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Seven Alternatives to the Apple iPad: Wait! Stop. Before you hand over Apple your credit card and pre-order the iPad, you may want to check out the other touchscreen options available now and in the near future. The iPad isnt the

AOL’s Big SXSW Bet On Seed and “Bionic Journalism”: Editors Note: This guest post was written and reported by Steven Rosenbaum, the CEO of Magnify.net.Today, the world of music, film, and the internet converges on Austin, Texas for what is fast becoming one of

Confession: I Pre-ordered My iPad And Breguet Made Me Do It: Im a sucker. Its true. As much you guys think we rail against Apple, were like abused puppies, slinking back to our masters hard ankles, shivering and awaiting praise. Why did I pre-order the

Formerly Cc:Betty, Threadbox Emerges As A Realtime Collaboration Platform: Recently, startup Cc: Betty, a nifty service that organized and managed group email threads, decided to rebrand and relaunch its service. The new product, Threadbox, was going to be streamlined and tweaked to appeal

Amidst Controversy Storm, Kwedit Reveals Repayment Rate Already At 26%: Kwedit, the innovative and suddenly controversial payments platform for virtual goods, is releasing some early data. The service lets users promise to pay later in lieu of a direct credit card

Music Distribution Service Zimbalam Opens: Zimbalam, the digital music distributor from Believe Digital, launches in the US today.The service lets artists submit and distribute their music through 25 of the most popular music platforms,

The Real War At SXSW: AT&T Versus 15,000 Data-Crazed Geeks: Weve talked a lot this week about the so-called Location War brewing at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas starting tomorrow. That war will happen, but actually,

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iPad: To Pre-Order or Not to Pre-Order?: Now that the iPad is officially available for pre-order, the question that we want to know from our readers is: Will you pre-order? The Wi-Fi iPad will be available on April 3, 2010, and the Wi-Fi + 3G models will

Enjoy Paris in All of Its 26-Gigapixel Glory: Having been to Paris, I can tell you that it’s a city you won’t be able to fully fathom in a week or a month – it takes a lifetime to see all the city has to offer. This was

Apple Store is Down, Prepare for iPad Pre-Orders: It’s finally here; the moment where the iPad actually comes into some sort of contact with the market. As we announced before, iPad pre-orders begin at 5:30 AM PT (in about 1:30 hours), and the Apple Store is currently down,

Firefox Account Manager Aims to Make Your Social Life Easier: What do you do when you first fire up your browser? Most probably, you log into various sites that require a username and password – Facebook, Gmail, Twitter and the like. For me, personally, it’s quite a chore, as I

Gaming Faceoff: Project Natal vs. PlayStation Move: On November 19th, 2006, Nintendo launched its fifth home console to the world. The Nintendo Wii was both ridiculed and praised for its unique controller system — the Wiimote — which detects movements in three dimensions.Three and a half years

Lady Gaga and Beyonce’s “Telephone” Premieres on Vevo: Fresh off having the most popular music video in YouTube/Vevo’s history (“Bad Romance” with 140 million views and counting), Lady Gaga’s latest – “Telephone” – featuring Beyonce, has made its debut on the Web.The video is choc-full-o Lady Gaga shock

iPad Pre-Orders Begin at 5:30 AM PT on March 12th: Apple fanatics will be able to place their iPad orders at 5:30 AM Pacific time (8:30 Eastern) tomorrow, Friday, March 12th. The pre-orders will be available through Apple.com, and are expected to ship in the United States next month —

PlayStation Move: We Take It For a Test Drive: If you’re a gamer, you might have heard about yesterday’s news about the PlayStation Move, Sony’s answer to the Wii Remote and Microsoft’s upcoming Project Natal motion controller. In a demonstration yesterday, the company showed off the device, which utilizes

Twilight Super Fan Goes Crazy Over “Eclipse” Trailer: If you’re one of those folks who responded to news of the Eclipse trailer today with a disgusted, “No thanks,” you really won’t want to watch this.Super Twilight fan and YouTube star NuttyMadam3575 recorded her reaction to the Eclipse trailer,

12 iPhone Apps for Surviving Conference Season: Amybeth Hale is a Talent Attraction Manager with AT&T’s Interactive Staffing team. She uses social technology to help drive awareness of job opportunities as well as interact with candidates. Connect with her on Twitter at @researchgoddess.As conference season is upon

LivingSocial Raises $25 Million to Take On Groupon: LivingSocial, once one of the top Facebook app developers but is now focused on online daily deals, has raised a warchest of $25 million from investors in a Series B funding round.LivingSocial, based out of Washington, D.C., is the creator

Google Mobile Product Search Now Does Local Inventory Check: Google has announced the initial roll-out of a new feature for its mobile product search: Local inventory checks. This means that you can look for a product and then find out if a store near you has it in stock.To

Foursquare and Starbucks Team Up to Offer Customer Rewards: Foursquare means business. The 1-year-old startup now has a huge brand — Starbucks — using its platform to test out an experimental customer rewards program.Starting today, frequent Starbucks visitors who check in at retail locations using Foursquare will earn customer

3 Ways to Support the WeCanEndThis #EndHunger Campaign: Mashable is proud to support the WeCanEndThis campaign, the Official Cause Project of SXSW.WeCanEndThis offers the entire SXSWi community the opportunity to work together with Feeding America, Share Our Strength and Capital Area Food Bank of Texas to help solve

How The Roxy Became the #1 Venue on Twitter: With over 26,000 followers, West Hollywood’s Roxy Theatre is the most popular club on Twitter. Just short of half a decade earlier, however, the fortunes of the historic venue and many of its neighbors on LA’s infamous Sunset Strip were

Barnes & Noble to Launch E-Reader App for iPad: Continuing with a very source agnostic digital book strategy, Barnes & Noble has announced it will soon be offering an e-reader app for the Apple iPad.The app will be designed specifically for the iPad’s tablet form factor, and will join

Reporter Freaks Out on Air, Internet Laughs and Laughs: Live TV can be tough, especially if you’re in a cranky mood. Case in point: WVLT TV Volunteer News reporter Gordon Boyd, whose on-air freak-out has gone viral this week.Reporting from a courthouse in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee, Boyd seems to

4 Fun and Crazy Chatroulette Videos: Random video chat site Chatroulette is a pop culture smash right now, and while it’s easy to assume its days are numbered, it’s a lot of fun to immerse yourself in the little subculture building around it. Despite the increasing

Reuters to Journalists: Don’t Break News on Twitter: Last night, Reuters released their social media policy, which includes instructing journalists to avoid exposing bias online and tells them specifically not to “scoop the wire” by breaking stories on Twitter.The strict instruction makes it clear that even though news

Pink Floyd Wins Legal Battle Against Single Track Downloads: A judge has taken Pink Floyd’s side in a court battle between the band and its label, EMI, and digital downloads are at stake. The band says its 11-year-old contract only permits EMI to sell complete albums, not individual tracks,

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Google Wave Extensions Gallery Launches: This morning, Google launched an extensions gallery for their real-time communications product, Google Wave. Within the new gallery, youll find the tools and add-ons that have been created by the developer community to add additional functionality to the

SXSW 2010 for Cloud Lovers: Fascinated by the cloud and what it means for the future of Web apps, social gaming, open-source and the after life? Then you have plenty to keep you busy if you

Weekend Reading: Mass Customization Round Up: Lately at ReadWriteStart we have talked with a few people working with startups in the co-creation and mass customization industry. Some of these startups use on-demand production techniques to minimize

Health Clouds Forming: California's Health Internet Exchange: Today, the California Health and Human Services convened a summit with an expected three hundred people in the interest of a state HIE (Health Information Exchange). This project has been tasked by volunteers

What Do Social Media Marketers Know About Tech? SURVEY RESULTS: First, wed like to thank all 596 survey respondents and the many Open Thread commenters who gave such interesting and valuable feedback in our recent post Should Social Media Experts Be Required to Know Their Tech?Over the past

'Enemies of the Internet': Not Just For Dictators Anymore: Reporters Without Borders released its annual report on online access today. They call it Enemies of the Internet, and it shows a world where online censorship, intimidation and worse is

6 Thoughts About Location Madness: Location based social networks - are you over it already? It feels like location is all we ever hear about anymore, especially this week leading up to SXSW.Were excited about location too; see our enthusiastic write-ups What Twitters

First Look at TechStars Historical Results Data: TechStars is an early stage venture fund based in Boulder, Colorado. ReadWriteWeb was given an early peek at historical results data on TechStars companies, which the organization is about to release. The data shows acquisition and failure

Beyond Ads: Monetizing Location-Based Services: This week geo-crazy mavens were pleased to hear of location-based updates to Facebook, the launch of Foursquare analytics and of course yesterdays news of Gowallas comment and picture functionality. So far the most common way

Plancast iPhone App is Live & It is Good: Plancast, the plan-sharing startup with big-name angel investors and future as platform aspirations, has just had its iPhone app accepted into the iTunes store. The app was built by contracted star developer Leah Culver. Its simple, functional, attractive

SXSW 2010 for Publishers: A ReadWriteWeb GuideEver since its inception, the Internet has blurred the boundaries between author and audience. Whether youre a blogger, a pillar of the

Why Google Releases New Apps: They're Desperate for Content: It seems like in the past few months Google has relentlessly released new applications, some of which perhaps could have used some more baking in the oven before they were unleashed on the

Chasing Real-Time Raindrops in an Ocean of Content: The Web is huge. And growing. Faster everyday. Its almost like an ocean where theres no evaporation (the data on the Web stays there virtually forever), but yet, its always raining in it. The rain

Battery Ventures Rakes In $750M, Is VC Funding Over the Hump?: Longtime technology innovation investment firm Battery Ventures increased its capital to over $4 billion Thursday as the firm announced the securing of its ninth fund at a value of $750 million. Startups and

Google's Mobile Product Search Now Shows Real-Time Local Inventory: Google just announced that the mobile version of Google Product Search can now tell you if a certain product is in stock at nearby stores. Currently, Google is only working with a handful of

Making Blogger Blogs Prettier: Google Launches New Template Designer: Most hosted blogging platforms offer their customers a set of standard templates with relatively few options for customizing these sites. Starting today, however, bloggers on Googles Blogger platform will be able

Is America On the Verge of A Co-Creation Invasion?: Last week we talked about managing split teams with Danny Wong of Blank Label, a site for creating custom mens dress shirts and a startup in the growing field of co-creation. These types

Potential Summer Blockbuster: iPhone 4.0 Multitasking: AppleInsider is reporting this morning that some trusted sources are predicting a full-on solution to multitasking in the iPhone 4.0 OS, which is set to be released this summer. Already, the iPhone

Is the iPhone Still More Personal than Professional?: According to recent data analysis from mobile analytics firm Localytics, iPhone application usage peaks in the evenings and on weekends and is much lower during the hours of a typical business day. From this, the firm concludes that

SuperGlued: The Can't-Miss Live Music iPhone App for SXSW 2010: If youve ever done SXSW before, then you know about the music here in Austin. If you havent, let us tell you now - theres a lot. But how do you find

GigaOM

In 2009, U.S. Broadband Growth Slowed: Nearly 4.1 million new subscribers signed up for broadband from the 19 largest cable and telephone providers in the US. These 19 service providers account for about 93% of the total US market. Annual net broadband additions in 2009 were

Reuters and Why Social Media Policies Don’t Work: Reuters has issued new social-media policies, but the wire service has made the same mistakes other mainstream media have: assuming the worst, and trying to control something that cant be controlled, instead of trusting their staff and focusing on the

Sorry, HTML5 Crowd, Flash Ain’t Dead Yet: Microsoft which launched a UK Hulu wannabe called the MSN Video Player. In addition to Microsofts Silver light it uses Adobes Flash. Others are switching from Move Networks technology to Flash. Seems like Apples Jihad against Adobes Flash may not

Video: Rupert Murdoch Loves the iPad, Hates Search: Rupert Murdoch, the legendary founder of News Corp., has always had a love hate relationship with the digital world. In an interview he disses Google and Search and praises the potential of iPad. The wily old fox is always great

Ohai Demos Speedy Game Expansion; Help Liz and Om Fight Off “PR Zombies”!: Ohai has grand ambitions of jumpstarting an industry for social massively multiplayer online (MMO) games. Think World of Warcraft crossed with FarmVille -- engaging and rich, but also easy to use and social. Check out our latest GigaOM studio interview

Kayak’s Projected Market Cap: More Than $705M: One of the more solid and genuinely useful Internet startups out there, Kayak, was dissected in a report released today by NeXt Up Research for SharesPost. Based on estimated revenue and comparison to competitors, the report estimates Kayaks market cap

How Toyota’s Prius Troubles Will Shape the Green Car Market: As Toyotas Prius problems continue, other models across the spectrum of green cars will also get bruised. Given the Prius status as the poster child for hybrids, consumers may extrapolate its troubles out to other cars.

Foursquare Turns 1 With Half a Million Users: Foursquare, the New York-based location services startup, has more than 500,000 users and 1.4 million venues, it announced today, one year after it launched at SXSW. The company says it had its biggest day ever last Friday, with 275,000 check-ins.

Rumor Has It: iPhone 4.0 Bringing Multitasking: The iPhone has many advantages over smartphone competitors, but one thing it hasnt had that users have been clamoring for is true multitasking. Now, true app backgrounding capabilities are said to be on the way in iPhone OS 4.0.

Who’s Cheering for Windows Phone?: Microsoft faces a tough assignment when it comes to regaining its relevance in mobile, but theres no shortage of players who have a vested interest in seeing Windows Phone succeed. Here are some of those rooting for Microsofts upcoming mobile

Betaworks Raises $20M From Intel, Others: Betaworks, a New York City-based Internet company, has raised $20 million in new venture funding in a round led by Intel Capital and RRE Ventures. Softbank, Founders Collective, DFJ Growth, AOL Ventures and the New York Times are new investors

I Can’t Navigate My Location Friend Requests: My inbox is littered with friend requests on Gowalla, a check-in service that I can use to show my location. But when I get these emails from strangers I have never met, talked to, tweeted with or emailed, I dont

Rumor Has It: iPhone 4.0 Bringing Multitasking: The iPhone has many advantages over smartphone competitors, but one thing it hasnt had that users have been clamoring for is true multitasking. Now, true app backgrounding capabilities are said to be on the way in iPhone OS 4.0.

Who’s Cheering for Windows Phone?: Microsoft faces an uphill battle in regaining its lost relevance in mobile, but theres no shortage of players who have a vested interest in seeing Windows Phone succeed. Here are some of those rooting for Microsofts upcoming mobile OS to

Betaworks Raises $20M From Intel, Others: Betaworks, a New York City-based Internet company has raised $20 million in new venture funding from Intel Capital and RRE Ventures who led the current round. Softbank, Founders Collective, DFJ Growth, AOL Ventures and the New York Times are new

I Can’t Navigate My Location Friend Requests: My inbox is littered with friend requests on Gowalla, a check-in service that I can use to show my location. But when I get these emails from strangers I have never met, talked to, tweeted with or emailed, I dont

Verizon Whittles Down Date for LTE Phones: Verizon Wireless said it will launch its first LTE handsets by the middle of 2011. But the super-fast handsets are likely to come with usage pricing models that will see high-end users pay substantially more for 4G service than theyre

App Store SEO: The Impact of iTunes Web Preview: When iTunes web preview pages first appeared for songs and albums the industry was abuzz with the possibility that iTunes could be migrating to the cloud. iTunes preview has so far had little impact on how we use purchased media

Verizon Whittles Down Date for LTE Phones: Verizon Wireless said it will launch its first LTE handsets by the middle of 2011. But the super-fast handsets are likely to come with usage pricing models that will see high-end users pay substantially more for 4G service than theyre

App Store SEO: The Impact of iTunes Web Preview: When iTunes web preview pages first appeared for songs and albums the industry was abuzz with the possibility that iTunes could be migrating to the cloud. iTunes preview has so far had little impact on how we use purchased media

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Method picks a fight with the jug: There are two kinds of companies I really like. One that ignores the competition entirely. And one that picks a fight. Method, and their new laundry detergent line, is a great example of the later.The new

Zappos pranks itself for new ads: Ad agency Mullen chose to focus on Zappos’ famous customer service for their new ad campaign. The twist is, behind the puppets and comedy are recordings of actual customer service calls. Mullen’s making of video explains how they basically pranked

There is an inverse relationship between level of anonymity and quality of conversation: 37signals Answers (recently launched) is our first new app built with 37signals ID integration. That means everyone involved is using real names and avatars.And wow, what a difference it makes. Trading anonymity for accountability has led to radically improved conversations.I’d

QUOTE: A perfectionist is someone who finishes the: A perfectionist is someone who finishes the backside of a drawer, which I consider completely unnecessary.—An interview with Helmut Krone.

"Now, Elvis, look, you get up there, you sing your song, but don’t move too much": The First of Elvis is an interesting profile of photographer Al Wertheimer’s days of shadowing Elvis Presley in 1956, the year Elvis-mania hit. Wertheimer describes what made Elvis different:“He dared to move,” says Wertheimer. “Singers just did not move onstage

"Why You Aren't Done Yet" and REWORK book signings at SXSW: 37signals is going to be at SXSW in full force. We’re showing up eight strong. Jason will be doing a reading from REWORK and a book signing on Saturday at 10AM on the Day Stage. Yours truly will be talking

REWORK is now in stores: Alright, the big day is finally here! REWORK is now available in stores. You can order the

QUOTE: The competitor to be feared is one who never: The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.—Henry Ford

VIDEO: Our new office, pre-construction. Lease signed: Our new office, pre-construction. Lease signed today. Move in scheduled sometime in July. Full story, floor plans, and vision shortly.

Slack, YAGNI, and low ceremony: Three terms that came up repeatedly during our San Diego retreat:Slack All the stuff that doesn’t fit neatly into bigger, concept-driven iterations. We save one of our programmer/designer teams for slack work — small scope things that build up, a

Product Blog update: Basecamp email improvements, Highrise case studies, etc.: Some recent posts at the 37signals Product Blog:Basecamp New in Basecamp: Stylized email notificationsWe created new email designs for milestones (and 48-hour milestone reminders), file uploads, messages, to-dos, and comments.New in Basecamp: Post a

PHOTO: I ran some statistics on the last few years: I ran some statistics on the last few years of Basecamp activity and uncovered this strange, recurring anomaly.

The long take: A long take is a single, unbroken camera shot that lasts much longer than a typical shot. While the idea’s been around for a long time, it feels like it has extra impact in today’s world of hyper-editing and constant

Two different worlds: I walked into a Sprint store today to check out the Palm Pixi. AT&T has been bad enough lately that, while I’m not ready to chuck the iPhone, I’m at least growing curious. Unfortunately “walking in” is about all I

Milton Friedman on the four ways you can spend money: You can spend your own money on yourself. When you do that, why then you really watch out what you’re doing, and you try to get the most for your money.You can spend your own money on somebody else. For

See Ryan talk about Christopher Alexander in NYC: I’m excited to give a talk at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. I’m going to walk through Christopher Alexander’s design theory and explain how to apply it to everyday web app UI work. Alexander’s book Notes

There's no room for The Idea Guy: Startups need people able and willing of doing the actual work. They need programmers, designers, and eventually folks to do marketing, support, and more. What they don’t need, though, is someone who’s just going to be The Idea Guy.You know

Episode #9: All about REWORK: Time: 41:20 | 03/02/2010 | Download MP3 Like this episode? Please share it with your friends: The new business book

A New Way of Working: A Two-Month Recap: Back in early January I posted about our new way of working in 2010. Instead of working individually in isolation as we had in the past, we’re breaking into small teams of three (two programmers, one designer). We’re keeping the

REWORK Trailer 3: The Hallway: We’re just a week away! REWORK is in stores March 9, 2010. Pre-order today from Amazon, Borders, Barnes & Noble, Indie Bound, and 800-CEO-READ.This is the last video trailer for REWORK. We wanted to thank the following people for making

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Four short links: 12 March 2010: Flickr Flow -- a season wheel, showing the relative popularity of colours in Flickr photos at different times of the year. Beautiful. (via gurneyjourney)Light Peak -- optical peripheral cabling and motherboard connections. (via timoreilly on twitter)British Museum Pilots Wikipedian in

NHIN Direct: Open Healthcare and Government as a Platform: In my advocacy around Government 2.0, Ive been focused on the idea that government should act like a platform provider rather than a complete solution provider. That is, government should lay down rules of the road, create core functionality that

How crowdsourcing helped Haiti's relief efforts: Tech-minded volunteers quickly pitched in with a variety of communication and data services in the days following the Haiti earthquake. One company -- crowdsourcing platform CrowdFlower -- repurposed its service as a text-message translation tool to aid Mission 4636. Crowdflower

Four short links: 11 March 2010: Digital Inclusion: How Do You Tell? -- either means nor skills are simple binary states. A while ago, I was talking to a young man looking for a job, and asked him why he didn’t look online. Because it’s two

Gov 2.0 invades Harvard: A report from #gov20ne: Last Saturday (March 6), several hundred folks gathered at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government to spend the day discussing open government. OReillys own Laurel Ruma was one of the organizers, and she sends in this report:To geeks, bar camps

We're about to scratch the real-world data itch: Since virtually all of my work is done on the web, Ive grown accustomed to granular information. Even a casual look at web traffic reveals insight. I can see the topics that strike a nerve with visitors. I can pick

Four short links: 10 March 2010: The Future of Book Publishing Business Models (Stephen Walli) -- some good thoughts about the book publishing industry and ebooks. When does Amazon create the iPhone/Android app and the programme that will allow bookstores to receive a cut of every

The state of open government in Canada: Open government isnt about just one government. Thats why I got in touch with David Eaves, a public policy entrepreneur and a speaker at this weeks Gov 2.0 International online conference. In the following Q&A, Eaves weighs in on the

The state of open government in Canada: Open government isnt about just one government. Thats why I got in touch with David Eaves, a public policy entrepreneur and a speaker at this weeks Gov 2.0 International online conference. In the following Q&A, Eaves weighs in on the

Truly Open Data: Im kicking myself. I have spent a non-trivial number of hours talking to government departments and scientists about open data, talking up an open source approach to data, pushing hard to get them to release datasets in machine readable formats

Four short links: 9 March 2010: Cooperative Behaviour Spreads Through a Group, But So Does Cheating (Not Exactly Rocket Science) -- Fowler and Christakis suggest that people tend to mimic the actions of those they played with. They could be directly imitating the actions of other

Four short links: 9 March 2010: Cooperative Behaviour Spreads Through a Group, But So Does Cheating (Not Exactly Rocket Science) -- Fowler and Christakis suggest that people tend to mimic the actions of those they played with. They could be directly imitating the actions of other

Truly Open Data: Im kicking myself. I have spent a non-trivial number of hours talking to government departments and scientists about open data, talking up an open source approach to data, pushing hard to get them to release datasets in machine readable formats

Three lessons from the Chipotle iPhone app: Instant access to burritos bigger than your head is the clear selling point of Chipotles iPhone app (iTunes link). But if we put culinary convenience

Three lessons from the Chipotle iPhone app: Instant access to burritos bigger than your head is the clear selling point of Chipotles iPhone app (iTunes link). But if we put culinary convenience

Four short links: 8 March 2010: Chinas Cyberposse (NY Times) -- is vigilante justice ok if the cause is right? Is it okay if there wouldnt be justice without it? Does the end justify the means? Many interesting questions raised by this large-scale Internet-based human-flesh-search in

Amazon Fires Its Colorado Associates: I just got interesting email from Amazon: the Colorado government recently enacted a law to impose sales tax regulations on online retailers We and many others strongly opposed this legislation, known as HB 10-1193, but it was enacted anyway. Regrettably,

Four short links: 8 March 2010: Chinas Cyberposse (NY Times) -- is vigilante justice ok if the cause is right? Is it okay if there wouldnt be justice without it? Does the end justify the means? Many interesting questions raised by this large-scale Internet-based human-flesh-search in

Amazon Fires Its Colorado Associates: I just got interesting email from Amazon: the Colorado government recently enacted a law to impose sales tax regulations on online retailers We and many others strongly opposed this legislation, known as HB 10-1193, but it was enacted anyway. Regrettably,

Meet the Scanners!: The International Amateur Scanning League held an inaugural meeting on February 11 in Washington, D.C. Text of the Announcement | Photos | Mailing List Im pleased to

Micro Persuasion

Ads Drop Dot-Com URLs in Favor of "Facebook Us": The following is also my March Forbes.com column.Today it seems that many marketers are literally tripping over themselves to invade social networks in force. There's almost a land grab underway as businesses rush to set up hubs on the "big

Bringing the Stream to Facebook: I am making a slight shift in my content strategy. My Posterous-powered site will continue to feature insights, observations and essays about emerging technologies. It will include any content - text, photos, videos - where some degree of depth is

BNO Breaking News Service is Now on Facebook: BNO Breaking News, a service that first made its name on Twitter and was later acquired by MSNBC, is now on Facebook. It just started to syndicate updates into my news feed about Former Vice President Dick Cheney's heart episode. It's great to

AP is Visionary - They See a "Siteless Web" Coming: TechCrunch reports that the Associated Press is using their Twitter account to push their followers to their Facebook page. On that hub they syndicate many stories and dispatches as full text. Unlike Danny Sullivan (here and here), I think

Three Ways to Manage Your Attention with Facebook: It took me awhile but I have become a big evangelist for Facebook. It's now my primary source of information. I suspect, from looking at the data, that this is true for millions - although I bet most don't even

Facebook Now Drives More Traffic to Web Sites Than Google Does: We're at the beginning of a major shift in how we find, consume and interact with information. If the 2000s was the Google decade, then the 2010s will be the Facebook decade. Already, you can see the

Google Buzz is About Protecting GMail Ad Dollars, Not Social Networking: One of my chief nits with Google Buzz is that there's no "there." Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc all have destination sites or apps that allow the user to mentally switch contexts from one-to-one/one-to-few communication to one-to-many. Mike Elgan touches on this here.

Serenity Now: Google Buzz is Google Wave Light, a Non-Starter: Those of you who know me or have been reading my work for awhile are probably well aware that I love Google products - especially Gmail. I even stopped using Google Reader in favor of subscribing

Facebook Pulls Lexicon Analytics Tool: Facebook has taken its promising Lexicon tool down from the site. Perhaps this happened when they pushed their new redesign. Lexicon, like Google Trends, provided limited yet interesting data on site-wide trends. You can read more about

Trust in Friends Declines, Trust in Experts Rises - Social Media and PR Still Win: Last week Edelman, my employer, published our tenth annual Trust Barometer study. You can read the full report here. One of the more juicy statistics that Advertising Age and others noted is that trust in peers surprisingly dropped dramatically from

Facebook Will Centralize the Social Web: Michael Arrington laments about about the decentralized nature of social content on TechCrunch today...The online social landscape today sort of feels to me like search did in 1999. It’s a mess, but we don’t complain much about it because we don’t know

Facebook Could Eat the Web: Photo credit: mastermaqLike almost everyone else on the planet, it seems, I am spending more time on Facebook than any other site. The lone exception is Google. The reason I know this is that Safari, my

Go Big, Get Your Employees on the Bus or Go Home: The following is also my column in next weeks issue of Advertising Age.Go Big, Get Your Employees on the Bus or Go HomePhoto credit: Traffic by scottpowerzThe single biggest challenge that marketers face over the next

Presentation: Communicating in the Age of Streams: Last week during the launch of Seesmic Look in New York, I gave a presentation on communicating in the age of streams. You can watch the video here or below (if for some reason the embedded video doesnt go direct to

Forbes Study: CMOs More Bullish on Social Media than Apps: During a recent meeting with Forbes, they shared with me a summary of their recent survey of Chief Marketing Officers (embedded below). There are two notable trends here - which Forbes isnt connecting, but I am.First, social media is seen

Video Interview: Scott Monty, Ford Motor Company: One of the great people I run into everywhere is Scott Monty, who heads social media at the Ford Motor Company. In this four and a half minute video, which I shot yesterday, Scott talks about what he does in

Ten Ideas for the New Decade - An Edelman Digital White Paper: Download now or preview on posterous 10IdeasForTheNewDecade.pdf (3312 KB) One of the best parts of my job is that I get to every day work with and learn from some of the smartest minds in

Video: The Future of Social Media: via vimeo.comLate last year I was interviewed by The Social Media Examiner on the future of the medium. In this nine-minute interview we discuss: why you need to have a presence on all social networks where your customers are spending

The Age of Media Agnosticism: According to Nielsen, the average American visited 87 domains and 2,600 Web pages in September. Outside the U.S., those numbers tend to be smaller, and fresh data indicates that just a few sites dominate the mix. Many rely on the

Tip: Get the Weather Instantly in Gmail: As I have shared, Gmail is my Ginsu Knife. As they roll out features, I keep finding new uses for them - sometimes inadvertently. Gmail has a cool Labs feature that puts a little search box in your sidebar. I use

CenterNetworks

SXSW: I Hope AT&T Goes Down (video): Ok, I’ve never actually wanted a service to not function and I am partially joking, but it would be great if AT&T service would go down here at SXSW 2010 in Austin. Why? Because perhaps then there would be actual talking

SXSW 2010 Schwag Bag Video and Giveaway: After waiting on line just about 90 minutes to get my badge, I was able to pick up the exciting SXSW 2010 schwag bag. The bag always contains tons of paper and a variety of small trinkets. I actually wish

It’s Not About our App, It’s About the User’s Data and Context: The post below was authored by Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu.The title provides a short answer to the question: Why do we integrate with Google Apps? An important emerging theme in cloud applications is the one-page or to be more accurate

Does the iPad Replace the Need for a Smartphone?: We’ve covered the Apple iPad several times on CenterNetworks. The device appears to be launching next month and I believe it will be a game changer. Andreas discussed how he sees the device being used in the home and I

Chat With Skimlinks CEO Alicia Navarro on Skimkit Launch: Last week London-based Skimlinks launched the SkimKit, a tool that helps publishers find products that have affiliate opportunities attached. Martin Bryant from Next Web has a good overview from the launch of the SkimKit service.This morning I met with Skimlinks

Gary’s Guide Adds More NYC Service Directories: Last weekend we showed you how you can use Gary’s Guide to navigate SXSW. This week Gary has added more service directories to his event planning guide. The directories include coworking, event venues, free event venues, and a classifieds section

Pre-SXSW Job Listing: Below are some of 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:e-Commerce & Online Marketing Guru at Quirky Inc.Senior

Amtrak Adds Wi-Fi On Acela Trains: In the old days, there were two main ways to get anywhere from Boston to Washington using public transit. Those two ways were Amtrak trains and Grayhound buses. Over the past few years, new bus services that travel along the

Gary Helps You Find SXSW & Austin Events: We are just a few days away from the annual event known as SXSW. I’ve provided a primer for the 2010 SXSW which should help you get around and make the most out of the event.So how do you keep

reMail Goes Open Source: Two weeks ago Google acquired the email search for the iPhone service reMail. Corsin provided a good history of the reMail service. Today founder Gabor Cselle has announced that the reMail service is now open source. Many users were upset when

Information Capturing Service Memonic Launches Subscription Based Option: Memonic is online information capturing and organizational service. It allows you to capture pieces of information like maps, routes, photos or text. The capturing process can be completed in a variety of ways including: a smart bookmarklet, an iPhone application,

ExpenseBay Helps You Deal With the Horror of Expense Reports: Typically corporate trips are great – you get to use someone else’s credit card for travel and meals. There’s only one time that corporate travel sucks – and that’s the time it takes to put together the expense report for the

DreamIt Recruiting New Class of Startups: We’ve covered the startups from the DreamIt incubator several times over the past couple of years. Based in Philly, the DreamIt startup incubator helps people with ideas move the ideas forward into full startups. The group provides mentoring, connections, startup

Are You Ready for the iPad?: Only a few days left before the iPad hits shelves and if Apple is able to deliver even with some speculated delivery problems we will be able to dive into a new product that will probably change the way how

Perks Consulting Acquires Esultancy: NY-based consulting firm Perks Consulting has announced the acquisition of social media consultancy Esultancy today. Esultancy is also based in New York City. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.From the announcement, “As of today, the companies will begin the

YouTellYou Helps You Create a Picture Magazine: It’s interesting that everyday we hear how email is dead yet everyday I see someone using email in a new way. The benefit of using email is that it’s understood by nearly any Internet user as opposed to many of

Get Yourself a New Job!: Below are some of 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:e-Commerce & Online Marketing Guru at Quirky Inc. Senior

Announcing the New CenterNetworks Guest Post Program: If you are a regular CN reader, you’ve seen a decline in the number of stories that are posted daily. As I shift my time into a variety of programs, it’s made it harder to post the large number of

Code Camp Comes to NYC in March: It seems that the number of tech-related events in the NYC area keeps growing. Next Saturday, March 6, Code Camp comes to NYC. The Code Camp event will be held at the Microsoft office in midtown Manhattan. The all-day event is

Weekend Entrepreneurial Reading – Too Much Snow Edition: All of us here in NYC are cleaning up the snow and walking through piles of slush as we have completed yet another fun snowstorm. This list of great entrepreneurial posts will give you something to do besides avoiding stepping

Webware

Google tweaking Buzz to declutter Gmail inbox: Dont like Buzz spamming your Gmail inbox? Google is adding some knobs to let users dial down the notifications. Originally posted at Deep Tech

Mozilla aggressively asks older Firefox users to update: Most Firefox users have upgraded to Firefox 3.6. The stragglers that havent may have their reasons, but today Mozilla starts to pressure them aggressively. Originally posted at The Download Blog

Wearing your Stickybit on your sleeve, or elsewhere: One of the start-ups hoping to make a splash at this years South by Southwest Interactive Festival is Stickybits, a set of bar code stickers that you can tag with anything. Originally posted at The Social

Chasing Groupon, LivingSocial raises $25 million: Despite the fact that Groupon dominates all of its smaller competitors in the daily-deals market, rival LivingSocial is trying to draw some blood by expanding with the help of a new infusion of venture funding. Originally posted at The Social

Google tries to make its RSS reader fun, too: The Net giant unveils Google Reader Play, an attempt to put an easy-to-use, entertaining interface on its feed-reader Web application Originally posted at Deep Tech

Android phones get Opera Mini 5 beta: Opera adds Android to its updated browser lineup. Originally posted at Android Atlas

Springpad bookmarks the world: Neat little clipping and saving service works on Web, iPhone Originally posted at Rafes Radar

FTC wants more input on Google-AdMob deal: The FTC is asking Google competitors to weigh in on its proposed $750 million acquisition of mobile advertising company AdMob, according to a report. Originally posted at Relevant Results

Google Maps to add bike maps, directions: Cyclists will be able to use Google Maps to plot directions around 150 U.S. cities when bike directions go live on Google later on Tuesday. Originally posted at Relevant Results

Google announces business app store for Google Apps: Software developers can cater to Google Apps customers through a new application store announced at Googles Campfire One event in Mountain View. Originally posted at Relevant Results

Foursquare unveils its SXSWi arsenal: In heated war with rival Gowalla for the geek seal of approval at the annual digital culture festival, Foursquare unveils new badges, new partners, and new promotions. Originally posted at The Social

In Chatroulette, the Web is closer to the real world: Chatroulette is receiving a lot of criticism, but perhaps the media are identifying it as something its not.

How to save and share ridiculously large files: Want to transfer a really big file in your browser, but keep running into size limits? We break down a list of free and paid services that can lend a hand. Originally posted at Web Crawler

8-Bit NYC is the coolest map--ever: Map of New York City depicted in 8-bit gaming glory is a viable mapping tool too. Originally posted at The Digital Home

Gowalla debuts Travel Channel deal, Android app: The location-based mobile networking app has launched its first non-iPhone app, and is making it clear that its gunning for the same media partnerships that rival Foursquare is going for. Originally posted at The Social

Google launches tool for searching public data: Curious about unemployment trends in your state cross-referenced against salaries? Google Public Data Explorer could make it easier to create a visual representation of that data. Originally posted at Relevant Results

Citysearch's new service to better target local ads: The local-business directory is combining its extensive ad network with SEO services from OrangeSoda. Originally posted at The Digital Home

Vlingo 2.0 for iPhone: E-mail and SMS dictation will cost you: Vlingo is a voice app thats been around awhile in the mobile space, but a new version for iPhone is causing some uproar. Originally posted at iPhone Atlas

This week's Google acquisition: DocVerse: Googles torrid acquisition pace continued Friday with the purchase of DocVerse, a start-up that helps make Microsoft Office documents more collaborative, for a reported $25 million. Originally posted at Relevant Results

Chrome bug kills offline Gmail: A bug in yesterdays update to the development build of Google Chrome crashes the browser whenever Gmail is used in offline mode. Originally posted at The Download Blog

eHub

Stickybits: A social way to attach digital content to real world objects using barcodes. URL: Stickybits

Onotate: Manage, present, review and annotate web design mockups. URL: Onotate

Naked Apartments: A New York-centric apartment matchmaking site between renters, brokers, and landlords. Renters can create a profile, get a free credit check, and write and read reviews of brokers. Brokers have the ability to view renters’ credit scores and income, and

Ibis Reader: An ereader application that you don’t have to install or download. Read public domain ePub books on your computer, laptop, smartphone or tablet. Upload your own collection of ePub books, or discover new ones. Bookmark your reading spot, change the

What Do You Suggest: A site that provides a visual exploration of Google’s suggestion feature. Type in a word or phrase, and then follow it to the answer. URL: What do you suggest?

CityTag: A social mapping platform for Australia, presently. Lets help fix that. Here’s how they describe themselves CityTag is designed to help you find the best info about town, local to where you are – on the spot! via URL: CityTag

Fav4: A start page maker where you set four of your favorite websites as the homepage. Users simply pick four favorites and set it as the start page in their browsers. URL: Fav4

OpenFaces: An open-source library of AJAX-powered JavaServer Faces (JSF) components, an Ajax framework and a client-side validation framework. URL: OpenFaces

Indinero: Web-based business financial management. Automated data entry from banks and credit cards, graphical projections, bank-level security. URL: Indinero

Done.io: A new simplified approach for to do lists. Exposes only what you need to get done right now with the concept of “shifts.” Any incomplete items at the end of the day are also automatically shifted to the next day’s

Siri: A personal assistant in your iPhone. Speak your tasks into your phone and have Siri connect to services and make plans for you. Just like a real assistant, Siri understands what you say, accomplishes tasks for you and adapts to

HQueue: HQueue is the very first downloadable Apple app and Hulu Queue Viewer for $0.99. URL: HQueue

Cliqset: Share, discover and discuss your life online, in real-time. URL: Cliqset

Teambox: Team base projects just got better with a Twitter-like project collaboration tool that lets your team share tasks, messages, files and get notified by email. URL: Teambox

ZipList: A free online service that makes managing your grocery shopping list easier than ever. Add to or delete items from your list via the web, mobile phones, text messages, email or instant messaging. Share your list with family members or

Steepster: A social network for tea-lovers. Write a tea journal, see what others are drinking and get recommendations from people you trust. URL: Steepster

Ethnio: A web service that makes it easy to recruit people from your website to be research participants. URL: Ethnio

WhosRich.me: A social utility that makes it easy for people to track their friends’ shopping habits. URL: WhosRich.me

Neat Chat: An easy and fast way to have an online conversation with a group of friends or colleagues. No signups or software installs required. Just chat through the browser interface. URL: Neat Chat

Museum of Modern Betas

Fits.me: Fits.mevirtual fitting room for online clothing retailersEuro Startup Competition Plugg Names Fits.me Its Winner

SimpleGeo: SimpleGeothe easiest way to use location

Aol Lifestream: Aol LifestreamGet all your updates in one place. Comment, like and update your Facebook, Twitter and MySpace status, right from AOL Lifestream.AOL Launches Lifestream As New Standalone Product. This Is What Google Buzz Should Have Been

Broadband.gov: Broadband.govLearn how the National Broadband Plan will help insure that all Americans have access to high-performance broadband.The FCC Wants You to Test Your Broadband Speeds

Ofuz: OfuzThe goal of Ofuz is to simplify the task of managing your contacts and related duties by means of our innovative collaboration features.

Exceed Net: Exceed Net (german)(by invitation only)Where Innovators Thrive(a social network for innovators)Willkommen im Exceed Network: Where Innovators Thrive

Tweetlivery: TweetliveryTweetlivery is the Twinester’s publicity Platform. Tweetlivery delivers their client’s tweets to all Nests that belongs in the same segment.

Lottay: Lottaya web site that allows you to give money through PayPal as a meaningful and fun gift.An Entrepreneur’s View On The Benefits of Coworking

GoTribal: GoTribalGo Tribal is a social tool to help you see who’s down to go out every night of the week.Go Tribal aims to be a better way to plan hangouts

clooch: cloochthe fastest way to choose restaurants and dishes.Clooch.com – Pick The Right Restaurant

Globacy: GlobacyGlobacy is a search engine for freelance jobs.

BackType Labs: BackType Labs(in Labs)BackType Labs is another place for us to show you some of the stuff we’re working on.BackType Labs

Lunchwalla: LunchwallaLunchwalla is a website and social platform for the everyday planning of events, such as breakfast, lunch, dinner and drinks. BlogLunchwalla: Getting Together for Lunch Just Got Easier

runtastic: runtastic (german)makes sports funtastic(tracks and analyzes activities and workouts)

Fiverr: FiverrThe place for people to share things they’re willing to do for $5What Would You Do For $5?

Stiqr: Stiqrwebsite modification platform-as-a-service. delivers on-demand site editing tools and applications to your site without any coding on your part.

Google Public Data Explorer: Google Public Data Explorer(in Google Labs)The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand. You

The Geek Toolbox: The Geek ToolboxTools for the survival of a geek

ShopTalk: ShopTalkWeb chat for telecommuters and distributed teamsBlogShopTalk: Real-time Team Chats

altergeo: altergeo (russian)Определяйте свое текущее местоположение, Назначайте встречи друзьям в один клик, Находите ближайшие места(Identify your current location, Meet your friends in a click, Find the nearest place)Yandex partners with AlterGeo for improved location-based search

ProgrammableWeb

Best New Mashups: All About Status Messages: Microblogging status messages may be small, but they pack quite the mashup punch. Twitter (our Twitter API profile) itself makes up 8% of all mashups on Programmable Web. So, its to be expected that two

What Downturn? Amazon Web Services Has Over 100 Job Openings: It can be hard to find good news regarding employment thanks the recent financial downturn. Apparently no one told Amazon, who have a post on their Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog announcing that they

Improve Your Web Site’s SEO With SEOmoz’s Free API: Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is vital to any successful website. The team at SEOmoz are experts in this field and now offer a number of premium SEO tools including the recently released Open Site

Love a Local Business? Prove it with Intuit’s Foursquare Mashup: Radio stations are always looking for the phrase that pays. Thats passé. When it comes to local businesses on the web, its praise that pays. Whether its Yelp reviews, FourSquare check-ins, or customer feedback provided

Google Says Goodbye to API Keys with New Geocoding API: Google has released a new geocoding web service that is sure to bring a smile to map mashup developers working with the Google Maps API. Announced earlier this week on the Google Geo Developers

Celebrate Your Developers: a Lesson From Mobypicture: If youre looking to run a successful developer program, you should probably pay attention to Mathys van Abbe. Hes the founder of Mobypicture (our Mobypicture API profile), which has just celebrated its 500th developer.

US Army Launches “Apps for Army” Contest, Offers $30,000 in Prizes: The US Army has joined the ranks of government agencies courting developers by announcing a new competition called Apps for the Army (A4A). The competition aims to promote some fresh ideas and practical web and mobile applications for use within

Local-ish API Shows Where You’ve Been: For several years millions have shared the places theyve been using the Where Ive Been website and Facebook application. The site also has an API (our Where Ive Been API profile), which

Is Your Flight Going to be Late? Get a Prediction From the New FlightCaster API: Have you had to pick someone up from the airport only to end-up doing several laps of the airport because the flight was late? This sort of setback due to arrival delays is one of

5 New APIs: Google, Guardian, Ericsson, and CorpWatch: Once again this week we had a variety of new APIs added to our API directory. Some notable new entries include an API for a corporation accountability research service, mobile identification API, a mobile network

28 APIs Used in 7 Days: Bing, eBay, Facebook, Fedex, Google, Salesforce, Yahoo and YouTube: This past weeks new mashups in our mashup directory combined 28 different APIs. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Google OpenID, Heyzap, Menu Mania, Microsoft adCenter, RescueTime, RPX, Windows Live ID

GMaps Pedometer, Now With Optional G: An early influential Google Maps mashup now gives users the chance to change mapping imagery. The GMaps Pedometer (our GMaps Pedometer mashup profile) has six different tile options, the most recent of which is OpenStreetMap,

See Where the Queen Catches the Bus: If the Queen of England used public transportation, she wouldnt have far to walk from her Buckingham Palace home. And finding her nearest stop is now very easy since Transport of London has implemented a Google Maps mashup of bus

Technorati API Disappears: No Longer Representing the Technorati: Once the mouthpiece and aggregator of the blogosphere, Technorati lost its luster long ago. And now its lost its API, too. The developer page promises a new API but also makes one thing clear: the

Search Thousands of Movie Clips, Assuming You Can Get API Access: The self-proclaimed movie freaks behind MovieClips now have a platform that could allow for some really fun mashups. Unfortunately, even the most basic documentation is hidden behind an application form and a promise that access

Google Buys Another API With Picnik Acquisition: Picnik, the very popular browser based photo editing service thats been integrated into many other sites via their Picnik API, has just been acquired by Google.

Twitter Turns on the Firehose for Companies of All Sizes: The Twitter Streaming API has been successfully used by Yahoo!, Google, and Microsoft, who have been given access to the full feed of all public tweets. Twitter has now enabled this firehouse of data for

iPhone and Andriod: How One Mashup Does Both With Google Maps API V3: Given the increasing popularity of mobile devices such as the iPhone and Android devices (both of which include full browsers), it should come as no surprise that developers have begun to leverage the various

VC Funded Map Mashup Zooms Out: The writing has been on the virtual wall for some time, but its official: mashup pioneer Platial (our Platial profile) is shutting down. Former CEO Di-Ann Eisnor cites server costs of $7,000 per month in

Data is Journalism: Politics API from The Guardian: UK newspaper The Guardian is expanding its Open Platform (our Guardian API profile). The new API covers information about politicians and elections in the UK, with many details going back to 1992. It also contains

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 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.

Episode 61 - Grasshopper: 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 60 - IWearYourShirt.com / Jason Sadler: I sat down face-to-face to speak with Jason Sadler of I Wear Your Shirt (iwearyourshirt.com) to talk about his rise to fame and fortune by wearing t-shirts. Yes, thats right. T-shirts.

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

Dion Hinchcliffe

The Evolving Web In 2009: Web Squared Emerges To Refine Web 2.0: It's been five years now that we've begun to understand what Web 2.0 is, starting way back in 2003. It's been a fairly impressive if winding road as a new online generation was born. But far from getting long in

Links for 2010-02-09: Fixing IT in the cloud computing era | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.comFixing IT in the cloud computing era | Enterprise Web 2.0 http://bit.ly/8hVLdk I add points to @timbray, @philww, and @mkrigsman Mike Krigsman and Dion Hinchcliffe At DreamForce On

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

Links for 2009-12-30: Google Makes an Acquisition to Help Build Google WaveGoogle acquires http://EtherPad.com, a online word processor that lets people to work together in real-time http://bit.ly/51pPHF ht @itworks

Links for 2009-12-27: IBM - Smart Business - United StatesSo far today in Rochester, seen IBM Smart Business Are SOA and Agile a Good Match? - ebizQ ForumRT @Peter_ebizQ Do SOA and Agile work well together? You know, like chocolate and peanut butter.

Links for 2009-12-23: bit.ly, a simple url shortenerRT @johnguidos Social Networks Evolving Faster Than Laws Can Govern: http://bit.ly/2EIQzb.

Links for 2009-12-18: BriefingsDirect Transcripts: BriefingsDirect Analysts Unpack the Psychology of Project Management Via Pragmatic Enterprise 2.0 and SOATop Analysts Unpack the Psychology of Project Management Via Pragmatic Enterprise 2.0 & SOA: http://bit.ly/6oLSIs A terrific convo IMO. ;-) Video review of Andrew McAfee’s

Links for 2009-12-17: Twitter / Jerry W. Purple: ZINGERS. Take a look at th ...Take a look at this fantastic image on Web 2.0 and co-creative community: http://bit.ly/UMTbE and http://bit.ly/837KSz (via @twHIVE_W20) http://drewmclellan.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341bf7cb53ef0115712720c9970c-piTake a look at this fantastic image on Web 2.0 and

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

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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

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

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. The graph below shows a theoretical overview of the ROI impact of

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

Is Twitter Successful?: The big question everyone has with Twitter is, and the very first one that John Battelle asked Twitter CEO Ev Williams when he interviewed him yesterday, is Whats the revenue model?

Communicating Value through Cause & Effect on Fanfeedr: How Fanfeedrs intro page does well to communicate the value of the service.

Feature Development in Action: Broadcast Stream Messages in Socialcast: One of the guiding principles of interaction design is to support existing behavior. This means to figure out what is already happening, what activities, tasks, and interactions people are already doing, and build support for them into software.

Using your Sign-up form as a Qualifier: I recently ran across an interesting way to qualify people using sign-up forms at monotask.com.

No Sign-up Necessary (the strikethrough method): Two apps, Posterous and SignApp, have a novel way to communicate how easy it is to start using their product. I call it the strikethrough method.

Coming Soon: Make them Care! (my new book): Just a quick update on my latest project. Im self-publishing a new book about creating great sign-up experiences. Its called Make them Care!. (you can get reminded when its published here)

Designing for Social Traction (slide deck): Here is the slide deck from a talk I gave last week at Delve, a two-day masterclass held in Brooklyn, NY.

What Metric are you Designing to Improve Today?: While aesthetics are subjective, behavior is not.

The Agency Problem: The agency problem is the problem of doing one-off work in a world in which software is becoming a service that needs constant attention.

Steve Jobs on why Apple doesn’t do market research: It’s not about pop culture, and it’s not about fooling people, and it’s not about convincing people that they want something they don’t...

The behavior you’re seeing is the behavior you’ve designed for: Ive given a few talks recently and by far and away the one idea that is resonating with people is the idea that the behavior youre seeing is the behavior youve designed for.

Yahoo’s one page experience: I really like the direction they are going, and once they get rid of the flyouts and refine the me-first dashboard experience of the homepage, I think it could be really valuable. But the moment you step off their brand

On the Origins of Avatar: 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: I’ve 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

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