Siri Love and 18 New APIs: Path.com has a mobile app, so of course it has an API. Someone sniffed the traffic and discovered something naughty. And you know the answer-anything Wolframe Alpha? Find out why it really, really

API as Product: With Volume Comes Lower Prices: Amazon just dropped prices on its popular Amazon S3 API, which provides storage to much of the web. The service will pass 1 trillion objects stored this year. With that volume comes opportunities to

RunKeeper Sprints Away to Success With More Apps and Devices: RunKeeper is on its way to becoming the data platform for health applications. Last August, they announced the RunKeeper Health Graph with an API to boot, which makes it possible to build a

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