Sunday, March 14, 2010

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.

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

Foursquare and other location-based networking apps let users "check in" at bars, restaurants and other hangouts.

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

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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

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Wondering how that barista knew your name before asking you? By Zachary Wilson

Tweet-Mapping Arrives, Along with the Twitter's Battle Against Google

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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

View more presentations from Taly Weiss.

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

Road Traffic Accident Statistics

The takeaway: Cars are dangerous, especially in developing counties.

James Cameron: Before Avatar...a curious boy

Teambox

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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

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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 Timeline

Simile Widgets is a set of open source web widgets for visualizing data & content.