Link Post for January 27th through January 28th

This is the A2SM Link Post for January 27th through January 28th. To see more of the bookmarks we’ve found, check out our Delicious Feed.

  • Adobe Calls Out Apple for Lack of Flash on iPad – While the iPad sports a lot of features, one of them isn’t Flash. The Adobe plug-in is nowhere to be found on Apple’s device, meaning that many online games and video sites (such as Hulu) aren’t usable on Apple’s tablet device.
  • Social Media Marketing: How Pepsi Got It Right – Social media marketing campaigns are proving to be goldmines rich with customer engagement and insight that companies wouldn’t likely have otherwise. Companies like PepsiCo are going to extensive lengths to foster this type of collaboration with fans, and the payoff has been big.
  • Holy wow! AT&T admits NYC/San Fran 3G service sucked – A recent AT&T earnings call consisted of a lot of talk talk talk but one slide stands out: it essentially admits that 3G in San Francisco and New York sucked ween AKA were both far below their official performance objective.
  • Benioff On The iPad: “The Most Important Feature Is Its 10-Hour Battery” – Everyone has an opinion about the iPad, even at Davos. Michael is there this week at the World Economic Forum, grabbing video interviews with the people he is running into (like Michael Dell showing off a yet-to-launch Android device). In the video above, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff talks about the iPad (what else?). Other people might be wowed by the touchscreen or the 140,000 apps or the iBooks, but not Benioff. He’s impressed by the battery:
  • MyYearbook Rolls Out Its Crowdsourced Redesign – This week, social networking site MyYearbook launched a revamped design, changing some key UI elements to better reflect the way people use the site. One of the more interesting points of the redesign isn’t its appearance though — it’s how it was actually put together. Rather than simply rolling out a new design, MyYearbook actually polled its userbase for suggestions, then drafted some mockups that users voted on. The result? Users favor the new design by a factor of over 3 to 1, without the kind of backlash other sites have seen from their redesigns.
  • Video: Obama’s State Of The iPad Address – Remember those guys who made those nifty Google Wave movie mash-up videos? You know, the ones with Pulp Fiction and Good Will Hunting? Well, they’re at it again, with the new hot ticket in town: the iPad.
  • WordPress Foundation | – The WordPress Foundation is a charitable organization founded by Matt Mullenweg to further the mission of the WordPress open source project: to democratize publishing through Open Source, GPL software.
  • 47 Lists of Bloggers to Watch in 2010 – Check them Out!
  • Twitter Thinks It Can Evade Chinese Censorship – GigaOM – Though its web site has been blocked by Chinese censors since last June, Twitter is working on utilizing the distributed nature of its service to become available to Chinese users, said CEO Evan Williams at the World Economic Forum in Davos, according to a report by the Financial Times.
  • 4 Reasons iPad Will Kill the Kindle, 4 Reasons It Won’t – Uh-oh,” is the reaction we can imagine Amazon founder Jeff Bezos had when watching today’s unveiling of the eagerly awaited Apple iPad tablet. The new Apple device looks, at least upon first glance, like it will completely eat Amazon’s lunch. In fact, Steve Jobs even eulogized the Kindle in his unveiling.

Link Post for December 4th

This is the A2SM Link Post for December 4th:

  • Apple in Talks to Acquire Lala: Report – GigaOM – Apple is on the verge of acquiring streaming music site Lala.com, known for its 10-cent streaming songs and digital music locker service, CNet is reporting. Terms aren’t being disclosed, but the report implies that an agreement is in place, with only a final sign-off remaining to complete the deal.
  • Top 5 Digg Milestones in the Last 5 Years – As of today, Digg is five years old. Think about that: that’s around 1825 days of story submissions, front page wrangling, and explosive growth. Hell, Digg is older than Twitter and YouTube.
  • YouTube and Universal’s Vevo Music Service to Add Last.fm – Next week will see the launch of the Vevo premium content music video service from Google and Universal Music Group, slated to bring Universal’s extensive video assets into one new destination.
  • Twoddler: The Baby Toy That Twitters – Earlier this year, we looked at devices that are integrating Twitter in remarkable ways, from enabling your plants to tweet when they need water to automated updates from bakeries when stuff comes fresh out of the oven.
  • Facebook Looks to Kill Beacon For Good With $9.5 Million Settlement – We’re finally coming to the bitter end of Facebook’s erstwhile Beacon program, which shut down completely in September after user complaints of privacy violations.
  • Sexy TwitPics Become Vogue Fashion Spread [PICS] – Love it or hate it, we’ve become an oversharing society that capitalizes on the convenience of mobile devices to point, shoot and publish our lives to the Web. The December issue of Vogue Italia captures this digital phenomenon with a spread by Stephen Meisel inspired by Twitter and TwitPic.
  • Latest Droid Ad Mocks iPhone’s Beauty, Tiara Wearing Habits [VIDEO] – In their latest Droid Does TV ad, Verizon and Motorola clearly mock the iPhone as a self-obsessed beauty queen that may be pretty on the outside, but slow on the inside.