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Link Post for August 5th through August 9th

August 9, 2010 By The A2SM Editors Leave a Comment

This is the A2SM Link Post for August 5th through August 9th. To see more of the bookmarks we’ve found, check out our Delicious Feed.

New app brings Flash to jailbroken iPhones | Apple – CNET News – An updated version of Frash, an app that permits the otherwise banned Adobe Flash technology on Apple mobile devices, has been released. At the moment, however, it's only capable of handling relatively basic Flash animations (including, for example, the cult-classic Flash cartoon "Trogdor the Burninator"). The device in question must also first be "jailbroken," or hacked to remove protections and restrictions put in place by the hardware or software manufacturer.
Google rumored to buy virtual currency start-up | The Social – CNET News – A report Monday on TechCrunch suggests that, complementing its purchase last week of social-app manufacturer Slide, Google has made another social-networking buy: a virtual currency software company called Jambool. The start-up manufactures a product called Social Gold, which lets other sites build virtual-currency infrastructures.
Woman in Hurd probe ‘surprised, saddened’ | Business Tech – CNET News – The woman at the center of the sexual harassment probe that led to the resignation of Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd has come forward and said she was taken aback by his departure from the Silicon Valley giant.
Google, Verizon propose Net neutrality framework | Signal Strength – CNET News – CEOs from Google and Verizon Communications on Monday announced a proposal to policymakers for keeping the Internet open.
NYT: Google Just Killed Net Neutrality (UPDATING: Google and Verizon Deny Internet Traffic Deal) – In 2006, Google co-founder Sergey Brin traveled to DC, urging Congress to support net neutrality. The New York Times reported this morning that Google and Verizon are conspiring to create tiered internet service. (UPDATING: Google denies, WSJ affirms NYT.)
How Can I Get Rid of the URL and Other Header Text When I Print Web Pages? –

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Link Post for May 12th through May 13th

May 14, 2010 By The A2SM Editors 5 Comments

This is the A2SM Link Post for May 12th through May 13th. To see more of the bookmarks we’ve found, check out our Delicious Feed.

How Location-Based Social Networking Gets Creepy – Advertising Age – DigitalNext – Location-based Social Networking can get a little creepy. Jim Louderback explains
Skype – The Big Blog – The next big step – say hello to group video calling – With the latest version, you’ll be able to bring the whole family together for a chat, for lunch, or even for a birthday. You’ll be able to spend quality time with your best friends, planning a trip, or even hosting a book club. And you’ll be able to meet with colleagues from across the world without leaving your desk.
Adobe Parries Steve Jobs’ Flash Thrust, Point For Point | Epicenter | Wired.com – Two weeks after Apple CEO Steve Jobs attacked Adobe over the proprietary nature of its Flash technology, top Adobe brass fired back with an open letter of their own on Thursday.
The HTC Complaint Against Apple Has Nothing To Do With How You Use Your Fingers – When HTC announced earlier today that it is countersuing Apple for patent infringement in response to Apple’s earlier patent lawsuit, it failed to mention which patents it is using to fight back. Well, now we have the official complaint (embedded below)> And despite a propaganda video claiming that HTC changed the way we use our fingers in 2007, its complaint has nothing to do with multitouch gestures.
HOW TO: Avoid a Sausage Fest on Foursquare – Stop me if this sounds familiar. You venture out with your crew on a Friday night to a downtown hotspot only to find that the guy-girl ratio is totally out of whack. Instant buzz kill. Enter your new wing man Assisted Serendipity, a Foursquare app for avoiding sausage fests.
Determine Your Facebook Page’s Value [APPS] – Social media management company Vitrue has released a free tool today, the Social Page Evaluator, designed to help marketers get a better understanding of a Facebook Page’s value.
iPad to be Used as Inflight Entertainment System – At its core, Apple’s iPad is an entertainment device — one that certainly has the power to make air travel much more enjoyable. Enter Bluebox Avionics, which is introducing a customized iPad for airlines dubbed bluebox Ai, “the world’s first iPad inflight entertainment system.”

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Link Post for May 5th

May 5, 2010 By The A2SM Editors 4 Comments

This is the A2SM Link Post for May 5th. To see more of the bookmarks we’ve found, check out our Delicious Feed

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 April 29th

April 29, 2010 By The A2SM Editors Leave a Comment

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

BREAKING: Twitter Usage In America: 2010 – Twitter Usage In America: 2010, a report released today from Edison Research/Arbitron Internet and Multimedia Series, is among the most significant data released to date on Twitter. A three-year project that is both nationally representative and projectable.
Tim Ferriss: 7 Great Principles for Dealing with Haters – Dealing with negativity online can be tough, which was why we were all ears when Tim Ferriss, author of The Four Hour Work Week, took the stage at The Next Web ‘10 event in Amsterdam to discuss how to learn to love haters.
5 Reasons Google and Search Won’t Dominate The Next Decade – Over the past few years, there has been an underlying shift in the way we use technology in our lives. This could be simply described as moving from user-initiated (search) to auto-serving (suggestions) technologies, and it’s about to change the way we live, communicate, make money, shop, collaborate and more. Instead of actively searching for things, we will be presented with them, as we live our lives.
New Report Details the State of Twitter [STATS] – A recent report on Twitter usage in the U.S. by Edison Research concludes that 87% of all Americans are now aware of Twitter — up from 5% in 2008 — but only 7% of the population actually use it.
Steve Jobs: Flash Is No Longer Necessary – Steve Jobs has just posted a long open letter on Flash, listing all the reasons why Apple has decided not to support it on the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.
LinkedIn Follows Facebook And Twitter Into ‘Follow’ Model – LinkedIn has been working to make its professional social network, well, more social. With the massive popularity of Facebook, and Twitter, it makes sense for LinkedIn to use some of the feature from these networks in order to make its platform more social. Last fall, Linked integrated with Twitter, allows users to Tweet from its platform and send Tweets from outside clients to LinkedIn with a hashtag. Today, LinkedIn is launching a small yet very familiar feature: the ability to “follow” a company’s profiles.

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Link Post for March 30th

March 30, 2010 By The A2SM Editors Leave a Comment

This is the A2SM Link Post for March 30th. To see more of the bookmarks we’ve found, check out our Delicious Feed

Large Hadron Collider Achieves 7 TeV Proton Collisions – The title might not sound terribly exciting if you’re not a physicist, but this is the main reasons the Large Hadron Collider was built in the first place – to collide elementary particles at extremely high levels of energy, which would help physicists test some predictions of high-energy physics, including the existence of the hypothesized Higgs boson.
Minnesota’s Governor to Hold Town Hall via Facebook – The governor of Minnesota, Tim Pawlenty, has found a novel use for Facebook: conducting town hall meetings. On Wednesday, March 31, at 7:15 p.m. ET, the governor will use his Facebook Fan Page to make a major announcement and to gather feedback from his fans on “helping Republicans win the 2010 elections.”
With More Flash, Is Google About To Cut Off The HTML5 Nose To Spite Apple’s Face? – There’s a very interesting rumor circulating around out there right now. Apparently, Google is about to announce some sort of new partnership involving its Chrome browser and Adobe’s Flash platform, CNET reported earlier today as a rumor.
Aha! Google Buzz Is A Black Hole — Its Traffic Must Be Inferred – #fail
Facebook Summarized In A Single Picture – Infographics always serve as great eye-candy and the latest Facebook infographic produced by website-monitoring.com is no exception. The chart breaks down Facebook’s history as well as some of the most important facts and figures from the company. Included in the chart is information about the site’s user base as well as the impressive engagement levels that Facebook is able to maintain. Check out the chart below to see Facebook summarize in a single image.
ALERT: Facebook Antivirus Is Completely Fake – While protecting your computer from potential hazards on Facebook is a great idea, the latest Facebook Antivirus application is completely fake. The application automatically tags your friends walls with antivirus-like images but doesn’t really accomplish anything. Ironically it doesn’t even appear to manipulate its results, it just reuses the same image (pictured to the right) over and over again.
Facebook Wants You To “Like” Everything On The Web – More details are emerging about Facebook’s plans to develop a Like button for the entire web, and part of that involves moving away from “Become A Fan” for Facebook Pages to “Like”. This message was sent to advertisers via a confidential document (which was subsequently leaked to multiple outlets) and highlights initial rumors of a “Like” button for the entire web.
Yahoo! Mail Increases Integration With Facebook – Yahoo! continues to increase their level of integration with Facebook, with the latest implementation enabling users to update their Facebook status from Yahoo! Mail as well as view their contacts profile photos when they’re emailed. While these new features are only being rolled out to a few select markets initially, it will be pushed out more broadly over the coming weeks and months.
Facebook Upgrades Events, Integrates Wall Publisher – The publisher is rapidly becoming the central tool for publishing information through Facebook to the feed, with events being the latest product to integrate the feature. This evening Facebook began rolling out an upgraded version of events which places a publisher directly within the wall, enabling event administrators to publish content with tags. We believe that all confirmed attendees will also see the content within their stream.
BookArc for iPad, an Elegant Aluminum Stand | Gadget Lab | Wired.com – A lot of people will be buying the iPad keyboard dock to make it easier to write long pieces on the device. But what if you already have a Bluetooth keyboard that’ll work just fine with the iPad? You could buy the standalone dock, we guess. You could prop the iPad inelegantly up against a pile of old-fashioned books (you won’t be needing them now you have the “magical” iPad, right?). Or you could drop some dollars on the BookArc for iPad.

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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 December 24th – Part One! Merry Christmas

December 24, 2009 By Seth Goldstein 1 Comment

This is the A2SM Link Post for December 23rd:

Add Clickable Links In YouTube Videos Without Using Annotations – While it is possible to add hyperlinks on YouTube videos via the built-in annotations feature, the only problem is that you cannot link to external websites from YouTube videos – that links should either point to a video hosted on YouTube or to a video search page that’s again on YouTube.
2010: Year of digital distraction? – CNN.com – The “real-time Web” is booming. From Twitter to Facebook to new search engines that discover information posted just seconds ago, it seems the 2010 Web will be fueled by our desire for instant gratification.
Mall of America Tweets Holiday Parking Updates – It may not be rocket science, but it is pretty cool: The Mall of America is using Twitter to tweet parking info for last-minute holiday shoppers hoping to avoid the ever-annoying quest for a space.
Marketing in 2010: It’s All About the Data -
Digg’s Top 10 Most Popular Stories of 2009 – It’s the end of the year, traditionally a time for self-reflection. While many of us are making our New Year’s resolutions and looking back on what we accomplished, a lot of social media companies are sifting through their data and sharing what was hot in 2009.
FTC Inquiry Hinders Google’s Acquisition of AdMob – When Google formally announced their plans to acquire mobile ad network AdMob for $750 million, they didn’t expect any regulatory interference to impede upon the processing of the deal. Unfortunately they were wrong.
3 Powerful Social Good Trends in 2010 – 2009 saw a proliferation of online charity events, competitions, and “friendraisers” that spilled across Twitter and Facebook and filled email inboxes everywhere with more requests for money than any Nigerian prince could ever hope to make. And while it’s hard to argue that this is a bad thing — anytime someone gives money to feed the hungry instead of buying another digital potato seed in Farmville, global karma rises, if even just by a little — this focus on using the web as an ever-more elaborate means of getting people to fork over cash misses the much bigger opportunities just over the horizon.
BREAKING: Twitter Buys Mixer Labs to Boost Location Features – Twitter co-founder and CEO Evan Williams has just announced on the company’s blog that they have acquired Mixer Labs, creator of the GeoAPI.
Is Hiring a Ghostblogger a Bad Thing? – At any given time, there is usually an ongoing debate in some blogging circle about whether ghostblogging is a good or bad thing. I say it depends on how you’re using the term, and how you are using your ghostblogger.
Google News Will Not Accept Single Author Blogs – I put in an application to submit our blog to Google news, but it seems Google news will not include sites that are written and maintained by one individual!

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