Stories 6/27/2011

Twitter’s hundreds of millions of members include casual and professional users with a wide range of interests. There’s no better way to dive deep into real-time discussion on a particular topic than by buil…

The iPad makes for a great writing and drawing surface, and Bamboo Paper is an app that knows it. While it was designed by Wacom to work with their iPad stylu…

Six of the top ten biggest cities in America with the highest Mac market share are…

BreakingNews to Curate Local News Tweets: breakingblog:

“We’re excited to announce a new feature that allows news organizations to fast-track news tips straight to BreakingNews.com and potentially, @breaki…

The news went out Friday that Google is shutting down Google Health. This portal was, along with Microsoft HealthVault (which is still going strong) the world’s best-known place for people to store health in…

If you have ever installed software, you are probably a liar.
Any program you add to your hard drive or Web service you use will come with a set of rules, detailed in the Terms of Service or End User License…

Twitter has become an invaluable tool for journalists when it comes to finding sources and sharing stories. Now the microblogging site has released a guide that shows reporters how to best use the tool in th…

Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
Twitter finds its media home with Twitter for Newsrooms — Twitter has been seen, by the savvy media, as a great source for relaying and finding information. But now, Twitt…

A couple of weeks ago, in writing about commencement speeches, storied an unstoried, I noted that Terrence Gargiulo, who delivered a commencement speech recently, was “considering doing a meta analysis of how…

If you’re going to deny that one of the first things you do when you find out the last name of someone have a date with is look him or her up on Facebook, then you’re a liar.

And that’s not a bad thing….

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It’s somewhat ironic that “short” and “long” are both being used to describe a length of non-fiction writing that I believe will change book and magazine publishing as significantly as a…

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.Facebook Places is essentially f…

Students narrowing down their choices of college have all sorts of rankings and lists to choose from, listing universities by size, type, admissions, grade-point averages, and even percentage of students in Gre…

We all know that Google Webmaster Tools enables the setting of a geographic target. By setting such a target country/location, webmasters are giving a specific signal to Google about the country/location that…

Dave Winer:

The problem for them, if they choose to view it as a problem, is
that web browsers are done. Feature-complete. No one can think of
anything to add that anyone wants, because there are no more
fe…

When it comes to tablets, traditional publishers have a dilemma: the numbers make it clear that the money is currently in native apps, but for publishers struggling to survive, giving up 30% of revenue to Apple…

Jonathan Knee uses Netflix to argue in The Atlantic that content is not king and that aggregators are better at capturing value. That will be raw meat to those who claim that aggregators are content kleptomanic…

In the Guardian, I pull together thoughts on reconsidering the article, the reaction to those thoughts, and the impact on a digital-first strategy. Excerpt:

The article is no longer the atomic unit of news. It…

About two weeks ago a new online service called “Bre.ad” was made publicly available. At first glance, Bre.ad seems like a run of the mill link shortener, but it goes quite a bit beyond that…

How do you know that what you are reading is actually true? That’s the objective of the most popular course at Stony Brook University, “News Literacy,” created by former Newsday editor Howard Schneider. N…

With 750m users and growing, Facebook is one of the most attractive platforms for brand advertisers to reach consumers.
But there’s a problem: while it may be capturing more and more dollars from major brand ad…

Do you believe that there exists a right way and a wrong way to market your business? Is there a set of rules floating around somewhere that we must live by when we step into the role of marketing director for…

For the last few years we have seen an explosion in consumer web apps. We have seen LinkedIn valued at more than $4bn following its IPO and others like Groupon looking to follow suit.
Without a doubt web apps…

TODAY’S SONG:THE SWAN/CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS Most of my writing is non-fiction. Occasionally, however, I’m inspired to try my hand at fiction. Not long ago I published a fictional story that generated a number…

Satirical newspaper and website The Onion is celebrating its 1000th issue by pushing for a Pulitzer Prize. Its spin-off Americans for Fairness in Awarding Journalism Prizes has garnered support from celebrities…

Verne G. Kopytoff / New York Times:
Companies Are Erecting In-House Social Networks — What would Facebook look like without photos of drunken nights out and tales of misbehaving cats? It might look a…

The Google APIs Discovery API is an innovative API description service that helps make sense of Google APIs. Anyone using this meta-API can find other Google APIs and see the options available from those APIs….

Education comes in odd ways. Most of us think you can only learn from a great leader. I’m here to tell you that you can learn just as much from a bad one—maybe more.Photo courtesy of ©iStockphoto.com/pr…

Here are Orwell’s rules, edited:
1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. You don’t need cliches.
2. Never use a long word where a short one will do. A…

FORTUNE — Quora, the hot social question-and-answer website, wants to suck all the useful information from your brain. (That isn’t as malevolent as it sounds.) And it is Rebekah Cox’s job to make you an enthus…

Guest post from Chris Sietsema, who teaches and trains small to medium-sized businesses and non-profits in the disciplines of search, social media, email marketing and online analytics. Chris owns Teach to Fi…

Craig Sullivan is Group eBusiness Customer Experience Manager at Belron, a company which includes Autoglass among its brands.
Craig spoke at the first JUMP event last year, on the subject of using online data…

They’re the talk of the moment: Daily Deals. They are alerts that will let you know what is on special every day, and where you can get it from a local merchant.
Groupon, Living Social, Woot, Google Offers, an…

The use of mobile phones for offline shopping has increased dramatically over the past few years, and even if consumers aren’t actually making a purchase with their mobiles, they are often using them to resea…

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There are many bloggers and brands that just leap onto Twitter, setup an account and start tweeting. This random approach is fine if you are a person that is doing tweeting for fun and…