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Link Post for May 5th

May 5, 2010 By The A2SM Editors 4 Comments

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Steve Jobs Feels the Heat – Steve Jobs – Gawker – This hasn't been a good morning for Steve Jobs. The Apple CEO is facing a report the feds are looking into his control-freak lockdown of the iPhone and iPad. And a Times columnist says the company's recent actions look "horrible."
The Feds Are Now Tag-Teaming Apple – Ftc – Gawker – It's now clear the government is eyeballing Apple's control-freak policy on how iPad and iPhone apps are written, with two more reports of Feds looking into anti-competitive practices. Does Steve Jobs have the stomach for this fight?
Steve Jobs’ Big New York Times Letdown – Steve Jobs – Gawker – Users have jeered the New York Times' main iPad app, but the newspaper is listening to one in particular: We hear Steve Jobs is among the app's most vociferous critics and has been shunning it.
Books To Come in Exciting New Google Flavor – Google – Gawker – Google today announced "Google Editions," another e-book service alongside Amazon's for Kindle and Apple's for iPad. Google doesn't know what gBooks will cost or how exactly you'll read them, but they'll definitely piss Steve Jobs off, so full steam
Top-Down Tech Clusters Often Lack Key Ingredients – BusinessWeek – Russia's attempt to beat Silicon Valley turns into a giant fail whale
Facebook’s Paul Buchheit justifies increasing openness, less privacy | VentureBeat – Facebook’s Paul Buchheit, the Gmail creator who coined Google’s “Don’t be evil” slogan and later came to the social network through its FriendFeed acquisition, said he’s found immense value in removing most privacy restrictions to his profile.

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Link Post for March 22nd

March 22, 2010 By The A2SM Editors Leave a Comment

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Topeka ‘renames’ itself ‘Google, Kansas’ – CNN.com –
Family cashing in on ‘David After Dentist’ – CNN.com – The viral clip has been viewed almost 54 million times and gave rise to the catchphrase, "Is this real life?" It was the second most-watched video of 2009, according to YouTube, trailing only Susan Boyle's appearance on "Britain's Got Talent."
5 Stellar Ways to Explore Space Using Social Media – Space — the final frontier, and all that jazz. As the folk over at the Hubble Telescope website say, “Your body may be trapped at your desk, but your imagination can roam the far reaches of the universe, thanks to the wonders of the web.”
New York’s Museum of Modern Art Acquires the @ Symbol – The Department of Architecture and Design at New York’s famous Museum of Modern Art has acquired what is arguably its most famous work of art to date — the @ symbol.
Google Will Redirect China Users to Uncensored Site – NYTimes.com – Just over two months after threatening to leave China because of censorship and intrusions by Chinese hackers, Google said that it would close its China-based Web site and instead direct Chinese users to a Hong Kong-based uncensored version of its service, which may get blocked in mainland China.
Choose Your Own Adventure Comes to Twitter – As if Twitter weren’t enough of a time-sink, Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed and Huffington Post fame created a choose your own adventure game using only Twitter (and lots of Bit.ly links.)

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Link Post for February 5th

February 5, 2010 By The A2SM Editors Leave a Comment

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Facebook Flips The Switch On Its Improved Photo Uploader – It’s no secret that Facebook Photos is massively popular, with the company boasting that it receives a whopping 2.5 billion photos uploaded every month. And as the site continues to grow — it just passed 400 million users — that number is only going to get more staggering. Unfortunately, the photo uploading experience hasn’t always been smooth; you’ve to wait for the photo uploads to finish, and the entire process was just sort of clunky. Today, the company announced that it’s rolling out an improved photo upload browser plugin.
Facebook Takes Over Its Own Display Advertising From Microsoft, Keeps Bing For Web Search – When it comes to display advertising on its own site, Facebook is taking full control of its inventory away from Microsoft. Even prior to Microsoft’s initial $240 million investment in Facebook in 2007, the two companies had an advertising partnership giving Microsoft the ability to serve display ads on the social network. That was a three-year deal which was up for renewal. The two companies just finished renegotiating it, and Microsoft will no longer be serving up display ads on Facebook.
Microsoft Expands Search Partnership with Facebook – SuperSite Blog – Microsoft
and Facebook announced an expanded search partnership today. As part of this new global agreement, Microsoft and Facebook will soon provide Facebook users with "a more complete search experience by providing full access to Bing’s features, helping customers make faster, smarter decisions."
5 Features Facebook Should Add To Their New Email Product – According to Mike Arrington, Facebook is preparing to roll out its own email client, code named “Titan”. We’ve suggested to Facebook in the past that they roll out an email client as they have an opportunity to redefine the product. Additionally, Paul Bucheit, the lead developer of Gmail, is now an employee of Facebook which means he may have another opportunity to redefine the email experience.
The $9.99 Ebook Is Dead: Third Major Publisher Hachette Dumps on Amazon – Kindle – Gizmodo –

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Link Post for January 29th through January 31st

January 31, 2010 By The A2SM Editors 1 Comment

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Apple iPad: A Revolution in Parody Inspiration [VIDEO] –
How the PGA Can Use Social Media to Rebuild their Brand –
iPhone OS 3.2 Hints at Camera Support in a Future iPad – One of the glaring things missing from the Apple iPad is a camera. Interestingly, though, a source confirmed to Engadget that the iPhone OS 3.2 — the operating system running on the iPad — has several different software hooks that include at least some basic support for video calling.
Apple vs. Amazon: The Great Ebook War Has Already Begun –
YouTube – Music Discovery Project – YouTube Music Discovery Project and Playlist Creation Tool

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Link Post for January 27th through January 28th

January 28, 2010 By The A2SM Editors 2 Comments

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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.