Go fishing for online music with Radio Tuna



Radio Tuna is a search engine that is designed specifically to scour Internet radio stations based on a variety of parameters. You have three search options: station name, genre, or artist. By Jasmine France

Visualizing 6 Years of Facebook [INFOGRAPHIC]


Facebook (Facebook) was launched on February 4, 2004 and has come a long way from a Harvard-only networking site in the intervening years. By Muhammad Saleem

Facebook's Ad Plans: Tackling Google Head-On

There's news that Facebook is releasing a new version of its Ad Conversion tool for advertisers to see how well their placements are going. Interesting stuff, if you're an advertiser. But the back story is huge: It shows that Facebook is now trying to tackle Google head on. By Kit Eaton

How to Do Everything in Google Buzz (Including Turn It Off)


Here's how to customize and use Buzz--or opt out of its inbox-cluttering updates completely. By Gina Trapani

3 New Ways to Measure the Social Web

When most people think of web analytics, they think about pageview tracking; basically, measuring which pages on a website are being viewed. By Tim Trefren

Pixar exec to join Twitter as CFO



Can a new chief financial officer paint some real revenue for Twitter? By Caroline McCarthy

Google Acquires Aardvark For $50 million


Google has acquired social search service Aardvark, says a source that has been briefed on the deal, for around $50 million. By Michael Arrington

BoomTown Heads to TED (and Promises No Pretentious Tweets!)



What is it about TED, the iconic conference founded an astonishing 25 years ago, that gets so many people who don’t go in a lather? By Kara Swisher

Goodbye, Cruel Sun

The history of Sun's high ride and demise, and the continuing story of the newly-merged Oracle's fortunes, will occupy the minds of the IT industry and its pundits for a long time to come. By Buckeye Hamburger

Twilio

Twilio provides a telephony infrastructure web service "in the cloud", enabling web programmers to integrate real-time phone calls into their applications. Twilio's simple, powerful API minimizes the learning curve required to build advanced, reliable voice communications applications that solve critical business needs.

The Information Divide

In the era of the real-time Web, information travels at a greater velocity than the infrastructure of mainstream media can support as it exists today. By Brian Solis

Why Online Retailers Must Be On Facebook

Over 56% of shoppers to top e-retail websites who interact with social media websites have elected to “friend” or “follow” or “subscribe” to a retailer on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

What Augmented Reality Could Actually Look Like

Seems like there's more and more chatter about augmented reality stuff lately. But gimmicky architecture aside, how could AR actually change the way we live, shop, and operate?

What is Google Buzz?

So what exactly is Google Buzz? Used on a PC or mobile, Buzz reminds us of an RSS combined with all of your social networking—all within the existing Gmail and Google.com infrastructure.

Facebook turns 6!

Facebook celebrates its sixth birthday. Just one year ago, Fortune put founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the magazine’s cover in a story entitled "How Facebook is taking over our lives." By Jessi Hempel

Apple's Hard iPad Sell

Apple will need to convince consumers that they need an iPad. However, failure to do so wouldn't be a disaster for the company. By Arik Hesseldahl

Hot Tech Companies Like Yelp Are Bypassing IPOs

In a desire to keep control, they're opting for private rather than public investment—even, as in Yelp's case, with rich bids from Google and Microsoft. By Peter Burrows

How to use Flickr to get creative with your photos

Journalists have every reason to be wary of uploading content to Flickr — without the right controls photos uploaded to the site can be downloaded and used without permission elsewhere on the web.

Looks Like Google May Have A Super Bowl Commercial



While Google is a company built on advertising, for the most part it has stayed out of advertising itself on the dominant medium: television.

App.itize.us



A curated site of “the best produced and designed iPhone applications that are available for download via the App Store.

Digital Nation

Here's a worth while 96 minute video to watch about our Digtial Nation.

7 Traits of Highly Effective Viral Videos

Today, video’s potential is obvious: it can be a marketer’s dream and yield tremendous successes. By Tamar Weinberg

Sproutpitch

Allows entrepreneurs to pitch their startups, projects and ideas to the world through video.

MinuteBase

An online application for writing meeting minutes. It provides you with easy-to-use tools to create meeting agendas, format minutes, assign actions, and share documents with your colleagues and partners.

Google shows off Chrome OS tablet ideas



Who could resist the months of hype that paved the way for Apple's iPad debut last week? Apparently not Google, which has shown its interest in tablet computing with its browser-based Chrome OS. By Stephen Shankland

Google Voice finally on iPhone--in the browser



Google's end run around Apple's App Store is complete: Google Voice is ready as a Web application. By Tom Krazit

Why Apple Leaves Low-End Computers to the Competition

Its adherence to a graceful design esthetic and a limited lineup keeps margins sky-high. By Stephen H. Wildstrom

Momento

A unique diary/journal writing app for iPhone & iPod touch, which provides a quick and easy way to record ‘moments’ throughout your day. Connect with popular social web services, such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and Last.fm, to collect and display your online activity as part of your diary

DoAttend



An online event registration service that allows you to create, publish and promote your event for free. Set it up on your personalized event page with an easy to use registration system and have your event visible to the world within minutes. Provide your attendees with eTickets for that professional touch, even if its a free event.

Ping

Ping.fm is a simple and FREE service that makes updating your social networks a snap!

Here’s a great video by Lewis Howes on how companies should use social media. In less than six minutes, you can learn the elements of good social-media practices.

Another Blowout Quarter for Apple



Apple posted a fiscal first-quarter profit of $3.38 billion on revenue that rose 32 percent to $15.68 billion. That far exceeded analysts’ forecasts of $12.1 billion.

30+ Best Tools for building and managing your twitter popularity



Twitter is today one of the largest, most active and fastest growing social networks. It is essential that you know how to get the most out of twitter of you’re planing to have a good online presence with a large and active social network. By Tripwire Magazine

Posterous

Posterous is the dead simple way to put anything online using email.

Are you updated with the latest Twitter software?

Twitter marketing is one of the powerful Internet marketing strategies which bring thousands of customers and visitors to your online business. By Dragan Mestrovic

SEOmoz's Rand Fishkin on SEO, Twitter and Internet search

Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz Makes Predictions for 2010 from Vertical Measures on Vimeo.

HOW TO: Create Custom Backgrounds for Twitter, YouTube, & MySpace

If you’re using your social media profiles to promote your personal brand or business, chances are that pre-made themes and watermarked templates just won’t cut it. You need a custom design to make your profile stand apart from the rest and convey important information about who you are.

Ultimate Twitter Video Sharing Tools / Services List

Which are the Best Top Tools / Utilities / Services to Twit / Share Video on Twitter (Most popular Micro-blogging platform) today on internet ?

Samsung, DreamWorks and Technicolor team up on 3-D

South Korea's Samsung has teamed up with DreamWorks Animation, maker of "Shrek," "Kung Fu Panda" and other hit movies, and Technicolor in a push to bring more 3-D entertainment into the home.

How Google (or Apple) Can Win the Great Super Phone War of 2010

Forget the smartphone. How about an AppPhone? Or a Super-Smart Phone? Yes, it's a SUPER PHONE Smackdown! By Robert Fabricant

New Sony Bravia 3D HDTVs coming this Summer with WiFi and local dimming

LG isn't the only one with more new LCD HDTVs then you can shake a stick at, in fact Sony just announced 38 new models of its own. By Ben Drawbaugh

Vimeo: 1080p video coming by end of the month



New York-based video service Vimeo announced on Wednesday that it will be rolling out 1080p video (also known as "full HD") to its members by the end of this month. By Josh Lowensohn

CES 2010 latest news

Here's updates to what's happening at this year's CES event. By David Carnoy

See-Through Tractor Trailer



Not many design houses use tanks in their illustrations of a new road safety concept. By Vladislav Savov

Technology in 2010

Some of the Guardian's technology team predict what might be in store for 2010.

Is Google Powermeter the future of home energy monitoring?



To save money, emissions and indulge my inner geek, Adam Vaughan, tested the Google Powermeter – and it was not an entirely pleasant experience.

Making Money with Social Media

Do blogs and tweets help a company's bottom line? One startup thinks it has the answer. By Erika Jonietz

FLAP (Flexible Light And Power) Collaborative Project



PopTech has partnered with the Portable Light Project and Timbuk2 Designs to prototype and field test an adaptable, affordable, portable source of flexible light and power (FLAP) that has the potential to benefit some of the 2 billion people worldwide without access reliable electricity.

CES preview: three e-readers to watch in 2010



E-readers will be one of the major stories of 2010, and the party gets started next week in Vegas at CES 2010. Here's a quick run-down of three products that will debut at CES and that could make waves in the e-reader space next year. By Jon Stokes

First 3D Television Channel to Launch in the U.S. in 2010

It certainly looks like 2010 is shaping up to be the year during which 3D finally moves from the realm of novelty into both mainstream film and TV. By Barb Dybwad

YouTube: Nexus One

Transparency: GOOD's Most Popular Infographics of 2009

Here's a look back at infographics that drew the most attention, on topics from water footprints to bankruptcies (click on the images to launch the infographics).

11 Twitter Tips - Job Search in 140 Characters

Twitter is a fast growing tool, now being used for more serious purposes than advertise what you had for lunch. By Jennifer Leggio

Skype Coming to HDTVs for Video Calls from the Couch

In addition to seeing proof of the 3D TV concept at CES, we’re also going to see TVs from Panasonic and LG Electronics that incorporate Skype into the family and living room experience. By Jennifer Van Grove

Apple acquires Quattro Wireless



Mobile advertising company Quattro Wireless confirmed Tuesday that it's been acquired by Apple, in a blog post by Quattro CEO Andy Miller--identifying himself now as Apple vice president of mobile advertising.

Long Distance Video Sharing

Links are shared via e-mail or an instant message, and the other party is expected to watch it whenever they get some spare time. Enter Synchtube, a site that thinks the contrary. Instead of your friends and family watching that video whenever they please, it gives the sharer complete control of how and when that video plays.

Spring Design's e-reader taps into Google Books

Through an agreement announced Tuesday, the Alex e-book reader from Spring Design will be able to access and download more than a million books at the Google Books project. By Stephen Shankland

Web meets phone



For a closer look, go here.

The 2010 Social Media Marketing Ecosystem



Forrester Research analyst Sean Corcoran recently posted an insightful breakdown of some of the differences between owned media, paid media and earned media. By Dave Fleet

Create your iPhone app



A new service that allows anyone to make an iPhone application using a WSYWIG interface for creating a fully native iPhone application. Different pricing tiers for cobranded or white label.

Flocking.me

Search your friend’s tweets by keyword, see trending topics, and toggle between list, grid and map view.

Digital Magazines: Bonnier Mag+ Prototype

It seems that every day we’re seeing a new concept for how the gestural screen/tablet can be used. This time, the Mag+ Prototype, a conceptual video and collaborative research project between Bonnier and BERG, uses the model to propose a new digital magazine.

Skiff Reader: The Largest Yet Thinnest eBook Reader to Date



It's bigger than any Kindle or device from B&N. Optimized for magazines and newspapers, the Skiff Reader offers a durable 11.5-inch (1600 x 1200) "Metal Foil" touchscreen display, but it's still just a quarter of an inch thick.

10 Ways the Internet Will Change in 2010

Solid predictions for the Internet's continued evolution -- and how it will affect you.

What Can We Expect From the Consumer Electronics Show?




Expect this week's technology press to be stuffed full of info relating to and stemming from CES 2010. But what exactly can we expect from the show this year?

Apple's iDecade

In a 10-year span when so much went wrong, the maker of the iPod and Mac got a lot right. By Arik Hesseldahl

Learning, and Profiting, from Online Friendships

Companies are working fast to figure out how to make money from the wealth of data they're beginning to have about our online friendship. By Stephen Baker

Alexis Ohanian: How to make a splash in social media

Check Expectations for Apple's Tablet at the Door

If its engineers hew to recent history, Apple's tablet computer may look nothing like what the prognosticators foresee. By Arik Hesseldahl

Top 20 Free Google Android Apps

Here's a list of the top 20 'free' Google Android apps by PCmag.com

Privacy fears over Google Googles

Privacy concerns have forced Google to delay an expansion of its Goggles service which would have enabled camera-phone users to identify strangers on the street.

Watch the vide about Google Goggles:

TwitVid gets a real-time search engine, analytics


TwitVid, a free video host for Twitter, is launching two new, useful features on Monday. The first is a real-time search engine that will let users sort through videos both on TwitVid and YouTube. The other is an analytics engine that lets video owners know more about who is watching their uploaded clips, and where they're from. By Josh Lowensohn

Google phone looks supershop

A blog post from a Google executive on Saturday morning dropped hints that the company would release a Google Android phone of its own.

50 Best websites for 2009

Time magazine offers it's listing of the best websites for 2009.

10 Ways Social Media Will Change In 2010

2009 will go down as the year in which the shroud of uncertainty was lifted off of social media and mainstream adoption began at the speed of light. By Ravit Lichtenberg

Discover the truth about a site's online traffic

You can find the traffic of a popular website (and compare it to another site) by entering the URL into compete.com. or quantcast. By Seth Godin's Blog

Cisco: ‘Why vlogging is better than blogging’

Cisco Sys­tems, the Sil­i­con Val­ley pow­er­house, has become the poster child for how to use video in the enter­prise. By JS Lasica

The Future of Social Media Marketing

Social media has transformed itself in the last 2 years from blogs and forums to Facebook and Twitter. By Social Media Optimization.

Kaddoz

Kaddoz is a local gift recommendation engine present on the web at www.kaddoz.com and on the iphone (kaddoz iphone app).Kaddoz allows you to quickly find quality gifts and walk to the store to purchase it.

Foodspotting

A visual local guide that lets you find dishes, not just restaurants, thanks to foodspotters who report sightings of foods they love.

See what's new in Chrome beta

Twistory

Add your Twitter backlog feed to your favorite calendar application and browse through your personal Twitter diary, making your Twitter history both fun and useful.

The new AOL faces a tough fight


The former dial-up giant is being split off from Time Warner in its latest attempt at a comeback. This time, it may work. By David Goldman

Google Chrome for Mac: First Impressions

Google finally released the beta version of its Chrome browser for Mac. By Ian Paul

Apple Tablet Due In March?

The device will be going into mass production in February 2010, and should be launched in March or April.

Court battle as Craigslist and eBay fight for control


Auction giant claims rival has secretly diluted shareholding. By Bobble Johnson

Hands On with Google's Public DNS

Here's some additional information regarding Google's public DNS by Michael Muchmore.

Beware Social Media Snake Oil

Hordes of marketing "experts" are promoting the value of wikis, social networks, and blogs. All the hype may obscure the real potential of these online tools. By Stephen Baker

Web Advertisers Push to Increase Awareness of Targeted Ads



The Federal Trade Commission has been gently pressuring the Internet advertising industry to reveal more information to consumers about how it collects data and targets ads. By Terrence O'Brien

Potholes And Repairs? Boston Has An App For That

A few weeks ago, 41-year-old Bostonian Heather Sears thought the coolest app on her iPhone was SitOrSquat — a listing of the city's cleanest, closest restrooms. By Tovia Smith

Google’s Checkbook Opens Up for Collaboration Start-Up AppJet

Google, which has bought five companies in five months, just made it an even half-dozen: The company has snapped up AppJet, an online collaboration start-up. By Peter Kafka

Twitter users share early adopters symptoms



Recent findings of a Pew Internet study revealed, Twitter is being extensively used as a status update service to keep in touch.

These words may be affecting your popularity

Text Mining techniques can be used to identify specific words that are correlated with Twitter accounts having high or low popularity. By Themos Kalafatis

Building Your Social Media Marketing Plan

It’s that time of year when companies start to look towards 2010 and marketing executives are busy developing marketing plans for the new year.

The Missing Sync for Android now available

Good article on Android and syncing by Greg Kumparak.

The Evolution of Storage

Here's a great graphic about the evolution of storage by Patrick James.

The 2009 Razorfish Digital Brand Experience Report

FEED: The Razorfish Digital Brand Experience Report 2009 Key Findings

View more presentations from Razorfish Marketing.

Apple wants technology from struggling Lala



Apple acquired Lala on Friday, unlikely offering much for the streaming-music service. By Greg Sandoval

Google Public DNS

When you type www.wikipedia.org into your browser's address bar, you expect nothing less than to be taken to Wikipedia. Chances are you're not giving much thought to the work being done in the background by the Domain Name System, or DNS. By Google Blog

Ten Commandments of Social Media

There are a lot of misconceptions when it comes to social media. People seem to think that every day standards and decency get tossed out the window because of the anonymity of the Internet. By Robb Clarke