How Will You Manage?
How will you manage in an era of transformative changes in workplace demographics, technology, regulations, and expectations? Kronos and XPLANE present fascinating statistics.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Friday, March 12, 2010
E-Readers: Walt Tells You How To Choose
Interviewed on Digits today, Walt notes three key features to consider when purchasing an e-reader: Readability, battery life and the ease of purchasing books. By Walter S. Mossberg
Attention shoppers: Target offers mobile coupons
Mobile coupons are coming to mega-retailer Target, which will allow shoppers all over the U.S. to use their mobile handset to get discounts on all kinds of products. By Marguerite Reardon
Apple COO gets $5 million thank you
Steve Jobs salary is $1. The cost of a six-month replacement for him? $5 million. By Erica Ogg
Foursquare takes lead in where-am-I apps
One year ago, the founders of Foursquare stepped onstage before a tech-savvy crowd in Austin, Texas, to announce their concept: a smartphone app that lets you tell friends where you are. By Doug Gross
Former Google Employees Improve Instant Messaging with imo.im
As the Web continues to develop and change, some things seem to have stayed the same. By Hillel Fuld
SXSW 2010: The Complete Social Media Guide
This year’s South By Southwest (SXSW) festival is rapidly approaching. Beginning with the Interactive Media events on March 12th, Austin, Texas will be the place to connect with the brightest in tech and media and get the scoop on some exciting new ventures. By Matt Silverman
4 Ways to Effectively Use Social Media as a Catalyst
As social media marketing becomes more widely practiced, the questions of the day are less frequently focused on the benefits of social media and more often focused on its implementation. By Chris Allison
Online Retail Sales Will Grow To $250 Billion By 2014
Online retail sales aren’t growing at the torrid pace they once were, but they continue to grow steadily. By Erick Schonfeld
Truffls
At Truffls you can use “Experts Search” to find expert profiles by keyword, select the right ones for you and access their recommended links, OR use the “Bookmark Search” to find links added by any contributor.
Seven alternatives to the Apple iPad
Wait! Stop. Before you hand over Apple your credit card and pre-order the iPad, you may want to check out the other touchscreen options available now and in the near future. The iPad isn’t the only game in town. By Matt Burns
Springpad
Springpad is a free web app that gives you many ways to save and access anything you want to remember.
Social Media Monitoring Tools
There are countless ways to track your brand on social media. By Doriano "Paisanp" Carta
Marketing With Virtual Facebook Events: Yay or Nay?
Generating buzz online about a new service or product is one of the toughest things marketers and PR folks will ever have to do. By Darrell Etherington
Why You Should Have a Secondary Twitter Account
Tamar Weinberg shares why it's a good idea to consider having a second Twitter account.
Google makes its local shopping move
It took a while, but Google has made its big move as a local shopping inventory gatekeeper. By Larry Dignan
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Foursquare Offers Analytics to Businesses, Enables Easy Customer Stalking
Wondering how that barista knew your name before asking you? By Zachary Wilson
Tweet-Mapping Arrives, Along with the Twitter's Battle Against Google
Twitter's geotagging powers could transform the lifecasting service into something extremely powerful. And the company's just taken the first steps to making this happen through its own Web page: It's turned on Tweet mapping. By Kit Eaton
2010 Mobile Influencers: Trend Predictions in 140 Characters
Casio G'zOne Brigade: The Toughest Messaging Phone In the US of A
The Casio G'zOne Brigade is not a messaging phone you'd want to meet in a dark alley.
How cars are killing us
The takeaway: Cars are dangerous, especially in developing counties.
Teambox
Team base projects just got better with a Twitter-like project collaboration tool that lets your team share tasks, messages, files and get notified by email: Teambox
Cliqset
Cliqset makes it easy to share, discover and discuss with friends and family around the web.
ZipList
A free online service that makes managing your grocery shopping list easier than ever. Add to or delete items from your list via the web, mobile phones, text messages, email or instant messaging. Share your list with family members or friends so they can add or delete items as well — and they can even help you shop.
OpenFaces
An open-source library of AJAX-powered JavaServer Faces (JSF) components, an Ajax framework and a client-side validation framework: OpenFaces
CityTag...make your mark
A social mapping platform for Australia, presently. Lets help fix that. Here’s how they describe themselves CityTag is designed to help you find the best info about town, local to where you are – on the spot!
via URL: CityTag
Ibis Reader
An ereader application that you don’t have to install or download. Read public domain ePub books on your computer, laptop, smartphone or tablet. Upload your own collection of ePub books, or discover new ones. Bookmark your reading spot, change the text size, and download your books at any time: Ibis Reader
Naked Apartments
A New York-centric apartment matchmaking site between renters, brokers, and landlords. Renters can create a profile, get a free credit check, and write and read reviews of brokers. Brokers have the ability to view renters’ credit scores and income, and contact renters directly.
Stickybits
A social way to attach digital content to real world objects using barcodes: Stickybits
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Apple’s Secret iPhone Developer Agreement Goes Public
The first rule of the iPhone developer program is: You do not talk about the iPhone developer program. By Brian X. Chen
Friday, March 05, 2010
Data and content visualization
Simile Widgets is a set of open source web widgets for visualizing data & content.