mashable:
Retweeting, as we’ve mentioned before (see HOW TO: Retweet on Twitter), is an increasingly popular way to share content on the web. Twitter is such a powerful tool for sharing media, in fact, that the former market leaders are racing to keep up. News sharing site Digg recently added short URLs and attempted to append a to (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Like most things on the Internet, there’s a good side and a dark side to where the media business is headed.The good side is very good: thousands of layers of mostly needless middlemen and processes are being eliminated as journalists get a direct channel to their readers. And, because it’s a two way medium, readers get tha (Read More)
Mashable!:
A few months ago, we reviewed a unique reminder app: Task.fm. In our assessment, we noted its Twitter-like approach to reminders and its ability to decipher human language – you can tell it Task.fm “I need to call mom at noon tomorrow” and expect a reminder the next day. We did note though that you couldn’t set reminders (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
You can't swing a stick on the Web these days without hitting a photo or media sharing service. Some of the most popular ones like Flickr and Photobucket have become an indispensable part of our online lives. Among the most recent services to enter the game is Expono, a photo sharing, organizing and protecting service wit (Read More)
TechCrunch:
It’s not often that Internet companies last 10 years, but Moonfruit in the UK has proved pretty resilient. It survived the dotcom boom the first time round, launching with VC-backing, growing to 65 staff and cutting back to two staff in the space of a couple of years. It’s a wonder why they didn’t exit in the most recent bo (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we analyze the latest changes to Facebook's privacy controls, investigate trolling on FriendFeed, explore the impact of push notifications on the iPhone, review Firefox 3.5, check out Google's update to Blog Search, and more. We al (Read More)
Mashable!:
He used social media and the web unlike any other presidential candidate in history. Barack Obama’s incredible online presence turned into a grassroots movement culminating in his election as the 44th President of the United States. He was all over YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and the blogosphere.But that was the campaign. (Read More)
mashable:
With the 4th of July weekend just hours away, it’s time to wish our US readers a Happy Independence Day! Hopefully you’ll be spending at least some of your weekend away from your computer and enjoying the festivities, but for those who have difficulty leaving the laptop at home, here’s a quick list of resources to help you (Read More)
ProBlogger:
Tim Ferriss, author of The 4 Hour Workweek gave this presentation at WordCamp recently. His title - How to Build a High Traffic Blog without Killing Yourself.Tim’s used his blog very successfully to promote his book and has a lot of wisdom to share - we spent some time together before Tim launched his book and it’s been gre (Read More)
Search Engine Land:
It’s the 4th Of July! Happy 4th to those celebrating today, and here’s a look at how search engines are recognizing the holiday in logos:Google went with a cookout theme for its logo:Yahoo had a small eagle next to its logo, which produced fireworks-stars if you hovered over it:Bing went with fireworks exploding behind the (Read More)
The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Filed under: Wireless, Odds and ends, Internet, iPhone, iPod touchTUAW reader Troy sent an email the other day stating that he'd found one of our posts from last August to be very helpful. In Using your iPhone on a cruise ship we talked about Cellular At Sea and getting your iPhone to send and receive pricey calls from many (Read More)
The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Filed under: Gaming, Software, Freeware, iPhone, iPod touchLast week, Handmark announced the release of Astraware Solitaire [App Store] for iPhone and iPod touch. Solitaire features a dozen different games, including the classics Klondike, Free Cell, Canfield, and Pyramid. As with most of Astraware's games, the 12 solitaire (Read More)
VentureBeat:
In case you’ve missed any of our recent advice for startups over at VentureBeat’s Entrepreneur Corner, here’s a wrap up of the must-read stories. Be sure to click through and check them out:Market research vs. gut instinct — Jeff Hawkins, founder of Palm Computing and inventor of the Palm Pilot, discusses how to balance mar (Read More)
TechCrunch:
It’s no secret that bloggers love their polls — they’re a great way to increase user engagement, and sometimes you can even get some useful data from them. But most people probably don’t realize just how popular these polls really can be. PollDaddy has just released some of its latest stats, and they don’t fail to impress (Read More)
readwriteweb:
If you were a little blue bird, with a good pile of money and a whole lot of hype, what would you buy to spice up your nest? There are so many little services being built on top of Twitter that we wouldn't be surprised to see some more of them acquired by the company soon. That would mean more features for everyday users (Read More)