Meet the Matrix, er, Elephant Trunk-Inspired Arm of Your Future Robot Overlord



Meet Festo, a prototype robotic arm that takes its design inspiration from the way an elephant's trunk moves every which way thanks to its series of highly flexible muscle segments. Clever? Yes. By Kit Eaton

How Third-Party App Makers Plan to Survive Twitter's New Ad Blitz



Twitter has finally decided to start making money. By Dan Nosowitz

Advice to Twitter developers

The Twitter developer community is aflutter about Twitter buying an iPhone application called Tweetie. The controversy is that Twitter is competing with other Twitter iPhone applications after encouraging developers to create these applications. By Guy Kawasaki

Future Drive Concept: The Electric Luxury Racer



Advanced electric drive, autonomous navigation and other technological advances will revolutionize the way we drive.

A Mobile Touchscreen Projectable On Any Flat Surface




This tiny projector casts images that you can click and swipe. By Darren Murph

Google Cloud print


Computer users who hate installing a new driver for each printer they use might want to keep an eye on the Google Cloud Print project. By Jeremy Hsu

Scott McNealy can still dish



Sun's former chief talks Oracle, Apple, Microsoft and how in his next company nepotism will be 'not a bug but a feature.'

Gmail gets drag-and-drop attachments


Google has put out a pair of small, but useful Gmail updates that make it both easier to use and more integrated with the company's free Calendar service. By Josh Lowensohn

Ning cuts staff



Uh-oh. Just a month after Gina Bianchini, co-founder of build-a-social-network service Ning, departed the company, it's cutting 40 percent of its staff and axing its free, ad-supported service. By Caroline McCarthy

Just Tweet It

Just Tweet It was created to make it easier for people using the popular micro-blogging service Twitter to find other “Tweeters” with similar interests.

Kylo and Loop advance web video on tv



More consumers are watching TV shows over the Internet using computers hooked up to their sets. But this can be a hassle. By Walter S. Mossberg

Yahoo wants Foursquare


You have to give Yahoo an A for effort, if perhaps the ultimate grade in its ongoing quest to buy hot mobile social network Foursquare is an F. By Kara Swisher

Heapr

Heapr is a search engine that aggregates results from Google, Twitter, Wikipedia, WolframAlpha, Flickr, and other sources in near real-time.

Quix

Quix is an extensible bookmarklet, that allows you to easily access all your bookmarks and bookmarklets, across all your browsers, while maintaining them in only one spot.

Viamente

A route planner that knows how to reduce your driving time to a minimum. It’ not only links between two points on a map, it also provides the shortest route to visit all your destinations.

How Apple killed the future of search


Today Google gets over 9.5 billion searches per month in the United States. In reality, it is not other search engines that should have Google concerned. By 237WallSt

iPhone Apps Need Low Starting Hurdles

Most mobile applications are used only intermittently, so they must be especially easy during initial use. In particular, upfront registration shouldn't be required before users experience an app's benefits. By Jakob Neilsen

Twitter grows up

The mircroblogging firm is making a huge shift in it's business strategy, starting with the fact that it now actually has a business strategy.

Using video to increase your Google AdSense earnings


This article shows you can increase your Google AdSense earnings by at least 12%.

Envisioning Your Future in 2020



Forbes magazine asked Frog Design to help them envision the future in 2020. By Sam Martin

Rick Barron: Twitter Getting Started

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Rick Barron: Twitter Getting Started

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Ubervu

Social media dashboard for small businesses: monitor your company, follow competitors, connect with customers and fans.

Venmo

An easy way to pay for things using your cellphone. Pay, charge, and trust individuals and businesses. With Venmo, you can pay your friends, family, and favorite shops by simply sending a text message.

Hot Potato



Connects you with friends to socialize around live events.

Tungle.me

Web-based calendaring. Easily schedule meetings with anyone. Share calendars inside or outside your company. Allow others to schedule meetings with you.

SimpleGeo

A geo-location infrastructure for developers.

Gazelle

The easiest, fastest way to sell or recycle your gadgets. Every items gets an offer, and you get paid to be environmentally responsible. The service pays for shipping and even sends you a box.

This Tweet is Priority 1: SalesForce.com's Chatter is Transactional Social Media



Soon, Twitter users will be in a better position to get satisfaction with the companies that they do business with. By Mike Kirkwood

Digg CEO Jay Adelson steps down


Citing an "entrepreneurial calling," longtime Digg CEO Jay Adelson announced that he's resigning his position at the social-news site. By Caroline McCarthy

Apple to introduce iPhone OS 4.0 Thursday


On the heels of the introduction of the iPad, Apple is ready to talk about the next version of iPhone OS. By Erica Ogg

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.

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

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

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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