Digital Consumers are Brand Minded Targets

Millward Brown research was conducted on WPP’s BrandZ brand equity global database. Findings show that, on average, digital consumers have a 15 percent stronger relationship with brands than non-digital consumers.

Gadgets Show How Much Power Your House Eats

Curtailing your home electricity use is a bit like losing weight: You already understand the basics, but it’s hard to accomplish without help and motivation.

Justin.tv Launches Video Streaming Service for Facebook Pages



Popular streaming video service Justin.tv is the newest developer to take advantage of Facebook’s live stream widget.

Eric Schmidt on what we need for change

This 5-minute video has Google Chairman Eric Schmidt describing fundamental change that needs to be made for industries to genuinely be transformed into the future.

MultimediaInMinutes

MultimediaInMinutes is a video tutorial web site for busy journalists and students dedicated to the craft of multimedia journalism. The simple tutorials and ambitious projects on the site will improve your multimedia workflow.

Learning from Apple's Design Consultant

A new book by Hartmut Esslinger shares his strategies for clients ranging from Apple to Vuitton.

Twitter: Weed Marketer's Paradise

A medical marijuana dispensary in California has found another purpose for the micro-blogging site, PC World reports.

Five Questions for Wim Elfrink



Cisco Systems' Chief Globalization Officer, Wim Elfrink, answers questions on the economy, global trends, technologies' role in connecting communities, changing education, and lessons learned.

T-Mobile launches iPhone challenger


T-Mobile USA is betting big on its second Android smartphone, the MyTouch 3G, as it officially launches the device making it its flagship smartphone to compete against Apple's iPhone on AT&T.

Archive your e-mail from almost any account

MailStore Home is a free program that can archive them all locally, and display those archives in an interface that reads like your Outlook in-box.

Paul Collier's new rules for rebuilding a broken nation

Radio: Innovative ways to follow the aging medium



Radio has evolved from sitting in front of a large wooden box to listening to what you want, when you want, wherever you want. These are the technical innovations that are pushing the medium into the 21st century.

10 Inspirational New York Times multimedia and interactive features



The New York Times, often lauded as one of the greatest producers of multimedia journalism, is inspirational not just because of the dazzling technologies that it uses to bring stories to life (Flash, databases, slideshows), but because of the selected stories themselves.

Tag, you’re it: RFID technology grows up


Coca-Cola this summer is testing a new drink-dispensing machine called the “Freestyle,” packed with cutting-edge technology that tracks everything from supplies to consumer habits, reporting continually back to centrally located controllers.

Social media marketing spend to Hit $3.1 Billion by 2014

Forrester Research is out with their Interactive Marketing Forecast for the next five years.

YouTube Biz Blog Touts Social Media and Video Strategies Forum

SES is one of the best places for businesses to learn about search.

Google plans Chrome-based Web operating system

That Google operating system rumor is coming true--and it's based on Google's browser, Chrome.

What is Twitbin?

Twitbin is a firefox extension that allows you to keep up with all of your Twitter conversations right from your browser sidebar.

Yahoo Search Pad

Yahoo launched a new tool to help people organize research they do on the Yahoo search engine.

Web 2.0 goes to school

Larry Magid shares his visit to the NECC show that covered the use of technology in the classroom.

Sony joins Netbook game with the Vaio W



Sony has finally caved to market demand and is introducing what the company calls, "a chic new line of mini notebooks."

Over a third of Facebook users now 35+, use by seniors at record levels


Interesting stats about Facebook and it's audiences.

Music video shot end-to-end on an iPhone 3GS

Perhaps those iPhone 3GS mounts aren’t as silly as we thought.

Screenjelly

Screenjelly records your screen activity with your voice so you can spread it as a video via Twitter or email.

As brands continue to ‘Pollinate’ the Social Web, expect corporate websites to aggregate

Brands are pollinating the social web with easy-to-share features like Sharethis. As conversations splinter across the web, brands must prepare to aggregate those same conversations on their corporate website. As a result, the trusted conversations will centralize back on product pages.

Mossberg says iPhone 3GS is 'impressively improved'

WSJ's personal technology columnist Walt Mossberg says Apple's new iPhone 3G S is significantly more powerful -- it's faster and has a longer battery life.

Mobile video goes social and portable with RealPlayer

Real Networks have launched RealPlayer SP; a cool new application which makes it easy to download, transcode and share online videos as well as transfer them to mobile devices.

LogMeIn specializes in remote-access software, which allows users to log in and control any Internet-connected device, no matter where it is located.

How to get Retweeted on Twitter

But apart from the obvious, what makes a retweet different from a tweet?

Home

We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth's climate. The stakes are high for us and our children. Everyone should take part in the effort, and HOME has been conceived to take a message of mobilization out to every human being. A film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand.

Please watch, please listen, please react.

How should we organize our company for social media?

Companies Should Organize For Social Media in a “Hub and Spoke” model.

Twazzup: A Better Twitter Search Engine



Twazzup, tries to bridge the gap between Twitter's real-time search and a more traditional search engine.

Connect with your followers in real-life. Find or organize a local Tweetup.

The Twitter Hash Tag: What Is It and How Do You Use It?



Once you've started using Twitter, it won't take long before you come across what's known as a hash tag. That's when you see something in a tweet that has a # prefix. (The # is a hash symbol, hence the term hash tag or hashtag.)

Twitter Marketing: How to drive Traffic to Your Sites Using Twitter

European Social Media: 19 startups to watch

Silicon Valley isn’t the only place that’s a hotbed for social media and web entrepreneurship: Europe is filled with skilled entrepreneurs and successful startups.

Web surfing in a wireless network...from your shirt pocket



Verizon Wireless will begin selling a device from Novatel Wireless that allows mobile users to connect multiple devices to a 3G connection. The MiFi 2200 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot, uses Verizon's EV-DO Rev. A network to create a personal WiFi cloud that can connect up to five WiFi-enabled devices, such a digital cameras or an iPod Touch, to the Internet.

WhereCloud



Reportage works with the way you already tend to use Twitter; by firstly, scanning for the avatar of people you care most about and then browsing for second tier interest people.

Streaming media in the future of virtual events

Virtual Edge and Stream57 collaborate to educate and inform on a rapidly changing industry.

WebEx next for the iPhone

With more than 7 million individuals participating in online meetings every month, the Web-based meeting facilities provided by Cisco WebEx (plus uncounted others served up by competitors) have become a ubiquitous means of quickly sharing information when you can’t be there in person.

Psykopaint

Psykopaint is an online photo painting application which uses the color of an image to paint. Very easy and quick to use but very elaborate at the same time.

Every Trail

EveryTrail is an online platform that enables you to visualize your travel experiences and share these with fellow travelers from all over the world. With EveryTrail you can easily upload GPS data you recorded while out on a trip and add your photos and notes, to create a compelling, interactive, visual record of your travel experience. EveryTrail was created by a small group of passionate travelers, out of dissatisfaction with current solutions to share trips.

The 10 Commandments of Social Media

"What do I need to do engage my company, my products, and myself in social media?" The answer is easy: participate.

Facebook is streamlined for Blackberry



Facebook on Blackberry has a more streamlined version of the popular social networking app it codeveloped with Facebook's help.

Songkick's new database makes old concert tickets useful

Band tracker and concert reminder service Songkick is venturing into new territory. The site is launching a feature that lets users chronicle all the shows they've ever been to. Think of it like a virtual shoe box for your old ticket stubs.



Users can either add these shows by hand, or search from a database that includes more than a million concerts. Each show page includes things like set lists, photos, videos, and posters.

CiscoLive!

Don't miss the year's premier education and training event for IT, networking, and communications professionals. See the show in San Francisco June 27-July 2, 2009, for the 20th anniversary of Cisco Networkers.

Palm Pre launching with Google Search, Google Maps, and YouTube

Palm Pre phone's webOS works great with Google Search, Google Maps, and YouTube, which are built into the device. You can also easily sync your Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Contacts to Palm Pre.

New Twitter Research: Men Follow Men and Nobody Tweets

Is Twitter a communications service for friends and groups, a means of expressing yourself freely, or simply a marketing tool?

No-Fuss Video Conferencing Using Tinychat



Where do you turn if you want to set up a video conference with your team at the drop of a hat? Tinychat is a simple, no-download, no-login chatroom that includes audio/video support and desktop sharing.

TED Global 2009

TEDGlobal 2009 is a full-length TED conference in Oxford, UK, this July 21-24. Four days of amazing speakers, conversation and connection on an intriguing theme: The Substance of Things Not Seen. Some speakers already announced! Learn more about TEDGlobal 2009 in Oxford.

What Green Day can teach us about social media

The evolution of a musician or group of musicians is always a fascinating journey to witness. While the changes are seemingly subtle, it’s always fun to go back over the anthology of an artist’s musical works and see how far they’ve come, and how different they are from the beginning.

Smart Mobs Revisited

Howard Rheingold presents at Mobile Mondy in Amsterdam. Well worth watching.

Ficly

Ficly is a place for playing with story-telling; a collaborative environment where anyone can pick up a narrative thread and weave a prequel or sequel.

You can start a story or jump into someone else's tale. The possibilities are endless, and in some cases, so are the stories.

MultiURL

MultiURL allows you to combine multiple links into one short link that you can quickly and easily share with your friends, colleagues, on your blog or any other website.

For example, you want to share the list of common search engines you know:

http://www.google.com
http://www.yahoo.com
http://www.msn.com

MultiURL will combine these links into one short link: http://www.multiurl.com/g/5 or http://www.multiurl.com/l/5

FeedMingle makes lives simpler for web designers/developers, feed readers, bloggers, or just anyone who wants to merge two or more RSS / Atom feeds into one. It mixes all the feeds provided and creates one RSS feed, Atom feed, JSON feed, and a html widget to simply paste into your website or blog.

iPhone 3G (s)



Get the details here!

Moblin: A Netbook OS to Watch

Intel's Linux-based netbook operating system gives Windows a run for its money.

Sanpdragon

A new breed of ability and mobility.

Paystr

Paystr is a 100% free, secure, online listing and payment site. You will notice everything on this site is done so that you can quickly be paid by individuals or groups and or pay someone yourself without having to setup up accounts where they hold your money. Watch the YouTube video below then visit the site.

What's happn.in on Twitter in your city?

Happn.in collects and aggregates popular phrases used on Twitter within 20 miles of major cities. The five most popular phrases each hour are posted to this site, and are tweeted three times a day to the happn.in Twitter account for each city. To follow happn.in for your city, click the link below your city's list on the home page.

Zensify for iPhone aggregates your social networks


"All your networks are belong to us." That could be the tagline for Zensify, a new iPhone app that lets you view, update, and share content from multiple social networks.

The Netflix of audiobooks

Booksfree.com is a service that solves the audiobook money pit the same way Netflix bailed out DVD addicts. Users pay a flat fee for a monthly subscription, and receive a rotation of audiobook CDs sent to them by mail. Booksfree isn't the first audiobook service to try the Netflix model, but it's one of the most affordable, with subscriptions as low as $10.99/mo.

Google vs. Amazon

Google appears to be throwing down the gauntlet in the e-book market.

Gapminder

Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels. They're a modern “museum” that helps making the world understandable, using the Internet.

Twitter Tools


Here's a list with 27 Twitter tools, to help you find more followers, manage them, find who doesn’t follow you back, who stops following, statistics and much, much more.

RotorBlog

RotorBlog.com was founded in May 2006 by Maris Dagis in order to provide latest Web 2.0 news and startup reviews, later focusing on social networks and online communications. Reaching 160k readers monthly it has became one of the most popular sources of information for people using Internet to communicate.

The homeless stay wired


Mr. Pitts lacks a mailing address, but he's got a computer and a web forum.

Bing

Microsoft Bing: Much better than expected.

Google Wonder Wheel: Exploring Related Keyword Search Queries



Somehow feeling guilty this has not surfaced on infosthetics before, but here it is anyway. Google recently introduced its so-called Wonder Wheel [google.com] as an addition to its normal results page. Read the rest of the article here...don't miss the YouTube video about Wonder Wheel.

Can Boxee's Web Software Capture More TV Screens?


The streaming video startup has charmed Apple and Linux users and alarmed networks and cable providers. Now Boxee aims to serve Windows.

10 Commandments of PowerPoint

One of the unavoidable things about college, and increasingly work life, is PowerPoint. Most of us have, at one point or another, had to slap some slides together and give a presentation to our friends, family, class, co-workers, or boss.

Office 2010

Microsoft is set to launch an invitation-only Technical Preview Program of the new Office in July.

Okimok

A free real-time social network platform that allows users to instantly share photos from your iPhone with friends by using a superdeluxe slideshow. Install the iPhone App, upload your photos and watch your photo stream online. Twitter settings available too.

Google adds new filters, visualized results

Google introduced three new enhancements to its search engine, giving searchers new ways to filter results and adding new types of data to the search results themselves.

New search engines aspire to supplement Google

Google dominates the search world, but some sites are trying to expand the possibilities. And, despite what you may think, Google is not the only player.



New search engines that are popping up across the Web strive to make searches faster, smarter, more personal and more visually interesting.

Peek

Not every gadget needs a carnival of features. Take the Peek, which tackles just a single task: mobile email. No phone, no browser, no camera—and no apologies. It won't satisfy convergence-rabid smartphone fetishists, but for the rest of the world (i.e., the majority of it), this one-trick pony is a godsend.

Kiss your phone bill good-bye



Silicon Valley startup Ooma wants to help you connect your home electronics for cheap - starting with your phone.

Next best thing to "teleporting"?

Tech companies push "telepresence" videoconferences as substitute for air travel, but prices deter widespread adoption.

The Future of Healthcare...its in your hand(set)

Cell phones changed everything in emerging markets. Isolated communities got a taste of access and upward mobility they’d never known before. Entire economies shifted as people were able to leapfrog roadblocks to communication. Now mobile technology is promising to transform healthcare in the same way.

Akamai is a key partner in TED's mission to share Ideas Worth Spreading.

Akamai's rich media management, dynamic transaction, and application acceleration services, quite simply, help build the backbone of the Internet. Watch 5 videos about cloud computing and Akamai's core technologies.

Flackr

Breaking news as it comes in.

Death of the Hydrogen Economy

Obama's budget puts hydrogen fuel-cell research out of its misery--almost.

Twitter...the new business card?

Is the traditional paper business card on the way out? You judge.

Is Real-time the Future of the Web?

It’s clear that the Web has altered how we as a society consume information. Not only has Internet communication made information more accessible, but social media has made it easier to organize, filter, and most of all, create. Watch the video below and then read the article.

Twitter Inventor About To Launch His Next Project, Code-named Squirrel

Co-founder and current Chairman Jack Dorsey sent out a tweet letting his followers know that he was, “Getting ready to embark on something new and entirely different. Excited!”

Wolfram Alpha shows data in a way Google can't

Wolfram Alpha is like a cross between a research library, a graphing calculator, and a search engine. But does Wolfram Research's "computational knowledge engine," set to debut publicly later this month, live up to its hype as a Web site that Google needs to be afraid of?

Seesmic CEO on the business of Twitter

Seesmic Desktop, as we've written previously, is the successor to the popular Twitter/Friendfeed client Twhirl. It looks like it will be very competitive to TweetDeck soon, although it has a few UI glitches at the moment.

Read CNET article

Kindle DX

Meet the new Kindle by Amazon.

The future is going to be very exciting

The head of Google's new university, Ray Kurzweil believes the advance of technology will solve the energy crisis, upgrade the human genome and even lead to everlasting life - no wonder he is so optimistic.

Meet Cisco, the Consumer Company



With its recent acquisitions, it's positioning itself to be a big player in home entertainment.

The Man Who Made Gmail Says Real-Time Conversation is What's Next



Paul Buchheit built the first version of Gmail in one day. Then, he built the first prototype of Google's contextual advertising service, Adsense, in one day as well. Now, he's working on a much-watched startup called FriendFeed that he believes just brought to market the next big form of communication online: flowing, multi-person, real-time conversations.

Read article here.

TEDIndia 2009 -- The Future Beckons

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TEDIndia 2009 offers a vision of the future that's rich with invention, entrepreneurship and sensory delight. In a country that’s reinventing itself – and reshaping the world … Learn more here >>

Reach out and ping someone

Wireless phone companies still reap the lion's share of their revenue from calls, but they're pinning their hopes on fast-growing data services.

Skywrite.me

This is a new take on microblogging where your short messages are displayed as a sky written message over cities. Its a really fun and interesting way to show off your messages.

Kickstarter



A funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, entrepreneurs, athletes, inventors, bloggers, philanthropists, explorers and more.

FairSpin lets you see all the top political news from left to right. Click on titles to read stories, decide for yourself if they are biased, then vote your mind. Every vote makes FairSpin more accurate and useful.

What browser wars? The enterprise still loves IE 6

This news may come as a shocker to the tech-savvy folks in the house, but 60 percent of companies use Internet Explorer 6 as their default browser, according to Forrester Research.

Quicken Online gets iPhone companion app

Intuit has just released a handy, free iPhone app to accompany its free online financial service, Quicken Online.

Preview all your fonts

Depending on how much design work you've done, and what kind of software you're using, you probably have some idea of which fonts you have installed and what they look like. If you don't, there's a wonderfully simple Web app called Flipping Typical that gives you a WYSIWYG heads up of all of them at once.

50 million by Summer

As expected when it released its US figures earlier this month, Comscore's latest stats show thatTwitter continues its march forward with an estimated 20 million users worldwide.

According to TechCrunch, if Twitter can keep this up then it should be at 50 million odd users by the Summer, after which point it would well and truly no longer be 'niche.'