Curated Stories May 18, 2011

The other day I tweeted about the most common come-on in online advertising, that integration of some new behavioral/widget/toolbar/bullshit service would be as simple as “one line of Javascript.” And it…

There’s a lot of buzz surrounding LinkedIn’s IPO this week.
And with good reason. LinkedIn isn’t just incredibly valuable on paper. There are also a ton of great features that users can take advantage of.
We pu…

There’s been some buzz about NYTimes Editor Bill Keller’s recent column, in which — in true curmudgeon fashion — he posits that Twitter and such are a problem because they are killing deep conversation:

As a…

Economic collapse, nuclear meltdown, food crisis and the literal Apocalypse as soon as this weekend… People seem more worried than ever about the end of the world.
If you have to jump on a plane (or a boat o…

In the past, I’ve said some nasty things about the WordPress iPad app. For the tasks I needed to do here and on other blogs — add and resize images, format text and link like crazy — the app’s barebones…

Automattic has released a major improvement to its WordPress iOS app, fixing a variety of bugs while adding analytics and photo-sharing features.Version 2.8 of the app fixes 31 different bugs, including erro…

We have any number of ways to sign in online.

Brian Madden points out it’s an ever-more-complicated concern as the concept of the desktop changes and we grapple with ways virtualization is treated in a secur…

iOS: The new iPhone app for blogging platform WordPress just updated with serious improvements and some fun new features: Quick Photo makes snapping and publis…

Twitter today announced new finer-grained control over third-party API access to direct messages:

Beginning today, we’re giving you more control over what
information you share with third-party applicatio…

Twitter has announced an upcoming change to how users grant third-party apps permissions. The change may alter the third-party app landscape.

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If you have just started a new web business or you’d like to but don’t know how to get the word out about it, Facebook is your friend. By using Facebook you can find potential custome…

Continuing the search for a storytelling grid it is getting obvious that eventually it will not be a grid i.e. 2D net. It can’t be a 3D form either since elements of time and change are involved (any suggesti…

How do you know if the mortgage you’re eyeing is a rip-off? You’ll soon be able to find out by looking at the first — and only — page of your mortgage disclosure.

Blackbaud, a fundraising software company, has put together an infographic that tries to answer the question: “What good is social good?”Much is made of social good as a revolutionary tool for corporate soc…

Did you ever wonder how to teach storytelling? Well, one answer provides the WikiHow article How to Teach Storytelling.Storytelling is the sharing of stories and events through words, sounds and visual images….

If you’re like us, you see things on Facebook every day that make you wonder where people developed such poor manners.

Well, we suggest five rules of good social media etiquette:
1. Before you post or send a…

Want to see how influential you are on Twitter? A new app called Sneak Peek not only does that; it also tells you how influential everyone else is.Visibli, a web analytics firm, aims to be a “Compete for s…

Toby Daniels (@tobyd), co-founder of Social Media Week, passed along this video this morning. It’s hilarious, and as the title of Charna Halpern and Kim Howard Johnson’s famous book goes, there’s a lot of…

In the past, I had the good fortune of working with the Get Satisfaction team to help brands embrace new media to improve customer relationships. During those early years, I learned a great deal about the pr…

For a product that really just got going a little over a year ago, it shouldn’t be surprising that the reach of tablets is limited. Nielsen said Wednesday that tablet penetration is just under five percent, w…

Apparently, someone has told his 81-year old father that you use Twitter to search things on Google. The result? A stream of old man searches ranging from “col…

Patent-holding company Lodsys has been going after small-time iOS developers, sending them “notice” letters which claim the developers are infringing on one of Lodsys’ patents for in-app purchasing technology….

Although Microsoft often comes under fire from critics who say the software giant delivers products that are rife with security issues, that hasn’t harmed the dominance of the company’s Windows platform….

Of the macro social news sites, Reddit has easily become my favorite over the past 4 years or so. The community, unlike Digg, gets close to a true model of diversity, aggregation and incentives: the three eleme…

Bloggers want to maximize on the traffic received from social media. However, while focusing on popular sites such as StumbleUpon, Digg or Reddit, many bloggers forget that there are hundreds of other availa…

Apple’s new media-streaming technology, AirPlay, is a great way to stream devices across your home, but it only works on Apple-approved destinations out of t…

In the past few days a number of rumors about Apple’s retail stores have been kicking up.
Today we’re getting a fresh batch, but these rumors sound the most accurate so far.
Apple is reworking its stores in a p…

You wouldn’t think that in 2011, we would still be having debates about the value of linking to things, yet we are. Blogging veteran Doc Searls of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society got the…

As I wrote up my last blog post on Skype alternatives I started seriously looking at iChat again. Since I had been using Skype for my video chats and Adium for my IM communications, iChat never seemed to have t…

We’ve gotten complacent with many of our technological needs, simply putting up with what we have available now, even if it’s horribly dated. More »…

Mobile advertising in games is often little more than an annoyance for consumers who try to ignore banner ads that take up precious real estate. But startups are now looking to find ways to bring advertising in…

I think e-ink is one of those fantastic retro-future technologies that is so cool because it’s so simple. But, inevitably, I’m going to want some color. Thankf…

MacGyver was the greatest TV shows of all time, yes? Yes. But so much of it only exists in memory now. Or did, until someone came along and catalogued every si…

The Atlantic Wire – How do other people deal with the torrent of information that pours down on us all? Do they have some secret? Perhaps. We are asking various people who seem well-informed to describe their m…

“I hate needles.” Patients say this to me everyday. When you think about it, who “likes” needles?
Skin biopsies are relatively painless, but they still involve the dreaded needle and always leave scars…

Smiles are infectious. But the smile cannot be faked or forced. You can try to fake a smile, but people can tell when you don’t mean it. In fact, some studies show that if you give an insincere smile, audie…

PayPal is teaming up with Philanthroper to spur a little bit of crowdsourced good.Philanthroper is a “daily deals” site; but instead of offering cheap tickets to shows or discounted meals, it offers new…

“In 2006, Mr. Snow had Stage 3 melanoma, a disease usually found in people three decades older.” A short New York Times piece on a young couple going through the end of a cancer diagnosis. Make sure you watch t…

Justin Fogarty is the online community manager at Ariba, a leading provider of collaborative business commerce solutions. Follow Justin on Twitter @justacio or join the thousands interacting on his community…

Kurt Brouwer submits: Home prices have been falling for several years and inquiring minds want to know if the pain is going to end. Of course, a home owner’s pain is a home buyer’s gain, but I digress….

The Legacy of Malcolm X: Why his vision lives on in Barack Obama is an affecting essay by Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Paulo Coelho is one of the most successful fiction writers today and he actively uses social media to engage with his readers. For the past 25 years the Brazilian author has written many inspirational books, wh…

Gregor Macdonald submits: Of the many asset classes to be victimized by the end of cheap energy, residential real estate is perhaps the most vulnerable. A call option on future wage growth, and, leveraged to…

Pablo Villalba / Teambox Blog:
Why Google’s hiring process is broken — Some context… Google is one of todays top companies, thanks to their continued efforts in building the best and fastest algorit…

We’re flooded with more and more information every day. There are more blogs to read, more people to follow, more research papers to digest, than ever before. Our response to this tidal wave of data has been…

Recently I watched a great TV movie called “The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher,” (also a book) based on a creepy and scandalous Victorian murder of a young boy in an English manor. In reading up on the case onl…

Just where does your resume go after you hit the submit button on a job application?

Guest post by Neicole Crepeau, an Online Strategist at Coherent Interactive. She blogs at Coherent Social Media.
The other week, I was participating in Jay’s hashtagsocialmedia.com chat on social media. (It t…

Having launched a suite of advertising solutions over the past year, Twitter has answered one of the questions that had previously plagued it: will the popular social media hub ever find a business model?
But n…

As an entrepreneur, you are probably bombarded with e-mail messages every day with someone telling you how they “get your site to the top of the search engines.” Well, if you’re like most business owners,…

One of the on-going topics of discussion surrounding the whole social media game is how is Twitter actually going to start making the serious money it needs to in order to justify the large amounts of money th…

The White House released their International Strategy for Cyberspace document, which lays out a general platform for all things internet, but it also addresses…

Matt Ziegelbaum / Docs Blog:
Summarize your data with pivot tables — Starting today, were rolling out pivot tables in Google spreadsheets. Pivot tables make it easy to process and summarize large data…

Pete Warden / O’Reilly Radar:
Why you can’t really anonymize your data — One of the joys of the last few years has been the flood of real-world datasets being released by all sorts of organizations. Th…

We’ve been discussing various ways that our government and the courts have been slowly chipping away at the 4th Amendment, what with warrantless wiretaps, searching laptops, TSA agents groping people, etc. And…