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Back to the Future: How Apple is Becoming More Like a Carrier Every Day: Editors note: Is Apple going to far with its restrictions on developers? Alistair Goodman thinks so and explains why in this guest post. He is the CEO of 1020 Placecast, a location=based mobile advertising startup.Apple’s recent behavior bears

Foursquare Signing Mainstream Partnership Deals Left And Right: Foursquare continues to sign interesting deals with major players in a wide range of fields. Following the services Bravo deal a couple weeks ago, theyve reached a deal with restaurant

The Value Of Online Buzz For The Top 20 Brands: Nowadays, buzz around brands on the news, blogs, tweets and other social media that spreads through product launches, PR campaigns, earnings reports are as valuable as traditional ad campaigns. But buzz and social dialogue on

The Long Tail Of Video Sites Capture Half Of All Viewing Minutes: YouTube might be streaming more than 13 billion videos a month, or nearly 40 percent of total individual streams, but when you measure by time spent YouTube only accounted for 26 percent of all viewing minutes

blueKiwi Rides the Freemium Wave: With the continued success of Twitter and other social networking tools, any criticism (or praise) of products and companies is becoming increasingly public. Finding a way to manage these external

Video: “Parisian Oops” Mocks Google’s Super Bowl Commercial: It actually took longer than I would have expected for someone to come up with a good mocking of Googles Parisian Love commercial that played during the Super Bowl yesterday.

The Ten Biggest Advertising Publishers On The Web: Last year, Yahoo still dominated display advertising on the Web in terms of sheer number of ad impressions on its properties, but social networking sites MySpace and Facebook came on strong. Some new data from comScore in its

Trouble With Your Nexus One? Now You Can Call Google For Help: Since the launch of the Nexus One, early adopters have likely had one question lurking in the back of their minds: who to take the phone to if it broke. You see, when the phone was first

The Richter Scales Debut Animated Video Of “I’ve Got Mail And I’ve Got It Made”: Were big fans of The Richter Scales, the musical group that have brought us Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, Here Comes Another Bubble, and gut-busting songs at the 2008 Crunchies and most recently the parody of

Still No Native Comments, But Tumblr Toys With Photo Replies: Probably the most controversial thing about the blogging service Tumblr is that it doesnt have a built-in way to comment on posts. You sort of

Facebook, Tesla And Solyndra Dominate SecondMarket Transactions In January: Last month SecondMarket published data on private company stock sales that they helped complete in 2009. Theyve now released last months data as well.A total of a little more than $13 million in sales

Winter Weather Storm Watch Gets Streamlined On New Accuweather Site: With the East Coast and Midwest awaiting a monster snowstorm, popular weather forecasting site Accuweather, is rolling out a timely relaunch of its site. The site, which provides up-to-date local information on weather in the U.S., is launching

Apple Surveying iPhone Developers’ Happiness With The App Store: Last year, there was no shortage of developers who were complaining about Apples App Store. The situation got so heated that no less than Apple senior vice president of Worldwide

Win A Mentoring Session With Founders Of Digg, Flickr, Mint, Ning, Slide Or Zynga: Are you a budding Web entrepreneur who would like some pointers or advice from seasoned company founders? MayField Fund and First Round Capital are sponsoring a raffle to give away mentoring sessions with the founders of Digg (Jay

Give Your Index Finger A Rest With Facebook’s New Photo Slideshows: Since the dawn of Facebooks Photos feature, users have been tasked with the not-so-terrible burden of having to manually click through every photo in an album. Sure, you can also hit the arrow key on

Google To Unveil Broad New Social Product Tomorrow: Google is planning to unveil a broad new social product on Tuesday that will integrate with at least two existing Google products. Some details emerged earlier today on the Wall Street Journal (a new feature that makes it

Flixster Gets A Thumbs Up From Investors, Raises $12.5 Million: Movie ratings site Flixster raised $12.5 million in new funding, according to an SEC filing. The last time Flixster raised money was a $5 million Series B in April, 2008. The new round brings the companys total capital

MEETorDIE Quantifies The Cost Of Wasteful Meetings: Company meetings are a nearly universally hated thing. No matter what line of work youre in, most are simply a waste of time. And even

Former EA, Yahoo Marketing Vet Mitali Pattnaik Appointed GM Of PlayFirst: We havent heard much from PlayFirst since we covered the San Francisco-based casual gaming startups last funding round back in December 2007, but that doesnt mean things arent moving for the venture-backed company.Earlier this year, the

New Tweetdeck Puts Twitter On Crack – Adds YouTube and Flickr: There remains an ongoing desktop Twitter application war. Traditionally Tweetdeck and Seesmic have been at loggerheads for the lion share, although Tweetdeck has remained in the lead so far. Increasingly it appears that Seesmic is heading

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Nexus One Gets Live Phone Support, Sort Of: There’s no denying it: Google’s Nexus One, although being one of the best Android-based smartphones on the market, isn’t selling well.One of the reasons behind sluggish sales is lack of true customer support. Who does an owner of a Nexus

Foursquare Inks Deals With Major Media and Entertainment Brands: Hello, Hollywood. On the heels of the Foursquare-Bravo TV deal, news of several additional major media partnerships involving the location-based social networking app have dropped this evening.According to various reports, Zagat, Warner Bros., HBO, the History Channel and ExploreChicago have

Music Ownership Beats Music Subscription in Reader Poll: In last week’s Faceoff Series we asked about music consumption models: Do Mashable readers prefer to own their entire music collections or do some of you gravitate toward subscription services?One week later and the results are in: Ownership wins the

Twins Discover Teenage Brother’s Death on Facebook: This isn’t the way you should learn about the death of your 17 year old brother.According to Syndey’s The Daily Telegraph, twins Angela and Maryanne Vourlis had just woken up on their 20th birthday. Like most young adults, they logged

From “Eraserhead” to MMS: David Lynch Goes Mobile: Award-winning director (and three-time Oscar nominee) David Lynch (of Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks fame) and the David Lynch Foundation have teamed up with mobile video marketer Mogreet to bring video MMS messages to Lynch fans.We spoke with Mogreet and

Netflix Instant Streaming Goes 1080p This Year: Netflix plans to bump the video quality of its Watch Instantly streaming service up to 1080p on some devices, CNET claims. It will also roll out 5.1 surround sound support. Both upgrades will occur by next year.Currently, Netflix Watch Instantly

Tell Us Your Favorite Super Bowl Moment, Win a FLO TV: What was your favorite moment during the Super Bowl? Was it the fast-paced game or the ads that got your attention?If the ads caught your eye, which moment stood out for you? If it was the game, which play was

Super Bowl Ads: Hulu’s Winners and Losers: We’ve already looked at how on-air Super Bowl advertisers fared with audiences during the Big Game, but how did online viewers react to the spots? Check out which ads were the biggest winners — or losers — with the Hulu

New Update to Give Droid Multitouch: There’s some good news and some bad news. First, the good news: sources tell Engadget that multitouch browsing will be added to the Motorola Droid in its next software update.Multitouch was one of the most requested features on Android, at

Rumor: iPhone 4G Will Be Taller Than Predecessors: iPhone repair shop iResQ claims that it has the front panel component of the next iteration of Apple’s iPhone, and it has posted a few photos to demonstrate a couple of ways the handset will differ from its predecessor.If these

Barnes & Noble Nook on Shelves Wednesday: While the Nook — Barnes & Noble’s $259 e-reader and Kindle rival — has been available for purchase online since November, it has yet to be sold in the company’s brick-and-mortar stores. Come Wednesday, however, that will all change.The New

5 Insightful TED Talks on Social Media: The 2010 Technology Entertainment Design conference will be kicking off tomorrow in Long Beach, California, bringing the leading minds of many fields together to talk shop about innovation, change, and what the future holds.As social media has become a game

Free Music Monday: 10 Free Downloads for Your Collection: In this week’s Free Music Monday we offer you 10 free downloadable MP3s (or the occasional full album) for your eclectic listening pleasure. If you haven’t checked out Free Music Monday before, we’re giving away free and legal tracks in

Bandize: Manage Your Band Like a Business: 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

Onion Ring More Popular Than Justin Bieber in Latest Facebook Meme: Forget doppelgangers and Urban Dictionary definitions, the newest Facebook meme is, undoubtedly, “Can this ?” The answer? Dear God, I hope so.Tags: facebook, humor, justin bieber, memes, pop culture

5 Levels of Effective Communication in the Social Media Age: In the era of social media, our networks are much larger than they have ever been, and we have more ways to communicate with those in them. Even if you are not very active on Facebook or Twitter, my guess

Google Could Unveil Gmail’s Social Features Tomorrow: We learned earlier today that Google is launching a social status update feature in Gmail. While details are sparse, The Wall Street Journal reports that it is a new Gmail module that could integrate status updates as well as content

Social Media Score Card: How the Super Bowl Advertisers Performed: Although all is said and done when it comes to football this season, such is not the case for the Super Bowl advertisers.We’re now entering the entertaining aftermath of the Super Bowl ad showdown, and thanks to social media tracking

HUGE: Google Set to Make Gmail Social With Status Update Features: Gmail is set to become Google’s next major push into social media. According to The Wall Street Journal, the popular webmail service will soon launch a new feature for sharing content and status updates with friends.As WSJ points out, Gmail

EA Sports to Bring Madden to Facebook: EA Sports President Peter Moore told Bloomberg that the popular Madden NFL series of football video games will make its way to Facebook.We haven’t heard a peep about a launch date. Moore says we will definitely see Madden on the

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The Man Who Looked Into Facebook's Soul: Youth social networking researcher dana boyd has observed that many people presume the way they use social networks is the way everyone uses them. I interviewed gay men who thought Friendster was a gay dating site because all

When Negotiation Becomes Dishonesty: If youve been a geek your whole life then you understand the term Canadian girlfriend. The Canadian (or sometimes British) love interest is the person you talk about when a member of the opposite sex

Green Goose: Save Money Using Sensors: Green Goose is a new financial management service that launched today, which connects sensor activity to your savings account. At first Green Goose sounded a little gimmicky. Using green Internet-connected eggs, it measures how much energy you

Where is Entrepreneurship Really Taught?: Between Y Combinators Startup School, the influx of seed fund incubators, the list of legendary mentor / investors and the dotcom busts school of hard knocks, is there really any reason to go to grad

What's Next For Geolocation? Apps, Apps, Apps: Geolocation social networks are set to be in 2010 what microblogging was in 2008 - the next big thing. Currently the space is being dominated by Foursquare, with others like Gowalla, MyTown

VMware Partner Exchange 2010: What happens in Vegas Comes to your Enterprise: If youre releasing products integrated into the VMware ecosystem, youre likely enjoying enjoying the Las Vegas Strip this week. VMware Partner Exchange 2010 kicked off at the Mandalay Bay hotel today, and it is

Startup Priorities: Is Design More Important Than Engineering?: We are all told to never judge a book by its cover, but lets face it, when we find ourselves at an ugly website, we automatically make assumptions about the quality of the services that site provides.

Android Market Share Doubles - Will Overtake Palm Soon: RIMs BlackBerry platform is still the most popular mobile smartphone platform in the U.S., but Googles Android was the big winner in the last quarter of 2009. According to comScore, Androids share of the

Will SAP CEO Shakeup Lead to a Unified Cloud Computing Strategy?: The rise of cloud computing looks like it has lead to the fall of SAP CEO Léo Apotheker, who resigned over the weekend.Its not that cloud computing has been absent at SAP. There are a

Curatorr: A Twitter Tool for Media Companies: Lately, quite a few TV channels - like CNN - have replaced their man-on-the-street interviews with the cheaper solution of just doing a Twitter search and displaying the results on TV. Curatorrs mission is

Google Creating Twitter Clone for Gmail: As soon as this week, Google might be rolling out a Twitter-killer feature for Gmail users, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.Gmail users can currently broadcast status messages via the Google Talk feature. The main

Extensions Broke Your Browser? How to Enter 'Safe Mode' in Google Chrome: Now that Google Chrome has entered the world of fully-extensible browsers, with its recent addition of extensions and Greasemonkey scripts, youve likely found yourself perusing the libraries and tweaking until your hearts

Dear Facebook, Please Check Out the New Tweetdeck: As more and more of our friends and favorite organizations start publishing updates online, being able to organize them well is becoming even more important. Niche-popular desktop social media stream-reader Tweetdeck issued a software update this morning and

Twitter Reactions: See What Twitter is Saying About Any Website: Last September, Google launched Sidewiki, a web annotation service that makes it easy to annotate any page on the Internet. Sidewiki, however, hasnt attracted a lot of users yet and the public discussion about

How Colleges Can Better Nurture Startups: While successful technology entrepreneurs like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs founded their respective companies after dropping out of college, research Universities have still succeeded in fostering their own innovative technologies. Currently, however, when a professor

SourceForge Removes Blanket IP Ban, Lets Users Decide: SourceForge, the worlds largest open source software development website, has backed off a widely unpopular, end of January decision that had banned entire countries from accessing the sites vast assortment of open-source

Finally! "Find in Page" Comes to Mobile Safari: What important web browsing feature is sorely missing from mobile Safari, the iPhones built-in browser? If youre like us, you probably said the ability to search for text within a web page. Were accustomed to using this feature

Google Rebuilds the Tower of Babel with Real-Time Language Translation: If our attempts at getting such simple information as bus schedules or account balances from automated voice recognition systems are any indication, then we imagine Google has a lot of work to

iPad Gets No Consumer Love? (POLL): A new survey from Retrevo finds that consumers interest in the Apple iPad died down after they heard what the new tablet PC actually had to offer. According to the company, not only did Apple fail to convince

Survey: How Kids 12 & Under Use Web Technology: Yesterday we posted a video from the Teens in Tech conference, looking at how teens perceive technology. Today were co-launching a survey which aims to find out how children 12 years and younger use web technology. Weve

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The 7 Somewhat United States of Facebook: Peter Warden analyzed the user profile data and friend settings from more than 200 million Facebook profiles, and found that they naturally segmented themselves into seven regional groups, based on the number of connections between users and those from other

Fear & Loathing Over iPad Pricing: I’m amazed at the play being given to this iPad price cuts story. People seem to be overlooking the fact that Apple’s business model is in transition, in that in addition to being a hardware and software company, it’s becoming

Silicon Valley Has a Woman Problem, But Women Still Have a Baby Problem: Silicon Valleys gender problem boils down to babies -- as in, those who have them cant be a startup CEO too. We live in a society where women shoulder the burden of raising children, and until we change that we

The Anxiety of Digital: Cars, Power Grid Up Next: As vehicles and the power grid increasingly cross over to the digital realm, and get connected with networks, expect fear and anxiety to emerge. The headlines of yesteryear provide clues as to why.

More Authors Signing Exclusive Kindle Deals: A growing number of authors are signing exclusive e-book deals with Amazon for the Kindle, attracted in part by the higher royalty rates the electronic retailer is offering. In the latest deal, author Gavin de Becker gave Amazon rights to

Gmail to Get Social News Feed: Report: Google reportedly plans to add a stream of recent status messages and media from users contacts to Gmail. Its a good idea, following Googles stated goal of combining social features across its products, but one that will have to be

10 Unsung Collaboration Tools–Many of Them Free: Collaboration is in full swing on the web, for both social and work-oriented purposes. Most of us can rattle off the well-known applications that are available, but there are many targeted, useful collaboration apps that are more offbeat. Here are

Why On-the-Fly Mobile Translation Technology Won’t Happen Soon: Google is developing technology it hopes will translate foreign languages almost instantly as users talk on their phones. But while the software could transform the way we talk to each other around the world, as Google acknowledges, it will likely

PayPal Suspends Personal Payments in India: PayPal says it has suspended personal payments to and from India, as well as transfers to local banks in India. The changes may be in response to new rules in India intended to restrict money laundering.

Like Media, Research Needs to Be Social, Too: Forrester Research touched off a bit of a brush fire this past weekend when it said it would limit its analysts to blogging about research-related topics on Forrester.com and decreed that any personal blogs maintained on other domains must be

Stat Shot: How the iPhone Changed The Handset Market: The change in the mobile phone market caused by the introduction of Apples iPhone has slightly cut the profits for the handset industry overall, but has most severely affected Nokia and Sony Ericsson, while boosting Research in Motion, according to

Mobclix and Nielsen Ink Mobile Ad Targeting Data Deal: Mobclix and Nielsen have inked a partnership aimed at providing detailed consumer information for advertisers looking to target their pitches to mobile users. The move will give marketers more confidence as they consider investing in a space where accurate data

Super Bowl 2010 Highlights For the Web Video World: Some of the lessons learned from the commercials during Super Bowl 2010: Beer solves lots of problems, pants are optional. Google has Apple envy. NewTeeVee rewinds a four top superbowl commercials.

Pepsi Has Already Won by Avoiding The Superbowl: For the first time in 23 years, Pepsico isnt spending millions on a Superbowl ad, but instead is funding a series of social-media powered community renewal projects to the tune of $20 million, a campaign that appears to have already

How Falling Prices Have Created Video Ubiquity: With Super Bowl XLIV just hours away, it’s a little late to run out and take advantage of the insane sales on big-screen TVs. But prices have been heading steadily lower not just for displays, but all elements in the

Google Nexus One 3G Issues Still Lurking: Thanks to some travel woes, I got a chance to test the Nexus One 3G signal in three different time zones over three days. Each location was smack-dab in the middle of solid T-Mobile 3G coverage. Did that firmware update

What You Should Be Reading This Weekend: Taking a cue from Simon Mackie, editor of WebWorkerDaily and VC blogger Paul Kedrosky, I am sharing a list of articles I think you should read this weeked. An interview with Steve Jobs, essay about life before Google Maps and

Mozilla to Developers: Let’s Build on Weave Sync: Mozilla, which recently released its Weave Sync add-on for the Firefox has released a set-of APIs that will allow developers to use Weave Sync services in new products independent of Firefox. Weave services offer an opportunity to build new apps

What Rupert Murdoch Still Doesn’t Get About the Internet: When it comes to media, one important idea is starting to become clear: Content isn’t a product anymore, it’s a service. Because for consumers, content is less and less a thing they buy and more a thing they experience.

Android This Week: Nexus One Gets Touch; 720p from Samsung: Google surprised Nexus One owners this week by releasing an update for the Android-based phone. In the meantime, Motorola introduced the Devour in the U.S., and Samsung unveiled a new Android phone due to appear in Korea early this year.

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PHOTO: There's quality control for you. This is: There’s quality control for you. This is the latest entries in the Entertainment category on iTunes.

The App Store: Quality control without the quality: I love my iPhone and I love Apple (cue images of flag pins and “I love muh countray!”), but I believe they’re blowing it with the App Store gate keeping. That’s of course not a new opinion. Developers left and

Scope a variable to a block in your template code: Sometimes you are coding a template and you need to refer to the same method chain over and over. For example, you’re coding a template that summarizes activity on recent messages. You iterate through a block of messages, and for

Descriptive words and phrases found on a $6 bottle of hand soap: Extremely mildRichly foamingNaturally gentleDeeply cleansesNourishesPure and soothingSynergisticallyRefresh and restoreSkin radianceCool soothingProtects and restores balanceHarmonize and replenishAdditional moisturizing benefitWhat doesn’t this stuff do? Lather up and this naturally gentle, richly foaming, pure and soothing nourishing cleanser will synergistically refresh, harmonize, replenish,

INSIGHT: When debating UI, a picture is better than: When debating UI, a picture is better than a description. And a functional mockup is better than both. But debating UI without being able to look at something is a waste of time.

Big Think Interview With Jason (filmed with the Interrotron): Big Think Interview With Jason FriedWas filmed using Errol Morris’ Interrotron (or a similar device). That’s how you get the direct eye contact. Jason’s take: “Was weird for 5 seconds then it was totally natural.”The story of the Interrotron is

Basecamp turns 6: Today Basecamp turns 6. We launched Basecamp in February 2004 – here’s the original post on SvN that launched it all.StatsBirthday stats are always fun. Here are some of our favorites:55,700,000 comments53,000,000 megabytes of uploaded files

Computers shouldn't make people feel like idiots: Predictably, some argue the iPad doesn’t do enough. It needs a keyboard or a removable battery or multitasking ability or whatever.But there’s an interesting backlash to that backlash. (Meta-backlash!) The discussion has people openly discussing an ugly truth that doesn’t

VIDEO: Stephen Colbert on Blippy: "This is more: Stephen Colbert on Blippy: “This is more exciting than going through old receipts. It’s going through new receipts!”

REWORK Trailer 1: Staying Late: REWORK is in stores March 9, 2010. Pre-order today from Amazon, Borders, B&N, and others.

It's not a promise, it's a guess: “When is it going to be done?” is a reasonable question and we as software developers should try to come up with the best answer we can based on our experience and analysis. What we should not do, however, is

Episode #7: Ryan Singer on the 37signals design process: Time: 19:24 | Download MP3 Like this episode? Please share it with your friends: Life as a 37signals project managerRyan

Launchpad deep links for Highrise, Backpack, and now Basecamp: We’re really having fun digging into all the useful things we can do now that our customers have 37signals IDs. The Launchpad is one of those playgrounds.Last night we added deep links to Basecamp accounts. Deep links let you jump

PHOTO: Say goodbye to convenience!: Say goodbye to convenience!

Great products are triumphs of taste: There’s more to building a great product than just studying the market or the technology or competitors. You need to have taste too. You need to understand what “great” means in a big picture sense, not just in your chosen

PHOTO: This "too many emails?" downgrade option: This “too many emails?” downgrade option from chefscatalog.com is a nice way to keep people in the fold (as opposed to merely offering unsubscribe).

QUOTE: Men don’t like appliances. We want things t: Men don’t like appliances. We want things that can do lots of different things, that we can tweak and fiddle with, and then argue with each other about which one is better. Women aren’t like this, and because of this

QUESTION: What topics would you like to see us address: What topics would you like to see us address here at Signal vs. Noise and/or on the podcast?

Interface magazine takes a look at 37signals' "paradoxical" approach to business: Pages 13 & 14 of the January issue of Interface (PDF) feature an article about Jason and 37signals. Interface is a publication of the Chicago chatper of the American Marketing Association.

QUOTE: Of all the sources of funds for an early: Of all the sources of funds for an early stage venture, revenue is the most compelling demonstration of traction. Too many entrepreneurs view fund raising as an accomplishment in and of itself…A lot of what’s written about Silicon Valley entrepreneurship

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Flickr Photos In Google Street View: Google Maps has added more user photos to its Street View (above). Now the Yahoo-owned Flickr is joining the Google-owned Panoramio and Picasa photo

Four short links: 8 February 2010: Kindle Development Kit APIs -- Amazon will release a Kindle SDK. These are the API docs. (via obra on Twitter)rePublish -- all-Javascript ebook reader. (via kellan on Twitter)Peer Review: Whats it Good For? (Cameron Neylon) -- harsh and honest review

Google Book Settlement Round 2: The US government filed its Statement of Interest regarding the revised Google settlement yesterday with the District Court in New York. While the statement was signed by an attorney from the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department, several agencies including

Feedback and analysis: the missing ingredients in local's recipe: Theres plenty of enthusiasm for local / hyperlocal projects, but the sweepstakes has yet to be won. PaperG CEO Victor Wong digs in to some of the missed opportunities in a paidContent.org guest column.I found this excerpt intriguing:How useful would

Four short links: 5 February 2010: The Public Domain Manifesto -- eloquent argument in favour of the public domain. (via BoingBoing)Clear Climate Code -- project to write and maintain software for climate science, with an emphasis on clarity and correctness. What a wonderful way for coders

One hundred eighty degrees of freedom: signs of how open platforms are spreading: I was talking recently with Bob Frankston, who has a distinguishedhistory in computing that goes back to work on Multics, VisiCalc,and Lotus Notes. We were discussing some of the dreams of the Internetvisionaries, such as total decentralization (no mobile-system walls,no

Four short links: 5 February 2010: The Public Domain Manifesto -- eloquent argument in favour of the public domain. (via BoingBoing)Clear Climate Code -- project to write and maintain software for climate science, with an emphasis on clarity and correctness. What a wonderful way for coders

One hundred eighty degrees of freedom: signs of how open platforms are spreading: I was talking recently with Bob Frankston, who has a distinguishedhistory in computing that goes back to work on Multics, VisiCalc,and Lotus Notes. We were discussing some of the dreams of the Internetvisionaries, such as total decentralization (no mobile-system walls,no

Apple vs. Adobe vs. Content Creators: Remember when Wireds fancy tablet demo made the rounds a few months ago? That Adobe Air-driven prototype certainly stoked the fires of iPad enthusiasm. Theres

Four short links: 4 February 2010: Google Ad Preferences -- my defaults look reasonable and tailored to my interest. Creepy but kinda cool: I guess that if I have to have ads, they should be ones Im not going to hate. (via rabble on Twitter)Android and

Apple vs. Adobe vs. Content Creators: Remember when Wireds fancy tablet demo made the rounds a few months ago? That Adobe Air-driven prototype certainly stoked the fires of iPad enthusiasm. Theres

Four short links: 4 February 2010: Google Ad Preferences -- my defaults look reasonable and tailored to my interest. Creepy but kinda cool: I guess that if I have to have ads, they should be ones Im not going to hate. (via rabble on Twitter)Android and

What Facebook's HipHop means for developers and businesses: Facebooks PHP overhaul, HipHop, reportedly cut CPU usage on the companys servers by around 50 percent. You dont have to be a programmer

What Facebook's HipHop means for developers and businesses: Facebooks PHP overhaul, HipHop, reportedly cut CPU usage on the companys servers by around 50 percent. You dont have to be a programmer

Four short links: 3 February 2010: Bad Census Data for The Last Decade (Freakonomics blog) -- the representative sample of statistics data that the Census Bureau releases has apparently been flawed. Its been used in thousands of studies, and the Census Bureau has refused to correct

Four short links: 3 February 2010: Bad Census Data for The Last Decade (Freakonomics blog) -- the representative sample of statistics data that the Census Bureau releases has apparently been flawed. Its been used in thousands of studies, and the Census Bureau has refused to correct

Forget Google, social search is all about mobile: Theres considerable chatter about a seismic shift in search. A lot of its overblown, but the central idea is intriguing: Googles biggest problem -- the one that keeps company execs up at night -- isnt Bing or Ask or traditional

Four short links: 2 February 2010: Phones That Touch Us (TEDxBerlin) -- excellent short (<5m) talk about ways that mobile phones can be designed to convey information in new ways. (via RussB on Twitter)Code City -- an integrated environment for software analysis, in which software systems

Forget Google, social search is all about mobile: Theres considerable chatter about a seismic shift in search. A lot of its overblown, but the central idea is intriguing: Googles biggest problem -- the one that keeps company execs up at night -- isnt Bing or Ask or traditional

Four short links: 2 February 2010: Phones That Touch Us (TEDxBerlin) -- excellent short (<5m) talk about ways that mobile phones can be designed to convey information in new ways. (via RussB on Twitter)Code City -- an integrated environment for software analysis, in which software systems

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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

Sooner or Later, Facebook WIll Launch Its Own Phone: Adapted from photo by Mat HonanChange happens slowly. It took us years before we noticed that Microsoft was slowly upending a tech industry that, until the 1990s, IBM dominated. However, if you squinted you saw this starting

Email Newsletter Subs Trump RSS - Study: An unsurprising study out of Hubspot this morning reveals that email subscribers to many blogs factor in 12x larger than those who read through RSS. I am not seeing this in my own stats however. Only

Gmail Points To Possibilities Of The Data Decade: Photo credit: Cinefil on Flickr The following is also my column in this weeks Advertising Age.If you threw me on a desert island (one with internet connectivity) and said that I could use only one

Three Ideas for 2010 Part III: Lifelogging and Self Tracking: Happy 2010! Note this is the third in a three-part series on ideas anyone can ride in 2010 and beyond. - part I is here and part II is here.Image credit: Evernote Web siteOne of the great mindset shifts

Holy Moses, We're Bored and Out of Shiny Objects: Image credit: Moses with the Tablets of Law by Wally GFor the last several months theres been a ton of interest in the mythical Apple tablet. Just how much? Since the end of July Google searches for the words

Three Ideas for 2010 Part II: DIY Work Hacking: Happy 2010! Note this is the second in a three-part series covering three big ideas to ride in 2010. Part I is here.DIY Work HackingIn a column in the New York Times last month Tom Friedman described how do-it-yourself

The Digital Decade in Stats: Image by marcopako  via FlickrJosh Bernoff What you can learn from consumers digital decade, reminding us that...As I look back on all this from the perspective of media and

Three Ideas to Rock Your 2010 Part I: Correspond to Connect: Happy New Year and welcome to the next decade - "the teenies," as some in the UK are calling it. Today is great day to take inventory and think about what you want to accomplish in the new year -

Video: Engaging Employees in the Age of Streams: Pete Cashmore from Mashable calls 2010 the year of digital distraction - and hes spot on. The deluge of information is only going to increase, which is going to make reaching people harder than ever. Mark Evans recommends focusing on

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Welcome to AOL 2.0! Can You Guess Which Company It Is?: Let’s start this journey by taking a ride back in time. Some of you are too young to remember the Internet of the early 90s. Back then one of the most popular ways to get “online” was to use AOL.

Did Techcrunch Become a Wordpress VIP?: A couple of weeks ago, technology blog Techcrunch was hacked. At the time of the hacking they were using the Rackspace Cloud Sites service as their hosting provider.Today I noticed that everything on Techcrunch is now pointing to Wordpress.com. If

Startup Jobs – February 8: The Saints won the SuperBowl which shows anything is possible! 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

Suite Arrival Makes Sure You Never Forget Your Toothbrush: Many of the startups I speak with do a good bit of traveling around the country and the world showing off their services. I am always forgetting some toiletry item when I travel. Typically I forget a fingernail clipper –

Weekend Entrepreneurial Reading: The weatherman lied – there is no snow. The big game aka Superbowl is this weekend. Why not read up on some great Entrepreneurial posts?Hiring the First 5 Engineers: What Sort of People Do You Want on Your Team? –

Mayor Bloomberg Announces Big Apps Winners: Tonight at the IAC headquarters building in NYC, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the winners of the Big Apps competition. Below is a list of the winners. We covered the Big Apps competition extensively here on CN so you may already

Want to Run Location-Based Ads in Your iPhone App? Not So Fast.: The Apple iPhone developer’s blog has an interesting entry from yesterday that discusses location-based advertising in iPhone apps. The usage of GPS functionality to deliver local information must provide “beneficial information” to the user.The entry notes (my emphasis), “If you

Is This The New Library?: Could this be the next generation library?Twitter replies:oo00_Mr_K_00oo no .. because you can’t “borrow” books through the apple iBook store ;(immunetologic - No, the iBooks store will be. ;) I still believe that the act of going to another space to work

Elmo Shows Us Why The iPad Will Be a Hit With Kids: Sesame Street has launched a new iPhone application aimed at kids called Elmo’s Monster Maker. I’ve embedded a video demo of the iPhone app below. The app costs $4 and can be downloaded from the iPhone app store. It’s pretty

Wordpress Adds Blog Subscription By Email Option: While browsing some blogs today that are hosted on Wordpress.com (as opposed to the self-hosted Wordpress version), I noticed something new. Under the comment box, there is now an option to, “Notify me of new posts via email.” Seems like

Monster Acquires Yahoo Hot Jobs for $225 Million: Monster has announced that they will be acquiring the “assets” of Yahoo HotJobs for $225 million in cash. I’m not going to scrape the press release, you can read it here. I wonder what will be left of Yahoo after all

SeeClickFix Helps You Report Issues In Your Hood: Last night at the NY Tech Meetup, SeeClickFix provided a demo of their service. The service is pretty simple in concept but has the chance to be very powerful in terms of actual value to communities around the country. SeeClickFix

10 Useful Tools to Develop, Monitor, Evaluate or Debug Web Pages: When it comes to developing websites and pages we could all use a little help now and then when it comes down to the real detail. Fortunately there’s a wide variety of tools on offer to developers that can be

Amazon Reduces Outbound Data Transfer Pricing: Last December, Amazon Web Services lowered their pricing for the S3 storage service. Today Amazon announced that they have reduced the outbound data transfer chages for all of their services by $0.02/GB. The affected services include: Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon

Startup Jobs – February 1: Welcome to February! 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:Regional Manager at LetMeGoRuby on

Why iWant an iPad: Over the past week we’ve looked at why the iPad will be good for contractors and why you might not be the target audience for the device. After considerable thought, I’d like to share why I want an iPad.I’m not

Open Post: Weekend Entrepreneurial Reading: If your city is like NYC, it’s going to be crazy cold and possibly snowy this weekend. I’ve pulled together some great entrepreneurial reading to hold you over.6 Features Your E-Commerce System Should Have – Shuttle BoxWho Should You Start

You’re Probably Not The iPad Target Audience: Unless you were in some time vortex over the past 36 hours you no doubt know that Apple released the iPad, a 3:4 screen with basic computer features. The iPad launched with the usual hype of Apple product launches, and

Darren Herman Is Moving On Up: Darren Herman is a popular media personality in NYC. His blog looks at marketing and media. Darren has written several columns for CenterNetworks including a look at talent agents and a rant about the music business. Just about a year ago,

UK Residents Send 11 Million Text Messages Per Hour: The Mobile Data Association, based in the UK, has released stats around mobile text messaging in the UK. The top stat is the sending of 11 million text messages per hour. This equates to 265 million text messages a day

Webware

TweetDeck gets a few tweaks: The latest version of TweetDeck is out, and although its a minor update it also introduces some useful changes worth noting. Originally posted at The Download Blog

Adobe promises faster Flash on Macs: The Mac version widely used browser plug-in should catch up to the Windows version soon. Also: an apology for mishandling a bug. Originally posted at Deep Tech

Netflix to get 1080p streaming later this year: The popular DVD-by-mail and video streaming company plans to stream full HD content to its users later this year. Originally posted at Web Crawler

Google to make Gmail a little more social: Sources familiar with the companys plans tell CNET that Google is ready to integrate status updates into Gmail in Twitter-like style, with a stream of text and multimedia updates. Originally posted at Relevant Results

EA's game arsenal coming to Facebook?: An exec at the gaming company hinted that its Madden NFL franchise will launch a Facebook version, the first application weve seen of EAs Playfish acquisition to its existing game titles. Originally posted at The Social

How CoverItLive failed users during iPad unveiling: When youre covering techs Super Bowl equivalent live, you really dont want your broadcasting platform to collapse. Originally posted at Rafes Radar

Facebook's photo uploader gets an overhaul too: Facebook is rolling out its prototype photo uploader to all users over the next few weeks. Small change could have a big impact on how many uploads the social network sees each day. Originally posted at Web Crawler

Add-ons in Firefox's first mobile browser: We give you a video tour of Firefox 1.0--first seen on Nokia--and talk mobile add-ons. Originally posted at The Download Blog

Mozilla yanks infected add-ons, warns users: Mozilla pulled two Firefox add-ons from the Mozilla add-ons Web site this morning for containing malware. Sothink Web Video Downloader 4.0 and all versions of Master Filer were found containing Trojan code aimed at Windows users. Originally posted at The

Google tapped for a new 3D view of the Bay Bridge: Google Earth now lets users zip around an unfinished version of the Bay Areas Bay Bridge as its constructed. The move marks a new direction for Google Earth as an integral part of public works projects. Originally posted at Web

More social, please: Facebook nixes banner ads: Not only will Microsoft no longer serve Facebooks banner ads, the social network is shifting away from them altogether. Plus: Will Facebook hire a high-profile sales exec now? Originally posted at The Social

Google seeks to patent new Web app tech: Four patent applications embody the search companys ambitions to make the Web into a more powerful platform for applications. Originally posted at Deep Tech

Facebook revamps home page: Having turned 6 years old Thursday, Facebook unveils yet another redesign, tweaking the home page to display more of the core features and settings in one single place. Originally posted at News - Digital Media

Tweet from multiple accounts with Seesmic for Android: Among changes to the free Twitter app Seesmic is the capability to manage more that one account. Originally posted at The Download Blog

Slacker Radio: Pandora's Palm webOS rival: Streaming radio app Slacker Radio breaks into Palms App Catalog for webOS, creating rivalry for Pandora Radio. Originally posted at The Download Blog

Will you, like Sun's CEO, become a Twitter quitter?: CEO Jonathan Schwartz thought it best to announce his departure publicly via microblog. Was it offensive? Or might this be the start of a new trend? Originally posted at Technically Incorrect

PictureFox puts a little cover flow in your Amazon: Tired of Amazons clunky product image viewer? Check out PictureFox, a free Firefox add-on that turns Amazon product shots into a gorgeous, full screen gallery. Originally posted at Web Crawler

Apple extends iTunes Web previews to apps: Company now offering users a preview of what they can find in the App Store, but in their browser. The change comes just a few months after Apple first introduced the program for music albums. Originally posted at Web Crawler

Web video gets H.264 royalty reprieve: The group that licenses the widely used H.264 video compression technology decided against adding a Web-streaming royalty charge that could have helped rival formats such as Ogg Theora. Originally posted at Deep Tech

East to West, 'Street Sounds' maps U.S. in audio: New online project aims to create an audio map of the country. Its a great way to relive the drama of a tropical Florida thunderstorm, amble through San Franciscos Chinatown, or visit that Connecticut Radio Shack youve always wanted to

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

Cookwork: A social networking community for culinary professionals. Connect with culinary peers, search for jobs, catch up and provide the latest industry gossip and news. URL: Cookwork

MyApartmentMap: Google Maps mashup that takes geographical data and combines with apartment listing data to make it easier to find available apartment listings. Search for apartments by location, rent and other criteria, and save apartment listings. URL: MyApartmentMap

Charitable Aid on the Web: More than ever before, the world is connected; able to see and participate in the lives of people who are not within physical reach. The Web has brought us new ways to be involved, as well as confusion to what

Eat Your Books: Offers a way to locate recipes from your cookbooks as easily as you find recipes online. Connect with other cookbook lovers, add your own cookbooks to your queue, and plan your menus using the site’s tool. You can do the

app.itize.us: A curated site of “the best produced and designed iPhone applications that are available for download via the App Store.” URL: app.tize.us

MinuteBase: An online application for writing meeting minutes. It provides you with easy-to-use tools to create meeting agendas, format minutes, assign actions, and share documents with your colleagues and partners. URL: MinuteBase

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ProposalPad: ProposalPadProposalPad is a unique system developed for web designers and graphic designers that makes it easy to create professional graphic and web design project proposals.

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Vancouver Olympics Mapped by Google and Microsoft: The Winter Olympics start _______ and theres no shortage of ways to enjoy them. That includes via map mashups showing facilities, parking and the path of the torch relay. All thanks to mapping APIs

Google’s Secret Weather API: Its 54 degrees today in Mountain View, which any Googler could tell you by looking outside... or by using the companys undocumented weather API. The service was created for use with iGoogle, but the

Get 60,000 Concert Setlists with the Setlist.fm API: Setlist.fm, a service that allows music buffs to post setlists from live music performances, has opened up access to a beta version of their API.

6 New APIs: Powerful Americans, Moods, Museums, Web Analytics and Web Hosting: Last week was a busy one for new APIs and in addition to the 7 new APIs we profiled earlier, here are 6 more new listings from our API directory. These include an API for tracking

40 APIs Used in 7 Days: Google, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter, Yahoo, and WeatherBug: This past week 15 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 40 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include BooRah Restaurant Search, FlightStats,

NYC BigApps Contest Winners Announced: NYC.gov Data Gets Mashed Up: Last October we covered the launch of NYC BigApps, a government data contest aimed at rewarding developers for development of applications that utilized information from the City of New York’s NYC.gov data mine. The contest drew

“Ultimate Mashup” a Glimpse into the Future: A new iPhone app is trying to take the fiction out of Science Fiction. Movies have long portrayed people in the future speaking commands to computers. Siri, based on $200M of research

UK to Pay Developers of Public Mashups: Heres a novel concept to encourage open government applications: pay your best developers. Apparently thats exactly what the UKs Office of Public Sector Information would like to do now that it has

US Government Launches Business.gov API - Gives Free Access to Small Business Resources: The U.S. Federal Government has been making a push to increase accessibility to data managed and maintained by various government agencies and departments. Recently Business.gov, the governments official web site for small businesses (sponsored

48 Hours, 31 Hacks - Stockholm Music Hack Day: Two days, a room full of hackers and one theme: music. This is the premise behind the Stockholm Music Hack Day, which resulted in 31 projects including hardware hacks, mobile, web and

Microsoft’s Translator and API Now Support Haitian Releif Efforts by Translating Creole: The Haitian earthquake disaster prompted a quick response from tech companies, who have provided practical applications to aid in the disaster response. The Microsoft Translator Team has pitched in by announcing that Creole, a

Top 10 YouTube Mashups of All Time: We list 423 YouTube mashups in our directory. Naturally, some are better than others. Below are our Top 10, as determined by popularity and editorial judgment.

eBay Tool Provider Auctiva Launches AMP, a Platform for Ecommerce Marketplaces: After a decade of helping sellers list items on eBay, power seller software maker Auctiva is launching its own marketplace. Or, more accurately, its launching a platform, named AMP, where anyone can create

Why Can’t You Share Photos on FourSquare?: As we have noted, FourSquare has become an extremely popular way to share where you are. However, unlike yesterdays hot location-sharing app, BrightKite, FourSquare does not have the ability to share photos. Is this an

7 New APIs: a Dictionary API, and new Flight, Hotel and Rental Car APIs: This week we had more APIs added to our API directory than any week ever. Seven of these new APIs include an online dictionary API, an API for text and excel conversion tool, an MD5 online

35 APIs in 7 Days: Facebook, Flickr, Foursquare, Google, Twilio, Twitter, Yelp, and YouTube: This past week 21 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 35 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Foursquare, IP Location, Mapstraction,

Best New Mashups: Album Art, Facebook Friends and Geo Aggregator: Programmable Web now tracks over 4,600 mashups. Every day one new app is chosen as mashup of the day. And then, sometimes we like to point out a few that especially catch our attention.

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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.

Three Reasons Why the iPad WONT Kill Amazons Kindle: It may be suddenly fashionable to say so, but the new Apple iPad tablet wont kill the Kindle from Amazon. Here are three reasons.

Top 10 Best Social Media Presentations: Hi woorkuppers, this is Stefano. Im new on woorkup, from now I will start writing posts about Social Media highlighting specific topics (Marketing, Strategies, Monitoring, Trends). So lets start. This time Id like to show my personal playlist of the

'Cult' of Apple hangs on Wednesday announcement: Apple Inc., the Cupertino, California, company thats the darling of the gadget world right now, is widely expected to release a touch-screen slate computer on Wednesday at an invite-only event in San Francisco, California, according to blogs and news reports.

Wheelchair mobility at the tip of the tongue: Shepherd joined forces with scientists from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology to try out a new wheelchair, powered not by a keyboard, buttons or a wand in the mouth, but by the

Trapped father survives with help of phone app: Alone in the darkness beneath layers of rubble, Dan Woolley felt blood streaming from his head and leg.Then he remembered -- he had an app for that.

List of Top 50 Websites in December 2009: Last week, Compete released its ranking of the top 50 Web sites in December 2009. During the final month of the year, winter weather blasted the country and drove holiday travelers into an online tailspin. In fact, six of the

Social Media overtakes Search Engines: In our recent report on Social Media in Australia, The Rise and Rise of the Social Network, I highlighted Social Networking and Forums growth and predicted that it would overtake Search Engines in visits during the weeks either side of

Yelps Divide Between Businesses and Reviewers: In the February issue of Inc. magazine, Max Chafkin writes about the sometimes bitter split between reviewers on Yelp and the businesses they critique.

'Pants' becomes first viral video of 2010: (CNN) -- A 62-year-olds rhythmic fashion review has become the Internets first viral sensation of the new decade.

Companies Fight Endless War Against Computer Attacks: The recent computer attacks on the mighty Google left every corporate network in the world looking a little less safe

Hackers Said to Breach Gmail Accounts in China: BEIJING Google e-mail accounts of at least two foreign journalists in Beijing have been compromised, a journalists advocacy group in China said on Monday, adding that hackers changed Gmail program settings so that all messages would be forwarded to

Wireless Companies Speed Up Texted Haiti Donations: Sprint and Verizon Wireless said Friday that they were responding to a surge of text-message donations for victims of the Haiti earthquake by making sure the money gets to its destination much faster than usual.

Bing Is Growing Faster Than Ever, Keeps Gaining Search Market Share: Bing just keeps on gaining market share, and is now growing faster than ever before. In December, Microsofts search engine gained another 0.4 percent to capture 10.7 percent of U.S. search queries, according to the latest comScore qSearch numbers. That

The Web 2.0 Show

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.

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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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

Profitably Running an Online Business in the Web 2.0 Era: One of the things I'm doing this week is preparing for a presentation at Web Builder 2.0 on how to monetize mashups in Las Vegas next week. Consequently, I've been pulling together notes, talking to mashup creators, and studying real-world

Going Beyond User Generated Software: Web 2.0 and the Pragmatic Semantic Web: I was traveling most of last week and so was unable to weigh in on the Web 3.0 mini-tempest that occurred when John Markoff published his exploratory piece in the NY Times last Sunday. The premise of the article is

Bokardo

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