Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. How Tweet It Is!: Library Acquires Entire Twitter Archive by Matt Raymond, Library of Congress blog http://www.loc.gov/tweet/how-tweet-it-is.html Boy Scouts Add a New Digital Badge by Nick Bilton, NY Times http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/boy-scouts-add-a-new-digital-badge/ Twitter Rolls Out Ads by Jessica E. Vascellaro and Emily Steel, WSJ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303695604575182233558434518.html iPad online [...]
Recently, Apple added the ability to gift apps to people. This means that someone can purchase a specific app for you. It seems simple enough, click the “gift this app” link, make the purchase, and have a code delivered to the user of your choice. I can’t help but think the potential this has for [...]
Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. Business Schools Respond to Demand for Use of Social Media By Fiona Mackay, NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/education/31iht-riedmba.html Rita’s Italian Ice Uses Free Treats, Peeps, to Grow Facebook Page By Sara Inés Calderón, Inside Facebook http://www.insidefacebook.com/2010/03/30/ritas-italian-ice-uses-free-treats-peeps-to-grow-facebook-page/ Travelocity Gnome Moonlights On Chatroulette by Jennifer Van Grove, Mashable http://mashable.com/2010/03/31/travelocity-gnome-chatroulette/ [...]
Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. Twitter mobilizes days-long search for missing Brooklyn woman by Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100323/ts_ynews/ynews_ts1307 Facebook To Release A “Like” Button For the Whole Darn Internet by Michael Arrington, TechCrunch http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/25/facebook-to-release-a-like-button-for-the-whole-darn-internet/ Apple Adds Gifting Feature for iPhone Apps by Brian X. Chen, Wired http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/03/iphone-app-gifting/ Facebook Insights To Take [...]
Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. Google wins patent for location-based advertising by Kim-Mai Cutler, VentureBeat http://digital.venturebeat.com/2010/03/01/google-location-ads/ Investors Bet on Price of Facebook IPO by Jessica E. Vascellaro, WSJ http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/03/04/investors-bet-on-price-of-facebook-ipo/ Nokia Ovi Store now up to 1.5m downloads a day Music Ally http://musically.com/blog/2010/03/03/nokia-ovi-store-now-up-to-1-5m-downloads-a-day/ Cashmore: Why I’m banking on Facebook by Pete [...]
Five articles I thought were interesting/important from the last week: Nearly Half Of Netflix Subscribers Now Watch Streams Online by Robin Wauters, TechCrunch http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/27/netflix-q4-2009-earnings/ iBooks: Apple Answers the Kindle with a Digital Bookshelf Like No Other by Jennifer Van Grove, Mashable http://mashable.com/2010/01/27/apple-ibooks/ Ustream debuts pay-per-view webcasting Paul Boutin, VentureBeat http://venturebeat.com/2010/01/26/ustream-debuts-pay-per-view-webcasting/ After Three Months, Only 35 [...]
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