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Link Post for February 16th

February 16, 2010 By 1 Comment

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

  • How I Became the Robert Scoble of Buzz –
  • 7 Things to Consider for Social Media in the Enterprise – Marketing and communications folks are all over social media. They implore company executives not to be left behind. Your company absolutely must get on the social media train this year before it leaves the station. So they go around and get management, sales and ultimately the president of the company all excited about this shiny new thing. Then it’s time to create the magic. That’s where the technology department steps in. Sure, many of the best online marketing folks these days know how to throw around a little web coding. Maybe they even know Joomla from Drupal, but it’s unlikely that they know about what it takes to roll out a relatively new, third-party technology across the entire corporate structure.
  • 340,000 Facebook Fans Want Betty White to Host SNL – A Facebook fan page set up to persuade Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels to let Golden Girls star Betty White host the show has officially become a phenomenon.
  • This Twittering Tree Can Tell You How it Feels [VIDEO] – The tweeting, talking tree is being shown off at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, and you can check out a demo video of the live and interactive orange tree in the video below.
  • Google Real-Time Search Results Now Include MySpace – Google’s real-time search results, which include data from Twitter, Yahoo Answers, and other sources, has just added MySpace updates to the mix.
  • Fisher Price iXL: iPad for Rugrats – You know, toys from the ’80s and early ’90s were cool, but today’s kids really have it made. Case in point, while Mom, Dad and Auntie Christina might be lusting after the iPad, the Pre-K family members get their own tablets. Gizmodo got to play with the Fisher-Price iXL at Toy Fair and it looks adorable.
  • It’s Official: Skype Calling Coming to Verizon Smartphones – On Saturday, we reported on rumors that Verizon and Skype would be announcing a partnership deal at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Well, it’s official. The two companies are announcing what they call a “strategic relationship that will bring Skype to Verizon Wireless smartphones in March.”
  • The Social Media Playbook –
  • Google Buzz copied FriendFeed’s worst features, why? – Robert Scoble's take on Google Buzz.
  • Kevin Smith ‘too fat’ to fly Southwest – CNN.com – Kevin Smith's most famous role is a guy who rarely speaks. But he's got a lot to say — much of it profane — after being kicked off a Southwest Air flight because he didn't fit comfortably into the seat.
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Link Post for January 8th through January 9th

January 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment

This is the A2SM Link Post for January 8th through January 9th:

  • iPhone Beats Droid, Nexus One And Droid Eris In Touchscreen Performance –
  • Can the Skiff save the magazine industry? – There has been quite a bit of talk about Hearst’s Skiff ereader and we got a hands-on last night before the show closed. The device is about as big as a Kindle DX (11.5-inch display and a very thin bezel) but quite thin (.25-inches). They use a metal board spun-coated with e-ink instead of a glass sheet for the screen, which will definitely prevent the heartbreak of shattered ereaders for the next generation of readers. It uses Sprint’s 3G network.
  • Google Toilet Paper : Optimize Your Wipe | Search Engine Journal – Here’s a fun Friday post about what could be easily mistaken for a new Google product launch to accompany the Nexus One and other new Google products : Google Toilet Paper (which gives a new meaning to “just Google it”).
  • MediaPost – news and directories for media, marketing and online advertising professionals – If you were on vacation, similar to me, during the end of December you might have missed Twitter's big announcement. The company acquired Mixer Labs, the creator of GeoAPI, which provides developers with the ability to query data. That data can come from about 16 million businesses and thousands of points of interest. The technology also offers developers a layer on which to handle complex geographical queries and location-based services.
  • National Weather Service: Twitter Storm Reports – GeoTagging is the act of associating geographical information with something, and Twitter has recently added the capability GeoTagging individual Tweets. This allows the NWS to correlate each Tweet to your location when it was sent. This capability will help to enhance and increase timely & accurate online weather reporting and communications between the public and their local weather forecast offices.
  • Wanted: Your Weather Reports, Geotagged and Tweeted – If your natural reflex when the weather gets rough is to tweet about it, that reflex can now help the National Weather Service do its job better thanks to a new Twitter storm reporting program.
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Link Post for December 4th

December 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment

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.
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