TechCrunch:
This is why I love this medium. You put something out there. Sometimes you have all the holes pluggged. Sometimes you don’t. But blog comments and latterly, Twitter conversations, can be just incredible, and go on to form a patchwork of great information around a story – even creating new stories.That’s what’s happening on (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
After a predefined period designed to increase transparency and maximize user feedback, Facebook has announced that, with fewer than 7,000 user comments, it will proceed to implement its proposed amended privacy policy.With adequate user information, Facebook hoped to become better stewards of "the unnaturally uncontrollabl (Read More)
mashable:
Megan Berry is an evangelist for Mobclix, the industry’s largest mobile ad exchange, working on social media and marketing. She also blogs at The Huffington Post and the Mobclix blog. You can follow her on Twitter as @meganberry, or through the @Mobclix handle.My iPhone is my baby, my constant companion, and I think it’s sa (Read More)
CNN:
Post asserts that it is hypocritical to say that Obama must preserve American culture and strength overseas and then say people who come to America must abandon their culture and speak only English and practice a mainstream American religion. Furthermore, we should pay more attention to how we bow politically and economical (Read More)
Engadget:
Good news for our Canadian brethren! While the realization that you'd been excluded from the International Kindle may have angered you, or frightened you, or engendered feelings of shame or lust, all hope is not lost! We have just got word that Amazon has added your fine nation to the list of countries it will now ship the (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Reader engagement with blogs has changed dramatically over the last three years, primarily because of the rise of online social networks, according to new numbers released by analytics firm Postrank today. Postrank published an analysis based on metrics for signals like comments, trackbacks, shared links and online bookma (Read More)
Mashable!:
The Google Wave invite rollout extravaganza started more than a month ago. While in some respects the buzz around Google Wave has started to subside, the term is still constantly one of the top trending topics on Twitter, and new gadgets, extensions, and applications are now starting to appear on a daily basis.Each day more (Read More)
: Even though most of the functionality is available from different resources, bringing it all together under one place makes this a killer web app. The link to the article is a great resource. Even though I didn't see any mention of tracking and privacy issues addressed in the article.
Engadget:
The nüvifone G60 took nearly two years to go from introduction to on sale at AT&T, and just weeks after its introduction, it has been nearly completely forgotten. Smartphones like Motorola's Droid and HTC's Droid Eris have already snagged the spotlight, and of course, that $300 (on contract) price tag that it debuted with d (Read More)
Mashable!:
Jessica Faye Carter is an award-winning author and columnist. Her company, Nette Media develops social media technologies for women and multicultural communities, and she blogs at Technicultr.The expression of community has changed considerably since the emergence of social media technologies, but its basic foundation — the (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Yesterday we wrote about how Demand Media produces 4,000 new pieces of content every day - and whether it can sustain quality at that scale. There was vigorous discussion about the quality issue in the comments, including from some of Demand Media's thousands of freelance writers. In this follow-up post, we look at the type (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
When Google announced their plans for a new "cloud"-based operating system built around the web browser, there was some concern about the OS's capabilities. Although a lot of our computing can now be done in the web browser these days thanks to online applications and services, there are still quite a few operations that ne (Read More)
Mashable!:
Location is quickly becoming all the rage. Twitter has started to attach location to tweets (and a host of applications are expected to soon support the functionality), Foursquare has quickly expanded to new cities, and Loopt continues to expand to new platforms and carriers.Now, WordPress is getting into the game, by lett (Read More)
TechCrunch:
In July of last year, I wrote about The New Apple Walled Garden. The post was about the irony of developers and advocates who were otherwise open standards and open source champions being absolutely pro-iPhone, a platform that is closed and proprietary in every sense. Since that post, the horror that was foreshadowed by som (Read More)
Engadget:
My iPhone, in downtown Chicago, as I wrote this post.Verizon certainly seems to be getting under AT&T's skin with its ads focused on comparing 3G coverage -- not only is Ma Bell suing over 'em, it's now issuing PR to clarify what it sees as the inaccuracies of the entire campaign. If you'll recall, AT&T thinks Verizon's 1:1 (Read More)
mashable:
Shashank Nigam is the CEO of SimpliFlying.com, an award-winning blog on airline branding. He tweets at @simpliflying. Special thanks to @Z_simpliflying for his contribution to this article.Twitter has a huge aviation community — from airlines and airports, to cabin crew and aviation enthusiasts. Whether you like to fly plan (Read More)