
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.”













