The Next Web:
BNO News, “owner” of the 1.4 million follower @BreakingNews Twitter account, has signed an agreement with MSNBC.com that will see the news site take control of management of the account, according to PaidContent.This is not an investment in BNO nor an acquisition clarifies MSNBC, but it is the first client to join Dutch fou (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Microsoft may pay Murdoch to delist from Google. If it happens, it sets a bad precedent. Imagine if all the world's content is exclusive to some engines and we have to search them all to find what we want? Hell! This started when Microsoft and Google paid for access to Twitter's millions of tweets and Bing paid Facebook and (Read More)
pixum's shared items in Google Reader:
I have not talked about a book I was reading for a while, but today that changes. I recently finished Trust Agents by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith, months after all of the initial reviews appeared. In the interest of full disclosure, I did not receive a review copy or a free copy, I bought this myself, and yes, the above l (Read More)
Submitted by Avi
from Google Reader:
The “great demographics - now what” part of the LinkedIn equation has no doubt been kicking around at company HQ for quite a while and yesterday they answered part of the question by announcing Custom Groups. Unlike the free LinkedIn groups that crowd your inbox with updates, Custom Groups are more feature rich, allows (Read More)
Engadget:
Remember back in the day when the West was still wild, the gold rush was still in full effect, you owned whatever land you could manage to fence off, and tycoons were being made and broken on a daily basis? No? Well, some of you whippersnappers might be too young to recall it, but trust us, it happened -- and it seems like (Read More)
Dan Zarrella:
As you may or may not know, I’ve been working on a book for a while. Well, its finally done and in-stock on Amazon and should be in stores this week. The whole process has been very exciting and a lot of work (I had a ton of help from a great editor, Laurel as well as a whole bunch of other people who are mentioned in the b (Read More)
Valleywag:
Wikipedia was probably pretty cool a few years back when you could just get a wild hair and immediately post up an article on The Artifacts, or whatever. But now it's run by a dead-ender Debbie Downer "deletionist" nerd army.The WSJ reports that the number of Wikipedia editors (real editors—not you) declined by nearly 50,00 (Read More)
Submitted by Hemartin
from blog:
The Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth conducted an in-depth study on the usage of social media in fast-growing corporations.Download Report (10 pg., PDF)via Martin Meyer-Gossner at The Strategy Web. (Read More)
Submitted by Dayseeker
from blog:
Operations Management: Quality and Competitiveness in a Global Environment (Hardcover)By Roberta S. Russell Buy new: $134.37166 used and new from $2.50 Customer Rating: First tagged "business" by Owen C. Harris "Owen Harris "OSnoopy 13"" Customer tags: industrial engineering, opsmgt, b (Read More)
Submitted by Dayseeker
from blog:
One Strategy: Organization, Planning, and Decision Making (Hardcover)By Steven Sinofsky Buy new: $26.37 First tagged "business" by Andrew C Wheeler Customer tags: strategic planning, project management, innovation, business strategy, strategy, software business, business, microsoft . (Read More)
Submitted by Motown Terri
from blog:
Author : Alison RothwellMySpace is a very popular social networking site and at the moment has over one hundred million members! MySpace, like lots of other social networking websites it lets you design your own profile, which acts as your own web page Once your page has been created, you can invite others to become a membe (Read More)
O'Reilly Radar:
Afterposting some thoughtsa month ago about Erving Goffman's classic sociological text, ThePresentation of Self in Everyday Life, I heard from a reader whourged me to try out a deeper work of Goffman's, FrameAnalysis (Harper Colophon, 1974). This blog presents the thoughtsthat came to mind as I made my way through that long (Read More)
Submitted by Pink Lisa
from Google Reader:
From Cabbage Patch Dolls to Tickle-Me Elmos, each holiday season introduces us to a series of new innovative toys for children of all ages. And this year is no different. From mind-powered games to adopting a Pet Lawyers, there's a lot of creative toys and gadgetry flying off the online and offline shelves. But with the cl (Read More)