A2SM Podcast #79 – The Hoedown Lowdown

Royal Wedding is in the 21st Century with an iPhone, iPad, Android App: (Android Market Link | iTunes – BBC America’s App)
A2SM writer James Basbas wrote up a great piece for the blog about the Royal Wedding and Social Media check it out.

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RIP Typewriters: Last Manufacturer Closes Its Doors [REPORT]

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Neal: Move Over Flipboard: Qwiki is the iPad’s Newest Killer App

Seth: Location Cache Map – Shows you what your Android phone knows about where’ve you been.
The Official Google Doc App Is Here (Market Link)

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Link Post for April 16th

April 16, 2010 By The A2SM Editors Leave a Comment

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Can Yahoo Nab Foursquare for $125 Million or Will VCs Prevail? The Race for the Hot Mobile Start-Up Nears Its End | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD – You have to give Yahoo an A for effort, if perhaps the ultimate grade in its ongoing quest to buy hot mobile start-up Foursquare is an F.
Twitter Gets More Features, and Competitors – NYTimes.com – Twitter’s first developer conference, held this week in San Francisco, served as a coming-out party for the four-year-old service. Twitter the start-up is becoming Twitter the big company, with more polish, controversy, competition and revenue.
Bare Knuckles: FCC’s defeat in appeals court may pose a threat to gamers | Philadelphia Inquirer | 04/09/2010 – FCC is trying to protect us from the big corporations who want to control how we use the Internet
Philly memories, shared on Facebook | Philadelphia Inquirer | 04/14/2010 – A school, a block, a sport, a food – all have their pages.
Norway Uses iPad to Run the Government During Icelandic Volcano – Thousands of travellers are stranded throughout Europe as ash continues to rain down from an erupting volcano in Iceland this week. Among them is Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg who, according to his press secretary, is “running the Norwegian government from the United States via his new iPad.”
Six Twitter App Models That Stand a Chance – Rounding off the first-ever Twitter developer conference, Chirp, was a lightning-fast roundup of a few apps the Twitter team found fascinating enough to showcase for the 1000-hacker crowd. Each team got exactly 140 seconds to present their wares, and all showcasing apps were judged by an all-star lineup that included moderator and Twitter product VP Jason Goldman, Marissa Mayer of Google, Y-Combinator founder Paul Graham and Blippy co-founder Philip Kaplan.

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Link Post for April 12th through April 14th

April 14, 2010 By The A2SM Editors Leave a Comment

This is the A2SM Link Post for April 12th through April 14th. To see more of the bookmarks we’ve found, check out our Delicious Feed.

It’s Official: Cats Love iPads [VIDEO] – Love it or hate it, the iPad is definitely the kind of device that opens up new possibilities, ones you probably didn’t think of when it was first launched. Now that it’s present in several hundred thousand homes, it reached a new and unexpected user base: cats.
How Texting and Driving Could Destroy Your Business [With Legal Analysis] | Search Engine Journal – Did the title of my post get your attention? Believe me, I wish texting and driving couldn’t destroy your business, but it unfortunately has the potential to. In this month’s post, I’m taking a break from writing about technical SEO, Paid Search, Social Media Marketing, etc. to talk about something that can make even your worst search-related problem look like a walk in the park.
Bit.ly Links Get Clicked 3.4 Billion Times A Month, New Features Coming – The default link shortener on Twitter, bit.ly, just keeps getting bigger. In March, 3.4 billion bit.ly-shortened links were clicked on, up from 2.7 billion in February and only 87 million a year ago. Yesterday was a record day for bit.ly, with 147 million clicks (see chart).
TweetUp to Tweak Twitter Searches, Generate Ad Revenue – Website Magazine – Website Magazine – TweetUp, a new patent-pending platform that combines the popularity, relevance and influence of tweets and tweeters with a bid-based marketplace, is bringing search advertising to Twitter. An auction-based system that will allow advertisers to bid to have their tweets displayed when users search for keywords, TweetUp gives the most important tweets the distinction they deserve.
Yahoo! Firehose Released – Website Magazine – Website Magazine – The Yahoo! Developer Network announced the release of the Yahoo! Updates Firehose service, a web service for accessing and searching the full, real-time index of Yahoo! updates and a stream of activity from various Web services like Flickr.
Google CEO Disses Blogging – Eric Schmidt – Gawker – Eric Schmidt runs the biggest single blog network in the world, which makes it all the more bizarre that the Google CEO was insulting bloggers at a newspaper conference today. Was it something we said, Eric?

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Link Post for March 30th

March 30, 2010 By The A2SM Editors Leave a Comment

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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.

Filed Under: A2SM Link Post Tagged With: adobe, antivirus, av, events, Facebook, flash, Google, google-buzz, government, governor, interesting, like, minnesota, townhall, yahoo

Link Post for February 17th

February 17, 2010 By The A2SM Editors 1 Comment

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Retweet.com Put Up for Sale – Retweet.com, a competitor to the much more popular Tweetmeme service, has put itself on the auction block.
Retweet.com launched six months ago, declaring war on its Twitter story aggregating competitor. The service did almost exactly the same things as Tweetmeme: discover the most retweeted and shared stories on Twitter while also providing website buttons for retweeting. Its controversial launch definitely turned heads.
Facebook Launches New Privacy Settings for Facebook Apps – Facebook has added new privacy options to give users more control over their Facebook applications and websites using Facebook Connect. The new changes follow December’s controversial privacy overhaul.
Google Continues Shopping Spree; Acquires reMail And Former Gmail Employee – Days after Google acquired social search startup Aardvark, the search giant has acquired another email-based startup, reMail. ReMail developed a powerful iPhone application that gives you instant full text-search for all of your Email. Launched in August, reMail is an alternative to the native iPhone mail client, which has a number of shortcomings. reMail manages to store your entire Email account on your phone using some advanced compression techniques (you can fit 100,000 messages into 500 megabytes) which gives you full text search at all times and is generally snappier than the normal search. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Google Acquires Mobile E-mail Utility reMail – Google’s massive acquiring spree marches forward today. The newest company to be enveloped by the search giant? reMail, an app that provides advanced e-mail search capabilities for the iPhone. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Senate GOP: Facebook Studies Are Not Worth Tax Dollars – A Facebook research project has been included in list of funded projects that according to GOP were a total waste of money. The GOP produced report marked the first anniversary of the Stimulus package, formerly known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Live Out Your Spy Fantasy With ColdWar Clambake – Coldwar Clambake is a new Facebook spy game developed by Big Daddy’s Chicks production, and while it draws heavily from its Mafia Wars roots, the game has a few innovative elements that keep the game interesting. Specifically, the art style, the innovation on standard gameplay elements and the fun community make this a game worth trying.
Facebook To Yahoo: Eat Our Dust! – The latest statistics from analytics firm Compete.com confirms that Facebook has indeed surpassed Yahoo! as the second largest domestic website. While Alexa data suggested that Facebook surpassed Yahoo! on a global level long ago, Nielsen data released yesterday suggests that Yahoo! still has more unique visitors when considering all properties beyond Yahoo.com.

Filed Under: A2SM Link Post Tagged With: apps, Facebook, Google, iphone, mashable, money, Privacy, rankings, remail, socialmedia, spending, study, taxes, traffic, Twitter, yahoo

Link Post for January 8th

January 12, 2010 By Seth Goldstein 1 Comment

This is the A2SM Link Post for January 8th:

Social Media Today | Social Media Policies of 113 Organizations – With companies searching for and developing standards for social media usage, many of them have come up with social media policies of their own.
Top CMOs on Twitter – These are the top 63 Chief Marketing Officers around the world who 1) provide useful content and consistently engage with their followers on Twitter, 2) truly "get it" when it comes to the best ways to use Twitter and other forms of social media, and 3) were active on Twitter as of January 7, 2010. Please let me know if I have missed any CMOs who have 500 or more followers. After the review and confirmation process, he/she may be added to this list, which is updated regularly.
The Dawn of Facebook’s People-organized Web – GigaOM – In 2010, Facebook is setting out to structure a social layer of the web, indexing web pages and objects by harnessing what its users say about them, including whether those users like them or not, and what they tag within them.
Apple And Verizon: Are Two Star-Crossed Lovers Ready To Consummate? – Apple and Verizon. Two star-crossed lovers.
A few years ago, when Apple originally set out with the idea of giving the iPhone to one carrier exclusively in the U.S., they first went to Verizon. But the network balked at some of Apple’s demands, which at the time of complete and utter carrier dominance in this country, must have seemed like a joke. So instead, Apple with with AT&T, and the rest is history.
Anxious Yahoo BOSS Developers To Speak With DOJ About Microsoft Deal – In July 2008, Yahoo announced a radical new product called BOSS, or “Build Your Own Search Service” that lets developers tap into Yahoo’s core search index with an unprecedented amount of flexibility. Now, in light of the Microsoft/Yahoo search deal that was announced last summer, the future of BOSS is uncertain. That’s bad news for the many developers who have built projects on the BOSS APIs, some of whom are building businesses off of the service. Now, after being met with months of silence and uncertainty, some BOSS developers are taking action: they’ve scheduled a conference call with the Department of Justice to discuss their concerns.
Apple Seizes 16 Domain Names From A Guy In One Fell Swoop – When you own domain names associated with the trademarks of a large company, more often than not, they’re going to file a complaint with the ICANN UDRP (Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy). And more often than not, they’re going to win control of the name. Such was the case yesterday with 16 names related to Apple that one man happened to own.
Pioneer to Bring Pandora to Your Car Radio … For $1,200 – Pandora and Pioneer — manufacturer of car audio systems — are partnering to bring Internet radio to your car.
Qualcomm Chip to Power Verizon iPhone [RUMOR] – Qualcomm’s CEO Paul Jacobs has openly expressed interest in inserting a Qualcomm chip into Apple’s popular iPhone. New rumors reported by TheStreet.com indicate that Qualcomm’s endeavors were successful: A Qualcomm chip will power a new version of the iPhone on Verizon in the summer.
DASH: Sony Reveals Pocket Internet Device – Sony has revealed details about their Internet device at the CES – Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Read on find out more.
Vimeo to Launch Support for 1080p – In case 720p wasn’t enough for your gorgeous, transcendent works of motion picture art, Vimeo will begin hosting 1080p videos by the end of this month.

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Link Post for January 4th through January 6th

January 7, 2010 By Seth Goldstein Leave a Comment

This is the A2SM Link Post for January 4th through January 6th:

28 Days Later: Say Goodbye to the Netflix New Release Rental – Today is sad day for Netflix customers. The online video rental supplier has just announced an agreement with Warner Bros. that will forever alter your online rental experience. Now should you wish to rent a Warner Bros. flick you’ll have to wait out a 28-day holding period after the film’s initial DVD release date.
Analysis: Yawn, Google Introduces iPhone Clone | Epicenter | Wired.com – Congratulations, Google. You’ve spent untold millions of dollars to produce another iPhone — two years late. That about sums up the company’s Nexus One phone launch today.
Exclusive: Apple to Buy Quattro Wireless for $275 Million | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD – Apple is set to announce that it has acquired Quattro Wireless for $275 million, several sources confirmed.
Make Video Encoding Easy and Affordable With Encoding.com – Encoding.com is the leading SaaS provider of studio-class video encoding services. It scales instantly and supports all popular media formats.
Yahoo to Unload E-mail Provider Zimbra on VMWare – As Yahoo continues to refine and redefine itself, it’s been offloading and shuttering some services in an effort to slim down (RIP Geocities!). One of the divisions that’s been on the auction block since September is Zimbra, an open-source e-mail company Yahoo acquired in September 2007 for $350 million.
5 Superb Social Media Tools for Musicians – Musicians take notice
Eric Schmidt: The Baddest Man On Twitter – Stop what you’re doing right now (reading this) and go look at Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s latest Twitter profile picture. Now look closer. Yes, it appears he’s wearing a flak jacket, also known as a bullet-proof vest.
An Inside Look At A Twitter Style Guide: 140 Characters – We’ve all seen Twitter grow into the company that it is now, but what was it like when it first started — back when it was still called Odeo, and Twitter wasn’t in existence. As we know, Twitter was spun off from Evan William’s company Odeo, into what we know now as Twitter, the social networking service where you post short messages in 140 characters or less.
Nothing to celebrate on Public Domain Day 2010 in the US – What child has not sat starry-eyed around the fire, dreaming of the goodies to come on January 1—Public Domain Day? The thought of new books and movies and music coming out from copyright is enough to send sugarplums dancing through heads, unless you live in the US in 2010. In which case, you have nothing to celebrate, since nothing is entering the public domain this year.
Pearl Jam Gives A Song Away For A Tweet – Regular readers may know my affinity for Pearl Jam. The band, which released a new album, Backspacer, last year had a series of promotions with MySpace to promote the album. Now they’re turning to Twitter for some more.

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Link Post for December 15th through December 16th

December 17, 2009 By Seth Goldstein Leave a Comment

This is the A2SM Link Post for December 15th through December 16th:

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Google, Bing Continue to Bleed Yahoo of Search Share – Search Engines from eWeek – Google and Microsoft Bing saw their U.S. search engine market shares rise while Yahoo's plot continued to fall through November 2009, according to statistics comScore released Dec. 15.
Sency real-time search engine gains some momentum, founder still abroad — Technically Philly – Sency collects real-time data from Twitter, but differentiates itself from Twitter’s search by filtering spam and pulling the most popular links being shared on the microblogging service. Sency also lets publishers have a very basic, yet customizable widget with real-time search results on their Web sites.
3 New Forms of Search That Google is Working on Now – Google amazed us last week with 5 fantastic demos of innovations like Google Goggles and near instant speech-to-text mobile translation. That was before the company showed off its new real-time search, a key problem it solved with grace while its competitors floundered.
The Associated Press: Yahoo jumps on Twitter bandwagon to improve search – Beginning Thursday, Yahoo will mine the short messages posted on Twitter to find fresher information about hot topics.
Now, Facebook Lets Users Hide Friends From People Who Are Not Logged In –
Facebook’s New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly | Electronic Frontier Foundation – Five months after it first announced coming privacy changes this past summer, Facebook is finally rolling out a new set of revamped privacy settings for its 350 million users. The social networking site has rightly been criticized for its confusing privacy settings, most notably in a must-read report by the Canadian Privacy Commissioner issued in July and most recently by a Norwegian consumer protection agency. We're glad to see Facebook is attempting to respond to those privacy criticisms with these changes, which are going live this evening. Unfortunately, several of the claimed privacy "improvements" have created new and serious privacy problems for users of the popular social network service.
SmartBlog On Social Media » Reality setting in: What Google’s real-time search means to businesses – Twitter made us see what could be possible with real-time search. Bing made it mainstream when they integrated Twitter into their results. But now, the standard, the behemoth of search and all things information — Google — has made real-time a critical piece of its trusted results. Reality is setting in — and things have changed in a big way.
Facebook’s Great Betrayal – Facebook's privacy pullback isn't just outrageous; it's a landmark turning point for the social network. Facebook has blundered before, but the latest changes are far more calculated. The company has, in short, turned evil.
What Google’s Real-Time Search Means to SEO, PPC & Reputation Management | WebProNews – It seems that over the course of the entire year, we've been waiting for Google to get real-time search. Now it's here. If you have ever had a hard time finding a direct relationship between social media and search engine marketing, it doesn't get any more direct than this. Real-time search results (from Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and other sources) right in regular SERPs.

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