Huffington Post:
Not long ago, I got the following pitch letter from a book publicist:Awake At The WheelMr. Jonathan Fields Self Help For Immediate Release [full press release for first author follows]It's really rare I get to announce a new book and offer an special opportunity of such importance, quality and pure enjoyment. [Author's] (Read More)
USATODAY.com - Technology Live:
Scammers hit Twitter with spam storm ... Foreign airlines ahead of U.S. on cellphone use ... Warner Music, YouTube near video deal ... Dell releasing laptop that recharges wirelessly ... Study: Users hooked on social media sites love their e-mail,...
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readwriteweb:
Last week's flurry of Twitter DM spam from hacked or phished accounts wasn't the first instance of that and won't be the last.As long as people are willing to trust their Twitter log-in information to third parties - and don't look carefully at URLs before they log into websites - and as long as a small number of bad actors (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we announce our first event: The ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit on October 15th in Mountain View, California. It's a 1-day event that will bring together some of the smartest minds doing real-time work for an industry-changing, f (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Peter Shankman knows a bit about startups and PR. Ever since launching his own venture, Help A Reporter Out (HARO) last year, he's been living at the crossroads of journalists who need stories and companies that need exposure.And in connecting expert sources with harried journos, Shankman has gleaned a wealth of tips, trick (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Social media marketers, take note. The best days to spam publish wall posts on Facebook that you want your "fans" to pay attention to are Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays.Or so says marketing firm Virtue, which produced the chart we've published below.The chart -- compiled from nearly 200 million fans impressions on Faceb (Read More)
readwriteweb:
Hot new RSS reader LazyFeed just announced that it intends to implement support for RSSCloud, the real-time element in RSS that WordPress turned on for millions of blogs today. Perhaps already more hip to the real time web than any other RSS aggregator on the market, LazyFeed is a very logical place to see RSSCloud in acti (Read More)
VentureBeat:
As social media has reached mainstream consciousness this year, businesses have been inundated with the message that they must immediately get on board or risk doom and calamity. The hyperbole (and the frenzied buzz it creates) is confusing and many businesses could use a practical guide on how to evaluate social media and (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we explain why augmented reality is ramping up (and look at three new iPhone examples), analyze the top websites in the U.S., check out new Twitter statistics suggesting that teens don't tweet, review recent Wikipedia changes, an (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we poll our readers on their 3 most exciting web apps or services, analyze the latest Twitter client stats, report on MySpace's acquisition of Facebook app iLike, review the state of the netbook market, talk to Tim O'Reilly about (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we analyze the impact of real-time information on the Web, investigate 'web squared' (when web 2.0 meets Internet of Things), tell you why cloud computing is the future of mobile, look at Delicious' new Twitter re-design, check o (Read More)
readwriteweb:
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we analyze why Amazon spent nearly a billion dollars to purchase online shoe shop Zappos, explain why IBM is an early leader in the Internet of Things, investigate whether the Google Chrome OS will finally deliver us the mythical (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we analyze the continuing popularity of Apple's App store, question the longevity of AIR apps, investigate the waves of changes happening in the book publishing industry, review one 19 year old's innovative and successful news we (Read More)
readwriteweb:
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we feature an in-depth interview with the inventor of the Web Tim Berners-Lee. We also cover and analyze the surprise announcement of a Chrome OS (Google's new operating system for netbooks), investigate a raft of new statistics f (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Has Twitter spam gotten a little out of hand? According to today's top story on Techmeme, it has. Apparently, marketers are calling for Twitter to filter out spam and other adult content from the microblogging service. You know, so their all-important tweets about the products and services they're pushing don't have to shar (Read More)