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Link Post for April 26th

April 28, 2010 By The A2SM Editors Leave a Comment

This is the A2SM Link Post for April 26th. To see more of the bookmarks we’ve found, check out our Delicious Feed

Cechriecom.com.js.php – WordPress Hacked on Godaddy | Case Study | WPSecurityLock – WordPress blogs hosted on Godaddy were hacked by another malicious attack on April 24, 2010 at 6:54am. What was visible in the source code was <script src="http://cechirecom.com/js.php"> located just above the </body> tag on all .php files.
Steve Wozniak On Apple Security, Employee Termination, and Gray Powell – Steve Wozniak – Gizmodo – The Woz speaks out!
Bebo speak: Teenagers create secret language to hide partying and drinking | Mail Online – Teenagers on social networking site Bebo have created a secret language to stop adults knowing what they are up to, researchers say.
How To Use Hot Chicks To Spread Your Brand Message On YouTube – Brands are trying to figure out this whole social marketing thing, but the success stories are still few and far between. “I think everyone is grappling with how to use digital these days,” says Judy Hu, who is in charge of advertising and branding for General Electric. She oversees one of the world’s largest advertising budgets which spans TV, print, and the Web. I spoke with her last week about one early success GE is seeing with an online video campaign organized by Howcast that is generating millions of video views on YouTube as part of its larger Healthyimagination branding effort.
Blippy’s Security Plan: The Details – As I mentioned in Sunday’s post, Blippy’s founders were hammering out a new security plan to assure users that all their information, especially their credit card numbers, would be safe. They delivered this morning, in their latest blog post, issuing new details about the blunder, how it worked with Google, and the framework for a go-forward plan. In addition, Blippy sounded more contrite about the situation. On Friday their post said, “it’s a lot less bad than it looks,” this Monday the tone is less defensive and more apologetic: “However, this is a very serious issue and simply apologizing is not enough. We’ve spent the last 48 hours working around the clock to dissect the issues, reach out to affected users, and put together a plan to ensure this never happens again.”
The Age Of Facebook – Two years ago I was on the Charlie Rose show and we talked about, among other startups and trends, Facebook. It wasn’t clear then that Facebook had what it took to become one of the great technology companies. They had conquered the college market and were destroying the hopes and dreams of MySpace. But they were also reeling from the Beacon debacle and hadn’t proven that they could turn those massive reach and page view numbers into sustainable revenue streams.
HOW TO: Spring Clean Your Twitter Account – It’s no secret that we love Twitter. It’s a fantastic social media tool, a window on the world that can keep you updated on the big things, such as global news and events, the little things, like where your buddies are headed on a Friday night, and just about anything in between.
10 Killer Tips for Creating a Branded YouTube Channel – There was a time when YouTube was considered a wild-wild west of content — a place where marketers shied away from uploading their commercials, let alone building a branded channel. But these days, YouTube has become more mini-van than stagecoach. From Toyota Sienna’s high-profile television commercials urging consumers to visit their YouTube channel, to (what might be considered the anti-minivan) Harley Davidson’s fan-centric YouTube universe, there has been a noticeable shift in corporate adoption of the platform.
The Wall Street Journal Partners with Foursquare – Foursquare’s bread-and-butter is the partnerships that seed the location-based social network with curated content. Now, that includes editorial tips and badges from the renowned business publication The Wall Street Journal.
Google Adds Local Business Annotations to Street View – While Google works to extend Street View to the inside of stores — at least according to rumor — for the time being they’ve released a handy utility for better browsing with Google Street View: local business annotations.

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Link Post for December 13th through December 14th

December 14, 2009 By Seth Goldstein Leave a Comment

This is the A2SM Link Post for December 13th through December 14th:

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Link Post for December 6th

December 7, 2009 By Seth Goldstein Leave a Comment

This is the A2SM Link Post for December 6th:

Web Community Photoshops a Happy Memory [PICS] – A Reddit Member’s mother died. The community comes together to help him out with a lasting memory.
Appvent Calendar: Free iPhone Game Every Day Till Christmas – Last week, we wrote about 24ways, an advent calendar for web geeks. Today we’ve found another cool advent calendar, this time aimed at iPhone app fans. iPhone developer Blacksmith Games is presenting the Appvent Calendar!
10 iPhone Apps to Help You Survive the Holidays -
We know it’s not Photoshopped: Wrecking ball smashed van in New York City – but is it real? – Shiny Objects – Time to play “Guess the authenticity!” the latest soon-to-be viral video shows a van getting housed on a New York City corner. It wanders seemingly accidentally through a construction zone to meet the business end of a wrecking ball (can a ball have an end?).
Car Flipped By Wrecking Ball, Real or Fake? [Viral Videos] – A recent video on YouTube, which shows a car hit by a large wrecking ball, is fast approaching viral status on the site.
Ron Livingston Sues Wikipedia Detractor for Saying He’s Gay – Search Google for Ron Livingston, the man of Office Space (and Sex and the City) fame, and you’ll find IMDB links for information on his acting career. You’ll also come across a Wikipedia page on the movie and TV star, with inaccurate details on his personal life. And that’s the problem.Since May, Livingston has continually fallen victim to an anonymous Wikipedia (Wikipedia) detractor who continually edits the entry to read that the actor is in a gay relationship.
How To Find Those Red Balloons – This morning DARPA launched ten red balloons across the U.S. in a Network Challenge to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the precursor to the Internet, Arpanet. The first team to correctly locate all ten balloons will win a $40,000 prize.
TC50 DemoPit Startup LIFEmee Lets You Record And Share Your Entire Life Online – LIFEmee allows you to store, manage and share all significant aspects and events of your life: Your daily health condition, relationships, jobs, schools, possessions, hobbies, family members, pictures, notes etc. etc. The main idea is to give users a platform for organizing their lives online by collecting and structuring this kind of information for lifetime use. Users can not only review all data they fed into their “lifestream” (all data aligned along a time line) in retrospect but also lay out their plans for the future. The information can be shared or kept strictly private.
Favrd Shuts Down – Not Twitter’s Last Laugh (Thank you, Textism) – Favrd, a site which aggregated the most popular starred tweets, has closed down. The site was a favorite of Twitter humorists, people who use Twitter mainly to express their wit. Favrd was the first of its kind to repurpose Twitter favorites (stars) into an aggregation site, where users could see who had “faved” their tweets, view tweets with 3 or more faves as a real-time feed, and check the most faved tweets in a 24-hour period on the Leaderboard. It was kind of like the Techmeme of funny tweets.
Getting it right and getting it wrong with the new media – The internet (the blogosphere to be precise) is still a bit of a mystery to many in tech and entertainment. It’s weird to think that companies whose job it is to reach tech-savvy consumers aren’t using this tool correctly, but it’s also no secret that the biggest and most influential companies are often the slowest to adapt. At any rate, they’re learning, but some are learning faster than others. Here I chronicle just a few standout cases.