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Sweating The Small Stuff: Sotheby’s Selling Original Steve Jobs Note About Atari Circuit Impr(...): The auction house Sothebys is selling an official memo from Steve Jobs to Atari about improving the World Cup Football game. The pages -

Apple Responds To DOJ eBook Lawsuit, Calls it “Fundamentally Flawed” and “Absurd”: Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice accused Apple and a number of other large U.S. publishers of conspiring to fix eBook prices and filed

TinyTap App Lets Kids Create Customized iPad Books & Games: TinyTap is a new iPad application designed for kids which introduces a different angle on the record-your-own-voice storybooks craze, by offering a playable book

Gillmor Gang Live 05.25.12 (TCTV): Gillmor Gang - John Taschek, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recording live at 1pm PT.

MoPub Launches A “Buy It Now” Private Marketplace For Mobile Advertisers: MoPub, an ad serving startup for smartphone apps, is announcing a new way for its publishers to offer

Gadget Of The Week: The Parrot AR.Drone 2.0: There are plenty of ways to get your flight school kicks with your smartphone or tablet — this missile shooting Griffin chopper comes to

SimplyUs Brings Couples Closer, With An App For Organizing Their Lives Together: The latest entrant into the couple-sharing mobile app space is SimplyUs, a Toronto-based startup that aims to make couples happier by adding

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Startup Partners With Top Designers, Celebrities on High-End Capsule Collections: The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st…

‘Dear Photograph’ Turns 1, Spawns Book, Prepares for App Launch: Surreal. Humbling. Grateful. One year after unleashing Dear Photograph, a blog showcasing photos within photos, Taylor Jones describes his emoti…

11 Hilarious ‘Men in Black’ Parodies: A few weeks ago we found out a lot of people like to dress up with their friends as the Avengers? It turns out, a lot more of you like the Men in Blac…

New Computer Algorithm Knows Your Phony Smile: Have you ever wondered how genuine that smile really is?If your intuition isn’t stellar at gauging real versus fake smiles, this information m…

Are You Game for Tetris: The Movie?: They made a movie out of Battleship, right? So why not Tetris? That’s the plausible conceit behind this (unfortunately fake) trailer for a mo…

10 Ways to Bootstrap Your Startup Office Decor: Building a great company culture is really important to motivate your staff and to get everyone working toward a common vision and feeling a part o…

Texting and Walking: 65% of You Do it: By now you’ve probably seen the videos of the woman falling into a mall fountain or the guy who comes dangerously close to a bear while walki…

Geek Pride: Mashable Staff Shows Off Their Nerdiest Tees to Celebrate: While every day may be “Geek Pride” Day in the Mashable offices, we decided to celebrate the day in style with our best nerdy tees.Mashab…

Yahoo Shutters Flipboard Competitor After Just 6 Months: Yahoo has decided to discontinue production of Yahoo Livestand, a newsreading app for the iPad launched just six months ago. The news was announ…

Headed Out for Memorial Day? Pack These Apps: Headed out for a Memorial Day weekend road trip? Before you hit the road, take a few minutes to check out the places you’ll be going. Rea…

App Helps Steer You to Lowest Gas Prices: More than 30 million people will drive at least 50 miles over Memorial Day Weekend, according to results a survey from the AAA.No matter where they…

‘The Avengers’: The First All-Star Movie By Design: With some industry observers projecting global box office revenues as high as $2 billion for The Avengers, its clear that the film is an unprecedented success. Many have pegged Marvel Studios franchise producer...

May the Crafts Be With You: 15 Star Wars Etsy Items: Today is the 35th anniversary of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, and to celebrate, Mashable has decided to get its craft on by gathering the quirkie…

iPhone-Powered gTar Teaches You How to Play the Guitar: “If you’ve ever picked up a guitar for the first time and tried to play a favorite song, you know how discouraging it can be. The gTar co…

Facebook Pushes ‘Close Friends’ List, Becomes More Like Google+: Facebook is testing a new feature called Close Friends, which lets you know every action the people you add to the list take on the social netwo…

Prepare for the Facebook Browser: Are you ready for a Facebook browser that integrates the social networking behemoth into your online life more than ever? That’s exactly w…

‘Call Me Maybe’ Mashup of 75 Videos Will Haunt You: Carly Rae Jepsen’s catchy “Call Me Maybe” continues to win over the hearts of countless Internet music lovers, topping Billboard‘…

Photo Challenge: Show Us Your Best Action Shot: A sense of motion can turn a static photo into something truly engaging. Whether it’s a car speeding down the highway or a puppy catching a tenn…

The Stock Is Down But the Sky Isn’t Falling for Facebook: What a difference a week makes. Some seven days ago, media outlets from around the world were stumbling over themselves covering “the most…

Should Entrepreneurs Collect Unemployment?: A plan backed by the U.S. Department of Labor would allow entrepreneurs to collect unemployment benefits while they build a business, an acknowl…

Read/WriteWeb

Read/Write Daily: Don't Call It a Pivot: Todays theme is movers and shakers. How about some straight-up tech news for once? Theres a lot of interesting maneuvering going on right now, and since RWW doesnt tend to report on rumors, this seems

How Big Tech Companies Keep Quiet on Big News: Even as all sorts of questions swirl around last week’s initial public offering and this week’s release of a camera app that looks a lot like the camera app it paid $1 billion for last month, Facebook has taken its usual

SpaceX Dragon Berths with International Space Station: After a flawless launch on May 22, the SpaceX Dragon capsule has become the first commercial spacecraft to berth at the International Space Station. After a flyby last night, the capsule approached the station, and station flight engineers Don Pettit

A Five-Year Update: The State of the Web in India: Since this 2006 article on RWW about the Top Web Apps in India, a lot has happened in the Indian web industry. Some new entrants have made a mark for themselves and some existing ones have

College Degrees: More and More, They're Just a Piece of Paper: Faking a computer science degree cost Scott Thompson his CEO job. But with one notable exception, most observers thought he was doing OK, under lousy circumstances.Sure, the lying was wrong, but apart from that, would

Are You A Narcissist? Use Twitter and Facebook To Find Out: A study released last month breaks down patterns on how narcissists use social networks and finds differences in patterns on Facebook when compared with those on Twitter.An individual’s level of narcissism is displayed not in

6 Time Management Strategies for Startups: Many startups seem to be powered solely by excitement over the new business (occasionally mixed with some Red Bull and Starbucks). Startup founders typically devote every waking moment to their companies, and probably even dream about it too. But while

Watch Live: SpaceX Docks at International Space Station (+ Profile of Founder Elon Musk): Tonight, starting at 11pm PT, the SpaceX capsule Dragon will rendezvous with the International Space Station for the first time. Its streaming live on UStream and you can watch it here. To prepare you for this historic event, weve profiled

Sign o' the Times: IBM, SAP Now Support Microsoft's Standardization Move: Its perhaps the one way that database interaction can work reliably using any format, any server and any client on the Web today. It happens to be a protocol created by Microsoft. But in a symbol of how Microsoft is

Why Facebook Just Launched Its Own Instagram: Just a month after announcing its plans to devour hit app Instagram to the tune of $1 billion, Facebook has released its very own photo sharing app. But is two a crowd? Camera, Facebooks brand new photo sharing app, is built

A Poor Investment? VC Firm Targets the “Underbanked”: There’s a lot of money in poor people. KPMG reports that America’s 88 million consumers who are “unbanked” (no bank account) or “underbanked” (no credit) earn $1.3 trillion a year. At least one venture capital

ownCloud Growing Into Its Own With Versioning, APIs and Collaboration: The ownCloud project is adding features fast and furiously. The open-source file synchronization and sharing project announced the Milestone 4 release earlier this week, taking ownCloud in an interesting direction for corporate users. Forget Dropbox

Why Yahoo's Axis Is Going to Fail: Axis, Yahoos new kind of browser that launched yesterday, is an attempt to do something noble and important. Yahoo has taken away the search results page, the intermediate step where a search engine makes most of its

Read/Write Daily: Building the Real-Life Starship Enterprise: Todays theme is real artists ship. Everyone wants their tech to be fun. iPads get close, but its quite another thing to build actual space stations or robot exoskeletons... or the actual Starship Enterprise.But people

New Prize for Bio-Sensors Announced by X Prize Foundation: Today the X Prize Foundation announced a $2.25 million Nokia Sensing X Challenge to produce a new generation of health care and biometric sensors. This adds a new health-related prize to their roster of other

Cartoon: Why Social Media Matters for Your Customers: It is time for another look at enterprise IT from our friends Chief and Chuck. If your management still thinks Facebook and Twitter are fads, then perhaps this cartoon will hit home. After all, if

Keeping Your Cloud Presence Straight: Spiceworks Launches Free Detection Feature: If your boss asked you to identify all of the various SaaS-based providers that are being used across your corporate network, how long would it take you to put together a report? This isnt

The Psychology of Being Unfriended on Facebook: Social scientists are increasingly looking at online friendships and trying to figure out if they carry the same emotional baggage that real-world friendships do. A preliminary study suggests that breaking up, even if it’s on

Facebook IPO: Who Are the Real Losers?: PayPal co-founder and Facebook pre-IPO stockholder Peter ThielFacebooks tainted public offering, which has attracted the attention of federal securities investigators, has grown a bit darker with the filing of a class-action lawsuit. Los Angeles-based law firm Glancy Binkow & Goldberg filed

Blowing the Cloud Wide Open: Box.net to Begin Negotiable Enterprise Licenses: The generally accepted definition of cloud services - even the one prescribed by the U.S. Government (PDF available here) - includes the existence of metered or measured service - usually a flat rate that

GigaOM

Ambient video and the changing face of communication: Video is becoming more of a casual form of communication, with people leaving video chat services like OoVoo on in the background for hours on end. Video sharing is becoming more immediate with more live broadcasting of your life.

7 stories to read this weekend: And one more time, I find myself sitting on a flight back from New York, working on the most important thing I do at the end of the week: pick seven stories (out of dozens) for you to read. Hope

With new U.S. presence, Shopcade expands its social commerce business model: Riding the wave of social commerce, London-based Shopcade launched in November with a platform that lets people earn rewards for recommending products to friends. Now, its expanding its presence stateside and beefing up its business model with new ways users

Andy Carvin on Twitter as a newsroom and being human: In a discussion about his use of Twitter as a reporting tool, NPR strategist Andy Carvin made some interesting points about the value of crowdsourced journalism -- including the importance of being transparent about the process, and the virtues of

Can the Web make mental-health treatment more mainstream?: Launched with $650,000, NY-based Talktala believes it can bring counseling to more consumers with a Web platform that provides anonymity and more affordable prices.

Behind the scenes of a failed Kickstarter project: A little more than half of the projects on Kickstarter fail. But understanding those failures can help others avoid the same fate. So, I spoke to one of the founders of a failed project to understand what lessons others might

New medical spectrum will untether patients from their monitors: Soon, a stay in intensive care will no longer mean being physically tethered to every monitoring device imaginable. The FCC has designated a slice of radio airwaves for medical body area networks, which will allow hospitals to cut the cord

How Intuit uses big data to ‘delight’ you: If youve ever wondered what big data means at an individual level, this realization about sums it up: I could either keep dying my hair or retire a year earlier. Its those types of realizations Intuit hopes its heavy big

BYOD didn’t kill Cicso’s tablet; it was a doomed idea: Citing employee preferences and the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement, Cisco is no longer investing in the Cius Android tablet it announced in 2010. I say bull: The product had fail written all over it and never gained traction

MongoDB or MySQL? Why not both?: NoSQL databases like MongoDB, Cassandra or CouchDB are a key foundation for web startups. But those companies might be better served using an old-fashioned relational database when it comes to their bread-and-butter transactions, according to Thrillist CTO Mark ONeill.

New Orleans, newspapers and the beginning of the end: As painful as the decision to stop printing daily may be for the New Orleans Times-Picayune and its staff, it grappling with a reality that almost every newspaper will have to face sooner or later, whether they want to or

Has Google changed its mind about sharing its fiber network?: It looks like Google is backing off its commitment to an open fiber to the home network, according to my conversations with sources, a reading of the Google blog and evasions by the search giant when I asked about its

Who’s building mobile Websites? Pizzerias and plumbers: Pizzerias love the mobile Web. Why? There’s a feature embedded in many of their sites called click-to-call that allows a hungry mobile surfer to initiate a phone order directly from the Webpage. An astonishing 35 percent of site visits result

Video: Why Bump should be on your smartphone now: I used to use Bump, the mobile app that wirelessly transfers data between two smartphones, but over time, I uninstalled it. Now its not only back on my phones, but has a coveted home screen spot thanks to the latest

Introducing the V-Pole, a connectivity, electricity, utility pole mashup: The idea behind the V-Pole -- a concept utility pole and art project from the brain of Vancouver-based writer Douglas Coupland -- is basically: make it transparent, design it well and it put it all in one place.

You’ll flip over the first video from Google’s Project Glass: The first video capture taken with Googles Project Glass hardware has surfaced, and the quality isnt bad. Various stills images show camera improvements in the hardware. Thats important. Why? Because the camera could play the most important input role for

Would Quest buy help Dell?: Dell may buy Quest Software in a bid to bolster its overall software management play, according to a Bloomberg report. Quest makes management software and tools that could help Dells bid to become an enterprise services provider -- a long-time

PayPal quietly starts marketing in-store payments to consumers: PayPal has made headlines about the business arrangements its secured for its in-store payment system. But the consumer strategy will be just as important. PayPal told me the marketing campaign for consumers began in the last week and will ramp

How Phil DeFranco plans to save YouTube: Philip DeFrancos new YouTube channel Sourcefed clocked 100 million views since it launched three months ago as part of YouTubes new channel roll-out. But with YouTube focusing on professional content, smaller producers could be left behind. Thats why DeFranco wants

New Apple app discovery tools welcome, but aren’t enough: Apple continues to introduce features to its app stores meant to better surface quality apps. It recently introduced two more, including a new Editors Choice label and a free app of the week. But its clear more needs to be

TNW

Tears, Tantrums & Tech: How to deal with mentor overload on an accelerator program: Mentors: if you’re on an accelerator program, you’re going to be facing a lot of them. How do you deal with being bombarded by so much (sometimes conflicting) advice? In...

“I’m not a Luddite” – Andrew Keen talks about his new book Digital Vertigo: Andrew Keen. The writer and broadcaster who managed to irritate a large group of people on the Web with his last book, “The Cult of the Amateur”, was in London...

Good news for social video apps: Facebook introduces “trending videos” to your news feed: Last month, Facebook introduced a feature called “trending articles” that stuck a slideshow into your news feed of popular news articles via your friends that you might have missed. It...

Apple re-releases iOS 5.1.1 update for iPhone 4 GSM units only: Apple has released another version of the iOS 5.1.1 software for GSM versions of the iPhone 4 only, reports iPhone hacker iH8sn0w. This update is build number 9B208 and no...

If Tetris was made into a movie, this would be its trailer: We love all things geeky here at The Next Web, including the amazing game from our childhoods, TETRIS. I’ve had this game on Nintendo, Game Boy, iPhone and every other...

Airbnb updates its iOS app to give you offline access to your messages and itineraries: Among some usability tweaks and bug fixes, Airbnb has announced an update to its iOS app which brings a new cool feature: offline access for messages and itineraries. If you’ve...

According to its App Store reviews (from Yahoo! employees), Axis is a hit: Yahoo! came at the tech world in a blur this week, launching its new search and browsing tool Axis. Response has been lukewarm, especially since the launch didn’t go completely...

37signals

The Art of Computer Typography: Ever since I came across Jürg Lehni’s essay on typographic technology and digital fonts, Typeface As Programme, I’ve been fascinated with the story of Donald E. Knuth and his unexpected contributions to typography.You see, Knuth is a professor and computer

Get your free copy of Getting Real: Getting Real, our book about a smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application, is now available as a free PDF (it used to cost $19).We’ve use the Getting Real methods to develop all of our products. Here’s

A good day's work: It’s easy to convince yourself that working until your eyes bleed and your fingers cramp is simply what must be done when starting something new.You can dangle yourself the carrot that it’s just until you get out of the first

You only get one chance to be a beginner: When you’re new to something, all the pain is out in the open. You stub your toes until they’re black and blue on things the veterans have all learned to avoid. This is both a curse and a gift.A curse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

O'Reilly Radar

Top Stories: May 21-25, 2012: Heres a look at the top stories published across OReilly sites this week.White House launches new digital government strategyThe nations new strategy for digital government is built on

Visualization of the Week: 30 years of tech IPOs: This weeks visualization comes from The New York Times, which tries to shed a little light on Facebooks initial public offering by showing how it compares to the 2,400 technology IPOs that have occurred since 1980.The visualization begins with a

Publishing News: Kindle Fire and "your ad here": Heres what caught my attention this week in the publishing space:Kindle Fire home screen may be for saleRumors flew this week saying Amazon plans to launch an

Developer Week in Review: Oracle's big bet fails to pay off: Ive been taking the opportunity this week to do some spring office cleaning. Unfortunately, I clean my home office infrequently enough that at a certain point, cleaning it becomes more an exercise in archeology than organization. Theres nothing like finding

Four short links: 25 May 2012: Meet The New Boss, Worse Than The Old Boss -- transcript of a thoughtful music industry insider considering the effect of the net on the business. The other problem? I’ve been expecting for years now to see aggregate revenue flowing

Strata Week: Visualizing a better life: Here are a few of the data stories that caught my attention this week:Visualizing a better lifeHow do you compare the quality of life in different countries? As The Guardians Simon Rogers points out, GDP has commonly been the indicator

Knight Foundation grants $2 million for data journalism research: Every day, the public hears more about technology and media entrepreneurs, from when they started in the garages and the dorm rooms, all the way up until when they go public, get acquired or go spectacularly bust. The way that

Commerce Weekly: Facebook continues its mobile acquisition spree: Here are the commerce stories that caught my attention this week.Facebook acquires social gift-giving app KarmaThe media focus on Facebooks IPO might be missing the point

Four short links: 24 May 2012: Last Saturday My Son Found His People at the Maker Faire -- aww to the power of INFINITY.Dictionaries Linking Words to Concepts (Google Research) -- Wikipedia entries for concepts, text strings from searches and the oppressed workers down the Text

Jon Loeliger offers some practices to use with Git: After finishing the second edition of Version Control with Git, author Jon Loeliger talked to me about some of the advice he offers and how to use Git effectively as changes to code pile up.Highlights from the full video interview

Clojure's advantage: Immediate feedback with REPL: Chas Emerick (@cemerick) is the co-author of Clojure Programming along with Brian Carper and Christophe Grand. He maintains a busy blog at cemerick.com and he also produces Mostly Lazy … a Clojure podcast.I asked Chas to enumerate some of the

White House launches new digital government strategy (in HTML5): Theres a long history of people who have tried to transform the United States federal government through better use of information technology and data, extending back to the early days of Alexander Hamiltons ledgers of financial transaction to information transmitted

Schlomo Schapiro on continuous delivery platforms: In this new Velocity Podcast, I had a conversation with Schlomo Schapiro (@schlomoschapiro), a Systems Architect at ImmobilienScout24, and a Velocity Europe committee member. This conversation centers mostly on building a continuous delivery platform. Schlomo has some interesting insights into

Four short links: 23 May 2012: Tale of Two Pwnies (Chromium Blog) -- So, how does one get full remote code execution in Chrome? In the case of Pinkie Pie’s exploit, it took a chain of six different bugs in order to successfully break out of

A gaming revolution, minus the hype: In the following interview, Playful Design author John Ferrara (@PlayfulDesign) explains what he sees as the real gaming revolution — not gamification, or the application of gaming characteristics to existing applications and processes, but how games themselves can and will

Data journalism research at Columbia aims to close data science skills gap: Successfully applying data science to the practice of journalism requires more than providing context and finding clarity in vasts amount of unstructured data: it will require media organizations to think differently about how they work and who they venerate. It

Quantified me: For some reason I have an aversion to the quantified self terminology. I guess Im suspicious of excessive overt tracking of stuff that I hope to make into unconscious habit. It probably goes back to when I used to be

Four short links: 22 May 2012: New Zealand Government Budget App -- when the NZ budget is announced, itll go live on iOS and Android apps. Tablet users get details, mobile users get talking points and speeches. Half-political, but an interesting approach to reaching out to

Four short links: 21 May 2012: Objectivist C -- very clever. In Objectivist-C, each program is free to acquire as many resources as it can, without interference from the operating system. (via Tim OReilly)Zynga and Facebook Stock Oddities (The Atlantic) -- signs of robotrading, a reminder

Social reading should focus on common interests rather than friend status: This post is part of the TOC podcast series. You can also subscribe to the free TOC podcast through iTunes.Social reading is gaining momentum. There are quite a few startups involved in this space, and most of them simply assume

Micro Persuasion

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Webware

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Best New Mashups: News Mashups Using Bing, Google and Yahoo: A year ago we took a look at mashups that deliver the latest news to users. This week, we want to revisit that category and see what new tools have been created to help users

Developers Love Legalese?: At this years SXSW, API hub Mashery conducted a survey of attending developers and discovered something interesting: They care more about getting Commercial Terms of Service (TOS) than code samples from their APIs. Does this

Aculab Adds Faxing to Cloud Platform: Although much of the world boasts of moving to a non-paper work environment, faxes still pour through fax machines in certain environments (e.g. contracts, signatures, etc.). Aculab suggests that service providers, to this day, process thousands of faxes a day.

Get Fashionable With NYC Fashion Hack Day 2012: Have an eye for fashion, live in NYC and love hacking APIs? If yes, then NYC Fashion Hack Day 2012 is tailor made just for you. The event is hosted by Gilt Groupe, Tumblr

The ReferralCandy API: Tell Your Friends About It: ReferralCandy is an online marketing company that specializes in referral marketing. The company provides a plug-and-play platform that makes referral marketing easier. Techinasia.com notes that ReferralCandy modeled their structure after Dropbox’s two-sided incentive referral program.

Which APIs Are Handling Billions of Requests Per Day?: A year ago we asked who belongs to the API billionaires club and listed several APIs that can count their API requests in the billions. Now there are many more API billionaires serving billions of

ChowNow Extends Functionality with API Release: ChowNow originally changed ordering takeout by allowing customers to place an order directly from a restaurants Facebook page. Recently, ChowNow has launched an API that takes the ordering to another level. The API allows developers to deliver the same functionality

123 Database APIs: GeoNames, Freebase and Yahoo Query Language: Our API directory now includes 123 database APIs. The newest is the BigTable API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the GeoNames API. We list 81 GeoNames mashups. Below youll find some more

Enterprise APIs: Where to Now?: Cloud, mobile and social media are now mainstream computing concepts. Today, consumer and business users all demand access to applications and data from multiple devices, inside and outside of enterprises, on

Geoloqi Adds Powerful Location Module to Appcelerator: Cross platform Development Tools have been steadily gaining adoption among developers. Geoloqi, a platform for location-based services has tapped into one such platform, Appcelerator to provide a powerful location services component that aims to make

53 Microblogging APIs: Twitter, TwitPic and What The Trend: Our API directory now includes 53 microblogging APIs. The newest is the Sohu Microblogging API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the Twitter API. We list 708 Twitter mashups. Below you’ll find some more stats from the directory,

6,000 APIs: It’s Business, It’s Social and It’s Happening Quickly: The last 1,000 APIs in our directory were added in the shortest time ever. It was just over three months ago that we reached the 5,000 API milestone. Whats new? The

WorldMate Launches Email Parsing API: WorldMate, the worlds largest mobile itinerary management and booking service, launched the WorldMate API this week. The e-mail parsing API extracts travel data (e.g. confirmation e-mails, key travel information, airport codes, etc.) and sends the information back to the developers

Buddy Media Unifies Social Marketing Data with New API: With Facebooks IPO scheduled for the 18th this month, many are questioning the nearly $100 billion valuation. No one argues that individuals and companies of many shapes and sizes currently use facebook as a

78 New APIs: MasterCard, Travelocity and AddShoppers: This week we had 78 new APIs added to our API directory including a data integration service, travel booking service, user social information and data service, wallet checkout service and social eCommerce sharing platform. In addition

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

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

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

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

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

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