These 15 Tumblrs Will Make You Believe In Magazines Published: May 26, 2011
Magazines are flocking to Tumblr as the microblogging service grows increasingly popular.
From T Magazine and Vogue to The Atlantic and Lapham?s Quarterly, there?s a place on Tumblr for every type of publicat?
Some excellent literacy blogs, and an apology. Published: May 26, 2011
In our efforts to connect with the potential audience for A Story Before Bed, we?ve spent lots of time finding folks online who care about things that A Story Before Bed can help with? like connecting famil?
10 Fascinating Facebook Facts ? And What They Say About Us Published: May 26, 2011
A study released this week revealed that 47% of Facebook users have swear words on their pages. A survey last week, meanwhile, showed that undergraduate men who talk about alcohol on Facebook tend to have m?
Gmail People Widget Provides Added Context to Your Messages [In Brief] Published: May 26, 2011
Today Google announced a new Gmail People Widget to provide contextual information about the people in your address book from within Gmail. The widget shows y?
Extensive Notes Is a Ridiculously Full Featured Note-Taking App for Android [App Of The Day] Published: May 26, 2011
Android: Extensive Notes is not your average note-taking app. Just as its name hints, it does a bit more than its peers, and in this case that means a list of?
Why No One Will Be Using Google Wallet Yet (GOOG) Published: May 26, 2011
At first blush, Google has pulled off something pretty impressive with Google Wallet.
It?s a secure way to handle payments and offers all in one place, like Foursquare meets Groupon meets MasterCard.
But ri?
Otto Penzler Discusses Jo Nesbo Published: May 26, 2011
Another Scandinavian thriller, The Snowman by Jo Nesbo, is out. Nesbo?s books are global bestsellers like those by Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell. And like his predecessors, Nesbo?s books are grim, violent a?
Google Gives Everyone $10 to Try New Google Wallet?but There?s a Catch Published: May 26, 2011
Google?s NFC-enabled mobile wallet was announced this morning in partnership with mobile operator Sprint, issuing bank Citi and payment network MasterCard. But did you know that you don?t have to be a Citi card?
The Meaning of Community Published: May 26, 2011
Social Media has created a vibrant online community and, speaking personally, helped me to forge new friendships. Lord knows I rarely see the folks in-person with whom I regularly interact online, but I do f?
5 Great Experimental Features You Should Enable from the Google Maps Laboratory [Google Maps Labs] Published: May 26, 2011
Perhaps you haven?t noticed, but we?ve been highlighting the best of Google Labs all week. Today we?re taking a look at five great experimental features you c?
The Atlantic Launches Twitter-Based Book Club Published: May 26, 2011
The Atlantic has announced the first selection for 1book140, an online reading and discussion club that will span the publication?s presences on Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr, as well its website.Readers, i?
Carl Sagan on the Drake Equation Published: May 26, 2011
Professor Frank Drake proposed an equation that could be used to estimate the number of detectable extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy. The equation was deemed important for his work at the?
These 12 Real Estate Stats Scream One Thing Published: May 26, 2011
Lou Basenese submits:The latest report from the National Association of Realtors reveals that residential real estate prices are more affordable than they?ve been in almost a decade. The median price for?
Google Wallet? I?m Going to Need Some Convincing Published: May 26, 2011
I?m not a luddite. I don?t have an instinctive distrust of Google. But my gut reaction to Google Wallet?Google?s new NFC-based system that will let people make payments, receive ?loyalty? rewards, a?
This Guy?s Startup Wants To Be The First Facebook Competitor, And He Has Big Money Behind It Published: May 26, 2011
Ex-MySpace Music CTO Dmitry Shapiro has a big idea: he is building a real Facebook competitor. One that puts privacy first and profiteering in a distant last.
It?s called Altly, and it has Draper Fisher Jurve?
It?s time for Bill Gates to come back to Microsoft. (Ryan Block/gdgt) Published: May 26, 2011
Ryan Block / gdgt:
It?s time for Bill Gates to come back to Microsoft. ? This has not been Steve Ballmers week. Well, it hasnt really been his half-decade, but its really not been his week: first, long?
The need for an Alternative to Facebook (Dmitry Shapiro/Altly Blog) Published: May 26, 2011
Dmitry Shapiro / Altly Blog:
The need for an Alternative to Facebook ? For those of us that dont like to read, you can find a Summary of this post here. ? Over the last few years, we have entered a?
The 19 Senators Who Approve Breaking The Internet To Protect Hollywood Published: May 26, 2011
Last fall, we noted that the Senate Judiciary Committee had unanimously voted to approve COICA, a bill for censoring the internet as a favor to the entertainment industry. Thankfully, Senator Ron Wyden stepped?
Anonymous pre-paid credit-cards and money-laundering Published: May 26, 2011
Th $107 billion prepaid credit-card business has attracted money-launderers, according to US customs officers; what?s more, the anonymous cards are exempt from border regulations that require you to disclose wh?
Google Introduces Google Wallet, Works At Over 300,000 MasterCard PayPass Merchant Locations (GOOG) Published: May 26, 2011
Google just announced its mobile payments system Google Wallet, which will also be bundled with its Groupon-killer Google Offers.
Google wants to put tickets, credit cards, receipts, coupons, and even your dr?
Most Companies Are Still Clueless About Social Media Published: May 26, 2011
Social media has arrived, but companies still aren?t sure what to do with it.
Fifty-eight percent of companies are currently engaged in social networks like Facebook, microblogs like Twitter, and sharing mult?
What 8 Best-Selling Magazines Can Teach You About Irresistible Content Published: May 26, 2011
Copyblogger sits atop Ad Age?s marketing blog throne for one reason: they deliver smart, sexy, and super-useful content over and over.
Brian Clark and the Copyblogger team have built an online empire by cre?
Seven Things Human Editors Do that Algorithms Don't (Yet) Published: May 26, 2011
A recommendation from the recommendation frontier: You may not want to fire your human editor just yet. For the last year, I?ve been investigating the weird, wild, mostly hidden world of personalization for my?
How To Succeed At Facebook Advertising Published: May 26, 2011
Gordmans opened two new stores in Minneapolis and promoted them with several Facebook campaigns, working with BlitzLocal.com.
They created two different types of campaigns: one advertising an event, and another?
Business of Your Brain Analyzes Your Outlook Data and Reports Back Your Productivity Killers [Download Of The Day] Published: May 26, 2011
Windows only: Your Outlook data holds valuable clues about the way you work and what?s stopping you from being productive. Business of Your Brain helps visuali?
iPad Usability Study Reveals What We Do and Don?t Like In Apps Published: May 26, 2011
iPad users aren?t stingy with their devices, according to a new usability report by the Nielsen Norman Group focusing on Apple?s tablet. In fact, iPad owners who lived with one or more individuals reported?
How to Hire a Chief Content Officer: 11 Key Traits Published: May 24, 2011
What should a business look for in a chief content officer?the key person responsible for sharing and creating its content? To succeed in this important role, your ideal candidate should have these critical (b?
Retailers and journalists: a match made in heaven? Published: May 26, 2011
Copy has always been important to online retailers. For obvious reasons, a well-written product description, for instance, is likely to produce more sales than the standard manufacturer?s version.
But there?s a?
Raptr Shows How Social Networks Can Get More Personal Published: May 26, 2011
Raptr, a social networking service for gamers with 8.5 million users, isn?t about to topple Facebook anytime soon. But with its latest update today, it?s showing some interesting ways in which it?s using?
Part book, part film, part website Published: May 26, 2011
This is part of an ongoing series related to Peter Meyers? project ?Breaking the Page, Saving the Reader: A Buyer Builders Guide to Digital Books.? We?ll be featuring additional material in the weeks ahead. (N?
How doctors should professionally behave on Twitter Published: May 26, 2011
by Kevin Pho, MDAccording to one of the the guidelines set forth by the AMA about professionalism in social media, ?When physicians see content posted by colleagues that appears unprofessional they have a?
The History of Advertising on Twitter [INFOGRAPHIC] Published: May 26, 2011
The Social Ad Series is supported by LoopFuse, which provides forever-free marketing automation software that closes the loop between sales and marketing with smarter lead capture, scoring, and nurturing ??
Twitter + Tweetdeck = Another splinter in the splinternet Published: May 26, 2011
by Josh Bernoff
Twitter announced it was buying TweetDeck. TweetDeck is popular, sophisticated client software that makes it far easier to see tweetstreams and searches on your PC, as well as on other devices?
Word of mouth marketing flaws exposed Published: May 26, 2011
?Miracle on 34th Street?: Lesson for today?s marketers? Only 15% of word of mouth marketing campaigns show results, but WOM drives sales ? when companies honor and nurture it
Word of mout?
Project Slice Launches to Keep Track of All Your Electronic Receipts Published: May 26, 2011
A new service launches today that can help consumers keep track of all their purchases online from any retailer that provides an electronic receipt. Project Slice provides a free application embedded into the n?
The Complete Small Business Marketer?s SEO Toolkit Published: May 26, 2011
The Complete Small Business Marketer?s SEO ToolkitThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing
Business owners and marketers don?t necessarily need to become SEO experts, but they do need to equip themselves with?
John Perry Barlow Tells Copyright Maximalists That They?ve Got The Fundamentals Wrong Published: May 26, 2011
A bunch of folks have been submitting the story about how John Perry Barlow went to the e-G8 event and got to sit on a panel with some copyright maximalists, and explained to them how they are arguing about the?
Bank of America data leak destroys trust (David Lazarus/Los Angeles Times) Published: May 26, 2011
David Lazarus / Los Angeles Times:
Bank of America data leak destroys trust ? The far-reaching fraud serves as a cautionary tale for all consumers who entrust virtually their entire financial lives to m?
Seth Godin Discusses the Future of Publishing, and How He Got Started in the Industry Published: May 25, 2011
In his latest interview, NYtimes bestselling author Seth Godin discusses how he got his start as an author, and the core beliefs behind his new publishing distribution method, the domino project.
Home Invasion Published: May 26, 2011
Pima County, Arizona cops have murdered a marine veteran in his own home. Apparently he was shot 60 times.
Unemployment: Job-Finding and Dropping Out of the Labor Force Published: May 26, 2011
Rortybomb submits: I want to get a few graphs on this blog before we leave this data set behind, not sure if they?ll be of any use. I wrote a post last week about unemployment by duration and came to two?
Translating Ulysses into Twitter Published: May 26, 2011
A Bloomsday project calls on James Joyce fans to translate Ulysses into Twitter-native text that will then be tweeted at 15-minute intervals through June 16. Just no one tell Stephen Joyce, the notoriously liti?
Silos & Spaghetti: Why Your Users Need You To Care About Content Published: May 26, 2011
Kristina Halvorson, author of Content Strategy for the Web and founder of Brain Traffic, a content strategy firm, had this to say during her keynote at the inaugural Confab conference in Minnea?
Part Science, Part Religion Published: May 26, 2011
The world?s best team-focused 'about' pages Published: May 26, 2011
All websites should have an ?about? page, containing information on the company?s history, news and people. Some firms create a dedicated area to display team members, and I?ve spotted a few that are d?
How skillful advertisers can word-jack your brain [Mad Science] Published: May 25, 2011
It?s long been established that the mighty brain is nothing but a mound of putty. We don?t see what we think we do, we don?t remember what we think we do, an?
The Small Business and the Cloud [Infographic] Published: May 25, 2011
The small business owner is in that phase right now in which they are asking the young store clerk about all this cloud stuff. It may be surprising but they are also asking about virtualization. Businesses ar?
Is Google Planning an E-Book Rental Service? Published: May 25, 2011
There are some conflicting stories coming out the BookExpo America today about Google?s plans for Google Books: one story speculating that Google may be planning an e-book rental service and another speculatin?
U.S. Army Turns to Social Media to Recruit Published: May 25, 2011
I wouldn?t call the American military ?early adopters? but I?m not surprised that they have turned to social media for recruiting, as the New York Times reports. Back in 2006, when I spoke at a State Departme?
Is This the World?s Best Company Blog? Published: May 25, 2011
Tweet Social media marketing for B2C companies are typically dominated by Facebook marketing and attempts at viral YouTube campaigns.
Airlines are your typical B2C (business to consumer) compan?
Magazine Editors Are 100% Sure Tumblrs Are Driving Subscriptions, But They Can?t Prove It Published: May 25, 2011
The stunning success of Tumblr continues to filter its way across the internet landscape.
The rapidly maturing microblogging platform recently passed 250 million page views per day, shocking even founder Davi?
CHART OF THE DAY: The iPad Is More Popular Than The Kindle In The Bathroom Published: May 25, 2011
The Nielsen company decided to take a look at how and where people are using their smartphones, tablets, and eReaders.
Turns out tablets, like the iPad, spend more time in the bathroom than eReaders, like t?
10 Secret Facebook Features You Need To Be Using Published: May 25, 2011
We all use Facebook, and we all get annoyed by the miscellaneous new ?features? Facebook often imposes upon us.
But what about the awesome features that don?t get as much attention?
We put together a list of?
HuffPo Employees Flee AOL After ?Brutal? ?Awful? ?Worst Few Weeks? Published: May 25, 2011
Since Aol purchased the Huffington Post from Arianna Huffington in February for $315 million most of the subsequent coverage has focused on the widespread layoffs of Aol employees; the hiring of experienced r?
Applecores Keep All Your Cables Tangle-Free for Just a Few Bucks [Stuff We Like] Published: May 25, 2011
With all the things we plug into our computers, walls, and other outlets, you?re bound to get a few cables flailing about your desk and tangling themselves up?.
How to Protect Your Computer from Mac Defender and Its Counterparts [Security] Published: May 25, 2011
While it hasn?t infected a lot of computers yet, Mac Defender has been making a lot of noise as one of the first major Mac security threats. Here?s a look at?
Chill Out! Spotify on Facebook Is Cool, Not a Game Changer. (Peter Kafka/AllThingsD) Published: May 25, 2011
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Chill Out! Spotify on Facebook Is Cool, Not a Game Changer. ? Are Facebook and Spotify linking up? Entirely possible. ? But before we get too excited about the prospe?
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