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In The SXSW Location War, Loopt Hopes The Correct Weapon Is Events: With SXSW starting Friday in Austin, Texas, every location-based service out there is right now finalizing updates that they hope will be the one that gets them

Google Apps Marketplace: Instantly Connect Your App To 25 Million Users, Profit.: Business to business software can be a tough sell. Online B2B is can be even a harder sell. While there is certainly money to be made, unless

Web-Based Productivity Suite Zoho Finds A Place In The Google Apps Marketplace: Zoho, a web-based productivity suite that was called a fake Office by a Microsoft VP, is announcing a significant partnership with Google today. The startup will be a launch partner for Googles recently

Socialwok Takes A Stroll In The Google Apps Marketplace: Tonight, Google launched its Google Apps Marketplace, an online storefront for Apps products and services. Here are our notes from the announcement. And of course, the marketplace is launching with a number of pilot

MetaLab Accuses Mozilla Of Plagiarizing Its Design: Andrew Wilkinson of MetaLab has just written a blog post accusing Mozilla of plagiarizing the design of its FlightDeck editor. To make matters worse, Wilkinson says that MetaLab actually bid on creating

Live: Google Apps Marketplace Launches At Google Campfire One: Tonight, Google is hosting one of their Campfire One events at their headquarters in Mountain View, CA. Theyre using the event to

Amazon Wields $25 Gift Certificates To Pacify Frustrated Comic Book Fans: Over the last few days, a strange situation has been brewing between Amazon and a sizable number of comic book fans. On March 7, Bleeding Cool broke the news of an apparent

SXSW Interactive: Because hell doesn’t have enough promotional stickers: Later this week, thousands of ironic t-shirts will be arriving in Austin for the 16th annual South By Southwest Interactive festival.At about this time, its traditional

Twitter Starts Routing All Links Through New Anti-Phishing Service: Twitter has just announced that it is launching a new anti-phishing feature that allows Twitters Trust and Safety team to monitor all links submitted through the service for potentially malicious attacks. Part

SV Angel Partner Brian Pokorny Now CEO Of Dailybooth: SV Angel, the angel fund founded by super-angel Ron Conway, is losing one of its general partners to a portfolio company. Brian Pokorny is now the CEO of fast-growing Silicon Valley-based Dailybooth.Dailybooth,

Google’s Chief Economist: “Newspapers Have Never Made Much Money From News”: Earlier today, Google chief economist gave a presentation to an FTC workshop on the changing economics of the newspaper industry. We all know that newspaper ad revenues have been falling off a cliff

Tweetie 2 Gaining Native Foursquare Support: While Loren Brichter may be hard at work on Tweetie Two for the Mac, he hasnt given on his baby: Tweetie 2 for the iPhone. While the app hasnt been

Embrace Your Inner Geek At The New Linux Store: The Linux Foundation, the non-profit that supports the growth of the Linux kernel, has launched a merchandise store where people can purchase a newly launched line of original T-shirts, hats, mugs and other items that reflect “geek

Chomp Closes In On 300,000 Users, Launches App Review Site And Chomp Connect: When Chomp launched eight weeks ago in the iTunes store, it launched as an app for reviewing other iPhone apps. The app shows you a stream of realtime reviews, which you can filter by everyone or just

PANIC! Study Finds That Students are Addicted To Their iPhones!: 200 students surveyed in a Stanford study were found to be addicted to their iPhones. When asked to rank their dependence on the iPhone on a scale of one to five – five being addicted and one

NYT: Facebook Location Features Coming Next Month: Facebook is finally going to enter the location game at this Aprils f8 conference, according to a report this morning on the NYTs Bits blog. And theyre looking to take Google head on.Weve been hearing

Just In Time For The Location Wars, Twitter Turns On Geolocation On Its Website: When I said that location would be this years Twitter at SXSW, I also meant that Twitters geolocation would be this years Twitter at SXSW. The service has just turned

It’s Official: We’re No Longer Updating Our Twitter Accounts, We’re Tweeting: Twitter has quietly changed the wording on the button users need to press to update their statuses on the Twitter.com website. It took them 10 billion (or so) tweets to realize we dont Update, we Tweet.A lot

Team Europe Ventures Starts €6m Fund For Early Stage Startups: Team Europe Ventures, the Berlin-based VC firm, has launched a new €6 million fund for early stage startups in the Internet and mobile Internet space. The fund is mainly targeting companies in

Autoquake Gets Another £6m Investment From Its Backers: Autoquake, an online used car retailer in the UK, has raised another £6 million round of venture capital and venture debt financing from existing investors Accel Partners and Highland Capital Partners. The debt is being provided

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MySpace Co-Presidents Reveal Company’s Plan for the Future: We had a chance to step into MySpace HQ for a chat with new Co-Presidents Jason Hirschhorn and Mike Jones, who preside over the News Corp.-owned social network from a shared desk in Beverly Hills. The joint office speaks to

Phonebooth Free: An Alternative to Google Voice for Small Businesses: In November, Phonebooth.com released the beta version of Phonebooth OnDemand, which is a full-featured phone service that lives in the cloud, but can communicate with both cellular phones and IP desk and conference phones. Today, that service — which costs

Appboy Gets a New Design, iPhone App and Best Buy Partnership: Back in October we wrote about Appboy, a social network for mobile app developers and users. Since launching, Appboy has continued to evolve into a community for both developers and users to find and rate apps, as well as submit

Google Launches the Google Apps Marketplace: Today at the Google’s Campfire One event at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, the Internet search giant is launching its new app store for business, known as the Google Apps Marketplace.Last week, we broke the story of today’s

Twitter Takes on Phishing with New Security Features: Spam and phishing have been ongoing problems at Twitter for some time, and tonight the company announced that it is stepping up its efforts to stop them with some new features, described as being able to “detect, intercept, and prevent

Watch Out, Topeka: Greenville, SC, Also Wants to be Googletown, USA: Google’s call for medium-sized cities to pilot its high-speed broadband network has attracted the marketing wit of another locale: Greenville, South Carolina.Citizens of Greenville have launched the “We Are Feeling Lucky” campaign –- an obvious play on Google’s “I’m Feeling

HOW TO: Prepare for Disasters Using Social Media: Mollie Vandor is the Product Manager for Ranker.com and Media Director for Girls in Tech LA. You can find her on Twitter and on her blog, where she writes about the web, the world and what it’s like to be

Lindsay Lohan Sues E-Trade Claiming Baby Ad Is a Parody of Her: The Super Bowl may be long over, but Brand Battle 2010 continues to rage on, as yet another commercial is bit by the controversy bug — this time one of those adorable spots from E-Trade featuring a talking baby named

Hulu Gets 400 Hours of NFL Video: Hulu struck a deal to host content from The NFL Network in January, including eight shows and highlights from every team in the National Football League. The network has been adding new content to the site ever since, and this

On Android, MySpace Reigns Supreme: Despite CEO drama, plummeting traffic and even declining mobile website usage, MySpace Mobile for Android is the most popular social app in the Android Market and the third most popular downloaded application overall.While Facebook might dominate social networking apps on

Retweet.com Sells for $250,000: Retweet.com, which put itself up for sale last month, has sold for $250,000 in an online auction on Flippa. The auction saw a fair amount of interest with 35 bids in total, but it appears that the winning party came

Palm Looks to Bring iPhone Games to webOS with New PDK: Palm has announced the beta release of its Plug-in Developer Kit — or PDK — a new component in the webOS SDK that will make for dramatically better gaming on the Palm Pre, Palm Pixi and all future webOS devices.Originally

PlayStation First to Sell HD Movies from All Major Studios: Sony Computer Entertainment is proudly shouting “FIRST” (YouTube commenter-style) with an announcement that claims the PlayStation Network is the first online service to sell high-definition movies from all the major movie studios: Universal, 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Walt Disney, Warner

Foursquare + Google Maps = FourWhere: New location-based social search tool FourWhere shows Foursquare tips and comments using Google Maps so you can search and discover what everyone is saying about nearby places.Users simply input a location or address into FourWhere, right-click (control click) on the

Facebook to Launch Location Features Next Month: Facebook’s move into location has seemed inevitable for some time, and it now appears that the company will officially reveal its plans at next month’s Facebook developer conference – f8.According to The New York Times, the social network will incorporate

Announcing Mashable’s Google Wave API Challenge: Mashable and the Google Wave team are proud to announce the Google Wave API Challenge, a month-long competition to create exciting new Google Wave extensions.Google Wave’s latest updated clean API and new extension abilities allow for faster development, more opportunities

ShiftPlanning Makes Setting Schedules for Businesses Easy: This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft

Samsung Debuts 3D TV Lineup: 3D is set to be big this year, and Samsung is hoping to tempt early adopters with a promotional offer that attempts to combat one of 3D TV’s main problems — lack of content — by bundling in a 3D

Foursquare Courts Business Users with Checkin Analysis Features: The Foursquare platform currently caters to consumers and offers businesses the ability to provide specials. Today, however, we’re learning more information about a business dashboard — complete with checkin analytics — that’s being gradually rolled out to business owners.While the

MacHeist Offers Early Access to Tweetie 2 for Mac: Tweetie for Mac is the newest bonus edition to the MacHeist nanoBundle 2, which gives Mac users an opportunity to buy a variety of software for a discounted price. Additionally, buyers will also get early access to the pre-public beta

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Delicious Chrome Extension Early Beta Now Available: Bookmarking service Delicious has just rolled out a Google Chrome browser extension.Like other Chrome extensions we love to play with, this one is lightweight, fast and useful. Theres no bulky sidebar here. Bookmarks can be created and saved

Open Thread: Should Social Media Experts Be Required to Know Their Tech?: Social media gurus: We all know one. If youre lucky, you know only one.They are the attendees of tech parties, the Twitter consultants, the armchair generals of the Internet, and their numbers

Phonebooth Launches Free Google Voice Alternative for Startups and Small Businesses: Phonebooth.com, a VOIP service for individuals and small businesses, just launched a free version of its service. Phonebooth, just like Google Voice and Ribbit Mobile, provides its users with a free local phone number

SXSW 2010 for Web Celeb Stalkers: A ReadWriteWeb GuideOMG! Kevin Rose just touched my shirt!Dont lie - we know you get butterflies at the thought of bumping into iJustine or Robert Scoble at a tech conference. Weve

Google Launches Apps Marketplace for the Enterprise: Google launched an application marketplace today comprised of services from third-party providers that integrate with the Google Apps ecosystem.The news has been anticipated for some time. In particular, it shows how much Google is embracing

Twitter to Save Us From Ourselves & Phishing; More Is Needed to Make Innovation Safe & Viable: It never ceases to amaze me how many high-tech industry elites get ensnared in every Twitter phishing attack. (See our November story 7 High-Tech Twitter Users Who Fell for Phishing Scams) This evening Twitter announced that a new

There is No Perfect VP of Sales and Marketing: Sales and marketing are not the same thing. Its true they both deal with relationship management and its true that neither of these job descriptions require hardcore engineering, but just because theyre both in the

Put.io Turns Torrents Into Streams: Its services like Put.io that are behind why Google executives argue desktops will be irrelevant in three years, why Steve Ballmer says Microsoft is betting the bank on the cloud, and why

Stickybits: Portal to Another Dimension or Graffiti for Nerds?: Seth Goldstein comes up with a lot of ideas. Some of them work and some of them dont. He was one of the original backers of Del.icio.us (bought by Yahoo), Etherpad (bought by Google) and Bit.ly (huge via

For European Startups, New €6 Million Seed Fund Is A Step In the Right Direction: Early stage startups in Europe will be the primary beneficiaries of a new €6 million seed fund just announced by Berlin-based Team Europe Ventures. In the past weve talked about Europes

Network as a Service: Open Source Enables Efficient Cloud Hosting: To keep up with the growth of cloud computing and virtualization, networks keep evolving. But unlike Twitters Trending Topics, IT budgets dont scale up. In fact one of the major initiatives

Report: Location Sharing Is Coming to Facebook: Soon, you will be able to share your location with your Facebook friends. According to the New York Times Nick Bilton, Facebook plans to reveal this new feature during its f8 developer conference at

International Blackberry Outage Goes Into Day 2: The Blackberry outage that RIM does not want to talk about continues to affect people on both sides of the Atlantic with outages reported in the United States, Canada and the

Cisco in the Core: Preparing for the Next Generation Internet: Today, Cisco announced the CSR-3 product a game-changing system to managing the network core. But for CEO John Chambers, the news is about market transition forces and being ready for the next generation

Japan's Largest Telco Goes OpenID: NTT docomo, the telephone provider patronized by approximately half the population of Japan, today linked its mobile identity layer with a general web identity for users through OpenID, according to the OpenID Foundation. NTT docomo users will now

Run Your Own Twitter Clone: Status.net Launches Public Beta: StatusNet, the open-source microblogging service that serves as the foundation for identi.ca, just announced the launch of the public beta of its StatusNet Cloud Service. Thanks to this, you can now easily host your own

New State Law Bumps Colorado Off Amazon's Affiliate Map: Online retailer Amazon has ended all Colorado-based affiliate accounts after a new law passed by the states legislature would have forced them to collect and pay state sales taxes. The law, HB 10-1193,

Miso: A Foursquare-Like App for Homebodies: If your Foursquare check-ins could be limited to backyard outings and trips to the mailbox, you may be interested in a new mobile application called Miso. With this service, a startup from Bazaar Labs, also the makers of

Facebook To Sell Tickets With Eventbrite: Facebook looks to be partnering with event marketplace Eventbrite, a move may have been foreshadowed by recent design changes on the site. The announcement of a partnership was first noticed by a Facebook user who

Springpad Takes on Evernote with Semantic Technology, Barcode Scanner: Springpad, a rival to Evernotes popular cross-platform note-taking service, has just bumped the competition up a notch with a new release that integrates semantic technology to automatically enhance the notes you save with relevant info. What this means

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Google Maps Adds Biking Directions: Did you know that Google Maps most-requested feature addition is biking directions, in large part due to a vocal 50,000-signature-strong group of Bike There petitioners? The petitioners wish is being granted tonight, with bike directions for 150 U.S. cities and

Google Apps Makes Itself a Platform for Outside Apps: Google Apps is moving closer to being an integrated corporate dashboard with the announcement tonight of Google Apps Marketplace at a developer event at its headquarters. The company will give vendors multiple hooks into its own products and take a

Video: Google & its Grand Ambitions: It goes without saying Google has gigantic ambitions. We hear a lot about its various products but it is hard to contextualize those efforts. A new video from Australian weekly news show Hungry Beast, is a graphical representation of Google’s

A Belated New Year’s Resolution: No Walled Gardens!: The Comedy Central-Hulu announcement last week made me recall my New Year’s resolution, one that I wanted to share publicly, and encourage you to embrace as well. It is simple in its concept, but epic in scope: Give up Walled

Is Cheap Wireless Broadband for Real This Time?: The FCC said today that the National Broadband Plan may ask for spectrum to build a free or low-cost wireless broadband network for poor people. But can the FCC find billions to build out a network or handle the inevitable

3 Leading Venture Capitalists to Judge Green:Net 2010 Launchpad: Green:Net 2010 is the GigaOM Network’s conference where green and IT meet. And weve scored a trio of leading venture capitalists to judge the popular Launchpad competition, which features 10 hot startups with applications for leveraging IT against climate change.

Facebook Plans to Stake Its Location Claim Next Month: Facebook plans to add friend location information as soon as next month, reports The New York Times Bits blog today. The planned product would offer users the ability to share information with friends as well as APIs to bring in

Not Every iPhone Apple App to Get the iPad Treatment: Like the iPhone, the iPad will have a default set of applications, but it wont necessarily include all the familiar apps you know and possibly love. Apparently, Cupertino couldnt come up with iPad-complementary large-format designs for the user interfaces on

Cisco’s New Router Is All About Video: Cisco this morning unveiled a new routing system that it claims can download the entire printed collection of the Library of Congress in about a second. The hardware is designed to play a fundamental role as data consumption ramps up

The Rise of Netbooks: Related content from GigaOM Pro (sub req’d): The State of the SmartbookInfographic by Column Five Media

7 Startups Building Green Car Tech for a Pre-Electric World: Quiet Khosla Ventures-backed startup Transonic Combustion is getting attention after revealing the geeky details of its scheme for a more efficient fuel-injection system. Its only one of a raft of startups focused on fuel efficiency.

When Evite Is Too Formal: Go Tribal Targets Casual Planning: Go Tribal, a new social planning service launching today, aims to be more casual than Evites, Facebook events or even Plancast. Users input their upcoming availability by explicitly stating they are down to hang out, then the system helps a

Are Virtual Keys the Key for NFC?: Apple has patented a system that would enable consumers to use their phones to replace keys for the cars, homes and offices. Its an effort that could finally move the needle for NFC, which has failed to gain an real

Where, a Geo App Launches a Local Mobile Ad NEtwork: Where, a geo-enabled local search and recommendation service by Boston-based uLocate Communications has launched Where Ads, a hyper-local advertising network. The company believes that it has the ability to deliver hyper-local and contextually relevant content and by extension highly targeted

10 Austin Startups You Should Meet While You’re at SXSW: Since a good 29,572 people are coming to Austin for SXSW next week, I figured Id offer up a list of companies based here that any of the digerati should take the time to meet while in town. Heres my

Web’s Buildout Boosting Server Chip Demand: Most mid-sized web companies like them are beginning to see the demands on their infrastructure increase, especially as they start to cater to more and more web visitors. Expect a bump in the sales of servers and by extension chips

Apple’s iTunes LP 6 Months Later: LP What?: If Apples iTunes LP format was supposed to give music fans a new reason to buy albums instead of individual songs, its impact on record sales has been a major disappointment. Six months after its introduction, the format is more

The NYT Needs to Learn the Value of the Link: In the wake of the plagiarism case involving New York Times writer Zachary Kouwe, blame has been placed on the high-speed nature of blogging. But the real issue lies with the papers failure to understand the culture of the web

Pay for Drinks at SXSW Using Your iPhone: Now heres a killer app for the throngs of geeks about to descend on Austin: TabbedOut. The iPhone application allows users to pay for their tabs at local bars. It sounds like the perfect fix for those full-to-the-gills parties SXSW

When It Comes to Social Sharing, Don’t Forget About Email: While social sites drive an increasing portion of traffic to content publishers, email -- the original social network -- is responsible for 70 percent of total shares and 48 percent of visits generated by shares, according to data collected by

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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

marchFIRST: On March 1 it’s always a good reminder to look back at marchFIRST — an example of what big money thought was a good idea just 10 years ago.The original USWeb was founded in 1995 by a group of former

PHOTO: Jason told me about hobo signs last week: Jason told me about hobo signs last week. Lots of really cool glyphs and pictograms here.

PHOTO: Top notch UI copywriting from Wufoo.: Top notch UI copywriting from Wufoo.

Feature checklist dysfunction: Twitter vs. Google Buzz: Speaking of “feature checklist dysfunction,” this piece compares Twitter to Google Buzz.There’s so much Twitter can’t do…That simplicity has made Twitter a huge hit. But “simple” usually means “limited,” and Twitter is no exception. Your messages can’t be longer than

Illustrating REWORK (Part 1 of 2): This is a guest post from Mike Rohde. We hired Mike to illustrate original art for REWORK. Each one of the 90 essays in REWORK is accompanied by an illustration that captures the key message of the essay. We asked

Photos from 37signals trip to San Diego: It’s kind of pretty here. Shot from Torrey Pines State Park.A look at the conference

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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

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

GIW Day Five: We End with Lansing and Boulder: Introduction to Hyperbolic Geometry by Amber Case | Ignite Portland 8View more presentations from Amber Case at Ignite Portland 8.Today is the last day of Global Ignite Week. We are still pulling together the number of speakers and attendees, but

Open government examples from the ONC: With the sea change caused by the Open Government Directive I know that many federal agencies might be struggling with how to actually implement this new policy. This is a major cultural shift in government and there are always challenges

Yammer: Will viral work in the enterprise?: I work for a very large company and at some point or another someone started a Yammer account based on our email domain. Starting on whatever day that was, Yammer commenced its viral expansion and its spread has really been

MySQL migration and risk management: Oracles acquisition of Sun has opened up all sorts of questions: Will MySQL get the support it needs? What will become of the MySQL community? Where should database administrators put their efforts and resources?Ronald Bradford can answer that last question.

Four short links: 5 March 2010: Rapportive -- a simple social CRM built into Gmail. They replace the ads in Gmail with photos, bio, and info from social media sites. (via ReadWrite Web)Best Practices in Web Development with Django and Python -- great set of recommendations.

Report from HIMSS Health IT conference: building or bypassing infrastructure: Today the Healthcare Information andManagement Systems Society (HIMSS) conference wrapped up. Inprevious blogs, I laid out the benefits of risk-taking in health care IT followed by my maintheme, interoperability and openness. This blog will cover a few topicsabout a third

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

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

So What Do You Get For a Propeller Best of Day Listing?: Earlier this week, I took a look at the social news service Propeller and wondered if the service was coming in for a landing. Since that post, one of Propeller’s users submitted the CN story to Propeller and I thought

Blockbuster Express Now Supports Online Rentals: Back in December I reviewed the movie kiosk service Blockbuster Express. The kiosks have been popping up all over NYC (this morning I noticed one in Gristedes supermarket). What’s great about the Blockbuster Express machines is that you can rent

A Happy Failure Story: Lessons Learned From My First Startup: I’m currently working on a cool called SubMate. SubMate allows you to discover the familiar strangers you see every day in the subway. This super cool idea has some history. Here is how I learnt some basic entrepreneurship lessons, the

Cobot Provides Managed Coworking Services: Yesterday we covered the launch of New Jersey’s first coworking location, Converge NJ. Today we’ve learned about a new service that helps manage coworking locations.Cobot, created by Berlin-based Upstream, offers a suite of tools for managers of coworking spaces. Cobot provides user

Webware

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

Rescuecom drops trademark suit against Google: After Best Buy sued Rescuecom for using the same advertising tactics Rescuecom decried in its suit against Google, the PC support company makes peace with Google. Originally posted at Relevant Results

Can you appeal a YouTube ban?: A travel blogger gets banned from YouTube and doesnt know why. We get the ban reversed. Originally posted at CNET to the Rescue

Chrome dev gets rudimentary HTML5 geolocation: HTML5 standards continue to slowly proliferate throughout the major browsers. Google Chrome now supports the geolocation API, but its not activated yet by default. Originally posted at The Download Blog

Opera Mini now on Windows Mobile. Yeah, you read that right: Opera Software further blurs the lines between Mini and Mobile with a release of a new browser beta for Windows phones. Originally posted at The Download Blog

YouTube brings auto-captioning to everyone: YouTube is making its auto-captioning technology available to everyone in the hopes of making closed captions an option for all users. Originally posted at Web Crawler

Google tries again in search personalization: People wouldnt make the commitment of elevating or deleting search results using SearchWiki. Now Google users personalize results with stars. Originally posted at Deep Tech

Live blog Thursday: YouTube press conference: YouTube is holding a press conference Thursday morning to discuss something. Well be there live to bring you more details on, well, whatever it is. Originally posted at Web Crawler

Google admits its SEO could use a little work: Google has taken a look at its own search engine optimization (SEO) and found itself coming up a little bit short. As a result, its made available a public version of this report for Webmasters to use on their own

eHub

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

Museum of Modern Betas

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

Howwl: HowwlHowwl is a place to have natural, threaded conversations. Think of it as casual blogging.Howwl? Howwl is a place to have natural, threaded conversations

Scenepeek: ScenepeekScenepeek is a service that helps people organize their busy social calendars, discover interesting events happening in their neighborhood, and share their everyday activities with the people around them.@scenepeek

Next Girl DJ: Next Girl DJNext Girl DJ is a new Pan-European contest that aims to discover the hottest girl DJ around and propel her into dance music superstardom.

Pro Con Lists: Pro Con ListsA Pro/Con list can help you make more informed decisions by weighing all the positives and negatives.ProCon Lists – Pros y Contras antes de tomar una decisión

Tweetgif: Tweetgifanimated gif sharing on Twitter.

Sportspotter: SportspotterSportSpotter is a social service for realtime sports updatesSportSpotter.com – Receive Sports Alerts Everywhere

Reddynote: ReddynoteA centralised work platform allows you to plan and organise your tasks individually or within a team. You can easily overview and manage your matters and therewith effortless defeat the daily task-flow.Blog@reddynoteReddynote, Planio, 12sprints

Remobo: RemoboRemobo creates an Instant Private Network between users. Blog@remobo

ProgrammableWeb

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

How to Search Twitter Profiles by Web or API: Ever wondered how many of your Twitter followers are web developers? Paging through twenty at a time and looking at bios is too slow to be worth answering that question. Using TweepSearch, you can quickly

Instant Geo-tweet Maps: Just Add UMapper: A dearth of geotweets didnt stop UMapper (our UMapper API profile). Viewing geocoded tweets on a map is now super-easy, thanks to the snazzy Flash mapping platforms new feature.

31 APIs Used in 7 Days: Amazon, Digg, Facebook, Google, MySpace, NOAA, Twitter, and YouTube: This past week the new mashups added to our mashup directory used 31 different APIs. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include AddThis Menu, Get Satisfaction, Google Buzz, IMified, IP Address Lookup, Picnik

Best New Mashups: Random Chat, Twitter Chat and Tide Spying: Perhaps youre looking for a time-shifted, non-video Chat Roulette? Or, just a way to organize a conference or presentation backchannel? Then the list of the best new mashups has something for you. However, if youre not

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 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.

Episode 58 - Font Squirrel: 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.

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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