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