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That's why today, at the Computer History Museum, we're excited to share a few new innovations in the areas of real-time, mobile and social search that we feel are important steps in the evolution of information access. First, we're introducing new features that bring your search results to life with a dynamic stream of real-time content from across the web. Now, immediately after conducting a search, you can see live updates from people on popular sites like Twitter and FriendFeed, as well as headlines from news and blog posts published just seconds before. When they are relevant, we'll rank these latest results to show the freshest information right on the search results page. Here's how it looks: Mark Selected Items as Read in Google Reader. The New Enterprise 2.0 Community Manager.
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Starting Wednesday, Pearltrees users will be able to connect their Twitter accounts to the service. Pearltrees will continuously scan your Twitter account and index every link you share on Twitter. Currently, shared links on Twitter are often quickly forgotten, but thanks to the new Pearltrees connection, you will be able to easily create an archive of all the links you have shared with your friends. We got a chance to discuss Pearltrees and its upcoming launch with the company's CEO Patrice Lamothe in the startup's Paris offices today. According to Lamothe, the average Pearltrees user already spends about 12 minutes per day on the site. Also Coming This Week: Real-Time Updates API Coming Soon. Non-Profits Need to Get Clued In to Social Media - ClickZ. Sean Carton | December 7, 2009 | 4 Comments inShare0 Tips for non-profits on how to use social media to their advantage and why they need to start. A recent survey from Weber Shandwick and KRC Research has me wanting to simultaneously scratch my head in puzzlement and scream in frustration.
Why? Because after surveying a broad cross-section of non-profit executives across the U.S., they found that while 88 percent of them are "experimenting" with social media, only 51 percent are actively using social media in their organizations, and an astounding 79 percent aren't sure how to demonstrate its value to others in their organizations. Over the years, I've worked with a lot of non-profits and I can tell you one thing for sure: these aren't dumb people. Sound familiar? So, why the reluctance by so many non-profit executives? Luckily, conquering these objections isn't difficult. Help your clients (or your colleagues) understand they shouldn't get hung up on the technology. RSS Creativity: Routines, Systems, Spontaneity :: Tips :: The 99. Most stories about creativity are stories about the 1%.
We hear about the moment of inspiration – Archimedes leaping from his bath, Coleridge hallucinating “Kubla Khan” in an opium reverie. We don’t hear so much about the years of perspiration – Archimedes plugging away at failed experiments, Coleridge learning his craft by writing notebooks full of dull poetry. Most of us don’t like to think about the labor involved in creativity. It takes away the glamour and the magic. But real creators know different. Here are three core processes you need to coordinate in your work as a creative professional: Many creative people lead apparently boring working lives, sticking to the same routine every day.
Circadian rhythms of arousal and mental alertness mean that certain times of day are especially conducive to focused creative work. Here’s how it works for Stephen King: “There are certain things I do if I sit down to write. Takeaway: Notice what time(s) of day you are most alert and creative. 8 experts' predictions for 2010. What brands will be hot in 2010, and which type of agency will be best positioned for success in this challenging economic environment? What types of campaigns will score most with consumers in 2010, and which marketing technologies and platforms will advance the most? iMedia asked a panel of industry experts to provide their thoughts on these topics and more. In this first installment, our experts discuss the agencies and brands best positioned going into 2010, as well as their thoughts on the overall state of the online marketing industry.
In the second installment, our experts discuss the technologies and platforms that will make the greatest strides in 2010, as well as the types of campaigns that will connect with consumers. The panelists are: Adam Broitman, partner and ringleader, Circ.us Daniel Flamberg, managing partner, Booster Rocket Adam Kleinberg, CEO, Traction Clark Kokich, chairman, Razorfish Dave Morgan, CEO, Simulmedia Inc. Jim Nichols, senior partner, Catalyst: SF David L. How Did Israel Become “Start-Up Nation”? - F. Since the onset of the current financial crisis, political and economic pundits have loudly proclaimed the end of American economic dominance. U.S. policymakers are struggling to revive the economy, establish new industrial competencies, and remain globally competitive. Meanwhile, in a small, young, constantly embattled country across the globe, old-fashioned entrepreneurialism is alive and well.
Israel, just 60 years old and with a population of 7.1 million, has emerged as a model of entrepreneurialism that countries at all stages of development have tried to replicate. A new book by Dan Senor and Saul Singer, Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle, explores the culture behind Israel’s economic success. Senor, an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and former foreign policy adviser in Iraq and Qatar, has agreed to answer some of our questions about the book: Why is Israel the ultimate “Start-Up Nation”?
Chutzpah is hard to define. Can Method’s Shiny Suds clean up this social media mes. The very people who helped launch Oculus are turning out in droves announcing their intentions to drop all support for the company going forward. To them the merger with Facebook completely changes what Oculus stands for and what the company aims to achieve. As a result their passion has been rechanneled into a crusade against the company, and this crusade has generated some insanely comical responses. Check out this post for the top 5 greatest responses. After more than 3,000 unique visits to our Netflix blog post, almost 300,000 social media posts in the last year, 872,000 Google search results, and two Facebook groups seeking to finally get Dragon Ball Z on Netflix, we’ve decided to lead the fight to help make it happen. This infographic details what Facebook got for their massive $19 billion acqusition of WhatsApp, including $3 billion in stock for employees.
Did you see that extremely controversial commercial that Coca Cola ran during the Super Bowl? Alert! Alert! Will Google Sidewiki Shift Control of Online Commen. Journalists and news outlets are accustomed to offering comments and criticisms about others, but they’re not as used to being the subject of public comment themselves. In the online world, where technology can and does upend established relationships, journalists and online news outlets are joining the ranks of the commented-upon. The shift has taken place due to the increased presence of commenting and feedback features on news websites, and partly thanks to the use of comment-friendly platforms such as WordPress. In these contexts, the news outlets have chosen to accept user comments, and they retain a certain amount of control over which ones appear on their site.
Now, a new technology, Google’s Sidewiki annotation tool, is poised to present a challenge to website owners, including news outlets, that attempt to control the interface between their site and end users. And that change in control might lead to some legal tussles down the road. Google Sidewiki Attack of the Commenters. Companies can use social media internally | theadvertiser.com |
100+ Years of Design Manifestos | Futurelab – An inter. Google Wants to Speed Up the Web: Launches Its Own DNS Service. Google just launched the Google Public DNS. Just like OpenDNS, Google Public DNS will allow users to bypass their ISPs Domain Name Servers (DNS). DNS servers are, in many respects, the backbone of the Internet. DNS allows you to type a domain name like www.senate.gov into a browser instead of a machine-readable IP number like Google argues that it wants to give consumers an alternative to their ISPs' DNS services in order to make the Internet "faster, safer and more reliable.
" According to Google product manager Prem Ramaswami, the company's engineers have been working to improve DNS over the last few months. After SPDY (which augments HTTP), this is Google's second major project that touches upon the core infrastructure of the Web. Using Google Public DNS Google Public DNS uses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as its IP addresses. A First for Google: Phone Support for a Free Product In addition, Google is also offering phone support, which, to our knowledge, is unprecedented. Technology predictions 2010 Technobabble 2.0. Edit: Now includes predictions from: IDC, Gartner, Screen Digest, Elemental Links, Freeform Dynamics, Quocirca, Interpret, CCS Insight, RedMonk, Juniper Research, Interpret, IDEAS International Predicting what will be big is a fun game that all the analysts like to play each year.
The technology industry, often so full of hype, frequently drinks its own Kool-Aid and genuinely believes that they have the next big thing. Obviously I am a cynic, but I often doff my cap to the analyst world who makes their living (as IDC say) analysing the future. Consequently I have listed below some of the predictions that our analysts have come out with in the hope of looking back at this post in a years time to see how accurate their prophetic skills are. IDC’s two big guesses are an “Apple iPad” and “Battles in the Cloud.” Growth will return to the IT industry in 2010. Gartner always one to beat the rush tend to name their strategic technologies in October for the next year. Cloud Computing. Ajaxian The End of Days for “View Source”? Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 “View Source is your friend”, we’ve learned countless times as web developers. It’s something special about web development that we can seamlessly lift the covers on anything we see and find out how the sausage is made.
And it gets even better with great tools to interrogate the system in real-time. This capability has helped us evolve practices and patterns, and contributed to the production of many a fine browser extension and Greasemonkey script. Our friend might sadly be going the way of the blink tag. View Source has always worked because the standard development model is to put up some static Javascript files on a server somewhere and serve them out. Google’s Let’s Make the Web Faster initiative is a case in point. Site owners can’t (much) control factors such as browser choice and browser efficiency, but they can get their own performance-fu in order, and code compression is low-hanging fruit.
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But 57% also indicated that they plan to increase their focus on SEO: That’s good news, because even just 2-3 years ago many companies’ efforts to integrate SEO and PR activities did not extend much beyond press release optimization. That’s certainly important but it’s just one tactic; there are a lot more opportunities to explore. Greg Jarboe and Lee Odden are at the forefront of evangelizing the importance of SEO in public relations and in teaching how to actually implement integrated efforts.
Both rightly deserve credit for increasing awareness industry-wide. News monitoring and online media databases have traditionally received the lion’s share of PR tool spending. Is Facebook Losing its Coveted Demographic? | Brian Solis - PR 2. InShare2 comScore recently released a report that triggered nothing short of a “sky is falling” media panic. Led by Adweek asking if Facebook is getting uncool for the 18-24 year olds, the media is speculating as to whether or not a mass exodus is underway with much of the blame focusing on parents “ruining the party” for younger demographics.
Here’s what we do know… comScore is reporting that time spent on Facebook by 18-24 year olds is waning. In July 2009, minutes spent on Facebook dropped by 3%. What we don’t know… Are other factors at play here? For example, do the summer months affect the data? How much of that time was documented on desktops versus mobile phones? Onward… Right here, right now, Facebook is beyond relevant, regardless of age group.
Adweek asks if Facebook is becoming uncool among 18-24 years olds. The reality is that our attention is thinning, testing its elasticity with every pull of a shiny new network, service, or application. But uncool? But there’s more to the story… Facebook May Reach 1 Billion Users By 2012. Creative vs. Media: Looking Beyond Two Roles - ClickZ. FourSquare and Social Business Design (Being Peter Kim) Arianna Huffington: Journalism 2009: Desperate Metaphors, Desper. A shel of my former self. It’s Time to Free the Twitter Client | Stay N' Al. The power of social media partnerships. Measure the Impact, Not the Influence - Beth's Blog: How N.
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