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• 35 Excellent Ecommerce User Interface Designs

  Published: November 16, 2009

  Source: Vandelay Design Blog

  While user experience is important on all types of websites, it is especially critical for ecommerce websites where visitors will be making purchases. A poor user experience will result in visitors having difficulty finding what they want, frustration during shopping, and many lost sales. In this post we will showcase the design of 35 e-commerce websites for your own UI design inspiration. The sites that are showcased in this post have also been…

• Best Wordpress Themes Websites Every Blogger Should Bookmark | Smashing Share

  Published: November 19, 2009

  Source: www.smashingshare.com

  A blogger always need a professional Wordpress Theme. When started Smashing Share as a Blogger three months back, I went through all wordpress themes website. There are a lot of paid and free wordpress themes available.

• Marketing more important than quality, says analyst

  Published: November 17, 2009

  Source: Develop

  EEDAR reveals higher marketing spend more influential than review scores

• Zynga secures $15 million in VC funding

  Published: November 18, 2009

  Source: Develop

  Socially networked games studio bolstered in spite of recent controversy

• Please Join Us – PerkettPR’s Virtual Clothing Drive to Benefit Rosie’s Place

  Published: November 19, 2009

  Source: PerkettPRsuasion – The PerkettPR Blog

  2009 has unarguably been a year of many ups and downs, not only here in New England, but across the globe.  In Massachusetts alone, we have witnessed the unemployment rate rise as high as 9.3% (October 2009) and my guess is that we all know at least one person who has been laid off this past year or been adversely affected by the struggling economy.  As the holidays approach this year, I asked myself and my employees “What can we do as an org…

• America’s Army Most Effective Recruitment Tool for U.S. Army

  Published: November 19, 2009

  Source: Serious Games Source News

  The Washington Examiner reports that America’s Army is a more effective U.S. Army recruitment tool than "any other method of contact," according to recent Army testimony to Congress. America’s Army is a series of first-person shooter titles developed in cooperation with the U.S. Army. The PC version of America’s Army is available as a free download from the U.S. Army’s website, and commercial versions are sold for the Xbox and Xbox 360. The artic…

• Four New Approaches to Mobile Payment

  Published: November 19, 2009

  Source: ReadWriteWeb

  It’s official, money transfer and mobile payment are among the most popular and lucrative mobile applications. In a report released earlier this week, Gartner identified the top 10 consumer mobile applications based on revenue, loyalty, consumer value and market penetration. At today’s Under The Radar Mobility Conference four mobile payment players battled for the title of best in show. Sponsor Bling Nation:This service allows users to pay usin…

• Facebook’s Valuation Skyrockets to $9.5 Billion

  Published: November 19, 2009

  Source: Mashable!

  While Facebook’s userbase has been consistently growing for years, its monetary value has been less than consistent. Facebook stunned the world in October 2007 when a Microsoft investment valued the company at $15 Billion. The recession hit Facebook’s value hard though, dropping it all the way to $3.7 Billion in February of this year. Facebook’s value has been fighting back ever since. In July, its value reached $6.5 Billion after a fre…

• SOLD: Skype Now Worth $2.75 Billion

  Published: November 19, 2009

  Source: Mashable!

  Last week, after months of bickering and lawsuits, the Skype saga finally ended. eBay, which bought Skype for $2.6 billion in 2005, settled outstanding litigation with Skype’s founders. The result: Skype now owns all of its technology, the founders received 14% of Skype and two seats on the Board of Directors, eBay keeps 30% of Skype, and the rest is owned by outside investors. That was last week. Today, Skype CEO Josh Silverman announced th…

• Inside Virtual Goods: What Portion of Social Gaming Revenues Come From Offers?

  Published: November 19, 2009

  Source: Inside Social Games

  This is a post by both Justin Smith and Charles Hudson When we set out to write the Inside Virtual Goods: The US Virtual Goods Market 2009-2010 research report earlier this year, we wanted to gain a deeper understanding of the payments ecosystem throughout all popular virtual goods markets in the US, especially the booming world of social games. Given the explosion of payment companies focused on the social gaming market – from mobile payments…

• Cats for Gold: turn your glitter to litter!

  Published: November 19, 2009

  Source: Boing Boing

  catsforgold.com: Sell your old gold and jewels and get cats delivered right to your front door. An internet riff on the troubled online pawn shop Cash for Gold. (via Calpernia Addams)

• 3DVIA Takes Best Use of Video Category at the MITX Awards

  Published: November 19, 2009

  Source: 93South – Thoughts on New England Web 2.0

  A bit of self promotion, but I was impressed with this years 14th annual MITX Interactive Awards but I was even more excited to also walk away with an award.  3DVIA took the Best Use of Video category for a lead generation site we released with the talented folks at Genuine Interactive who conceived and produced the concept. In addition to being a MITX Technology Award judge, this is actual the second MITX Award that I have been connected with b…

• Nearly 40% of marketers plan to boost budgets :: BtoB Magazine

  Published: November 19, 2009

  Source: www.btobonline.com

  Yeah…who are these marketers, I want names!

  Find information on B2B Marketing strategies and tactics. BtoB Magazine offers information on email marketing solutions, search engine marketing strategy as well as valuable business to business directories and BtoB lead generation articles.

• Designing Social Interfaces: Overview and Practical Techniques

  Published: November 17, 2009

  Source: Smashing Magazine

    The standard approach to interface design is to craft a channel that allows you to easily and efficiently control hardware or software; it’s all about the interaction between people and computers. But today, the two entities on each side of the user interface are changing: it’s no longer about people interacting with computers, but rather about people interacting with people through computers.This is the nature of the social Web. Social…

• 10 Absolutely New & Stunning Portfolio Wordpress Themes for Non-Designers

  Published: November 17, 2009

  Source: Inspired Magazine

  Nevermind you’re not a designer. These days just about any kind of freelancer needs a porftolio as much as he needs a blog. And why would you use another platform than Wordpress, our beloved free incredibly popular weapon of choice? Here are some of the newest and most eye catching themes released in the last few days. And be sure to check 10 Cool Photo Portfolio and Gallery Themes and 15 FreshThemes To Get The Coolest Portfolio For You Or Yo…

• CSS Box Model: The Foundation For Improving Your CSS

  Published: November 16, 2009

  Source: instantShift

  The CSS box model lies behind everything you do in CSS. Every element is defined by a rectangular box that encloses that element. Understanding how the box model works is a key to understanding CSS and having greater control over your layout and presentation. Let’s dive right in and talk about what the CSS box model is, how one box affects the boxes around it, and some common browser issues when displaying CSS boxes. In nutshell, the box model…

• $875K for Swipely

  Published: November 16, 2009

  Source: Xconomy

  startups, deals, IT Ryan McBride wrote: Swipely, a Providence, RI-based startup that was quietly launched earlier this year, has raised $875,000 of a planned $1 million equity financing, according to an SEC document filed last week. Angus Davis—a co-founder of the voice-based Internet search and services provider Tellme Networks, which was sold to Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and became a subsidiary of the Redmond, WA-based software giant in…

• News: Microsoft launches social networking tools on 360

  Published: November 17, 2009

  Source: GamesIndustry.biz – News

  Microsoft has launched a host of new community features for the Xbox 360 platform, with Facebook, Twitter, last.fm and Zune functionality all now added to the consoles services. The new functionality, previewed at a London event last night – at which Taio Cruz and Paloma Faith both performed – will enable users to post to Facebook and Twitter feeds, as well as listen to music via Last….

• Adam Smith Video On The Story Of Xobni

  Published: November 16, 2009

  Source: OnStartups

  As noted in my previous article on startup marketing, I had the opportunity to speak at the MIT Startup bootcamp recently.  My friend, and an all-around great guy, Adam Smith (founder of Xobni) spoke earlier that day.  Adam did a great job capturing the experience of starting a company and watching a company grow.  Adams both brilliant and articulate.  Well worth watching the video.  Here are some quick notes from the video (to help entice…

• Chrome’s Sample Extensions Add Gmail Checking, Feed Subscribing [Google Chrome]

  Published: November 17, 2009

  Source: Lifehacker

  If you’re running Google Chrome’s development version, or a Mac or Linux nightly build of Chromium, you can already install three sample extensions from Google developers. Two of them add some pretty nifty Gmail and feed conveniences to your browser. They’re the same kind of sample extensions we’d featured back in May, but re-implemented in the fashion of Chrome’s new extension system. If you’re running an up-to-date developer’s version of Chrome…

• Augmented Reality App Provides Virtual Fitting Room for Shoppers – ClickZ

  Published: November 16, 2009

  Source: www.clickz.com

  Augmented Reality App Provides Virtual Fitting Room for Shoppers

• Brightcove Debuts “Express” Video Hosting

  Published: November 15, 2009

  Source: Xconomy

  IT, video, Media Wade Roush wrote: To make it easier for small Web publishers to host videos on their sites, Cambridge, MA-based Brightcove will announce today that it is rolling out an “Express Edition” service starting at $99 per month. The company’s previous lowest-end offering cost several hundred dollars per month. At the new $99 monthly level—which doesn’t require a monthly contract, as previous Brightcove packages did—u…

• Thanks Microsoft, Hello Google

  Published: November 16, 2009

  Source: Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing

  Thanks to all the fine people at Microsoft. It was an interesting ride. Four years, 11 months, and 20 days, and I enjoyed every one of them. Well, except for the last few days, that was not fun at all. I hope I played a small part in making Microsoft more approachable, friendly to startups, and easier to work with. Microsoft is a different company, a better company, than when I joined 5 years ago. There are more new people who joined Microsoft in…

• Amazing Star Wars Tauntaun costume

  Published: November 15, 2009

  Source: MAKE Magazine

  Check out the amazing build log of this Star Wars Tauntaun costume, Scott (the maker writes)… TaunTaun costume, 2009 for the Exotic Zone ball in Sacramento. I’m wearing the Luke Skywalker outfit for this shoot. On Halloween my buddy Brian wore the Luke outfit, and I was his spotter dressed as Han Solo. Sorry bout the shaky camera, my wife was walking and holding our daughter in the other arm. Read more | Permalink | Com…

• Web Design Trends: Testimonials Design

  Published: November 15, 2009

  Source: Noupe

  Testimonials from happy clients are an important part of any service business’s website, lending trustworthiness and experience to a business. Showing those testimonials in their best light is important, as you want visitors to see them without allowing them to dominate your site’s design. One great way to figure out how to design the testimonials on your own projects is to look at how others are doing it. There are five predominant trends in…

• Growing Pains at Hulu

  Published: November 15, 2009

  Source: www.adweek.com

  Advertising industry information from Adweek. Read inside stories on advertising, creative, and client – agency relationships.

• Social Gaming Roundup: Tencent, Xbox, Billboards, and More

  Published: November 15, 2009

  Source: Inside Social Games

  Twitter and Facebook coming to Xbox 360 this week — Microsoft’s console is getting more social on November 17, when the two social services launch as a software download. You’ll be able to do things like access Facebook and Twitter from within the machine. Sony’s Playstation 3 is also getting Facebook integration, it appears. Xbox 360 console game Assassin’s Creed gets virtual goods — You can now buy outfits from the game in the Xbox…

• ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 14 November 2009

  Published: November 14, 2009

  Source: ReadWriteWeb

  We’ve added a couple of more events to this week’s events guide. You can download the entire event calendar in iCal format or import it into your Google Calendar. You can also import individual events using the link beside each entry. This events guide is a weekly feature here on ReadWriteWeb. We publish it every weekend, as good a time as any to review your conference plans. Know of an event taking place that should appear here? Let us know in…

• List of the biggest launches in video game history

  Published: November 14, 2009

  Source: VentureBeat

  Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is by all accounts likely to be the best-selling video game of all time. It could top 7 million units worldwide on its first day alone, an incredible achievement despite the fact that the economy is still in a pretty weak state. Here are the biggest sales records in the game industry for opening day sales. At the bottom, we’ve also included a list of the biggest first-week sales for games in a chart from VGchartz….

• The Top 5 Social Media Stories This Week

  Published: November 14, 2009

  Source: Mashable!

  From a Twitter TV deal to a new Google programming language, it’s been a surprising week on the web. Here’s our pick of the top 5 stories this week, from the serious to the bizarre. 1. From Twitter to TV: Sh*t My Dad Says Gets CBS Deal – A Twitter account got a TV deal…has the social media and mainstream media fusion gone too far? 2. Google’s Plan to Make the Web Twice as Fast – The web is about to get SPDY, writes Barb Dybwad. 3. GO:…

• Mockingbird: Wireframes on the Fly

  Published: November 14, 2009

  Source: Emily Chang – Designer

  As a UI/UX designer, I’m constantly looking for new tools and methods to allow me to more rapidly create initial user flows and to prototype an application. Mockingbird is a new online tool that let’s you create and share wireframes quickly and with interactivity.  It uses a simple drag and drop UI library, gives you the ability to link multiple pages together by making elements clickable, and makes it easy to share your wireframes with cli…

• Playfire: A Social Community For The Addicted Gamer

  Published: November 14, 2009

  Source: ZePy

  Playfire is the global community for gamers.In the site you can get a killer profile, track news and discussion for your favorite games, and follow your friends’ progress in games. Playfire was founded in 2007 by Kieran O’Neill, Seb Hayes Ben Phillips, has a kickass team, and is backed by a number of world-class investors. According to Playfire’s official site the service is in beta and tallies 245,000 users and 40,000 games. As all free o…

• Google: Social Search Down Till Monday or Tuesday

  Published: November 15, 2009

  Source: Mashable!

  Sometimes there’s an advantage to calling something “experimental”. Google Social Search, the much heralded new way to combine Google results with data from your social networks, went down today, we reported earlier. Now Google has responded to our inquiry, explaining that the service will be inaccessible until Monday or Tuesday. No reason has been given for the downtime. Google wrote to Mashable via email: The Google Social Search ex…

• The History of the Internet in a Nutshell

  Published: November 15, 2009

  Source: Six Revisions

  If you’re reading this article, it’s likely that you spend a fair amount of time online. However, considering how much of an influence the Internet has in our daily lives, how many of us actually know the story of how it got its start? Here’s a brief history of the Internet, including important dates, people, projects, sites, and other information that should give you at least a partial picture of what this thing we call the Internet real…

• 40 Free High-Quality WordPress Themes

  Published: November 12, 2009

  Source: Smashing Magazine

    High quality free Wordpress Themes have become harder and harder to find in the past year, with the influx of premium themes, more and more designers and developers are selling themes (and rightly so, they do amazing work). However, the quality of freely available themes has improved as well; in fact, some themes are very advanced and professional and can serve as a solid foundation for your next designs.There are a lot of choices out there…

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• Embedding Social Media Channels in Modern Web Design

  Published: November 13, 2009

  Source: Inspired Magazine

  Well the Twitter stream integration is almost a standard these days when designing a portfolio website, but there are some brands with a more complex view when it comes to social media integration. Here are four brands with entire websites built over Wikipedia, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.  Enjoy and leave your suggestion in the comments. Skittles Campbell Ewald Krispin Porter Almost At Modernista

• iPhone augmented reality game sets the world on fire

  Published: November 12, 2009

  Source: Joystiq

  The new Firefighter 360 for the iPhone 3GS lets you experience the thrill of seeing everything around you burst into flames, without all that pesky heat and death. The augmented reality game, developed by Presselite, superimposes fires — and virtual victims — over the iPhone camera’s view of the world, with flames generated in every direction, spreading and multiplying. And it’s up to you, as an inexplicably cel-shaded fireman, to douse the fla…

• Sites of the Week #77

  Published: November 13, 2009

  Source: Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials

  For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as the new PocketSmith and Gowalla. Also we’re featuring a great portfolio by Diego Morales, and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be more than happy to feature your site. !–break– You can send me your suggestions via Twitter twitter.com/FabianoMe or twitter.com/abduzeedo, and include #abdz_sites in the messa…

• Hey, Google! There’s Another Programming Language Called Go!

  Published: November 13, 2009

  Source: Mashable!

  Just because you are big does not mean that you do everything correctly. I wonder if the team at Google new about this but just decided it wasn’t an issue?

  When you’re a huge web company, and you choose a name for something as important as a new programming language, you should take great care to investigate whether the name is already taken. Apparently, Google didn’t do that. Frank McCabe, a developer working at San Jose, Calif.-based Starview Technologies, has created a programming language and named it Go years ago. In fact, he published a research paper about it in 2004, and devoted an ent…

• 40 Beautifully-Designed Navigation Menus

  Published: November 11, 2009

  Source: Vandelay Design Blog

  Navigation menus are, of course, important for usability purposes and creating a user-friendly website, but they also provide opportunities to add some visual appeal to the design. In this post we’ll showcase 40 examples of attractive navigation menus, including a variety of different types and styles. For more on navigation menus please see: 50+ Gorgeous Navigation Menus 50 Gorgeous Navigation Menus – Part II Utah Travel Lift Interactive…

• 40 Free High-Quality WordPress Themes

  Published: November 12, 2009

  Source: Smashing Magazine

    High quality free Wordpress Themes have become harder and harder to find in the past year, with the influx of premium themes, more and more designers and developers are selling themes (and rightly so, they do amazing work). However, the quality of freely available themes has improved as well; in fact, some themes are very advanced and professional and can serve as a solid foundation for your next designs.There are a lot of choices out there…

• 11 Ways to Influence People Online and Make Them Take Action

  Published: November 11, 2009

  Source: Dosh Dosh

  Influence can be defined as the power exerted over the minds and behavior of others. A power that can affect, persuade and cause changes to someone or something. In order to influence people, you first need to discover what is already influencing them. What makes them tick? What do they care about? We need some leverage to work with when we’re trying to change how people think and behave. But there’s a problem. You won’t be able to m…

• Why Didn’t Pownce Trounce Twitter? – with Leah Culver

  Published: November 12, 2009

  Source: mixergy.com

  Always great to see success and failure…

  We talked about more than Pownce and Twitter in this interview. Leah Culver is a developer who launched many projects. …

• The Crunchies Are Coming, The Crunchies Are Coming!

  Published: November 11, 2009

  Source: TechCrunch

  Let the trumpets sound and the games begin. It’s not the Oscars or the Olympics, but it is the commencement of the 3rd annual Crunchies Awards that we’re pleased to co-host with GigaOm and VentureBeat (click for their coverage today). Yes, this is the time of year that we stop bickering among ourselves as bloggers, and come together to honor the startups, products and entrepreneurs who make our lives so much fun. The Crunchies Awards celebrat…

• 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.9

  Published: November 11, 2009

  Source: Technosailor.com

  Gentlemen, start your engines! WordPress 2.9 is just around the corner. Unlike WordPress 2.8, which Mark Jaquith describes as the Snow Leopard of WordPress since most of the basis of the WordPress 2.8 upgrade was complete rewrites and optimization of the infrastructure that ran WordPress instead of providing lots of new features in the same way Apple’s new OS X release is a focus on improved performance instead of features, WordPress 2.9 brings…

• 7 Deadly Sins of Blogging

  Published: November 12, 2009

  Source: Freelance Advice and Resources – Freelancer Magazine

  Guest blogger Jimi Olaghere is a young business owner who runs Broke Tycoon, a blog and forum with advice for business and marketing techniques. Seems like everyone is a blogger these days, publishing articles on personal or freelance business blogs, updating statuses on twitter – even commenting on previously written articles. Face it, we’re blogging. But how can we stand out in a sea of keyboard happy drones? Repent from these sins and may…

• Clicker.com

  Published: November 11, 2009

  Source: ZePy

  Clicker.com s a  video search engine, which aims to index all of the movies, TV shows and other video content available online and arrange it by network, genre and show name. Clicker.com launches with an index of 300,000 episodes from over 5,200 shows on 1,200 networks, in addition to 1,200 movies and 50,000 music videos. The company has a deal with Boxee, and said it will soon also index Netflix’s 14,000 available movie titles. Roughly 30,000…

• Younger Women Step to Social Beat – eMarketer

  Published: November 11, 2009

  Source: www.emarketer.com

  Generation Y females have redefined the idea of “peer group” to encompass online friends, bloggers and anonymous reviewers, according to the “Why Y Women?” report from PopSugar and Radar Research. Lo

• Vivaty Takes Social Games Back-end Platform Live

  Published: November 11, 2009

  Source: Virtual Worlds News

  With social games development reaching an inflection point, third parties which base their business model on providing the tech components of social games may be in for a windfall. One such company, Vivaty, today announced a back-end tech solution for social game creators, its Social Gaming Platform.Writing on the company blog, Vivaty co-founder and CEO Keith McCurdy calls the launch of the platform an important evolution for the company. The…

• Social Dev Playdom Raises $43 Million

  Published: November 11, 2009

  Source: Gamasutra News

  Social game developer Playdom, which focuses on MySpace- and Facebook-hosted games including Mobsters and Sorority Life, has raised $43 million in a venture capital funding round. According to a TechCrunch report, the studio’s Series A financing pulled in investors including New Enterprise Associates, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Norwest Venture Partners. Playdom co-founder and chairman Rick Thompson also further invested into the company. Pl…

• 13 Tools for Building Your Own iPhone App

  Published: November 10, 2009

  Source: www.readwriteweb.com

  These days, everyone wants to build their own iPhone applications, but not everyone knows how write the code necessary in order to create them. Fortunately, there are now …

• Find the 15-Minute Competitive Advantage

  Published: November 9, 2009

  Source: HarvardBusiness.org

  Just because this is a time of transformation doesn’t mean that it’s easy to sell transformational ideas. Economic uncertainty has reduced the audience for bold, grand rhetoric. Besides, even in boom times innovation is risky. Innovators often have to ease anxieties by sounding conservative while doing something radical. We all want breakthroughs; it’s just that we can’t know exactly which of the bold new ideas will break through. For every Must…

• We’re combining forces with EA!

  Published: November 9, 2009

  Source: Life at Playfish

  We at Playfish are proud to announce that we are joining the Electronic Arts family, one of the most successful games companies in the world. Read the full press release in our press section for the official announcement. Needless to say we’re very excited about the increased resources and scale that this brings to Playfish and ultimately to our players. We can’t wait to start exploring social versions of some of the well-loved franchises th…

• 25 Outstanding Lighting Effect Tutorials for Photoshop

  Published: November 9, 2009

  Source: Vandelay Design Blog

  Lighting effects are a great way to make an impact with a design, and there are plenty of options for creating these effects with Photoshop. In the past we have published collections of Photoshop tutorials for lighting effects and they drawn a lot of interest from readers, so here is a collection of newer tutorials. For more, see: 40 Photoshop Tutorials for Lighting and Abstract Effects 40 Photoshop Tutorials for Amazing Lighting Effects – Par…

• EA trims its 2010 lineup, focuses on high-profit games

  Published: November 10, 2009

  Source: Joystiq

  As the mushroom cloud still hangs in the air after Electronic Art’s devastating quarterly report, which also brought with it 1,500 layoffs, the publisher plans to focus on games that are sure bets. MCV notes EA CEO John Riccitiello’s statement, made during an investor conference call yesterday, that the company will release approximately 30 titles in its 2010 fiscal year, a 50 percent cut from fiscal year 2008. Develop picked up on the executive…

• Bloggers and (Personal) Brand-Building

  Published: November 5, 2009

  Source: eMarketer Articles

  Gaining visibility as thought leaders

• Ad:tech Panel Urges Deliberate Approach to Social Media

  Published: November 10, 2009

  Source: ClickZ News

  Participating in social media can help a brand in many ways, but to be successful, the brand’s strategy needs to tie social media into business objectives.

• Social Media Users Tout Brands

  Published: November 5, 2009

  Source: Adweek.com – Top News

  Almost half of Facebookers, Tweeters use networks to talk about products and brands.

• Fox News Makes ‘Room’ for Web Video Strategy

  Published: November 9, 2009

  Source: Adweek.com – Top News

  Born as a wall-to-wall political channel about a year ago during the peak of the heated 2008 presidential race, Strategy Room was a short-term experiment — that clicked. Now, it’s at the forefront of an expanding amount of live news programming on the Internet. And it is also helping to elevate the digital reputation of Fox News — a group that just a few years ago was an also-ran on the Web, despite utterly dominating news ratings on cable TV.

• Marketing Spending Pays Off for Small Biz

  Published: November 8, 2009

  Source: eMarketer Articles

  Spending money to make money

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• US Cyworld Will No Longer Be Able To Service

  Published: November 5, 2009

  Source: TechCrunch

  Ah, Engrish. There’s a whole world of funny translations out there to laugh at. Cyworld, the massive Korean based virtual world, is shutting down its U.S. site, which draws all of 112,000 monthly visitors according to Comscore. And while the shutdown is sort of sad, the message they sent to users more than makes up for it. The translation is bad. Not Matrix DVD cover in Korean bad, but bad. Yes, I know Americans and others butcher other langua…

• Founder Institute On Track To Graduate 300 Startups Per Year, Expands To New York

  Published: November 4, 2009

  Source: TechCrunch

  More expansion news from Adeo Ressi’s Founder Institute. The startup incubator is steadily expanding. It recently opened up an outpost in Seattle, and now is expanding to New York. “New York City needs a kick in the pants,” says Ressi. The Winter New York City Semester will be led by Razorfish co-founder Craig Kanarick. Mentors for the program will include Munjal Shah, Patrick Keane, Max Hoat and others. You can apply here. The Founder I…

• MYTH BUSTED: Internet Use Doesn’t Lead to Isolation

  Published: November 4, 2009

  Source: Mashable!

  Imagine this: once a happy child with a lot of friends, little Jack has started spending many hours per day on social networking sites such as Facebook, which has turned him into a pale asocial freak. Oh, if only he’d never touched that cursed box we call the computer, he’d be a healthy young man now! This is the picture we’ve been fed a lot by the media (did you see the movie Gamer? I rest my case), but according to a study conducted by th…

• Playing Games with Media Usage

  Published: November 3, 2009

  Source: eMarketer Articles

  The third screen?

• Gen Y Holds Tight to E-Mail and Texting

  Published: November 4, 2009

  Source: eMarketer Articles

  My Note: Don’t give up on email yet!

  Critical for communication

• DMCA: Is It a Muzzle or Security?

  Published: November 4, 2009

  Source: FreelanceSwitch

  Since the advent of the Internet as a wide-open information conduit there has been a lot of worry amongst legislators, media corporations, and others with a stake in preventing content piracy to create a law that would add teeth to copyright for electronic communications. The long discussions, lobbying, and heated arguments between interested parties were loud and public. The end result was the passing of a complex law called The Digital Millenn…

• 30 Photo Effect Photoshop Tutorials Every Designer Will Love

  Published: November 4, 2009

  Source: Graphic and Web Design Blog -Resources And Tutorials

  Few days ago I created this article 105 People Photo Manipulation Works You Will Really Marvel with amazing photo manipulation works. This time I went step further and actually tried to find tutorials teaching you how to achieve such effects! Of course, I didn’t find the same effects there, but if you look closer and really study these tutorials I showcased here, you will understand you’ll have all the skills to create such artworks! More or…

• Essential CSS/HTML Lists Styling Techniques

  Published: November 4, 2009

  Source: Noupe

  By Justin Johnson Certain elements in HTML lend themselves to many situations when marking up a website, one of the more useful of these elements is the HTML list. Using lists, a developer can markup horizontal navigation, dropdown navigation, a list of links, and even scrolling content panels (with the help of Javascript). These features can help developers build new sites and applications as well as integrate new content into existing applicati…

• Google aims to "connect" users with shared interests

  Published: November 4, 2009

  Source: Ars Technica

  Google is improving its service aimed at providing websites with social networking features by making it easier for users with shared interests to connect with one another. The company has announced a number of new features for its Google Friend Connect that center on collecting and utilizing information about a site users’ interests. The new features start off with a several ways to poll use…

• Domain Industry Rocked By Shill Auction Bidding Admission

  Published: November 4, 2009

  Source: TechCrunch

  Anyone who doesn’t know how dirty the domain name business is just doesn’t know the domain name business. People pay exorbitant sums to acquire domain names, put Google or Yahoo ads on the parked pages, and collect the advertising fees. They often buy and sell individual domains and portfolios with other domain squatters. But the real feeding frenzy is around deleting domains – the domain names that people let expire and that go back into g…

• After onstage spat, Offerpal replaces CEO

  Published: November 4, 2009

  Source: The Social

  Departing CEO Anu Shukla says the offers-and-surveys company has been hunting for a new chief exec for "many months," but the timing is a little suspect considering recent media scrutiny of its business model.

• Second Life Goes Behind The Firewall

  Published: November 4, 2009

  Source: ReadWriteWeb

  Second Life is introducing a behind the firewall service for enterprise customers, another sign that the very definition of collaboration is changing as more companies seek ways to do their work in virtual environments. In addition, Second Life will unveil a marketplace in the first quarter of 2010 where people may purchase templates and other 3D environments for their Second Life Enterprise world. Sponsor We hear so much about how "people," ar…

• PayPal woos developers with $150K challenge

  Published: November 4, 2009

  Source: VentureBeat

  PayPal has been making a big deal about convincing developers to build cool applications using its global payments platform. Today it added a little more incentive, by announcing the PayPal X Developer challenge, where the creators of the most innovative payments apps will receive a total of $150,000 in cash and waived PayPal transaction fees. Basically, the PayPal platform is supposed to give companies and developers more flexibility about how t…

• Goodbye Microsoft, the next chapter

  Published: November 4, 2009

  Source: Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing

  Microsoft announced more layoffs today, and I was one of them. This was a total surprise to me, and management offered no explanation. This is pretty standard procedure, mostly for legal reasons, but none the less left me with a cold feeling…but only for a minute or two. Today I start thinking about the next chapter in my life. It is always exciting to look beyond your normal boundaries and think about new possibilities. Being totally consumed…

• Microsoft Dumps Don Dodge

  Published: November 4, 2009

  Source: Xconomy

  Layoffs, Microsoft, IT Wade Roush wrote: Don Dodge, admired by many technology entrepreneurs as Microsoft’s enthusiastic ambassador to the startup world, is one of those swept up in today’s big round of layoffs at the software giant. Dodge was director of business development for the Emerging Business Team, working from Microsoft’s offices in Cambridge, MA. Dodge revealed the news in a post on his own blog today. He said the termi…

• Google Boston growing

  Published: November 4, 2009

  Source: Daily Business Update

  Steve Vinter, engineering director of Google Boston, said today that the company’s local operation will be "growing very rapidly in the next few months." Vinter made his comments while introducing Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, who was at the company’s Cambridge office to speak to about two dozen journalists. Vinter said there are now 200 employees working at Google’s Kendall Square location. He did not specify how many jobs might be added…

• The future of schooling may lie with video games

  Published: November 4, 2009

  Source: www.economist.com

  SINCE the beginning of mass education, schools have relied on what is known in educational circles as “chalk and talk”. Chalk and blackboard may sometimes be replaced by felt-tip pens and a whiteboard, and electronics in the form of computers may sometimes be bolted on, but the idea of a pedagogue leading his pupils more or less willingly through a day based on periods of study of recognisable academic disciplines, such as mathematics, physic

• 101+1 Small Business Marketing Questions For People Who Don’t Speak Marketing

  Published: November 3, 2009

  Source: Starting a Home Business | Home Business Ideas | Work From Home

  How To Use This List: Pick 25-50 questions. Answer them as honestly and expansively as you can. Follow your intuition. Trust the answers to lead you to make the right decisions. Come back in three months and do it again, with the same or different questions. Do that and you’ll have a better marketing plan than anybody I know. Including me. 1. What do I love to do so much that it doesn’t feel like work? 2. What parts of that activity are my fa…

• “Too Smart For Your Own Good?”

  Published: November 4, 2009

  Source: PR-Squared

  I’ve written more than once in the past about the need for marketers to avoid Shiny Object Syndrome and, more recently, to Think Organically when it comes to Social Media. Guess what?  Not everybody reads my blog. As we have found ourselves increasingly competing not just against PR firms but against different types of marketing agencies, e.g., advertising, marcomm, branding, we have on occassion lost the bid because the Other Guys wowed the u…

• Steve Smith on HTML5 and CSS3

  Published: November 4, 2009

  Source: Carsonified » Blog

  Next up in our series of web deisgn interviews is Steve Smith from Ordered List. Steve is a recognised authority on front-end development, interface design and is also the co-founder of Sidebar Creative. As an author, public speaker, and University of Notre Dame professor, he is passionate about sharing his knowledge with others. Editor’s Note: Steve will be hosting a workshop on “How to build a HTML5/CSS3 Website Today” at The Future of We…

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• 30 Jaw Dropping 3D Character Creations | Tutorial9

  Published: October 29, 2009

  Source: www.tutorial9.net

  From Toy Story to Bolt, animation has brought us an array of wonderful characters to cherish and enjoy. This roundup highlights a selection of simply awe inspiring 3D characters.

• 5 Fresh & Innovative Collaboration Platforms For The Creative Community

  Published: October 28, 2009

  Source: Inspired Magazine

  OK, we had 10 Niche Social Networks to Get Your Design Creativity On but now we have more! Here are five of the newest and most effective social outlets that help designers, web artists and other creative ppl to find new collaborations. What’s your favorite creative network for collabs? Talenthouse Talenthouse is a global creative platform for artists, providing opportunities for recognition, collaboration, and compensation Haystack With Ha…

• Creating a Timeless User Experience

  Published: October 27, 2009

  Source: Six Revisions

  If we could tear into the fabric of time and look a decade into the future, what kind of experience might we find? It’s easy to imagine the technology would be much more advanced. Something out of a film like Minority Report with holographic touchscreens, or so advanced of an A.I. (artificial intelligence) that the application anticipates solutions without the user having to do much else. In reality the kinds of products, websites, and…

• HOW TO: Measure Social Media ROI

  Published: October 27, 2009

  Source: mashable.com

  Measuring ROI on social media is difficult, and recent surveys have found that most people don’t do it. Use our guide to learn how to measure ROI the right way.

• WOW: iPhone Reaches 100,000 Approved Apps

  Published: October 27, 2009

  Source: Mashable!

  It hasn’t been publicly announced by Apple, who like pointing out milestones that make them look great, but if you look at the stats over at unofficial iPhone App directory App Shopper, there are currently 101,751 approved apps available for the iPhone. In August, we reported that there were 65,000 iPhone apps available. It took about 2 and a half months for that number to reach 100,000 – truly a remarkable feat. Have in mind that this is th…

• Do you have what it takes to be a founder?

  Published: October 27, 2009

  Source: VentureBeat

  (Editor’s note: Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank is the author of Four Steps to the Epiphany. This column originally appeared on his blog.) When my students ask me about whether they should be a founder or cofounder of a startup I ask them to take a walk around the block and ask themselves the following series of questions: Are you comfortable with chaos? (Startups are disorganized) Are you comfortable with uncertainty? (Startups neve…

• The Next App Store: Google Wave

  Published: October 27, 2009

  Source: Mashable!

  Google Wave may still be in its infancy, but it’s already looking towards the future – a future that includes monetization. And part of that monetization will apparently come from an iPhone (or Android)-like app store, where developers can market Wave apps and consumers can buy them, with Google presumably taking a cut. According to The Next Web, Google confirmed an app store is in the works at an event in London on Monday. The blog specula…

• Google Custom Search Rolls Out Themes, Improved Support For Structured Data, And More

  Published: October 26, 2009

  Source: TechCrunch

  Google has just announced the release of a handful of major new features for its Google Custom Search products, including a new set of themes, improved use of rich snippets in custom search, and a new Wikipedia search. The announcements aren’t especially related, but they’ll be welcome news to the millions of sites that have deployed Custom Search. For those that don’t know it, Wikipedia’s search is powered by Google Custom Search behind…

• Modern CSS Layouts: The Essential Characteristics

  Published: October 26, 2009

  Source: Smashing Magazine

     Now is an exciting time to be creating CSS layouts. After years of what felt like the same old techniques for the same old browsers, we’re finally seeing browsers implement CSS 3, HTML 5 and other technologies that give us cool new tools and tricks for our designs. But all of this change can be stressful, too. How do you keep up with all of the new techniques and make sure your Web pages look great on the increasi…

• Web Tools To Help Run Your Online Business

  Published: October 26, 2009

  Source: John Jonas Blog

  There are a lot of online tools I use in running my business. Tools which at one point I didn’t know existed, and when I found out about them, I said “HOLY COW!!! THAT SAVES ME HOURS OF TIME AND THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS!!!” I attempted to create this list somewhat here, but it was just too much content creation for me (I just don’t like creating ongoing content…that’s why I only blog once a month!). So, here’s a big laundry list of too…

• Super-Clean and Minimal Web Designs: 70+ Stunning Examples and Resources

  Published: October 26, 2009

  Source: instantShift

  The web industry nowadays is very productive. During these years there have been many trends followed and every day the designers experiment new techniques creating new tendencies in the art of making website. Recently is evident the necessity of a direct communication with customers and a website is the first place where a company can make know their cool stuff and services. A well-designed website is important for the growth of a business and o…

• 5 Plugins To Make Your WordPress Blog Blazing Fast

  Published: October 22, 2009

  Source: ProBlogger Blog Tips

  This is a guest post by Sid Savara, whose main passion is personal development and personal productivity. Follow Sid on twitter @sidsavara for motivation, inspiration and just chatting If a tree falls in a forest, I don’t know if anyone hears it – but when your blog crashes or takes forever to load, I guarantee you nobody is reading. When you work hard on your content, but aren’t able to capitalize on the attention because your blog takes…

• GeoCities Closes Tomorrow: Goodbye, Old Friend

  Published: October 25, 2009

  Source: Mashable!

  My Note: WOW…pour a 40z for this one!

  So, we’ve come to the end of the road. The service that hosted the first website for a generation is set to close down tomorrow. If you’re a GeoCities user, you’ve been given plenty of warning, but you can still hop over there and get your data out today before current owner Yahoo turns out the lights. Meanwhile, the Archive Team’s Geocities Project is doing its best to archive as many GeoCities pages as possible, meaning that select…

• Highland Capital Partners: Great Firm, Real Value Beyond the Money

  Published: October 25, 2009

  Source: TheFunded.com

  | Posted by Seth Priebatsch – CEO – SCVNGR | Fund Rated 2.7Background: Most reviews (on this site especially) have huge biases, so hopefully I’ll be able to give my review some credibility with a bit of background and lack of anonymity. My name is Seth Priebatsch and I’m the CEO (and Chief Ninja) of SCVNGR (www.scvngr.com). We are funded by Highland and have been working with them for over a year now and have had a fantastic experience. Highlan…

• Google Sketchup: 3D For The Rest Of Us

  Published: October 20, 2009

  Source: 3dvia – Twingly Blog Search

  3D modeling applications are notoriously complex and can take years to learn. Complicated modeling tools, infinite material setting variables, lighting radiance adjustments, multiple cameras, UVs, etc…

• Anyone Still Using Friendfeed?

  Published: October 13, 2009

  Source: CenterNetworks

  Remember Friendfeed? The ultimate sharing service that was going to beat Twitter and reach the mainstream in a big way? Web trending service Compete shows Friendfeed down nearly 30% in September with 750,000 U.S. unique visitors.  This is down from just over 1 million unique visitors in August 2009. Former Forrester analyst Jeremiah Owyang noted this past weekend, “To be honest, Friendfeed doesn’t have the same appeal it used to post-FB acqu…

• Entrepreneur Corner Roundup: Must haves vs. nice to haves and a particularly harsh lesson learned

  Published: October 17, 2009

  Source: VentureBeat

  Here’s the latest from VentureBeat’s Entrepreneur Corner: How to make friends and influence people (and convert them) – Social media can be a good marketing tool for your company, but if you’re able to become a trusted resource for people via Facebook or Twitter, then you’re really on to something special, notes YoungEntrepreneur.com co-founder Adam Toren. Is your product a “must have” or “nice to have”? – Many entrepreneurs…

• Google Enterprise Campaign Shifts Into High Gear on Eve of Sharepoint Conference

  Published: October 19, 2009

  Source: ReadWriteWeb

  On the eve of Microsoft’s Sharepoint conference in Las Vegas, Google is launching the international phase of an advertising campaign that is the largest ever for its push into the enterprise and one of the most extensive in the company’s history. The "Gone Google" campaign is significant in a number of ways. Sharepoint is one of Microsoft’s crown jewels. It’s a huge business. The technology generates a cool $1 billion in revenues. The technolog…

• With 3 million fans, Fantage formally launches virtual world for kids

  Published: October 18, 2009

  Source: VentureBeat

  While many kids virtual worlds have come and gone, Fantage has quietly built an audience of 3 million registered users. Today, it is formally launching its web site. The company has managed to do what lots of other kids sites have failed to do: get an audience by offering fun games and social activities in a safe, parent-friendly setting. And they did so just by observing kids, building what they like, and starting over when things didn’t work,…

• Feature: State of the Blogosphere 2009 – Technorati

  Published: October 19, 2009

  Source: technorati.com

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• Free 83 Professional Logos With PSD Files | TutZonePublished: October 17, 2009

  Source: tutzone.net

  A Logo is one aspect of any blog or a company’s commercial brand which is used to identify different sites or blogs or a particular brand. Logo design is an important area of graphic design, and one of the most difficult to perfect.

• 21 Popular Brands That Are Using WordPressPublished: October 17, 2009

  Source: www.wpbeginner.com

  21 Popular Brands That Are Using WordPress. These brands include, wired, sony, wsj and many more. This goes on to show that WordPress is the best.

• Jackpot Rewards Raises $12MPublished: October 16, 2009

  Source: Xconomy

  IT, deals, debt Wade Roush wrote: Jackpot Rewards, a Newton, MA-based startup that runs cash-back rewards programs and sweepstakes for online shoppers, has raised just over $12 million in new financing in the form of convertible debt, according to regulatory documents filed today. We profiled the company in February 2008, when it first announced its plans to give away a $1 million jackpot every week; the company generated controversy late…

• Google on Reputation Management TipsPublished: October 16, 2009

  Source: The Steve Rubel Lifestream

  Three quick tips from Google on managing your personal reputation online. What’s notable here is how integrated PR is in doing so… "If you can’t get the content removed from the original site, you probably won’t be able to completely remove it from Google’s search results, either. Instead, you can try to reduce its visibility in the search results by proactively publishing useful, positive information about yourself or your business." Big f…

• Keep Your Friends Organized: Twitter Expands Lists BetaPublished: October 16, 2009

  Source: ReadWriteWeb

  Twitter rolled out a limited beta of its new lists feature to a larger number of users late last night. With these new lists, Twitter users can now organize their friends into groups. By default, these lists are private, but one of the most interesting aspects of this new feature is that users can also make their lists public – something many Twitter users have been looking forward to for a long time. Sponsor Third-party Twitter clients and t…

• 2009 State Of The Blogosphere: The Full BlogWorld PresentationPublished: October 16, 2009

  Source: TechCrunch

  Technorati CEO Richard Jalichandra, fresh off a new funding and site relaunch, is showing some of the highlights from their annual State of the Blogosphere report today at BlogWorld in Las Vegas. We’ll have a video of his full video presentation shortly. In the meantime, we’re embedding the power point presentation below. Key points Jalichandra brought up – What’s the no. 1 success metric for a professional blogger? What do successful bl…

• So much for that venture capital recoveryPublished: October 16, 2009

  Source: VentureBeat

  Optimists hoping that venture capital investing might be bouncing back will be disappointed by the latest numbers from Dow Jones VentureSource. After venture investments saw an encouraging uptick during the second quarter of 2009, they dipped again in the last three months. Specifically, VCs invested $5.1 billion in 616 deals during Q3. That’s down 38 percent from the $8.2 billion invested during the same period last year, a drop you’d expec…

• Real-Time Web Summit KeynotePublished: October 15, 2009

  Source: ReadWriteWeb

  Our own Marshall Kirkpatrick kicked off our Real-Time Web Summit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View today. Marshall, who spoke with over 40 different vendors over the last few months in preparation for this event, presented a high-level overview of what he thinks the recent developments around the real-time web will mean for companies and users. Specifically, Marshall stressed the fact that real time doesn’t just mean speed but also…

• 30 Tutorials for Designing Fun and Creative Characters | Vandelay Design BlogPublished: October 15, 2009

  Source: vandelaydesign.com

  Web Design and Development Blog

• 25 Bright Wordpress Themes Using Popping ColorsPublished: October 14, 2009

  Source: Inspired Magazine

  You have to be bold these days to be noticed! You have to wear some funky stuff to look a bit cooler. So after the huge success of our article on websites using popping colors we decided to make a WP themes roundup as well. Pandora | $30 | Details | Demo Pandora is a WordPress Template, designed to promote anything from a corporate business to a portfolio site Blogus | $45 + a FREE theme | Details | Demo Blogus theme is perfect for a world tra…

• Why does everyone think they are a social media expert? / eightyone design / graphic design blogPublished: October 15, 2009

  Source: www.eightyonedesign.co.uk

  As I scroll through my twitter feed on any given day, I can guarantee you there will be at least a dozen people promoting their Social Media workshops.

• Apple Opens iPhone In-App Microtransactions To Free AppsPublished: October 15, 2009

  Source: Gamasutra News

  Apple iPhone developers now have the option to offer in-app content purchases within free software; previously, such functionality was available only within paid applications. The expanded capability was reported by Macworld, citing a screenshot of an iPhone Developer Program notice. It means iPhone developers finally have full access to the so-called "free-to-play" business model, most common in online PC games, which offers the base client at n…

• Google Wave More Secure than Traditional EmailPublished: October 15, 2009

  Source: ReadWriteWeb

  Google Wave, the company’s new real-time collaboration platform currently in private beta, is more secure than traditional email, claims the company. According to Greg D’alesandre, Google Wave product manager, that’s because Google has focused on addressing privacy and security issues as the product was built from the ground up instead of waiting to deal with them later. Speaking to media in Sydney today, he detailed several of Wave’s security fe…

• 14 Options for Managing Membership WebsitesPublished: October 14, 2009

  Source: Vandelay Design Blog

  Membership websites have increased in popularity in recent years. They present an excellent income opportunity for the site owner and a great value (depending on the content) for users. If you have thought about setting up a membership site but weren’t sure where to get started, here is a look at 14 options that will allow you to get started with your own membership site. AMember AMember is probably the most popular choice for managing a member…

• AWESOME: Urbanspoon iPhone App Adds Augmented RealityPublished: October 14, 2009

  Source: Mashable!

  The mobile augmented reality space continues to heat up, with Wikitude and Layar on Android and the Yelp Monocle debuting AR on the iPhone. Today another iPhone app gets the augmented reality treatment, this time with restaurant-finding Urbanspoon’s new “Scope” feature. The AR adds to Urbanspoon’s existing featureset, where you can browse or search for a good restaurant nearby or, with a surprisingly fun gesture, shake the phone to get a…

• Investors Lighted $228M Fire Under Massachusetts Startups in SeptemberPublished: October 13, 2009

  Source: Xconomy

  VC, deals, startups Robert Buderi wrote: It wasn’t just school that people got back to in September—it was startup funding. After slowing noticeably in August, the total venture investment into Massachusetts startups last month hit its highest level since we began tracking the monthly figures in June. All told, investors put $228 million into 25 deals involving Bay State startups. That was good enough to eclipse the $215 million (als…

• Google Earth deepens crowdsourcing with Building MakerPublished: October 13, 2009

  Source: VentureBeat

  Building a comprehensive 3-D model of the world is definitely not going to be a top-down task. So Google Earth is taking a page from the company’s crowdsourced success with Map Maker and is asking people to help create 3-D versions of buildings around the world. They’ve kept the program fairly simple. You don’t have to create a building from scratch: instead you make it from photos that already exist within Google Earth and give them a thre…

• Twitter Warning: Don’t Change Your Email, Username or Password!Published: October 13, 2009

  Source: Mashable!

  This is just a quick service announcement: Twitter is investigating an issue with users becoming locked out of the service after changing their email address or username, or resetting their passwords. In the meantime: do not change your password, email address or Twitter handle. Until Twitter corrects the issue, it’s best not to attempt any of these changes at this time. They go on to say that if you have made any of these changes but do manag…

• Cliqset: FriendFeed Done RightPublished: October 13, 2009

  Source: Mashable!

  Last week in the Mashable Chat, Pete and Robert Scoble were discussing FriendFeed and some of the reasons the service failed to take off with mainstream users. The influx of information, the inability to control what you see and the overall ease-of-use were all reasons mentioned why the service will probably be better used as technology infrastructure for Facebook rather than something users use in and of itself. Today, the social networking serv…

• Google Wave’s Little Secret: It Already Works On The iPhonePublished: October 13, 2009

  Source: TechCrunch

  Google Wave, the search giant’s latest experiment in post-email communications, is hardly out the gate, with some of the first 100,000 private beta testers still waiting for their invites. (I just finally got mine today, two weeks after launch). But Google Wave already has a few secrets. The one that surprised me is that even though not that many people can use it yet, Google Wave already works on the iPhone. There are two ways to get Goo…

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• 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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• 8 Awesome Mashups Made Possible by APIs
• What I’ve Earned (And Learned) From Writing “Beginning Ruby”
• eMarketer Analyzes Latest Ad Spend Numbers – eMarketer
• PermissionTV Reinvents Itself as VisibleGains, Offers Interactive Video for Sales and Marketing
• Reed Sturtevant Leaves Microsoft Startup Labs
• Master Their Rules of Engagement to Get on Well with Colleagues [Office Culture]
• Burst Media Pays $2.1M For Giant Realm Site Rep Firm
• PR is Dead: Was I Supposed to Care?
• Open Source E-Commerce Shopping Carts – Best Of
• WhoDoYouKnowAt: A more exclusive, private LinkedIn
• $1.5M for LegiTime Technologies
• “Not Your Father’s Route 128″: Jason Schupbach Promotes Massachusetts’ Creative Economy
• Fresh Web Development Goodies Bag
• HOW TO: Start Selling Downloads from your Wordpress Blog in 5 Minutes
• 10 Qualitative Tools to Improve Your Website
• Curt Schilling’s 38 Studios Working On PS3 RPG
• The History and Evolution of Social Media
• Boston knocked from atop "Best Sports Cities" list
• Google Wave 101 [Google Wave]
• News: Habbo Hotel developer lays off 40 staff
• Mobile Advertising Is Shaping Up To Be All Search
• doubleTwist Unveils An Alternative To The iTunes Music Store, Powered By Amazon MP3
• As Legislators Ponder Non-Compete Agreements, A Look at Massachusetts’ Innovation History
• Do You Go to Google.com?
• First Firefox Adopters Feeling Something’s Wrong With Latest Versions
• Dutch Music Rights Association Plans To Charge $32 Per Embedded YouTube Video
• PopCap Moves Deeper into Social Gaming with $22.5M Round
• iPhone Dev Reports $9,600 in Monthly In-App Advertising Revenue
• R.I.P. Good Times: One Year Later
• Ident Engine: Put Activity Streams on Your Site Easily
• Box.net Acquires Increo Solutions To Expand Document Collaboration And Sharing
• Massive: In-Game Ads Thriving
• Tweetmeme Adds Analytics To Make Sense Of Twitter Links
• Android Phones with Google Voice are Coming to Verizon
• Sony Unveils ‘Fantasy Island’ Reality Show
• Bing loses search market share, Google gains :: BtoB Magazine
• Traditional Takes Top Spot for News – eMarketer
• Pros and Cons of Online Ad Networks – eMarketer
• The Sea of Ideas » Why I would hire game developers for my startup

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• Avatar Toys Go Augmented Reality, Courtesy Of Mattel And Total Immersion

  Published: October 2, 2009

  Source: TechCrunch

  This is a crazy fun demo of the new Avatar toys by Mattel. Each toy includes a little card that is scannable via webcam and creates an on-screen augmented reality robot or character. While this is old hat for most of us, Mattel is quite proud of being ahead of the curve and for good reason. You can see more demos at AvatarItag.com. Total Immersion made the technology and even added a little “button” system to the cards. When you touch a spot…

• Women Rule the Social Web

  Published: October 3, 2009

  Source: Mashable!

  …at least according to an infographic by Information is Beautiful. The stats, compiled by Brian Solis from Google Ad Planner data, show that equal numbers of men and women use sites like LinkedIn, DeviantArt and YouTube. When it comes to sites like Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, MySpace and Bebo, however, women outnumber men. In fact, there’s only one major holdout for men on the social web: social news site Digg, where 64% of user…

• Leo Laporte Makes $1.5 Million Per Year from Podcasting [Video]

  Published: October 3, 2009

  Source: Mashable!

  Podcast pioneer Leo Laporte gave a talk at the Online News Association Conference in San Francisco on Friday, giving insights into the future of media coupled with anecdotes from his work in television and radio. The keynote, entitled “Lunch with Leo”, runs 40 minutes, but it’s well worth the time if you’re involved in online media and broadcasting. The most interesting tidbit: Laporte’s TWiT (This Week in Tech) network does $1.5 milli…

• Noupe Has A New Owner: Smashing Magazine

  Published: October 1, 2009

  Source: Noupe

  Today, I have some very big news at Noupe. I am thrilled to announce that Noupe has been acquired by Smashing Magazine. This is certainly both a good move for Noupe and a benefit to our readers. I am very happy that Smashing Magazine wants to invest in growing the vision that I believe so strongly in. Smashing Magazine will bring many exciting things to Noupe in the next few months as this relationship takes form. Right now, we are still finalizi…

• 10 Creative Magazines With Blog & Twitter Friendly Websites

  Published: October 1, 2009

  Source: Inspired Magazine

  A few years back every blogger wanted a magazine theme, to have a ton of featured articles in header and so on, but this trend is no longer hot. Now every magazine wants a blog for the homepage. So here are the coolest 10 bloggy magazines we found. As usual, please share links and opinions in the comments area. Enjoy! Esquire UK | @esquireuk Good | @good Frankie | @frankiemagazine Creative Review | @creativereview Bitch | @bitchmedia Acclai…

• 7 Fresh & Effective Shopping Themes for Wordpress

  Published: October 2, 2009

  Source: Inspired Magazine

  Man, Wordpress is so cool in so many ways! Need a website for your school project? There’s a theme for that! Need a small landing page for a new product you market? There’s a theme for that also! Need a fully customizable E-commerce website? There are quite a few interesting themes for that and we’re here to introduce them: WPA Storefront | $30 | Details | Demo This theme solves that problem by using the existing WP-E-Commerce plugin code…

• Silicon Valley Beats Boston in VC-Backed Flameouts, Too

  Published: October 2, 2009

  Source: Xconomy

  VC, startups, Busts Robert Buderi wrote: As you might have noticed around Boston, a lot of people like to whine about how California and especially Silicon Valley are, well, just better at startups. Entrepreneurs flock to California, where venture capitalists take more risks. Why, oh why, can’t we be more like Silicon Valley? Well, it turns out VCs and entrepreneurs in California beat Boston and Massachusetts in another measure: big ve…

• Nvidia Dives Deeper into Supercomputing with Fermi

  Published: October 1, 2009

  Source: Digital Trends

  Graphics technology developer Nvidia has formally introduced its next generation graphics architecture, codenamed Fermi, which Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang described as putting a supercomputer into a GPU. Unlike traditional GPUs, which are optimized for rendering and graphics tasks, the Fermi architecture is intended to put standard computing operations and graphics procedures on equal footing, enabling developers to leverage the…

• Google Wave 1.0 = RSS, the Sequel. In Other Words, DoA… for Now

  Published: October 1, 2009

  Source: The Steve Rubel Lifestream

  You cant spend any time on Twitter without geeks lusting after Google Wave. Here’s my quick take…it has as much chance catching on as RSS did. I have had a Google Wave sandbox account since late July. It’s slick to be sure. However, what I keep asking myself is this: what problem does it solve? In many ways it’s overly complex. In fact it’s too complex for the era of the Attention Crash where all of us, especially knowledge workers, are cryi…

• WARNING: New Facebook Malware Attack Is Spreading

  Published: October 1, 2009

  Source: Mashable!

  When Facebook attacks, it’s not pretty. We were just remarking on how new ways of spreading malware were plaguing social media, and now the second Facebook-related scam in the past week appears to be spreading. Have a look at the picture below, and if you see a profile similar to what you see in the screenshot, do not click on the video link. If you do, you’ll see a similar “malware warning” to that pictured at right. If you keep followin…

• Want a Google Wave Invite? There’s a Website for That

  Published: October 1, 2009

  Source: Mashable!

  Still hunting for a Google Wave invite? You’re not alone — and in fact, there’s a whole community springing up just to meet your needs. Google Wave Invites is a free “marketplace” for distributing Wave invites, much like have sprung up in the past for Gmail and other popular invite-only beta web apps. If you need an invite, simply sign up with your name and email address and cross your fingers. [UPDATE]: The site is apparently being pou…

• CHART OF THE DAY: The Amazing Cash-For-Clunkers Cliff Dive

  Published: October 1, 2009

  Source: The Business Insider

  This is what an economic strategy of pulling it forward looks like. In August, car buyers were going nuts with a $4,500 incentive to trade clunkers in for brand new cars. Many warned, of course, that these sales would simply end up decreasing future sales, getting us nowhere. Well, September’s here, and… yeah. A monthly sales rate of over 14 million units annualized quickly fell to just above 9 million. Get This Delivered To Your…

• Consider Yourself Served…Via Twitter

  Published: October 1, 2009

  Source: The Business Insider

  @blaneysblarney:  This is the judge.  Stop. A U.K. judge informed an anonymous twitter user who impersonates a British right-wing blogger that he was enjoined from continuing to do so.  Because he was anonymous — and his address therefore unknown — the judge informed @blaneysblarney of his decision in the most efficient way – via Twitter. Reuters:  I think this is a landmark decision to issue a writ via Twitter, said Dr Konstantinos Komaiti…

• Shares of A123 Systems jump after IPO closes

  Published: October 1, 2009

  Source: Daily Business Update

  Associated Press Shares of lithium-ion battery maker A123 Systems Inc. jumped in morning trading, a day after the Watertown-based company closed its initial public offering of 32.4 million shares. A123 Systems shares reached a high for the day of of $24.10 before closing at $22.61, a 6 percent gain. The company raised $437.5 million in its initial public offering, selling the shares at $13.50 each, including 31.7 million shares sold by the co…

• Google Wave Even Has a Mascot: Dr. Wave! [Video]

  Published: September 30, 2009

  Source: Mashable!

  Not long ago, we broke the news that Google has started sending invites for Google Wave. The run-up to the launch of Google’s real-time communication tool has dominated both social media and mainstream media chatter for the last few days. Twitter users have been clamoring for invites (or trying to buy invites on eBay). So what should you expect when you first get your invite and enter Google Wave? Well we know the answer. Mashable’s Jenni…

• Apple Bought An Online Maps Company

  Published: September 30, 2009

  Source: The Business Insider

  Apple quietly bought an online maps company, Placebase, sometime in the past several months. Seth Weintraub at Computerworld was the first to post about it last night, including a LinkedIn profile showing the former Placebace CEO now working on the "Geo Team" at Apple. What’s the point? It could be something innocuous: He might be leading the geocoding and geolocation features on apps like iPhoto and the iPhone’s "find my phone" feature. Or mayb…

• Open Source Web-based Viewer Launched: 3Di Puts OpenSim in the Browser

  Published: September 30, 2009

  Source: Dusan Writer’s Metaverse

  3Di’s Web-based viewer used for on-line commerce 3Di of Japan has released the source code for its browser-based viewer, accelerating the possibility that the ability to access openSim virtual worlds through the browser will become increasingly stable and effective. According to the company press release: 3Di, Inc., which develops and offers 3D Internet solutions (Head office: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; [...]

• Social Site Users Depend on Their Networks

  Published: October 1, 2009

  Source: eMarketer Articles

  My Note: Social networking is one of the most important activities—online and offline—among US social network users, based on results of Beresford Research’s “Use of Online Social Networks” white paper.

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• White papers remain most influential for tech buyers

  Published: September 30, 2009

  Source: BtoB Magazine – News Feeds

  San Franciscoand#8212;White papers, long the standard collateral that marketers use to attract Web site visitors and log conversions, are increasing in influence among technology purchasers, a new study found.

• Guitar Hero, an overnight success, 10 years in the making

  Published: October 1, 2009

  Source: Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing

  Guitar Hero recently released a new version of their smash hit video game that has sold over $1 Billion. To the casual observer Guitar Hero seems like an overnight success, a stroke of luck and genius. But this is a story of tenacity, strong willed entrepreneurs, and patient, supportive investors. I first wrote this story several years ago when I met one of the founders of Guitar Hero at the Nantucket Conference. The recent release of the game m…

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• Leo Laporte Makes $1.5 Million Per Year from Podcasting [Video]
• Women Rule the Social Web
• Avatar Toys Go Augmented Reality, Courtesy Of Mattel And Total Immersion
• 7 Fresh & Effective Shopping Themes for Wordpress
• Silicon Valley Beats Boston in VC-Backed Flameouts, Too
• Want a Google Wave Invite? There’s a Website for That
• WARNING: New Facebook Malware Attack Is Spreading
• Consider Yourself Served…Via Twitter
• CHART OF THE DAY: The Amazing Cash-For-Clunkers Cliff Dive
• Google Wave 1.0 = RSS, the Sequel. In Other Words, DoA… for Now
• Nvidia Dives Deeper into Supercomputing with Fermi
• Noupe Has A New Owner: Smashing Magazine
• Shares of A123 Systems jump after IPO closes
• 10 Creative Magazines With Blog & Twitter Friendly Websites
• Social Site Users Depend on Their Networks
• Guitar Hero, an overnight success, 10 years in the making
• Apple Bought An Online Maps Company
• Google Wave Even Has a Mascot: Dr. Wave! [Video]
• Give Out (and Receive) Your Google Wave Invitations Here [Google Wave]
• Open Source Web-based Viewer Launched: 3Di Puts OpenSim in the Browser
• Comcast In Talks To Buy NBC
• Google Wave First Look
• Twitter’s New ‘Lists’ Feature Finally Introduces Grouping, Offers An Alternative To The SUL
• White papers remain most influential for tech buyers
• Google Wave Invites Are Still Coming … In a Few Hours
• Tens Of Thousands Of Drug Addicts Make Living Defrauding Medicaid
• The Next Great Media Company Won’t Have a Web Site
• Ustream Broadcasters Can Now Make Money With Google Ads
• Delivery Agent Raises $24.85M For Entertainment Mechanizing
• Facebook Just Made It Super Easy To Put Connect On Your Site
• Want HD Video on the iPhone? Akamai Is Making it Possible
• White paper guidelines – less glory, more story
• Blackwave Captures $3.5M Financing
• Ad Dollars Flood to Social Nets
• STUDY: 80% of Twitter Users Are All About Me
• New & Free Social Media Icon Set For Your Blog
• Twitter’s Road To $1 Billion
• 33 Wordpress Plugins To Power Up Your Comment Section
• Leaked Microsoft Courier Footage Is Hot [VIDEO]
• OnLive raises big round from AT&T and others for on-demand gaming
• CyberCity 3D adds models to Google Earth, launches "Virtual Viewing"
• Google Wave Invites: How To Get Them
• Where are the Boston Web Leaders?
• When Will Social Gaming Company Zynga Go Public?
• Warner Music Negotiates More Control In New YouTube Deal. Could This Be Trouble For VEVO?
• Now casting: CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS
• 100,000 Invites: Everything You Need to Know About Tomorrow’s Google Wave Preview Launch
• 14 Best Online Typography Tools for Web Designers
• Apple Rejects "Politically Charged" iPhone App
• 99 High-Quality Free (X)HTML/CSS Templates
• How to Kill a Startup: Hire Executives instead of Entrepreneurs
• Are You an Expert Blogger?
• Top 50 Real-Time Web Companies
• The Future of News: Hyper-Distribution or Hyper-Branding?
• 2 Billion Apps Downloaded From the Apple App Store
• Sony Announces Virtual World For PSP
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• Europeans! Last chance to save Net Neutrality in the EU, call your MEP!

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• How NOT To Suck At BloggingPublished: September 24, 2009Source: Man Vs. Debt

  This week marks the 6-month anniversary of the day I launched Man Vs. Debt!  Yippee! It’s been a freaky journey up to this point.  I feel like I swallowed both the red and blue pills in one big gulp.  I rarely try to blog about blogging, however I thought it would be fun to reflect on what I’ve learned in these first 6 months. Before we get started, let me make something very clear.  I didn’t title this post ‘How to be an awesome blog…

• Shareaholic Collects Angel Funding RoundPublished: September 24, 2009Source: Xconomy

  IT, deals, startups Wade Roush wrote: Shareaholic founder Jay Meattle was in touch today to say that his Cambridge startup has raised its first round of angel funding. Back in July, I reviewed Shareaholic’s popular browser plugin, which makes it easy to save or share material found on the Web via common social networking, social bookmarking, and news aggregator services. Meattle wasn’t specific about the size of the round, saying it…

• Maine fishermen to benefit from stimulus fundsPublished: September 25, 2009Source: Daily Business Update

  Associated Press STONINGTON, Maine – Maine fishermen are getting some financial help to replace their boats’ old diesel engines with new ones. The Maine Department of Environmental Protection says Maine has received $1.7 million in federal stimulus money earmarked for clean energy projects. Of that amount, $1.2 million will be distributed through the Maine Clean Marine Engine Program. Officials say the money will help the coastal economy and f…

• Boston ranks as 9th-largest economy in U.S.Published: September 25, 2009Source: Boston Business News – Local Boston News | Boston Business Journal

  Boston and New York may be equals when it comes to fielding strong athletic teams, but their economies are worlds apart. Boston’s economic output is valued at roughly $300 billion — good enough to rank ninth overall in the United States. But tops on that list is New York City, the only U.S. metropolitan area with a trillion-dollar economy, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.

• $10M for TetraphasePublished: September 25, 2009Source: Xconomy

  VC, deals, Life Sciences Wade Roush wrote: Watertown, MA-based Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals has raised $10 million out of a planned $29.6 million equity financing round, according to regulatory documents filed Wednesday. The Harvard spinoff, which is using synthetic chemistry to develop new antibiotics for drug-resistant infections, previously raised $25 million in two tranches that closed in August 2008. Comments | Reprints | Share…

• 300+ Resources to Help You Become a WordPress ExpertPublished: September 17, 2009Source: Webdesigner Depot

  WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms available today. And for good reason.It’s powerful enough to be a complete CMS, has every feature or function a blogger could dream of (either built in or available via plugins or custom functions), and it’s free and open source.While WordPress is incredibly powerful and easy to use on its most basic levels, it can also get pretty complicated, pretty quickly.Below are more than 300 resou…

• People Spending More Time on Social SitesPublished: September 25, 2009Source: Digital Trends

  Americans have been devoting 17 percent of all their Internet time to social networks like Facebook and blogging Web sites like Blogger. The percentage for last month is up from 6 percent a year earlier. The report comes from Nielsen Co. and follows its decision to team up with Facebook on a marketing program that helps advertisers measure how well their ads work on the online hangout. Nielsen estimates that ad spending on lead…

• Fluffernutter: Massachusetts’ State Sandwich?Published: September 24, 2009Source: Serious Eats

  [Photograph: Robyn Lee] It’s good to hear that the Massachusetts legislature has its priorities straight. The Fluffernutter sandwich (marshmallow Fluff plus peanut butter) may become the state’s official sandwich. According to the Boston Globe, it’s one of three foods, along with Necco Wafers and the Charleston Chew candy bar, that will be considered for official state status by a legislative committee tomorrow. As a Californian, this got me…

• LE TOILET C’EST TROP CHIC!Published: September 25, 2009Source: OHLALA Mag

  My Note: OMG – Funny Ads (Did I just use OMG?)

  This is a funny campaign for Ambi Pur in Australia. A new line of toilet cleaner with unlike scents [Lavender and Lemon sounds like any other toilet cleaner to me ...] Anyway sex sells, but unfortunately it does not clean … and mister clean is not included :-( Deux more images AFTER THE JUMP.

• ACORN taps Harshbarger for internal reviewPublished: September 22, 2009Source: Boston Business News – Local Boston News | Boston Business Journal

  Community organizer ACORN, under fire for allegedly offering advise to individuals on ways to establish illegal businesses and evade taxes, has tapped former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger to lead an internal review of the group’s operations.

• Newbury Street falls out of US shopping’s top 10Published: September 24, 2009Source: Daily Business Update

  (File photo: Lisa Poole for The Boston Globe) By Chris Reidy, Globe Staff At first glance, Newbury Street seems a glorious shrine to disposable income, an ideal venue for buying the latest fashions in elegant stores or sampling the latest uber chef delight while lunching al fresco. But as tony shopping districts go, Newbury Street may be losing some luster to the recession, according to a new report that surveys the world’s glitziest retail st…

• 25 of the Best Websites of Bands and MusiciansPublished: September 23, 2009Source: Vandelay Design Blog

  Websites from various types of entertainment-related industries can often be a source of design inspiration. Bands and musicians need to have a website that is attractive to visitors and provides all of the necessary information that fans will want to find. In this post we’ll feature 25 websites for your design inspiration. Also, please see 35 Inspirational Websites Designs from the Music Industry. Chris Cornell Alan Jackson Darryl Worley Ju…

• Trendsmap gives us a look at Twitter’s location API possibilitiesPublished: September 24, 2009Source: VentureBeat

  While Twitter gears up to release a way to let users share their exact coordinates every time they tweet, Australian developers have given us a hint of such a service’s possibilities with Trendsmap. Developers at Melbourne, Australia-based Stateless Systems have taken latitudinal and longitudinal data from users’ profiles and compiled their tweets into word clouds that rest above a map. (Stateless says they’ll start incorporating the new ge…

• Twones: Delicious for Streaming MusicPublished: September 24, 2009Source: ReadWriteWeb

  If you’re the kind of music lover with playlists strewn across multiple web services, then Twones is the tool for you. Twones is best described as Delicious or Friendfeed for streaming music. The early beta site allows users to bookmark and organize music from more than 23 music services including Last.fm, Hype Machine, MOG and even MySpace. The company offers an audio footprint of where you’ve been and once you install the Firefox toolbar, it wi…

• Wowd aims to replace PageRank with PopularityPublished: September 24, 2009Source: VentureBeat

  Google has conspicuously avoided adding “real-time” search results to its search engine. By real-time, we mean the sort of results offered by Twitter — or items submitted a mere second or two earlier by any of a million sources. There’s not even a real-time project in Google Labs, so now is a good time for startups to try to run ahead, grabbing market share and, hopefully, loyal customers. Wowd is a Palo Alto-based startup packed with sea…

• Social networks make it easy for 3rd parties to identify youPublished: September 24, 2009Source: Ars Technica

  By now, it’s no secret that social networks (or really any websites) are sharing some of your usage data with advertising partners in order to provide more targeted ads. Most of the time, this data gets anonymized when it gets passed on so that theres no personally identifiable information attached to your browsing history. Or does it? I turns out that some social networks—including the majo…

• iPhone MMS Update: AT&T’s Last Stand?Published: September 24, 2009Source: Mashable!

  Late tomorrow morning, iPhone users in the U.S. will finally get a long-anticipated feature: Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS). With a patch from iTunes, ATT iPhone owners will be able to quickly send pictures and videos to their friends.Of course, a lot of people seem to forget that almost every other phone has MMS capability. In fact, the iPhone has been MMS-capable since June, when iPhone OS 3.0 was released. The delay has been because of…

• How to prepare for Google’s updated algorithmPublished: September 24, 2009Source: iMedia Connection: All Feeds

  Changes in Google’s search formula could lead to changes in your page ranking. Here’s the scuttlebutt on the search giant’s latest update and the differences you can expect.

• Why your conversion rates no longer matterPublished: September 24, 2009Source: iMedia Connection: All Feeds

  This metrics standard has a fatal flaw that could misdirect your site optimization efforts. See what alternative paints a more complete picture of your site visitors.

• How Online Tracking Companies Know Most of What You Do Online (and What Social Networks Are Doing to Help Them)Published: September 21, 2009Source: EFF.org Updates

  This post is Part 2 of a series on user tracking on the web today. You can read Part 1 here. 3rd party advertising and tracking firms are ubiquitous on the modern web. When you visit a webpage, there’s a good chance that it contains tiny images or invisible JavaScript that exists for the sole purpose of tracking and recording your browsing habits. This sort of tracking is performed by many dozens of different firms. In this post, we’re going…

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• Twones: Delicious for Streaming Music
• Social networks make it easy for 3rd parties to identify you
• How to prepare for Google’s updated algorithm
• Why your conversion rates no longer matter
• Best New Smartphones Compared
• WOW: Twitter to Raise $100 Million in New Funding
• Fluffernutter: Massachusetts’ State Sandwich?
• Place Pages: Google Launches Rival to Yelp
• Wowd aims to replace PageRank with Popularity
• Shareaholic Collects Angel Funding Round
• One Year Later, Google’s Project 10^100 Lives! But Overwhelmed Google Needs Your Help.
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• Newbury Street falls out of US shopping’s top 10
• How NOT To Suck At Blogging
• Life Magazine Goes Online Through Google Scan Project
• @Pistachio Launches OneForty, Twitter’s App Store: 140 Beta Invites
• 25 of the Best Websites of Bands and Musicians
• Don’t Click: New Twitter Phishing Scam Targets Users Through DMs
• South Korea Approves Sale of Apple’s iPhone
• Microsoft To Open Cafe In Paris To Build Windows 7 Buzz (Pics)
• The New Community?
• Augmented Reality Goes 3D, Gets Even More Awesome
• Now There’s Even an App That Lets You Pay for Coffee at Starbucks
• Will The TradeVibes Acquisition Bring Several Tech Blogs Closer Together?
• Google’s Plan to Kill Internet Explorer? Google Wave
• Sparky Jr, a DIY telepresence robot
• ACORN taps Harshbarger for internal review
• What do Stormtroopers do on their day off?
• Mass TLC Innovation 2009 unConference needs Innovators
• Internal Site Search Analysis: Simple, Effective, Life Altering!
• Babson tops in entrepreneurship
• How Online Tracking Companies Know Most of What You Do Online (and What Social Networks Are Doing to Help Them)
• New England’s Vizit Turns the Digital Photo Frame from a Dumb Display into a Sophisticated Media Hub
• 10 social media strategies from top brands
• How to score higher in iPhone App Store searches
• $3M for Conduit Labs
• Mashable Trends Launches: A New Hub for the Mashable Twitter Community
• 41 Image and Icon Search Engines Designers Should Know
• 12 Facts About Entrepreneurs That Will Likely Surprise You
• New VC in Boston: Arch Venture Partners Opens Small Office With Eye Toward Basic Science, Multidisciplinary Collaborations
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• Patent Problems Pending Over Web Apps?
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• Tweetmi: Another Twitter Search Engine with a Twist

  Published: September 11, 2009

  Source: ReadWriteWeb

  There are, of course, already numerous Twitter search engines at this point and every new one will have to offer users a very good reason to switch from their current favorite. Tweetmi is jumping into the fray with a Twitter search engine that focuses on presenting users with a more personalized view. While the service also works well as a regular real-time Twitter search engine, users who sign in to Tweetmi will also see the most active users in…

• AT&T Venture Looks a Lot Like Hulu

  Published: September 11, 2009

  Source: Adweek.com – Top News

  My Note: Telephone company AT&T, parent of TV provider U-Verse, launched an online destination Thursday that looks a lot like Hulu. In fact, Hulu — the joint venture of Disney, Fox and NBC Universal — provides much of the content to the new venture, dubbed AT&T Entertainment. CBS Interactive and dozens more also provide content. The site, at www.entertainment.att.net, features ad-supported movies and TV shows from ABC, CBS, NBC, Bravo, Oxygen, Syfy, the CW, USA Network and others.

  ATT, parent of TV provider U-Verse, has launched an online destination that looks a lot like Hulu.

• Facebook Open Sources FriendFeed’s Ultra-Fast Real-Time Web Framework

  Published: September 11, 2009

  Source: ReadWriteWeb

  My Note: WOW…wish I new Python.

  Facebook just announced that it has released Tornado, the real-time web framework that powers FriendFeed, as open source code. According to Facebook’s David Recordon, Tornado is one of the core infrastructure pieces that power FriendFeed’s real-time functionality. The framework, according to Recordon, is similar to other Python frameworks like Google’s webapp or web.py, but is faster and able to handle more simultaneous traffic than its competit…

• TechStars Demo Night Companies

  Published: September 11, 2009

  Source: BUZZ in theHUB: Genotrope’s Startup Watch

  My Note: Great list again!

  Here is the list of the Companies participating in the Summer 09 TechStars Boston. www.oneforty.com Twitter app store. www.sensobi.com Personal relationship management for the mobile professional. www.baydin.com Add-in for Microsoft Outlook 2007 that shows you relevant files from SharePoint, shared network drives and your computer based on the content of your email. www.localytics.com Deep Analytics for mobile apps. www.havemyshift.com Makes shi…

• TechStars Boston debuts new startups

  Published: September 11, 2009

  Source: Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing

  My Note: Another great Boston startup list (plz RT):

  TechStars is a startup incubator started by Brad Feld and David Cohen in Boulder, CO three years ago. This year TechStars expanded to Boston. They have been very successful with three of the original ten companies from the class of 2007 already acquired; (SocialThing by AOL, Intense Debate by Automattic, and Brightkite by Limbo).  Today, TechStars debuted nine new startups from the inaugural Boston class. The teams presented to about 300 VCs a…

• Beware the Single Biggest Time Sink on the Web

  Published: September 10, 2009

  Source: Liz Strauss at Successful Blog

  My Note: 100% percent on the money!

  about time sinks. When I first got to the web I spent my time wandering, exploring. I was learning and making friends. We’d discuss things, sometimes long delicious thoughts would last for days. Those conversations hardly happen much anymore. Everyone is so plugged in. My inbox seems to be so many ideas coming at me. Each one is colorful and attractive. Many are doable. Some have potential to be huge. Some will never run. I used spend tim…

• Social Media Is Not New

  Published: September 10, 2009

  Source: The Future Buzz

  Face facts:  social media isn’t new anymore.  Actually, it hasn’t been new for a long time. We’ve been socializing on the web for well over a decade – long before Twitter, Facebook and the glorification of monolithic walled gardens, which are nothing more than modern versions of AOL and prodigy with bells and whistles. If you think the social web is new, you’re already far late to the party.  And if you are late, the worst thing you…

• The 12 Most Amazing After School Specials

  Published: September 10, 2009

  Source: BuzzFeed – Latest

  My Note: They just don’t make ‘em like these anymore…

  Classes are starting again, which means young people are ready to learn important life lessons. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment »

• SEO tips for Facebook and Twitter

  Published: September 10, 2009

  Source: iMedia Connection: All Feeds

  Your social media presence means nothing without traffic, and search engines are one of the best ways to get it. Follow these tips when building your social media pages for the best SEO results.

• Reality Gap launches Battleswarm with a universal game currency system

  Published: September 9, 2009

  Source: VentureBeat

  Reality Gap is announcing that it will launch an open beta test on Thursday for its sci-fi online game Battleswarm: Field of Honor, the first in what could be a series of games with an interesting monetization scheme. The game combines a unique style of game play with combat between humans and bugs, but we’ll get back to that later. While Battleswarm is an interesting game on its own, the big deal is that it’s the first major game to show off…

• DataMasher: Get Freakonomic On Government Data

  Published: September 9, 2009

  Source: ReadWriteWeb

  If you’re a lobbyist / advocate, conspiracy theorist or Freakonomics fan, then you’ll love DataMasher. The map-based mash up site just took the Sunlight Foundation’s $10,000 grand prize in the Apps for America 2: The Data.gov Challenge. DataMasher offers users with no programming experience a chance to compare government data sets on a state-by-state basis. The tool is just one of the 3rd party mash ups using Data.gov’s federal government informa…

• Twestival Local Events Starting Today in a City near You

  Published: September 10, 2009

  Source: The Pop!Tech Blog

  Interested in benefitting a local charity while meeting up with Twitter friends face to face? If this season’s Twestival isn’t already on your calendar, check the Twestival Local map to see if your city has organized an event (held anytime between today and Sunday) and join your local Twitter-minded community for a common cause. “Twestival was [...]

• Google developing a micropayment platform

  Published: September 10, 2009

  Source: Emily Chang – Strategic Designer

  Via Google developing a micropayment platform and pitching newspapers: “‘Open’ need not mean free”

• A123 Unveils IPO Terms: The Power of Nine?

  Published: September 9, 2009

  Source: Xconomy

  deals, energy, IPOs Wade Roush wrote: A123Systems, the Watertown, MA-based advanced battery manufacturer that hopes to provide lithium ion batteries for the next generation of electric and hybrid vehicles, today revealed the expected stock price for its initial public offering. The company will seek to sell 25 million shares of its common stock at $8.00 to $9.50 per share, according to regulatory forms filed today. That would bring the c…

• Mzinga Adds $6.1 Million

  Published: September 9, 2009

  Source: Xconomy

  deals, VC, IT Wade Roush wrote: Mzinga, the Burlington, MA, startup that offers tools for online community management and corporate learning management, has raised $6.1 million in new equity financing, according to regulatory forms filed yesterday. Executives told Mass High Tech that the financing is an extension of Mzinga’s $32.5 million Series A round of March 2008 and involved two existing investors, W Capital Partners and BlueCrest…

• Startups Gear Up for Scavenger Hunt of Boston’s Innovation Hotspots, to Benefit Young Entrepreneurs

  Published: September 9, 2009

  Source: Xconomy

  startups, events, VC Wade Roush wrote: Boston-area technology entrepreneurs may not get much work done on Friday, October 9. If Highland Capital Partners can drum up enough interest, hundreds of high-tech employees will be spending that afternoon combing Boston for digital clues as part of what it is calling “The Quest for Innovation.” It’s a high-tech scavenger hunt intended to raise money for local youth programs and universities…

• An elevator pitch in 5 minutes TechCrunch50 tips

  Published: September 9, 2009

  Source: Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing

  My Note: Another great post in its content and how succinct it is.

  Do VCs really make investment decisions on a new startup in 5 minutes? Well, they decide to say NO in 5 minutes, saying YES takes longer. The key to an “elevator pitch” is to get them interested, answer the basic questions, and get to the next meeting. Next week at TechCrunch50, startups will have 6 minutes to do an “elevator pitch” to a panel of experts and 1,500 investors, tech execs, and press. It is called the “elevator pitch” be…

• 09/09/09: A Big Day in the Life of the Boston Video Game Industry

  Published: September 8, 2009

  Source: Xconomy

  IT, video games, startups Wade Roush wrote: It’s a banner day for the Boston-area gaming industry. In what’s either a bizarre coincidence, a piece of arcane marketing numerology, or just a sign that the enormous PAX gaming conference in Seattle has ended, three local companies in the console and online gaming markets picked 09/09/09 to take the lid off big new products. There’s Turbine, which is smashing down the old subscription w…

• The Top 10 Most Watched Web TV Shows

  Published: September 9, 2009

  Source: Mashable!

  My Note: I vote for Dr. Horrible…still not exactly sure what that is but it’s Doogie!

  With the popularity and reach of web TV content only growing, we were extremely curious about the shows that are making the biggest impact with online audiences. As such, we tapped our viral video measuring friends at Visible Measures to see if they could help us determine the king of web TV on an ongoing basis. Every month, with Visual Measures as our partner, we’re going to round up the top web TV series that are making their mark with onlin…

The Full List:

• Tweetmi: Another Twitter Search Engine with a Twist
• Remember there are 3 kinds of people
• AT&T Venture Looks a Lot Like Hulu
• Facebook Open Sources FriendFeed’s Ultra-Fast Real-Time Web Framework
• TechStars Demo Night Companies
• TechStars Boston debuts new startups
• Beware the Single Biggest Time Sink on the Web
• The 12 Most Amazing After School Specials
• SEO tips for Facebook and Twitter
• Social Media Is Not New
• Twestival Local Events Starting Today in a City near You
• Google developing a micropayment platform
• DataMasher: Get Freakonomic On Government Data
• Startups Gear Up for Scavenger Hunt of Boston’s Innovation Hotspots, to Benefit Young Entrepreneurs
• Reality Gap launches Battleswarm with a universal game currency system
• Mzinga Adds $6.1 Million
• A123 Unveils IPO Terms: The Power of Nine?
• An elevator pitch in 5 minutes TechCrunch50 tips
• The Top 10 Most Watched Web TV Shows
• 09/09/09: A Big Day in the Life of the Boston Video Game Industry
• 35 Stylish And Modern Wordpress Plugins Using jQuery UI
• It’s Official: Flickr Comes to App Store
• 60 High Quality Photoshop PSD Files For Designers
• How to build a Twitter extension for Chrome
• Making Augmented Reality Browsers Even Better With Panoramic And Bird’s-Eye Zooming
• Monopoly City Streets: Google Launching Online Version of Monopoly
• When It Comes To Founding Successful Startups, Old Guys Rule
• Are You a Twitter Oversharer? Beware, You Might Get Twaxed
• Can the Internet Ruin your Life?

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