Stories September 7, 2011

Healing is an art, medicine in a profession, health care is a business.John Prescott, MD, CEO, Association of American Medical CollegesSeptember 7, 2011 – I see by the New York Times that more doctors are get…

The Google Places iPhone app saw a major upgrade today and added three features that will make it all the more appealing to use instead of competing mobile location search apps: filter by proximity, rating and…

Texas Governor Rick Perry, the new front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, faces a serious challenge tonight when he takes the stage at the Reagan Presidential Library for his first national de…

“Leaders are not what many people think–people with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to se…

There was a recent ruling in a copyright dispute between Swatch (the watchmakers) and Bloomberg that could have troubling implications concerning wiretapping issues. Effectively, it presents a blueprint for ho…

Lion has introduced a set of OS-level technologies and changes, that can finally make the ‘Apple Cloud Drive’ a reality – and with that, the Apple Cloud Laptop. In the (hypothetical) Cloud Drive, without…

By Hale Stewart: After last week’s dismal employment report, I though a macro level view of the employment situation would be in order. So, let’s see what the data says (click to enlarge images): Weekly…

As I was reading through the projects coming to our upcoming Contact Summit in NYC next month, I was inspired by a few people who are reimagining what a library could be.
Library Turns Hackerspace
Perhaps you…

Retail fundraisers have a choice:
You can give a gift along with a donation and spend all your time talking about how great the gift is. The MS bikeathon in New York is like this. The entire pitch is how rare…

In order to capture the superlative advertising performance that Facebook’s sponsored stories have, you’ve got to first get users to interact with your brand, since these ads need news feed stories to re…

I absolutely loved this 1998 Esquire profile of Mister Rogers by Tom Junod. I was a big Mister Rogers fan…loved him even more than Sesame Street. One my favorite things I’ve read all year.

Once upon a time,…

In the spirit of doing what one does best and linking to the rest, I’ll dispense with a lengthy overview of the controversy that erupted when AOL CEO Tim Armstrong and Silicon Valley power-broker and TechCr…

We’ve been using Apple products for a long time.
In fact, we’ve been Apple users long enough to miss certain features and products. But for whatever reason they disappeared.
Some are totally practical, some…

Every entrepreneur makes mistakes when starting out. Some are fixable, some don’t matter that much in the long run. Some really bug you and can’t be fixed and you just have to learn to live with them for a…

We’ve covered PDF Expert a bit before, but this week they rolled out a 3.0 update that greatly enhances the functionality in the app. When the iPad debuted, one of the first apps to rocket to the top of th…

Apple spent $790,000 on lobbying efforts during the second quarter of 2011, according to its most recent disclosure report. The Associated Press notes that this is up from $560,000 during the first quarter of t…

This weekend, we will see billions of dollars in media time, politician time, Homeland Security time, Pentagon time, NFL time, and the cost of our collective attention, spent on remembering 9/11. Most of it w…

Several surveys have found people are willing to take a pay cut in order to have the flexibility to work remotely. Now, a new survey is confirming these findings –- but with a twist.
Flexible jobs site Momcor…

The operating system for the nanny state?
Comment Apple’s Mac OS X 10.7 is branded Lion. The Lion may be king of the jungle, but from where we sit, it’s the king of bungles.…

The Atlantic Wire – People do stupid things on Facebook, like posting drunken photos or writing thoughtless wall posts. But should one’s ignorant social media habits reflect on his or her standing as a hard-wor…

There is one place Yahoo can easily finish first: the company with the worst and most ineffectual board with the spine of a centipede. I have not been a fan of Yahoo’s board for a long time and nothing real…

Problem: you’ve got a computer that you want to take from one location to another. You see your hands, you see the iMac, you just can’t for the life of you fig…

If you’re a CEO with more than five years on the job and performs so bad, this news would serve you well. You see, a study by the University of Miami School of Business Administration found that CEO’s with…

A Norton by Symantec study revealed that the actual cost of global cybercrime is $114 billion annually. What is more shocking is the total bill for cybercrime footed by online adults in 24 countries placed at…

Microsoft and Twitter have renewed an agreement to bake users’ Tweets into Bing.Twitter and Microsoft have both confirmed the deal. Bing’s Social search Website also includes updates from Facebook.Google previo…

As a planner, data has always been the bread and butter of my professional career. Since the rise of planning teams in advertising agencies during the 70s, it has been our job to really get to know the consume…

When the iPad launched in April 2010, PR pros, journalists and marketers were buzzing about how the new device would benefit their job. Fast forward to today, just a year and a half later, and many of us can…

A military airplane with 21 people aboard was lost over Chile’s sea this weekend. It disappeared from radar and the authorities didn’t know where it crashed. S…

A big problem for the nearly half a million apps available in the Apple App store is that they each lack an easily shareable social narrative that would empower users to buy.

San Francisco-based Kinetik, is t…

Here’s the thing with tablets. None of them that don’t have an Apple logo on the back are worth a crap. All of the other OS’s suck, except Android. And the haphazard way Google and the hardware make…

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For some people, Apple is very much a religion. At least that’s what neuroscientists said after a study found that viewing Apple products caused the brains of “Mactivists” to act…

Barney Pell of Powerset, ZuneHD business development lead Dave McLauchlan and Windows 7 gaming project manager Ruchit Garg all announced today that they are leaving Microsoft. Pell, a super-geek and the best k…

I was at a Writers Guild meeting in Hollywood a few years ago; the members were debating whether or not to go out on strike. A microphone had been set up; one screenwriter after another stepped forward and spok…

I have worked with authors for more than three decades. I have also worked with speakers, recording artists, and other creatives. I have had the privilege of working with the best—and the challenge of…

I’m really enjoying the circus that has become Dancing With The Stars since Chaz Bono was announced as the shows first transgender dancer. I should mention right off the bat that I’m a fan of having Chaz o…

LinkedIn is adding a new “Volunteer Experience Causes” field to profiles, the company announced Wednesday. The section will let users highlight and showcase their unpaid or charitable work experience….

Content is everywhere and has become a marketing sword for businesses of all shapes and sizes. As traditional advertising effectiveness declined, the popularity of writing articles and publishin…

Medicare needs to be reformed, but there’s no easy solution to the problem. As the average life expectancy increases, more-and-more politicians have proposed an increase in the Medicare eligibility age…

Adobe announced early Wednesday that it would be bringing full support for Apple’s Newsstand feature in iOS 5. Newsstand is a centralized location through which users can find new digital magazines to subscri…

Had a great talk today with Betsy Baytos, one of the most creative people I know. Her creativity defies categorization. After beginning her career as a Disney animator, she went on to dance on Broadway in Stard…

Whether you’re on a first date, meeting new people at a dinner party, or making it rain on Twitter, it’s just not a good idea to go on and on about yourself. It’s just awkward.
Conventional social media…

Guest post from Maddie Grant who just finished writing Humanize – with Jamie Notter.
We live in a machine world. Just look at the language we use in organizational contexts. We run organizations, or we at le…

Good article by Nichole Kelly titled six reasons not to create a Facebook page.
Nichole writes that ”
Many companies are rushing to try and jump into social media because they feel tremendous pressure to pr…

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Lots of people spend lots of time nowadays thinking about how to build up channels/audiences/communities (choose your buzzword as appropriate) through social channels. Relatively few, however, seem to…

From experience, usability testing is THE most enlightening and powerful activity that brands can carry out to answer an extensive range of questions which can be crucial to how their website performs.
As well…

Blogging did many cool things to our world, but the coolest thing it did was remove the Gatekeepers.

The first time I heard the word gatekeeper it came out of Seth Godin’s mouth. The idea that we (us, the audi…

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LinkedIn is the poor second cousin of the social networking fraternity with its glamorous siblings Facebook and Twitter hogging the limelight.
Facebook wins the popularity contest with…

TechCrunch’s (former?) editor Michael Arrington is lauching a venture capital fund called CrunchFund. He’s doing it with money from some of the most prestigous names in Silicon Valley venture capital.
Critics…

An update to Google Takeout, the search giant’s data export service, now allows Google Voice users to retrieve all of their account data.
“We believe that our users should be able to export any data tha…

Canadian mobile carrier Rogers has filed to become a bank under Canada’s federal Bank Act, which will allow it to pursue more mobile payment services and a “niche credit card opportunity” for consumers,…

If you’re looking for a utility or service that can help you keep your notes for school or work organized, you have plenty of options. Some apps help you orga…