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SMM » Automattic Acquires PollDaddy: Polls Come to WordPress.com - readwriteweb
PollDaddy, the online polling and survey tool we use a lot here on RWW, has been acquired by Automattic, the company behind the popular WordPress blogging platform. This is Automattic's second major acquisition in a short time. Just three weeks ago, Automattic also announced the acquisition of IntenseDebate, a popular … [Link]
SMM » Facebook fbFund Awards 25 Apps $25k Each - readwriteweb
With today's technology startups, sometimes a little funding can go a long way. Today, 25 Facebook applications received word that they've got more runway ahead of them. At a time when many companies are struggling to find funding for their ideas, these Facebook app developers have found themselves with $25,000 … [Link]
SMM » Help Twitter Find a Revenue Model - readwriteweb
Twitter is the poster child for the 'scale first, don't even think about revenue at launch, monetize much, much later' model of startup. In the current climate, ventures like that probably won't get funded. Which is a shame. Twitter is addictive and fun and even occasionally useful. If anybody can … [Link]
SMM » Restaurant Review Site Boorah Launches API - readwriteweb
BooRah, a restaurant review site we first reviewed earlier this year, just announced the availability of an API that will allow other web sites and business to offer online reviews and ratings from BooRah to their customers. The API will surface most of BooRah's data about a given restaurant, including … [Link]
SMM » Technorati Acquires AdEngage - Launches Self-Service Advertising Network - readwriteweb
Blog search engine Technorati today announced that it has acquired AdEngage, a small, Los Angeles-based online advertising network. Technorati launched its own ad network in June, but focused mostly on large, high-traffic sites. Now, Technorati will release a new advertising network on top of the AdEngage platform which will be … [Link]
SMM » Flash 10 Released - Finally, Flash Videos In Firefox Work Again! - readwriteweb
Today Abode announced the availability of Adobe Flash Player 10 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The new plugin offers a number of improvements such as native support for 3D, a new text rendering engine, and integration with Adobe's Pixel Bender technology. However, we know that many of you aren't interested … [Link]
SMM » Microsoft HealthVault and Google Health - The 'Coke and Pepsi' of Online Health - readwriteweb
Last week we reported on an interview that health blogger Amy Tenderich carried out with Google Health's Missy Krasner. Amy has followed up with an interview with Keith Toussaint, Senior Program Manager with Microsoft HealthVault. As we shall see, the two tech rivals - Google and Microsoft - have much … [Link]
SMM » Pitching your social enterprise - socialmedia
I'm handicapped by not having my MacBook Air, which was stolen yesterday, but here are some notes from Day 2 of the first Social Capital Markets conference at Fort Mason in San Francisco. At the Pitching in Action session, four organizations gave presentations on social enterprises they're planning to launch. … [Link]
SMM » FreshBooks Provides Unique View into Small Business Finances - readwriteweb
Businesses under 10 employees account for a large portion of the US workforce. Yet the metrics associated with this market remain enigmatic, at best. And while professional organizations have tried to capture information on these workers - like the AIGA's annual review of design salaries - those surveys only show … [Link]
SMM » Flock 2.0 Launches: Adds MySpace, Media RSS, and More - readwriteweb
Remember when we told you that your MySpace web browser is coming? Well today it has officially arrived. In the new version of the social browser Flock, they've finally integrated their number one most-requested feature: support for MySpace. Additionally, the Flock 2.0 upgrade includes support for Media RSS, a technology … [Link]
SMM » What's Next After Web 2.0? Here's What You Told Us… - readwriteweb
Over the weekend we editorialized that the world financial crisis will have a big impact on where Web Technology is headed. Has the world arrived at one of those giant inflexion points, we asked, where one Web era is usurped by another? We asked you to leave a comment in … [Link]
SMM » Marketing & Online Communities Conference - feeds.feedburner
The Marketing & Online Communities Conference will be held at the exclusive Tribeca Grand in New York City on November 5th, 2008. The conference will bring together thought leaders from the marketing and online community sectors to discuss marketing challenges – and unprecedented opportunities – in online communities. Registration price … [Link]
SMM » Download Firefox 3.1 beta 1: Get Geolocation API, @Font-Face, and More - readwriteweb
The latest beta build of Firefox - Firefox 3.1 beta 1 - is now available for download. With it, comes a whole new set of features designed with developers and designers in mind. The beta includes native support for the Geolocation API, CSS @font-face support, and audio and video tag … [Link]
SMM » Looking to increase your traffic? V7N has a solution for you! - pronetadvertising
As we all know, the more links you have coming into your website the more traffic you are going to get. The problem with this is that it can take hours to solicit and obtain links. Luckily V7N has solutions to solve your problem: You can buy a link from … [Link]
SMM » First New York Times API is Live - Here's Why it Matters - readwriteweb
The much-anticipated first Application Programming Interface (API) from the New York Times went live today, according to a post on the company's blog Open - All the code that's fit to printf(). First up is a campaign finance data API and next is a movie review API. Also available is … [Link]
SMM » ProIP Act Signed Into Law - White House Gets Copyright Czar - readwriteweb
On Monday, President Bush signed the controversial ProIP bill into law, which will create a 'copyright czar' position within the White House and raise the potential fines for copyright infringements. While proponents of the bill such as Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Tom Donohue see it as sending a message … [Link]
SMM » Bringing Data Portability to a Website Near You: An Interview With Chris Saad About JS-Kit - readwriteweb
If cookies were the multi-billion dollar magic for much of the web's first iteration, tiny technologies to power conversation could play a similar role in the future of business online. More fun than that, though, is the innovation we hope to see in the technology of conversation. Comment and review … [Link]
SMM » Yahoo Fights Back: Launches New Ad Campaign for its Search Engine - readwriteweb
Yahoo today launched a new ad campaign for its search engine that stresses the security and convenience of using Yahoo Search. After relying on outside search providers (including Google) for a long time, Yahoo launched its own search engine in 2003, but even though it has constantly innovated and opened … [Link]
SMM » Your Money in the Cloud: Personal Finance Tool Mint Comes Out of Beta - readwriteweb
Given the state of the economy right now, keeping a close eye on your personal finances is becoming more of a necessity than ever before. Mint, the cloud-based personal finance tool that launched in September 2007 has now come out of beta and added a number of handy new features, … [Link]
SMM » MOO's Business Card API And The Mashups Made With It - readwriteweb
The popular and quirky MOO.com is a print shop providing stickers, postcards, business cards and personal introduction cards, which are narrower and longer cards. The products can feature artistic images you select from the site's offerings or can be printed using photos you upload to the service. Notable for promoting … [Link]
SMM » Meebo: Web-based IM Is Bigger Than You Think - readwriteweb
When people gather, conversations are bound to happen. And while people may be gathering and chatting in Web-based IM interfaces like GTalk, Facebook Chat, and MySpace Chat, that user base is relatively insignificant compared to the untold millions of others who live and breathe in online communities outside those walled … [Link]
SMM » Semantic Stealth Startup Siri Raises $8.5 Million - readwriteweb
We have met our share of secretive startups over the years, but few have been as secretive about their plans as Siri, which was founded in December 2007 and did not even have an official name until today. Siri was spun out of SRI International and its core technology is … [Link]
SMM » How To Launch A Successful Blog In The First 90 Days - rohitbhargava.typepad
Starting a blog is not for everyone. There are lots of reasons not to blog, including having the time to keep a blog up to date, having something to say, and the fact that blogging is becoming an increasingly crowded space making it far tougher to stand out than it … [Link]
SMM » Google Webmaster Tools API Update Offers Users More Control - readwriteweb
Tired of sitting patiently by, refreshing your server logs, while you wait for the Googlebot to show up at your site? So is Google. That's why they provide tools based on the GData API that allow site owners - especially those owners managing hundreds of sites - to submit content … [Link]
SMM » Report: Pure Open Source No Longer a Viable Business Model - readwriteweb
How do you make money if you give your software away for free? That's the classic question asked of Open Source software vendors and the expected reply is that they charge customers for software customization and support. That's not the way it works anymore, though, according to a report published … [Link]
SMM » Verboten: Google Loses German Copyright Cases Over Thumbnails - readwriteweb
Today, a regional court in Germany ruled that Google is violating German copyright law by displaying thumbnail previews of copyrighted images. German photographer Michael Bernhard and cartoonist Thomas Horn had sued Google and demanded that their images be removed from Google's index. According to the judge at Hamburg's regional court, … [Link]
SMM » Mozilla Announces Developer Tools Lab for the Open Web - readwriteweb
The Mozilla Foundation announced this morning that it has hired Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith, co-founders of Ajaxian and the Ajax Experience, to run a new Developer Tools Lab aimed to make Open Web development easier and more powerful. The term Open Web refers to a paradigm in which data … [Link]
SMM » GoDaddy Unveils Mainstream Social Web Aggregator - readwriteweb
GoDaddy has just unveiled an amazing new service called SmartSpace which lets anyone register a domain name and then instantly turn it into a social web site which aggregates any of the following components onto one page: a blog, a photo album, a chat application, email, RSS feeds, and even … [Link]
SMM » MyThings Raises $5 Million to Help you Organize Your Stuff - readwriteweb
If you ever wished for a central place to keep track of your online purchases and to store all those email receipts, MyThings might just be what you are looking for. The London-based company just announced a $5 million Series B round. Besides helping you to keep track of your … [Link]
SMM » Video Demographics - feeds.feedburner
Late last year I wrote about The Top 10 Video Sites and the demographics of each site. Well a new study by Forrester Consulting for Veoh Networks in August updates some of the demographic data about who is watching videos online. The Forrester study showed that viewers who watch more … [Link]
SMM » The End of the RSS Full Text Free Ride
If had to pick a single technology that changed my life the most this decade it would be RSS. Phones and computers evolve, surely. However feeds, which I started reading in 2003, were a total game changer. Today I read almost 600 of them. In fact I view my entire … [Link]
SMM » SourceForge Announces Hosted Applications - readwriteweb
SourceForge.net, a longtime provider of open source code and applications, has announced a new service for developers that provides virtualized access to open source apps. With the new Hosted Apps service, you're able to install an app within your own web space, and it's managed by the SourceForge team in … [Link]
SMM » Hey Businesses! Social Media Users Want Your Attention - readwriteweb
For any company that thought social media was a passing fad not worthy of their time, the numbers coming out of a recent study published by Opinion Research Corporation for Cone should come as a wake-up call. According to that study, 85% of Americans using social media think companies should … [Link]
SMM » Google Apps Unseats Incumbent Microsoft Office in Washington, DC - readwriteweb
With a US presidential campaign in full swing and a current president at his term limit, the world is prepared for changes in Washington, DC. But abandoning Microsoft Office? Enter the dark horse Google Apps - the new platform for day-to-day business operations in DC - now that Vivek Kundra, … [Link]
SMM » MySpace MyAds: Target Ads to "Drinking" and "Partying" - readwriteweb
When in doubt, follow the leader. That's what MySpace seems to be doing with the release of MySpace MyAds, a service that - on the surface - appears to have a great deal in common with another successful ad model, Google AdWords. Like Google's ad platform, the new MySpace ad … [Link]
SMM » Social Media in Africa, Part 3: Democracy - readwriteweb
Traditionally, the greatest power that governments have held over their people has been information. The promise that connectivity brings to Africa is that people are now using that abundance of information for oversight of government and more interaction with administrations. To say that the propagation of internet and mobile connectivity … [Link]
SMM » Social media tools for causes - socialmedia
seth (who apparently doesn't have a last name) at the Berkman Center blogs: Social media tools for causes. Lately, I’ve been using flickr, twitter, and mailman as tools for my favorite cause. So far I’ve seen some neat results from using these that I don’t see a lot of others … [Link]
SMM » Report: Enterprise 2.0 Apps Will Dramatically Fall in Price - readwriteweb
A new report by Forrester Research states that the market for collaboration and productivity web apps in the enterprise (a.k.a. enterprise 2.0) is set for a shake-up, with prices to fall in some cases by over half. Price drops will be especially sharp in blog, wikis, social networking and widgets. … [Link]
SMM » RWW Predictions Double: Facebook, Microsoft, & Pandora - readwriteweb
Just last year, Microsoft snagged a $240 million stake in Facebook in a bidding war against Google. However nothing but speculation has resulted since that stake was won. This week we saw the first steps of integration of Microsoft Live Search on Facebook. Microsoft is promising to improve the user … [Link]
SMM » Plumb Social: a one-stop social media solution - socialmedia
Deltina Hay, author of the Social Media E-book: A Step-by-Step Marketing Guide, is rolling out an interesting service nationally in the next few days: Plumb Social. It's for small companies and professionals who don't have the time to keep up with all the latest social media tools, but know they … [Link]
SMM » The End of the RSS Full Text Free Ride - micropersuasion
If had to pick a single technology that changed my life the most this decade it would be RSS. Phones and computers evolve, surely. However feeds, which I started reading in 2003, were a total game changer. Today I read almost 600 of them. In fact I view my entire … [Link]
SMM » 10 Micro Trends to Bet on For Your Audacious Startup - readwriteweb
Credit crisis. Blah, blah. Cut costs. Blah, blah. Don't you just love it when you get an alarm call from your hotel at 9.15 when your meeting is at 9.00? At ReadWriteWeb we have been sounding alarms about the economy for a year (here, here, here and here…enough already), suggesting … [Link]
SMM » Cartoon: The Perils of The EULA - readwriteweb
Sarah Perez's post on Friday had my number: I'm one of those people who click right past the user agreement whenever I install software or sign up for a new web app, without even a passing glance at what rights I'm surrendering. I'm pretty sure Mark Zuckerberg is allowed to … [Link]
SMM » 1.5 Million G1 Mobile Phones Pre-Sold - readwriteweb
Apple may want to be keep a close eye on the sales of T-Mobile's G1 device. The G1 will be the first mobile phone to hit the market running Google's Android mobile OS. This may also be the mobile phone that puts a serious dent in Apple's iPhone sales. The … [Link]
SMM » Screenshots of Firefox Mobile for Windows Mobile Finally Surface - readwriteweb
In early April we reported on an early prototype of Firefox Mobile. Code-named "Fennec", it was only recommended for use on Nokia N810 devices. At the time, we felt that Firefox Mobile showed a lot of promise. Today screenshots have surfaced showing Firefox Mobile running on the Windows Mobile OS. … [Link]
SMM » The Conversation: visual storytelling - socialmedia
This looks like a worthy event, and I'll try my best to make it: journalist-author Scott Kirsner is one of the organizers of a new conference. (Tiffany Shlain of Webbies fame is the other organizer.) What: The Conversation: New Distribution Channels, New Tools, and the Future of Visual Storytelling. Pioneers … [Link]
SMM » IM Functionality On Twitter Suspended Indefinitely - readwriteweb
It's been a while since we last reported on Twitter. The service hasn't been experiencing any of its previous turbulence and has begun to shed its spotty reputation for service uptime. While the site's reliability has improved, one functionality has remained on the "things that are broken on Twitter" list: … [Link]
SMM » What's Next After Web 2.0 - readwriteweb
As the world financial crisis has gotten gradually worse over the past few weeks, I've been pondering what this means for the Web. ReadWriteWeb as a publication focuses on technology - web products and trends - rather than business and VC happenings. So with the exception of one of our … [Link]
SMM » Are You Ready for Silverlight 2? - readwriteweb
During the Olympics, Microsoft's Silverlight technology was installed on over 20 million computers. Oprah uses Silverlight and Microsoft has partnered with HP to have Silverlight shipped on HP computers in the future. Microsoft seemed dedicated to spreading Silverlight 1 as far as possible this year. Now rumors are swirling that … [Link]
SMM » Layoffs Galore: The Tech Bubble Receives a Shake Up - readwriteweb
With all the talk of the financial turmoil that the U.S. economy is experiencing, some industries are hoping that they can escape the heat unscathed. In fact, a small portion of the tech industry practically bragged that they wouldn't encounter the same damage as Wall Street by attempting to recruit … [Link]
SMM » Weekly Wrapup: Mobile Web, Google RSS, Social Shopping, and More - readwriteweb
It's time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the product side this week, Google said it would provide RSS feeds of search results, Yahoo updated its calendar app using Zimbra, Mozilla released Geode, Microsoft integrated its Live search into Facebook, and more. On the … [Link]
SMM » Thanks RWW Sponsors; New Sponsor Package in October - readwriteweb
Thank you to our sponsors, for supporting our mission to provide in-depth coverage of Web apps and trends. To enquire about sponsor slots on ReadWriteWeb, email us for a Media Kit. NEW: we now include RSS advertising as part of our main Sponsor package. Why sponsor ReadWriteWeb? It is one … [Link]
SMM » Speed Up Your Research with ChunkIt - readwriteweb
ChunkIt is a browser plugin for Firefox and Internet Explorer that wants to help you speed up your online research. To do so, ChunkIt preloads and searches through all the links on a given page and displays the search results in a large sidebar on the left side of your … [Link]
SMM » Streaming Media West videos - socialmedia
About 25 videos of the recent Streaming Media West conference sessions and keynotes are now online. Above is the embedded video of our 45-minute panel on The Power of Personal Media with Chris Brogan, me, Scott Kabat of Pure Digital, Schlomo Rabinowitz and Irina Slutsky. [Link]
SMM » Memorandum Colors: X-Ray Glasses for Political Bias in Blogs - readwriteweb
Upcoming.org founder Andy Baio and Del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter have released a project called Memeorandum Colors. It's an easy-to-install Greasemonkey plug-in that shows the political bias of past linking behavior on blogs aggregated by Memeorandum, the political sister-site of tech aggregator Techmeme. In this heated election season, Memeorandum is a … [Link]
SMM » Real VC Might Be The Safest Asset Class Today - readwriteweb
In downturns there is a "flight to safety". Typically you would put Venture Capital (VC) at the risky end, with something like a Money Market Fund at the safe end. Well today even the safest stuff is looking scary, thanks to the games that the financial engineers have been playing. … [Link]
SMM » Ning Adds OpenSocial Support - readwriteweb
Social networking platform Ning announced support for the OpenSocial standard today. Thanks to this, developers can now easily create applications for the Ning platform. At this time, Ning already features 30 applications that users can embed into their profile pages, including support for file sharing with Box.net and poll creation … [Link]
SMM » CRM & Social Media: Integrating into the Customer Lifecycle - emergence-media
Via a blogger who linked to me, I found this incredible social media/new marketing webinar by the SocialRep CEO titled “Beyond Monitoring: Managing Social Media Engagement“, which presents a wonderfully refreshing and wholistic look at Social Media (”The Conversation”) vis-a-vis CRM and as part of the integrated customer lifecycle: Which … [Link]
SMM » How Safe Is That Web App? Researchers Want Online Privacy Policies Regulated - readwriteweb
Admit it. You don't always read the EULAs when you install software on your computer. You just click "I Agree." The same goes for the web. Most of us don't read the privacy policies that accompany our favorite web sites and services (myself included, apparently). But our failure to do … [Link]
SMM » Zoho Mail Gets Offline Support via Google Gears - Ahead of Gmail - readwriteweb
Innovative Web Office startup Zoho has beaten Google to the punch again, announcing offline support for the newly public Zoho Mail tonight. Ironically Zoho is using Google Gears to enable offline functionality in Zoho Mail - see the video below by the Google Developer team. Zoho also beat Google to … [Link]
SMM » 5 Ways to Sell Social Media to Your Boss - readwriteweb
I recently outlined why I'm sick of the 'ROI in web 2.0' discussion. To be specific, the debate as to whether there is one at all. In that post, I gave examples of how naysayers reacted to social media tools in the past - and how they were left in … [Link]
SMM » How much do top bloggers and social media consultants make? - socialmedia
Marshall Kirkpatrick at Read/Write Web: How Much Do Top Tier Bloggers and Social Media Consultants Get Paid? We Asked Them! Excerpt: Social media consultants, expert practitioners with multiple years of success in the kinds of positions discussed above and in some cases in traditional marketing jobs, are the ones making … [Link]
SMM » OpenID Gets SaaS-y: JanRain Works to Ease OpenID Adoption - readwriteweb
OpenID adoption has been lopsided. Getting sites to offer OpenIDs has been relatively popular. Google, Yahoo!, MySpace, and countless others provide OpenID addresses for their users. Even AOL users have an OpenID. Far less popular? Allowing users to access their accounts on those services with an OpenID. But JanRain is … [Link]
SMM » Blurb - Doesn't Need VC Lectures - readwriteweb
In our search for that rare beast - the profitable VC backed venture - I interviewed Eileen Gittins, the CEO of Blurb. Blurb does Print On Demand publishing for both consumer and professional markets. They compete with Lulu, which announced today that it is "laying off 24 workers at its … [Link]
SMM » Shave Keystrokes Off Your Day With UrlbarExt - readwriteweb
Shortcuts for commonly performed functions are beautiful things and we just found a great Firefox extension that's going to save us a lot of time. It's called UrlbarExt and it puts six little gray icons on the right side of your address bar. What do those buttons do? They perform … [Link]
SMM » Comcast's Actual Social Media Policy No One Knew About - rohitbhargava.typepad
One of the most useful panels at Blogworld Expo a few weeks ago was one featuring two of the most powerful customer service success stories using social media, and the characters behind them. Tony Hseih from Zappos (featured on The Personality Project several months ago) and Frank Eliason, the Comcast … [Link]
SMM » How Much Do Top Tier Bloggers and Social Media Consultants Get Paid? We Asked Them! - readwriteweb
The media world is changing and its jobs are changing too. The rise of the blogger is an often-told story, but are the lucky few bloggers who do it for a living well paid? We did a survey to find out. We asked 20 top-tier tech bloggers and social media … [Link]
SMM » Mobile Speed Trap App, Trapster, Now Available For iPhone - readwriteweb
Trapster is a new mobile application that lets you see and share the location of speed traps right on your mobile phone or GPS device. Once installed, the app uses a combination of your device's internal GPS capabilities, geocoding techniques, and voice transcription to alert you in real-time to any … [Link]
SMM » Map Your Corporate Neighbors with Google Maps
This is news to me but did you know that Google Maps shows you what businesses occupy a given address? Here's a list of firms that are in my office building. As I ride the elevator I have always wondered what types of business share our building. It's creepy, but … [Link]
SMM » Mixx Turns One - Sees Rapid Growth - readwriteweb
Mixx, the social news site that competes directly with Digg, just celebrated its first birthday by announcing that traffic to its site has grown rapidly over the last few months and that it now attracts more than 4 million unique visitors a month. These numbers are even more impressive if … [Link]
SMM » Edelman Webinar: All Social Media is Local
On Tuesday, October 7 a group of Edelman digital experts from around the world participated in a free webinar called All Social Media is Local. The event, which lasts about an hour and is now archived, can be found on our web site as well as on Slideshare. I have … [Link]
SMM » Insights on the Changing Face of PR
In case you missed it, iMedia Connection yesterday posted an interview with me on the changing nature of public relations. The big topic we covered is strategy. Too many people in the industry still think about digital landscape in a very tactical/channel centric way instead of attacking it with a … [Link]
SMM » Ethical Social Media Marketing
Later this afternoon I will be speaking at Search Engine Marketing Expo on Ethical Social Media Marketing. Below is the full text of my planned remarks. I look forward to hearing your feedback on this important topic. # # # Thank you very much for inviting me here today. The … [Link]
SMM » Page Rank is the Ultimate Measure of Online Influence
Friends, Romans, countrymen, followers, page views, in-bound links, share of voice, unique visitors and subscribers. These are just some of the more common ways serious content creators (and those who hope to reach them) measure online influence. However there are big flaws in all of these metrics. Followers and/or RSS … [Link]
SMM » The Collaboration Economy
The following is also my column in next week's Advertising Age. Gloom and doom are everywhere this fall. So I am not going to perpetuate it. Instead, I see the global economic meltdown finally kicking the industry into gear toward becoming more efficient, open and collaborative. The ad industry is … [Link]
SMM » Recession Proof Your Job with Web Based Tools
The economy is the story of the year. And although Congress is poised to pass a $700 billion bailout of the banking industry, we're not out of the woods. Many feel that a deep global recession is imminent. This means there will be layoffs - perhaps lots of them. To … [Link]
SMM » Map Your Corporate Neighbors with Google Maps - micropersuasion
This is news to me but did you know that Google Maps shows you what businesses occupy a given address? Here's a list of firms that are in my office building. As I ride the elevator I have always wondered what types of business share our building. It's creepy, but … [Link]
SMM » Edelman Webinar: All Social Media is Local - micropersuasion
On Tuesday, October 7 a group of Edelman digital experts from around the world participated in a free webinar called All Social Media is Local. The event, which lasts about an hour and is now archived, can be found on our web site as well as on Slideshare. I have … [Link]
SMM » Says Amazon: S3 Is So Popular, We're Lowering Prices - readwriteweb
According to a post this morning on the Amazon Web Services Blog, the Amazon S3 service has grown so much over the last year, that the company has decided to lower the pricing on storage. The growth from quarter to quarter has been dramatic: S3 now stands at 29 billion … [Link]
SMM » WTF? Google Has a Sense of Humor: Adds Audio Previews to YouTube Comments - readwriteweb
YouTube is not exactly known for the depth of discourse in its comments. A few days ago, Randall Munroes's popular web comic XKCD suggested that Google should add an audio preview for all comments, so that commenters might realize how inane some of their comments really are. Now, Google has … [Link]
SMM » Who Really Uses Mint.com (And Other Banking 2.0) Services Anyway? - readwriteweb
Given the U.S. economic crisis, people are looking for new and better ways to get a handle on their personal finances. We recently profiled 10 money management web applications that promise to do everything from analyzing your spending behavior to saving you money by negotiating lower rates on credit cards. … [Link]
SMM » Amuso: Viral + Monetizable Magic? - readwriteweb
I am usually the "enterprise guy", so game shows - the space that Amuso is in - is way off my beat. I explained that to the PR person who persistently tracked me down at Web 2.0 Expo in New York. But I am pleased she persisted. While I still … [Link]
SMM » How social media is invading traditional media - socialmedia
Search Engine Land: How Social Media Is Invading Traditional Media. [Link]
SMM » Reputation Mangement: A Social Media Marketing Summit Presentation - emergence-media
Social Media & Reputation Management: The Why and The How View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: social media) Last week, I presented at the Social Media: The Marketing Summit panel on Reputation Management. The SMMS is a sister conference of Online Market World, which is held in San … [Link]
SMM » No More Squinting: Google Maps' First High-Res Satellite Images - readwriteweb
Using services like Google Maps and Google Earth has changed the way people interact with geography, compare notes with neighbors, and find their way from here to there. Still, for all the beauty of Google's directions, "street view," and "search nearby," the top-down views of our world have always been … [Link]
SMM » Best Buy's "Enterprise Twitter" - readwriteweb
IBM’s got BlueTwit. Oracle’s testing OraTweets. SAP’s experiments include ESME, SAP Talk (laconi.ca), ShoutIt and apparently others. Yammer has an ad-hoc base at thousands of companies. But so far, no large corporation has rolled out microsharing company-wide. Enter Gary Koelling and Steve Bendt, Best Buy’s Senior Managers for Social Technology, … [Link]
SMM » Campaigning with Technology: Palin's Email Hack Remains One of the Few Negatives - readwriteweb
Today, the US Department of Justice announced the indictment of David Kernell, the 20-year old son of a Tennessee state representative, on allegations of hacking vice-presidential-candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo! Mail account. The indictment alleges that Kernell gained access to Palin's Yahoo! Mail account, changed the password, took screenshots of the … [Link]
SMM » Why Some Traditional Enterprise IT Vendors Are Scared of SaaS - readwriteweb
Some traditional enterprise IT vendors are selling the line that SaaS is a passing phase, that it is "old wine in new bottles". They are telling their market that SaaS is really no different from the discredited Web 1.0 Application Service Provider (ASP) model or even that it is simply … [Link]
SMM » Finally! Google to Offer RSS Feeds for Web Search Results - readwriteweb
A rumor that's been floating around the web lately is that Google will offer RSS feeds for new results in basic web search. Today Search Engine Land confirmed that Google will "soon" offer this functionality. Why is this big news? Because there's no better way to keep track of new … [Link]
SMM » Insights on the Changing Face of PR - micropersuasion
In case you missed it, iMedia Connection yesterday posted an interview with me on the changing nature of public relations. The big topic we covered is strategy. Too many people in the industry still think about digital landscape in a very tactical/channel centric way instead of attacking it with a … [Link]
SMM » What's that Space Cowboy? Last.fm Adds Lyrics - readwriteweb
Last.fm, one of our favorite music recommendation and discovery services, announced a partnership with LyricFind today, which will bring lyrics for about 800,000 songs from major and independent labels to Last.fm. This will make Last.fm the only music recommendation service that features lyrics on its site. Last.fm users will now … [Link]
SMM » Mufin: Better Music Recommendations through Algorithms? - readwriteweb
Music discovery is clearly a hot topic these days, with large companies like Apple and Microsoft competing with smaller services like imeem, Pandora, and Last.fm. With the exception of Pandora, these services typically rely on the listening habits and recommendations of other users. Mufin.com, however, which launched today, uses a … [Link]
SMM » ReframeIt: Annotating the Web - readwriteweb
The market for social web site annotation and bookmarking services is getting a bit crowded these days, with tools like Diigo and SocialBrowse vying for customers along with a large number of smaller competitors. The latest entry in this market is ReframeIt, which just launched today. ReframeIt's emphasis is squarely … [Link]
SMM » Opera 9.6 Launches, Now Includes Magazine-Style RSS…Sort Of - readwriteweb
Today, Opera revealed the newest version of their web browser, Opera 9.6. As always, the latest update includes speed and performance increases, but the update delivers several new features, too. The one new feature that we were really excited to try out is how Opera 9.6 deals with RSS feeds. … [Link]
SMM » 5 Ways To Visualize The U.S. Elections - readwriteweb
The U.S. presidential elections are right around the corner and it seems that just about everyone is looking for news, poll results, and other political coverage both online and off. For those of you who are still eagerly devouring anything related to the elections, you'll want to check out these … [Link]
SMM » NPR rides social media rainbow - socialmedia
Marketingvox: NPR Rides Social Media Rainbow; Site Visits Climb 78% from last year. Excerpt: Recognizing that social networking features as key to attracting and retaining a youthful audience, NPR is adding them to its website. Listeners can create personal profiles containing photos, and list their favorite books, movies, NPR programs, … [Link]
SMM » Google Health: Do a Search And Call Me in The Morning… - readwriteweb
Leading health blogger Amy Tenderich has just posted an illuminating interview with Missy Krasner, Product Marketing Manager for Google Health. When Google Health was launched to the public in May, we at ReadWriteWeb gave it a tepid review. We concluded that Google Health was not much more than a glorified … [Link]
SMM » Social Actions meets Twitter - socialmedia
Elliot Harmon at Techsoup: Social Actions meets Twitter. I blogged a few weeks ago about Social Actions, a new project to aggregate data from social sector directories about the wide variety of ways people can get involved with causes they care about. Like a lot of new ideas in social … [Link]
SMM » What is The Future of Human Powered Search? - readwriteweb
Mahalo popularized the term "human powered search" when they launched just over a year ago. Many of the pitches we get still use that term as part of their positioning. Many of them are bootstrapped, so the price of entry is clearly low. But the upside has not yet been … [Link]
SMM » Game on! Google AdSense for Online Gaming - readwriteweb
If it's online, Google is going to find a way to derive advertising revenue from it. So, it was only a matter of time before Google found its way into online gaming, a market where the term "billions" is regularly thrown around by even the most conservative analysts. Today, Google … [Link]
SMM » Yahoo Announces Major Update to Yahoo Calendar: Leverages Zimbra Technology - readwriteweb
Yahoo today announced a closed beta of a major update to its online calendaring application that will feature a tighter integration with Yahoo Mail and other Yahoo properties. The new calendar is based on the Zimbra platform, which Yahoo acquired in 2007, and will support both the iCalendar and CalDAV … [Link]
SMM » 5 Great Books to Build Your Character - readwriteweb
Tough economic times and startups have at least one thing in common - you need character and determination to survive. Character is what it takes to win, to believe and to persuade others. It's a mix of passion, determination, sleepless hours, hard work. Character is about crossing the finish line, … [Link]
SMM » Microsoft Stake in Facebook Begins to Bear Fruit - readwriteweb
Almost exactly one year ago, Facebook and Microsoft were in the headlines when the Redmond, Washington-based software giant outlasted Google in a bidding war to garner a $240 million stake in Facebook. It was that investment that pegged Facebook's valuation at a whopping $15 billion. In July of this year—following … [Link]
SMM » How Social Media is Invading Traditional Media - searchengineland
Over the last few years we have seen a real explosion of social media sites and services, influencing the way we network, read, and search the web. With sites like Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Delicious, social media is here and it is here to stay. The success of social … [Link]
SMM » YouTube Rolls Out E-Commerce, Now You Can Buy…Pirated Music? - readwriteweb
Google just announced the company's latest attempt to monetize YouTube - "click to buy" links that will appear below music videos. Music rights holders can also use YouTube's song-detection technology to, get this, put a link to buy a song under a video that uses that song without permission. That's … [Link]
SMM » Government Report Finds Data Mining an Ineffective Way To Smoke Out Terrorists - readwriteweb
Remember the "pre-cog" cop-things in Minority Report, able to figure out who was going to commit a crime before they committed it? If that's ever going to happen it looks like it's going to have to be something super-natural - because at least these days, technology is a long way … [Link]
SMM » Google Drops Some Knowledge on the Financial Crisis - readwriteweb
When Google launched its sanitized version of Wikipedia, called Knol, earlier this year - the topics highlighted were all pretty mundane. Medical conditions, backpacking, etc. Today the company put Knols to good use and used the site to launch the first in a series of debates about topics of widespread … [Link]
SMM » Ning Keeps Growing: Now Hosts 500,000 Networks - readwriteweb
Social networking provider Ning yesterday announced that it now hosts half a million social networks on its platform. Ning launched in February 2007 and has seen rapid growth and mainstream adoption ever since. According to Ning's co-founder and CEO Gina Bianchini, Ning users now create a new social network every … [Link]
SMM » Hulu Goes Live: Will Stream Presidential Election Debates - readwriteweb
Hulu made its name by providing time-shifted access to one of the web's largest libraries of television shows. For tonight's second presidential debate in the U.S., Hulu will also introduce live streaming. The feed will be provided by NBC and Hulu will make a recording of the debate available after … [Link]
SMM » And The Top Mobile Social Networks Are… - readwriteweb
MySpace and Facebook, as it turns out. Despite the land grab by numerous startups looking to become the number one social network for mobile devices, it's becoming apparent that mobile social networking isn't necessarily going to be the new frontier that everyone thought it would be. Instead, as consumers surf … [Link]
SMM » Slideshows 2.0 - readwriteweb
When it comes to presentations, typical slideshows have gotten a bad reputation for being dull and dry. That doesn't necessarily have to be the case. Thanks to Web 2.0 tools and applications, you can bring pizzazz to your presentations like never before. Whether you're looking for an "un-slideshow" altogether or … [Link]
SMM » Ethical Social Media Marketing - micropersuasion
Later this afternoon I will be speaking at Search Engine Marketing Expo on Ethical Social Media Marketing. Below is the full text of my planned remarks. I look forward to hearing your feedback on this important topic. # # # Thank you very much for inviting me here today. The … [Link]
SMM » Checkpoint Charlie Uses "Passport Marketing" To Attract Visitors
You may not know it, but this weekend is the 18th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall and there is a celebration in Germany called Unification day to celebrate the reformation of one Germany. An important remaining part of this story is a place called Checkpoint Charlie. During … [Link]
SMM » 3 Marketing Observations From Oktoberfest In Munich
On my way to Kyiv in the Ukraine a few days ago I planned a stopover for about 8 hours in Munich. As it turned out, it was just enough time to head out of the airport into the city and just outside in Theresienweise to visit the fair grounds … [Link]
SMM » The Do NOT Vote Campaign
As a parent, I appreciate reverse psychology. My kids are still at the age where it works, so I'm a big fan. Apparently when they become teenagers, it still works but only if you tell them not to do something. The problem is that it is usually something that you … [Link]
SMM » European PR Congress: Managing Brand Reputation Presentation
I am in Kyiv, Ukraine today presenting at the European PR Congress on reputation management. It's an interesting topic in the digital age, raising the greater question of who really owns a corporate reputation. I'm looking forward to hearing a more international perspective from other speakers at the event and … [Link]
SMM » Does Your Browser Know Where You Are? With Mozilla Geode, It Might - readwriteweb
Today, the old real estate adage 'location, location, location' could just as easily be applied to the Web, where it seems that "where you are" is becoming as important as the information you're seeking. Nowhere is that more apparent than with GPS-enabled mobile platforms that use location-specific information to simplify … [Link]
SMM » ReadWriteWeb Expands Silicon Forest Empire - Rick Turoczy Joins Us - readwriteweb
Our newest writer started tonight, Rick Turoczy - who many of you will know from his tech blog Silicon Florist. Rick is yet another RWW writer who hails from Portland, Oregon, USA. Marshall Kirkpatrick and Frederic Lardinois are also from that city. According to Wikipedia, Silicon Forest refers to "the … [Link]
SMM » 10 things you can do to strengthen your personal brand - socialmedia
Broadcast news consultant Terry Heaton: Ten things that you can do, at any age, to strengthen your personal brand. [Link]
SMM » Chili's Solves Your Takeout Problems
The restaurant chain Chili's has a new marketing campaign out called "Right and Right On Time." It is based on three surprisingly revolutionary concepts in the category of takeout food: They will get your order right They will give you an exact time to pick it up. They will print … [Link]
SMM » Saving the Personality Project: How I Avoided Killing My Blog
About six months ago, I launched an ambitious idea related to the release of Personality Not Included called The Personality Project. My idea was to collect 100 of the most visionary minds in marketing, art and business and invite them all to contribute a single blog post to a collaborative … [Link]
SMM » Coping with the demands of social media - socialmedia
new music strategies: How many social media platforms? Okay, so you’re on MySpace. And you’re probably on Facebook too. You might be using Twitter. You certainly should be. And then there are the other social media platforms - not the least of which is your blog. Wordpress? Blogger? Vox? Mog? … [Link]
SMM » Journalism, social media partner on US election - socialmedia
UK's The Independent: Independent joins partnership of journalism and social media. The Independent, Russia's Gazeta and India's Mint all meet on LiveJournal for US Election discussion and debate. The Independent has announced its participation in a unique global community dedicated to the discussion of the 2008 US presidential campaign. Called … [Link]
SMM » Chili's Solves Your Takeout Problems - rohitbhargava.typepad
The restaurant chain Chili's has a new marketing campaign out called "Right and Right On Time." It is based on three surprisingly revolutionary concepts in the category of takeout food: They will get your order right They will give you an exact time to pick it up. They will print … [Link]
SMM » Google Mail Goggles: Are You Sure You Want to Send That? - readwriteweb
Google has improved any number of the Web activities in which we engage during the day. But what about those activities that occur late at night? Like firing off that email at 3 AM on Sunday morning after a night out? If Jon Perlow has his way, Google may be … [Link]
SMM » Google Has Changed Political Debate Forever - readwriteweb
When I was on the high school debate team, about 15 years ago, using the Internet was considered strange, if not cheating. We used photocopy machines, print magazines and academic journals almost exclusively. That time in the world's history is now gone forever. When Sarah Palin and Joe Biden debated … [Link]
SMM » Saving the Personality Project: How I Avoided Killing My Blog - rohitbhargava.typepad
About six months ago, I launched an ambitious idea related to the release of Personality Not Included called The Personality Project. My idea was to collect 100 of the most visionary minds in marketing, art and business and invite them all to contribute a single blog post to a collaborative … [Link]
SMM » Hakia Relaunches With 'Credible Sites' - readwriteweb
Semantic search engine Hakia announced a major redesign of its site today, including the addition of 'credible sites' to its search index. In order to create this index of trustworthy sites, Hakia is asking volunteers to submit credible, peer reviewed sources. Credible sites are currently limited to health and environmental topics, … [Link]
SMM » EBay Buys Bill Me Later and DBA - Lays Off 1,000 - readwriteweb
EBay today announced that it will acquire U.S. based online payments business Bill Me Later and the Danish classifieds site dba.dk. For Bill Me Later, eBay paid approximately $820 million in cash and $125 in outstanding options, while it acquired the Danish sites for $390 in cash. At the same … [Link]
SMM » I Like Ask.com - But Somebody Needs to Put a Fork in It - readwriteweb
What do you say to an old friend who's over extending themselves yet again? This morning 3rd tier search engine Ask.com proudly tooted its horn one more time - "It's Here! The New Ask.com!" Ask.com is a decent search engine, it does a lot of things well enough to check … [Link]
SMM » Is Facebook Becoming MySpace? - readwriteweb
Given Facebook's growing marketshare both here in the U.S. and worldwide, there's a growing concern that Facebook will soon morph into that other social network - one that many of us had happily left behind: MySpace. But unfortunately, hints of MySpace have been cropping up into Facebook lately thanks to … [Link]
SMM » StumbleUpon Without The Toolbar - searchengineland
The past few weeks have been busy for the people over at StumbleUpon and its users alike. Just a few weeks ago, StumbleUpon lifted the 200 friend max from its user base and added a subscribe feature. On Wednesday my favorite social community announced that there were yet more changes … [Link]
SMM » Social Media and Shopping: A Growing Trend - readwriteweb
Social media is evolving. What began as a way to "hang out" with friends online has morphed into an entirely new platform for communication, information sharing, and marketing. Businesses are quickly discovering that if they want to reach the youngest demographic, Generation Y (born after 1979), they had best get … [Link]
SMM » RWW Live: Mobile Web Development - readwriteweb
The latest episode of RWW Live, our live podcast show, kicks off at 3.30pm PST Monday (6.30pm EST). The topic is Mobile Web Development and we have guests from Google, Microsoft, Pandora and DevelopmentNow joining us. You can tune into the show, and interact with us via the chat, by … [Link]
SMM » Sponsor Announcement: Defrag - readwriteweb
RWW is the Premiere Media Sponsor for the Defrag Conference, happening 3-4 November in Denver Colorado. You can register for Defrag here. Entering the code "rww1" will get RWW readers $200 off of the early bird price. Highlights from Defrag this year will include a discussion about Strategic Intuition, a … [Link]
SMM » Page Rank is the Ultimate Measure of Online Influence - micropersuasion
Friends, Romans, countrymen, followers, page views, in-bound links, share of voice, unique visitors and subscribers. These are just some of the more common ways serious content creators (and those who hope to reach them) measure online influence. However there are big flaws in all of these metrics. Followers and/or RSS … [Link]
SMM » Will Google Use Chrome to Index Password Protected Web? - readwriteweb
It's now over a month since Google released its open source web browser, Chrome. An interesting theory we heard recently is that Google will use Chrome to index the password protected Web - a.k.a. the 'dark web'. Right now the Chrome Terms of Service (TOS) prevents Google from indexing private … [Link]
SMM » Cartoon: Social Web Workaholic - readwriteweb
Sorry you're not seeing this cartoon earlier, but I had to update my Facebook status, upload and tag my Flickr photos from yesterday, answer three LinkedIn questions and stay on top of my Twitter feed. There's something seductive about the social web, and the way it drives us to be … [Link]
SMM » Checkpoint Charlie Uses "Passport Marketing" To Attract Visitors - rohitbhargava.typepad
You may not know it, but this weekend is the 18th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall and there is a celebration in Germany called Unification day to celebrate the reformation of one Germany. An important remaining part of this story is a place called Checkpoint Charlie. During … [Link]
SMM » Social Media Marketing Summit - socialmedia
TrishaLyn.com offers a bullet-point synopsis of the talk given by Brian Solis at the Social Media Marketing Summit about social marketing. [Link]
SMM » Social Media in Africa, Part 2: Mobile Innovations - readwriteweb
In Amsterdam the social media technology conference PICNIC2008 wrapped up last week after devoting an entire day of scheduling to the innovations coming out of Africa. Dubbed 'Surprising Africa', the conference featured prolific social entrepreneurs and technology developers from around the world who offered insight into various projects from the … [Link]
SMM » 3 Marketing Observations From Oktoberfest In Munich - rohitbhargava.typepad
On my way to Kyiv in the Ukraine a few days ago I planned a stopover for about 8 hours in Munich. As it turned out, it was just enough time to head out of the airport into the city and just outside in Theresienweise to visit the fair grounds … [Link]
SMM » The Do NOT Vote Campaign - rohitbhargava.typepad
As a parent, I appreciate reverse psychology. My kids are still at the age where it works, so I'm a big fan. Apparently when they become teenagers, it still works but only if you tell them not to do something. The problem is that it is usually something that you … [Link]
SMM » How Cisco Tried to Make Routers Sexy Using Social Media - readwriteweb
In March this year, Cisco launched the ASR 1000 Router Series. No big deal, but for the fact that it was delivered completely via social media. This was apparently Cisco's fifth most successful campaign, and according to the company it has proved to be a turning point for the way … [Link]
SMM » Where Are The Profitable VC Funded Web 2.0 Startups? - readwriteweb
Thanks to all who sent in their stories of gritty entrepreneurs. To those who just copied the standard PR spiel with an opening line about "gritty entrepreneurs", please stop! We will be doing some interviews. Right now we are parsing through the incoming stories to classify and spot some trends. … [Link]
SMM » Weekly Wrapup: Nokia's iPhone Competitor, Netflix API, RDF Apps, and More - readwriteweb
It's time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. This week Nokia launched an iPhone competitor called the Tube, Netflix released an API, Google Blog Search re-designed, and we ran a poll about Flash coming to iPhone. On the trends side, we investigated the lack of … [Link]
SMM » Thanks RWW Sponsors; New Sponsor Package in October - readwriteweb
Thank you to our sponsors, for supporting our mission to provide in-depth coverage of Web apps and trends. To enquire about sponsor slots on ReadWriteWeb, email us for a Media Kit. NEW: we now include RSS advertising as part of our main Sponsor package. Why sponsor ReadWriteWeb? It is one … [Link]
SMM » Social media in Africa, Part 1 - socialmedia
ReadWriteWeb: Social Media in Africa, Part 1. Of sites like Afrigator, Zoopy and other sites I hadn't heard of before. [Link]
SMM » Forecast: 815% growth seen in social-networking app market in 2009 - socialmedia
More biz talk. From CanadianBusiness.com: The 7 best ways to build your business now: Put social media in your mix. From blogs to Facebook, the communications applications of Web 2.0 keep increasing in availability and popularity. Forrester Research calls social media the biggest up-and-comer in the world of marketing — … [Link]
SMM » Social media tools help improve business: survey - socialmedia
Asia One Business: Social media tools help improve business: survey. Companies which have adopted new forms of social media tools are seeing improved customer relationships and an increase in sales, according to a survey by an independent market research firm. [Link]
SMM » Breast Cancer, Social Media, and Picnik.com - wolf-howl
Earlier this week Barbara Boser of 3 Dog Media made a post asking people to turn their avatars pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. So in an effort to help a good cause I tried to play along, however trying to turn my avatar a shade of pink wasn’t as … [Link]
SMM » Report Says Semantic Web Companies Are Making Money - readwriteweb
Semantic Web entrepreneur David Provost has published a report about the state of business in the Semantic Web and it's a good read for anyone interested in the sector. It's titled On the Cusp: A Global Review of the Semantic Web Industry. After surveying 17 Semantic Web companies, Provost concludes … [Link]
SMM » Report: Semantic Web Companies Are, or Will Soon Begin, Making Money - readwriteweb
Semantic Web entrepreneur David Provost has published a report about the state of business in the Semantic Web and it's a good read for anyone interested in the sector. It's titled On the Cusp: A Global Review of the Semantic Web Industry. We also mentioned it in our post Where … [Link]
SMM » Hitwise: Microsoft Cashback is Working - readwriteweb
When Microsoft announced the launch of its Live Search Cashback rebate program, it quickly became the laughingstock of the tech blogosphere and this week's launch of Live SearchPerks definitely did not help. However, according to the latest data from Hitwise, Microsoft's Cashback promotion is actually working and is helping live.com … [Link]
SMM » Interview With Last.fm Founder Richard Jones: Part 3, Design & Features - readwriteweb
This week we interviewed one of the founders of online music service last.fm, Richard "Mr Scrobble" Jones. We're running the interview in 3 parts, over 3 days. This is Part 3 about design and features; following on from Part 1 about last.fm and its competition and Part 2 about business … [Link]
SMM » CERN Officially Unveils Its Grid: 100,000 Processors, 15 Petabytes a Year - readwriteweb
CERN today officially unveiled the massive computer network that will crunch the enormous amount of data coming from CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). CERN expects that the LHC will produce around 15 petabytes of data every year. While the LHC was in its planning stages, CERN's IT department decided that … [Link]
SMM » Digital Music Distribution: Weird Al and Kid Rock Take Different Paths - readwriteweb
Earlier this week, parody musician Weird Al Yankovic announced that he would start releasing songs on iTunes right after he finishes them, bypassing the standard album model for a faster and more flexible approach. It looks like Yankovic made a deal with Apple, as iTunes will have exclusive rights to … [Link]
SMM » Steve Jobs Had No Heart Attack…And Citizen Journalism Just Failed - readwriteweb
What could possibly be bigger news than the supposed heart attack suffered by Apple CEO Steve Jobs? The fact that it's simply not true. The rumor which spread like wildfire across the internet this morning was based on a report from CNN's citizen journalism site, iReport. According to citizen reporter, … [Link]
SMM » Mobile Marketing: Better For Reaching Democrats - readwriteweb
In this heated U.S. election season, both presidential campaigns have been using multichannel marketing techniques that have included everything from wikis to web sites and text messages to Twitter. It now appears that one of those channels, mobile marketing, is better at reaching Democratic voters than Republicans. But why is … [Link]
SMM » Social Media in Africa, Part 1 - readwriteweb
Contrary to popular belief, Africa is not completely absent from the Internet. In fact, the continent at large is undergoing a connectivity revolution unlike anything it has ever seen. Mobile phones in particular are propagating at an incredible rate, with penetration ranging from 30% to 100%. The average is 30.4% … [Link]
SMM » European PR Congress: Managing Brand Reputation Presentation - rohitbhargava.typepad
I am in Kyiv, Ukraine today presenting at the European PR Congress on reputation management. It's an interesting topic in the digital age, raising the greater question of who really owns a corporate reputation. I'm looking forward to hearing a more international perspective from other speakers at the event and … [Link]
SMM » Social Media for Business - Who's Doing it Well & How - readwriteweb
Charlene Li, co-author of Groundswell, and former Forrester analyst, has recently launched her own company, the Altimeter Group. This week, she gave a keynote at the Social Media Marketing Summit 2008, San Francisco. Known for her commitment to social media, and belief that marketing and advertising are fatally flawed, Li … [Link]
SMM » Interview With Last.fm Founder Richard Jones: Part 2, Online Music Business Models - readwriteweb
This week we interviewed one of the founders of online music service last.fm, Richard "Mr Scrobble" Jones. We wanted to find out last.fm's reaction to the launch of MySpace Music and the rise of Imeem, discuss business models in online music, and find out what's new at last.fm. We're running … [Link]
SMM » Idiomag Relaunches Personalized Music Magazine - Keeps Breaking Our Hearts - readwriteweb
This fabulous idea still falls short in user experience. Idiomag is a company we love to tell people about - it's one of the most awesome ideas we've seen in a long time. The personalized music magazine site relaunched today with 4 times more content than ever before and a … [Link]
SMM » Google Blogsearch Already Getting Spammed by PayPerPost - readwriteweb
Just yesterday, Google Blogsearch re-launched with additonal memetracker features, but spammers have already found a way to get their wares featured on the service. Right now, under the technology section, spam posts about Zen