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Link Post for June 16th through June 18th

June 18, 2010 By The A2SM Editors 1 Comment

This is the A2SM Link Post for June 16th through June 18th. To see more of the bookmarks we’ve found, check out our Delicious Feed.

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog – We'd like to highlight three best practices that address some of the most common problems found when crawling and indexing video content. These best practices include ensuring your video URLs are crawlable, stating what countries your videos may be played in, and that if your videos are removed, you clearly indicate this state to search engines.
Introducing the Google Command Line Tool – Google Open Source Blog – Ever wanted to upload a folder full of photos to Picasa from a command prompt? We did, a lot, last summer. It made us want to say:
A Tweet Too Far? Utah Firing Squad Execution Announced on Twitter – Earlier today, convicted killer Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed by a Utah firing squad; the first execution of its kind in the United States in 14 years. Shortly before that, Attorney General Mark Shurtleff announced it with a couple of tweets.
Amazon Secures Patent For “Social Networking System” « On the Docket – Forbes.com – The United States Patent and Trademark Office awarded Amazon a patent on June 15 for a "Social Networking System." The patent allows users to locate and establish relationships with other users and "automatically notify users of personal information updates made by their respective contacts."
Browser Beta News: Opera 10.6 Beta Released, Flock Goes Chromium –

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Link Post for May 10th through May 11th

May 11, 2010 By The A2SM Editors 3 Comments

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Social Media and Change Management: 7 Changes With Big Consequences | Serengeti Communications – In the exploding world of social media, every day seems to bring a flurry of new tools, tactics — and toys — that must be deciphered and evaluated for possible relevance/usage for the organization. And yet, comparitively less attention seems to be paid to the people, processes and systems inside an organization that can make or break even the most brilliant social media initiatives.
Facebook’s "Evil Interfaces" | Electronic Frontier Foundation – Social networking companies don't have it easy. Advertisers covet their users' data, and in a niche that often seems to lack a clear business model, selling (or otherwise leveraging) that data is a tremendously tempting opportunity. But most users simply don't want to share as much information with marketers or other "partners" as corporations would like them to. So it's no surprise that some companies try to have it both ways.
Facebook is Dying – Social is Not (by @baekdal) #opinion – There is one question that I hear all the time. Is Facebook going to last, or is it just a fad? My answer is always the same. If you are trying to find an excuse for not doing “social,” then Facebook is here to stay. But, if you ask “is Facebook going to last?” Then the answer is no; it’s already dying.
Get Inspired to Update Your Blog! | Bit Rebels – Here are tips 7 to help you get inspired!
louisgray.com: Are You Filtering Your Checkins To Enhance Your Image? – Louis Gray on Geolocation and Foursquare
louisgray.com: Edge Theory Conversations: Location’s Impact & Cheating – Are these services here to stay, and should they be used to show all of one's comings and goings, or just major points of interest? Chris argues Foursquare should be used in a social way, while Louis is enjoying checking in from the mundane places in life. Meanwhile, we debate the true nature of "cheating", and whether it is acceptable or not.
Why Facebook’s Community Pages Could Give Brands a Headache – Community Pages Explained

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Link Post for March 29th

March 30, 2010 By The A2SM Editors 1 Comment

This is the A2SM Link Post for March 29th. To see more of the bookmarks we’ve found, check out our Delicious Feed

How Facebook May Save Elevation Partners – Things are not going great at Elevation Partners. Its initial $1.8 billion fund – that was met with great fanfare when it was raised by rockstar investor Roger McNamee, rockstar gaming executive John Riccitiello and actual rockstar Bono – is about 70% invested and the two biggest deals are duds. Elevation invested some $300 million in Forbes and a whopping $460 million in Palm—a company with a stock hovering around $4 per share, down some 75% since October.
Google Buzz Getting Smoked In The Sharing Race By A Dead Man – I’m reminded of this while looking over the traffic logs for TechCrunch, because it appears that someone else is losing to a dead rival: Google Buzz. According to our data, in the past month, Google Buzz has been sending less traffic to TechCrunch than FriendFeed — the service which is essentially the same as Buzz, only better, and ever since the acquisition by Facebook has been a ghost town.
Hulu Versus TV Everywhere: What Happens After The Comcast-NBC Merger Is Complete? – The pending $30 billion merger of Comcast and NBC-Universal is going to complicate things for Hulu, the second most popular online video site after YouTube. Hulu is a joint venture between NBC, News Corp/Fox, and (since last year) Disney/ABC. It was created by the TV networks as a counterweight to YouTube, a safe place where they could run their full-length TV shows online with their own ads.
Don’t share anything important or of value via Linkedin … they will own it! « scalability.org –
The Seven Needs of Real-Time Curators – I keep hearing people throw around the word “curation” at various conferences, most recently at SXSW. The thing is most of the time when I dig into what they are saying they usually have no clue about what curation really is or how it could be applied to the real-time world.
10 Must-See Google Street View Sightings – While we brought you 15 amusing Google Street View sightings when the service launched back in 2007, in the last few years Google has expanded its coverage around the globe, which also means expanding the chances of humorous photo captures.

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Link Post for March 24th

March 25, 2010 By The A2SM Editors 2 Comments

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WordPress Founder: Open Source Is About People, Not Technology – Mullenweg opened by remarking that open source is not about technology, but about people. He focused a little on the history of open source — he believes it started in 1984 at MIT. Since then, there has been a slow transformation of how we view software, from proprietary to free and open-source. The birth of Linux (Linux) was one of the major turning points for open source.
Profiting from Apple’s war with Google – Apple 2.0 – Fortune Brainstorm Tech – On March 12, we had Brad Stone and Michael Helft's piece in the New York Times about the two CEO's long-running "spat." It included an account of a particularly "fierce" and "heated" meeting in 2008 in which an angry Steve Jobs told Google (GOOG) executives that if they deployed a version of multitouch in an Android phone, he would sue.
Why Your Brand Needs to Be on Facebook Now – With 450 million users globally (and millions more being added each week) Facebook (Facebook) is dominating the web in unparalleled ways. Yet, even as the social network has steadily grown over its short but remarkable history, many brands have remained on the sidelines of the social media revolution.
GoDaddy to Stop Offering Chinese Domain Names – As of today, popular domain registrar GoDaddy plans to stop registering .cn (China) domain names due to the country’s new restrictions that require more personally identifiable information from registrants.
Communications Industry’s State of the State – Airfoil Public Relations – 80% of links from blogs and social media sites are to U.S. legacy media
Twitter Forces Facebook To Open Up Beyond “Friends” – At Facebook’s developer conference (f8) next month, the company is expected to announce a number of services that continue the opening of the platform as well as expanding access to disconnected user data. Soon enough you will be able to more easily access the public information being posted by users if information from our sources is true. While you can already search Facebook users, publicly posted information will be easier to discover through new features and developer APIs.
5 Proven Techniques To Prevent Facebook Jealousy –

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Link Post for March 15th through March 16th

March 16, 2010 By The A2SM Editors Leave a Comment

This is the A2SM Link Post for March 15th through March 16th. To see more of the bookmarks we’ve found, check out our Delicious Feed.

Facebook and Twitter Making a Major Impact on Purchase Decisions [STATS] –
Airline, Hospitality Industry Catching Up to App Demand – MarketingVOX – Independent apps that focus on travel needs – from tip calculators to pocket dictionaries – have been the mainstay of business travelers for several years. Now airlines and hotels have caught up to the demand – and expectations – of business travelers with their own smartphone applications since last year's launch by Southwest Airlines of an iPhone app – the first U.S. airline to do so, according to USA Today.
Social Fans More Likely to Buy – eMarketer – Social media marketers looking for an indication that their efforts are helping the bottom line will be encouraged by findings from Chadwick Martin Bailey and iModerate that social friends and followers feel more inclined to purchase from the brands they are fans of.
3 Crisis Survival Lessons for the Social Media Age – If there was any doubt before last year as to social media’s ability to exacerbate reputation crises, 2009 settled the debate. In just that one year, Domino’s, United Airlines, and Tiger Woods were but a few of the headlining examples that were variously infected by the viral bug. These global brands made their problems even worse with sloppy responses to online news reports, blog posts, Facebook (Facebook) updates, YouTube (YouTube) videos, and Twitter (Twitter) entries.
Chatroulette + Improv Piano Player = Love! [VIDEO] – Chatroulette has had its share of stormtroopers and Jon Stewart parodies, but now there’s a new star on the block: the Chatroulette improv piano player.
Twitter Blog: @anywhere – When we designed Twitter, we took a different approach—we didn’t require a relationship model like that of a social network. Keeping things open meant you could browse our site to read tweets from friends, celebrities, companies, media outlets, fictional characters, and more. You could follow any account and be followed by any account. As a result, companies started interacting with customers, celebrities connected with fans, governments became more transparent, and people started discovering and sharing information in a new, participatory manner.

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Link Post for March 5th through March 6th

March 7, 2010 By The A2SM Editors Leave a Comment

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The Successful Self-Selection of Social Media – The Roger Smith Hotel has offered a lesson in social media marketing, making it a notable (and now rather popular) hotel destination in the big city of Manhattan. Techipedia outlines the major points of The Roger Hotel’s success, outlining the company’s dedication to its online audience. From running promotions that are exclusive to those social media channels to finding ways of becoming a part of the online conversations already taking place, there’s a lot that can be learned about social media marketing, and its power to bring an audience as well as convert them into real, paying consumers.
Google Takes a Picnik – Google has acquired Picnik, the Seattle-based photo-editing app that lives in the cloud. I always sort of thought of Picnik as Photoshop Elements that I could access from anywhere.
How Roger Smith Hotel Put Itself on the Map through Social Media » Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg – Did you know that New York City offers more opportunities than the standard tourist attractions? Did you know that there are other hotels beyond the Hyatts, the Hiltons, the Omnis, the Sheratons, and the Marriotts of the world in NYC? I know when my parents come to NYC, they go to what’s familiar. When you go to a conference in Manhattan, you probably seek out hotels that you’ve also heard of. Face it, it’s a competitive landscape out there, especially for tourists who flock to familiar names but perhaps do not realize that there are other options in the city. How does one small hotel possibly compete with these hotel franchises? Is it even possible?
Major Facebook Investor Hopes to Score with Chatroulette – Digital Sky Technologies, the Russian venture capital firm that has invested $400 million in Facebook, has apparently made an offer to buy a piece of Chatroulette, the webcam network where you can chat with random strangers.
Gowalla Launches for Android – The battle for social geolocation domination has expanded to Google’s Android platform, as Gowalla, the primary competitor to Foursquare, has just made its debut on Google’s Android app store.
Foursquare and SPIN Magazine Turn SXSW Into Musical Scavenger Hunt – Popular music magazine SPIN is going geeky for South by Southwest’s music festival, integrating custom Foursquare badges into its event presence and rewarding the most adventurous users of the location-based game with free tickets to their annual music showcase at Stubb’s.
A special report on social networking: A world of connections | The Economist – THE annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, currently in progress, is famous for making connections among the global great and good. But when the delegates go home again, getting even a few of them together in a room becomes difficult. To allow the leaders to keep talking, the forum’s organisers last year launched a pilot version of a secure online service where members can post mini-biographies and other information, and create links with other users to form collaborative working groups. Dubbed the World Electronic Community, or WELCOM, the forum’s exclusive online network has only about 5,000 members.
How Mark Zuckerberg Hacked The Harvard Crimson – This is the story of how, in 2004, Mark Zuckerberg hacked into the email accounts of two Harvard Crimson reporters using data obtained from TheFacebook.com's logs. The details are drawn from a broader investigation of the origins of Facebook, the sourcing of which is described here.
Social Media Today | How to Match 10 Key Success Metrics to Your Blogging Strategy – Without a statistical measure of your blogging progress, adding content to your blog on a regular basis can be an incredibly lonely proposition. Is anyone out there? Does anyone care?<br />
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However, even within the business (non cat) blogging arena, there are a wide variety of potential measures to gauge your momentum. It’s imperative that you select the most relevant ones that match with your blog’s purpose and intent.
Social Media Today | The 5 Key Elements of Social Media Hard Work –

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Link Post for January 27th through January 28th

January 28, 2010 By The A2SM Editors 2 Comments

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.

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Link Post for January 19th

January 19, 2010 By Seth Goldstein Leave a Comment

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Link Post for December 18th through December 20th

December 20, 2009 By Seth Goldstein 1 Comment

This is the A2SM Link Post for December 18th through December 20th:

Man Proposes Marriage via Foursquare Check-In – So Alex Marsh of Raleigh-Durham decided to take it up a notch. The clever guy used Foursquare, the mobile location-based game, to propose to his girlfriend, Susan Wilkison, during dinner at Raleigh Times Bar.
Screenshots of Facebook’s Redesign [PICS] – Facebook has another redesign on the way.
WordPress 2.9 Now Available for Download – The latest version of the self-hosted version of WordPress (WordPress.org) – version 2.9 – has just been rolled out to users.
HOW TO: Outsmart Phishers – Worst-Case Scenarios don’t just happen in the physical world — there are countless injuries, dangerous creatures, pitfalls, con-artists and scammers to be found in every corner of our beloved Internet as well.
It’s Official: There are Now More Tweets than People – The number of Tweets last night exceeded the world population, passing 6.8 billion Twitter messages posted.
Poll Results: ReadWriteWeb Readers Pick The Top 10 Products of 2009 -

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Link Post for December 8th

December 8, 2009 By Seth Goldstein Leave a Comment

This is the A2SM Link Post for December 8th:

Social Media News and Web Tips – Mashable – The Social Media Guide – Page 2 – The sheer size of Apple’s app store makes it difficult for independent developers to stand out from the crowd. Some developers come up with creative concepts to get the word out, others rely on scamming and gaming different iTunes policies.
Why Facebook Chose to Limit Google and Spare Twitter Search – Google really unleashed a torrent of news and updates today. While events such as the launch of Google Goggles are very interesting, the big news is clearly the launch of real-time search within Google. Now as events unfold, Google will capture the chatter about it in real-time from sources such as Twitter, Yahoo Answers, news media and Facebook.
HOW TO: Start and Run a Successful Twitter Chat -
Dell Rides Twitter to $6.5 Million in Sales – They’ve now generated a total of $6.5 million in revenue from their Twitter (Twitter) presence, where they have nearly 1.5 million followers on their @DellOutlet account (and 3 million “connections” across all social sites).
Twitter Deal: CelebrityTweet Acquired by Russell Simmons – But apparently, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons doesn’t think so, as his Web site GlobalGrind has just acquired CelebrityTweet, a site that aggregates the tweets of famous people, both on the Web and via mobile applications.
Google Real-Time Search Live Now (Video, Links) – Google held a major search product event today and among many incredible new products and features displayed was real-time search. Fresh search results pushed live to the search results page, with a pause button above that section of the page.
Facebook Will Be Google-able (If Your Profile is Set to Public) -
5 iPhone Apps to Get You Ready for Le Web – If you haven’t already heard, this week is the Paris-based Le Web Conference. ReadWriteWeb will be live blogging the event in the next couple of days, with startup writer Dana Oshiro attending with the Social Media Club House and news writer Frederic Lardinois attending as a TravelingGeek. The event will showcase some of Europe’s best and brightest tech companies. Below are a few resources for those attending the event:
Google is Beating Bing & Yahoo Again, Now In Real-Time Search – Google unveiled its real-time search interface today and it looks much, much better than what rivals Yahoo and Bing have done so far. The new Google real-time search functionality will appear on selected search results pages, below News results, above or below top ranking natural search results – sometimes just above the fold of the page.

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Link Post for December 18th through December 20th

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