1. Dec 1 8 hours ago   permalink

Romy.posterous.com

Yesterday (Nov 30th 2009), at approximately 2pm PST, Craigslist effectively killed all Yahoo Pipes projects that use Craigslist as a data source. For those unfamiliar with Yahoo Pipes, it's a nifty tool that allows you to take data from anywhere on the net, mash it up, parse it, and produce interesting results. One of its benefits is that it ...

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2. 10 questions businesses must keep asking 2 hours ago   permalink

GuyKawasaki / How to Change the World

Just because you’re Anna Wintour doesn’t mean you stop wondering about what to wear in the morning. In the same fashion, Forbes presents questions that businesses should never stop asking.

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10 questions businesses must keep asking 10 questions businesses must keep asking   —  Just because you’re Anna Wintour doesn’t mean you stop wondering about what to wear in the morning. In the same fashion, Forbes presents questions that businesses should never stop asking. A few especially resonated with me:

3. Really? 1 hour ago   permalink

Really?
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch

Dana Hanna updates his Facebook and Twitter, at the altar. Without his bride Tracy knowing he was going to do it. I'm sure she was thrilled: I surprised not only my guests, but also Tracy by pulling out my phone and posting on Facebook and Twitter from the altar during out wedding. I had her phone ready in my pocket, so when she asked for it I ...

4. How to stand out in the crowd 2 hours ago   permalink

How to stand out in the crowd
Holykaw.alltop.com

Dan Heath, co-author of Made to Stick, explains how to stand out (video) in a crowd. He uses the examples of Voodoo Donut and ZipCar. The gist is that if you’re in a crowded market, you need to do something that no one else does or compete on one dimension and do it ferociously. Watch the video to learn more.

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5. Jack Dorsey on Square, How it Works & Why it Disrupts 4 hours ago   permalink

Jack Dorsey on Square, How it Works & Why it Disrupts
Om Malik / GigaOM

In February 2009, Jim McKelvey, who’d left the technology business and became a glass blower, lost an order because he couldn’t accept a credit card from a customer who wanted to buy his creation. He called his friend and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. The two talked [...]

6. Google and paid content 13 hours ago   permalink

Googlenewsblog.blogspot.com

As newspapers consider charging for access to their online content, some publishers have asked: Should we put up pay walls or keep our articles in Google News and Google Search? In fact, they can do both - the two aren't mutually exclusive. There are a few ways we work with publishers to make their subscription content discoverable. Today we're ...

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An Olive Branch To Murdoch? Google News Updated To Deal With Paid Content Facebook, Google and Twitter Turn Red For World AIDS Day   —  December 1st is the World AIDS Day, and to show their support for those affected by the disease and raise awareness for the huge spread of AIDS in Africa, Facebook, Google and Twitter have made various changes to their interfaces centered around the color red, so if you’re using any of them, you may find this interesting.

7. John Byrne to Navigate the Stormy Media Seas 7 hours ago   permalink

John Byrne to Navigate the Stormy Media Seas
Www.foliomag.com

It’s been only a week since BusinessWeek executive editor/BusinessWeek.com editor John Byrne confirmed the rumors and announced his resignation from the magazine, but already has revealed details about his new media venture, called C-Change Media. Byrne [pictured] has launched a Blogspot account about it, for which he conducted an interview ...

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8. Amazon CTO: Cloud's advantage 9 hours ago   permalink

Amazon CTO: Cloud's advantage
Podcast / Between the Lines

At the Supernova Conference in San Francisco, Amazon Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels broadly outlines the benefits of a cloud-based infrastructure.

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Amazon CTO: Cloud's advantage Amazon CTO Vogels: Cloud computing an option for disaster recovery   —  Amazon CTO Werner Vogels says that enterprises are increasingly using Amazon Web Services for disaster recovery.

9. My Son’s Rock and Roll Education 10 hours ago   permalink

My Son’s Rock and Roll Education
Dave Pell / Davenetics

Thanks to his entire preschool’s enthusiastic focus on superheroes, my three year-old son’s current obsession is the song, Iron Man. So I decided to show him the song being performed live on a YouTube video. We watched the performance, him with a grin on his face and me with a look of concern on mine. After [...]

10. SugarSync Rolls Out Android App, Cloud API 12 hours ago   permalink

SugarSync Rolls Out Android App, Cloud API
Sebastian Rupley / GigaOM

SugarSync has long been recognized as one of the easiest-to-use synchronization and backup utilities around. Today it rolled out a SugarSync Cloud API for Android developers, as well as a new Android application for local-to-cloud syncing. According to a blog post from SugarSync’s Fuad Rashid: “Now, [...]

11. Find Out Here 18 hours ago   permalink

Www.coremetrics.com

Coremetrics Benchmark enables online retailers to measure their online marketing results—including e-commerce data—against that of their peers. Benchmark is the only peer-level benchmarking solution that delivers aggregated and anonymous competitive data for industry-specific key performance indicators (KPIs), showing how a site ...

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12. Follow-up: gWallet Funding Comes Through 13 hours ago   permalink

Follow-up: gWallet Funding Comes Through
Liz Gannes / GigaOM

Om had previously reported that gWallet, the online payment startup from Gurbaksh Chahal, aka “G” from Fox’s “The Secret Millionaire,” was out raising $10 million. And indeed it has.

13. Shocking Tiger Woods video 23 hours ago   permalink

Shocking Tiger Woods video
Seth Godin / Seth

You should be careful about headlines. It's pretty easy to write a headline that will get someone to forgive your spam, and perhaps even to open your note (CyberMonday! 85% off...). It's pretty easy to write a headline that will get someone to click through on their RSS reader. It's even easy to write a tweet that will get a click through. But ...

14. A small essay on re-inventing media 1 day ago   permalink

A small essay on re-inventing media
Peter Rip / EarlyStageVC

The good folks at the New York Times gave me an opportunity to talk about Rupert, gated news, and re-inventing media. I discussed the success at Pandora and how Icurrent is influenced by some key...