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SCVNGR’s Hunts Finding Plenty Of Customers, Now Cash-Flow Positive: Back in August, I wrote about an interesting new company called SCVNGR. Their goal? To turn scavenger hunts into a business by offering companies, universities, and other organizations a platform on which they can built

Photo Booth And Canons With Cheap Lenses Dominate Tumblr: The Tumblr staff has done an interesting little breakdown of the metadata on Tumblr blog photos. Im sure you guys have seen Flickrs equally-interesting Camera Finder page, which is used as a sort of talking

App Store Apps Finally Gets Prettier Pages: With the launch of iTunes 9, Apple revamped many of the areas of the iTunes online store so that they were rendered with WebKit, the open source web layout engine (which browsers like Safari and

It’s Raining FAIL. Widespread AT&T Outages Reported In San Francisco.: Today started out like any other, which is to say, the AT&T connection on my cellphone was somewhat working, depending on where I was positioned in my apartment. It sucks, but things like this are

eGether: A Social Network For Pitching And Getting Pitched, Without The Email Overload: The overflowing inbox. Its a problem many a journalist or blogger has had to deal with, but its often a necessary evil. After all, were all on the hunt for the next big story, cool

Emo Labs Raises $1.5 Million For Invisible Speaker Technology: Startup Emo Labs, which creates invisible speaker technologies, has raised $1.5 million in funding according to an SEC filing. The startup, which presented at this years DEMO conference, previously raised $16 million in funding. Emo

CrunchGear In China: Shanzhai Market: The cellphone market in Shenzhen is like a flea market where everyone is selling the same thing. If it looks like an iPhone, its here. There are hundreds of models, hundreds of odd names, and

It’s The Google Countdown!: Heres a nifty little Google Easter Egg on this fine Friday. If you go to the Google homepage and click the Im Feeling Lucky button with no query entered, a countdown timer will appear below

Yahoo Eyes Asian Market With Chinese Version Of Meme: The opportunity for microblogging platforms in Asian markets is substantial in terms of users; and tech giants and startups are taking the potential of this market seriously. Twitter rolled out a Japanese version (with Digital

Google Suggest Becomes More Universal: Search is getting more visual. Today, Google is adding universal search elements to Google Suggest, the drop-down list of suggested keywords that appear under the search box as you type. Now you may find suggestion

Mint Study Shows That Holiday Shoppers Are Back In Action: Feel like this holiday season is a bit cheerier than last years? Youre not alone. According to some new data from personal finance site Mint (which was acquired by Intuit for $170 million earlier this

Want Everyone To See Your Credit Card Transactions? Of Course You Do. Meet Blippy.: As the Internet matures, slowly but surely everything we do in the real world is going social. But theres a limit to how much information we can explicitly share on all the various services. A

VOKLE Launches Live Video Broadcasting Platform: After many months in private alpha, VOKLE is officially launching its live video platform to the public. VOKLE is an embeddable application that allows users to broadcast their live video and audio to a virtual

Friday Contest: Win a Triple-Tuner Moxi HD DVR: Sure, all the cool kids are ditching cable and satellite these days, but us normal folk still pay for our TV. If thats you, then you need a DVR and Arris wants you to

Apple Loosens The Reins A Bit, Sends Handslaps Rather Than Rejections: Its tough at the top. When youve got tens of thousands of developers vying for your acceptance, your every decision is scrutinized and criticized. Such is the case with Apple; if they approve a thousand

Disappointing Gifts, 1986 Edition: The Etch A Sketch Animator: Gather ‘round, kids. Gather ‘round. I’m going to tell you the story of a disappointing Christmas gift from back before many of you were born. With every blog on the internet doing year-end and best-of

Apple Says Nokia Missed The Boat And “Chose To Copy The iPhone” Instead: Now that Apple has responded to Nokias patent lawsuit filed last October with its own countersuit today, we have a clearer picture of what the dispute is all about. As suspected, it is about money, specifically the patent licensing fees

Apple Countersues Nokia, Accuses Them Of Theft: In a very concise statement, Apple has let the public know that it has today filed a counter suit against Finnish handset maker Nokia, who at the end of October 2009 took the Cupertino company

Mobcast Brings Geo To Facebook And Your iPhone: If the $8.4 million raised yesterday by geo-social network Gowalla tells us anything it is that geo is red hot right right now. The trickle of geo apps is already turning into a flood. The

Command Guru: Reality TV Meets iPhone Development: What happens if you put some of the top designers and developers in the same room, hooked up to multiple HD cameras, and the internet? Welcome to Command Guru. Command Guru is located in Venice,

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Mashable

Top 5 Blogging Platforms Judged by Mashable Readers: Each Friday we choose a Lunchtime Poll topic to get a sense of how Mashable readers feel about the chosen topic of the week. Below are the results from last Friday’s poll, where we asked your favorite blogging platform.Is your

Get a Daily Summary of Your Friends’ Twitter Activity: 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

Apple Launches Redesign of the App Store: A few minutes ago, we got tipped off that Apple has begun a rollout of a redesign of the iPhone App Store within iTunes. It only took a quick check of Twitter and the iTunes store to confirm that, indeed,

Accenture Dumps Tiger Woods From Corporate Homepage: Update: Tiger Woods has also just announced on his website that he’s “taking a hiatus from golf” and that it “may not be possible to repair the damage I’ve done, but I want to do my best to try.”The revelations

HOW TO: Get Your Feedback Heard on Social Networks: 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

The Muppets Cover (Another) Song: Viral videos are always a lovely surprise, and pretty much everyone over here at Mashable was delighted by the Muppets’ rendition of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” but we’re going to have to agree with Gawker on this one: The Muppets just dropped

What’s Your Favorite Mobile Social App?: Dear friends of Mashable, gather ’round — for ’tis time to kick off this week’s Lunchtime Poll! As you may know, each week we throw out a poll question, start off with some responses from the staff here at Mashable

Man Loses Facebook Bet, Friends Shoot Up His Big Screen TV: As the owner of more than one hundred inches worth of television, this video makes me cringe. But it’s also quickly becoming a hit on YouTube. The backstory is quite simply that a Redskins fan told his Facebook friends that

5 Most Memorable Sports Tweets of 2009: This post is part of Mashable’s Fab Five series with Jalen Rose, which highlights trends in the social media space. Jalen Rose is a former 13-year NBA star and current ESPN basketball analyst but may be best known for being

Google Adds New Features to Help You Search Faster: Google is officially obsessed with speed. If real-time search didn’t convince you of that fact, then take note of two new features with speed also at their core: universal search features in Google Suggest and Quick Scroll for Chrome. Now

When Videos Buffer, Viewers Leave … in Droves: A new study shows online video viewers to be extremely fickle, with four out of five clicking away from a streaming clip if it pauses to buffer (even once), instead of waiting for the video to reload. The study, from

Apple Countersues Nokia for Patent Violations: As you may recall, Nokia filed suit against Apple in October, claiming the iPhone maker was infringing on Nokia’s patents. Analysts even estimated that if found guilty, Apple could owe up to $1 billion in penalties. Not one to to

Facebook CEO Takes One for the Team and Embraces New Privacy Settings: While privacy watchdogs, security firms and users digest the implications of Facebook’s new privacy settings, at least one high-profile individual is embracing them: Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. TrueSlant seems to have been first to notice that the usually

Keep Tabs on Your Data Consumption with Consume for iPhone: It’s no secret that iPhone users are data whores. Whether it’s the access they have to data-connect applications, the ability they possess to stream video and audio, or how they utilize the Web browsing experience in general, iPhone owners as

“30 Rock” Takes a Crack at Facebook: NBC’s hit show, 30 Rock, typically takes a social norm and parodies it to no end by dedicating an entire episode to it. Last night’s installment, “Secret Santa,” was no exception. This time around the subject of the show’s comedic

The Top 10 Most Watched Web Series, November 2009: It’s the beginning of December, which means it’s time to take stock of the web series that captured your attention in November.In case you’re not familiar with our round up of the most popular web shows, each month we look

Netbook Operating System Jolicloud Set to Take on Google Chrome OS: When it comes to lightweight operating systems for a netbook or smartbook (which is basically a netbook that runs an ARM processor — expect to see them early next year), much of the recent buzz has centered around Google’s Chrome

How Programmer/Journalists Are Changing the News: Today’s demand for programmer/journalists is one sign of how the Internet has changed the newsroom. While the role has become crucial to many forward-thinking news organizations, traditional newsrooms are often still struggling to integrate programmer/journalists into their everyday workflow.I spoke

Google Tried to Buy Lala: Lost to Apple: Apple wasn’t the only company chasing web-based music startup Lala, it seems: Google was also in hot pursuit, with aspirations to delve deeper into the online music business. Google lost that battle, with Apple acquiring the company for around $85

Google Chrome Gets an Adorable New Ad: With Google Chrome now available on the Mac, there’s more buzz than ever around Google’s speedy, lightweight browser. Now Google in the UK has created a 4 minute introductory video for would-be Chrome users, featuring pin-boards, graffiti, and even some

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Read/WriteWeb

Harvard Medical School's Learning Technology Must Be Smart...Right?: Research from Harvard Medical School has resulted in a pretty sharp SaaS learning system. SpacedEd, as it is called, uses a simple question and answer format that adapts to the persons level of knowledge. Today

Zuckerberg Changes His Own Privacy Settings: Following one of the biggest changes to the culture of Facebook in years, founder Mark Zuckerberg has changed his own privacy settings to reflect whats now recommended for everyone else.For those wondering, he wrote this afternoon, I set

Forget the Web 2.0 Glamour - the Money is in the Enterprise: The Web 2.0 world may seem at times like a glamorous, hip place. Services get wild attention. The names are something out of the space age. The companies work out of

Draw Your Own iPhone Game With Pencil and Paper: Sketch Nation is a forthcoming iPhone app that takes iPhone photos of drawn images and uses them as avatars, obstacles and enemies in a customized fly-and-shoot mobile game. Its pretty sweet and was the winner of the

Find Without Searching: Google Brings Universal Search to Google Suggest: Google just announced that it has started to include some results from its universal search feature right into the list of suggested search terms beneath the search box. When you search for weather in San Francisco,

Tumblr Goes Real Time: Starting today, the popular light blogging platform Tumblr will publish its users feeds in real time. Tumblr will use the increasingly popular PubSubHubbub format to announce updates. Tumblrs real-time hub will be powered by Superfeedr. Thanks

Top 10 Startup Products of 2009: There were a ton of great products launched in 2009 by big companies and startups alike, but in this post we focus on the best products released by startups.The easiest way to become a leading

10 Ways Social Media Will Change In 2010: This time last year, I wrote about the 10 ways social media will change 2009, and while all predictions have materialized or are on their way, it has only become clear in recent months

Downloading Frenzy in China: Gov't Blocking All Torrent Sites Soon?: Over the past 10 days, Chinese downloaders have flooded - and in some cases, crashed - major P2P and torrent sites after rumors that the government would be effectively disabling all media downloads in the country.The State Administration

Bank Login-Stealing Botnet Found Hiding in Amazon Cloud: Weve all heard security nerds complain about the vulnerabilities of cloud computing; heres the news theyve been waiting for.Black-hat hackers got into an unnamed website hosted on Amazons servers then proceeded to install an illegal command and control

Facebook Says New Privacy Policy is Like Expanding Beyond Colleges in 2006: We reported yesterday that Facebook is aiming to get people to be more public on the site and that anyone who hasnt changed their privacy settings will now see it recommended that their status updates, photos etc. be

No Cyber Czar for You, America: Obama Fails to Appoint InfoSec Head: In a recent interview, Homeland Security deputy undersecretary Philip Reitinger commented on President Obamas as-yet unfulfilled promise to appoint a senior White House cybersecurity advisor.Although the nation has an acting cybersecurity coordinator in former FBI cyber staffer Chris

On Favrd, Twitter & Community: Why You Should Be Able to Count the Stars: Favrd, the now-retired (creator-destroyed) aggregation site for Twitter favorites, began as the irreverent offshoot of a community of influential designers and developers -- people like Merlin Mann (@hotdogsladies), John Gruber (@gruber), Jeffrey

5 Enterprise Trends to Watch in 2010: Part 1: Who does not love to make predictions? Tis the season, right?We posted our Top 10 Enterprise Products for 2010 and so it feels like a good time to provide some perspective on

iBARCODE: Real-Time Price Search Engine Launches: German company apnoti.com has today launched what it claims is the worlds first mobile price search engine with integrated barcode scanner. Its an iPhone app called iBARCODE, which enables users to scan product barcodes and find the

Google Real-Time Search Is Now Live: Google turned on real-time search on its main site this morning with little fanfare, after a huge announcement and demo earlier this week. Go to google.com and search for a news query (Obama Nobel will work) or for

Smart Phones Show How the Times are a Changing: Look at how smart phones are reaching into the enterprise and its clear a cultural shift is taking place that is transforming the relationship between IT and business users.Smart phones in the enterprise are

Netvibes Launches Ultimate News and Lifestyle Dashboard: In late November, ReadWriteWeb asked the question, Can Netvibes pull off integration of real-time feeds into its existing dashboard product?. At the time, early testers were just gaining access to Wasabi beta. As of today

Queen of Jordan Calls on Blogger Friends: This morning in her address to LeWeb conference attendees, her majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan asked the question, Did Michael Jackson change the fate of the green revolution? While

Says Danah Boyd, Leverage the Web's Most Disturbing Content: Microsoft researcher Danah Boyd took a decidedly different approach when considering social networking at todays LeWeb conference. In speaking to a room packed with more than a thousand entrepreneurs, investors and journalists, Boyd explained how

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GigaOM

Craigslist on eBay: “Untrustworthy”; eBay on Craigslist: “Amateurish”: Executives from eBay and Craigslist testified in a Delaware court this week over the auction giants stake in the classifieds leader. If you didnt fork over $400 for todays live stream of the culture clash between the folksy Craigslist and

Sponsor post: Sponsor post: Thanks to Our GigaOM Sponsors!: We’d like to say thanks to this week’s GigaOM sponsors: PEER 1: Fully Scalable Hosting Solutions Concentric: Hosted IT Services Mozy: Simple, Automatic, Secure Online Backup SoftLayer: SoftLayer delivers on-demand virtual data center services

European Txtr Ready To Fight Amazon’s Kindle: txtr, a Berlin-based start-up, is building an eReader that hopes to be Europe’s answer to the Amazon Kindle. Christophe Maire, Chief Executive Officer of the company, sat down with me in Paris earlier this week and gave me the details.

P2P Lending Gets a Boost from the House: Peer-to-peer lending services like Prosper got a new lease on life from the U.S. House of Representatives today, which included an amendment to move regulation of the space from the SEC to a new banking regulatory agency in a major

Can Android Tablets Find a Market?: A small wave of Android tablets is coming to market, giving users a better mobile web experience than smartphones can offer without adding the heft of a netbook. But can the smaller, sleeker tablets succeed where so many other MIDs

Is Verari Shutting Down?: Blade server and containerized data center startup Verari Systems is shutting down today, according to reports. This has me wondering what the fates have in store for other specialty hardware players such as BLADE Networks or Liquid Computing.

Desperately Seeking Backers: 3 Unloved Future Tech Ideas: Its astonishing to consider how long it can take for technology that already exists, and isnt all that expensive to execute, to come to market. Case in point are the following three existing technologies -- where are the VCs and

The State of the Smartbook: Netbooks have been a rip-roaring success since they hit the market a year and a half ago, and smartphones have taken the gadget world by storm. Now, companies like Qualcomm, Freescale and Nvidia are hoping theres room for another type

Blame the Nokia-Apple Spat on Convergence: The Apple-Nokia patent fight continues today, with Apple countersuing Nokia. This fight isnt just about Nokias waning market share, however, but a symptom of how convergence is changing the mobile landscape.

U.S. Commerce Secretary: Entrepreneurs Will Pioneer the Climate Solution: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke told an audience at the Copenhagen climate negotiations on Friday that if history is our guide, the solutions for clean energy will be pioneered by private entrepreneurs and innovators.

Microsoft + Mobile Consumers = FAIL: Microsoft has thrived in the enterprise but has consistently failed to understand the needs and wants of consumers. And nowhere is that more evident than in wireless, where Windows Mobile continues to lose market share to consumer-centric operating systems and

Does This Underwater Cell Phone Sink or Swim?: Have you ever wanted to make or receive a phone call while diving? If so, SkyMall has the gadget for you: an underwater cell phone. But for $1,790? And would this thing actually work?

Google’s Underwater Ambitions Expand: Google is making its second underwater cable investment, an effort to link parts of Asia Pacific and add up to 23 Tbps of bandwidth capacity to the region. The construction is part of a boom in submarine cables fueled by

How Hot is Spotify?: You know how Apple make is presence felt at the CES by not being there. Well, you can say the same for Spotify, a London & Stockholm based digital music service that was co-founded by Martin Lorentzon and Stardoll founder,

Quintura Says Google Infringes Search Interface Patent: The Russian visual search site Quintura has been awarded a patent for a way to display search results that it claims a minor feature of Google infringes. CEO Yakov Sadchikov said Quintura plans to enforce the patent and is working

Why Mozilla’s Deal With Google Gets Ever Shakier: The successful rise of Mozillas Firefox browser is one of the most storied tales of the open source community. Despite the browsers success, however, Mozilla remains hugely financially dependent on Google-- possibly perilously so.

How Apple’s New Music Strategy Reflects a Paradigm Shift: Apples updated digital music strategy will reverse commitments to desktop software and ownership of music files. Here are five ways its acquisition and integration of Lala reflect a paradigm shift in the way mainstream consumers will listen to music in

Skype Beta Calls on Symbian Phones: Skype today introduced a beta version of its offering for devices running Nokias Symbian operating system, which means the companys base of addressable handsets around the world just got a lot bigger.

How AT&T May Limit Your Mobile Data: Mobile operators are overwhelmed by data usage on their networks, but rightly fear that implementing restrictions could lead to widespread public dissent. Instead of beating bandwidth hogs with a stick, perhaps they can offer a carrot to get them to

Yahoo Adds Tweets to Search, But Not in Real-Time: Following Google, Yahoo announced today it is adding Tweets to the bottom of search results pages for topics it has determined as buzzing, but Yahoo is not paying Twitter to get its full Firehose of Tweets, as Google and Microsoft

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37signals

INSIGHT: It's never really a redesign until you redesign: It’s never really a redesign until you redesign it the day before it launches.

Authentic costumes: Legendary director Akira Kurosawa reportedly went to great lengths to make his films seem authentic.His perfectionism also showed in his approach to costumes: he felt that giving an actor a brand new costume made the character look less than authentic.

QUOTE: Work expands so as to fill the time available: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.—Parkinson’s_Law, discussed in this “Beyond The Pedway” profile of 37signals (and also years ago here at SvN: “Don’t break Parkinson’s Law”)

PHOTO: Camouflage Art by Liu Bolin: "Inspired by: Camouflage Art by Liu Bolin: “Inspired by how some animals can blend into their environment, Liu Bolin from China uses camouflage principles to create amazing contemporary art.” Ya gotta see the rest of these

Saddleback Leather tells its story and promotes through education: The About Samsonite page throws around important sounding phrases about embodying the brand, leveraging craftsmanship, and creating unique solutions.By identifying trends and interpreting travelers’ needs, Samsonite continues to infuse innovation and new ideas into travel, re-igniting the sophistication and experience

Derek Sivers is publishing some great stuff: Are you reading Derek Sivers’ blog? He’s really been killing it with good posts lately. The “hippie capitalist” (he’s a musician who founded CD Baby) is a master at offering simple advice that delivers real impact.Some recent examples: Let pedestrians

PHOTO: Meetings: The practical alternative to work. (via Ariel): Meetings: The practical alternative to work. (via Ariel)

QUOTE: So maybe it's time for you to join the movement: So maybe it’s time for you to join the movement. Why not carve out an hour or two a week, tell your colleagues and customers that you have cleared your schedule, that you’ll be sitting in your office, and that

Step one is admitting you have a problem: The startup world is full of people addicted to work. The addiction often carries a heavy toll of lost friendships, broken relationships, bad health, and a dearth of other interests. All that matters is the next high from work. The

Little Horn Speakers: Specimen Products is a custom instrument and amp company based in Chicago, IL. Everything is handcrafted to create a unique blend of high quality acoustics and innovate design. The Little Horn Speakers pictured above

What do you mean by bullet lists with "flair"?: So we’re finalizing the layout of Rework with our publisher. We weren’t liking the appearance of the bullet lists in the book though. There were emails back and forth. Then phone calls. They thought we wanted more “flair” or a

QUOTE: I’ll tell you what I do. I take a one-gallon Z: I’ll tell you what I do. I take a one-gallon Ziploc bag, and I put my Kindle in my one-gallon Ziploc bag, and it works beautifully. It’s much better than a physical book, because obviously if you put your physical

QUOTE: Clutter is the official language used by: Clutter is the official language used by corporations to hide their mistakes.—William Zinsser

Inefficiencies are what make you special: The traditional advice for businesses is to “eliminate inefficiencies.” But a lot of the things that could be labelled as inefficiencies are actually what steer your product away from being a commodity. When you cut out anything that isn’t efficient,

QUOTE: Charging for your product helps you find: Charging for your product helps you find out who your customers are…We had all different types of people sign up for free accounts including bloggers, educators and small businesses, but the only type of customer that signed up for paid

Jim Collins and the "stop doing" list: Reader Tim Bailen writes in: “Thought you guys would like this idea — that a ‘stop doing’ list is more important than a ‘to-do’ list. It’s from Jim Collins’ study of companies that went from good to great.”Most of us

37signals podcast hits top 10 at iTunes: The 37signals Podcast hits #10 at iTunes list of top podcasts. Thanks to everyone who has subscribed! (Not subscribed yet? Sign up via iTunes or RSS.)

Recent 37signals interviews with UX Magazine, Time Out Chicago, and U. of Chicago Booth School (...): UX Magazine published an in-depth interview with David. It’s a lengthy piece that touches on UI, business, programming, Getting Real, and more. Really comprehensive piece that’s worth checking out. Audio clips of the interview are included throughout too. (Also, check

Jobs at the 37signals Job Board: Facebook, Garmin, WGBH, etc.: Design JobsGarmin International is looking for a Associate Interactive and Animation Designer in Olathe, KS.Justin.tv is looking for a Product Designer in SOMA/San Francisco, CA.Facebook is looking for a Product Designer in Palo Alto, CA.WGBH is looking for a Associate

Creative Haystack listings: It’s a blast scrolling through Haystack for design inspiration. Along the way I’ve been making a list of some of the more interesting ads. Here are a few especially creative ones I wanted to highlight:An ad instead of an imageThese

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O'Reilly Radar

Four short links: 11 December 2009: Real Time Text Taskforce -- standardising live typing ala EtherPad and Google Wave, for accessibility reasons.NoSQL Required Reading -- papers and presentations to get up to speed in the theory and practice of scalable key-value data stores. (via Hacker News)Its

Visualizing and Categorizing the 911 Wikileaks Data Set: On November 25th, Wikileaks released 500,000 text pager intercepts from the 24 hours surrounding the horrific 9/11 attacks. The personal, corporate and governmental come from the Washington D.C. and

Four short links: 10 December 2009: Scriblio -- open source CMS and catalogue built on WordPress, with faceted search and browse. (via titine on Delicious)Useful Temporal Functions and Queries -- SQL tricksies for those working with timeseries data. (via mbiddulph on Delicious)Optimal Starting Prices for Negotiations

Four short links: 9 December 2009: The Mythology of Bioinformatics -- worth reading this (reprinted from 2002!) separate of hype from history.Policy and Internet -- new journal, with articles such as The Case Against Mass E-mails: Perverse Incentives and Low Quality Public Participation in U.S. Federal

Four short links: 9 December 2009: The Mythology of Bioinformatics -- worth reading this (reprinted from 2002!) separate of hype from history.Policy and Internet -- new journal, with articles such as The Case Against Mass E-mails: Perverse Incentives and Low Quality Public Participation in U.S. Federal

GWT Now With SpeedTracer: Google is releasing v2 of GWT (pronounced Gwit) tonight at a Campfire One in Mountain View. The open-source Google Web Toolkit enables developers to code Ajax web

GWT Now With SpeedTracer: Google is releasing v2 of GWT (pronounced Gwit) tonight at a Campfire One in Mountain View. The open-source Google Web Toolkit enables developers to code Ajax web

Four short links: 8 December 2009: Pythons Moratorium -- Python language designers have declared a moratorium on enhancement proposals (feature requests) while the worlds Python programmers get used to the last batch of New And Shiny they shipped. Im reasonably sure that the ALGOL designers went

Twitter Approval Matrix - November 2009: This is the sixth post for the Twitter Approval Matrix with data that spanned the month of November and different sources such as klout.com, tweetsentiment.com, twopular.com, scraping archives, and observations. This month I received help from Joe Fernandez the CEO

Four short links: 7 December 2009: 3D Touchscreens -- Japan Science & Technology Agency and researchers at the University of Electro-communications have made a photoelastic touch screen. The LCD emits polarized light, picked up by a camera over the screen. Transparent rubber on the screen deforms

Four short links: 8 December 2009: Pythons Moratorium -- Python language designers have declared a moratorium on enhancement proposals (feature requests) while the worlds Python programmers get used to the last batch of New And Shiny they shipped. Im reasonably sure that the ALGOL designers went

Twitter Approval Matrix - November 2009: This is the sixth post for the Twitter Approval Matrix with data that spanned the month of November and different sources such as klout.com, tweetsentiment.com, twopular.com, scraping archives, and observations. This month I received help from Joe Fernandez the CEO

Four short links: 7 December 2009: 3D Touchscreens -- Japan Science & Technology Agency and researchers at the University of Electro-communications have made a photoelastic touch screen. The LCD emits polarized light, picked up by a camera over the screen. Transparent rubber on the screen deforms

Four short links: 4 December 2009: Readability -- bookmarklet that takes the crap out of a web page, resizes, and reformats so its easier to read. Doesnt work for all sites, but its a hellishly interesting idea.An In-Depth Look at Pivot, Microsofts Newest Data Visualization Tool

The Lessons We Don't Learn: In my Twitter stream today, Sylvia Martinez (@smartinez) retweeted a link to Seymour Paperts 1980 paper written for a Presidential commission that proposed that we provide a computer for every child in America. Long before One Laptop Per Child, Papert

Google Android: on Inevitability, the Dawn of Mobile, and the Missing Leg: If for no other reason than the Anyone but Apple crowd NEEDS an alternative, there is an inevitability meme associated with Googles Android initiative. After all, Google is formidable, has a strong

Four short links: 3 December 2009: How Robber Barons Hijacked the Victorian Internet (ArsTechnica) -- cautionary tale of the exploitation of a monopoly. Once installed as the dominant proprietor of the nations telegraph system, public trust in the confidentiality of Western Union transmissions evaporated. Gould scanned

Four short links: 4 December 2009: Readability -- bookmarklet that takes the crap out of a web page, resizes, and reformats so its easier to read. Doesnt work for all sites, but its a hellishly interesting idea.An In-Depth Look at Pivot, Microsofts Newest Data Visualization Tool

The Lessons We Don't Learn: In my Twitter stream today, Sylvia Martinez (@smartinez) retweeted a link to Seymour Paperts 1980 paper written for a Presidential commission that proposed that we provide a computer for every child in America. Long before One Laptop Per Child, Papert

Google Android: on Inevitability, the Dawn of Mobile, and the Missing Leg: If for no other reason than the Anyone but Apple crowd NEEDS an alternative, there is an inevitability meme associated with Googles Android initiative. After all, Google is formidable, has a strong

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Micro Persuasion

How Twitter is Rewiring My Brain - and Maybe Yours: These days - perhaps a function of my lifestyle - the mobile device is becoming my primary content reading and browsing tool. This is slowly changing my habits and I wonder if this is part of

Gifts for Those Who Have Everything... the Cloud: My AdAge column this week covers three cloud services you can buy as gifts for the digerati in your life: Evernote Premium, DropBox and GigaOm Pro...The holiday crush is on and the clock is ticking. But what do you get

Friendster Relaunches: It was nice to get an email from Friendster today about their relaunch, detailed below. I wouldn't count them out. You never know who can make a comeback today. Just as it's easy for a site

Taking Brainstorming to the Twitter Hive: Jeff Kirvin is open sourcing his novel by turing to Twitter (the hive) to help. I bet this will become even more common going forward...But because I was too close to the source material, I couldn’t think of another way to

Google Building Augmented Reality for Android Phones: CNBC tonight is running an hour-long special on Google. The show dropped some exclusive news that eWeek picked up on - Google is in the process of developing an augmented reality system called Visual Search for Android phones.The concept, according

Google Public DNS is About Algorithms and Ads, Not Just Speed: Google today rolled out a public DNS service that anyone tech savvy can use to make their browsing faster. There's no word yet if the domain name service will be built into other services like the Google Toolbar or Google Chrome

Is the Caffeine Effect Already Hitting Google Alerts?: I subscribe to an ego search via Google Web alerts, which is separate from Google News alerts. Normally, I get one or two of these a day - typically after one of my columns go live or when I post

What To Watch In 2010: Social TV: Although its been years in the making, 2010 is poised to finally be the year that social networking and TV will converge, allowing consumers to connect through their big screens. My latest Forbes.com column addresses what to

A Social Network for Wordies: I have a love-hate relationship with writing. Clearly, it's intimately tied to what I do. But sometimes it's also a fear that grips me. I struggle to find the right words, which result in my

Most Searchers Use Three or More Keywords: According to Experian, the majority of US searches (at least those that generate clicks) incorporate more three or more keywords. This is likely being driven keyword suggestions, a feature that's now the default for virtually every search engine and every

NutshellMail Brings Twitter and Facebook Right to Your Email Box: Although some are saying that the email age is coming to an end, the data shows the opposite is true - it increases our reliance on mail. With Gmail adding new features all the time and services like Posterous, Twitgether,

Nearly All Inc. 500 Companies Are Engaged in Social Media: Inc. magazine is out with a new study that tracks the Inc. 500 - the fastest growing private companies in the US: According to the study, social media usage by companies on the Inc. 500 has grown in the past year,

When Magazines Lose Their Research Departments, Google Wins: Steve Baker on Bloombergs takeover of BusinessWeek and what it means for both the blogs and their research departments. Permalink | Leave a comment »

Study: Twitter is Made of 80% "Meformers" and 20% informers: The Miami Herald on a new study about Twitter psychology... "The communication and information professors, Mor Naaman and Jeffrey Boase, found that there tend to be two types of Twitter folks. The majority, or 80 percent, were what they called 'meformers'

Intermingling Personal and Professional Digital Personas: My job is really jumping on the social-media bandwagon and strongly encourages employees to use sites like Twitter and Facebook to help broaden our company’s brand and build a presence online. I’m really uncomfortable with combining my personal online life

Seeing the World Through Other People's Social Eyes: To often in life, it seems, we forget that the people we interact with have their own lives. Their relationships have far more impact on their behavior than anything you or I might say or do. This is one of

The Apple "Tablet" and Chrome OS are Meaningless - the Phone is the Future of Computing: If youre paying any attention to the techosphere today there are two stories dominating the headlines. Both involve non-shipping products.First, Google showed off the first demo of its Chrome OS. Download Squad does a nice job

Ten Common Phrases That Could Soon Be History: Earlier this week Oxford University Press declared "unfriend" it's word of the year. This got me thinking... now that we are entering an era of media reforestation what common phrases could soon be history? Here's 10 that I came up with. You may

Google Fast Flip Nearing Launch?: Google Fast Flip appears to be nearing a full integration into Google News. I wasn't able to replicate this in other browsers so right now this appears to just be a cookie test. Stories from Google Fast Flip started appearing

Reviews Stripped from Google Search Options: I make heavy use of Google Search options in refining my queries. I was surprised this morning to see that the reviews option is now gone. This was one of the more handy features. Anyone have any insight here?Search Options

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Amazon Launches Textbooks Trade-In Service: My last year in undergrad I lived in a tiny apartment over the only off-campus bookstore. The apartment was so small that I had to lift the 3 foot kitchen counter every time I wanted to enter the bathroom. But

Today’s Startup and Entrepreneurial Updates: Here are today’s startup and entrepreneurial updates – it’s cold outside but startups are certainly warming up the Internet!Updates! Updates! Updates! – MixxToggl 50,000! – TogglXobni 1.8.5: Major Improvements for All – XobniNow testing Tumblr Booth – TumblrMake Lists. Not

Bizmore Offers a Small Business Resource: One of the toughest parts about starting a business is knowing where to go for answers to the questions that pop-up on a daily basis. For a long time one of the best resources was SCORE which is a group

Web Jobs – December 10: 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:Web Analyst at Saks Fifth AvenueSr. Software Development

OffiSync Lets You Save Your Office Documents Online: Microsoft Office 2010 will include the ability to save documents to and open documents from a repository on the Web. Further, you’ll be able to actually open the documents in your browser and perform minor edits. Until that functionality is

Yandex to Power Search Ads on Bing: Yandex has started powering search contextual ads on Bing, Microsoft’s search engine. Here is a screenshot and link to search result page on Bing.com for a search query “Туры” (Tours) that displays Yandex.Direct advertisements both above the Bing.com’s search results

8Coupons Expands Local Couponing Nationwide: We initially covered NYC-based coupon service 8coupons earlier this year when they launched their local coupon offering. Their “Money Map” shows deals on a Google Map so you can find deals in whatever location you would like. You can also

Today’s Startup and Entrepreneurial Updates: Here are today’s exciting startup updates – get out there and visit a new startup.Doodle iPhone app now available – I have one code for a free download, post a comment if you use it (AXFE9644X33J) - DoodleWeb app development summed

Amazon Lowers S3 Storage Pricing: Last month Amazon announced that 82 billion objects are stored on the S3 cloud computing storage service.Today Amazon has made two announcements regarding pricing for the S3 storage service. First, Amazon has setup a dedicated “sales” site to help convince

My First Experience With Blockbuster Express – It’s the Future: While I live in NYC and can touch the Empire State Building from my window, sadly there are only small mom & pop shops near my apartment. There are no Starbucks, McDonalds, Borders, etc. There are also no movie rental

Burger King Launches Hilarious Mailed Holiday Cards With $1 Inside: There are 205,000 holiday ecard websites which allow you to email a greeting card for the holidays to a friend or colleague. Even BlueMountain is still around after all of these years. But sometimes it’s hard to pick a gift

Google Tries Print QR Codes Again: I’ve been a big fan of QR codes from the beginning. Years ago my goal was to get the barcodes added to the Sunday coupon advertisements so that a customer could clip the coupon but could also get more information

BREAKING: San Francisco To No Longer Use Gregorian Calendar; Switches to Startups Calendar: Earlier today, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom proclaimed that today is “Digg Day”. Apparently what this means is that it is now a law that each resident of San Francisco digg at least one story today. Failure to do so

Predictions for DNS 2010: This morning Google announced the launch of Google DNS. Most of the early posts I read didn’t mention that this is a great way for Google to know EVERYTHING that you do online. Back in 2007, James Thomas attempted to

Open NY Summit Next Week in NYC: On December 11th and 12th, the Open NY Forum will hold the first Open NY Summit. Looking at the structure of the event, it appears to be similar to a ”camp”. From the announcement, “City and state are the next frontier for

GirlInYourShirt Partners With Tapinko for Branded Sorority Parties: In late 2008 all the rage was around people becoming advertising by selling parts of themselves for cash. No no I’m not talking about the paid twitter shilling that we see today. Two of the services that launched during this

Today’s Startup and Entrepreneurial Updates: Here are today’s startup and entrepreneurial updates:Skinnyr partners with BodyTrace for a net-connected, Skinnyr updated scale – SkinnyrRunKeeper News – Want to be a Beta Tester? – RunkeeperWelcome to the Hot Seat: Everything is your Fault! – SlideShareComputer hall heats

Who Owns Your Contacts?: Let me preface this post by noting that it has nothing to do with data portability.Earlier this year, an ad salesperson for a tech magazine left his job. He sent out an email to his contacts which I received noting that

Google Adds Site Performance Speed Testing Tool: There’s been a lot of discussion lately about how important a role load times and website speed play in search results.Found via Mr. K, Google has announced the launch of a new tool to track how Google views your website,

Google and NewsCorp Do the Fair Use Hokey Pokey: Rupert Murdoch’s interest in erecting paywalls around NewsCorp content and removing it from Google’s index is in the news seemingly daily. And today, it looks like Google made a play to keep the Wall Street Journal and other NewsCorp properties

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Reporters' Roundtable Podcast: Google Chrome OS: Whats behind the Google Chrome OS, technologically and from a business perspective? This week on the Roundtable, I discuss the pending operating system with CNET writers Stephen Shankland (Deep Tech) and Gordon Haff (Pervasive Data Center).loadUniversalPlayer({playerType: small,lumiereQueryType: id,lumiereQueryValue: 50080404,useCurrentPageUrl: true,relatedVideo:

Most people say no to slow online video: Online video viewing might be on the rise, but four out of five people leave a videos Web page if it rebuffers, a new study from TubeMogul has found.

Google's speed freaks tweak suggestions, Chrome: New features in Google Suggest and Chrome allow searches to get the information they seek while saving a few (minor) steps in the process. Originally posted at Relevant Results

Note to Silicon Valley: How not to manage privacy: Stanford Law Fellow Larry Downes says the real problem behind recent privacy gaffes and missteps--including Facebooks--is not of policy but rather of public relations. Originally posted at News - Security

Three more ways to slice and dice the Web: Create Web collections, get an instant search mash-up, and broadcast text with these Firefox add-ons. Originally posted at Workers Edge

Facebook backtracks on public friend lists: Some members took issue with the fact that Facebooks new privacy settings exposed their list of connections, so Facebook has pulled back a bit on it. Originally posted at The Social

New Skype betas for Windows, Nokia phones: Skype announces two new betas of its popular VoIP app--one that updates the Windows client, and a first beta for Symbian phones. Originally posted at The Download Blog

With draft standard, 3D Web closer to reality: WebGL has moved from an idea at Mozilla and the Khronos Group to a draft standard for the 3D Web. Dont expect a browser-based Call of Duty just yet, though. Originally posted at Deep Tech

How to fix Facebook's baffling new privacy settings: The new Facebook privacy system is flexible and powerful, but the initial settings page appears written to hide that goodness. Heres how to fix it. Originally posted at Rafes Radar

QR code readers for your iPhone: Now that Google is using the two-dimensional bar codes as part of its local businesses listings program, its all the more reason for an app to help read them.

Study: You'll wolf down 34GB of data today: Researchers at UC San Diego say Americans have a voracious, and growing, appetite for information. And yes, you still watch a lot of TV. Originally posted at The Digital Home

Yahoo joins the real-time search parade: Three Twitter posts related to a specific query will begin popping up on Yahoo later on Thursday, although they wont appear as quickly as in Googles approach for real-time search. Originally posted at Relevant Results

Google Mobile app for iPhone gets an update: The new version of its the Google Mobile app for Apples smartphone includes customization options and faster access to search results.

A year on, Facebook Connect shows fast growth: The social identity service has attracted major sites and even more platforms. But where Facebook is planning to take Connect is a big unknown.

See what's new in Chrome beta: The new Chrome beta makes rocket-powered browsing more accessible to Apples computers--but it still lacks some key features. And just how does it compare with Safari? Watch and find out. Originally posted at The Download Blog

Twitter working on fix for 'misdirected' tweets: The microblogging service says it is looking into a problem causing users to see tweets in their timelines that dont seem intended for them.

Facebook in Vietnam: Social-networking blues: CNETs Dong Ngo reports from Hanoi on troubles that local users have been facing in accessing the social network. But is the government to blame? Originally posted at News - Digital Media

Picasa 3.6 works with collaborative albums: The free Picasa photo management app makes it easy to let others contribute to your online albums. Originally posted at The Download Blog

Skyfire mobile browser gets full-screen mode, Flash 10: Skyfire 1.5 brings Windows Mobile phones some design tweaks and further enhancements under-the-hood, like support for Flash 10. Originally posted at The Download Blog

Milo.com and Google Products search store shelves: New tools for just-in-time shoppers find the things you need when you dont have time to wait for delivery. Originally posted at Rafes Radar

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FoodSpotting: A visual local guide that lets you find dishes, not just restaurants, thanks to foodspotters who report sightings of foods they love. URL: FoodSpotting

Kaddoz: A local (San Francisco) gift recommendation engine that allows you to quickly find quality gifts and walk to the store to purchase it. Working with hand picked stores that prefer quality above quantity. URL: Kaddoz

TheSuggestr: Personalized suggestions. Don’t search through hundreds of conflicting reviews from people who are nothing like you. The recommendation engine finds other users with tastes like yours and other places that are like your favorite places. URL: TheSuggestr

Socialcast: Messaging and microblogging for team communication. Helps your employees communicate more effectively by creating private, online communities for businesses of all sizes. URL: Socialcast

BetterLesson: An organizational and sharing platform for educators to manage curricula. URL: BetterLesson

LinkAider: A webmaster tool which has grown from a simple broken link script to a comprehensive site analysis software. It’s free for small sites (users can crawl/analyze up to 500 pages per month for free). URL: LinkAider

Silentale: A new way to keep track of who you know and the conversations you have, no matter how or where you communicate. Whether you start a conversation on email, continue on Twitter and finish with a SMS, Silentale automatically captures,

Build It With Me: A tool that connects design & development entrepreneurs. It exists to make creating apps easier by connecting you with like-minded designers & developers with the same goal: create cool & useful apps. URL: Build It With Me

Waze: Crowdsourced traffic application that enables drivers to contribute real-time information on everything from road conditions to quickest routes to gas deals. Waze

iFood.tv: A free video cooking/recipe site. URL: iFood.tv

Squad: A web-based collaborative code editor that is simple to open, edit and share code in real time. Prices/Plans range from Free to $39/month URL: Squad

Friendsell: A new way to sell your stuff. Rather than classifieds, sell to your friends or family or community. Ability to make listings public or private. URL: Friendsell

CulinaryCulture: A free way for foodies to share recipes, find new places, meet new friends, organize dinner parties, and post their incredible food photography. URL: CulinaryCulture

Solve360: Collaborative CRM meets project management. URL: Solve360

easyTasker: Online and iPhone app designed for small to medium sized businesses looking to streamline their workload, projects and staff delegation. Full featured, with timesheets, invoices, users and client management. 30 days free. URL: easyTasker

RouteYou: Helps you plan a recreational tour. Routes aren’t always the shortest or fastest roads but guide you along the most interesting or nicest paths. Once planned, you can print your tour or let your GPS/mobile device guide you. URL: RouteYou

Stereo8: An internet radio with a twist: the listeners share and choose the music. URL: Stereo8

Apollo: An image annotating tool designed for designers, architects and remote clients to easily collaborate on projects. URL: Apollo

Halogen: A socially conscious television network and website that empowers its viewers to make positive changes in the world around them. Using film, documentary, episodic and other formats, Halogen features a wide variety of programming that empowers viewers to leave their

Parse.ly: An adaptive web-based application that discovers your unique interests to filter, prioritize, and even suggest relevant content from countless news and blog sources across the web. URL: Parse.ly

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Museum of Modern Betas

ubun2: ubun2Ubun2.com is a web 2.0 style question and answers service for people to discover and share ubuntu (linux based operating system) knowledge with the world.

Xing Labs: Xing LabsXing Labs is the innovation space and playground for Xing engineering where experimental projects are available to the public.Xing Labs is launched

12sprints: 12sprints(email waitinglist, beta powered by SAP)Secure, hosted, real-time, collaborative decision-making.@12sprintsSAP to Launch Google Wave Competitor

LiveFyre: LiveFyreStart and join real-time discussions about what’s going on in the world right now.LiveFyre Wants To Ignite Realtime Intelligent Conversations

apptizr: apptizrdiscover great iPhone appsApptizr finds gest App Store apps for you

ShinySearch: ShinySearchSearch with styleCreate a Custom Homepage in Seconds with ShinySearch

Google Chrome for Mac: Google Chrome for MacGoogle Chrome runs web pages and applications with lightning speed.BlogGoogle Chrome for Mac goes beta!

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ProgrammableWeb

Way To Go, Ernest Marples! UK to Free Postal Code Database: According to a BBC report, UKs Royal Mail will make its postal code database available to the public in April of next year. This follows a rogue API that provided the data,

Show Off Your Neighborhood for a Chance to Win $3500: FlavorPill are running a competition for the best mashup showing off your neighborhood. First prize is $3500, but the contest ends soon.

MySpace Releases One API, Buys Then Kills Another: MySpace, the social network heavyweight looking to get back some of their old momentum is making a big splash with developers this week. On one hand, they announced an innovative, open platform for real-time stream

Twitter Developers: Watch For Changing Response Codes: All Twitter APIs will soon use HTTP error code 400 for calls beyond your rate limit. One of Twitters most popular services, the Search API, currently uses error code 503. Youll want to update any

Google Maps Gets Aerial Perspective Imagery: The geo mapping platform ecosystem has grown a little more as the competition between Google Maps and Bing Maps just got a lot more interesting. Its been less than a week since we covered

New York Times Releases 5,000 Tags to the Linked Data Cloud: For more than 150 years, The New York Times has meticulously indexed its archives, giving it one of the most authoritative news vocabularies ever developed. Now this archive has been linked

8Tracks Debuts API At Music Hack Day Boston: Music mix sharing site 8tracks now has an 8tracks API to search and play mix tapes. Developers can access the mixes, which each contain at least 8 tracks, by tag, simple search, popularity, those added

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Web2.0 List

50 Essential Free Open Courseware Classes for Web Designers: Web design is an increasingly important aspect of media and business. Because the Internet has become essential to the way we do business, find information and accomplish a number of other tasks, Web design truly is vital. And someone who

Hot Products for 2009: Everyone is aware by now about the seasons hottest toy, Zhu Zhu Pets, especially after the brief scare regarding Mr. Squiggles toxicity (he has been fully exonerated). This years other runaway hit and hard to find item is the Mindflex

For Judges on Facebook, Friendship Has Limits: Judges and lawyers in Florida can no longer be Facebook friends.In a recent opinion, the states Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee decided it was time to set limits on judicial behavior online. When judges friend lawyers who may appear before them,

AT&T to Urge Customers to Use Less Wireless Data: AT&T is considering ways to encourage customers to use less wireless data as its network struggles to keep up with demand, a company executive said Wednesday.

Cyber Monday: pre-Christmas online retail peak moves a week closer to Christmas: Cyber Monday (December 7th) and Sunday December 6th were the joint busiest days for online retailers so far this year. This means that the pre-Christmas peak in visits to online retailers has moved one week closer to Christmas this year

Conference puts focus on the future of real-time Web: Paris, France (CNN) -- The future of social networking, the real-time Web and a host of apps and gadgets were the talk of the annual Le Web conference as it opened here Wednesday.

shopify.com: Shopify Create Your Online Store

The Day Has Come: Facebook Pushes People to Go Public: Facebook announced this morning that its 350 million users will be prompted to make their status messages and shared content publicly visible to the world at large and search engines. Its a move we expected but the language used in

No Time to Lose for Online Retailers: One of the fascinating things thats become clear this holiday shopping season is that many retailers launched their marketing programs earlier this year, with a strong emphasis on price discounts and other financial incentives such as free shipping. I think

Wireless Shoppers and Social Networking: Those of us that spend hours, minutes, or even seconds a day online are almost certainly familiar with at least one social networking site and the volume of word-of-mouth marketing that occurs on them. Social Networking sites are bucking the

Social Networking and Forums take over Search Engines in New Zealand: In New Zealand Social Networking and Forums has surpassed Search Engines in the week ending 5 December 2009. I have been tracking this on a daily basis and over the past 6 weeks Social Networking and Forums had been ahead

Social Shopping: Putting the Emotion Back in E-Commerce: Social shopping is more like friend-filtered social search.

Microsoft/Yahoo Search Deal Finalized: Given the flurry of reports last summer about the Yahoo/Microsoft search deal, it would have been reasonable to assume that the two parties had actually completed their negotiations. As it turns out, the details of the deal had yet to

A proposal for making AJAX crawlable: New standard for making AJAX-based websites crawlable

If Apple Acquires Lala: 3 Models for Service Integration: If the rumors are true, then something is afoot in the Apple music camp. According to a recent article in Bloomberg, Apple is in talks to acquire online music service Lala. If a sale is finalized between the two companies,

RUMOR: Friendster to Be Sold for $100+ Million: Do you remember Friendster? Several years ago, it was one of the hottest startups and social networks around, long before MySpace or Facebook hit the scene. Google even tried to acquire it back in 2003. But while its on the

amiando: The easiest way to organize your event.

Cyber Monday Online Sales Up 5 Percent vs. Year Ago to $887 Million to Match Heaviest Online Sp(...): comScore (NASDAQ : SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today reported holiday season retail e-commerce spending for the first 30 days of the November December 2009 holiday season. For the holiday season-to-date, $12.26 billion has been spent

Zynga suddenly is everywhere. What gives?: The social gaming company behind FarmVille is seeking the spotlight. Some analysts sense an IPO.

Walmart and Amazon.com Battle for Online Supremacy: The 2009 holiday shopping season is shaping up to be the battle of retails two titans: Amazon.com, the largest online retailer vs. Walmart, the worlds largest brick and mortar retailer. For years, at least online, this has hardly been a

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The Web 2.0 Show

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.

Episode 57 - AdaptiveBlue and GetGlue: 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

Episode 29 - Zooomr

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Dion Hinchcliffe

Web 2.0 Architectures: What Entrepreneurs and Architects Need to Know: It's been a long time in coming and

Links for 2009-11-18: Windows Azure opens for business on Jan. 1, 2010 | BetanewsMicrosoft's OS in the clouds, http://Azure.com, will now ship 1st of the year. First month free. http://bit.ly/3llLst

Links for 2009-11-17: 5 Impressive Real-Life Google Wave Use Cases5 Impressive Real-Life Google Wave Use Cases: http://bit.ly/2PFtKy About Mashups and Linked Data | MashstreamMashups and Linked Data: http://bit.ly/3hMrd2 Good primer with latest issues. What Enterprise Architecture Brings to the Business | Interviews |

Links for 2009-11-16: Preparing The Workforce E20summit ShortRT @ITSinsider @gyehuda's preso from #e20s http://is.gd/4TMPk Dreamforce 09 : The Cloud Computing Event of the Year - salesforce.comUp early to do a TV spot then head to the Pentagon. The big event this week is

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 2009-11-12: Go Dog Go – Google Open Sources New Prog… « /SAbackchanRT @Furrier Google News: Go Dog Go - Google Announces Open Source Programming Language GO http://bit.ly/4xwJKJ Twitpic - Share photos on TwitterListening to @k_kristensen talk about collaborative performance with E2.0

Links for 2009-11-10: Social customer serviceGood piece by @mfauscette on Social Customer Service: http://bit.ly/2nOmo5 http://bit.ly/7udsTNew Cisco Collaboration Software Takes On Microsoft, IBM | Forbes http://bit.ly/7udsT CHART OF THE DAY: Why Google Dropped $750 Million On AdMob (GOOG, AAPL)RT @GeorgeDearing "CHART OF THE DAY:

Links for 2009-11-05: Yfrog - e8qk - Uploaded by itsinsiderRT @rlavigne42 Great Group Pic of @ITSinsider, @olivermarks, @sameerpatel, @dhinchcliffe. http://yfrog.com/0le8qkj #e2conf VIPparty Portals and KM: Forresters Top 15 Technology Trends for Enterprise ArchitectsRT @BillIves my post on Forrester Top 15 Technology Trends for

Links for 2009-11-04: Official Google Blog: Google Friend Connect, now more personalizedGoogle tries to "break the ice" with Friend Connect: http://bit.ly/4kecNb IMO it still seems they don't get the social Web. The Content Economy: ECM in the age of the social web -

Links for 2009-11-03: Twitpic - Share photos on TwitterA great photo of tireless #e2conf organizer @Swylie650 in the speaker lounge this morning... http://twitpic.com/o1e24 Twitpic - Share photos on TwitterE2.0 workshop is done, great attendee participation. Now everyone is lined up for lunch. http://twitpic.com/o1frs

Links for 2009-11-02: Twitpic - Share photos on TwitterThe scene right now at Moscone North at #e2conf as the conference opens up... http://twitpic.com/o0g0q

Links for 2009-11-01: Enterprise 2.0: Challenging Economy Pushes Businesses Toward Better Tools -- InformationWeekEnterprise 2.0: Challenging economy pushes businesses towards better tools. http://bit.ly/14cLRB

Links for 2009-10-31: Good old Gate 88 at SFO, heading home to switch bags and retu... on Twitpichttp://twitpic.com/nkzus - Good old Gate 88 at SFO, heading home to switch bags and return Sunday for #e2conf Moving Gov 2.0 Beyond “Push to Talk” :

Links for 2009-10-30: Twitpic - Share photos on TwitterDramatic, cloudy sunset at Dulles right now as we head to the Bay Area. It's going to be a big E2.0 week. http://twitpic.com/nfgcw Privacy is dead, and social media hold smoking gun - CNN.comRT @cheeky_geeky

Links for 2009-10-29: Is the LinkedIn Platform Dead?Is the LinkedIn platform dead? http://bit.ly/wQa5E @om looks at a case study in how not to open your Web platform. And you should.

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

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

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

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

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

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Bokardo

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.

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