David’s Weekly Tech Reader

On 10.11.09, In Recommended Reading, Water Cooler, by David, Comments: 0

Another busy week in technology and even here in Boston tech. Here are my favorite articles from the around the web for the previous week. You can always follow my recommended stories in real-time through the Recommended Reading page or through my Lifestream.

Last 20 Select Articles

Answers.OnStartups: Community Q&A For Startup Entrepreneurs
Published: October 8, 2009

Source: OnStartups

I’m a big fan of a site called Stack Overflow. It’s a surprisingly useful QA site for posting programming questions, and getting answers from the community. The site has been immensely successful and is now often the first place I go to find answers to those vexing questions. One of the things I like most about it is that both the questions and answers get voted on by the community. As a result, the best stuff surfaces…
Microsoft’s New Head of FUSE Labs, Lili Cheng, on Strategy, Social Computing, and Bicoastal Life
Published: October 9, 2009

Source: Xconomy

Software, people, social media Gregory T. Huang wrote: Microsoft’s latest reorganization, which involves labs in both the Seattle and Boston areas, has a new face. It’s Lili Cheng, a 14-year Microsoftie with experience in both research (social computing) and products (Windows Vista user experience). Cheng now officially leads three separate groups that are being rolled into one: her Creative Systems Group within Microsoft Research in…
The myth of the page fold: evidence from user testing | cxpartners
Published: October 8, 2009

Source: www.cxpartners.co.uk

Joe Leech and Fiz Yazdi discuss the myth of the page fold using evidence from user testing.
From CTIA: The rise of open mobile (and congratulations Android team)
Published: October 8, 2009

Source: VentureBeat

[Richard Wong, a venture capitalist with Accel Partners, submitted this piece to VentureBeat.] Mobile has never been hotter with the iPhone, Android, the explosion in mobile advertising, and the rise of mobile apps, but, you’d never know it walking around the mobile conference called CTIA, held here in San Diego today. The CTIA show that once was the key meeting place for the mobile industry seems less and less relevant with each passing year…
Augmented reality apps still struggle to work with iPhone
Published: October 8, 2009

Source: VentureBeat

Although a number of augmented reality applications have trickled into Apple’s app store over the last month, a few are still being held back because they don’t have the right application programming interfaces for manipulating live video. Augmented reality is a young field that lets you superimpose information or graphics over a live camera feed. Think Terminator vision, but on your phone — markers in your viewfinder tell you all about the…
DailyMotion raises $22.1 million for French user-generated video site
Published: October 8, 2009

Source: VentureBeat

French video site DailyMotion raised $22.1 million in a new round of funding. The site has 60 million unique visitors, many of them in France. It mixes both user-generated videos with professional content such as independent films. Cedric Tornay, chief executive of DailyMotion, told paidContent that the company will use the money to strengthen its balance sheet and fund growth. The company is expected revenue to grow 50 percent this year and the…
Bloggers Bristle At New Blog Regulation | The Atlantic Wire
Published: October 8, 2009

Source: www.theatlanticwire.com

My Note: New rules need to be rethought…

The Federal Trade Commission updates its rules to tackle paid-endorsements by Internet users, much to their chagrin
F.T.C. Proposes Problematic Regulation of Online Free Speech
Published: October 8, 2009

Source: EFF.org Updates

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has published vague new advertising rules that require online writers to disclose whether they’ve been compensated for product endorsements. The rules are full of ambiguities and double-standards, many of which are summed up on this article in The Atlantic Wire. Significantly, the new rules place requirements on social media from which traditional print and television media are exempt. For instance, if a blog…
35+ Icon Sets For Your Web Design Part 2
Published: October 8, 2009

Source: wpsmash.com

Just another WordPress weblog
The History and Evolution of Social Media
Published: October 7, 2009

Source: Webdesigner Depot

Social media has become an integral part of modern society.There are general social networks with user bases larger than the population of most countries.There are niche sites for virtually every special interest out there.There are sites to share photos, videos, status updates, sites for meeting new people and sites to connect with old friends.It seems there are social solutions to just about every need.In this article, we’ll review the histor…
Fresh Web Development Goodies Bag
Published: October 8, 2009

Source: Noupe

By Angel Wardriver Web development is time consuming and quite challenging. There are many ways to help combat that challenge, helpful applications from security to traffic analysis as well as CSS-concepts to give us clean, condensed code and faster load times, reducing time efforts and assisting designers and developers with critical improvements to workflows. Below, we present 30 extremely useful development tools, templates, generators, and se…
10 Qualitative Tools to Improve Your Website
Published: October 7, 2009

Source: instantShift

If you run or manage a website, you probably have experience with a web analytics package (like Google Analytics). These tools are great at answering the quantitative questions, the “what?” questions that every good webmaster should ask themselves. Questions like, “How many visitors did I have last month?”, “How many conversions?” and so on. However, they aren’t so great at giving you qualitative insight, the “why?” questions t…
Open Source E-Commerce Shopping Carts – Best Of
Published: October 8, 2009

Source: hongkiat.com

The moment you decide to run an online store selling your favorite stuff, you are immediately thrown with dozens of questions and obstacles. For starters, you’ll need to decide between clean inventory/excess stock, then comes the resource for products. Ultimately, when it comes to open an e-commerce site, the biggest decision is – Which platform should I use? The software you’ve decided upon will be the foundation of your entire e-commer…
HOW TO: Start Selling Downloads from your Wordpress Blog in 5 Minutes
Published: October 7, 2009

Source: Inspired Magazine

Selling downloads that are instantly delivered to the customer after they purchase is an easy way to earn some passive income. There’s no inventory to manage, no shipping calculations, and instant, automatic delivery means more happy customers and less support headaches. This tutorial will show you how to add a shopping cart that gives the ability to sell and automatically deliver download products from your Wordpress blog in just a few minut…
Is PR Dead?
Published: October 8, 2009

Source: blog.hubspot.com

In my presentation at the Inbound Marketing Summit yesterday I had a slide asking the question Is PR Dead that stirred up a lot of discussion It’s
PR is Dead: Was I Supposed to Care?
Published: October 8, 2009

Source: PR-Squared

While I was not able to attend the Inbound Marketing Summit this year, I soon heard about Hubspot CEO Brian Halligan’s indictment of the PR industry. Perhaps sensing a need to elaborate on his main points, Brian wrote a follow-up post today that despite its provocative title is thoughtful and largely spot-on. Please go have a look. Then come back, cuz this post is a response to Brian’s thoughts on how the PR industry needs to evolve. �…
8 Awesome Mashups Made Possible by APIs
Published: October 8, 2009

Source: Mashable!

My Note: LivePlasma rocks!

This series is supported by PayPal X Innovate 2009, PayPal’s first dedicated developer conference. Get 50% off if you register with the code ppblog3 or join us at $50 if you are a student. We here at Mashable are big fans of mashup services — it’s our name, after all! And at the heart of almost all of these mashups is a term you’ll see frequently thrown around related to web services: APIs, or application programming interfaces. In this…
Burst Media Pays $2.1M For Giant Realm Site Rep Firm
Published: October 8, 2009

Source: alarm:clock

Ad network Burst Media has bought online entertainment ad network Giant Realm. Burst paid $2.1M in stock and cash. Giant Realm has raised $9M so the event is a dud for investors. Investors included SoftBank Capital, Comcast Interactive Capital, the William Morris Agency and Edison Venture Fund. We saw Giant Realm as a Glam Media wanna be, although in this case catering to the young mens’ market with sites about games and TV. Like Glam, Giant Re…
WhoDoYouKnowAt: A more exclusive, private LinkedIn
Published: October 8, 2009

Source: VentureBeat

When LinkedIn first launched, it touted itself as the premiere site for networking and personnel discovery on the web. Since then, it has grown massively, with people joining at all ranks and across all sectors. This has put a strain on arguably the most important component of the site: the ability to contact others who could help you further your career. As more users join, top-tier executives are becoming less and less inclined to provide conta…
Real-Time Collaboration Has Stalled…For Now
Published: October 8, 2009

Source: ReadWriteWeb

A Forrester study reports that real-time collaboration has stalled in the enterprise due in most part to the lack of adoption in technologies such as web conferencing and instant messaging. That may be true with existing technologies but it is important to note the new generation of applications that extend real-time collaboration tools. The State Of Workforce Technology Adoption by Forrester is definitely comprehensive in its examination of how…

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