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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

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

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



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

James Cameron: Before Avatar...a curious boy

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

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

Data and content visualization



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

15 companies that will change the world

These game-changing startups are likely to upend existing industries - and spawn new entrepreneurial opportunities. By Erick Schonfeld and Chris Morrison

The Future of News, Tablets, and Business Models



There is much talk these days about tablets and ereaders. It seems like every newspaper on the planet see them as the "prophet" that will save them from their doom. By Thomas Baekdal

How the Social Web Destroys Traditional Marketing


There is a whole generation of people who need to change how they communicate with the world. Just this week, Michelin hired TBWA to create a Facebook campaign around their slogan "The right rite changes everything," in an attempt to rebrand the Michelin Man. By Thomas Baekdal

Bill Gates: We need global 'energy miracles'

Microsoft Corp. founder and philanthropist Bill Gates on Friday called on the world's tech community to find a way to turn spent nuclear fuel into cheap, clean fuel. By John D. Sutter

The Future of User Interfaces



User interfaces—the way we interact with our technologies—have evolved a lot over the years.

From the original punch cards and printouts to monitors, mouses, and keyboards, all the way to the track pad, voice recognition, and interfaces designed to make it easier for the disabled to use computers, interfaces have progressed rapidly within the last few decades. By Cameron Chapman

Divvyshot launches refreshingly simple photo sharing



Divvyshot, a photo-sharing start-up, has opened to the public. It's a clever and attractive site for photo sharing, with an emphasis on group events. It also has the world's cutest sharing feature for iPhone users.

Wi-Fi-Equipped School Bus Sedates Rowdy Teens With Their Favorite Opiate: The Internet



Beep beep, here comes the Internet Bus. By Jeremy Hsu

Microsoft Aims to Get Back in the Game in Mobile

After losing ground to Apple and others, the software giant may need an acquisition to avoid losing out in the smartphone market. By Cliff Edwards

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